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Tucker Carlson: Algebra Is a Jewish Plot to Confuse the Goys by Sticking Letters Into Math

Tucker Carlson used to posture as an intellectual. An intellectual who was not so far up his ass that he couldn't see practical reality or the real problems of citizens, but an intellectual nonetheless.

He never actually was an intellectual. But he did pose as one.

He's decided that Real Nationalist Socialism Populism requires its agitators to be dumb as Hasan Piker and now declares that nobody -- including engineers, pilots, ship captains, etc. -- really needs algebra.

It's a scam created by Jews to distract the goys while the Jews rule the world (without algebra, we assume).

Tucker Carlson has found a new hill to die on. Not only does he hate the Jews and blame Israel for every terrible thing that's happened on Earth, but he's now perplexed by the presence of letters in basic algebra.
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In an interview released Monday, Carlson spent two hours talking to Jess Elofson, an artist, potter/ceramicist, welder, and Ford collector who lives on a farm in South Dakota. Why he deserved an interview is unclear, but the pair discussed art, beauty, politics, and, of course, why "You're good little goy slaves" if you think algebra has any real-world application. How did they come to that conclusion? Because Elofson claimed to have never used it in constructing a wood-fired kiln.

"Why does algebra put letters into numbers?" Carlson asked.

"I think just to f**k with you," Elofson said.

"So you deal with math in your job every day. You've already, I think, demonstrated your grasp of math is high"

"I mean, functional math. Yeah, yeah, for sure."

"Well, if you can build a wood-fired kiln, you understand math," Carlson said. "But you didn't add letters to numbers in the process of doing that?"

"That's the weirdest thing," Elofson replied. "Nowhere did I find any letters in my math to calculate the size and structural integrity of a cantonary arch. Isn't that weird? Oh, that was weird. Because every math teacher was always like, you need to know some algebra. I've yet to encounter a single person in my life that uses algebra."

"Actually?" Carlson asked.

"Have you?"

"Yeah, but I mean, I live in a fake world," the former Fox News host said.

"That's why you use fake math with letters. Congratulations to everybody out there in the matrix. Good job. You're good little goy slaves," Elofson said.

"That's amazing."

Of course, this is the man who claims to have the best interests of conservatism at heart, although he doesn't identify as one anymore, except when it's convenient.

Actually algebra was not invented by the Jews but by Tuq'r's fellow Muslims.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM




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Posted by: GF at September 08, 2026 04:31 PM (v3Cf2)

2 Math h8er?
New look at Tucker?

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:31 PM (odBC9)

3 I haven't watched Tucker in years. Is he Absolutely Looney Tunes?

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (odBC9)

4 Math is racist!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (I43vL)

5 What does this have to do with Nicolas Cages' porta-potty?

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (UjdFS)

6 "if you can build a wood-fired kiln, you understand math"

I don't get it.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

7 I still like him though. He’s a good bro.
- JD Vance

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (U1NLK)

8 Tucker is truly impressive. The best actor cannot go up on stage or do as many interviews as he did, extemporaneously, as well as he did posing as a conservative.

What kind of brain can be so believably deceptive?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (AJWch)

9 Brain tumor. I'm calling it. Carlson has a brain tumor.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

10 I have to take a Tucker and wipe my Carlson.

Posted by: Uranus at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (Z8Kuq)

11 Geometry is where it's at.

Posted by: Abigail Shapiro, probably at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (wVcYX)

12 α and ω, tucker!! (Letters used in algebra.)

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (odBC9)

13
Isn't this pretty close to what Gabby Giffords's nutjob shooter claimed? Grammar is a conspiracy?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (XJ22o)

14 I was right about algebra. I never used it after school (that I'm aware of).

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 08, 2026 04:35 PM (ZgwKJ)

15 Now ace, don't join the mob mau-mauing poor Tucker just because he's an idiot who has shown just how clueless he is. It will drive away the high quality guests who would otherwise do his show. He only had a brief period of adequacy because of the utter wasteland that is mainstream "media". Imagine actually interviewing the Capitol Police chief about January 6 (something the bogus committee "investigating" it didn't do, incredibly). And so on.

But once he stopped letting his better guests just talk, well. That Vance is a friend with such a fucking cretin is no surprise, but still damning.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 08, 2026 04:35 PM (U/Byj)

16 "You're good little goy slaves," Elofson said."


They aren't even trying to hide it any longer. We are fast approaching levels of public Jew hatred from the mid 1930s in germany.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 04:35 PM (I43vL)

17 Talking about math on the blog is a way to normalize math on the blog.

We approve.

* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 08, 2026 04:35 PM (0sNs1)

18 Wait - - first they tell me that algebra was invented by Muslims -- and now they tell me that it's a Jewish plot?

MAKE UP YOUR MINDS.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 04:35 PM (Av6i5)

19 Guess Tucker is living proof about the horseshoe theory of politics.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (oPFtC)

20 Trump posted his presidential greatness chart and the thing I find interesting his failures list is mostly recent presidents:

Biden, Obama, Shrub, Harding, Carter, Hoover

I would move Shrub up to "below average" and move LBJ and Buchanan to Failure

But...we've certainly had more bad president in the last 100 years then in the first 150

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)

21 Math is hard!

Posted by: Barbie 5'9", 36-18-33, 32E, Waist-Hip Ratio 0.55, Inseam 36", BMI 16.24 at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (wVcYX)

22 They use arithmetic.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (Cqx++)

23 7 I still like him though. He’s a good bro.
- JD Vance
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (U1NLK)

Well, me, myself, I wouldn't want JD to turn on a dime on long-time friends. Also: Tucker would LOVE that.

#me

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (odBC9)

24 That's hilarious.

I guess Tucker's more a spell 'BOOBIES' on the calculator type of guy.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (Sco7b)

25 > Nowhere did I find any letters in my math to calculate the size and structural integrity of a cantonary arch.

You didn't calculate the span, rise, and radius of the arch? You didn't calculate the sum of horizontal and vertical forces on the support blocks? You didn't calculate the compressive stress vs the allowable stress of the materials?

I have doubts you calculated the size and structural integrity of the arch if you didn't do those things.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (mkw2N)

26 I use algebra on a regular basis.

I use geometry rarely

And I don't think I've used trig since I left formal schooling.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

27 Has Tucker interviewed Roger Waters yet? They're in the same 'neighborhood' now. Him and RW can go to the Troof of 9/11 conference. Apparently that's a thing and it's happening this week. Not sure where. Probably NYC. That terrorist fan boy muslim mayor will probably go to that, if its in NYC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (sAmhv)

28 So the unknowns should be represented by what, numbers rather than words?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (XvL8K)

29 Just wait until Tuqur finds out about calculus.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (U1NLK)

30 Why does TuCa do what he does? Here's the reason:

"The Tucker Carlson Show averages roughly 56.8 million views per episode across combined podcast and social media platforms, placing it among the top-tier digital media programs in the country"

What he does, it gets clicks.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (Jr5Lq)

31 Guess Tucker is living proof about the horseshoe theory of politics.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (oPFtC)

Yeah you get kicked by one too many times it affects your brain.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)

32 A lot of conspiracy theories sound crazy. This is just stupid.

Posted by: Biergood at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (PwgSL)

33 C'mon, Algibber, this is no place for you.

Posted by: Stymie Beard at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (Fn+3X)

34 It's not a TOOMAH !

Posted by: Tuckernegger at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS)

35 There's ignorance, and then there's hyper-ignorance.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (Av6i5)

36 a squared + b squared = c squared

that is useful math when squaring a foundation.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (vbXSk)

37 Why does TuCa do what he does? Here's the reason:

"The Tucker Carlson Show averages roughly 56.8 million views per episode across combined podcast and social media platforms, placing it among the top-tier digital media programs in the country"

What he does, it gets clicks.
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (Jr5Lq)

From Oman and Pakistan, sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)

38 Tuqur Al-Gebra

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (U1NLK)

39 21 Math is hard!
Posted by: Barbie 5'9", 36-18-33, 32E, Waist-Hip Ratio 0.55, Inseam 36", BMI 16.24 at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (wVcYX)

haha!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (odBC9)

40 Geometry is where it's at.
Posted by: Abigail Shapiro,

Volume of a cone = 1/3*h*3.14*( r )squared.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 04:39 PM (mqudn)

41 You can't appreciate properly young B-cup or larger ladies walking or jogging free without partial-differential equations.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 08, 2026 04:39 PM (0sNs1)

42 Ok Tucker you can get 3 juices for $1 or 4 for $1.5. Without using algebra which one do you pick?

Tucker: I don't want any juice in my house.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

43 Hoo boy, am I tired of Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 04:39 PM (lJ0H4)

44 His line is that meritocracy is a Hebrew plot to exclude Christian Men from achievement.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (AKptf)

45 A lot of modern historians are saying that Algebra was probably invented by Indians and swiped by Arabs. I would not call them "Muslims" in any case, they were about as Muslim as Bill Nye is a Christian: they were in a place culturally and officially a certain religion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (K32Fz)

46 He lost his mind when he wrestled with the demon. I know it sounds like I’m kidding…. I’m not

BTW…. I assume the no-maths rule of the blog is temporarily suspended for this post?

To infinity… and beyond!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (gkBVP)

47 I honestly have to think that demonic possession slowly eats away at your brain at this point.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (N1tpc)

48 You know who else hated algebra?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (u73oe)

49 Brain tumor. I'm calling it. Carlson has a brain tumor.
Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (dIske)

-----------------

Could it be a brain worm like RFK Jr had?

Posted by: Decaf at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (ZNpJk)

50 Jumped the shark, he has.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (W2Pud)

51 Uh... just about ANY math equation used in the real world has variables you replace with real world numbers...

Thus taking the Letter, and replacing it with a number...

And yes, as an Electronics guy? E= I R.. used a bunch.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (mP0Kj)

52 Isn't this pretty close to what Gabby Giffords's nutjob shooter claimed? Grammar is a conspiracy?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (XJ22o)
______________________________

Oh, wow...I remember that crap. I fell down a rabbithole reading about it. There is some theory "quantum grammer" that the Govt. uses grammar to progress mind control. The guy's solution was to use your own grammar to thwart the government's plan.

I remember telling on of my friends, who had a few drinks in him, so for the rest of the evening he was purposefully using bad grammar and following every purposeful mis-use with "YOU WON'T CONTROL ME, ASSHOLE!!!"

We were drinking, so it was funny.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (dIske)

53 traded in his extra common sense for absolute fiction and ability to hold a straight face while speaking absolute BS

Posted by: gov't here to help at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (cqrFc)

54 Let x = stupid goyim

Let y = clever Jews

If x > y, then why is Tucker Carlson so retarded?

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 04:41 PM (Av6i5)

55 He lost his mind when he wrestled with the demon. I know it sounds like I’m kidding…. I’m not

Out: We are legion

In: We are Barbie

/MATH IS HARD!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

56 One, two, many.

Posted by: Piraha peoples of the Amazon at September 08, 2026 04:41 PM (wVcYX)

57 43 Ok Tucker you can get 3 juices for $1 or 4 for $1.5. Without using algebra which one do you pick?

Tucker: I don't want any juice in my house.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

He has Swanson F-you money. He don't care.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:41 PM (odBC9)

58 And yes, as an Electronics guy? E= I R.. used a bunch.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (mP0Kj)

Is that you, Ohm?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (gkBVP)

59 >>>That Vance is a friend with such a fucking cretin is no surprise, but still damning.

Posted by: rhomboid
---

I don't understand.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (AJWch)

60 Maybe he should go back to the "bow-tie"? Pretty sure Tucker just wants a paycheck. Terrorists banging on his door, while he wasn't there scared him.

Posted by: pahound at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (AjR4+)

61 31 Why does TuCa do what he does? Here's the reason:

"The Tucker Carlson Show averages roughly 56.8 million views per episode across combined podcast and social media platforms, placing it among the top-tier digital media programs in the country"

What he does, it gets clicks.
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:37 PM (Jr5Lq)

I think it's time to validate who is clicking what...

Would be very easy to get a bot farm to make something seem way more popular, then it really is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (mP0Kj)

62 I haven't watched Tucker in years. Is he Absolutely Looney Tunes?

All the clips I have seen indicate that. I have never watched any of his shows but I have seen a lot of clips over the years going back to watching Eichenwald with his hilarious binder "full of answers" he never used.

Funny how that dude just disappeared. Wonder what happened to him behind the scenes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (K32Fz)

63 35 It's not a TOOMAH !
Posted by: Tuckernegger at September 08, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS)

2mah, mathily.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (odBC9)

64 And I don't think I've used trig since I left formal schooling.

I used trig a lot back when I used to do ray-traced images with POVRay. Also when putting in the flooring on the stairs in my house around corners. If you want to know distances and/or angles, it’s extremely useful.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (VJ1er)

65 To get from one side of the room to the other you have to go 1/2 way across the room. Then 1/2 way from there. The 1/2 way and so on and so on.

It’s an infinite number of 1/2 ways. So how can you ever reach the other side?

Calculus solved that. Or as Tuqur would say, the Jews control the room

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (U1NLK)

66 Solving differential equations, or even doing basic algebra is probably beyond me at this point. And the average man doesn't need that math much, so I'll leave it to the engineers to 'splain to me how they are used. I know relativity is pretty important to understand in practical space missions ....

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (vbXSk)

67 There is a theory that language does constrain the way we think about the world the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Its a plot point in the movie Arrival.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

68 You know who else hated algebra?

I heard he especially hated the μs.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

69 I'm confident with algebra, but, god help me, I never could figure out how to actuarially increase a joint and contingent annuity.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (2ap+5)

70 Pssst -- don't even mention Minkowski Inequalities. I think Tuq'r's head would explode.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (Av6i5)

71 Even if all the views Tuqur gets are bots from Pakistan he still gets paid.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (U1NLK)

72 In Nancy Pelosi's battle against Young's Modulus, Young's Modulus is winning.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (0sNs1)

73 "Nowhere did I find any letters in my math to calculate the size and structural integrity of a cantonary arch.

Shouldn't that be catenary arch?

You didn't calculate the span, rise, and radius of the arch? You didn't calculate the sum of horizontal and vertical forces on the support blocks? You didn't calculate the compressive stress vs the allowable stress of the materials?

I have doubts you calculated the size and structural integrity of the arch if you didn't do those things.
Posted by: bonhomme


Casting my mind back into the mists of architecture school, I think you can get the proper structural shape for catenary arches by draping chains, rather than calculation.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (vJrRc)

74 He has Swanson F-you money. He don't care.

THE JOKE IS JUICE SOUNDS LIKE JEWS

Posted by: Big Ben at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

75 47 To infinity… and beyond!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (gkBVP)

∞ +

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (odBC9)

76 What he does, it gets clicks.

But 90% of those clicks are from Pakistan and places like Iran. I don't know if they still are but Iranian state TV was running Tucker stuff back to back a few weeks ago. He doesn't really have much of a fan base in the US. He goes where the money is, like Milo.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (K32Fz)

77 truthsocial.com @CitizenFreePress
TheTaliban's haul of American military hardware 5 years on

https://tinyurl.com/3we6vpma

2 minutes report

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (Ia/+0)

78 Speaking of NANC Pelosi she will go down as one of the worst speakers we've had but one of the top stock traders in the history of the world...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

79 Let X be the number of times that Tucker is just asking questions. Let Y be the number of retarded guests. Then it follows that X > Y and dX/dt > 0…. Furthermore, as t —> /inf, Tucker’s brain converges to porridge. QED.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:45 PM (gkBVP)

80 Well, me, myself, I wouldn't want JD to turn on a dime on long-time friends.

==

I want to address this , since Vance used it to dodge the real issue, does Vance think that Carlson belongs in the Conservative, MAGA movement and does he think his good friend's ideas belong in the movement. Somebody should ask him. In fact, I think it's time JD Vance accepted Ben Shapiro's invite to interview him. He's been avoiding that particular interview for some reason.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:45 PM (AKptf)

81 I used trig in the machine shop. Sometimes we set cutting tools off-center to reduce chatter. When you do that, the depth of cut is shallower than what you dialed in. With trig, I gave them the formula to calculate the correct dial depth setting.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

82 This is what I have been missing?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 08, 2026 04:45 PM (wxsGM)

83 I never could figure out how to actuarially increase a joint and contingent annuity.

I’m guessing that the reason financial equations were built into calculators almost from the start, despite practically no one needing them, is because the few who needed those functions, couldn’t figure it out either.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (VJ1er)

84 T'qur is a lunatic

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (Ia/+0)

85 Looks like Canada is about to bring some serious pain onto the US, thanks to Trump. Enacting retaliatory tariffs and partnering with China instead of the US are power moves. The world order is changing.

Posted by: Sid at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (2J5h1)

86 Irony would be a crazed leftist taking out Tucker because he thinks Tucker is some kind of conservative hero

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (v6vok)

87 69 You know who else hated algebra?

I heard he especially hated the μs.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

mu's?

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (odBC9)

88 Solving differential equations, or even doing basic algebra is probably beyond me at this point. And the average man doesn't need that math much, so I'll leave it to the engineers to 'splain to me how they are used. I know relativity is pretty important to understand in practical space missions ....

It is true that most people won't use much of the math they learn in school, but there are reasons to study it anyway.

1) Train your brain for rigor. Few things make you think harder.
2) As a society, we need an educational filter for intelligence, and math is a good one. You should learn early on whether you're suited to STEM or something else.
3) Any successful modern society requires math competence in a portion of the population.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

89 Tucker Carlson is an imbecile. Thatisall.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (OUMaO)

90 70 I'm confident with algebra, but, god help me, I never could figure out how to actuarially increase a joint and contingent annuity.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (2ap+5)

Now the math is getting scary.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (odBC9)

91 Irony would be a crazed leftist taking out Tucker because he thinks Tucker is some kind of conservative hero
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (v6vok)

They know he is one of them! He keeps supporting their candidates!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (AKptf)

92 I think Nick Cage has more discretion about what he does for money than Tucker Carlson.

(SWIDT? I crossed the streams!!)

Posted by: Egon at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (anL5R)

93 Every carpenter uses algebra every day.

Posted by: ballistic at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (oqH4h)

94 I hated all math. I only took as much in high school that allowed me to get into college.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (lJ0H4)

95 When trying to determine the height of something you're standing a known distance away from, knowledge of trigonometry is central, not merely tangent, to the solution.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (0sNs1)

96 I thought moose limbs created algebra.

To have an 1.9 average is pathetic. His IQ is in the double digits. He also looks dumb, so there's that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (hzuYO)

97 I axed Gemini "How much of Tucker's traffic is bot-generated?"

He gave me a looong answer that boils down to 'it's anybody's guess.' Gee, thanks, Mr Smarty Pants AI!

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

98 42 You can't appreciate properly young B-cup or larger ladies walking or jogging free without partial-differential equations.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 08, 2026 04:39 PM (0sNs1)

In case it still needs to be said ...

SHUT UP WESLEY !!!

Posted by: browndog says woof at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (oCio0)

99 It is amazing to see the site pest cheering on Canuckistan tanking their economy MORE and partnering with China. But at least China doesn't stop the government from paying for tranny surgeries for kids...oh wait...it does.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

100 Jewish mathematicians: Revolutionize physics, cosmology, and engineering. bringing mankind from the Dark Ages to an unimaginable future.

Tucker Carlson: Dohhhh, math too hard, me no like.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (Av6i5)

101 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (sAmhv)

102 Canada is a pimple on America’s ass Sid.
You’re too gullible to Chinese propaganda to know any better. Canada could disappear tomorrow and nobody would notice. But they’ll inflict pain. lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (U1NLK)

103 OMG the troll doesn't come her for the hunting does it.

Posted by: Egon at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (anL5R)

104 75 He has Swanson F-you money. He don't care.

THE JOKE IS JUICE SOUNDS LIKE JEWS
Posted by: Big Ben at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

Ah.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (odBC9)

105 I was right about algebra. I never used it after school (that I'm aware of).
Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 08, 2026 04:35 PM (ZgwKJ)


.... you've never had to figure out dimensions for something you're building when you only have part of the measurements?

I mean, people who do engineering and architecture and chemistry and physics and pharmacy and (insert other math intensive professions) will use it more (I do statistics and analysis at times, so I use it as well), but if you do even something as relatively simple as landscaping, you will likely be using it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (N1tpc)

106 'scuse me while I do this Laplace Transform

Posted by: ballistic at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (oqH4h)

107 Tucker is approaching Peak Stupid at Ludicrous Speed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (9iRTe)

108 In Nancy Pelosi's battle against Young's Modulus, Young's Modulus is winning.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 08, 2026 04:44 PM (0sNs1)

Ptosis, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (wVcYX)

109 …but there are reasons to study it anyway.

Also, a lot of them, you don’t need to know them, just that they exist. When you need them, you can look them up, or realize that it’s worthwhile to call a friend who might remember how to do them.

And so that you don’t think it’s joo magic when someone else does use it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (VJ1er)

110 You can't appreciate properly young B-cup or larger ladies walking or jogging free without partial-differential equations.

The algorithm gave me a video of a young woman who shuffle dances and pretty clearly isn't wearing a bra. Her top parts move more and faster then her legs...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

111 Guess Tucker is living proof about the horseshoe horse's ass theory of politics.

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (vTZFs)

112 I only took as much in high school that allowed me to get into college.
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (lJ0H4)

LOL, I purposefully chose a major (advertising) that would not require that I take calculus, algebra, trig, etc. Unfortunately, it did require statistics which I had to take twice.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (ZgwKJ)

113 If you want to know whether a corner is square, just remember 3-4-5!

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (2ap+5)

114 Watch that link to get your blood boiling

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (Ia/+0)

115 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.

Its like Haole or Gaijin or Gwailo, etc. Its "not one of us" in a semi-pejorative sense. The thing is, I see non-Jews using it a lot more than Jews.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (K32Fz)

116 Our political landscape is a total mess.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (wBxGS)

117 Tucker having 1.9 isn’t shocking. Rich kid alcoholic who didn’t care about grades knowing he’d never have to apply for a job in his life.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (U1NLK)

118 It is funny watching the left complain about sekret JOO conspiracies and the need to ethnically cleanse the middle east all while calling everyone they don't like a NAZI

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

119 > Casting my mind back into the mists of architecture school, I think you can get the proper structural shape for catenary arches by draping chains, rather than calculation.

Assuming that's true, and I believe you, that's a heuristic, not a calculation. It doesn't verify the structural integrity. If the heuristic is generally reliable, you can probably assume to a reasonable degree that it's structurally sound, but the math is more reliable.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (mkw2N)

120 Yeah, Sid, we should just continue to let Canada to be the CCP's laundromat for their industrial dumping.

And "serious pain"? Please.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (oPFtC)

121 Solving differential equations, or even doing basic algebra is probably beyond me at this point. And the average man doesn't need that math much, so I'll leave it to the engineers to 'splain to me how they are used. I know relativity is pretty important to understand in practical space missions ....
Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (vbXSk)

If you need to change the number of people you make a recipe for, you are using algebra. If you want to know how many six packs you need at the game party with the bros, same.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy)

122 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come


The term basically means non-Jews (gentiles). I think there's an implication of some level of subservience, intentional or not.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (OUMaO)

123 Anthropologists discovered a tribe in the South Pacific that was so primitive that they had a grand total of four numerals:

One
Two
Three
Many.

They hadn't even progressed to the level of counting all the fingers on one hand yet.

Tucker did Ancestry.com and it said both his parents came from that tribe.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (Av6i5)

124 The algorithm gave me a video of a young woman who shuffle dances and pretty clearly isn't wearing a bra. Her top parts move more and faster then her legs...
==
the algo knows you very well

Posted by: Hey Now at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (anL5R)

125 Tucker is rather derivative.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (wtvvX)

126 3) Any successful modern society requires math competence in a portion of the population.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM


Naw, man. Disallowing innumeracy is a cispatriarcal way of stopping equality and diversity!

Posted by: L'Quisha Jones at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (0sNs1)

127 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM


It's an anti semitic slur.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (I43vL)

128 Sid isn’t just retarded. He’s CNN watcher retarded.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:52 PM (U1NLK)

129 If you want to know how many six packs you need at the game party with the bros, same.

If you want to know how long it takes to go sixty miles when you’re going sixty miles an hour…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:52 PM (VJ1er)

130 "Train your brain for rigor."

I do about ten chess puzzles a day. And yes, I have a book of algebra brain-teasers right on my desktop. Last time I solved a set was ... June 18 2026. Gotta get back on that horse.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

131 Germany did the most infamous own-goal by kicking out all their top scientists prior to World War II.

England was most accommodating and encouraged them to emigrate there. Would they do the same thing today, is a question.

The U.S.A. poached a bunch of top flight theoretical physicists as well, many of them Jews. Later, somebody asked a top German official how the scientific community was getting along. "It isn't" was the reply. Oops.

Posted by: Spring In My Step at September 08, 2026 04:52 PM (+/Ezd)

132 102 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (sAmhv)
----

I think in the literal 'goy' just means a non-Jew.

But now it's being deployed so that goyxxxxxxxx just means "anything The Jews feed to the non-Jews so that The Jews stay in control and everyone else just accepts that The Jews run the world.

It's fucking retarded.

Posted by: ballistic at September 08, 2026 04:52 PM (oqH4h)

133 you've never had to figure out dimensions for something you're building when you only have part of the measurements?

Yeah people use algebra quite often, they just don't see it in terms of formulae. They see it in practice, where it makes sense.

Math's biggest advantage isn't the way you'll use it later on, its that it forces you to think in an orderly, systematic manner: it teaches logic

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:53 PM (K32Fz)

134 3x+4y=12 is a Jewish plot??

Posted by: dantesed at September 08, 2026 04:53 PM (p3pWU)

135 Every farmer uses algebra. And geometry.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:53 PM (AKptf)

136 But it's totes OK that he's JD Vance's BFF, you guys.

Posted by: Delurker at September 08, 2026 04:53 PM (2Drhq)

137 "You can't appreciate properly young B-cup or larger ladies walking or jogging free without partial-differential equations."

My inner Hatemonger is coming out... "Boobies...are evil! We musn't look at boobies!".

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 04:53 PM (oPFtC)

138 Goy - i think for orthodox, they can't do any work on sabbath, they need someone who can - simple things, take out the garbage, flush the toilet, stuff like that. At least that's what some guy who lived in NYC an age ago said he got paid to do for a local orthodox family. He was the goy.

Posted by: Hey Now at September 08, 2026 04:53 PM (anL5R)

139 As x approaches 0, Sid’s retardation approaches infinity.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:54 PM (U1NLK)

140 Looks like Canada is about to bring some serious pain onto the US, thanks to Trump. Enacting retaliatory tariffs and partnering with China instead of the US are power moves. The world order is changing.
Posted by: Sid at September 08, 2026 04:46 PM (2J5h1)

Putting Canada and "power moves" together.

LOL

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

141 My inner Hatemonger is coming out... "Boobies...are evil! We musn't look at boobies!".


Did you see Space King 5? Hatemonger was already my favorite character but in that episode...wow.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

142 59 And yes, as an Electronics guy? E= I R.. used a bunch.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 04:40 PM (mP0Kj)

Is that you, Ohm?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:42 PM (gkBVP)

ELI the ICEman!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 08, 2026 04:54 PM (wtvvX)

143 LOL, I purposefully chose a major (advertising) that would not require that I take calculus, algebra, trig, etc. Unfortunately, it did require statistics which I had to take twice.
Posted by: hobbitopoly

The joke was on me. Unfortunately even history majors were required to do two quarters of math when I went to college.



Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 04:54 PM (lJ0H4)

144 This doesn't add up.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 08, 2026 04:54 PM (wGerL)

145 This guy seems to believe some weird stuff.

Posted by: Zombie Art Bell at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (do6//)

146 Just two hateful retards chattering away. I've seen deeper intellects on The View. Okay, I have heard tell of them.

Posted by: AMartel at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (EyAQh)

147
He has Swanson F-you money. He don't care.

Posted by: m
---

He's suing the Swanson family for his cut.
Swanson says he's not blood, he's and ad-on
never was part of the, nuts and bolts family,
and gets no cut.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (AJWch)

148 Here's a contrived but somewhat realistic use for algebra that even Tucker could understand.

Say you're a shop owner who sells fruit. You have a cart you take to a nearby town to pick up your fruit.

Based on past experience, you know your cart can hold 500 bananas and 30 watermelons.
Also based on past experience, you know your cart can hold 300 bananas and 40 watermelons.

You find a pretty good deal on bananas and watermelons this time.

You want to buy 400 bananas and as many watermelons as you can.

Without breaking your cart, and without wasting your money by buying too few watermelons to fill your cart or so many you break your cart or are force to abandon some, how many can you buy?

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (mkw2N)

149 123 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

The term basically means non-Jews (gentiles). I think there's an implication of some level of subservience, intentional or not.
Posted by: Brother Tim is tired



Oh. That's lame. Whatever. the Bible Study I go to on Tuesday nights kicks off again tonight. They break over the summer. We're studying Numbers tonight. I've never studied it. Read it but never studied. Hope Algebra isn't involved.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (sAmhv)

150 You can't appreciate properly young B-cup or larger ladies walking or jogging free without partial-differential equations.
>>>
The algorithm gave me a video of a young woman who shuffle dances and pretty clearly isn't wearing a bra. Her top parts move more and faster then her legs...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

The Hang On Sloopy dancing girl?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (wVcYX)

151 126 Tucker is rather derivative.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (wtvvX)

The truth will out.

It appears ol' Tuck has been and continues to be something of a twat, isn't he?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (H9BGx)

152 Goy - i think for orthodox, they can't do any work on sabbath, they need someone who can - simple things, take out the garbage, flush the toilet, stuff like that. At least that's what some guy who lived in NYC an age ago said he got paid to do for a local orthodox family. He was the goy.

Posted by: Hey Now


"Shabbat Goyim", literally "sabbath goy" or basically the dude they pay to do what they aren't allowed to Friday night/Saturday daylight. Not sure how common it is any longer.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (OUMaO)

153 What an idiot. They created differential equations to f’k with people. Algebra is for children.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 04:56 PM (4aa1M)

154 Tuqur saw how many views Candy Owens got with insane Jewish conspiracies and saw an opportunity. As with all things follow the money. I really doubt he believes 10% of the shit he spews. But he knows his viewers do.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:56 PM (U1NLK)

155 I am really good at math that is concrete and relatable in my head. Algebra and Trig 100% click for me. College Calculus whipped my ass and I was never able to understand it even with tutoring and living with Engineering majors.

Posted by: ballistic at September 08, 2026 04:56 PM (oqH4h)

156 He's suing the Swanson family for his cut.
Swanson says he's not blood, he's and ad-on
never was part of the, nuts and bolts family,
and gets no cut.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (AJWch)

Also, he's an asshole.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 04:56 PM (H9BGx)

157 I used to play a game called Crossmath that was kind of like a crossword puzzle but with numbers. It was challenging and fun (and was a lot of logic and algebra on the fly). But the programs all started to put in ads and interruptions and annoyances, so I deleted them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:57 PM (K32Fz)

158 Did you see Space King 5? Hatemonger was already my favorite character but in that episode...wow.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

Hehehe, yes, I did! His battle prayer during the end fight, ooh...

"With their many eyes, THEY SHALL WEEP.
With their many limbs, THEY WILL CRAWL.
In their many tongues, THEY SHALL PLEAD.
In their many forms, THEY WILL FALL.
SO SAYETH SPACE KING!"

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 04:57 PM (oPFtC)

159 The only thing I am remembering about differential equations is synthetic division. I don't remember what those words mean, I just remember the words.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:57 PM (2ap+5)

160 The Hang On Sloopy dancing girl?

I'm going to have to get a link to tell

For science. Great bouncy science

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

161 The algebra, I do not speak it.

Posted by: Eromero at September 08, 2026 04:58 PM (LHPAg)

162
Its like Haole or Gaijin or Gwailo, etc. Its "not one of us" in a semi-pejorative sense. The thing is, I see non-Jews using it a lot more than Jews.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:50 PM (K32Fz)



Haole and Gaijin are generally "foreign person we don't like", but Gwailo is more "foreign non-human cockroach who we have a duty to cheat before crushing their bodies under our sandals".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 04:58 PM (y9nCu)

163 >>>
Without breaking your cart, and without wasting your money by buying too few watermelons to fill your cart or so many you break your cart or are force to abandon some, how many can you buy?

Posted by: bonhomme
---

That's some kinda puzzle idn't it?


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

164 How are we to factor apples and oranges without algebra?

Posted by: Kittens! at September 08, 2026 04:59 PM (jrgJz)

165 Am I supposed to know who Jeff Elofson is?

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 08, 2026 04:59 PM (Iwv3U)

166 "If you need to change the number of people you make a recipe for, you are using algebra. If you want to know how many six packs you need at the game party with the bros, same." Posted by: Oldcat

I was thinking "algebra" is more about
x^2 + 8xy + 3y^2= 100 ... solved for x and y
or there is probably another equation needed ... heh.

But solving for six packs is just
10 people X 6 beers/person = 60 beers. common math?

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 04:59 PM (vbXSk)

167 It's an anti semitic slur.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 04:51 PM (I43vL)

It is used to describe a non-Jewish person. Usually in a negative connotation.

Posted by: A Gentile at September 08, 2026 05:00 PM (Z8Kuq)

168
Hehehe, yes, I did! His battle prayer during the end fight, ooh...


Yep. His squad mostly annoys me - the leader is a retard. The guy with the cybernetic eye is a slightly more amusing retard. Chestnut is kind of annoying.

But Hatemonger? He is the perfect Warhammer parody and makes everything work.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

169 Integration by parts…. Now there’s something that’ll blow your mind. Or how about infinite series….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (gkBVP)

170 Haole and Gaijin are generally "foreign person we don't like", but Gwailo is more "foreign non-human cockroach who we have a duty to cheat before crushing their bodies under our sandals".

The Chinese still struggle with, despite all evidence to the contrary, thinking they are the greatest people on earth. Like most of the Native American tribes in the US who thought they were just "the people" and everyone else was not people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (K32Fz)

171
We were drinking, so it was funny.
Posted by: Orson

===============

Lol, that does sound funny.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (XJ22o)

172 Magnets, how do they work?

Posted by: PG at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (X+9ka)

173 former carpenter; 3 4 5 rule-down 9", over 12"' angle tape measure should be 15". 90 degrees.

Posted by: pahound at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (AjR4+)

174 102 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:48 PM (sAmhv)

goy
noun (plural goyim) or (plural goys)
sometimes derogatory
a term used by Jewish people for a non-Jewish person.

origin
early 19th century: from Hebrew gōy 'people, nation'

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (odBC9)

175 10 people X 6 beers/person = 60 beers. common math?

There are six beers in a pack. Each of your friends will drink six beers. You have ten friends. How many packs do you need?

This is algebra, although because your friends are drunks, very simple algebra.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 05:02 PM (VJ1er)

176 Daily Mail has an exclusive - an interview with the 3 AWFL jurors in the Clancy case, including the forewoman. They look and speak exactly like you'd expect:


https://tinyurl.com/zj42rab2

Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:02 PM (kX27y)

177 It's Calculus that basically never has any real world application outside of engineering yet is widely required as a math course.

Algebra though is used all the time.

Posted by: Leupold at September 08, 2026 05:02 PM (eIzlH)

178 Weasel will so disappointed in y’all. He does a fairly advanced math class several times a year and all y’all seem to get some of what he says.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 05:02 PM (W2Pud)

179 102 I have no idea what 'goy' means. I keep seeing it being used against Jews by the usual suspects of loons.
Posted by: Puddleglum


"Goy" (plural "goyim") was the words used in Yiddish-speaking communities from the Middle Ages up[ through the 19th century to refer to anyone who wasn't Jewish. It wasn't originally derogatory, just a descriptive term to distinguish locals from outsiders. Every ethnicity and langauage groups has some kind of similar term. A good example of a similar terms was how Native Americans would refer to any outsider as "paleface."

But once the word "goy" arrived (along witht he rest of Yiddish) into an urban environment (specifically 19th century New York), and non-Jews heard it for the first time, they kind of took offense, feeling the term was exclusionary and demeaning. (Exactly how whites took offense at the originally non-derogatory term "paleface.")

Eventually, the word was burdened with negative connotations, such that anytime a Yiddish-speaker used it, it was deemed insulting.

Fast forward to the post-10/7 world, and now it is an adjective which means, "Inferior cultural artifacts devised by sneaky Jews to waste non-Jew's time."

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 05:02 PM (Av6i5)

180 "They discuss how they've never met anyone in their life who uses algebra, which is "fake math" for people "in the matrix."

Sure, sure. Hey, do you guys like to play cards? Y'ever play for money? It's a lot of fun.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 08, 2026 05:03 PM (r7+Q7)

181 2 + 2 = 5

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at September 08, 2026 05:03 PM (deNAM)

182 If I were that man, I think I would have gotten violent with the 'ladies.'
---------------------
Speaking with NBC10 Boston, the three women detailed the arguments they had with the one male juror who would not acquit.

One of the women, known only as juror two, told the outlet: 'He, I think got up to the cart [with the exhibits] once and then went back to his seat.

'He would not interact with us and try to understand. We read to him the definition of reasonable doubt.

'He said one day "why don't we have the judge read it again?", and we were like no we have it in front of us.'

One woman, the jury's foreperson, told the outlet: 'He had reasonable doubt. He admitted he had reasonable doubt.

'I started filling out the forms, I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out, and then he said "but I'm still not going to say she's not guilty."'

According to the trio, they argued so much with the man that the alternate jurors could hear them through a wall.

Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:03 PM (kX27y)

183 Well, the algebraic geometrist Alexander Grothendieck had an anarchist, Hasidic Jewish father and a Protestant German mother, but in the end, he ended up choosing to live in seclusion eating dandelion soup, but according to Tuq'r, he's just the sort to inflict Jewish math upon the world.

As for Abel and Galois, I don't know of any Jewish connection. What about the other algebraicists?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 08, 2026 05:04 PM (zSq3q)

184 Tuqur saw how many views Candy Owens got with insane Jewish conspiracies and saw an opportunity. As with all things follow the money. I really doubt he believes 10% of the shit he spews. But he knows his viewers do.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 04:56 PM (U1NLK)

Not sure if the order of these events was accurate. Tucker has been veering off course for a while now.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 05:04 PM (uhVAy)

185 Tucker Carlson: Algebra Is a Jewish Plot to Confuse the Goys by Sticking Letters Into Math

wait wait wait

I thought AoSHQ was supposed to be a No Math Zone.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 08, 2026 05:04 PM (0CU3H)

186 Am I supposed to know who Jeff Elofson is?

I know its "cool" and "edgy" to say WHO? About people who pop up in the news but... increasingly I have no idea who these people are. Like Jelly Roll I think it was in the news last week? Never heard of him before this came up. No idea who these people are.

Gossip is like "Poppy Torque and Aleena Corkscrew went to the Nebbta last week and got engaged!"

What the hell are you even talking about?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:04 PM (K32Fz)

187 "It's Calculus that basically never has any real world application outside of engineering"

It's in every car driver's dashboard. Odometer for integration, speedometer for differentiation.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

188 Does Barbra wish she was goy?
Is George really a boy?
Is filthy ever divine?
It's all subjective

Posted by: Billy and the Boingers at September 08, 2026 05:05 PM (X+NGn)

189 You use algebra all the time- you just do not realize it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 08, 2026 05:06 PM (zZu0s)

190 It's Calculus that basically never has any real world application outside of engineering yet is widely required as a math course.

Algebra though is used all the time.
Posted by: Leupold at September 08, 2026 05:02 PM (eIzlH)

Area of material under a curve has lots of applications.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 05:06 PM (uhVAy)

191 The Five - the DSA are meeting in Chicago to plot takeover.
First you get the power, then you get the women

CNN - Tapper Supreme Court and mail-in ballots

MSNow - more Americans are identifying as Dems! Including the dead, those that don't exist and those who exist in multiple voting areas at the same time.

CBC - Canada strikes back. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 05:06 PM (Sco7b)

192 "Germany did the most infamous own-goal by kicking out all their top scientists prior to World War II.
England was most accommodating and encouraged them to emigrate there. Would they do the same thing today, is a question."

England now has imported the top Muslim pedophiles, who have taught the England elite the best methods for grooming and raping young girls. Not quite as useful as the top scientists, but fun for the elites (for now).

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 05:07 PM (vbXSk)

193 'I started filling out the forms, I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out, and then he said "but I'm still not going to say she's not guilty."'



EXCITED to find her not guilty?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 05:07 PM (sKqQm)

194 I forgot about the wrestling demons thing. Is it a nightly occurrence?

Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie at September 08, 2026 05:07 PM (Fn+3X)

195 'He would not interact with us and try to understand.

Meaning: he kept using logic and facts instead of feeling the way we wanted him to

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:07 PM (K32Fz)

196 Like most of the Native American tribes in the US who thought they were just "the people" and everyone else was not people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:01 PM (K32Fz)

Still does mean that. Mary Peltola runs a campaign ad with an old Yupik grandma saying that Mary will serve The People. Meaning, Natives.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 05:07 PM (H9BGx)

197 Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?

Posted by: 29Victor at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0MjtC)

198 148
He has Swanson F-you money. He don't care.

Posted by: m
---

He's suing the Swanson family for his cut.
Swanson says he's not blood, he's and ad-on
never was part of the, nuts and bolts family,
and gets no cut.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:55 PM (AJWch)

Huh! Maybe this is why he's gotten all twisted.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (odBC9)

199 Calculus that basically never has any real world application outside of engineering yet is widely required as a math course.



Finance is all calculus.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (U1NLK)

200 Don't mess with my Saturday side gig.

Posted by: Shabbos Goy at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (Fn+3X)

201 "Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?"

If you don't, you might end up with an irrational kiln.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

202 Area of material under a curve has lots of applications.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 05:06 PM (uhVAy)

Can't do Civil Engineering without it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 05:09 PM (H9BGx)

203 I forgot about the wrestling demons thing. Is it a nightly occurrence?

Just the once that I know of. To me it sounds like his dog tried to get on the bed and Tucker freaked out because he was half awake. LOOK SCRATCHES!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:09 PM (K32Fz)

204 198 Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?
Posted by: 29Victor at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0MjtC)

Well, let's see, pottery has been around for about 10,000 years, most of that kiln fired....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 05:10 PM (H9BGx)

205 EXCITED to find her not guilty?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 05:07 PM (sKqQm)

Sick.

Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:10 PM (kX27y)

206 I wrestled all night myself.

Posted by: Jacob at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (Fn+3X)

207 So, I guess the Jews would have to follow a modified Grothendieck strategy to control the world, Tuq'r fashion. First, master algebra like Grothendieck did. Then produce work in the field in such a stunning manner that mathematicians speak reverently of you. Then go into seclusion where you live eating only dandelion soup. After this, somehow conquer the world.

It can be done, apparently. Just don't ask me how the last step is done.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (zSq3q)

208 204 I forgot about the wrestling demons thing. Is it a nightly occurrence?

Just the once that I know of. To me it sounds like his dog tried to get on the bed and Tucker freaked out because he was half awake. LOOK SCRATCHES!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:09 PM (K32Fz)

I suspect the demons have already bagged him and can't be bothered any more.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (H9BGx)

209 The square root of a negative number is called an "imaginary number," represented by the letter "i."

Starting today, the square root of "i" is dubbed "a carlson," and is represented by a doo-doo emoji.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (Av6i5)

210 198 Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?
Posted by: 29Victor at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0MjtC)

Well, let's see, pottery has been around for about 10,000 years, most of that kiln fired....
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 05:10 PM (H9BGx)

Well if you don't get enough bricks to cover the roof, its gonna use a lot of wood.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (uhVAy)

211 EXCITED to find her not guilty?!?

The most positive spin would be "excited to finally get this over with and go home" but I suspect they were gleeful about making sure she didn't go to jail.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (K32Fz)

212 How soon before Tucker goes over the Protocols of Zion and screams and hollers that it is a blueprint for world Jewish domination?

Posted by: Zombie Henry Ford at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (Z8Kuq)

213 1. Become popular rightwing commentator
2. Build up a bunch of organic energy behind you by talking about real issues.
3. Pivot
4. Blame the Jews for everything you've previously mentioned.
5. Hate Da Joos so much that you start simping for Islam (and taking money from Qatar).
6. You now talk about working with the Left, even if that means throwing your old base under the bus.
7. Promote a bunch of increasingly retarded conspiracy theories.
Congratulations, all the energy you harnessed has been successfully neutralized, demoralizing your former audience.

Posted by: The Tucker Carlson Method at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (deNAM)

214 "The square root of a negative number is called an "imaginary number," represented by the letter "i." "

EEs use 'j', because they can.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (Jr5Lq)

215 How soon before Tucker goes over the Protocols of Zion and screams and hollers that it is a blueprint for world Jewish domination?
Posted by: Zombie Henry Ford at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (Z8Kuq)

You'd think they'd come up with a new forgery by now, that one's a bit old.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)

216 I wrestled all night myself.

Muslims have recently read that tale and are gleefully crowing about how weak Yahweh must be, because Jacob beat him in a wrestling match.

You can always tell who has had kids and who has not. Like God asking "where are you?" to Adam and Eve. Its not about ignorance, its about giving the kids a chance to do the right thing before you take the belt off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (K32Fz)

217 These days, the word 'celebrity' means less and less.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (Sco7b)

218 " You have 2000 Jewish people. If 1400 of them control the world banking system, how many are left to control the weather?"

- Tucker math

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (IwlG/)

219 You are trying to estimate the area under a curve so you divide the area up into rectangles. To check the quality of the measurement, you do your calculations again with somewhat smaller rectangles. Then you check that one. Before long, you are doing calculus.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 05:14 PM (2ap+5)

220 'i' is actually sqrt(-1). To get an imaginary number generally, use a+bi.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

221 Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?
Posted by: 29Victor at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0MjtC)

It might have helped in safely using one.

Posted by: Zombie Fawn Leibowitz at September 08, 2026 05:14 PM (wVcYX)

222 Gossip is like "Poppy Torque and Aleena Corkscrew went to the Nebbta last week and got engaged!"

What the hell are you even talking about?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:04 PM (K32Fz)

News Desks are now run by the advertising department.

So it is all about visibility of who they wish to promote.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 05:14 PM (mP0Kj)

223 Or precisely, a complex number, I guess.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

224
Art Garfunkel considering leaving US over Trump.

Bye asshole!

Posted by: four seasons at September 08, 2026 05:14 PM (/QHx4)

225 length x width = Area
interest = principal x rate x time
pay = hours worked x hourly rate

Most people have used at least one of these equations in a practical way at some point in their life.

Posted by: TheITGuy2 at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (v9ncW)

226 I sort of understood why I needed algebra for nursing. Not really, but I had to take it.

I remain in the dark why I needed physics. And at some point, for reasons unknown, I took and passed and hated zoology. I also took geology and don't remember why and liked it. I like rocks, fossils and stuff I find on beaches.

I had a lot of ology classes. Biology, anatomy and physiology obviously made sense with chemistry and organic chemistry for nursing.

The classes I hated the most were psych and I had at least 3 of those horrors.

I may use algebra and trig without knowing it but I consciously avoid them. Got into trig and made an A. It might have been from a concussion from basketball.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

227 I used to wrestle in my sleep too.

Posted by: Iron Mike Sharpe at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (Fn+3X)

228 Finance is all calculus.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

===

Not really, just unique esoteric parts.

Maybe for a quant fund

Posted by: Leupold at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (eIzlH)

229 The Natives living along the Yukon used to say there were three kinds of white men: White Men, Black White Men, and Swedes.

Make of it what you will.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (H9BGx)

230 a squared + b squared = c squared
that is useful math when squaring a foundation.


A pedant might explicate that this is geometry, not algebra.
But you really need to know that hillbillies call this
"Three-four-fivin' it." And I have watched it done in the field.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme was surprised to find
that he had been speaking prose.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (zdLoL)

231
Oh yeah? Tell me who 'we' scarred.

--------------
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
·
5h
you just knew this was coming at some point.
Quote

Bobby LaValley
@Bobby_LaVallley
·
6h
🚨 Abdul El-Sayed in unearthed audio:

"9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people."

Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y)

232 'i' is actually sqrt(-1)

My calculator says ERROR when I try that, not I

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:16 PM (K32Fz)

233 198 Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?
Posted by: 29Victor at September 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0MjtC)

For the love of God, YES!

Posted by: Fawn Liebowitz at September 08, 2026 05:16 PM (r7+Q7)

234 219 " You have 2000 Jewish people. If 1400 of them control the world banking system, how many are left to control the weather?"

- Tucker math
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 08, 2026 05:13 PM (IwlG/)

Ha!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:16 PM (odBC9)

235 EEs use 'j', because they can.

“An ingenious writer has discovered, in the name of Thomas Jefferson, the Anagram ‘Host of man is free.’”—The Missouri Republican, November 16, 1826

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 05:16 PM (VJ1er)

236 If Tucker x 5 = 10, what does Tucker equal?

Jello

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 08, 2026 05:16 PM (v/qpK)

237 233 Your calculator has no imagination.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (Jr5Lq)

238 Either Tucker has gone insane, or this is a cry for help.

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (pKne7)

239 2 + 2 = 5

For sufficiently large values of 2.
-- old physics joke

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)

240 Variables, Tuck. They're called variables.
Conversations with innumerate people are pointless.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (2Ez/1)

241
College Calculus whipped my ass and I was never able to understand it even with tutoring and living with Engineering majors.
Posted by: ballistic at September 08, 2026 04:56 PM (oqH4h)



I knew an Afghan guy in college who drank beer like he lived in Green Bay, was the grandson of a rather famous Indian mohammedan lawyer who did a Koran translation that was the official Saudi translation to English for many years, and he used to do calculus for fun with a couple of other engineering students at beer parties.

Shit. I had problems with Introductory Algebra.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (y9nCu)

242 212 EXCITED to find her not guilty?!?

The most positive spin would be "excited to finally get this over with and go home" but I suspect they were gleeful about making sure she didn't go to jail.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:11 PM (K32Fz)

16 There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.

Wow... batting 1000...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (mP0Kj)

243 The Natives living along the Yukon used to say there were three kinds of white men: White Men, Black White Men, and Swedes.

Even they understood the untrustworthy nature of the snowbillies

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (K32Fz)

244 We're Jews out in space
We're zooming along protecting the Hebrew race
We're Jews out in space
If trouble appears we put it right back in its place

When goyim attack us
We give 'em a smack
We'll slap them right back in the face

We're Jews out in space
We're zooming along protecting the Hebrew race

Posted by: Mel Brooks at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (wVcYX)

245 110 …but there are reasons to study it anyway.

Also, a lot of them, you don’t need to know them, just that they exist. When you need them, you can look them up, or realize that it’s worthwhile to call a friend who might remember how to do them.

And so that you don’t think it’s joo magic when someone else does use it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:49 PM (VJ1er)

Yes. Like most general undergraduate courses.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (odBC9)

246 My calculator says ERROR when I try that, not I"

Mine says 8008...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (XuXeR)

247 It works....

Posted by: pahound at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (AjR4+)

248 When trying to determine the height of something you're standing a known distance away from, knowledge of trigonometry is central, not merely tangent, to the solution.
-----

I could solve that with geometry. Why would I need trigonometry?

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (TN0g+)

249 i^2 = -1

This little critter can be used to solve electrical circuit problems with capacitors and inductors… good stuff

Not to mention Euler’s sublime e^i*pi + 1 = 0

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (gkBVP)

250 You can bet your sweet ass Tucker uses algebra all the time.

$37 million from a Soros cutout divided by 20 podcasts = X dollars per podcast.

X dollars per podcast - Y production costs - Z for staff salary = P dollars per podcast for me.

Posted by: Gref at September 08, 2026 05:19 PM (5rh/l)

251 240 2 + 2 = 5

For sufficiently large values of 2.
-- old physics joke
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)

; )

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:19 PM (odBC9)

252 Art Garfunkel considering leaving US over Trump.

Bye asshole!


Art Garfunkel is still alive? Huh. (And I'm a big fan of the earlier S&G stuff.)

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 05:19 PM (vTZFs)

253 Tcn, from what can we glean from these arbitrary distinctions? Were the Swedes considered especially scrofulous or something?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 05:20 PM (+/Ezd)

254 Honey, I'm Ohm!

Posted by: Draft resistor at September 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Cqx++)

255 "9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people."
Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y)

If it wasn't Billions I want my money back. Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 08, 2026 05:20 PM (r7+Q7)

256 Mine says 8008

You need a better calculator, the advanced one says 5318008

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:20 PM (K32Fz)

257 Simon and Garfunkle was maybe sorta kinda OK, but listening to it had the disconcerting effect of causing one's testicles to retract into the abdomen. Usually cured by frequent applications of Canned Heat, Deep Purple, or Led Zeppelin.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 05:21 PM (+/Ezd)

258 255 Honey, I'm Ohm!
Posted by: Draft resistor


Ouch, that pun hertz.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 05:21 PM (Av6i5)

259 253 Art Garfunkel considering leaving US over Trump.

Bye asshole!

Art Garfunkel is still alive? Huh. (And I'm a big fan of the earlier S&G stuff.)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 05:19 PM (vTZFs)

In the immortal words of that great Thespian, Businessman, and 2nd Amendment Advocate... Curly Bill Brocius...

Well.... Bye...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 05:22 PM (mP0Kj)

260 I could solve that with geometry. Why would I need trigonometry?

"How else could you plot a course from The Lizard to Jamaica?"
--Captain Aubrey

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:22 PM (K32Fz)

261 180: Thanks zombie! You're pretty knowledgeable for the undead!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 05:22 PM (sAmhv)

262
Tcn, from what can we glean from these arbitrary distinctions? Were the Swedes considered especially scrofulous or something?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 05:20 PM (+/Ezd)




Teh Horde has long been the Cassandra of the intertubes sounding the alarm over the Vast Scandi Lutefisk Conspiracy

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 05:22 PM (y9nCu)

263 Tcn, from what can we glean from these arbitrary distinctions? Were the Swedes considered especially scrofulous or something?

Just a comment on the filthy icebacks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:22 PM (K32Fz)

264 Artie is probably getting a bit long in the tooth anyway. He's just putting out his virtue signaling virtues, to signal.

Eat a dick, buddy.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 05:23 PM (+/Ezd)

265 256 "9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people."
Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y)

If it wasn't Billions I want my money back. Pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 08, 2026 05:20 PM (r7+Q7)

Yup... why the hell do we pay for all this Military if those who ATTACK US are not scared?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 05:23 PM (mP0Kj)

266 From Deadline.

Our societal betters felating each other.

French filmmaker Florian Zeller has returned with a new feature, Bunker, starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, which earned a 16-minute ovation this evening after its debut screening at the Venice Film Festival.

There was a very enthusiastic response to the movie in the room, with Cruz and Bardem sharing hugs during the applause and woos from the crowd. The 16-minute 30 second ovation takes it beyond the 14-minute ovation scored by Wild Horse Nine earlier in the festival and makes it one of the longest ever at the Venice Film Festival.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 05:23 PM (Sco7b)

267 I was dismayed to learn that our rock bottom public school district has 'geometry' classes that don't require proofs. WTF?

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

268 Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

Use a url shortening app for links, or dont use links.

Is this too complicated for you?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 08, 2026 05:24 PM (k5CNB)

269 Want your mind blown? Look up the square root of i

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 05:24 PM (gkBVP)

270 The Jew enslaves with his math!

Posted by: Joseph Goyballs at September 08, 2026 05:24 PM (jJhtM)

271 240 2 + 2 = 5

For sufficiently large values of 2.
-- old physics joke
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)

Here I am!

Posted by: Abigail Shapiro, probably at September 08, 2026 05:24 PM (wVcYX)

272 > Do you really have to "really know math" to make a kiln?

No. But you're going to need a lot of trial and error. Or access to the result of other people's trial and error. You're also likely to have an overbuilt or underbuilt system and you won't know its limits without a more trial and error.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 05:24 PM (mkw2N)

273 262 180: Thanks zombie! You're pretty knowledgeable for the undead!
Posted by: Puddleglum


Since time has no meaning for me, I have lots of it to study every topic ever imagined.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 05:25 PM (Av6i5)

274 The actor Terrence Howard thought that any number multiplied by zero producing zero made no sense because it made something disappear. Representing something be hard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 05:25 PM (v6vok)

275 But you're going to need a lot of trial and error.

yeah you can do all the stuff math does without it, you'll just take 29 times as long

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 05:25 PM (K32Fz)

276 When trying to determine the height of something you're standing a known distance away from, knowledge of trigonometry is central, not merely tangent, to the solution.
-----

I could solve that with geometry. Why would I need trigonometry?
Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (TN0g+)
——

You’d both be using the same equations, which straddle the line between geo and trig. You’d be calculating the height as the unknown leg of a geometric triangle with 90 degrees at the base, the known distance of another leg, and the angle of the incline of the last leg that goes straight to the top of the height object.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 08, 2026 05:26 PM (v/qpK)

277 Proofless Geometry
Week 1: How does this triangle make you feel?
Week 2: Is it fair that squares have 4 corners, but triangles only 3?
Week 3: How would you call out a racist quadrilateral?

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

278 225
Art Garfunkel considering leaving US over Trump.

Bye asshole!

Posted by: four seasons



Bottom story of the day. Also, must have some new music he wants to promote so he's got to say something to remind people he's not dead.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 05:26 PM (sAmhv)

279
4+A*(Good Time) = 8675309

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 05:26 PM (y9nCu)

280 According to the trio, they argued so much with the man that the alternate jurors could hear them through a wall.
Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 05:03 PM (kX27y)
*******
That poor man is a hero to me.

I simply want her locked up with her tubes tied to never, ever be near a child again.

Unsure if prison would give her care as the nut house does. The fact that she picks and chooses what she eats shows a thought process. Is she paranoid or the food is not good enough? Apparently very little hygiene til they haul her off to the shower room. I guess she sits in her misery.

I don't want her out of the life she made for herself. She deserves nothing but having to be trapped in her own misery til her last breath.

I don't understand the mercy towards her when she showed none for her own children.

If she was that psycho her little self admission to a psych unit would have become her home for awhile. She manipulated them as well, I am positive of this,to be discharged after 5dys.

I hope there is not a trial but keeping her locked up for life. I am tired of seeing photos of her scowling profile as she creeps me out. So does her attorney...she picked someone just like her.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (hzuYO)

281
The Engineer Guy
Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained


https://youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)

282 Now on Tucker... If we can fart from our ass then why can't we breathe through it? Why do Jews insist we have lungs? I don't know. I have never seen a lung, have you? My next guest will prove we have been lied to by talking out of his ass.

Posted by: Thatch at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (S6YCM)

283 Week 3: How would you call out a racist quadrilateral?
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 05:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

Simple... call it a square!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (mP0Kj)

284 advanced one says 5318008"

That's ok, I guess. 71077345 anyone?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (XuXeR)

285 Just when you think he can't say anything more idiotic, he scores a mother load of imbecility. Congratulations, T'Qur

Posted by: Chicago Vota at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (7hNt2)

286 Bunker: Premise

An architect's marriage is tested after he accepts a project to build a bunker for a billionaire.

Let me guess its Elon Musk as an evvvillll billionaire that has Bardem's company build him a sex dungeon or something

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

287 Don’t think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They’re only cheques I’ve left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind

And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De joo joo joo de da da da
Is all I want to say to you

Posted by: Trucker Cralson at September 08, 2026 05:28 PM (NtVYv)

More Illegal Aliens Arrested for Doing That Thing That Never, Ever Happens

We're moving towards The Most Secure Elections in History, and the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) don't like it one bit.

Footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows federal agents executing a sweep linked to a multi-state Department of Justice (DOJ) probe that has resulted in criminal charges against individuals for illegal voting, falsifying citizenship status and other election fraud related charges in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.

The charges arrive as part of a highly publicized nationwide surge by the Trump administration to hunt down election-related crimes ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Over the past year, the Justice Department has filed lawsuits against nearly 30 states to force the surrender of confidential voter rolls, while simultaneously repurposing Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)--an agency historically focused on cartels and terrorism--to spearhead a search for unlawfully registered non-citizens.

"Despite the media and Democrats claiming it never happens, the evidence of non-citizens registering to vote in our elections continues to pile up," White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital. "Any non-citizens found registering to vote and voting in our elections will be held accountable. Only Americans should be electing American leaders."

...

The Justice Department announced Friday that five people--including two illegal immigrants and two non-citizens with legal status--had been federally charged with unlawfully casting ballots, falsifying citizenship status, fraudulently registering to vote and aiding and abetting during the 2022 and 2024 elections.

Some of the arrestees, according to a DOJ press release, could face up to more than a decade in prison if found guilty of providing a false statement of citizenship in order to vote and other election fraud charges they are facing.

...


Meanwhile, Homeland Security announced earlier this summer that an audit of public voter rolls had identified more than 250,000 registered noncitizens in just four states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada.

Just days ago, internal directives revealed by CNN showed Homeland Security Investigations launching a coordinated "voter fraud surge" into nine key states--including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin--to hunt down non-citizens suspected of election interference. The handful of arrests announced Friday are among the latest enforcement actions.

Very related: An illegal alien and criminal kept taunting an ICE agent by texting him that he was going to vote Democrat in the election and strip him of power and immunity.

ICE arrested him.


QThestorm
@17QStorm


HE TEXTED ICE HE WAS VOTING DEMOCRAT IN THE MIDTERMS.

That's how they caught him.

Honduran noncitizen. California voter roll. Already on probation for blocking an ICE building -- then he kept texting the agent that he couldn't wait for November so their immunity would be gone.

"He had no fear whatsoever harassing an ICE agent, letting him know how he's planning to vote in the midterms and wants to take their immunity away."

"That, obviously, got the agent interested to see whether he WAS registered to vote. That's how he came on their radar."

Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores checked the citizen box on November 4, 2025. Two felonies. Deportation if convicted.

Bill Essayli: first of many. California still won't audit the rolls.

FAFO


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:25 PM




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Posted by: GF at September 08, 2026 03:27 PM (v3Cf2)

2 Any hope remaining for the SAVE act?

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

3 Nick of time, ace.Thanks.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:29 PM (Gqar8)

4 There may be funnier ways for someone to self-deport, but texting ICE to taunt them is definitely up there.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:29 PM (2ocoG)

5 Why aren't we hanging non-citizens that vote?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

6 I thought it some states allowed illegals to vote in state/local elections.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 03:29 PM (2ap+5)

7 I can see no way this effort does not end up with the left going ape shit. And resorting to violence. More violence than we're seeing now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 03:30 PM (2Cry5)

8 I thought it some states allowed illegals to vote in state/local elections.

Blue cities/states encourage it, but it's still illegal.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:30 PM (2ocoG)

9 2 Any hope remaining for the SAVE act?
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

Not until after the midterms, if at all.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:31 PM (Gqar8)

10 o hunt down non-citizens suspected of election interference.

HSI, please concentrate on all Mexican consulates. They are and have been active in influencing voters.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 08, 2026 03:31 PM (NnhvP)

11 Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores checked the citizen box on November 4, 2025. Two felonies. Deportation if convicted.

Awkward name, there, guy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 03:32 PM (9Q+nP)

12 Doesn't sound like the brightest bulb in the illegal alien box either .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 03:32 PM (5JD6s)

13 I can see no way this effort does not end up with the left going ape shit. And resorting to violence. More violence than we're seeing now.

Speaking of dogs that didn't bark, there were no "pallets of bricks" riots this summer.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (2ocoG)

14 I bet it's several millions of illegals and other non-citizens that are ineligible to vote, do vote.

Posted by: Leupold at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (eIzlH)

15 Why aren't we hanging non-citizens that vote?
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Why aren't we prosecuting every single person involved in registering them to vote and allowing them to vote?

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (TN0g+)

16 11 Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores checked the citizen box on November 4, 2025. Two felonies. Deportation if convicted.

Awkward name, there, guy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 03:32 PM (9Q+nP)

Let’s call him DJ RF.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (Gqar8)

17 Guy's name is Darwin? When he gets deported, someone should make an Inferno reference: "think of it as evolution in action."

Posted by: Rick C at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (rAnbn)

18 Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores checked the citizen box on November 4, 2025. Two felonies. Deportation if convicted.

Awkward name, there, guy.
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An award winner, one might say...

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (TN0g+)

19 2 Any hope remaining for the SAVE act?
Posted by: gp
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Not enough time to have it implemented before elections. Not as necessary though if the US Postal Service rules stand.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (E4rtv)

20 Speaking of dogs that didn't bark, there were no "pallets of bricks" riots this summer.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM


USAID's closed. NGO moose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (9Q+nP)

21 Very related: An illegal alien and criminal kept taunting an ICE agent by texting him that he was going to vote Democrat in the election and strip him of power and immunity.

ICE arrested him.

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I assume that illegals vote at about 6%. There was a study of the 2008 election that came to this conclusion.

I also assume it was that high because there was no real consequence for doing it.

In addition, many illegals probably thought that they were legally allowed to vote since they got registered.

I think the ICE effort this year and last year, combined with stories like this, will drive down that number significantly. I think it'll affect even legal immigrants who do have a right to vote. They'll just be too scared to try it.

Essentially, it'll depress their turnout beyond just those deported.

No, it doesn't addressed the dirty voter rolls issue, but if 6% of illegals are voting and there are tens of millions of them, and you dissuade them down to 5% while removing a bunch at the same time....that makes a difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (qE8uT)

22 13 I can see no way this effort does not end up with the left going ape shit. And resorting to violence. More violence than we're seeing now.

Speaking of dogs that didn't bark, there were no "pallets of bricks" riots this summer.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (2ocoG)

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Trump's not doing anything, Kamala would have probably been better, and we have to vote for Democrats to teach Trump a lesson for his inaction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:35 PM (qE8uT)

23 ***(DOJ) probe that has resulted in criminal charges against individuals for illegal voting,
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Relatively meaningless vs going after those who control the voting booths, the Buicks, and the count.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:35 PM (AJWch)

24 Knowingly texting law enforcement about the crime you are going to commit is brilliant.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 08, 2026 03:35 PM (V7uKP)

25 Trump's not doing anything, Kamala would have probably been better, and we have to vote for Democrats to teach Trump a lesson for his inaction.

==

She wants to try again. In earnest.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:36 PM (AKptf)

26 19 2 Any hope remaining for the SAVE act?
Posted by: gp
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Not enough time to have it implemented before elections. Not as necessary though if the US Postal Service rules stand.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (E4rtv)

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The real target for all of these changes is the 2028 election.

Winning 2026 would be good and helpful in some small ways, but the target is to keep the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:36 PM (qE8uT)

27 No, it doesn't addressed the dirty voter rolls issue, but if 6% of illegals are voting and there are tens of millions of them, and you dissuade them down to 5% while removing a bunch at the same time....that makes a difference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

I think it's higher, but the 2020 election was decided by like 1% swing in the midwest.

Posted by: Leupold at September 08, 2026 03:36 PM (eIzlH)

28 A legal immigrant is simply an American citizen, yes? They should surrender that immigrant label. I loathe the “ hyphenated American” crap, BTW.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (Gqar8)

29 =======

Trump's not doing anything, Kamala would have probably been better, and we have to vote for Democrats to teach Trump a lesson for his inaction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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Hunter B. will be the dark horse and will win more delegates.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (AJWch)

30 Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

That depends on YOU telling Washington to secure our elections. Won't you consider a donation of $100 before the deadline?

Posted by: Speaker Mike Johnson at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (wGerL)

31 25 Trump's not doing anything, Kamala would have probably been better, and we have to vote for Democrats to teach Trump a lesson for his inaction.

==

She wants to try again. In earnest.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:36 PM (AKptf)

======

She even wrote a book about how she'd do it better with a full general election schedule at her disposal. She's not hiding her ambitions, like at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (qE8uT)

32 I wonder how bad it has to get before we have a serious country again.

We're still only making half-measures.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (N1tpc)

33 27 I think it's higher, but the 2020 election was decided by like 1% swing in the midwest.

Posted by: Leupold at September 08, 2026 03:36 PM (eIzlH)

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300,000 fraudulent ballots in Georgia alone to barely get Biden an 11,000 vote victory.

I'm sure it was the only state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (qE8uT)

34 Which reminds me, the Save Act is in limbo. And rumor has it that Thune is not going to the R convention in TX.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (AKptf)

35 Ace, see this?

Unbelievable. In Portsmouth UK ordinary citizens who are fed up are wading into the sea to stop the boats and are being labeled as 'thugs' by their own loser government. Brendan O'Neill is a good guy who wrote this and can't really believe it himself:

https://tinyurl.com/96tts52m

Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (kX27y)

36 Plot twist: he will still vote in California 5 or 6 times.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (U1NLK)

37 Why aren't we prosecuting every single person involved in registering them to vote and allowing them to vote?
Posted by: Crusader

Because politicos passed the moter-voter laws and the can do no wrong!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (NnhvP)

38
>>An illegal alien and criminal kept taunting an ICE agent by texting him that he was going to vote Democrat in the election and strip him of power and immunity.

================

This punk knows politics and law better than most Democrat voters.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (XJ22o)

39 Oh look at that a new thread, ace must have gotten scared again.

FAG

Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (cc+Kg)

40
This punk knows politics and law better than most Democrat voters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

===============

Legal ones, that is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (XJ22o)

41 She even wrote a book about how she'd do it better with a full general election schedule at her disposal. She's not hiding her ambitions, like at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (qE8uT)

Kramala/Kelly 2028!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (AKptf)

42 Trump's not doing anything, Kamala would have probably been better, and we have to vote for Democrats to teach Trump a lesson for his inaction.

==

She wants to try again. In earnest.
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I'm not sure she tried the first time?

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (TN0g+)

43 34 Which reminds me, the Save Act is in limbo. And rumor has it that Thune is not going to the R convention in TX.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (AKptf)

=======

It was never going to pass with a 53 seat majority and that majority including Mitch, Murkowski, Cassidy, Cornyn, and Ernst.

It may pass with a 54 seat majority without Mitch, Cassidy, Cornyn, and Ernst, though. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (qE8uT)

44 can see no way this effort does not end up with the left going ape shit. And resorting to violence. More violence than we're seeing now
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Anyone who pondered this for any length of time would reasonably conclude they will go scorched earth if they can't have their way. Violence is often the way they have effected their strategies.

Humans generally want to avoid conflict. They know this, and can effectively exploit human nature in myriad ways. They literally have it down to a science.

But the longer these egregious outrages on society are allowed to continue the worse things get, and the worse the remedy required. Bad news does not get better with time, unlike wine.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (+/Ezd)

45 300,000 fraudulent ballots in Georgia alone to barely get Biden an 11,000 vote victory.

I'm sure it was the only state.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:38 PM (qE8uT)

Totes.

Posted by: Josh Shapiro at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (mqudn)

46 I'm not sure she tried the first time?
Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (TN0g+)

dude, she was held back! She was not properly set up for success !

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (AKptf)

47 24 Knowingly texting law enforcement about the crime you are going to commit is brilliant.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket
======
Ego and idiocy are not too far from each other. Too much ego can make an idiot of us all and too many idiots have too much ego as a substitute for brains.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (E4rtv)

48 A legal immigrant is simply an American citizen, yes? They should surrender that immigrant label. I loathe the “ hyphenated American” crap, BTW.
Posted by: tubal


Hardly. There are legal permanent residents who aren't citizens. There are also foreigners here legally who are not and have no intention of become in citizens or permanent residents. College students, for one.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (vJrRc)

49 =======

The real target for all of these changes is the 2028 election.

Winning 2026 would be good and helpful in some small ways, but the target is to keep the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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If we don't win the house Trump is stale mated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (AJWch)

50 46 I'm not sure she tried the first time?
Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (TN0g+)

dude, she was held back! She was not properly set up for success !

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (AKptf)

======

It's her turn, and Joe Biden failed to set her up for success.

Now, she can do it on her own. Stella got her groove back, bitches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (qE8uT)

51 A legal immigrant is simply an American citizen, yes? They should surrender that immigrant label. I loathe the “ hyphenated American” crap, BTW.
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Now do us...

Posted by: African-Americans at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (TN0g+)

52 we could deport 'em all; as long as the voter rolls remain uncleaned they will continue to vote demonrat in every election.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (VyBeY)

53
Speaking of dogs that didn't bark, there were no "pallets of bricks" riots this summer.
==
As it turns out, brick deliveries are expensive.

Posted by: USAID at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (anL5R)

54
Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores checked the citizen box on November 4, 2025. Two felonies. Deportation if convicted.

Bill Essayli: first of many. California still won't audit the rolls.

FAFO

==================

What, one measly guy picked up because he was dumb enough to brag on social media? When does the FO happen for the State of California? As far as I can tell their current status wrt new requirements is: Delinquent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 03:42 PM (XJ22o)

55 48 A legal immigrant is simply an American citizen, yes? They should surrender that immigrant label. I loathe the “ hyphenated American” crap, BTW.
Posted by: tubal

Hardly. There are legal permanent residents who aren't citizens. There are also foreigners here legally who are not and have no intention of become in citizens or permanent residents. College students, for one.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (vJrRc)

Eh, good point. I conflated with naturalized citizens in my eagerness to bitch about people who love to flaunt fence straddling. My bad.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (Gqar8)

56 49 If we don't win the house Trump is stale mated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (AJWch)

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He absolutely is not.

OBBB fully funded DHS through 2028, so deportations continue.

He has full control of the DOJ, so the legal side of his administration continues without pause.

He's still commander in chief, so he can just bomb Tehran to smithereens without Congressional say-so.

He just has to deal with some impeachment theater while still having full authority over directing funding in a shutdown should it come to that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (qE8uT)

57 If it’s Vance vs Kumala it’ll be sitting VP vs previous VP.

Has that happened before? I can’t think of one, at least not in the modern era.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (U1NLK)

58
If we don't win the house Trump is stale mated impeached.
(again)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:41 PM (AJWch)

fixed it for you.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (VyBeY)

59 I'm not sure she tried the first time?
Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (TN0g+)

dude, she was held back! She was not properly set up for success !

==
I always found her willing and capable. Although I had to buy her a pair of kneepads.

Posted by: Willie Brown at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (anL5R)

60 I voted for this.

See the irony?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (RIvkX)

61 No, it doesn't addressed the dirty voter rolls issue, but if 6% of illegals are voting and there are tens of millions of them, and you dissuade them down to 5% while removing a bunch at the same time....that makes a difference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (qE8uT)

If I'm an illegal alien, who moved out of state, and then died, can I still vote in a California election?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (TVOOe)

62 I mean, you didn't really think Democrats supported mass illegal immigration for humanitarian reasons did you?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (DHh0Q)

63 How does that thing go....


1. It isn't happening, not a single illegal is voting.
2. It's happening but it isn't that widespread.
3. It's happening and here is why it is a good thing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 03:44 PM (I43vL)

64 She even wrote a book about how she'd do it better with a full general election schedule at her disposal. She's not hiding her ambitions, like at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (qE8uT)

Kramala/Kelly 2028!
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:39 PM (AKptf)

With 10 months she can blow 10 BILLION DOLLARS

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:44 PM (uhVAy)

65 Quoted from GP:

A mid-sized city in Connecticut has sparked anger from Team Trump after its city council decided to let potentially violent illegal aliens serve as cops.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Danbury City Council voted 18-2 on September 1 to allow non-citizen legal migrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients to serve as police officers.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:45 PM (TN0g+)

66 With 10 months she can blow 10 BILLION DOLLARS
++
Oh, you'd not believe what she could blow in 10 months time.

Posted by: Willie Brown at September 08, 2026 03:45 PM (anL5R)

67 If it’s Vance vs Kumala it’ll be sitting VP vs previous VP.

Has that happened before? I can’t think of one, at least not in the modern era.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (U1NLK)

Humphrey vs Nixon in 68?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

68 Which reminds me, the Save Act is in limbo. And rumor has it that Thune is not going to the R convention in TX.

--

I'd like to believe SD residents are lighting him up over his dereliction of duty. I'd like to believe...

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 03:46 PM (qBdHI)

69 DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites

Fuck em. They can’t arrest an American exercising their vote.

The point is they would be arresting non-Americans trying to vote.

That LITERALLY DOES NOT HAPPEN. It’s pure propaganda bullshit. Almost all voter fraud cases in the last 10 years involve MAGA.

They've arrested people for driving near them, rammed skulls into the wall, arrested them IN COURT for immigration, in hospitals after crash but BEFORE receiving care, just "deported" a US citizen to Mexico...I don't really trust them at polling places

you can also do a citizen arrest on agents if they are commiting crimes. They're literally interfering with elections and trying to intimidate voters.

Attacking mail in voting and in person voting. It’s almost like the Trump administration hates voting.

it’s a conservative wet dream for them to show up so they can beat up grandmas in tactical uniform and pretend like they did something

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 03:46 PM (PkrKm)

70 Tangential:

"@NewYorker
·
Sep 6
Daysi González is a political consultant who works on campaigns to elect Democrats across the country. She is also one of an estimated 200,000 Salvadorans whose legal immigration status is set to expire on September 9th—and one of about a million immigrants in the widening gyre"

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Trump is even going to deport Democrat operatives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:46 PM (qE8uT)

71 Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores
.......

Hopefully soon to be returned to his native habitat.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 03:47 PM (UjdFS)

72 69 Fuck em. They can’t arrest an American exercising their vote.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 03:46 PM (PkrKm)

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"Anyone who walked on American land is an American and can vote."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:47 PM (qE8uT)

73 Humphrey vs Nixon in 68?



Nixon wasn’t the previous VP, Johnson was.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 03:48 PM (U1NLK)

74 you can also do a citizen arrest on agents if they are commiting crimes. They're literally interfering with elections and trying to intimidate voters.
==
Holy Ship -they think its Mayberry RFD

Posted by: Go ahead, make my day at September 08, 2026 03:48 PM (anL5R)

75 Ooh a Bengali douchebag is here? Exciting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 03:48 PM (RIvkX)

76 "Anyone who walked on American land is an American and can vote."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:47 PM (qE8uT)

But, but, but, it is STOLEN LAND!!!! Reeeeeeee....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 03:48 PM (H9BGx)

77 you can also do a citizen arrest on agents if they are commiting crimes.
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Please please please please do this! BUT...PLEASE make sure we can record your act of bravery!

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:49 PM (TN0g+)

78 Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores checked the citizen box on November 4, 2025. Two felonies. Deportation if convicted.

--

This guy is what Bugs Bunny would call an ultra-maroon.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 03:49 PM (qBdHI)

79 Anyone who walked on American land is an American and can vote."
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PFFFT. Anyone, anywhere, who wants to, can vote in a US election.

Posted by: Dominion at September 08, 2026 03:49 PM (anL5R)

80 A story a week in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Inquirer - A Guinean immigrant has lived in the U.S. legally for two decades. Unable to deport him to his homeland, ICE wants to send him to a third country. Sept 3, 2026

'He’s the epitome of who you would want to live in this country,' the man's attorney said in court.

In part, "In Guinea, a nation of 12 million people that’s roughly twice the size of Pennsylvania, Fadel Cherif was jailed by the government after protesting the results of his country’s 1998 presidential election, which was marred by irregularities. He later fled in fear of being rearrested, using a document that showed a different Guinean identity to enter the United States in New York in November 2003."
...

"Palladino said in an interview that Fadel Cherif is the main support for his wife, who has legal permanent residency, also known as a green card, and for their four American-born sons, including Abdoulaye, a Marines reservist."
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Given the 2020 U.S. Presidential election and January 6th...

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 03:49 PM (NFX2v)

81 can see no way this effort does not end up with the left going ape shit. And resorting to violence. More violence than we're seeing now
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Anyone who pondered this for any length of time would reasonably conclude they will go scorched earth if they can't have their way. Violence is often the way they have effected their strategies.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:40 PM (+/Ezd)

Most of the American Left is LARPing as terrorists or radicals. ANIFA had to import pedo criminals to beef up its criminal wing back when they were being paid by Soros and NGOs through USAID.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:49 PM (uhVAy)

82 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

83 How did they know they could commit that much fraud and get away with it? That should make anyone's skin crawl.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (vE0+H)

84 "Darwin?"

"Mother, his name is Darren."
-- Samantha Stevens

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

85 it’s a conservative wet dream for them to show up so they can beat up grandmas in tactical uniform....
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Wait, grandmas in tactical uniform? Is this some sort of new kink?

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (TN0g+)

86 75 Ooh a Bengali douchebag is here? Exciting.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 03:48 PM (RIvkX)

The Truth? Its post didn't make any sense.

Posted by: beckster at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (kX27y)

87 SCOTUS now has two election related cases. First is on the postal service changes. Second I believe is that Sparkle asshole putting a stay on use of the DHS Alien Verification system for voter citizenship verification.

Since Roberts hates the country I figure he’s definitely against any election integrity. Then we have ACB who is a closet lib.

Meaning who knows.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (DGgho)

88 83 How did they know they could commit that much fraud and get away with it? That should make anyone's skin crawl.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (vE0+H)

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Because the GOP was in on it.

Especially in Georgia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (qE8uT)

89 Reddit: no borders man, no human is illegal

Also Reddit: hey why is housing so expensive and why is it so hard to find a job?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (U1NLK)

90 It's no wonder Talarico is going to Cali to campaign for cash. He thinks they'll follow him back to Tx and vote for him.

Too bad, Texas REQUIRES ID to vote. A TEXAS issued ID. NOT a California false ID.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

91 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

Where you been today, Man?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

92 If I'm an illegal alien, who moved out of state, and then died, can I still vote in a California election?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM (TVOOe)

While the rest of it might be disqualifying, we have proof that being dead allows one to vote with impunity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (H9BGx)

93 He later fled in fear of being rearrested, using a document that showed a different Guinean identity to enter the United States in New York in November 2003."
...
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Given the 2020 U.S. Presidential election and January 6th...
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 03:49 PM (NFX2v)

So he forged his application to enter? He's dishonest and a criminal in the US. Get him out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)

94 90 It's no wonder Talarico is going to Cali to campaign for cash. He thinks they'll follow him back to Tx and vote for him.

Too bad, Texas REQUIRES ID to vote. A TEXAS issued ID. NOT a California false ID.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

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What will be more prominent?

"I never thought Talarico had a shot, I swear I never said that he was possibly going to win, and even if I did, he might have."

or

"Well, if the election had been held in August, he totally would have won, so I was right at the time."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (qE8uT)

95 it’s a conservative wet dream for them to show up so they can beat up grandmas in tactical uniform and pretend like they did something

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 03:46 PM (PkrKm)

Never forget the Projection Rule

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (vE0+H)

96 Oh noes! Not the "widening gyre"!!

The center cannot hold ....

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (+/Ezd)

97 Philadelphia Inquirer - A Guinean immigrant has lived in the U.S. legally for two decades.
==
The opening sentence is a lie.

Posted by: Jimmy Olsen Ace Reporter at September 08, 2026 03:52 PM (anL5R)

98 How did they know they could commit that much fraud and get away with it? That should make anyone's skin crawl.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (vE0+H)

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Because the GOP was in on it.

Especially in Georgia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (qE8uT)

Yeah we saw in 2024 that fighting back has a good chance of working for us in Penn.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

99
Where you been today, Man?
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (77rzZ)



Work.

And having lead the comment count 3 weeks in a row by SIGNIFICANT numbers, I figured it'd be best if I laid low and actually got OTHER things done for a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (ccf/V)

100 The left: You can't send ICE to polling places that would be intimidation!

The right: Why would a citizen by intimidated by ICE?

The left: Who said anything about it only being citizens that are intimidated

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

101 98
Yeah we saw in 2024 that fighting back has a good chance of working for us in Penn.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

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One lawsuit at about 10pm when Philadelphia announced it was going to stop counting for the night was all it took.

Philadelphia did not stop counting. They finished counting, and Trump won Pennsylvania.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (qE8uT)

102 Too bad, Texas REQUIRES ID to vote. A TEXAS issued ID. NOT a California false ID.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

Alaska requires ID to vote as well, but not all poll workers appear to follow that guidance.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (H9BGx)

103 Reddit doesn't remember the black gangsters at the polling place pictures or they have forgotten on purpose.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (NnhvP)

104 Hochul wrote DHS asking to have TPS extended for NYS workers who are Salvadoran or Haitian. Apparently they represent a large amount of state workers and their deportation will cause shortages for the state.

Given all the lawsuits against the federal government by NY, I bet Markwayne Mullin rubbed that letter on his crotch.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (DGgho)

105 All citizens arrests must be done in a Gomer Pyle voice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (qBdHI)

106 103 Reddit doesn't remember the black gangsters at the polling place pictures or they have forgotten on purpose.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (NnhvP)

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Probably never saw them.

They would have seen them if the NYT had put it above the fold on the front page, but otherwise nope.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (qE8uT)

107 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (2J5h1)

108 The left's argument is amusing here, let's put it together...

Non-citizens do not vote it literally never happens.
If you send ICE to polling places not citizens will not go there because of intimidation
Therefore it is illegal intimidation to send ICE to polling places even though I just said there are no non-citizens at polling places

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

109
"I never thought Talarico had a shot, I swear I never said that he was possibly going to win, and even if I did, he might have."

or

"Well, if the election had been held in August, he totally would have won, so I was right at the time."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (qE8uT)



Armchair QB FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (ccf/V)

110 104 Hochul wrote DHS asking to have TPS extended for NYS workers who are Salvadoran or Haitian. Apparently they represent a large amount of state workers and their deportation will cause shortages for the state.

Given all the lawsuits against the federal government by NY, I bet Markwayne Mullin rubbed that letter on his crotch.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM (DGgho)

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"But first, you will blow me."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (qE8uT)

111 GatewayPundit

President Trump Signs Order Extending National Security Emergency Order On Election Integrity to Prevent the Rigging of the 2026 Midterms By Foreign and Domestic Enemies

Your election just may be rigged if
-they have mail ballots
-no proof of identity
-it takes longer than 6 hours for elections to be tallied
-computers count the votes
-you get a fourth and fifth ballot for showing your Subway rewards card

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (Sco7b)

112

Posted by: Sid at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (2J5h1)

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How do you get Trump to sign that bill?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (qE8uT)

113 103 you mean the mostly peaceful protesters with clubs?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (VyBeY)

114 How did they know they could commit that much fraud and get away with it? That should make anyone's skin crawl.
Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (vE0+H)

The old ways of appealing to Black Churches, collecting people to vote with maybe a few stops on the way, and filling out the cemetery are too hard, so increasingly the Dems have used technology to cheat, crudely.

These new ways leave a bigger trail though

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)

115 She is also one of an estimated 200,000 Salvadorans whose legal immigration status is set to expire on September 9th—and one of about a million immigrants in the widening gyre

She'd better get her affairs in order tout de suite, the 9th is tomorrow

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (vJrRc)

116 All citizens arrests must be done in a Gomer Pyle voice.
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Here's today's Mayberry trivia--Barney committed 8 accidental misfires over the length of the series.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (TN0g+)

117 Hochul wrote DHS asking to have TPS extended for NYS workers who are Salvadoran or Haitian. Apparently they represent a large amount of state workers and their deportation will cause shortages for the state.
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Doing the Jobs that NY staters don't want to do? Really?

Posted by: Lame at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (anL5R)

118

The Paolo, he have a ID, but he a no need a ID, he carry his ID with him, all a the time.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

119 Those Reddit Transmission people have to be -- seriously -- some of the most ignorant, uninformed, propagandized fools I've ever encountered. Reading their thoughts is mind-boggling.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 03:55 PM (qBdHI)

120 Posted by: Sid at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (2J5h1)


Seriously. F*ck you.

This is what Trump was elected to do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:56 PM (ccf/V)

121 OT… but Tucker Carlson continues his trolling with some truly retarded “discussion” of algebra with another retard I’ve never heard of…. It’s just comic trolling at this point…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 03:56 PM (gkBVP)

122 >> But first, you will blow me."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (qE8uT)

That weasel Lawler did the same thing. But we need his seat to keep the House.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 03:56 PM (DGgho)

123 122 >> But first, you will blow me."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:54 PM (qE8uT)

That weasel Lawler did the same thing. But we need his seat to keep the House.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 03:56 PM (DGgho)

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Lawler making pro-illegal immigrant noises but being a loyal vote for leadership is the reality of holding together a coalition.

His noises do nothing but make him look good back home to the right people while his votes are the only thing that actually matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:57 PM (qE8uT)

124 117 Hochul wrote DHS asking to have TPS extended for NYS workers who are Salvadoran or Haitian. Apparently they represent a large amount of state workers and their deportation will cause shortages for the state.
==
Doing the Jobs that NY staters don't want to do? Really?
Posted by: Lame
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Maybe they can replace Holchul and the State Legislature as they don't want to do their jobs either.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:57 PM (E4rtv)

125 Work.

And having lead the comment count 3 weeks in a row by SIGNIFICANT numbers, I figured it'd be best if I laid low and actually got OTHER things done for a while.
Posted by: Sponge

Sponge, how's the First Lady? I hope that things are going better for her, and for your family in general.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

126 Fuck em. They can’t arrest an American exercising their vote.

The point is they would be arresting non-Americans trying to vote.


Interesting. There seems to be some confusion on the Left about how this all works.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 08, 2026 03:57 PM (guGkK)

127 So he forged his application to enter? He's dishonest and a criminal in the US. Get him out.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:51 PM (uhVAy)

Exactly. They claim he was here legally and then casually mention a couple of sentences layer that he used a false ID as if that didn't immediately negate the first claim.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 08, 2026 03:58 PM (lFFaq)

128 How do you get Trump to sign that bill?



Trick question. There will be no bill that does it. Even if Dems win both house and senate they’re not defunding ice. They’re not that retarded.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 03:58 PM (U1NLK)

129 "I never thought Talarico had a shot, I swear I never said that he was possibly going to win, and even if I did, he might have"

And he's so creepy.

I think his dream job would be playing 'Peter Pan' on a boat in international water with a few dozen Brazilian and Filipino boys playing the 'Lost Boys.'

Time for headlines...ughhh

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 03:58 PM (Sco7b)

130 At The Telegraph: "Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium."

Earth's rotational speed is changing, possibly soon resulting in a negative leap-second.

"Most digital architectures and network time servers are hardcoded under the assumption that leap seconds are strictly additive. [A negative leap-second] could trigger severe disruption across critical national infrastructure, including telecommunications, electricity grids, and satellite navigation systems,"

It's Y2K all over again. Somebody got stingy, didn't allocate enough bits to contain a proper time field. Except this time we don't even know when the problem hits exactly. The Time Lords have decided that if we can get it all fixed by 2035, we might be OK.

Time Lord > Space Emperor

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

131 121 OT… but Tucker Carlson continues his trolling with some truly retarded “discussion” of algebra with another retard I’ve never heard of…. It’s just comic trolling at this point…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Eh, I don't find Tucker amusing and haven't for decades now. I find him and the other nasty media types in general are narcissists and ignorant. Now I can add innumerate too to Tucker's vitae.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)

132 90 It's no wonder Talarico is going to Cali to campaign for cash. He thinks they'll follow him back to Tx and vote for him.
.......

I have 5 neighbors adjacent to my property.
I know that 3 of them will definitely donate to him.
(I'm surrounded)

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

133
Interesting. There seems to be some confusion on the Left about how this all works.
--
It's confused turtles all the way down.

Posted by: The Patrician at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (anL5R)

134 If I'm an illegal alien, who moved out of state, and then died, can I still vote in a California election?"

Ah, Pittsburgh? At 10 o'clock?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (cGjQu)

135 "Footage obtained by Fox News Digital..."

So, is there a Fox News Analog?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1)

136 >> Maybe they can replace Holchul and the State Legislature as they don't want to do their jobs either.
Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:57 PM (E4rtv)

Hochul is up for reelection. People despise her. She’s a mouth breathing full time idiot. But Blakeman has been invisible.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (DGgho)

137 I see Sid has returned to chew on hobo ass. Can't he do that without farting in the thread? Apparently not. Somebody grab the Febreeze.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (H9BGx)

138 How do you get Trump to sign that bill?



Trick question. There will be no bill that does it. Even if Dems win both house and senate they’re not defunding ice. They’re not that retarded.
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Objection:
A) Asserts facts not proved to exist
B) Assumes that retardation is the driver of their action rather than malevolence.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (TN0g+)

139 103 Reddit doesn't remember the black gangsters at the polling place pictures or they have forgotten on purpose.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

That was community activism at its finest! Who could be against that! It's (D)ifferent.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (PkrKm)

140 OT… but Tucker Carlson continues his trolling with some truly retarded “discussion” of algebra with another retard I’ve never heard of…. It’s just comic trolling at this point…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 03:56 PM (gkBVP)

Its like half his shows are trying to get the Art Bell UFO crowd, half are going for the neo-Nazis. And half are going for fringe religious. And no using algebra to prove there are too many halves there.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (uhVAy)

141 Here's today's Mayberry trivia--Barney committed 8 accidental misfires over the length of the series.
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Pshaw! Matt Dillon was shot 72 times, knocked out 22 times, stabbed 9 times, and poisoned at least once. But never a negligent discharge. (no jokes, pliz)

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (+/Ezd)

142 Some of the arrestees, according to a DOJ press release, could face up to more than a decade in prison if found guilty of providing a false statement of citizenship in order to vote and other election fraud charges they are facing.

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Why waste the money? Just deport them. Enough of this arrogance.

Posted by: Decaf at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (ZNpJk)

143 Eh, I don't find Tucker amusing and haven't for decades now. I find him and the other nasty media types in general are narcissists and ignorant. Now I can add innumerate too to Tucker's vitae.
Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)

Who knew that yapping incessantly behind a "news" desk could take so little logical thought and calculation?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 04:01 PM (H9BGx)

144 If I'm an illegal alien, who moved out of state, and then died, can I still vote in a California election?"

Ah, Pittsburgh? At 10 o'clock?
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (cGjQu)


Depends. Did you cross the International Date Line?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 08, 2026 04:01 PM (guGkK)

145 Did you know that the most accurate pollster of the NY governor's race from 2022 released a new poll of this year's NY governor's race?

In August 2022, McGlaughlin showed the race to be 5.8 advantage Hochul. It ended up 6.4 advantage Hochul over Zelden.

Their newest poll shows Hochul up by only 3.9 over Blackman.

Interesting...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:01 PM (qE8uT)

146
Objection:
A) Asserts facts not proved to exist
B) Assumes that retardation is the driver of their action rather than malevolence.
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Objection sustained.

Posted by: Judge Dredd at September 08, 2026 04:01 PM (anL5R)

147
Sponge, how's the First Lady? I hope that things are going better for her, and for your family in general.
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)



We're doing Ok.

We just had a really good friend pass away late last week unexpectedly, so we're dealing with that. First Lady will likely go spend some time with his widow later this week.

We're also prepping for a investor showing of our house this coming weekend, so there's all kinds of fun and pressures everywhere.


Life is still f*cking hard and 2026 can really go play a round of hide and go f*ck itself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (ccf/V)

148 Dems take House in '26. Two assassinations. Speaker of the House becomes President.

Posted by: There's Your Roadmap at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (Fv808)

149 Today really was "Two for Tuesday", and we ain't talking Tacos.

Posted by: Spring In My Step at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (+/Ezd)

150 Its like half his shows are trying to get the Art Bell UFO crowd, half are going for the neo-Nazis. And half are going for fringe religious. And no using algebra to prove there are too many halves there.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (uhVAy)

I expect those groups overlap somewhat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (H9BGx)

151 119 Those Reddit Transmission people have to be -- seriously -- some of the most ignorant, uninformed, propagandized fools I've ever encountered. Reading their thoughts is mind-boggling.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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A third to 50 percent are probably bots, another 20-30 percent paid by the post shills in places like Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. and that leaves the reminder as mentally ill gender fluid trolls that live in their parents basements when they cannot find a bridge to live under.

The dirty secret is that the whole Reddit project became a big money maker when they sold the data to AI and probably due in part to the deranged and bot commentary there, it caused major issues with AI frontier models, to the extent that all of them main ones are reducing Reddit content in their training modules.

Terminally online people often have issues that take them out of the norm. Myself included.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (E4rtv)

152 Too bad, Texas REQUIRES ID to vote. A TEXAS issued ID. NOT a California false ID.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)

Alaska requires ID to vote as well, but not all poll workers appear to follow that guidance.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 03:53 PM


I don't know about other states but you can't vote here in Texas unless they scan your drivers license. And if it doesn't match the voter registration paper you are getting a paper ballot marked "provisional" that may or may not be counted depending on if they can verify who you are before the deadline.


I have witnessed people who have recently moved and did not update their DL handed a provisional ballot at the election place.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 04:03 PM (I43vL)

153 Some of the arrestees, according to a DOJ press release, could face up to more than a decade in prison if found guilty of providing a false statement of citizenship in order to vote and other election fraud charges they are facing.

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Why waste the money? Just deport them. Enough of this arrogance.
Posted by: Decaf at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (ZNpJk)

Put them in prison in El Salvador for a decade, THEN deport them. It's cheap that way.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:03 PM (uhVAy)

154 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (ccf/V)

Prayer up for you and yours, Sponge.

Would love to meet you in person at a MoMe sometime.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

155 I expect those groups overlap somewhat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (H9BGx)


May I illustrate?

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 08, 2026 04:03 PM (guGkK)

156 At DM, "Nicolas Cage's $10.5million Malibu beachfront mansion rocked by massive SINKHOLE"

Has pics. Looks like they built the house on a layer of graham cracker.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

157 153 Some of the arrestees, according to a DOJ press release, could face up to more than a decade in prison if found guilty of providing a false statement of citizenship in order to vote and other election fraud charges they are facing.

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Why waste the money? Just deport them. Enough of this arrogance.
Posted by: Decaf at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (ZNpJk)

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Sometimes, it's good to make public examples, pour encouragent les autres.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:04 PM (qE8uT)

158 According to ChatGPT, non-citizens are not allowed to vote in federal elections. No state allows non-citizens to vote in state elections (perhaps implying it could be legal), and very few places allow non-citizens to vote in local elections: "Washington, D.C.; San Francisco and Oakland (school-board elections); several Vermont municipalities; and a number of Maryland municipalities."

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:04 PM (2ap+5)

159 So, is there a Fox News Analog?
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM


Fox News Ones And Zeros didn't have quite the right ring to it.

Posted by: Overpriced Marketing Consultant at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (2Ez/1)

160 There is way too much fraud on the mail in ballots in NY. I still don’t believe Zeldin lost.

If they ever clean up the election system in NY it will turn. Which is never. That place is hopeless.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (DGgho)

161 93. So he forged his application to enter? He's dishonest and a criminal in the US. Get him out.
Posted by: Oldcat

He did. And then he lived "legally" in the United States for nearly 20 years under a status known as "withholding of removal."

What is Withholding of Removal?
Withholding of removal is a specific form of immigration relief. It is different from standard asylum or a green card.
No Deportation to Home Country: The government promises not to send you back to a country where you face persecution or torture.
Work Authorization: People with this status can apply for a yearly work permit and get a social security number.
No Path to Citizenship: You cannot get a green card, become a U.S. citizen, or travel outside the United States.
Third-Country Risks: The government can legally try to deport you to a different third country if one accepts you, though doing so is rare.
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And this is probably a bigger problem in the US than we realize.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (NFX2v)

162 Who knew that yapping incessantly behind a "news" desk could take so little logical thought and calculation?
Posted by: tcn in AK
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The Brits. They called tv personalities properly as newsreaders, not 'journalists'. If you insert Tucker as a newsreader, you get a very different vibe as it becomes clear that he is just the public actor to the writers, producers, editors, and researchers behind the curtain. Same for all TV 'news'.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

163 158 According to ChatGPT, non-citizens are not allowed to vote in federal elections. No state allows non-citizens to vote in state elections (perhaps implying it could be legal), and very few places allow non-citizens to vote in local elections: "Washington, D.C.; San Francisco and Oakland (school-board elections); several Vermont municipalities; and a number of Maryland municipalities."

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:04 PM (2ap+5)

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"ChatGPT, what is the punishment for an illegal immigrant who lies on a motor voter application and says that they are legally allowed to vote?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (qE8uT)

164 Life is still f*cking hard and 2026 can really go play a round of hide and go f*ck itself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 04:02 PM (ccf/V)

You’re still in my prayers. Yeah… 2026 has not been a great year overall in VanPelt land. I’ll be glad to see the end of it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (gkBVP)

165 OT… but Tucker Carlson continues his trolling with some truly retarded “discussion” of algebra with another retard I’ve never heard of…. It’s just comic trolling at this point…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 03:56 PM (gkBVP)


Algebra is antisemitic. It was invented by Arabs you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 04:06 PM (rbvCR)

166 At DM, "Nicolas Cage's $10.5million Malibu beachfront mansion rocked by massive SINKHOLE"

One more hole for Charlie Parker to fall into.

Posted by: Jake Parker at September 08, 2026 04:06 PM (guGkK)

167 I really dig them dropping off illegal immigrants from South America in Africa. They get off the plane and are like WTF am I ?

Maybe take the $2600.00 and self deport.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:06 PM (DGgho)

168 Didn't intend to go away but stumbled on a pic of Alejandra Guilmant and was distracted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (AJWch)

169 If you insert Tucker"

Kinky

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (X/FJT)

170 At DM, "Nicolas Cage's $10.5million Malibu beachfront mansion rocked by massive SINKHOLE"

Has pics. Looks like they built the house on a layer of graham cracker.
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 04:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

A lot of the cliffs near the coast are just piles of dirt, not stone. Because its so dry, they don't erode quickly like they would in the East or Midwest. But they erode all the same.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)

171 167 I really dig them dropping off illegal immigrants from South America in Africa. They get off the plane and are like WTF am I ?

Maybe take the $2600.00 and self deport.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:06 PM (DGgho)

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"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (qE8uT)

172 160 There is way too much fraud on the mail in ballots in NY. I still don’t believe Zeldin lost.

If they ever clean up the election system in NY it will turn. Which is never. That place is hopeless.
Posted by: Vengeance

Probably. And the inference that Thune types are in on the fraud, although in primaries, is the reason why you have GOP types claiming there is no fraud. They would go to jail too for renting the Democrat fraud machine. Only the innocent get screwed.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

173 I 100% believe Tucker thinks algebra is a Jewish plot. It just scans.

Early Nazis (for example) believed the Theory of Relativity was "Jewish Physics" and an assault on all good Germans.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (vE0+H)

174 Doesn't surprise me Hochul asked for a continuation of TPS for El Salvadorans and Hondurans. Over the last several years the average height of a person in my city has gone down by 2 inches at least. They make up a good chunk of roofers and a lot of laborers. Tell s you that the union bosses care about their graft and not the members as illegal laborers are taking their jobs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (v6vok)

175 This is a pretty funny ad against Kathy Hochul by the Blakeman campaign. Scroll down in video:

https://tinyurl.com/5dh39pvd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (mXZ+5)

176 I always found her willing and capable. Although I had to buy her a pair of kneepads.
Posted by: Willie Brown at September 08, 2026 03:43 PM


Willie did an interview recently where he said she was incompetent and it would be a disaster for Democrats if she was the nominee.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (2ocoG)

177 I’ll be glad to see the end of it"

Amen

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (X/FJT)

178 Who knew that yapping incessantly behind a "news" desk could take so little logical thought and calculation?
Posted by: tcn in AK
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The Brits. They called tv personalities properly as newsreaders, not 'journalists'. If you insert Tucker as a newsreader, you get a very different vibe as it becomes clear that he is just the public actor to the writers, producers, editors, and researchers behind the curtain. Same for all TV 'news'.
Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

even here they used to be called 'reporters' not journalists.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (uhVAy)

179 When my relatives from Oulu come for a visit, I always take them with me to vote. It's kind of an immersive experience.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (2ap+5)

180 This does remind me of NYS suing Trump for kicking illegals off of EBT..

The illegal thing literally doesn't happen!

But also you can't penalize people when they do the illegal thing that we claimed never happened because that's racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

181 Early Nazis (for example) believed the Theory of Relativity was "Jewish Physics" and an assault on all good Germans.

Einstein, so yeah, relativity *was* Jewish physics. That's probably not how they meant it though.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (2ocoG)

182 Its like half his shows are trying to get the Art Bell UFO crowd, half are going for the neo-Nazis. And half are going for fringe religious. And no using algebra to prove there are too many halves there.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (uhVAy)


It is like all the sensible interviews got scared off by people screaming about how antisemitic he is, and how he disrespects the memory of people who directed those men and women who fought and died for this country. I mean, how dare he do things like that? Doesn't he know that he shouldn't do things like that?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (rbvCR)

183 An illegal alien and criminal kept taunting an ICE agent by texting him that he was going to vote Democrat in the election and strip him of power and immunity.
================
This punk knows politics and law better than most Democrat voters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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If he thinks Dems are against immunity for government employees, 90% of whom are Dems, then I'm not so sure about his political savvy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (XvL8K)

184 How about that election machine in Georgia sending real time updates to China via the WiFi thermostat?

Yeah no proof of voter fraud in Georgia says the WsJ

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (DGgho)

185 Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (2ocoG)

Probably not.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (vE0+H)

186 I 100% believe Tucker thinks algebra is a Jewish plot. It just scans.

Early Nazis (for example) believed the Theory of Relativity was "Jewish Physics" and an assault on all good Germans.
Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (vE0+H)

Well at least Einstein was Jewish. It takes some contortion to turn al-gebra ...derived from arabic al-jebir to be a Jewish plot.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:10 PM (uhVAy)

187 I am uncomfortable with this jewish ritual.

Posted by: Nazi Officer who senses a face melting is coming at September 08, 2026 04:11 PM (anL5R)

188 Yeah no proof of widespread[/] voter fraud in Georgia says the WsJ
Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (DGgho)

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:11 PM (2ap+5)

189 ...that leaves the reminder as mentally ill gender fluid trolls that live in their parents basements when they cannot find a bridge to live under.

Those are the moderaters.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 04:11 PM (PkrKm)

190 Didn't intend to go away but stumbled on a pic of Alejandra Guilmant and was distracted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:07 PM (AJWch)

DAAAANG!!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 08, 2026 04:12 PM (PSEDc)

191 US hitting Iranian tankers around Kharg Island. Khaaaaarg

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:12 PM (v6vok)

192 Ughhhh.

Must be nice to be in government immune to all decisions and just have the stupid bastards you rule blindly take the bullets.

Depressing.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 04:12 PM (Sco7b)

193 Doesn't he know that he shouldn't do things like that?
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He's a dick. Always has been. I told you so. It takes one to know one.

Posted by: Jon Stewart at September 08, 2026 04:13 PM (anL5R)

194 Wait. Algebra is a Jewish plot? I thought that was gefilte fish.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:13 PM (DGgho)

195 I’m sad about Tucker, I used to like him when he was on Fox and for the five minutes he did his own show before turning into a bow tied version of the It Clown

Candace Owens though can suck my hairy ass

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at September 08, 2026 04:13 PM (fapp/)

196 191 US hitting Iranian tankers around Kharg Island. Khaaaaarg

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:12 PM (v6vok)

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Crown Prince put out a message in the last few days telling the people to rise up.

There are reports that the IRGC is deployed in a way to counter a popular uprising.

That third assistant janitor of the IRGC should have taken power while he could have and made a deal with the US months ago. The people aren't going to spare him now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:13 PM (qE8uT)

197 Its like half his shows are trying to get the Art Bell UFO crowd, half are going for the neo-Nazis. And half are going for fringe religious. And no using algebra to prove there are too many halves there.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:00 PM (uhVAy)

It is like all the sensible interviews got scared off by people screaming about how antisemitic he is, and how he disrespects the memory of people who directed those men and women who fought and died for this country. I mean, how dare he do things like that? Doesn't he know that he shouldn't do things like that?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (rbvCR)

Plenty of not clearly insane people would be willing to go on there and get some debate going. He's selecting more than reacting, because its all too fast

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (uhVAy)

198 very few places allow non-citizens to vote in local elections: "Washington, D.C.; San Francisco and Oakland (school-board elections); several Vermont municipalities; and a number of Maryland municipalities."

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:04 PM (2ap+5)

_________________________

I was curious about this a couple of months ago, and found similar information. There is a town down in Maryland that has allowed non-citizens to vote in local elections since 1992. The town was Takoma Park, Maryland.

NOW HERE'S THE RUB. That is the ONLY town where the residents voted that into the Charter. EVERY single other town or municipality that does it didn't allow their residents to vote on it. They just declared it.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (dIske)

199 There's a new cover sheet for the TPS Reports.

Posted by: Office Space at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (2Ez/1)

200

We would have less of these problems if our government didn't pay for people who come to our country.

If you can't prove you can support yourself and your family then you should be denied entry here.

Most of the invaders, of all persuasions come here to suck the government teat.

Posted by: four seasons at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (/QHx4)

201 Some of the arrestees, according to a DOJ press release, could face up to more than a decade in prison if found guilty of providing a false statement of citizenship in order to vote and other election fraud charges they are facing.

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Why waste the money? Just deport them. Enough of this arrogance.
Posted by: Decaf

Exactly. And a permanent ban.

Posted by: Josh Shapiro at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (mqudn)

202 At DM, "Nicolas Cage's $10.5million Malibu beachfront mansion rocked by massive SINKHOLE"

the house looks like it is under some sort of renovation.
........

Hey Buddy, you got a permit for that?

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (UjdFS)

203 Pretty sure some kind of succubus surfaced out of Nick Cage's driveway. Prolly sent to collect . . .

Posted by: Run Nick Run at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (anL5R)

204 Khaaaaarg"

With rich Corinthian oil?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 04:15 PM (cGjQu)

205 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 04:15 PM (W2Pud)

206 $100 says the Iranians won’t rise up. I also think the IGRC doesn’t give a fig the people are suffering with sanctions. They don’t care and the siege won’t bother them.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:15 PM (UYzXg)

207 What did pixie feature a few mornings ago?

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 04:15 PM (NFX2v)

208 206 $100 says the Iranians won’t rise up. I also think the IGRC doesn’t give a fig the people are suffering with sanctions. They don’t care and the siege won’t bother them.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:15 PM (UYzXg)

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The IRGC will hold onto power until they are as imposing as Afghanistan.

And that's an acceptable end point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:16 PM (qE8uT)

209 How about that election machine in Georgia sending real time updates to China via the WiFi thermostat?

Yeah no proof of voter fraud in Georgia says the WsJ
Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:09 PM (DGgho)

Heard a tick-tocker say that there was no proof Lindsey whatever killed her three kids...despite her admission of it all.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:16 PM (uhVAy)

210 156 At DM, "Nicolas Cage's $10.5million Malibu beachfront mansion rocked by massive SINKHOLE"

Has pics. Looks like they built the house on a layer of graham cracker.
Posted by: gp
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Unposssible - I was told he was flat broke.

Dang, lied to again. LOL

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at September 08, 2026 04:16 PM (VkY89)

211 I like Nicholas Cage, the very definition of a working man actor

He will star in literally anything as long as it pays the bills

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (fapp/)

212 $100 says the Iranians won’t rise up. I also think the IGRC doesn’t give a fig the people are suffering with sanctions. They don’t care and the siege won’t bother them.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:15 PM (UYzXg)

its already bothering them. They need to play their thug's wages.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (uhVAy)

213 45. Totes.
Posted by: Josh Shapiro

🤣

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (NFX2v)

214 The town was Takoma Park, Maryland."

East coast nutsville. They once voted a ban on any company "with ties to the nuclear industry".

Only to find that their streetlamp bulbs were made by GE.

Much humor ensued.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (cGjQu)

215 massive sinkhole is an underrated band

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (2ap+5)

216 >> The IRGC will hold onto power until they are as imposing as Afghanistan.

And that's an acceptable end point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:16 PM (qE8uT)

They don’t care if the entire country is flushed down the bowl. They have their stash of cash and they all eat well. Oh yeah, and they have the guns.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (UYzXg)

217
215 massive sinkhole is an underrated band

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (2ap+5)

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Band or retired pornstar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (qE8uT)

218 The IRGC will hold onto power until they are as imposing as Afghanistan.

And that's an acceptable end point.
==
Unless you live in Iran. If you do, it really sucks. But, guess you guys should have noodled that scenario out when you gave the shah the bum's rush. TTFN

Posted by: Run Nick Run at September 08, 2026 04:18 PM (anL5R)

219 Well, they're screwed.

God Promises To Spare Massachusetts If State Can Find 12 Competent Jurors

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 04:18 PM (ndZc7)

220
I have 5 neighbors adjacent to my property.
I know that 3 of them will definitely donate to him.
(I'm surrounded)
Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)



Look on the bright side. When the colander face-mask apockeyclips comes, you'll have a decent source for long pig.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 04:18 PM (y9nCu)

221 100 says the Iranians won’t rise up. "

Why would they?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 04:18 PM (cGjQu)

222 216 They don’t care if the entire country is flushed down the bowl. They have their stash of cash and they all eat well. Oh yeah, and they have the guns.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 04:17 PM (UYzXg)

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Our goal is that they don't project power outside their borders, pursue nuclear weapons, or fund terrorism.

Afghanistan doesn't do those things either.

I don't give a shit about who is in charge of Iran. I just care that they stop their shenanigans. If they do it by choice or by being ground to dust, that's up to them. The end result for us is the same.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:19 PM (qE8uT)

223 I suppose a sinkhole at your $10.5m house is worse than Amber Heard's taking a dump in your bed. Advantage Cage over Depp

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:19 PM (v6vok)

224 US hitting Iranian tankers around Kharg Island. Khaaaaarg
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 04:12 PM (v6vok)

Navy decided a bit ago that if Iran took a pop at them, they'd go gut 2 or 3 Idle Iran tankers.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

225 13 I can see no way this effort does not end up with the left going ape shit. And resorting to violence. More violence than we're seeing now.

Speaking of dogs that didn't bark, there were no "pallets of bricks" riots this summer.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (2ocoG)


I'm honestly surprised. I thought Soros et al. would be willing to continue supporting riots with their own money, but apparently it was in the category of 'bonus' activities that they would only fund if USAID (fungibly) paid for it. Or did law enforcement chill the environment for sketchy organizers? I thought they were all more devoted to the Revolution that that.

Posted by: SciVo at September 08, 2026 04:19 PM (ke3zm)

226 He will star in literally anything as long as it pays the bills
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His burn rate must be EPIC.

Posted by: Run Nick Run at September 08, 2026 04:20 PM (anL5R)

227 218 Unless you live in Iran. If you do, it really sucks. But, guess you guys should have noodled that scenario out when you gave the shah the bum's rush. TTFN

Posted by: Run Nick Run at September 08, 2026 04:18 PM (anL5R)

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We're not there to save the people.

We're there to make Iran stop acting like a piece of shit and messing with the world.

The people can have a say in that transition, or they can not. Up to them. But we're just there to make sure the transition happens.

If it's the third assistant janitor of the IRGC as supreme dictator or a constitutional republic, it doesn't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:20 PM (qE8uT)

228 The way Tucker Carlson talks about algebra is idiotic… his question: why does algebra put letters into numbers?

The retardedness is off the scales. They’re called variables, Tucker. A letter is a representation of any number combination that will satisfy the formula. The question is just so stupid. Algebra doesn’t “put letters into numbers”… it uses letters as symbols for abstract manipulation to derive powerful generalizations…. Egad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:20 PM (gkBVP)

229 My suspicion is tha actors are in some ways a lot like other jobs. Employers like reliable employees.

Show up on time every day, you know your lines, why, you're just like George Kennedy. You're in everything!

Posted by: Spring In My Step at September 08, 2026 04:20 PM (+/Ezd)

230 Cage did Left Behind because of his deep religious convictions.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:21 PM (2ap+5)

231 "Elon Musk
@elonmusk
1h
𝕏 is the number 1 source for news on Earth!

More monthly readership than the circulation of all newspapers combined."


is this good news...or bad news? discuss

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:21 PM (AKptf)

232 Soros et al. would be willing to continue supporting riots with their own money"

Never. OPM, baby.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 04:21 PM (cGjQu)

233 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:20 PM (gkBVP)

he earned his 1.7 GPA

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:21 PM (AKptf)

234 𝕏 is the number 1 source for news on Earth!

More monthly readership than the circulation of all newspapers combined."


is this good news...or bad news? discuss
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:21 PM (AKptf)

Given the ownership of newspapers these days, good news.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (uhVAy)

235
Y'all are violating the rules about math on the blog, bitchez.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (y9nCu)

236 Cage did Left Behind because of his deep religious convictions.
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No that's why he did Ghost Rider.

Posted by: Run Nick Run at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (anL5R)

237 I read that as massive stinkhole and thought: ew, let’s keep Hillary out of the news….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (gkBVP)

238 Given the ownership of newspapers these days, good news.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (uhVAy)

given the cesspool on X , I just don't know

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (AKptf)

239 Suck You Bus? Wut?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at September 08, 2026 04:23 PM (2Ez/1)

240 let me explain, bots run X

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:23 PM (AKptf)

241 Constitutional Amendment: a state’s electoral count is reduced proportional to twice the rate of fraudulent voting in the previous election. Or second previous election, whichever is greater.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:23 PM (VJ1er)

242 230 Cage did Left Behind because of his deep religious convictions.
Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:21 PM (2ap+5)

His new wife? Yoko Ono vibes...

I mean... come on Nic!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 04:23 PM (mP0Kj)

243

The countries, including ours, what benefit do they have by letting in people who live off the dole?

Do the invaders pay taxes? Doubtful. It has to cost the countries more money bringing in the invaders of any stripes.

Posted by: four seasons at September 08, 2026 04:23 PM (/QHx4)

244 234 𝕏 is the number 1 source for news on Earth!

Geez, we can't get a break from algebra today

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:24 PM (2ap+5)

245 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Bat Boy and The Weekly World News at September 08, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1)

246 Pretty sure some kind of succubus surfaced out of Nick Cage's driveway. Prolly sent to collect . . .
Posted by: Run Nick Run at September 08, 2026 04:14 PM (anL5R)

I beg to differ. This would have been your run of the mill, general purpose demon. A Succubus is sent to tempt men into having illicit sex with them. Even we have our standards.

Posted by: A Disgusted Succubus. at September 08, 2026 04:24 PM (TVOOe)

247 I'm honestly surprised. I thought Soros et al. would be willing to continue supporting riots with their own money, but apparently it was in the category of 'bonus' activities that they would only fund if USAID (fungibly) paid for it. Or did law enforcement chill the environment for sketchy organizers? I thought they were all more devoted to the Revolution that that.
Posted by: SciVo at September 08, 2026 04:19 PM (ke3zm)

Looks like the true believers these days are all total mercenaries. Even Hasan Piker's follower wanted Piker to pony up money for his terrorism. When Hasan went to Cuba with lots of US money to buy stuff while he was there, almost all of it came back with him.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (uhVAy)

248 Geez, we can't get a break from algebra today
Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:24 PM (2ap+5)


it's what they want!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (AKptf)

249 I wonder if Bob Dole was ever offended by the phrase “living on the dole”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (gkBVP)

250 Throw the bums out

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)

251 249 I wonder if Bob Dole was ever offended by the phrase “living on the dole”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (gkBVP)

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"After viagara, Mrs. Dole really learned what it was like living on the dole."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (qE8uT)

252 Geez, we can't get a break from algebra today
Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 04:24 PM (2ap+5)


it's what they want!
==
admit it, you want to watch me SOLVE FOR X!!!

Posted by: Hot for Teacher at September 08, 2026 04:26 PM (anL5R)

253 I used to keep a big file of news like this, to show proof to leftists when they demanded it and bury them in facts, but I soon found out that they didn't actually give a crap about the evidence.

The left demands evidence assuming you won't have any so they can sneer at your lack of media literacy or whatever their favorite buzz phrase is at the time. They don't argue with you to discuss anything, they yell things at you to feel better about themselves and attack their hated foe (words are violence).

So I deleted it all and give up on the entire exercise.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:26 PM (K32Fz)

254 The countries, including ours, what benefit do they have by letting in people who live off the dole?

Do the invaders pay taxes? Doubtful. It has to cost the countries more money bringing in the invaders of any stripes.
Posted by: four seasons at September 08, 2026 04:23 PM (/QHx4)

The cost to the countries, sure. But if the people in charge are well paid in the process by tax money along the way, that's all that matters.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)

255 Throw the bums out

==

It's always disorienting when someone comes into the thread with the thread topic!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:26 PM (AKptf)

256 "After viagara, Mrs. Dole really learned what it was like living on the dole."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:25 PM (qE8uT)

Is Elizabeth Dole still with us?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (gkBVP)

257 Or did law enforcement chill the environment for sketchy organizers? I thought they were all more devoted to the Revolution that that.
Posted by: SciVo
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Or did they calculate that unleashing it would hurt more than help with the midterms?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (XvL8K)

258 237 I read that as massive stinkhole and thought: ew, let’s keep Hillary out of the news….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:22 P

That's more a Monica Lewensky thing I'd think.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (Sco7b)

259 Bob Dole isn't sure WHAT Bob Dole thinks, but once Bob Dole knows, Bob Dole will be in touch.

Posted by: Bob Dole at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (2Ez/1)

260 I'm glad the porta-potty down in the sinkhole is still upright.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (UjdFS)

261 So I deleted it all and give up on the entire exercise.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:26 PM (K32Fz)

the most amusing way to attack a leftist is to do it from the left.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)

262 Throw the bums out

Ray Stevens:
 https://youtu.be/Q59ZcFguUOo

“Let’s see those shovel-ready jobs, my doctor’s gonna need one now.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 08, 2026 04:28 PM (VJ1er)

263 The Paolo never has to promise not to do the thing that, how you say, never happens.

Posted by: Paolo at September 08, 2026 04:28 PM (0sNs1)

264 I'm glad the porta-potty down in the sinkhole is still upright.
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Thank god it didn't tip over. I'm inside let me out!!!!

Posted by: Nick Cage at September 08, 2026 04:28 PM (anL5R)

265 257 Or did law enforcement chill the environment for sketchy organizers? I thought they were all more devoted to the Revolution that that.
Posted by: SciVo
__________

Or did they calculate that unleashing it would hurt more than help with the midterms?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (XvL8K)

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Or, the entire antifa edifice is a web of NGOs that the Trump administration has been fighting and untangling for more than a year.

Most recent was NoBlogs being shut down (a centralized blogging software that antifa used) and an Italian server that was shut down tied to NoBlogs.

Along with actual convictions of antifa activists in the dozens of years because they tried terroristic violence and the feds have a lot of power to punish people for that because of stuff like the Patriot Act.

Actually going out there now to throw a Molotov cocktail at a cop car carries real risks in 2026 as opposed to 2020-2024. DOJ ain't fucking around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:29 PM (qE8uT)

266 Given the ownership of newspapers these days, good news.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (uhVAy)

given the cesspool on X , I just don't know
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM (AKptf)

old papers were 100 pct shit. Now you just have shit and non shit to choose from.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)

267 I read that as massive stinkhole and thought:
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 04:22 PM


Why do you say that like it's a Bad Thing?

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 08, 2026 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

268 261 the most amusing way to attack a leftist is to do it from the left.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)

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"I can't believe you only want to kill the capitalists. We have to go out there and kill the capitalist enablers: the Democrats."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 04:30 PM (qE8uT)

269 A gel bra?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 04:30 PM (wVcYX)

270 Nood
Tucker and Jewish plots

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 04:31 PM (Sco7b)

271 Tucker is truly impressive. The best actor could not go up on stage or do as many interviews as he did, extemporaneously, as well as he did as a conservative.

What kind of brain can be so believably deceptive?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:32 PM (AJWch)

272 I like Nicholas Cage, the very definition of a working man actor

He will star in literally anything as long as it pays the bills
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Back in the '90s I tuned into the last 20 minutes of "Con Air". It was AWESOMELY bad! Like AMAZINGLY bad! So bad that I'm actually glad I watched that 20 minutes and not any of the rest of it. That 20 minutes was great and yet just OOZED of the fact that the actual film itself stunk on ice!

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 04:32 PM (TN0g+)

273 old papers were 100 pct shit. Now you just have shit and non shit to choose from.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)

Maybe...but the Planet's news cycle was not left to the mentally ill, in the days of newspapers they just talked to themselves and did not get inspired by false sense of acceptance created by bots.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (AKptf)

274 the most amusing way to attack a leftist is to do it from the left.

One of the keys to understanding the left is that they live in fear and misery. Those shots of them screaming and crying and wailing in their cars etc, that's their life. They feel a huge burden of hopeless disaster, that they are fighting alone against the ultimate evil, that they are the rebels against the evil Empire, that they are the oppressed other skulking through ruins while being hunted by hateful puritans who want to lynch them while burning them in a church and chaining them to a sink barefoot and perpetually pregnant etc.

I grew up afraid of nuclear war, it genuinely affected my mood and hopes of the future: none. Finally I got over and but it was a dark veil over all of my life. I know what they feel like, and its pathetic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (K32Fz)

275
I deleted it all and give up on the entire exercise.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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I used to try to use facts on lefties, too, but their excuses are unassailable. "Here's the raw stats that Harvard itself was forced to compile," you say. "Harvard is full of white racists," they'll say.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (XJ22o)

276 My aunt and a few cousins are commies. I call them commies because it infuriates them.

They never have one viable solution to any issue. Just whatever their overlords tell them. Intellectually lazy and devoid of reasoning and common sense. So much for college.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 04:34 PM (mqudn)

277 It's the hallmark of the modern left, that they are offended that anyone would deign to use their own brain and cogitate, and utilize deductive or inductive reasoning. One might well arrive at the wrong conclusions, you see. This is not tolerable.

This is a huge change from even 20 or 25 years ago, maybe. You are allowed to choose sides, even encouraged. But you have to stay within the lines. Repeat slogans, thought ending cliches. Virtue signaling.

It is all very circular now, tautologies on steroids. "We're good people, because we believe the good things". And you're a bad person, who believes all the wrong things.

Now they also generally believe there is no such thing as objective reality or proofs. Everything is subjective. So they are reduced to claiming "There is no right or wrong." just different.

But they - surprise! - are always right, about everything. It's the amazing self-licking ice-cream cone. They've painted themselves into a corner long ago, and it's getting a lot less crowded in thar, because people reflexively cannot abide all those contradictions and absurdities. It will drive one crazy, which is probably the intent anyhow.

Posted by: Spring In My Step at September 08, 2026 04:47 PM (+/Ezd)

The Eternal Op Continues: "25 years after 9/11, many Muslims fear a new backlash"

The Real Victims of 9/11 were Muslims.

Just like the Real Victims of the conquests of Spain, Constantinople, and the Balkans were the Muslims.


The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, began like any other day. Sabinah Mohyuddin was getting her kids ready for school in Clarksville, Tennessee, while her husband, a cancer physician, was still asleep.

Then the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

"I remember when it happened, because my husband always put his alarm to National Public Radio," she said. "He came running out shouting, 'Turn on the TV!'"

It wasn't clear whether the first strike was intentional. After dropping her kids off, Mohyuddin watched in horror as a second plane crashed into the south tower.

She and the rest of the nation waited in petrified anticipation for answers about who was behind the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Then Mohyuddin, a Muslim, learned the hijakers also followed Islam.

"It fell on me like a heavy weight," she said. "What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?"

Making it all about you, and not even hiding it.


Now, 25 years after the attacks, Muslims across the country are asking the same question as they experience rising Islamophobia and concerns about their First Amendment right to religious freedom.

Over 40% of U.S. adults believe Muslims are less patriotic than other Americans and that Muslim Americans are having a negative impact on the country, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in May.

Obviously far-right racists. There is no reason to think that there is an intense anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Jewish strain in Islam, except, you know, for all the terrorist attacks and constant verbal attacks on the west.

But other than that -- no evidence. Must be racism.


The stigmatization, often amplified by politicians, has affected everything from immigration statuses to due process rights and everyday religious practices. Muslim leaders and community members, in turn, told the USA TODAY Network they're left fighting to defend their faith and warning the nation that its founding principles are at stake.

"Being Muslim doesn't make me less American," Salam Jabaieh, a Muslim woman from Arizona, said. "Those things are part of who I am, and I shouldn't have to make myself less visible or less Muslim in order to prove I belong here."


In the days after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush made public statements defending Islam and differentiating the faith from the attack.

He quoted from the Quran and said "Islam is peace" during remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington, DC. Bush also met with Islamic leaders, including Nihad Awad, national executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR was established in 1994 and is the country's largest Muslim civil liberties organization.

Though Awad disagreed with many of Bush's policy positions, he told USA TODAY he saw "sincerity" and "openness" from Bush, a desire for unity amid the devastation.

But the violence that plagued Muslims and mosques in the days and years after 9/11 stood in stark contrast to those sentiments.

The first 9/11-linked hate crime came just a few days later, when an Arizona man murdered Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man who wore a turban the shooter interpreted as a sign he adhered to Islam. Muslims were killed in attacks that family members and advocacy groups tied to the spike in Islamophobia. A number of mosques were also burned to the ground or severely damaged in arson fires.

Note there are no numbers mentioned here. "Muslims" -- no number given -- "were killed in attacks." "A number of mosques" were damaged in fires.

How many?

Not many at all, or else you'd tell us the numbers.

By the way, a lot of churches are burning lately and the media doesn't seem to think that's a sign of rising ant-Christian animus.

Now comes the media's "Bush was a good man tryin' his best but Trump is a monster turn:"

But Muslim leaders described a notable shift when President Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015. He initiated what became known as the "Muslim ban" during his first term and has taken similar action since returning to office.

Federal authorities have arrested and sought to deport pro-Palestinian activists, actions that judges have deemed a First Amendment violation.

"Activists." Members of the Muslim Brotherhood openly calling for violence against Jews and Americans.


Some Republican leaders also have used rhetoric and pushed policies that have come under criticism by Muslim Americans and others. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated CAIR a terrorist group in 2025, which initially excluded a number of Islamic schools from a state-sponsored voucher program because of perceived affiliation with the organization, according to a lawsuit. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also issued the designation, which a federal judge struck down in March.

Such action by governors has had a trickle-down effect on local municipalities and school boards, according to Adam Abutaa, of the Muslim civic engagement organization Emgage Florida. Muslim students are less likely to feel they can freely express themselves on their campuses or to their elected officials, he said.

Really? Muslims feel they can't fully express themselves on campus?

We've seen Jews beaten by Muslims on campus. They want to "express themselves" further than that?


Saajid Khan, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student, echoed those sentiments. He was one of several students who were praying in a parking garage on campus in November 2025 when several men disrupted them, shouting profanities and taunting them with bacon − a forbidden food in Islam. The men were later charged over the incident.

"I think there's a lot of propaganda pushed against Muslims, which leads to an unsafe environment," Khan said.

There's a single incident of Muslims being "taunted with bacon."

How many incidents are there of non-Muslims being taunted with bullets and explosives?

Stephen Kruiser:

The number of Americans who are dishonoring those killed by Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001 is tragic and abominable. This is from a VIP post Catherine wrote over the weekend:

My colleague Robert Spencer, an expert in Islamic history and modern jihad movements, says that there have been 49,000 Islamic jihad attacks since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. And yet only 25 years after those attacks, with nearly 50,000 terrorist incidents attributable to Islam in the time period, New York has a Muslim mayor and Americans in all 50 states claim to support Palestinian terrorists. We even have U.S. administrations funding jihadi regimes and removing terror designations from Syrian mass murderers. It's insane.

Insane and heartbreaking.

There was a brief time of unity back in 2001 that has been followed up by a quarter-century of American leftists being apologists for Islam. They're either rabid supporters of jihadi murderers or dealing with a case of mass denial the likes of which has never been seen in history. The leftists' responses to Islamic terror attacks have become routine sick jokes. We're constantly told that motives are "unclear" when "Allahu Akbar!" was the last thing people heard before they were killed. If you're sane and mention that there just might be a pattern, they all start barking "Timothy McVeigh" like trained seals.


I frequently write about the fact that American leftists live in an alternate, fictional reality. One of the biggest fictions that they peddle is that Islamic terrorism isn't a problem, but the white Christians are a powder keg that's ready to blow. It's wearisome and dangerous. When Democrats are in charge, they're never looking for the real bad guys.

In another VIP post from last weekend, Robert wrote about what we can expect from the lunatic left this week:


Friday, September 11 will be the 25th anniversary of the jihad attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, and the far left's propaganda arm, the establishment media, is already hard at work repeating the lesson that leftists want us to take away from this grim milestone: It was all our fault. And now, "Islamophobia" is worse than ever, underscoring the left's second big takeaway from 9/11: Muslims were the real victims.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

49m

🚨 WOW! 9/11 families are on the steps of NYC city hall DEMANDING Mayor Mamdani stay FAR AWAY from the 25th anniversary ceremony on Friday

"Dude, we DO NOT want you to come," a victim's daughter, who was nine years old when her father was kiIIed, said

"It is today that he stands with people like Hassan Piker. It is today that he hires people like Ramzi Kassem. It is today that he stands with an imam that was a CO-CONSPIRATOR of the '93 bombing. THAT is what we object to."

Zohran Mamdani wants to spike the football in the end zone.

Overton
@overton_news

17m

The Catholic League President Bill Donohue just took NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the woodshed in front of a crowd...and it was BRUTAL.

Donohue said Mamdani is more concerned about "Islamophobia" than he is about the death of 3,000 innocent Americans.

Whoa.

DONOHUE: "Thank you, Bill Donohue, President of Catholic League."

"On that fateful day, 9/11, I looked out my window on 34th Street and 7th Avenue and saw the twin towers go down."

"I'm a veteran, United States veteran, I don't have a lot to say about Zohran Mamdani."

"He should not be here. I wrote him a letter on August 3rd...explaining why he is such a divisive figure."

"He said that 'something happened' on 9/11."

"I'll tell you what happened...radical Muslims came in here to bomb the United States of America."

"I don't say Muslims, because that's wrong. I'm talking about radical Muslims."

"He can't bring himself to say that!"

"He is more concerned about Islamophobia than he is the death of 3,000 people, innocent people, on that day."

"This man is a disgrace to veterans, and believe me, as a Catholic, we contacted NYPD, FDNY and Port Authority a year later...85 to 90% of first responders who were murdered, they were Catholic."

"And we stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against the likes of Hasan Piker, who says nothing but good things about the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas."

"It's a disgrace!"

"Mamdani, do us all a favor and just stay home."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:24 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (mqudn)

2 Norm understood just how stupid suicidal empathy is.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:25 PM (N1tpc)

3 It'd be nice if there was some backlash.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 08, 2026 02:27 PM (jBygX)

4 All muslims want us infidels dead.

The "moderate" ones just don't want to take the risk to try.

But they're happy to let the "extreme" musselmen kill you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:27 PM (N1tpc)

5 Does NY have recall provisions?

Posted by: clarence at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (311fa)

6 America is systemically racist against Muslims, and Muslims should flee and fear for their lives.

They should flee to Iran where the caliphate is due to finally form.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (qE8uT)

7 this is an absurd retelling of history. Bush went to war with Muslim countries. He was the great Satan for decades. Trump hardly mentioned Islam in his first term aside from not liking us dumping billions of dollars on them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (uhVAy)

8 "If you're sane and mention that there just might be a pattern, they all start barking "Timothy McVeigh" like trained seals."

Funny they mention Timothy McVeigh.

Raise your hand if you now have doubts about his involvement in the terror attack?

[Raises hand]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

9 7 this is an absurd retelling of history. Bush went to war with Muslim countries. He was the great Satan for decades. Trump hardly mentioned Islam in his first term aside from not liking us dumping billions of dollars on them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (uhVAy)

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Trump destroyed ISIS.

And everyone forgot about it.

Also, his actions to destroy ISIS were deeply unpopular at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (qE8uT)

10 Pershing

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (wxsGM)

11 This bacon-taunting business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (guGkK)

12 Note there are no numbers mentioned here. "Muslims" -- no number given -- "were killed in attacks." "A number of mosques" were damaged in fires.

How many?

Not many at all, or else you'd tell us the numbers.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:24 PM

Well, it'll look really bad when they say the number was 19.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (N1tpc)

13 El Sayed is a dwarf, isn't he? Everybody he stands next to tower over him. Little man syndrome.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (OkYzo)

14 We had three Muslims at my high school when I was a senior in 02...there was one girl who got expelled because she "forged" her mom's signature on a permission slip to compete in a math Olympiad. Her dad was against her going because it was a coed overnight trip to baton rouge. But the hotel rooms were single sex and divided by floors. I felt so sorry for her. I still feel like her mom signed it but denied it when her dad found out.

Posted by: mishdog at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (NAjYa)

15 I hope it makes the American Muslim community nervous. They should self-deport now back to their Muslim countries of origin, before we have to start playing "Cowboys and Muslims."

Their "religion" (really a mixture of religion, archaic legal system, misogyny, and military doctrine of conquest) is totally incompatible with Western and US Constitutional values. There can be no coexistance within the same borders, and maybe not even with different borders.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (u9OdC)

16 Raise your hand if you now have doubts about his involvement in the terror attack?

[Raises hand]
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Sure was executed quick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (mqudn)

17 A riot is a terrible thing, but I think it’s about time we had one.

Posted by: Eromero at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (LHPAg)

18 Won't anyone think of the goatfuckers?!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (cJ8nD)

19 Now, 25 years after the attacks, Muslims across the country are asking the same question as they experience rising Islamophobia and concerns about their First Amendment right to religious freedom.

I would beg to differ. There is no such thing as secularism with Islam. Because of poorly understood and misinterpreted 1A rulings, Christians have had to erect a wall between the secular and the sacred. Islam is a religion/cult, a culture and more.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (N39Ws)

20 It fell on me like a heavy weight"

Clearly not heavy enough...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (cGjQu)

21 We had three Muslims at my high school when I was a senior in 02...there was one girl who got expelled because she "forged" her mom's signature on a permission slip to compete in a math Olympiad. Her dad was against her going because it was a coed overnight trip to baton rouge. But the hotel rooms were single sex and divided by floors. I felt so sorry for her. I still feel like her mom signed it but denied it when her dad found out.
Posted by: mishdog

Well, algebra is a JOOOOish plot, you know.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

22 4 All muslims want us infidels dead.

The "moderate" ones just don't want to take the risk to try.

But they're happy to let the "extreme" musselmen kill you.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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Eh, people vary in religious faith but any 'moderates' know that they are put on the death list if they speak out against the radicals. A far stronger version social and political ostracizing than the black community has had for not voting Democrat. And that is effective enough that blacks have voted 85-90 percent en bloc for Democrats since at least the LBJ era.

And Labour UK is finding out that when giving a choice between a full blown Muslim or one posing as a moderate candidate for Labour, Muslim majority districts will go for the uncloaked candidate.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:31 PM (E4rtv)

23 It fell on me like a heavy weight"

Clearly not heavy enough...
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (cGjQu)



We have a website.

Posted by: The ACME Anvil Company at September 08, 2026 02:32 PM (guGkK)

24 1. There will be no new backlash. There wasn't an old backlash. People know Muslims are insane and violent and are scared of them. What would a "backlash" look like? Some Christians or Jews taunting a Muslim, and then he pulls out a knife and stabs them?

2. Muslims are more likely to greet the 25th anniversary of 9-11 by carrying out terror attacks than they are to face any backlash.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

25 "It fell on me like a heavy weight"

Like the weight of 100 floors of concrete and steel falling.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

26 7 this is an absurd retelling of history. Bush went to war with Muslim countries. He was the great Satan for decades. Trump hardly mentioned Islam in his first term aside from not liking us dumping billions of dollars on them.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Any media retelling of history consists of lies, damned lies, and statistics. H/T Mark Twain.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv)

27 The headline should read "Tribal goons who are constantly provoking a fight fear they might get one." Yeah. Four OIF deployments later, here I am.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at September 08, 2026 02:33 PM (KnlAB)

28 >Their "religion" (really a mixture of religion, archaic legal system, misogyny, and military doctrine of conquest) is totally incompatible with Western and US Constitutional values. There can be no coexistance within the same borders, and maybe not even with different borders.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (u9OdC)

You mean a 7th century death cult isn't incompatible with Western culture. The hell you say!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (cJ8nD)

29 25 years later, and Zohran Mamdani’s Aunt still can't feel safe riding the subway!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (PkrKm)

30 Islam et Spheniscidae delenda est

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (0sNs1)

31 8 "If you're sane and mention that there just might be a pattern, they all start barking "Timothy McVeigh" like trained seals."

Funny they mention Timothy McVeigh.

Raise your hand if you now have doubts about his involvement in the terror attack?

[Raises hand]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

I have significant doubts regarding the official narrative, that's for certain.

Posted by: Not that it matters at this point at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (TbWk/)

32
The Japanese were ruthless to our American/Allies taken prisoner. War crimes were committed. Socially the Japanese were a pariah. 30 years after the war we as a nation were buying up every car they were producing, and a lot of stuff was coming in from Japan.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (OkYzo)

33 25 "It fell on me like a heavy weight"

Like the weight of 100 floors of concrete and steel falling.
Posted by: gp

Just like a toon.

Posted by: Eddie Valiant at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (PkrKm)

34 32
The Japanese were ruthless to our American/Allies taken prisoner. War crimes were committed. Socially the Japanese were a pariah. 30 years after the war we as a nation were buying up every car they were producing, and a lot of stuff was coming in from Japan.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (OkYzo)

========

"No wonder it doesn't work. Look, 'Made in Japan.'"
-Doc Brown

"What are you talking about, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
-Marty McFly

It's from a documentary about the 1950s I saw once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (qE8uT)

35 "There was a brief time of unity back in 2001 that has been followed up by a quarter-century of American leftists being apologists for Islam."
________

Even the brief unity was due solely to the attacks being in NY and DC. Had they been in Texas, the leftists would have immediately been saying the crackers had it coming.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (XvL8K)

36
All muslims want us infidels dead.

The "moderate" ones just don't want to take the risk to try.

But they're happy to let the "extreme" musselmen kill you.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:27 PM (N1tpc)




"Moderate" mohammedans are just reloading... or trying to get their rusty Kalashnikovs to cycle because like most mohammedans, they don't understand advanced technology.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (y9nCu)

37 College age kids were not born when 9/11 happened and many have not been taught/exposed to the devastation and horror of that day or the many days afterwards. Islamicist running for office know this and use to their advantage.

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (oiNtH)

38 The only solace I have about this nation falling , and it won't, is that the simps on the left, including the propaganda ministries would be the first lined up and shot.
Look at what Khomeini did to the communists who were so happy the Shah was overthrown

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (v6vok)

39 I have significant doubts regarding the official narrative, that's for certain.
Posted by: Not that it matters at this point

What happened to the other guy who was supposedly McVeigh's accomplice?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

40 "Their "religion" (really a mixture of religion, archaic legal system, misogyny, and military doctrine of conquest) is totally incompatible with Western and US Constitutional values."

I assume (guess) that it is the Constitution that prevents us from expelling all Muslims from the country.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:36 PM (Jr5Lq)

41 Both hands raised

Posted by: Billythesquid at September 08, 2026 02:36 PM (pUTfs)

42 It's from a documentary about the 1950s I saw once.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM


Which means pre-Prometheus, and therefore of little regard.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 08, 2026 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

43 Earlier today: "I saw someone put the SP500 against gold and it is mostly flat"
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Try putting gold against dollars for the last 30 years. Stash in the mattress. It's an alternative currency, or currency speculation, not an investment. A bet against the dollar, in historical terms. A losing bet for a long time, though not in recent decades. Dollar holders have been "lucky" for a long time, gold has been making record advances in other currencies for a very long time.

Dollars used to be the currency par excellence. Better than gold, really. I remember street vendors in Cambodia bitching at me because a $20 bill had a corner that was folded over. WTF? They like their US greenbacks nice and crisp and pristine.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 02:37 PM (+/Ezd)

44 Eh, people vary in religious faith but any 'moderates' know that they are put on the death list if they speak out against the radicals. A far stronger version social and political ostracizing than the black community has had for not voting Democrat. And that is effective enough that blacks have voted 85-90 percent en bloc for Democrats since at least the LBJ era.
Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:31 PM (E4rtv)

If you mean "muslims" in the same way that the mob is "Catholic", then sure. People who only put on "muslim" garb but don't follow anything it says. There are a few of those.

But a good muslim is not a "good" person. Because they want you strangled with your own entrails.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:37 PM (N1tpc)

45 I can certainly understand not wanting to be in the position of trying to defend islam..

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 02:37 PM (2ap+5)

46 24 1. There will be no new backlash. There wasn't an old backlash. People know Muslims are insane and violent and are scared of them. What would a "backlash" look like? Some Christians or Jews taunting a Muslim, and then he pulls out a knife and stabs them?

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Predicting the future is a tricky thing. Some of the Muzloids will be departing due to being here illegally. Some will commit crimes and be deported. Others will find out that when the welfare and Learing center money runs out, that their marginal competency for holding a janitorial position doesn't give them the standard of living they desire. And a lot hinges on 2028.

The card that Trump and Co are holding close to the chest is how much Qatar and Muzloid Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR, etc. have been doing illegal shit behind the scenes like buying influencers without undertaking the FARA limits and buying colleges.

I think the tide is running out in Diversity INC and that includes patience for foreign invaders of all sorts. The only question is whether it will be peaceable or violent.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:37 PM (E4rtv)

47 I remember street vendors in Cambodia bitching at me because a $20 bill had a corner that was folded over. WTF? They like their US greenbacks nice and crisp and pristine.
Posted by: Common Tater

Had the same problem in Ukraine in the late 90s.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

48 The real victims of the battles Goliad and Alamo were the poor Mexican army troops who were scarred in profound ways and had to live in fear of backlash.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 02:39 PM (wVcYX)

49 If you mean "muslims" in the same way that the mob is "Catholic", then sure. People who only put on "muslim" garb but don't follow anything it says. There are a few of those.

But a good muslim is not a "good" person. Because they want you strangled with your own entrails.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Yes, that is what I meant. Many are here for grifting purposes and when the money/fraud is gone, they will find their way to the door as they can live like kings back in their home countries (Somalia is an example) with what they stole from the US.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)

50 "Moderate" mohammedans are just reloading... or trying to get their rusty Kalashnikovs to cycle because like most mohammedans, they don't understand advanced technology.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (y9nCu)

Inshallah.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:39 PM (N1tpc)

51 "There was a brief time of unity back in 2001...."
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Not really. I was logged in to left leaning bulletin boards, before the towers had fallen they were falling all over themselves spouting the usual nonsense. It's a studied, reflexive, belligerent virtue-signaling ignorance.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 02:40 PM (+/Ezd)

52 It must be much worse for a mohammedan to fear a backlash for over two decades, than someone having a loved one die at the hands of one.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 02:40 PM (UGGC4)

53 I assume (guess) that it is the Constitution that prevents us from expelling all Muslims from the country.
Posted by: gp
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To quote Associate Justice Robert Jackson in a case dealing with Commies, "The Constitution is Not A Suicide Pact."

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (E4rtv)

54 A plea deal would involve her pleading guilty to something. She ain't gonna do that.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (vE0+H)

55 What happened to the other guy who was supposedly McVeigh's accomplice?
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

Terry Nichols. In prison for life. Rumored to be tangled up with Muslim separatists in the Philippines.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (exU9W)

56 You know who should be worried about backlash for perpetrating 9/11? The Jews.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (vE0+H)

57 There's no way Mandani is going to be absent from the ceremony except if he's forcibly detained.

He and his fellow Muslims are here to CONQUER us.

He will do everything in his power to rub his boot in the faces of those most affected by 9/11 because that is who he is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)

58 You see, we get to pick who the victim is, not reality. Lindsay, the terrorists, the car jacker who was just turning his life around. We decide who is protected. Our narrative tells you what is "real".

Posted by: The Media at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (anL5R)

59 Islamapechthia - regarding Islam to be repugnant.

They yell "islamophobia" but that's just trained seals; parrots, really, who know not what they squawk. Why should I give a rat's ass about their yelping?

Posted by: NeighSayer at September 08, 2026 02:42 PM (bufu1)

60 57 There's no way Mandani is going to be absent from the ceremony except if he's forcibly detained.

He and his fellow Muslims are here to CONQUER us.

He will do everything in his power to rub his boot in the faces of those most affected by 9/11 because that is who he is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)

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It'll be funny if El-Sayed loses what Democrats previously consider to be a winnable race and the establishment starts making moves against the Islamization of the party, up to and including something like a primary challenge to Mamdani in 2029.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:42 PM (qE8uT)

61 "To quote Associate Justice Robert Jackson in a case dealing with Commies, "The Constitution is Not A Suicide Pact.""

I like the sentiment, but how did that case turn out? Were all communists subsequently expelled from the USA?

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:42 PM (Jr5Lq)

62 Oh, no. The Smithsonian 's President is stepping down after fighting with Trump. The guy is an expert in African American studies, oddly he's African American.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 02:43 PM (v6vok)

63 "I don't say Muslims, because that's wrong. I'm talking about radical Muslims."
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You're an idiot.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:43 PM (vE0+H)

64 Backlash against Muslims?? Does that mean, for Muslims and Leftist Communists ( but I repeat myself) not groveling to them and kissing their asses whenever they open their pieholes about anything? Because I think that is exactly what it means to them.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 02:44 PM (Gqar8)

65 57 There's no way Mandani is going to be absent from the ceremony except if he's forcibly detained.

He and his fellow Muslims are here to CONQUER us.

He will do everything in his power to rub his boot in the faces of those most affected by 9/11 because that is who he is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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He might not if he is publicly humiliated. People turning their backs on him in the midst of the ceremonies and having that portrayed on the media is a real possibility.

But, I think his ego is writing checks that his meager political support can't support. He might even end up a one term mayor if he keeps lying and screwing up NYC.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:44 PM (E4rtv)

66 ok the pilot of the amazon jet was former Blackhawk pilot Joseph Carroll, 55. not a rookie not a recent immigrant!

copilot was Hispanic yeah but not flying

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 02:44 PM (j+aD2)

67 Coming soon:

A US citizen participating in concealed carry kills a Muslim shooting up a US school. Media calls is pre-emptive backlash.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 02:44 PM (dIske)

68 Saajid Khan, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student, echoed those sentiments. He was one of several students who were praying in a parking garage on campus in November 2025 when several men disrupted them, shouting profanities and taunting them with bacon − a forbidden food in Islam. The men were later charged over the incident.


Do the penalties increase for thick-cut bacon?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 02:45 PM (Riz8t)

69 #BREAKING: DOL suspends nearly all of India-based Cognizant's visa filings.

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For those keeping track, Cognizant was the third largest H1-B employer in America in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:45 PM (qE8uT)

70 68 Saajid Khan, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student, echoed those sentiments. He was one of several students who were praying in a parking garage on campus in November 2025 when several men disrupted them, shouting profanities and taunting them with bacon − a forbidden food in Islam. The men were later charged over the incident.


Do the penalties increase for thick-cut bacon?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 02:45 PM (Riz8t)

Turkey bacon is okay though.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 02:46 PM (Gqar8)

71 Kick. them. out.

I knew a couple of guys who went to work that morning on the 110th floor of the North Tower. They never came home. If I had MY way....*types*deletes*

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 08, 2026 02:46 PM (hmYU4)

72 Over 40% of U.S. adults believe Muslims are less patriotic than other Americans and that Muslim Americans are having a negative impact on the country...
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The other 60% are pants-on-head retarded.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 02:46 PM (TN0g+)

73 What happened to the other guy who was supposedly McVeigh's accomplice?
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

Terry Nichols. In prison for life. Rumored to be tangled up with Muslim separatists in the Philippines.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (exU9W)
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I think more than rumors, but yes. Lotsa evidence of his ties to Abu Sayef, including that his mail-order bride was from Mindanao.

There was also that other guy that the FBI couldn't find and then conveniently decided he didn't exist.

Kinda odd that the Vegas shooter also had ties to Abu Sayef, including that mysterious girlfriend from Mindanao that the FBI didn't follow up on in the slightest.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

74 Backlash ? We never even had a Frontlash...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 02:46 PM (+gK6I)

75 yup. welcome to 2026. woo-effing-hoo.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (VyBeY)

76 What one generation allows, the next generation will embrace.

Do moslems work on Fridays?

Posted by: Mohammed Abdullah Smith at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (Z8Kuq)

77 I like the sentiment, but how did that case turn out? Were all communists subsequently expelled from the USA?
Posted by: gp
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Case came out okay. And that phrase along with Congress nearly passing the Bricker Amendment in the late 50's put an end to the Warren Court coddling commies.

And the issue back then was primarily foreign pieces of shit out to influence our politics. Unless you plan Air Pinochet with its risks and benefits, domestic commies can't really be dealt with. But their imported foreign catspaws like Mamdani can be under the right circumstances.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

78 OT: I forgot to wish everybody a happy Patch Tuesday. There's a bunch.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

79 Lefties were complaining about "aggressive patriotism" roughly a week after 9/11/01.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (bX16E)

80 garage on campus in November 2025 when several men disrupted them, shouting profanities and taunting them with bacon − a forbidden food in Islam. The men were later charged over the incident.


Do the penalties increase for thick-cut bacon?
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What if they started throwing pulled pork sammiches?

Posted by: O the humanity! at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (anL5R)

81 9/11 had many victims that weren't in the towers:

Something that no one talks about: The 9/11 attacks destroyed public education in this country. Public education died 25 years ago.

Bush’s presidency before 9/11 was focused heavily on domestic policy, especially education. After 9/11, national security consumed the administration...9/11 helped create the bipartisan environment that passed NCLB, but the War on Terror eventually diverted enormous attention and resources away from domestic education policy.

NCLB put the onus of student achievement on the teacher. The tenet was that if teachers tailored the lesson well enough, all students could learn equally. It just doesn’t work like that. False premise, false promise.

Yes, but have you considered the effect on army recruitment if everyone was educated to a high standard and taught critical thinking skills and objective reasoning?

I would go a step further back than that and say Vietnam destroyed this country and education in this country Vietnam is where we started to become hyperpolarized hyper paranoid and then when 9/11 happened it kind of reactivate it all of that or accelerated it exponentially

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (PkrKm)

82 When Norm was right, he was right.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (PGK1w)

83
For those keeping track, Cognizant was the third largest H1-B employer in America in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:45 PM (qE8uT)

Until some Federal Judge slaps an injunction on it..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (+gK6I)

84 79 Lefties were complaining about "aggressive patriotism" roughly a week after 9/11/01.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (bX16E)

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Always important to remind the left that it only costs $450 to renounce their citizenship. Then they can move to Sweden and be in socialist paradise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (qE8uT)

85 39. What happened to the other guy who was supposedly McVeigh's accomplice?
Posted by: Bulg

Terry Nichols, received multiple life sentences and is imprisoned at the ADX Florence supermax facility in Colorado.

An associate, who had advance knowledge of the plot, testified against McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a plea deal. He served 12 years in prison and was released into the Witness Protection Program in 2006.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 02:49 PM (NFX2v)

86 83
For those keeping track, Cognizant was the third largest H1-B employer in America in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:45 PM (qE8uT)

Until some Federal Judge slaps an injunction on it..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (+gK6I)

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Oh, then I guess the administration shouldn't have even tried.

It's not like we have 17 months of history showing the administration winning literally every lawsuit in the end when it comes to immigration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:49 PM (qE8uT)

87 Thank you for content Ace, as always.

I had a nice long weekend enjoying being back at home after our long trip but it feels like we brought the heat and humidity from Arkansas and Missouri back with us to Southern California!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (QGaXH)

88 30 Islam et Spheniscidae delenda est

shouldn't that be "delendi sunt"?

Posted by: anachronda at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (v3pYe)

89 Perhaps it will also destroy the country, but AI is definitely going to crush the NEA and AFT.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (2ap+5)

90 Backlash ? We never even had a Frontlash...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 02:46 PM (+gK6I)

I'm hoping against hope for some tonguelashing . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (wVcYX)

91 "Over 40% of U.S. adults believe Muslims are less patriotic than other Americans and that Muslim Americans are having a negative impact on the country."

Only 40%? What is wrong with the other 60%?

I mean, Muslims practically brag about how they still owe allegiance to Islam and their shithole countries. Many openly admit they are here to undermine our nation and people and substitute their own.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

92
Oh, then I guess the administration shouldn't have even tried.

It's not like we have 17 months of history showing the administration winning literally every lawsuit in the end when it comes to immigration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:49 PM (qE8uT)

They have to try.. After a couple months it should be over turned.. Doesn't mean it isn't infuriating...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (+gK6I)

93 The Eternal Op Continues: "25 years after 9/11, many Muslims fear a new backlash"

Uh-oh. What are they planning this time?

Posted by: t-bird at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (zfkPG)

94 Muslims fear backlash from the terror attack planned for 25th memorial of 9/11?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (xQz2n)

95 > Try putting gold against dollars for the last 30 years. Stash in the mattress. It's an alternative currency, or currency speculation, not an investment.

Here's my problem with gold as an investment or even as a doomsday hedge. If you buy "gold" stocks, you're leaving money on the table. $10K in gold in 1996 leaves you with ~$115K today. S&P 500 has you closer to $211K with dividends reinvested.

If you're looking for a doomsday hedge, paper stocks are worthless. You have to have physical gold.

The problem with physical gold is cashing out. In a non-doomsday scenario, you have to deal with coin shops who aren't going to give you spot prices. You're getting significantly worse. In a doomsday scenario, who knows if gold is valued? Probably? I'd be willing to bet liquor and bullets would have better liquidity.

If you make it to the other side of doomsday and society recovers the gold will be valuable again. I think that's the best case scenario for gold. It's value-dense and easier to transport unless you have a lot of it.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (mkw2N)

96 91 Only 40%? What is wrong with the other 60%?

I mean, Muslims practically brag about how they still owe allegiance to Islam and their shithole countries. Many openly admit they are here to undermine our nation and people and substitute their own.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

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"Papists owe allegiance to the pope and will do whatever the pope tells them to do. Also, Muslims are more American than apple pie."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (qE8uT)

97
There's no way Mandani is going to be absent from the ceremony except if he's forcibly detained.

He and his fellow Muslims are here to CONQUER us.

He will do everything in his power to rub his boot in the faces of those most affected by 9/11 because that is who he is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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I bet he shows up and does such an incredible job of weeping and putting on a solemn face that talent agents lament that he went into politics instead of acting. He'll probably wear a touch of something red white and blue. These people know their theater.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (XJ22o)

98 "But Muslim leaders described a notable shift when President Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015. He initiated what became known as the "Muslim ban" during his first term and has taken similar action since returning to office."

See now, that really pisses me off. There was no Muslim ban. It never happened. Over 90% of Muslims worldwide were unaffected, because they don't live in the countries named.

So, Liberals, if Hakeem Jefferies tells you tomorrow he has passed an assault weapons ban. But, what passed exempts more than 90% of whatever qualifies as an assault rifle.

Then, clearly, Hypothetical Hakeem didn't ban assault weapons, and Trump didn't ban Muslims. It never happened.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (r7+Q7)

99 84 79 Lefties were complaining about "aggressive patriotism" roughly a week after 9/11/01.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 08, 2026 02:47 PM (bX16E)

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Always important to remind the left that it only costs $450 to renounce their citizenship. Then they can move to Sweden and be in socialist paradise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (qE8uT)

My religion keeps my aggressive patriotism in check, for good or ill. I will own that. I DO say that Islam, in all of its aspects, sorely tries my faith, more so than any other of the outrages that we are currently living with.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (Gqar8)

100 He might even end up a one term mayor if he keeps lying and screwing up NYC.
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Well, he's an islamonazi, of course he is going to keep lying and screwing up NYC. Lying and screwing up is their entire reason for existing. It comes as naturally to him as breathing does to anyone else.

Whether the voters decide to notice is another matter.

Posted by: the orcs are perpetual screw ups at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (anL5R)

101 Our government and muslims will never be able to forgive what they have done to us. Poor dears.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 02:52 PM (rbvCR)

102 Who carries bacon around in case they see a muslim praying? Fake and gay.

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at September 08, 2026 02:53 PM (hiXpn)

103 "In a doomsday scenario, who knows if gold is valued?"

It will be. You'll meet with a guy to trade gold for bread or something. Whoever shoots first takes all. Barter in a SHTF situation is a pipe dream.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:53 PM (Jr5Lq)

104 I say, let's get started with the backlash

it's long overdue

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt)

105 I might leave the house with bacon, but it's not going to make it to the end of the driveway.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 02:54 PM (2ap+5)

106 12 Well, it'll look really bad when they say the number was 19.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (N1tpc)

Hey nineteen .....,,,,

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 08, 2026 02:54 PM (QGaXH)

107 If you make it to the other side of doomsday and society recovers the gold will be valuable again. I think that's the best case scenario for gold. It's value-dense and easier to transport unless you have a lot of it.
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Diamonds.

Posted by: Dr. Christian Szell at September 08, 2026 02:55 PM (anL5R)

108 It'll be funny if El-Sayed loses what Democrats previously consider to be a winnable race and the establishment starts making moves against the Islamization of the party, up to and including something like a primary challenge to Mamdani in 2029.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They won't blame Muslims....that would be racist. They'll say he was too extreme, and try to use it as an excuse to purge/stifle the openly radical Left wing of the party in their civil war.

Mamdani might not attend if he is publicly humiliated. People turning their backs on him in the midst of the ceremonies and having that portrayed on the media is a real possibility.

That will be fine. He'll get to play the victim card of anti-Muslim and racism, and his base will eat it up when a bunch of white people are photographed turning their backs on him.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 02:55 PM (PkrKm)

109 > You'll meet with a guy to trade gold for bread or something. Whoever shoots first takes all.

Yeah, that's a problem.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (mkw2N)

110 On 9-11 the United States was attacked by islam. Don’t believe me. Believe the adherents of islam who helped plan and carry out the attack.

Believe their supporters who still continue to express they want to destroy us.

Believe the countless combatants we fought for the better part of 20 years.

Believe the people who have now occupied parts of our country, who want the same thing.

Today is just a different battle in the same was using new tactics.

Posted by: Marcus T 9-11 Survivor at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (hcEyG)

111 Do the penalties increase for thick-cut bacon?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 02:45 PM (Riz8t)

Yes. The penalties of deliciousness.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (vE0+H)

112 "25 years after 9/11, many Muslims fear a new backlash"
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Still waiting for the old backlash.

Why do they come here?

They come to take.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (RIvkX)

113 new pc is up n running

everything's in times new roman again

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

114
The Japanese were ruthless to our American/Allies taken prisoner. War crimes were committed. Socially the Japanese were a pariah. 30 years after the war we as a nation were buying up every car they were producing, and a lot of stuff was coming in from Japan.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (OkYzo)



Getting nuked twice goes a long ways towards making nations behave like civilized people rather than murderous, genocidal asshoes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 02:57 PM (y9nCu)

115 No, no. We only want to learn how to disengage the autopilot and steer the plane ourselves.

Posted by: Some Zombie Hijackers at September 08, 2026 02:57 PM (R0XxO)

116 113 new pc is up n running

everything's in times new roman again

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

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*Invasion of the Body Snatchers scream*
-Calibri

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:57 PM (qE8uT)

117 You'll meet with a guy to trade gold for bread or something. Whoever shoots first takes all.

Yeah, that's a problem.
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Which is why I created Bartertown.

Posted by: Auntie Entity at September 08, 2026 02:57 PM (anL5R)

118 113 new pc is up n running

everything's in times new roman again
Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

To serif or sans serif, that is the question.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 02:58 PM (Gqar8)

119 We have freedom of forms of religion here - but we don't have freedom of forms of government. That should exclude islam right there.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 08, 2026 02:58 PM (GMWTj)

120 this Dell micro pc is the size of a paperback novel

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 02:59 PM (ZxPkt)

121 First of all, we really don't know who was behind 9/11, this is just a fact, everyone knows it was not what they made you believe it was.

Second of all, it is just a fact, and everyone knows that every Muslim capital much nicer and safer than any major US city. You need to ask why that is, and why a small contingent of US population, a population with dual loyalties, wants us to hate such nice clean and safe capitals.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (AKptf)

122 If Mamdani presents himself, his pleasure and glee will be impossible to hide and be in stark contrast with the mood of most everyone around him. It will be too obvious because he is a smarmy, arrogant bastard. There will likely be violence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (RIvkX)

123 Catching up on ace's posts, just saw the women interviewed on the street outside the courthouse in the Clancy trial. WTH. All of them are fat & tatted and generally unpleasant looking. Ive tried initiating various conversations w friends and family over the years (my three sisters are very overweight so Ive tried walking on eggshells) regarding the weight and general appearance of women today. I'm 60. I have a 20 year old college attending daughter who I half raised (divorced), she's very attractive, but wears the frumpy clothing of a homeless bum - baggy pants, shirts five sizes too large and struggles with slight weight gains at the butt and legs. So chicken or egg here - is it a matter of self esteem w women that causes the lack of care in how they look or is something going on w what women are ingesting that causes them to feel low esteem when they just can't keep up w weight gains etc?

Posted by: Jeeves at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (hyQrc)

124 113 new pc is up n running

everything's in times new roman again
Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

To serif or sans serif, that is the question.
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 02:58 PM (Gqar

Helvetica is all Swiss to me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (wVcYX)

125
You'll meet with a guy to trade gold for bread or something. Whoever shoots first takes all.

Yeah, that's a problem.
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Which is why I created Bartertown.
Posted by: Auntie Entity at September 08, 2026 02:57 PM (anL5R)


Bust a Deal, Face the Wheel

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (y9nCu)

126 There are plenty of places in the world where they could practice their religion. Places where they would be received with open arms and every accommodation would be made for them.

Given that, ask yourself why they are here advocating for things antithetical to the American Republic, our constitution and our way of life.

Posted by: Marcus T 9-11 Survivor at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (KOPVf)

127 Fire Doesn't Melt Steel!

Posted by: Rosie at September 08, 2026 03:00 PM (anL5R)

128 How was everyone's Labor Day?

I went to the in-laws. They were making chicken and I wanted burgers. I brought a ten pack of patties, cheese, and buns because I'm considerate. My wife didn't approve of the cheese I bought, so I bought another kind of cheese.

When it came time to make the burgers, I polled the crowd to see how many patties I needed to cook. I made exactly that number. Then when I told the crowd the burgers were ready, suddenly more people wanted burgers. I had to turn away some people and felt like a dick. I did let them know there were more patties, but they'd have to cook their own.

I know I could have cooked all the patties, but I didn't sign up for that. I just wanted my own burger. I feel like I went above and beyond by bringing and making extra.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:01 PM (mkw2N)

129 @EricLDaugh

The number of anti-mass deportation immigration judges fired has RISEN to 137 under President Trump — while 349 replacement judges have been hired to FAST-TRACK the removal of illegal aliens

This is a HUGE development for clearing any backlogs and SENDING THEM ALL BACK, ONE BY ONE

Immigration judges have been known problems in the removal system and they are NOT in the judicial branch — existing under DOJ

That means they can be FIRED and REPLACED en masse

Get on board with Trump's mass deportations, or GET FIRE

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 03:01 PM (NpAcC)

130 Now, 25 years after the attacks, Muslims across the country are asking the same question as they experience rising Islamophobia and concerns about their First Amendment right to religious freedom.
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Don't tease me.

Posted by: CNN at September 08, 2026 03:01 PM (TU5Q9)

131 By the way, those Iranians are kicking our ass:

Current cost of a loaf of bread in Iran. 600,000 Iranian Rials.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 03:01 PM (dIske)

132 Communists or Communism was never made illegal, but numerous XOs precluded Communists from being employed, by the Federal Government at least. This was completely rational and just.

I'm sure Clinton or somebody like that rescinded those XOs. At least, that's what it looks like from out here in the cheap seats.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:02 PM (+/Ezd)

133 Some backlashes are richly deserved

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

134 The islamofaggotry of the Democrat party isn't going to stop. I said it was coming before it started. Before Mamdani. Before Sayed.

Unfortunately this is our country now.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (vE0+H)

135 Twenty-five years of hindsight:

I wish all muslims had self-deported due to this "fear." Pity they did not fear more than their imagination. Do I still side eye head coverings and tents on their women? Indeed I do. I am watchful in the very rare event I see one in an airport.

The unity our country felt with the leadership of GWB after 9/11 fizzled with the six words that "islam is a religion of peace." I wonder who told the nitwit to say that?

I remember being outraged when he said this, giving "them" an out.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (hzuYO)

136 Somehow, after 911 our government decided to import as many muscles over here as possible. Before that I rarely saw Muslims now I see them all over the place all the time.

Posted by: Maroon at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (Q8MzQ)

137 Yes. Indeed . CNN has been running the same headline for 25 years. They ought to change their acronym to CNMN ( Communist Network Muslim News)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (vxQju)

138 Who carries bacon around in case they see a muslim praying?

Probably a good idea, though.

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

139 129 @EricLDaugh

The number of anti-mass deportation immigration judges fired has RISEN to 137 under President Trump — while 349 replacement judges have been hired to FAST-TRACK the removal of illegal aliens

This is a HUGE development for clearing any backlogs and SENDING THEM ALL BACK, ONE BY ONE

Immigration judges have been known problems in the removal system and they are NOT in the judicial branch — existing under DOJ

That means they can be FIRED and REPLACED en masse

Get on board with Trump's mass deportations, or GET FIRE

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 03:01 PM (NpAcC)

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Mega-master hearings where asylum claims are rejected by the dozen at a time combined with the removals of protected statuses has greatly increased the well of easy pickings for ICE and aligned police forces under 287g agreements.

Also, Treasury added a bunch of regulations and guidance about how banks are to treat people not here legally (as well as legally, but temporarily), effectively cutting many immigrants off from the financial system.

Also, OBBB ended a lot of welfare eligibility (takes effect Oct 1).

They can get out, or they can get out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (qE8uT)

140 131 By the way, those Iranians are kicking our ass:

Current cost of a loaf of bread in Iran. 600,000 Iranian Rials.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 03:01 PM (dIske)

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Trump has no response to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (qE8uT)

141 "I'd be willing to bet liquor and bullets would have better liquidity."

If you trade in "ballistic wampum," then you are revealing that you indeed do have ammunition - which makes you the value dense target.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 08, 2026 03:04 PM (GMWTj)

142 Get real. There is no phobia. It is more a distrust of a philosophy that hates the West and especially Christians. Wake up America, before it is too late, if it is not already so.

Posted by: Huxley Orwell at September 08, 2026 03:05 PM (j3Fsw)

143 > is it a matter of self esteem w women that causes the lack of care in how they look or is something going on w what women are ingesting that causes them to feel low esteem when they just can't keep up w weight gains etc?

Not just women. Everybody's fat now. It seems like the only people who aren't are either young, a gym rat, or genetically gifted. Even many young people are fat.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:05 PM (mkw2N)

144 Cognizant AND Cloudera are having their visa filings blocked

as of now

more to come I have a feeling!

very fraud. much fake.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 03:05 PM (j+aD2)

145 Who carries bacon around in case they see a muslim praying?"

Well, we carry bleach around in 15 degree weather...

MAGANigerians

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:05 PM (cGjQu)

146 144 Cognizant AND Cloudera are having their visa filings blocked

as of now

more to come I have a feeling!

very fraud. much fake.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 03:05 PM (j+aD2)

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But Trump didn't break the law and just end H-1B on his own, so nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:05 PM (qE8uT)

147 What happened to the other guy who was supposedly McVeigh's accomplice?
Posted by: Bulg

Terry Nichols, received multiple life sentences and is imprisoned at the ADX Florence supermax facility in Colorado.

An associate, who had advance knowledge of the plot, testified against McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a plea deal. He served 12 years in prison and was released into the Witness Protection Program in 2006.
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Fornier was one of the accomplices--he was the one with the 12 years in prison. But there was a dark-complected accomplice that was initially reported to be with McVey. His existence was *wiped* from the official narrative within 24 hours of the bombing.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:06 PM (TN0g+)

148 Current cost of a loaf of bread in Iran. 600,000 Iranian Rials.
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Go long on wheelbarrows.

Posted by: Wiemar Republic at September 08, 2026 03:06 PM (xQz2n)

149 "In a doomsday scenario, who knows if gold is valued?"
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In a doomsday scenario, practically nothing else is. Certainly no paper currency with dead guys on it, fuggedabout it. History is very clear on this.

"Barter in a SHTF situation is a pipe dream"

Eh, SHTF all over the world all the time. Silver subsidiary coinage was used for small purchases. Great stuff, those silver dimes and quarters. Now we just get ugly Chucky Cheese tokens.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:06 PM (+/Ezd)

150 We have freedom of forms of religion here - but we don't have freedom of forms of government. That should exclude islam right there.
Posted by: CTHillary

That's actually a very good point. Go after Islam as an alternative political system incompatible with republicanism. No need to cause First-Amendment issues. Go after the politics of Islam, not its theology.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

151 > If you trade in "ballistic wampum," then you are revealing that you indeed do have ammunition - which makes you the value dense target.

Sure, but that's true of ALL barter items. If you have some, you have more. As soon as you reveal you have anything of value, you're a target.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (mkw2N)

152 @139 I believe a lot more left than the official 3M. Slipped out, self deported, took the tunnel in CA, whatever. I think a few million more. And not just to MEX, there were others too, maybe African, maybe Eastern European. But more that the official, traceable numbers.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (AKptf)

153 What, Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable? Or is it something that is more of an “ I know it when I see it”, sort of thing?

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (Gqar8)

154 Looks like the Win 11 security update is going to take over an hour just to download, on my 800MB/sec fiber. They must be replacing the whole OS. Debian got a shit-ton of updates today too.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

155 Not just women. Everybody's fat now. It seems like the only people who aren't are either young, a gym rat, or genetically gifted. Even many young people are fat.
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Its a sedentary country for the most part. Some people are still pretty active, but there's not a lot of calories burned during screen time.

Posted by: How many hours a day at September 08, 2026 03:08 PM (anL5R)

156 Fearful? They seem emboldened.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 08, 2026 03:08 PM (wBxGS)

157 Everybody's fat now"

Somewhat upper mid class, now GLP 1ing like crazy...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:08 PM (cGjQu)

158 There are so many good tools for tracking what you eat and how many calories you burn I can't help but think the obesity problem is because most people are even worse at math than Tucker.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 03:08 PM (2ap+5)

159 152 @139 I believe a lot more left than the official 3M. Slipped out, self deported, took the tunnel in CA, whatever. I think a few million more. And not just to MEX, there were others too, maybe African, maybe Eastern European. But more that the official, traceable numbers.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (AKptf)

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The most official number we have is 3 million from the census survey.

I also suspect it's more. Just people living in the shadows who were never counted in any way who just left without documentation just like they came in without documentation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:08 PM (qE8uT)

160 143 > is it a matter of self esteem w women that causes the lack of care in how they look or is something going on w what women are ingesting that causes them to feel low esteem when they just can't keep up w weight gains etc?

Not just women. Everybody's fat now. It seems like the only people who aren't are either young, a gym rat, or genetically gifted. Even many young people are fat.
Posted by: bonhomme

Anti depressants being prescribed willy nilly and a lot of food additives have that tendency. And last but not least, war on smoking versus cannaboids becoming in vogue. Nicotine suppresses hunger, cannaboids increase it.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (E4rtv)

161 Anybody fatter than me is fat.

Posted by: fd at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (1SMHI)

162 The only way to deal with this is offensively. "F*ck you, Islam attacked us and Islam is the enemy. We haven't forgotten." That's it. They want to scumble the issue and put you on defense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (7s9Qe)

163 > Now we just get ugly Chucky Cheese tokens.

Have you ever noticed how our ugly Chucky Cheese tokens ring when you flip them? Canaderp's ugly Chucky Cheese tokens don't do that. They make a dull clink noise. Just something I've noticed.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (mkw2N)

164 What, Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable? Or is it something that is more of an “ I know it when I see it”, sort of thing?
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (Gqar
________

JB Pritzker is fat. That I know.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

165 It's a sliding scale

Posted by: fd at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (1SMHI)

166 What, Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable? Or is it something that is more of an “ I know it when I see it”, sort of thing?
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (Gqar

A dashing actor, like me!

Posted by: Chow Yun-fat at September 08, 2026 03:09 PM (AKptf)

167 This is a horrible situation, a terrorist protected by NYPD cops going to the sacred spot to celebrate to attack.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 03:10 PM (pp9sJ)

168 Muslims claiming to be aggrieved? Ask the Blacks who were shoved out of the head of the free shit line by the millions of Hispanics how they feel.

Aggrieved.... ain't but the start of what the Blacks think about the Muslim invaders. The ethnic cleansing wars that seem to be on the horizon are going to be lit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 03:10 PM (2Cry5)

169 "Also, Treasury added a bunch of regulations and guidance about how banks are to treat people not here legally .... effectively cutting many illegal aliens off from the financial system"

I'd be willing to bet any amount of money that no new or additional regulations or "guidance" was required to effect these policies. It's always been illegal. As always our national problems are a matter of enforcement of long standing existing laws and practices. People are paid to look the other way.

Would it be even feasible to suggest, or hope that the Court would re-visit this notion that US Taxpayers are on the hook to pay for public schooling of illegal aliens?

One of the more egregious opinions, ever. Just legal twaddle.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:10 PM (+/Ezd)

170 I believe a lot more left than the official 3M"

Based on nothing more than observation, I agree. Remember the massive immigration "community" area NE of Houston? There are areas there now that are...deserted. It's bizarre.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (cGjQu)

171 A lot of comedians used to be fat. Maybe not as much any more.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (Gqar8)

172 169 I'd be willing to bet any amount of money that no new or additional regulations or "guidance" was required to effect these policies. It's always been illegal. As always our national problems are a matter of enforcement of long standing existing laws and practices. People are paid to look the other way.

Would it be even feasible to suggest, or hope that the Court would re-visit this notion that US Taxpayers are on the hook to pay for public schooling of illegal aliens?

One of the more egregious opinions, ever. Just legal twaddle.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:10 PM (+/Ezd)

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It'd be interesting if there was a law that outlawed banks from opening accounts of people who are not American citizens, but I doubt there is one, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (qE8uT)

173 *types*
*deletes*

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (W2Pud)

174 The most official number we have is 3 million from the census survey.

I also suspect it's more. Just people living in the shadows who were never counted in any way who just left without documentation just like they came in without documentation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Unclear. There is some indications that due to police help with ICE in red states, that numbers are far greater than in blue states trying to keep those illegals present by any means possible.

So if you live in a blue state and/or some blue cities in the US, sucks to be you because your governments are trying to keep illegals here. If you live in a lot of redstates, they aren't. So those in California notice little if no improvement and those in somewhere like Alabama, substantial improvement.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)

175 It's a sliding scale
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We'll probably use a class average.

Posted by: Lou Grant, Faculty Member at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (TN0g+)

176
In Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and D.C., the share of Muslim prisoners is around 20 percent or higher. (Stats were from back in 2019.)

Why Islam Grows Behind Bars. Conversions: A large number of individuals embrace Islam after entering the prison system, making it one of the fastest-growing faiths in correctional facilities.

Historical Roots: Pennsylvania has a deep history of organized Islamic groups—such as the Nation of Islam and local congregations connected to Philadelphia—influencing prison culture and community support for decades.
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April 2026 - CAIR-Minnesota (CAIR-MN)
April 27
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Religious freedom does not end at the walls of a prison. CAIR, @CAIRMN, and Golden Law welcomed a federal court order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to destroy all hijab-less booking photos of our client and affirming the rights of Muslim women in custody. Alhamdulillah.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (NFX2v)

177
Somehow, after 911 our government decided to import as many muscles over here as possible. Before that I rarely saw Muslims now I see them all over the place all the time.
Posted by: Maroon at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (Q8MzQ)



Partly a vast increase in the number of imported mohammedans, plus a bunch of college graduate hippie chicks marrying dusky Pakistani tribesmen and adopting the hijab and chador because it's fashionable. And "moderate" mohammedans leaving behind western clothing and wearing traditional desert robes in snowy Minnesota because it's easier to hide a full-size Kalashnikov under a desert robe than to try stuffing it down your puffy snow pants.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 03:12 PM (y9nCu)

178 There's no way Mandani is going to be absent from the ceremony except if he's forcibly detained.

He and his fellow Muslims are here to CONQUER us.

He will do everything in his power to rub his boot in the faces of those most affected by 9/11 because that is who he is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 02:41 PM (FZ29D)

Rocks in Pockets should be a call of duty for NewYorkers for the ceremony. If ol' Mamdani shows up, unload those rocks towards him with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 03:12 PM (g8Ew8)

179 >It's a sliding scale
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well it was, til someone fat sat on it, now it's all bent and doesn't slide anymore

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 03:12 PM (ZxPkt)

180 Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable?
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Rosie ODonnell is fat.

Posted by: Donnie two scoops at September 08, 2026 03:12 PM (anL5R)

181 "There are so many good tools for tracking what you eat and how many calories you burn"

I use a composition notebook and a Bic pen. It's been working great for 12 months now. Calorie counting works for maintaining healthy weight.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

182 One of the more egregious opinions, ever. Just legal twaddle.

Posted by: Common Tater
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The Burger Court, in some ways, was more liberal than the Warren Court. And that decision is one of them.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:12 PM (E4rtv)

183
I wish White liberal women would worry about the backlash of defending men in womens sports, and defending a woman who strangled 3 of her under age 5 children to death.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 08, 2026 03:13 PM (OkYzo)

184 I've lost like 60-70 pounds since to combat my diabetes. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, health-wise. It affected nearly every aspect of my life.

And I did it without drugs. Simple portion control and healthier diet. And it did take about 15 years. But I'm glad that I did it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

185 , or hope that the Court would re-visit this notion that US Taxpayers are on the hook to pay for public schooling of illegal aliens?"

Don't get my hopes up...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:14 PM (cGjQu)

186 170 I believe a lot more left than the official 3M"

Based on nothing more than observation, I agree. Remember the massive immigration "community" area NE of Houston? There are areas there now that are...deserted. It's bizarre.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (cGjQu)

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The enforcement is uneven because of the 287g agreement thing.

Texas has a bunch and local cops do most of the leg work. It's illegal according to state law for police to enter 287g agreements in Washington, Oregon, and California, as contrast.

Still, if cop meets guy, suspects illegal presence, he just checks, finds him illegal, and books him (impounding everything he has and putting it up for auction), waiting for ICE to come along and pick him up and deport him.

NC's legislature passed a law recently mandating that all local cops enter 287g agreements.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:14 PM (qE8uT)

187 Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable?
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Rosie ODonnell is fat.
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Rosie's so fat that when she sits around the house...she sits AROUND the house!

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:14 PM (TN0g+)

188 The word on Mandami is he is going to focus his remarks on the brave first responders, and not the savage and satanic false religion and its ignorant goat-fucking brutes behind the attacks

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 03:14 PM (ZxPkt)

189 152 @139 I believe a lot more left than the official 3M. Slipped out, self deported, took the tunnel in CA, whatever. I think a few million more. And not just to MEX, there were others too, maybe African, maybe Eastern European. But more that the official, traceable numbers.
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:07 PM (AKptf)

Slipped out the back, Jacques
Made a new plan, Stanislaus
No need to be coy, Choy
Just listen Dupuy

Posted by: Paolo Simone at September 08, 2026 03:14 PM (0CU3H)

190 184 Congrats, Bulg! I'm glad for you too.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

191 Bernie Sanders is 85 years old today.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Cqx++)

192 Bunch of mute points here. Ample Biblical evidence points to 2033 as the date of the end of all things visible. Plan accordingly.

Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at September 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Fn+3X)

193 Well, Glen Reynolds over at Insty maintains, a lot, that obesity, or “ fatness” if we are being Meany McMeanersons is now purely an option, with the advent of anti-fat wonder drugs. Oui oui Wegovy !!!

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Gqar8)

194 cannaboids increase it.
Posted by: whig

And difficulty spelling. Lotta skinny potheads out there.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 08, 2026 03:15 PM (Fv808)

195 Rosie's so fat that when she works out, she sweats gravy

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 03:15 PM (ZxPkt)

196 What, Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable? Or is it something that is more of an “ I know it when I see it”, sort of thing?
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Anybody over about 195 who isn't muscle bound or an NFL linebacker or something like that. Sure there are individual differences but most people don't crack over 6 feet. I'm 5'14" myself. About 175 pounds, down from 250 in 2019, a banner year for me. Yes, I was fat. Porcine. It creeps up on ya. Just look at the charts.

Sedentariness isn't really an excuse either, but it is a factor on how many calories are necessary. But only a factor. And it isn't very many. This is the problem, someone can consume enough calories for the day merely by snacking, very quickly.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:16 PM (+/Ezd)

197 174 Unclear. There is some indications that due to police help with ICE in red states, that numbers are far greater than in blue states trying to keep those illegals present by any means possible.

So if you live in a blue state and/or some blue cities in the US, sucks to be you because your governments are trying to keep illegals here. If you live in a lot of redstates, they aren't. So those in California notice little if no improvement and those in somewhere like Alabama, substantial improvement.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)

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Apparently rents are showing this.

Rents in places where local cops have 287g agreements are down something like 6%. Rents in places where cops don't have 287g agreements are up something like 4%.

There's definitely some self-sorting within the country going on, but if they're going to CA which allows illegals to enroll in CalAid, it's just going to make their budget issues that much worse that much faster.

And, as new ICE personnel ramp up from the OBBB hiring started at the beginning of the year, ICE will have more resources to look at blue states since red states are doing the ground work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 03:16 PM (qE8uT)

198 Bunch of mute points here. Ample Biblical evidence points to 2033 as the date of the end of all things visible. Plan accordingly.
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"But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only." [1]

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:16 PM (TN0g+)

199 Speaking of trying not to be fat, I had a pretty good leg day yesterday:

Squats:
1 set 290lbs x 8
2 sets 260lbs x 8
RDLs
2 sets 275lbs x 6
Split squats
4 sets bodyweight x 15 per side
Hamstring curls
3 sets 135lbs x 10

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:17 PM (mkw2N)

200 "What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?"

I think these are exactly the right questions. It's the answers you come up with that show your soul.

If you say, "They will claim they did it for Islam, but that's wrong. They shouldn't claim this because Islam shouldn't be pushing this stuff", then there's hope for your particular group of Muslims.

If you say, "It will all be lies because we never do that kind of stuff! It's always lies about Muslim terrorists!" then you're part of the problem. Either because you're an idiot who believes the taqqiya or because you spread the taqqiya.

Posted by: GWB at September 08, 2026 03:17 PM (kU0PQ)

201 191 Bernie Sanders is 85 years old today.
_____

85 years of not producing anything but complaints.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 03:17 PM (xQz2n)

202 Rosie's so fat that when she sits around the house...she sits AROUND the house!
Posted by: Crusader

Yes, sadly she is no longer the sexy minx we loved in Exit To Eden.

Posted by: Whale Of A Movie at September 08, 2026 03:17 PM (Fn+3X)

203
Ample Biblical evidence points to 2033 as the date of the end of all things visible.

Whew!

Posted by: The invisible man at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (Cqx++)

204 193 Well, Glen Reynolds over at Insty maintains, a lot, that obesity, or “ fatness” if we are being Meany McMeanersons is now purely an option, with the advent of anti-fat wonder drugs. Oui oui Wegovy !!!
Posted by: tubal
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Glenn has issues on health and thinks he can live forever.

It might also be that he gets money promoting certain products.

Like any other sort of news service or government, you have to ask why they are telling you what they do and if they have some sort of agenda behind it.

Applies to the right as well as the left.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv)

205
"But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."
==
But the YEAR - yeah can pin that right down.

Posted by: I'm just reading what it says at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (anL5R)

206 > Anybody over about 195 who isn't muscle bound or an NFL linebacker or something like that. Sure there are individual differences but most people don't crack over 6 feet.

I'm 6'5". I'm aiming for 220lbs. I'm currently 234lbs.

I don't think I want to be 195lbs.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (mkw2N)

207 And I did it without drugs. Simple portion control and healthier diet. And it did take about 15 years. But I'm glad that I did it.
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)


I am in almost the identical place except without the diabetes prod. It did help a lot when I started participating in the step challenge at work. Retirement made an amazing difference too. My family is replete with tall skinny people and their annoying constant teasing added some incentive.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (2ap+5)

208 Many are going to blue locales. Only temporary solution for them.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:19 PM (AKptf)

209 Calorie counting works for maintaining healthy weight
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No it doesn't. AI, and all the "experts" say it doesn't work. So, that settles it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:19 PM (+/Ezd)

210 "Ample Biblical evidence points to 2033 as the date of the end of all things visible."

If that doesn't getcha, the 2037 Singularity will. Although the singularity seems to be coming faster than predicted.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

211 There's definitely some self-sorting within the country going on, but if they're going to CA which allows illegals to enroll in CalAid, it's just going to make their budget issues that much worse that much faster.

And, as new ICE personnel ramp up from the OBBB hiring started at the beginning of the year, ICE will have more resources to look at blue states since red states are doing the ground work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Tis true. We should have some sort of public school enrollment data by mid October. Many schools, particularly in the North, don't start until after Labor Day.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

212 peaking of trying not to be fat, I had a pretty good leg day yesterday:

Squats:
1 set 290lbs x 8
2 sets 260lbs x 8
RDLs
2 sets 275lbs x 6
Split squats
4 sets bodyweight x 15 per side
Hamstring curls
3 sets 135lbs x 10
==
those cheeburgers when right to your ass

Posted by: Samurai Delicatessen at September 08, 2026 03:20 PM (anL5R)

213 > Bunch of mute points here. Ample Biblical evidence points to 2033 as the date of the end of all things visible.

1. Moot.
2. Show your work.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:20 PM (mkw2N)

214 204 193 Well, Glen Reynolds over at Insty maintains, a lot, that obesity, or “ fatness” if we are being Meany McMeanersons is now purely an option, with the advent of anti-fat wonder drugs. Oui oui Wegovy !!!
Posted by: tubal
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Glenn has issues on health and thinks he can live forever.

It might also be that he gets money promoting certain products.

Like any other sort of news service or government, you have to ask why they are telling you what they do and if they have some sort of agenda behind it.

Applies to the right as well as the left.
Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv)

There’s some guy, forget his name, who thinks much the same thing. He obsessively eats the perfect diet, and goes through some sort of rigid lifestyle routine.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:20 PM (Gqar8)

215 I'm 5'14" myself


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Interesting....

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:20 PM (AKptf)

216 RDLs
2 sets 275lbs x 6
Split squats


The Lindsay Clancy jurors and protestors are doing RBFs 24/7.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 03:21 PM (PkrKm)

217 184. And I did it without drugs. Simple portion control and healthier diet. And it did take about 15 years. But I'm glad that I did it.
Posted by: Bulg

Great willpower. 👏🏻 Congrats.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 03:21 PM (NFX2v)

218 1. Moot.
2. Show your work.
Posted by: bonhomme


moo point...

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:21 PM (AKptf)

219 Jesus said only the Father knows the time and place

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 03:21 PM (vE0+H)

220 There aren't enough Christians on the planet to save the liberal Jews of NYC from the mayor they voted for.

This is an internal problem for the Jewish community and no one else can help.

Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (cc+Kg)

221 2033: End of all things visible.
2037: Singularity.

And the dread thing that Publius warned us of recently:

"International timekeepers plan to phase out leap seconds by 2035 to prevent digital infrastructure failures"

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (Jr5Lq)

222
Why Islam Grows Behind Bars. Conversions: A large number of individuals embrace Islam after entering the prison system, making it one of the fastest-growing faiths in correctional facilities.

Well, duh.

islam gives criminals carte blanche to rob, rape, and murder.

Furthermore, it promises them paradise for committing robbery, raape, and murder.

Which religion would appeal to the sociopath, the psychopath, and the jailbird.

One that says repent for your sins and crimes, and work to be a better person, or-

one that says commit all the rape, robbery, murder, and child molestation you want, just make sure your doing it too the right people,

and then paradise is yours!


Posted by: naturalfake at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (iJfKG)

223 It's like a cow's opinion!

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (mkw2N)

224 "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only." [1]
Posted by: Crusader

The church has hidden behind that verse alone for centuries. The very next verse mentions "as it was in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be". Did Noah know the date of the flood? Yes! Did Lot know the date of the destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain? Yes!

Posted by: Don't Be An Ostrich at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (Fn+3X)

225 😂😂

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (AKptf)

226 Posted by: Paolo Simone
_________

Now do the Ilhan Omar version, 50 ways to leave your brother.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (XvL8K)

227 This is an internal problem for the Jewish community and no one else can help.
Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (cc+Kg)


It's always the same story with you people.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (AKptf)

228 1. Moot.
2. Show your work.
Posted by: bonhomme


moo point...
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Its not worth having a cow over...

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (TN0g+)

229 Yes, fatness is quantifiable, if you can see good muscular and body definition, you are not fat, the more your general physical shape becomes akin to a donut, the fatter you are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (Lm2uZ)

230 Horde, do we consider “ fat”? Is it quantifiable?

Katie Stout, the woman running against Brandon Herrera, is fat. That's the quantify.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (2ocoG)

231 226 Posted by: Paolo Simone
_________

Now do the Ilhan Omar version, 50 ways to leave your brother.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (XvL8K)

Heh. Good one!

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:24 PM (Gqar8)

232 It's always the same story with you people.
Posted by: runner

What do you mean "you people?"

Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at September 08, 2026 03:24 PM (PkrKm)

233 Posted by: Paolo Simone
_________

Now do the Ilhan Omar version, 50 ways to leave your brother.
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You just slip out the back, hack
Make a new plan Ilhan...

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:24 PM (TN0g+)

234 The standard metrics are chubby, overweight, fat, obese.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 03:24 PM (Lm2uZ)

235 I'm 6'5". I'm aiming for 220lbs.
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Right, but like I pointed out, you're an outlier for sure. My point is, for the vast majority of people, they need to keep it under 190. That's all. Everyone likes to think they are "special" and "unique" and somehow none of these things apply to them.

I'm not trying to criticize, but when I realized I had to lose 70 pounds or so, I wasn't going to fuck around and take 15 years to do it. That would drive me crazy. Took about 8 months. Best thing I ever did for myself, most likely.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 08, 2026 03:24 PM (+/Ezd)

236 Jesus said only the Father knows the time and place
Posted by: ...

That has always perplexed me. It seems to elevate the Father over the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Which seems kind of Arian to me.

How do we explain the seeming contradiction of a Triune God with one of His Persons having more omniscience than the other two?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

237 It's moo

c'mon you guys

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 03:25 PM (ZxPkt)

238 ****"What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?"
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Sadly, it did not mean expulsion or deportation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:25 PM (AJWch)

239 Which religion would appeal to the sociopath, the psychopath, and the jailbird.

One that says repent for your sins and crimes, and work to be a better person, or-

one that says commit all the rape, robbery, murder, and child molestation you want, just make sure your doing it too the right people,

and then paradise is yours!


But what about the grace alone people?
YOU CAN'T EARN SALVATION!!

Or even the Calvinists who say nobody has any choice at all. God wills you to be saved, or not. Good luck!

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:25 PM (mkw2N)

240 229 Yes, fatness is quantifiable, if you can see good muscular and body definition, you are not fat, the more your general physical shape becomes akin to a donut, the fatter you are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (Lm2uZ)

Yes donuts are a valid indicator. Suddenly Joenesing for an apple fritter.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:26 PM (Gqar8)

241 "No wonder it doesn't work. Look, 'Made in Japan.'"
-Doc Brown

"What are you talking about, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
-Marty McFly

It's from a documentary about the 1950s I saw once.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:35 PM (qE8uT)

Made in Japan = cheap was a meme in the 60s and early 70s.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:26 PM (uhVAy)

242 If there had only been a hellish backlash against muzzies, we would be in a much better society and world.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 08, 2026 03:26 PM (xvV+O)

243 Uh-Oh. Theology.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 03:27 PM (Gqar8)

244 227 This is an internal problem for the Jewish community and no one else can help.
Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:22 PM (cc+Kg)


It's always the same story with you people.
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:23 PM (AKptf)

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If 75% of Jews vote Democrat, then not enough Jews don't want Israel to exist.

It's sad, but Israel will not exist as long as it depends on Jews.

Other people can't fix that main problem for you. It's sad, but not untrue.

Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:27 PM (cc+Kg)

245 nood

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 03:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

246 Made in Japan = cheap was a meme in the 60s and early 70s.
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Made in Japan also has an epic version of Child in Time and the single best recording of Highway Star ever produced.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (TN0g+)

247 Other people can't fix that main problem for you. It's sad, but not untrue.
Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:27 PM (cc+Kg)



I can fix something for you. Stop sucking Tucker Carlson's dick. Then life will make sense to you.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (AKptf)

248 "Somehow, after 911 our government decided to import as many muscles over here as possible. Before that I rarely saw Muslims now I see them all over the place all the time."

I saw my first hijab in NYC around 1999. It was a film industry event and we were all laughing about her. Well, who's laughing now?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (GMWTj)

249
Muslims claiming to be aggrieved? Ask the Blacks who were shoved out of the head of the free shit line by the millions of Hispanics how they feel.

Aggrieved.... ain't but the start of what the Blacks think about the Muslim invaders. The ethnic cleansing wars that seem to be on the horizon are going to be lit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 03:10 PM (2Cry5)


Check out the demographics for Compton. In 1980, it was about 75% Black, 20% Hispanic, the remainder were White and Asian. 40 years later, it's now about 75% Hispanic, 25% Black, with virtually no Whites or Asians.

Why? Illegal alien Hispanics moving there was part of it, but in the early 2000s, there was a nasty underground racial war being fought in Compton by Black and Hispanic gangs that the Black population lost. They didn't just lose, they got their asses kicked. Ethnic cleansing in the US with not a single White face being involved.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 03:29 PM (y9nCu)

250 The church has hidden behind that verse alone for centuries. The very next verse mentions "as it was in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be". Did Noah know the date of the flood? Yes! Did Lot know the date of the destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain? Yes!

Yeah, I think both sides tend to miss the mark on this one. Some people say nobody has any idea. Others say they know the exact date.

I believe the better interpretation is yes, we don't know the date or the hour, but we can watch the signs and know the season.

See also the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. They both knew the approximate time of the bridegroom's arrival. One group was prepared and the other was not. But neither knew the exact time of arrival.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 03:29 PM (mkw2N)

251 Guys did I just engage a troll? Why didn't stop me ??

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:30 PM (AKptf)

252 229. The more your general physical shape becomes akin to a donut, the fatter you are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

How about an apple? 😞

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 03:30 PM (NFX2v)

253 That has always perplexed me. It seems to elevate the Father over the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Which seems kind of Arian to me.

How do we explain the seeming contradiction of a Triune God with one of His Persons having more omniscience than the other two?
Posted by: Bulg
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Different aspects. Remember that at the time Jesus said that, he was human and of the flesh. He had to be so he could die.

Using your argument, how could God die then and still be part of the triune. Neither the Holy Spirit nor the Lord can 'die' so how could Jesus if he was part of the triune.

If you assume different aspects of the triuine, then neither Jesus in the flesh who did not claim omniscience at that time nor his dying present a problem.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:30 PM (E4rtv)

254 Commenters, don't allow other commenters to engage fucking lying trolls!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:31 PM (AKptf)

255 Blah blah blah.

These sandmaggots run wild time and again. "ALLAHU AKBAR DEATH TO YOUR CHRISTMAS PARADES, MUSIC FESTIVALS, AND CIVIL INSTITUTIONS," they scream, and then there's a bunch of explosions, gunfire, and/or vehicular homicides, and then their stump-ugly retard wives scream "LALULALULALU" through their fucked-up looking teeth.

And time and again, we're treated to breathless editorials about why they hate us, and roots of terror, and compassionate conservatism, and invade the world, and invite the world - and that's the side that doesn't agitate actively against America, the West, and the Eternal Jew.

If there's ever a backlash from civilized people against these barbaric savages I'll literally eat a hat. I'll buy a giant straw sombrero and boil it and eat it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 08, 2026 03:31 PM (BI5O2)

256 247 Other people can't fix that main problem for you. It's sad, but not untrue.
Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:27 PM (cc+Kg)



I can fix something for you. Stop sucking Tucker Carlson's dick. Then life will make sense to you.
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 03:28 PM (AKptf)

===================

The answer isn't end Tucker Carlson's career.

The answer is convincing your people that voting for Republicans is healthier than voting for democrats.

If you achieve that, Mamdani goes away. Islam goes away.

But that's the only way out of this.

Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:31 PM (cc+Kg)

257 So if you live in a blue state and/or some blue cities in the US, sucks to be you because your governments are trying to keep illegals here. If you live in a lot of redstates, they aren't. So those in California notice little if no improvement and those in somewhere like Alabama, substantial improvement.
Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)

The funny part is that Trump can claim 3M, and the blue states can't refute it because it exposes their evasion of immigration law.

Just like in his first term all the fudging they did in the standard statistics to boost Obama served to make his economy seem super energized in comparison.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)

258 189.

Slipped out the back, Jacques
Made a new plan, Stanislaus
No need to be coy, Choy
Just listen Dupuy
Posted by: Paolo Simone

Fabulous. 👌🏻

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 03:34 PM (NFX2v)

259 Guys did I just engage a troll? Why didn't stop me ??
==
Don't look at me. I was: who was PHONE guy.

Posted by: Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck at September 08, 2026 03:35 PM (anL5R)

260 On the other hand, if you keep scolding Republicans while the rest of your people continue to vote for Muslim Democrats...


...then Israel goes away.

The choice is yours.

Posted by: The Truth at September 08, 2026 03:35 PM (cc+Kg)

261 The answer isn't end Tucker Carlson's career.

The answer is convincing your people that voting for Republicans is healthier than voting for democrats.

If you achieve that, Mamdani goes away. Islam goes away.

==
I feel like embracing the power of "and" on this one.

Posted by: He's kaput at September 08, 2026 03:37 PM (anL5R)

262 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (XJ22o)

I can see him firing up some 'Born in the USA' and running through the crowd carrying an American Flag; wearing one of those stars and strips polyester suits like the used car salesman used to wear; preach, Dommy Mommy! Tell us how we deserved it!

Posted by: Nelly at September 08, 2026 03:48 PM (6+ehB)

263 "Go away, Saracen, or I shall taunt you with bacon!"

Posted by: Anita Lynn DeHayes-Tacke at September 08, 2026 04:26 PM (HN9JN)

Insanity: Female Jurors Were Crazed With Anger as Judge Ruled Lindsay Clancy Trial a Mistrial
Update: Lawyer Wants Trump to Pardon> the Child Killer

Update: The evil defense attorney wants Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy... for the state crimes of murdering her children.

Townhall.com
@townhallcom

Lindsay Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington making an appeal to Trump: "Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider, this young lady, the type of person she is, what she's been through, and consider a pardon."

Does that mean he's stupid? No, just evil. He knows Trump can't pardon his psychopath child-killer client. He's just trying to expand Lindsay Clancy's Cult of Murder so that the prosecutors feel pressured to drop the case or give her a sweetheart deal.

I missed this on Friday. Maybe you did too.

After the judge said he might declare a mistrial, he suspended the trial so that the insane defense attorney could appeal his ruling to not exclude one juror for being sane to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

But that appeal was denied -- thank goodness -- and then he declared a mistrial.

Which the Pink Ladies on the jury -- ChristyBinky tells me that several of the women were wearing pink on the jury, which is the color Lindsay Clancy's supporters outside the courtroom were wearing -- were enraged by.

How the hell were they ever allowed on the jury, or allowed to remain on the jury?

This was the emergency appeal -- a claim that the lone male holdout was "biased" against the "disabled" because he wouldn't allow a triple-child-murderess walk free:

Jonathan Turley writes that the unethical defense lawyer put a target on the lone male holdout's back.

"I hope that guy can sleep well at night."

Those words from Kevin Reddington on the steps of the Plymouth, Massachusetts Courthouse were part of a diatribe against the "guy" who was reportedly the sole holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial. The scene was a fitting end to a visceral trial, but it added a vindictive element that should prompt Judge William Sullivan to call out the seasoned defense attorney.

After declaring that the 11-1 mistrial was "no time to gloat," Reddington bragged repeatedly about "crushing" District Attorney Tim Cruz, whom he also attacked. He insisted that, in the trial, no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother -- ignoring that little matter of the three young children whom she had strangled to death, one by one.

But it was his attack on the holdout juror that was a breathtaking abandonment of restraint and decency. Reddington knows it is very likely that the name of this juror (he has already been identified as one of only three males on the jury) will eventually be uncovered by Internet sleuths. He effectively put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments.

The fact that this is one of the three male jurors only ramped up the rage. This case prompted a striking gender divide between men and women, with many women expressing sympathy for Clancy and anger at the system for failing her.

For Reddington and many viewers, the hung jury was less "Twelve Angry Men" and more like "One Angry Man." Indeed, in addition to attacking the juror, women outside of the courthouse heckled Cruz as he tried to speak to the press, shouting that he "only cares about the three children. What about the Mom?"

His appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court accused the lone male holdout of harboring a "bias" against mentally ill child-murderers.


Earlier in the day, Reddington had asked a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice for an emergency order to force Sullivan not to declare a mistrial, and instead to remove the holdout in favor of an alternate. It was an utterly meritless effort, but Reddington used the filing to further denounce the juror. He compared the juror's refusal to vote for his client as akin to leaving a racist on a jury. In this case, he suggested that the "guy" was a virtual anti-disability version of "Bull" Connor or some deranged "ableist."

Now he says he didn't intend to get this guy murdered, and in fact would defend his right to hold out.

Based on this, I think I can see what happened in the jury room: At least two of the female jurors were essentially crazed fans of the child-murderer. They probably harrangued the hold-outs (it is speculated that there had been more jurors for conviction, but they buckled and gave in to crazed peer pressure).

I can imagine these two harpies coming at this guy with full Social Justice Warrior spittle-spraying fury, and they guy trying to calm them down, saying something like "I can understand why you have doubts," and then them seizing, autistically, on that one "admission," and pestering the judge telling him "this (spit) man admitted there is room for doubt but he won't vote with us to acquit!"



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:15 PM




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1 FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

2 nd

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:16 PM (odBC9)

3 Pretty nice of Stephy to give the murdering bitch's asshole lawyer some air time. Probably no agenda.

Posted by: huerfano at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (2Xqig)

4 ""I hope that guy can sleep well at night." Those words from Kevin Reddington ..."

I hope Kevin dies in his sleep.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (Jr5Lq)

5 I can imagine these two harpies coming at this guy with full Social Justice Warrior spittle-spraying fury, and they guy trying to calm them down, saying something like "I can understand why you have doubts," and then them seizing, autistically, on that one "admission," and pestering the judge telling him "this (spit) man admitted there is room for doubt but he won't vote with us to acquit!"

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I can see him laughing at their anger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (qE8uT)

6 I told you that jury trials don't work in completely polarized societies.

That's why I abolished jury trials in Singapore.

Posted by: Zombie Lee Kuan Yew! at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (aD4fx)

7 This Kevin Reddungton fellow needs to have his own background investigated.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (k6RfH)

8 Ace, did you see this substack? Linked yesterday at Instapundit.

Holly's Substack
How to Convict Lindsay Clancy
Holly Mathnerd

https://tinyurl.com/583rmft6

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (odBC9)

9 What is wrong with these women? They make me ashamed for my entire gender! SMH.

Posted by: tankascribe at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (NtoJk)

10 Will you join my super kewl new group?. I'm going to call it "Medea sisters for movement". Let's get rid of children who annoy us, wear color coordinated outfits and shriek a lot . It'll be fun!

Posted by: Insane Leftist woman at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (SzveA)

11 The judge declared a Ms.-trial.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (Av6i5)

12 9 What is wrong with these women? They make me ashamed for my entire gender! SMH.

Posted by: tankascribe at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (NtoJk)

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This would be like me being ashamed of being a man because of Pete Buttigieg chest feeding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (qE8uT)

13 No doubt those jurors have literal demons whispering in their ears at night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (FZ29D)

14 How the hell were they ever allowed on the jury, or allowed to remain on the jury?

Let me suggest the Masshole DA did not want to send Clancy to prison so he did the bare minimum.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

15 "Islam is right about women."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 08, 2026 01:20 PM (exU9W)

16 INSANE! Kaitlin Bennett interviewed Lindsay Clancy supporters, with some even admitting they would hurt their own children.


Love Kaitlin. Follow her on Facebook.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:20 PM (/xJ/M)

17 14 Let me suggest the Masshole DA did not want to send Clancy to prison so he did the bare minimum.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

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I believe the lead attorney was a fat woman.

Is it safe to assume that the kind of fat woman that would be hired by a DAs office in Massachusetts wouldn't be the top of her class?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:20 PM (qE8uT)

18 Reddington should be disbarred. And the judge is obviously a weaksauce liberal asshat.

Those jurors who were wearing pink in support of the murderer should have been defenestrated forthwith, and alternates brought in in their place.

But, Massholes.

Posted by: Beverly at September 08, 2026 01:20 PM (reMys)

19 The Handmaids of Lindsay Clacny are one thing, caught in the gears of mass psychosis. I hope.

Kevin Reddington is just evil.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (2GVsD)

20 First, the AWFLs will completely destroy Western society.

Then, they'll convert en masse to Islam.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (aD4fx)

21 It is comical to see the feminist left agree now with the most "misogynistic" arguments against the 19th amendment.

Then: Women can't have the vote, their hormones control them and they say and do ridiculous things

Now: You can't send a woman to prison for murder, their hormones control them and they say and do ridiculous things

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

22 I can imagine these two harpies coming at this guy with full Social Justice Warrior spittle-spraying fury, and they guy trying to calm them down, saying something like "I can understand why you have doubts," and then them seizing, autistically, on that one "admission," and pestering the judge telling him "this (spit) man admitted there is room for doubt but he won't vote with us to acquit!"

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I can see him laughing at their anger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (qE8uT)
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I'm guessing the lone holdout didn't tell these ladies to "calm their tits."

Or he WOULD have been booted from the jury for his misogyny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (FZ29D)

23 We're kinda doomed as a civilized society, I think.

Still can't wrap my head around these psyco-sociopathic leftist bitches supporting the strangulation of three beautiful and innocent children.

Posted by: Biergood at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (PwgSL)

24 "What is wrong with these women?"

Smart phones.

Posted by: davidt at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (Q+gd/)

25 "He insisted that, in the trial, no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother -- ignoring that little matter of the three young children whom she had strangled to death, one by one."

He is (sadly) correct about that, and a major reason why the prosecution lost the case 11-1. Literally every witness -- even the prosecution witnesses -- were eager to praise this child murderer and bloviate about what a "good mother" she was.

The husband was the worst offender. He literally said that he didn't blame Lyndsay and that she didn't know what she was doing. WTF?

You cannot win a case when your own witnesses praise and excuse the defendant.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

26 This Kevin Reddungton fellow needs to have his own background investigated.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I think that's going on. Something about him and his paralegal commingling funds.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

27 Ace, check out this tweet

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2097183697694871679

women holding their babies saying "same, Lindsay, same."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (yIb5h)

28 22 I'm guessing the lone holdout didn't tell these ladies to "calm their tits."

Or he WOULD have been booted from the jury for his misogyny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (FZ29D)

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I suspect he kept the pictures of the dead children on display in front of him at all times.

And that probably pissed off the leaders and disgusted the followers because it was mean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (qE8uT)

29 Ace, I posted this earlier. You need yo look into it.
Most are getting 1 year including time served pre-trial.

Infanticide: Section 233 of the Criminal Codestates that a female commits infanticide if she causes the death of her newborn child by a wilful act or omission when her mind is disturbed as a result of the effects of giving birth. It is a law that is specific to women. It was added in 1948 because juries were refusing to convict mothers of murdering their own children and comes with less harsh sentencing. The penalty for infanticide is a maximum of five years imprisonment. There is no minimum penalty.

https://tinyurl.com/4rp4uf6e

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (/xJ/M)

30 I'm thinking that a very large chunk of Clancy's family's givesendgo (whatever) was funded by large donations from married women whose husbands are seeing in the bank balances how deeply those donations have cut into their family funds.

And are not happy.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (odBC9)

31 The "reasonable man" standard is littered throughout the law. But we're seeing reason thrown away and even mocked as racist, biased, right-wing-coded, etc. In this environment, the reasonable man standard is a huge loophole to the whims or emotions of the day. The emotive person declares their position, "reasonable" and whoever disagrees with them is, "unreasonable. Therefore they are following the law and their opponent is not.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (mkw2N)

32 15

Yeah, that's the bad outcome of all of this in the long run. The Left is sure going to love the hell they're going to end up creating. But given that most of them are really just power hungry totalitarians underneath their 'progressive' skin suits, maybe not. They'll just switch teams so they don't have to pay the jizya and get to lie with religious authority's blessing.

Posted by: Gaff at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (EqzMw)

33 Oh, fuck this guy. He is just saying this now because he got called out. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Fuck him, fuck these women and most importantly: fuck that evil, murdering, psychopathic, manipulative bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (Y/06r)

34 First, the AWFLs will completely destroy Western society.

Then, they'll convert en masse to Islam.


I mean these same women put on those Handmaid robes and play with themselves so...yeah. That's exactly the plan.

Except instead of Christian Grey smacking their ass in his sex dungeon it will be 5'6 80 IQ Muhammed Muhammed Muhammed slapping them around because they didn't clean the toilet well enough while he spends the night with his younger second wife...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

35 POS Clancy's POS lawyer, Reddington, has made a public plea to Trump to pardon Clancy. Can't be done; she's charged with violations of state laws.

He's become more of a blowhard attention whore than any Democrat politician.

Posted by: Gref at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (5rh/l)

36 Or they got SSRI eyes

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (2GVsD)

37 Time to spin a platter

https://youtu.be/5DGtDT0gDxk

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:24 PM (2GVsD)

38 >>> ""I hope that guy can sleep well at night." Those words from Kevin Reddington ..."

I heard that he helped popularize the term "battered wife syndrome" back in the day for cases, and pushed "postpartum psychosis" for this case, although Clancy was never, ever diagnosed with postpartum anything. Maybe she should have, but she wasn't. Any truth to that??

I hope he gets disbarred for the jury tampering, and if not, jailed for possible white collar crimes for messing with client's accounts financially.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (Eng1Z)

39 "He insisted that, in the trial, no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother -- ignoring that little matter of the three young children whom she had strangled to death, one by one."

He is (sadly) correct about that, and a major reason why the prosecution lost the case 11-1. Literally every witness -- even the prosecution witnesses -- were eager to praise this child murderer and bloviate about what a "good mother" she was.

The husband was the worst offender. He literally said that he didn't blame Lyndsay and that she didn't know what she was doing. WTF?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Reminds me of the "Piranha Brothers" sketch from Monty Python. No one had a bad word to say about Dinsdale Piranha--even as he nailed the head of his victim to a coffee table.

Doug, on the other hand....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (FZ29D)

40 People will forget about this case in a few weeks. There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

41 Maybe the holdout said -I doubt this will help but, calm your tits

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (xQz2n)

42 40 People will forget about this case in a few weeks. There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

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"Trump said that women are smaller than men, and that means he hates women."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (qE8uT)

43 One female juror would not even open her...

What a cliff-hanger...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (l3cgK)

44 "fuck that evil, murdering, psychopathic, manipulative bitch."

Sterilize her first, lest she be impregnated again.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

45 Men are now going to choose the Bear.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)

46 "What is wrong with these women?"

Smart phones.


Sort of...

American pop culture to women 100 years ago: Your goal as a woman on this earth is to raise good Christian children. This will require sacrifice on your part, just as your mother sacrificed for your good.

American pop culture to women now: Your goal is to SLAY GIRLIE! You are a princess, a boss bitch, and a warrior and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And if any man or kid ever wants something from you they are literally Hitler. LITERALLY.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

47 "How the hell were they ever allowed on the jury, or allowed to remain on the jury?"

It is a struggle to get enough legal residents into a jury pool nowadays, thanks to Motor-Voter

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)

48
The CNN reporter can't pronounce the word "juror." The closest she can get is "jewer."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (HLgI3)

49 People will forget about this case in a few weeks. There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Probably the outrage will be three plus copycat killings since the trial ended.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (/xJ/M)

50 Female jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial were described as seething with rage as the judge declared a mistrial.

"There was one female juror that was nodding her head, 'No.'"


Pretty sure you shake your head ‘no’, and nod your head ‘yes’, but it’s 2026 so that might have been racist so they changed it or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (6ydKt)

51 Maybe the holdout said -I doubt this will help but, calm your tits

And then followed it up with "Boy, that Captain Marvel really sucked, right?".

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

52 40 People will forget about this case in a few weeks. There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

People will forget about this case in a few weeks.
No.

There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.
Yes.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:27 PM (odBC9)

53 25 "

He is (sadly) correct about that, and a major reason why the prosecution lost the case 11-1. Literally every witness -- even the prosecution witnesses -- were eager to praise this child murderer and bloviate about what a "good mother" she was.

The husband was the worst offender. He literally said that he didn't blame Lyndsay and that she didn't know what she was doing. WTF?

You cannot win a case when your own witnesses praise and excuse the defendant.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

Yes, the prosecution lost the case with their own witnesses in their main case presentation. None of their witnesses believed the defendent was anything but a great woman, mother, and member of society.

It's an unwinnable case for a prosecution now.

As they often say, bad cases make bad laws. Bad cases apparently also make bad public discourse. No one can really discuss any of the issues about this case without litmus testing everything. And almost no one has actually read the court case testimony in full (which makes the discussion worse), but we are ready and willing to demonize the jurors both ways.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 01:27 PM (tOcjL)

54 Imagine a liberal hag trying to intimidate a real man.

No some wet noodle, half-homo, balls in my purse pretend man like they marry.

A real bro, who actually lifts weight when he goes to the gym, not one staring at other men’s ass. Enviously.

If that’s the guy who’s in the jury room, he’s pushing every button Karen has except the one on her vagina. He probably gave her the universal wiggled tongue through the fore and middle finger for good measure.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:27 PM (A+X4b)

55 He insisted that, in the trial, no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother

The three that knew her the best couldn't be dug out of their graves to attend.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 01:27 PM (l3cgK)

56 He's become more of a blowhard attention whore than any Democrat politician.
Posted by: Gref

Like Avenatti. But this guy makes even that PoS look like a choir boy in comparison.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

57 The amazing thing about the appeal is that the lawyer theorized that his client was insane and therefore not guilty. One juror did not agree; therefore that juror was discriminating against the insane because he did not agree with the lawyer's opinion.

Note how the appeal takes the lawyer's tactic and turns it into fact.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (jlUZM)

58 For Reddington and many viewers, the hung jury was less "Twelve Angry Men" and more like "One Angry Man."

More like seven crazy bitches.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (l3cgK)

59 The three that knew her the best couldn't be dug out of their graves to attend.

But like other then that she was like the perfect like mom

Posted by: Pop feminist culture at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

60 People will forget about this case in a few weeks. There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
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That may depend on how may copycat killers she spawns.

Especially as we go into election season.

I'm betting the Dems will be in full support of these lunatic ladies. We'll see how that works out for them at the ballot box.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (FZ29D)

61 "What is wrong with these women?"

Smart phones.
Posted by: davidt
......

It's a disease.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (UjdFS)

62 58 For Reddington and many viewers, the hung jury was less "Twelve Angry Men" and more like "One Angry Man."

More like seven crazy bitches.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (l3cgK)

Make that nine crazy bitches...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (l3cgK)

63 I hope this guy has some plates and a bunch of 5.56.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (PGK1w)

64 Kevin Kevin Kevin

She stole the lives of her three children.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (2GVsD)

65 guessing the lone holdout didn't tell these ladies to "calm their tits."

Should've used the "sugartits" gambit.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (cGjQu)

66 Note to retard women who make videos like this - The Internet is *forever* (at least until the nukes arrive). Those kids used for stupid TikTok videos will probably eventually see those videos and what's your explanation going to be, that you used them for some clout on a demonic app to defend a child murderer?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (oPFtC)

67 Now he says he didn't intend to get this guy murdered, and in fact would defend his right to hold out.

Oh sure he didn't. Who will rid me of this inconvenient juror?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (l3cgK)

68 Time to blame the children and their weak windpipes

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (bX16E)

69 POS Clancy's POS lawyer, Reddington, has made a public plea to Trump to pardon Clancy. Can't be done; she's charged with violations of state laws.

He's become more of a blowhard attention whore than any Democrat politician.
Posted by: Gref at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (5rh/l)
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And now the Collective Eye of Sauron suddenly shifts its gaze towards Governor Healey. And boy howdy, does she deserve it!

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (rj6Yv)

70 Now, let's ask that defense lawyer if he is going to hire her to babysit HIS kids...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (mP0Kj)

71 60 That may depend on how may copycat killers she spawns.

Especially as we go into election season.

I'm betting the Dems will be in full support of these lunatic ladies. We'll see how that works out for them at the ballot box.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (FZ29D)

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They will pretend the copycats don't exist, Clancy will become base firmware in how men use the system to oppress and kill women and children, and everyone else will want to no longer think about three young children strangled to death by their mother.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (qE8uT)

72 Washington Nearsider

Moves out of state and never mentions living in MA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (2GVsD)

73 And the judge is obviously a weaksauce liberal asshat.

Posted by: Beverly

Lance Ito basically allowed Johnny Cochrane to walk all over him, and was still more butch than this judge.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (NZeWs)

74 The closest she can get is "jewer."
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug


Because the you-know-whos are really behind all this...

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ)

75 People will forget about this case in a few weeks.

I really, really hope so. I don't want to ever hear another word about this case. It improves no day.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t)

76 That may depend on how may copycat killers she spawns.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


We are at 7 since she did it. Three since the trial ended. 10 total.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (/xJ/M)

77 Orwell foresaw the telescreens, but not everybody carrying one.

Posted by: davidt at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (Q+gd/)

78 "another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about."

To be fair, we get pretty worked up about it too. The situation is almost designed specifically to inflame the right.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:31 PM (Jr5Lq)

79 Read the comments, should have searched for "tits" before posting. I should have know that "tits" would be seized upon early in the comments. I declare withdrawal of comment #41.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 01:32 PM (xQz2n)

80 To be fair, we get pretty worked up about it too. The situation is almost designed specifically to inflame the right.

The miscreant is literally getting away with murder and child murder no less

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

81 38 I heard that he helped popularize the term "battered wife syndrome"...

pancake batter?

asking for a friend

Posted by: rachel corrie at September 08, 2026 01:32 PM (v3pYe)

82 They will pretend the copycats don't exist, Clancy will become base firmware in how men use the system to oppress and kill women and children, and everyone else will want to no longer think about three young children strangled to death by their mother.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (qE8uT)
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I recently watched "Have Fun, Good Luck, Don't Die!" where parents clone children killed in school shootings just so the cloned kids can be killed in another school shooting.

I could picture deranged parents cloning the children they killed with their own two hands, just so the parents can kill them over and over again.

That's how sick society is becoming.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (FZ29D)

83 I hope Kevin dies in his sleep.
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

--just the punchline

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (amcLV)

84 I suspect the holdout juror really did have a bias against people who murder their children. I know I have that bias. I don't consider it a moral defect.

Posted by: huerfano at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (2Xqig)

85 guessing the lone holdout didn't tell these ladies to "calm their tits."

Should've used the "sugartits" gambit.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (cGjQu)

What he actually said was:

"Hakuna your tatas."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (PGK1w)

86 82 I recently watched "Have Fun, Good Luck, Don't Die!" where parents clone children killed in school shootings just so the cloned kids can be killed in another school shooting.

I could picture deranged parents cloning the children they killed with their own two hands, just so the parents can kill them over and over again.

That's how sick society is becoming.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (FZ29D)

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I sure hope you watched it because you saw an informative YouTube video discussing the film's influences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (qE8uT)

87 78 "another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about."

To be fair, we get pretty worked up about it too. The situation is almost designed specifically to inflame the right.
Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:31 PM (Jr5Lq)

You mean an Op to encourage the worst anti-female impulses of the Right ot get loud, angry and threaten all sorts of things (like disenfranchise women, pull back post partum care, etc) in order to push women into the left's camp for the 2026 midterms...

Nah, that'd never happen. Including the lawyer now getting in on the Op to say "look Trump himself won't pardon her and she's nuts"...see how anti-women Rs are...

Easiest Op being done right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (tOcjL)

88 The media sensationalized this case, the woman who killed her kids and the nutters who support her. They're more than happy with the current state of affairs.

And it just goes to show that the MSM still has pull with their audiences.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (2Cry5)

89 That's how sick society is becoming.

Watch Never Let Me Go.

It is supposed to be a metaphor, but you know I can see modern Western and Chinese culture doing what's in the movie...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

90 >> People will forget about this case in a few weeks. There will be another outrage du jour for the media and leftwing lunatics to screech about.

No, they won’t. I don’t think a lot of people, including you, realize the impact this has had on a lot of younger guys. Liberal women were already earning the label of being nuttier than squirrel shit. They have shit on a generation or two of men in every way they could. They’ve even shut men out of jobs once they consolidated corporate power. Younger men, at least many I know had enough of this shit and the feminization of everything. They used power like a weapon to destroy men, and now they’ve advance from baby murder to actual child murder.

I guarantee you a lot of men will never look at this generation of college educated liberal women, even any woman, the same way after this.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (A+X4b)

91 Kevin Reddington has had charges filed against him with how he represented other clients.

One of the big No-Nos is him and his paralegal mingling client money by depositing it in his personal bank account.

https://youtu.be/n4pr9WP31qU

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:35 PM (2GVsD)

92 Well, if motherhood is out, I suppose there's always driving for a living.

Kansas woman vaults car 250 feet over turnpike overpass, sticks the landing at Love's Travel Stop

https://tinyurl.com/mrykjdsr

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)

93 I guarantee you a lot of men will never look at this generation of college educated liberal women, even any woman, the same way after this.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (A+X4b)

Which means they're correctly reading the battlespace and adjusting accordingly.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PGK1w)

94 Lol. The haranguing probably strengthened that mans resolve. Berating someone without any reasoning behind it makes the person ignore the complaints. If all you have is screaming and ranting you won't win everybody over. I do worry for his safety, and I hope the district attorneys take jury safety seriously in the next trial.

Posted by: mishdog at September 08, 2026 01:36 PM (Lfc33)

95 35 POS Clancy's POS lawyer, Reddington, has made a public plea to Trump to pardon Clancy. Can't be done; she's charged with violations of state laws.


Reddington is attempting to pre-poison the juror well. he knows PDJT cannot pardon her.

any outlet that features this scum bag is just helping to try to get that witch off entirely

which, my dear Lindsay, is no longer going to happen. despite MA's best efforts.

btw the hold out guy's pic is on X. he looks like a high T sort of dude

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:37 PM (j+aD2)

96 no way they don't sequester the jury in the next trial

and that prosecution team needs to ALL be replaced with competent attorneys

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2)

97 They’re already comparing it to the abortion movement where it was this relatively “rare”, unseemly act that feminists and racists turned into a “right” to murder your baby in the womb.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:38 PM (A+X4b)

98 >>i can imagine these two harpies coming at this guy with full Social Justice Warrior spittle-spraying fury, and they guy trying to calm them down, saying something like "I can understand why you have doubts," and then them seizing, autistically, on that one "admission," and pestering the judge telling him "this (spit) man admitted there is room for doubt but he won't vote with us to acquit!"

--

Almost exactly my thought. You are free to change your mind in deliberations. Per "12 Angry Men," saying at the outset that you have NO reasonable doubt is a position that can change. The opposite must therefore be true. After 36 hours of enduring these harpies' consideration of "evidence," some of it possibly not being introduced at trial since the jury wasn't sequestered, I could see my previously voiced reasonable doubt being wrenched 180 degrees, as would be my right.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 08, 2026 01:38 PM (oKZ/s)

99
Not a lawyer, but-

It would seem like the Only Juror with Moral Character could sue Ol' Kev for slander.

Or is that not the case?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 08, 2026 01:38 PM (iJfKG)

100 "What is wrong with these women?"

Smart phones.
Posted by: davidt at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (Q+gd/)

And mothers murdering their children have been celebrated for longer than I've been alive. Some of us warned that they would eventually stop drawing a line at "fetuses" for most of that time, too. The current vile state of the bulk of American women has been entirely predictable.

Those men who have been their fathers and husbands share some of the guilt for not correcting them by whatever means was necessary.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (vSvIl)

101 That may depend on how may copycat killers she spawns.

Especially as we go into election season.

I'm betting the Dems will be in full support of these lunatic ladies. We'll see how that works out for them at the ballot box.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:28 PM (FZ29D)

=======

They will pretend the copycats don't exist, Clancy will become base firmware in how men use the system to oppress and kill women and children, and everyone else will want to no longer think about three young children strangled to death by their mother.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (qE8uT)
_______

The "copycats" are only doing what happens 500 times every year on average. We just almost never hear about it.

Hell, we didn't even hear about Lyndsay Clancy's murders until the trial.

She murdered the kids in January 2023. So for over thee and a half years, almost nobody knew about her case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

102 How did/why this blow up to become as big as it is????? I don't get it.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (VCgbV)

103 Lindsay Clancy looks like a rough 36. Did she hit a wall on her way to the ground? Earlier photos she looks normal.

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (enNUy)

104 Yeah I’m so glad Trump saved Tik Toc. It’s totally a good social media platform.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (A+X4b)

105 TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY!

Amazon crash pilot was a DEI female but it's not her fault because her hormones were cattywumpus.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)

106 103 Lindsay Clancy looks like a rough 36. Did she hit a wall on her way to the ground? Earlier photos she looks normal.


even tho she's in a nice mental home, I don't think she likes being kept there very much

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (j+aD2)

107 why was this trial televised ? is that the rule ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (AKptf)

108 btw the hold out guy's pic is on X.
_____

I don't think so. I did see one that had a AI photo next to a courtroom style drawing of the purported juror that photo was based on. They don't draw pics of jury members.

Unless there's a different pic out there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (xQz2n)

109 96 no way they don't sequester the jury in the next trial

and that prosecution team needs to ALL be replaced with competent attorneys
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2)

It doesn't matter - the witnesses can't change their testimony without being impeached by prior testimony. And the prosecution can't dump their whole witness list.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (tOcjL)

110 As someone who's had to pick a jury in the last year, in San Francisco (similar venire to MA), sometimes you have to make do with what's left over after the worst has been removed. The Pink Ladies on this jury seem to have been swayed by the crowds outside, also festooned in pink, which would be contrary to the jury instructions.

Posted by: AMartel at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (EyAQh)

111 I guarantee you a lot of men will never look at this generation of college educated liberal women, even any woman, the same way after this.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (A+X4b)

Which means they're correctly reading the battlespace and adjusting accordingly.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


Supposedly, divorce lawyers are lining up to use those "I support Lindsay" comments by women to get full custody for their male clients in divorce proceedings.

One guy supposedly canceled a wedding because his bride to be supported her. That's also the new dating question.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (/xJ/M)

112 Amazon crash pilot was a DEI female but it's not her fault because her hormones were cattywumpus.


sounded like a male on the tape? if that tape played on X is correct.

a south-asian male

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (j+aD2)

113 101
The "copycats" are only doing what happens 500 times every year on average. We just almost never hear about it.

Hell, we didn't even hear about Lyndsay Clancy's murders until the trial.

She murdered the kids in January 2023. So for over thee and a half years, almost nobody knew about her case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

=========

Well, these copycats aren't just killing their kids, they're women who are obsessed with the Clancy trial who then have strangled their children.

No one expects copycats to become a mainstream thing.

But the copycats are happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (qE8uT)

114 Next trial.

Rely on the evidence and only put the investigators on the stand.

Hammer home how long it took her to strangle three children. Point how she manipulated her husband to stay out of the house longer. The planning it took.

And then at the end slam on the table, "but the defense still wants you to believe she is a good mother."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (2GVsD)

115 It’s strange to see so many crazy Quakers in Masshole. Those roundheads have really slipped.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (KGj36)

116 Well, we can all agree with Tucker about this.

Max 📟
@MaxNordau
Tucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.
Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."
They discuss how they've never met anyone in their life who uses algebra, which is "fake math" for people "in the matrix."
They conclude that caring about algebra is something that only "good little goy slaves" do.

https://tinyurl.com/3fawztw7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (ndZc7)

117 Reddington has asked Trump for a pardon knowing full well that this is a State case and not Federal therefore Trump has no jurisdiction to give a pardon. Also, his client hasn't been convicted of anything...yet. Performance theater so he can further poison the well of potential jurors and when the the POTUS turns this down he can play the TDS card with these deranged women who are too dumb to realize this.

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (oiNtH)

118 It doesn't matter - the witnesses can't change their testimony without being impeached by prior testimony. And the prosecution can't dump their whole witness list.


still after it, eh?

whatever

this is not how the plan was supposed to play out and Ms Clancy is NOT amused

she's suffering at least a little bit now

which is what ought to happen.

she'll suffer more.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (j+aD2)

119 Who are they going to send after the manly juror? Superwoman, Storm or Captain Marvel?

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (A+X4b)

120 For many years I have said "San Francisco Hates Children" because I worked for the city and knew first hand and then as a parent.

How is that even possible? you might ask.

This, this is how.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (RIvkX)

121 103 Lindsay Clancy looks like a rough 36. Did she hit a wall on her way to the ground? Earlier photos she looks normal.
Posted by: nckate

^^^

Defense strategy was to make her look ugly. (and stuff jury with women)
Women have trouble feeling sympathetic to other women prettier than they are.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (yIb5h)

122 Still can't wrap my head around these psyco-sociopathic leftist bitches supporting the strangulation of three beautiful and innocent children.

Feminism has taught girls for 75 years now that women can only succeed and be fulfilled by being wage slaves, and the #1 thing preventing that is children.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (2ocoG)

123 and that prosecution team needs to ALL be replaced with competent attorneys"

Marcia Clark waves

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (cGjQu)

124 I don't in any way want Clancy's women supporters to hurt their children.
Having said that are we sure they should be breeding? Maybe foster parents until these ladies get their heads out of their butts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 01:43 PM (v6vok)

125 When he told the 2 women to calm down and make him a sandwich, things got a little tense in the jury room.

Posted by: Wally at September 08, 2026 01:43 PM (avzFa)

126 Do these same women support Susan Smith and/or Andrea Yates (to name the most prominent ones I can think of)?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 08, 2026 01:43 PM (ZLqYa)

127 119 Who are they going to send after the manly juror? Superwoman, Storm or Captain Marvel?
Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (A+X4b)

Captain Marvel, including all the diverse variants.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 01:43 PM (oPFtC)

128 a south-asian male
Posted by: Black Orchid


We tu loo?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:43 PM (yIb5h)

129 she had a very bad nose job, again if the old pics on X are accurate

her nose sucked before but this one is not very much better

probably there was other snip-snip involved with her nose job - the scarring affects your face negatively. why plastic surgery can be a slippery slope

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (j+aD2)

130 Keep child murder safe, legal and rare.

Posted by: Or something like that at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (2Ez/1)

131 iirc I scored a 95 on the 1978 Regents algebra exam.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (RIvkX)

132 So, Tucker's anti-algebra now????

Does he know that it was invented by Arabs, and not by JOOOOOOOs?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

133 > How did/why this blow up to become as big as it is????? I don't get it.
--------
MSM

As details came out the media sensationalized everything about Clancy, her crime, the family, the supporters....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (2Cry5)

134 Lindsay Clancy looks like a rough 36.

I’ve seen YouTube commenters arguing if she’s a 3 or a 4. I think that depends if it’s a Taco Bell or a Wendy’s.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (2ocoG)

135 131 iirc I scored a 95 on the 1978 Regents algebra exam.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (RIvkX)

======

Ah, yes.

When I was -7 years old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (qE8uT)

136 Lindsay Clancy looks like a rough 36. Did she hit a wall on her way to the ground? Earlier photos she looks normal.

* shrugs *

Posted by: Dorian Gray at September 08, 2026 01:45 PM (vTZFs)

137 One guy supposedly canceled a wedding because his bride to be supported her. That's also the new dating question.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:41 PM (/xJ/M)

Her: Do you support Trump?
Him: Do you support Lindsay?

And America continues to Balkanize.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 01:45 PM (PGK1w)

138 sounded like a male on the tape?

-
I'm just speculating about a hypothesis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:45 PM (ndZc7)

139 To be fair, we get pretty worked up about it too. The situation is almost designed specifically to inflame the right.
--------------

Add "opposition to child murder" to the list of things that used to be universally agreed upon but are now "right-wing."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 08, 2026 01:45 PM (DHh0Q)

140 Lindsay Clancy Was Filmed 12-Years Before… (CHILLING FOOTAGE)

https://tinyurl.com/364jav22

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 01:45 PM (NpAcC)

141 Seriously, if they are going to harass or assault that dude, he’ll make them into festive Jack o lanterns and knock out a few teeth.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:46 PM (A+X4b)

142 " How the hell were they ever allowed on the jury, or allowed to remain on the jury?"

I'm not gonna say "intentionally", but otoh I often feel that we're out at around 6,752,339 on the Goldfinger Rule ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 01:46 PM (VyBeY)

143 re: Prime Air 767 crash.

With my non-expert eyes; not only did the pilot float the plane down the runway, once he was on the ground he failed to deploy the thrust reversers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD)

144 Pardon after a hung jury from an executive without standing? Oh wait, charge Clancy with civil rights violations. It worked for Rodnay King.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 08, 2026 01:46 PM (wxsGM)

145 This was the emergency appeal -- a claim that the lone male holdout was "biased" against the "disabled" because he wouldn't allow a triple-child-murderess walk free:

To be fair, I don't think that was the only claim. Even the Tweet you follow with says the appeal which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being “biased” against those with “debilitating mental illness”, suggesting it was one of multiple basis for the request. My understanding was the other jurors complained to the judge that the holdout wasn't following the law/jury instructions. He said he had doubt, but wouldn't vote for acquittal. The obvious response (that the judge didn't mention) is that you're allowed to have doubt and still vote to convict...the question is whether the doubt rises to the level of REASONABLE doubt, which the jury note didn't specify, and only the individual juror can assess.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (PkrKm)

146 45 Men are now going to choose the Bear


More likely, is that men will let women choose the bear. Then, men will choose to stay out of the woods and let nature take its course.

Posted by: Texas99 at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (zN9eQ)

147 Does he know that it was invented by Arabs,
____

Persians, I think. After being conquered by the Arabs. I don't think Arabs invent anything, except a barbaric death cult that has done surprisingly well.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (xQz2n)

148 An analysis I read said that the Prosecution failed to present a coherent case for conviction, changing their narrative between opening statements and closing arguments.

You don't do that if you want to convince people of the correctness of your version of the defendant's reasoning.

And since everyone agreed on the perpetrator and the nature of the crime, the only thing under argument was her reasoning and whether she was actually in control of her actions.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (vJrRc)

149 Performance theater so he can further poison the well of potential jurors...

And expects it to not negatively affect his reputation and credibility with future judges and juries. Sadly, he's probably right about that.

Posted by: Dorian Gray at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (vTZFs)

150 "That's also the new dating question.

Posted by: rickb223"


Don't forget to ask about what they think about Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: fd at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (MWfyi)

151 /portrait sock

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (vTZFs)

152 The media sensationalized this case, the woman who killed her kids and the nutters who support her. They're more than happy with the current state of affairs.

And it just goes to show that the MSM still has pull with their audiences.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (2Cry5)

I'm sure they tried, but from all reports the real drivers were the Instagram and new media wing and not the fossil MSM.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (uhVAy)

153 More likely, is that men will let women choose the bear. Then, men will choose to stay out of the woods and let nature take its course.
Posted by: Texas99 at September 08, 2026 01:47 PM (zN9eQ)

There's a counter-proposal - imagine a kid in the woods. Are they safer with a woman, or with a bear?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (oPFtC)

154 How did/why this blow up to become as big as it is????? I don't get it.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (VCgbV)
________

There is often no rhyme or reason as to why any event blows up into a huge story. As I said above, about 500 kids are murdered by their parents every year. So it's not a unique event.

But I think what propelled the Clancy murders into the forefront of news was:

1. Reasonably attractive, middle-class white family. Had Shaniqua in the ghetto or Bobbi Jo in the trailer park done the same thing, we most likely wouldn't have heard about it.

2. The case was relentlessly pushed on social media, on both sides of the case. It was like a cottage industry all by itself.

3. Related to #2, the biggest story about the trial became not the trial itself, but people's reactions to the trial, and what it said about them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

155
Bad cases apparently also make bad public discourse.
...
And almost no one has actually read the court case testimony in full (which makes the discussion worse), but we are ready and willing to demonize the jurors both ways.

Posted by: Nova Local

==============

Agreed.

And the notion of copycat killings is absurd. Legions of 36-year-old mothers-of-three prepping their household weapons of choice, salivating to kill their kids for... what reason? I don't think the prosecution ever argued a motive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (XJ22o)

156 The Prosecution wasn't very impressive but with 3 murdered kids maybe they assumed they didn't need to be.

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (enNUy)

157 Those kids used for stupid TikTok videos will probably eventually see those videos and what's your explanation going to be, that you used them for some clout on a demonic app to defend a child murderer?
Posted by: Thrawn at September 08, 2026 01:29 PM (oPFtC)

Precisely this. That's going to be an interesting conversation years from now. "So mom, what's this about you wanting to MURDER ME a few years ago?"

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (ZgwKJ)

158 Amanda Knox still looks pretty good.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:48 PM (77rzZ)

159 Has anyone else noticed that the same logic these lunatics are using to say not guilty would also preclude women serving on juries?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (4aa1M)

160 Do these same women support Susan Smith and/or Andrea Yates (to name the most prominent ones I can think of)?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

Remember all those guys who dressed in blue and supported Ted Bundy because his hormones were cattywumpus? Yeah, me neither.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (ndZc7)

161 Hey, Reddington, the"holdout" passed your voir dire. You only have yourself to blame.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (wxsGM)

162 >> Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:46 PM (2GVsD

He was going 129 mph at the end of useable runway. Just a tad too fast.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (A+X4b)

163 Clancy cult are devil worshippers. We were a civilized country at one time, then ZIP, right back to Sodom and Gomorrah in less than a hundred years.

Posted by: Eromero at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (LHPAg)

164 With my non-expert eyes; not only did the pilot float the plane down the runway, once he was on the ground he failed to deploy the thrust reversers.

According to Biancolirio, the thrust reversers on a 767 don’t work unless the wheels are firmly on the ground. Like they won’t even deploy.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (2ocoG)

165 "With my non-expert eyes; not only did the pilot float the plane down the runway, once he was on the ground he failed to deploy the thrust reversers."
-----------------------

Thrust reversers won't deploy unless the main gear is on the ground. Safety feature to keep them from deploying in fight after they did deploy once over Thailand and killed a whole lotta people.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (DHh0Q)

166 She murdered the kids in January 2023. So for over thee and a half years, almost nobody knew about her case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade


Smells like an Op, doesn't it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 01:50 PM (vJrRc)

167 Has anyone else noticed that the same logic these lunatics are using to say not guilty would also preclude women serving on juries?

Shoe-on-head and other woman have been pointing out this very fact. But the mob doesn't care because of their 'feels.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:50 PM (2GVsD)

168 Has anyone else noticed that the same logic these lunatics are using to say not guilty would also preclude women serving on juries?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 01:49 PM (4aa1M)

Or serving in combat roles.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 01:51 PM (PGK1w)

169 The obvious response (that the judge didn't mention) is that you're allowed to have doubt and still vote to convict...the question is whether the doubt rises to the level of REASONABLE doubt, which the jury note didn't specify, and only the individual juror can assess.

But no one thinks of himself as unreasonable. So if a juror has doubt, he at least must thinks it's reasonable even if the other jurors don't. And the whole role of the jury is to be a proxy for the hypothetical "reasonable person" the law supposes exists but doesn't define.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (vTZFs)

170 These fucking ghouls relish the power. The power to exonerate crimes for their fellow travelers. The power to indict and convict their political enemies.

It's the power. And they were denied this time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (mqudn)

171 "Nah, that'd never happen. Including the lawyer now getting in on the Op to say "look Trump himself won't pardon her and she's nuts"...see how anti-women Rs are...
Easiest Op being done right now...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (tOcjL)"

my first thought when I saw that in the morning ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (VyBeY)

172 But,but,but... New England is supposed to be the most educated, smartest part of the country. Why can't the jury come to a logical, common sense, fair decision? You would think it would be easy for them.

Posted by: Case at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (noln+)

173 Thrust reversers won't deploy unless the main gear is on the ground. Safety feature to keep them from deploying in fight after they did deploy once over Thailand and killed a whole lotta people.

I am talking about the footage of the plane with wheels on ground and after impact. I did not see the thrust reversers open.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (2GVsD)

174 Keep child murder safe, legal and rare.
Posted by: Or something like that at September 08, 2026 01:44 PM (2Ez/1)

The AWFLs need a backup plan in case their boys resist transing.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (vSvIl)

175 Upper middle class women are pretty nuts. You should hear what the bishes around me are worried about.

Specific wavelengths of light. Red dye. Gluten. Dairy. Bug spray. Certain frequencies. High heart rates. Low heart rates. Vaccines. Cleaners of all types.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (XOmY9)

176 r/AskFeminists

Why is the Lindsay Clancy case getting so much attention when males killing their whole family happens daily?

they're so much more surprising and rare so people are fascinated (and men apparently like to use them as examples to scapegoat our entire gender). It's one of the ways it sucks to be a woman.

Court TV promoted the Clancy trial last year as one to watch.
We have to start looking harder at how media entities are making these choices.

Great point. Members of the media are a privileged class that have more power than us normies.

With all the discussion about women’s right to vote lately…. The misogynists are lapping it up

Because it triggered a huge debate between people who understand psychosis and people who have no idea what they’re talking about but feel very strongly about it.

Probably the Tiktok influence. Funny part is people and especially men making fun of those women on Tiktok for following the opinion of the majority while doing the same and getting on a hate bandwagon against Lindsay. Then people turning it into men vs women.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (PkrKm)

177 no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother
-------------------------

Do we get a vote?

Posted by: Cora, Dawson and Callan at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (vE0+H)

178 We were a civilized country at one time, then ZIP, right back to Sodom and Gomorrah in less than a hundred years.
Posted by: Eromero

Oh come on. You can't blame everything on the introduction of the Zoning Improvement Plan.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ)

179 Also, it's great that everyone is uncritically accepting CNNs version of what's going on here.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (vJrRc)

180
I love this whole "he only thinking about the three children, not the mother" line of...um...dickweedishness.

Yes, all thoughts should be on the three children who were painfully and horrifically murdered by their mother.

There needs to be a Free Strangulations Until Blackout Booth set up outside the next trial, so-

the Lindsay Supporters can test drive the pain and horror that was these three childrens' last experience of life.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (iJfKG)

181 New England is supposed to be the most educated, smartest part of the country. Why can't the jury come to a logical, common sense, fair decision? You would think it would be easy for them.

Posted by: Case at September 08, 2026 01:52 PM (noln+)

Hate to break it to you, but...

The educated, smart New England jury, with one notable exception, DID come to the logical common sense decision.

Once you decide you can kill kids, the 'when' of it is purely academic.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (PGK1w)

182 As for the Lauda Air 757 or 767 deploying a thrust reverser, the TWO interlocks were already installed as part of original design but at high altitude a thrust reverser still opened. And the plane came apart.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 01:54 PM (2GVsD)

183 Rumpelstilskin is a Jew name.

Max
@MaxNordau
Two minutes prior to their discussion of algebra, Tucker Carlson and Jess Elofson discuss Rumpelstiltskin.
Elofson explains that Rumpelstiltskin is "the perfect allegory for everything we are dealing with right now": a creature that creates wealth from nothing, wants to eat your children, and stomps and screams and calls you names when you name him, before disappearing back into the shadows.
Carlson's response: "Wow. That's definitely banned."
Elofson never specifies the allegory, but you can probably infer from his later denunciation of Americans as "good little goy slaves."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:54 PM (ndZc7)

184 176 Because it triggered a huge debate between people who understand psychosis and people who have no idea what they’re talking about but feel very strongly about it.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM (PkrKm)

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"People who exhibit no signs of psychosis should be able to get away with murder if they say they have psychosis after murdering inconvenient children."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:54 PM (qE8uT)

185 163, yup, "a thin veneer" indeed

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 01:55 PM (VyBeY)

186 Letting Chicks vote was a huge mistake.

Posted by: Deal With It at September 08, 2026 01:55 PM (+/Ezd)

187 "What is wrong with these women?"

Smart phones.
Posted by: davidt at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (Q+gd/)

And mothers murdering their children have been celebrated for longer than I've been alive. Some of us warned that they would eventually stop drawing a line at "fetuses" for most of that time, too. The current vile state of the bulk of American women has been entirely predictable.

Those men who have been their fathers and husbands share some of the guilt for not correcting them by whatever means was necessary.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 08, 2026 01:39 PM (vSvIl)

Yeah, they told us in the 70s that of course abortion would never be used outside the first trimester when the babies were 'non-viable'. Then wrote the laws to have no such restriction.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 01:55 PM (uhVAy)

188 Do these same women support Susan Smith and/or Andrea Yates (to name the most prominent ones I can think of)?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
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They support Fauci.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 01:55 PM (vE0+H)

189 Forget where I heard it now, but an excellent point I thought was raised that it kinda goes without saying that serial killers or mass-murders have certain mental defects, if not outright crazy, and voila, they get the chair. Or gas chamber, or whatever.

Of course most all of them are men, so...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 08, 2026 01:55 PM (QaH55)

190 Amazon crash pilot was a DEI female but it's not her fault because her hormones were cattywumpus.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)
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Hmmm. On the control tower recording from before the crash, it sounded a lot like an Hispanic male.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 08, 2026 01:56 PM (3ImbR)

191 You know whose hormones are doing just fine? The men and women deployed on the USS Aircraft carrier Lincoln after 272 days at seas just completed a 5 day port call at Laem Chabang Thailand. Heavy on the Chabang!

I can only imagine the stories that the Navy Shore Patrol officers have to tell.

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2026 01:56 PM (oiNtH)

192 Elofson explains that Rumpelstiltskin is "the perfect allegory for everything we are dealing with right now": a creature that creates wealth from nothing, wants to eat your children, and stomps and screams and calls you names when you name him, before disappearing back into the shadows.
Carlson's response: "Wow. That's definitely banned."
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He's just asking questions.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 01:56 PM (vE0+H)

193 Has anyone else noticed that the same logic these lunatics are using to say not guilty would also preclude women serving on juries?


Preclude them from being a cop, military, president, etc.

We can't give that kind of power & weapons to someone who might go off unannounced because their hormones are out of whack.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:56 PM (/xJ/M)

194 Well, we can all agree with Tucker about this.

Willowed in previous thread:

Tucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.
Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."


"Those who refuse to do math are doomed to speak nonsense."*
-- Prof. John McCarthy

* from memory so maybe not exact but close enough

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:56 PM (vTZFs)

195 Oh come on. You can't blame everything on the introduction of the Zoning Improvement Plan.
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM

Hey. I'm sitting RIGHT here.

Posted by: The Dewey Decimal System at September 08, 2026 01:57 PM (2Ez/1)

196 She must be the best lay on earth or her husband is the biggest simp on the planet. Perhaps both?

He actually defended her murdering his children.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:57 PM (XOmY9)

197 117 Reddington has asked Trump for a pardon knowing full well that this is a State case and not Federal therefore Trump has no jurisdiction to give a pardon. Also, his client hasn't been convicted of anything...yet. Performance theater so he can further poison the well of potential jurors and when the the POTUS turns this down he can play the TDS card with these deranged women who are too dumb to realize this.
Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2026 01:42 PM (oiNtH)
Performance theater to affect the election.

Posted by: Eromero at September 08, 2026 01:57 PM (LHPAg)

198 Human sacrifice has arrived.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (vE0+H)

199 right back to Sodom and Gomorrah in less than a hundred years.
The Hershey highway to the old dirt road

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (5yh5B)

200 "They support Fauci.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 01:55 PM (vE0+H) "

kind of says everything necessary, at that.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (VyBeY)

201 He actually defended her murdering his children.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:57 PM (XOmY9)

Maybe he doesn't want her to kill him.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (vE0+H)

202 In the meantime a mom was convicted of letting her five year old walk by himself in her gated neighborhood.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (KC5Lt)

203 196 She must be the best lay on earth or her husband is the biggest simp on the planet. Perhaps both?

He actually defended her murdering his children.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:57 PM (XOmY9)

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He testified on the side of the prosecution.

He just kept saying that she was a good woman.

"I thought she was a good woman, but then she coldly and calculatingly murdered our children, orchestrating me to get out of the house so she could do it uninterrupted," apparently never came to mind, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (qE8uT)

204 195 Oh come on. You can't blame everything on the introduction of the Zoning Improvement Plan.
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:53 PM

Hey. I'm sitting RIGHT here.
Posted by: The Dewey Decimal System at September 08, 2026

Don't drag US into this.

Posted by: Social Security Numbers at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (2Ez/1)

205 5 days in Thailand probably doubled the Thai GDP.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (KGj36)

206 I am talking about the footage of the plane with wheels on ground and after impact. I did not see the thrust reversers open.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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I think "on the ground" is not enough, and they need weight to change the angle of the wheels and clear the interlock.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (yIb5h)

207 Males have hormones as well.
They can't r*pe someone and just say my raging testosterone gave me psychosis and I heard a voice telling me to do it.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (NpAcC)

208 no way they don't sequester the jury in the next trial

I can't imagine assembling a new jury for this. Who has not heard all about it and has pre-formed opinions? You'd have to find twelve people who have lived in a cave for months. Without net.

Posted by: mindful webworker - twelve angry Neanderthals at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (aKb34)

209 Trump has gone too far now!

Bad Hombre
@Badhombre
Marjorie Taylor Greene just went on Chris Cuomo’s show, where both claimed to have received text messages from President Trump saying their children deserve to be murdered.
Neither Greene nor Cuomo has made the text messages public, because it never happened. They don’t exist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (ndZc7)

210 AskFeminists

Why is the Lindsay Clancy case getting so much attention when males killing their whole family happens daily?


Because when males do it, we take 19 minutes to put them on death row. And then we end them.

John Battaglia killed his two daughters in a case forensic psychologists linked to psychosis stemming from bipolar disorder.

The jury took just 19 minutes to deliberate.

He was executed in Texas in 2018.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (/xJ/M)

211 Can we just ban Tik Tok?! The only news they get is from there? What idiots!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (Vd136)

212 175 Upper middle class women are pretty nuts. You should hear what the bishes around me are worried about.

Specific wavelengths of light. Red dye. Gluten. Dairy. Bug spray. Certain frequencies. High heart rates. Low heart rates. Vaccines. Cleaners of all types.
Posted by: MJ

The ones are me were frightened about Trump Camps after the '24 election.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (mqudn)

213 Do these same women support Susan Smith and/or Andrea Yates (to name the most prominent ones I can think of)?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 08, 2026 01:43 PM (ZLqYa)
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Yes. They did. They supported Smith even though it was obvious -- and proved at trial -- that she killed her kids in cold blood because her new boyfriend didn't want them.

But they did not support Chris Benoit. Nobody supported him. Had he not successfully committed suicide, he would have been easily convicted and probably sentenced to death.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

214 210
Because when males do it, we take 19 minutes to put them on death row. And then we end them.

John Battaglia killed his two daughters in a case forensic psychologists linked to psychosis stemming from bipolar disorder.

The jury took just 19 minutes to deliberate.

He was executed in Texas in 2018.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (/xJ/M)

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"Same John."
-not a TikTok trend, for some reason

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:59 PM (qE8uT)

215 Sssshhh...

Posted by: Area Codes at September 08, 2026 02:00 PM (2Ez/1)

216 Why is the Lindsay Clancy case getting so much attention when males killing their whole family happens daily?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison


* tweeeeeet!! *

Bullshit on the field. Ten yards, first down.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:00 PM (vTZFs)

217 The father has no blame but why would you have a third kid knowing what you knew?

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 02:00 PM (KC5Lt)

218 Lindsaystans. I don't know who came up with that branding, but I love it. In fandoms, a 'Stan' is... here, I will leave the explanation to Brave AI, which told me things I didn't know when I went to pre-verify my understanding:

"In fandom culture, a stan is an extremely devoted, enthusiastic, or obsessive fan of a celebrity, artist, or public figure. While the term originated from Eminem’s 2000 song about a dangerously obsessed follower, modern usage has evolved to describe superfans who actively support, defend, and engage with their idol’s work, often blurring the line between intense admiration and unhealthy obsession.

"The term functions as both a noun (e.g., "I am a Taylor Swift stan") and a verb (e.g., "I stan this artist"), indicating a level of dedication that goes beyond casual fandom. Key characteristics include emotional investment, active participation in online communities (such as Stan Twitter), and a willingness to vigorously defend the idol against criticism. Although originally pejorative, it is now frequently worn as a badge of honor within fan communities to signify passionate loyalty and deep knowledge of the artist’s career."

Posted by: SciVo at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (ke3zm)

219 Marjorie Taylor Greene just went on Chris Cuomo’s show, where both claimed to have received text messages from President Trump saying their children deserve to be murdered"

We get the representation we deserve.

*starts crying

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (cGjQu)

220 I had to laugh at the picture of the lady holding the sign asking, "Do you stand with Lindsay?" Well, considering she's in a wheelchair, no.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (bNf8H)

221 Males have hormones as well.
They can't r*pe someone and just say my raging testosterone gave me psychosis and I heard a voice telling me to do it.


They can in the UK. Well, some males can.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (vTZFs)

222 Wasn't there a fourth child, an older daughter, who did not get killed because the mother made sure that she, too, was out of the house?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

223 Congratulations if you had Algebra is a Jewish Plot on your 2026 bingo card?

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:02 PM (vE0+H)

224 Specific wavelengths of light. Red dye. Gluten. Dairy. Bug spray. Certain frequencies. High heart rates. Low heart rates. Vaccines. Cleaners of all types."

5G...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:02 PM (cGjQu)

225 I hope Kevin dies in his sleep.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (Jr5Lq)


Only after months of screaming agony caused by some horrible, terminal illness.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 08, 2026 02:02 PM (k5CNB)

226 222 Wasn't there a fourth child, an older daughter, who did not get killed because the mother made sure that she, too, was out of the house?
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

No.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (tOcjL)

227 We were a civilized country at one time, then ZIP, right back to Sodom and Gomorrah in less than a hundred years.
Posted by: Eromero

^^^^^^^^^

I saw an interesting (and probably very racist) tweet yesterday about "white flight" and how Europeans -- ok, I prefer to call them Christian Europeans" as I think it has nothing to do with race -- have been moving and retreating for centuries. They build, non-Christian Europeans move in, they flee, cities they built turn to shit. Over and over and over

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (yIb5h)

228 Did Clancy give a crazy reason why she killed the kids or just that she was crazy?

At least other crazy child killing mothers claim that they were saving their kids from the devil or something similar. Susan Smith excepted.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (KC5Lt)

229 Shoe-on-head and other woman have been pointing out this very fact. But the mob doesn't care because of their 'feels.'
Posted by: Anna Puma


Nobody cares what thoughts are in the heads of reasonable women with a good grasp of what men are capable of when pushed. They don't exist.

The only women who have ever existed are the bloodthirsty insane ones, therefore all women, even the reasonable ones who don't exist, need to be punished.

*spits*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (vJrRc)

230 204, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (VyBeY)

231 She must be the best lay on earth or her husband is the biggest simp on the planet. Perhaps both?

He actually defended her murdering his children.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:57 PM (XOmY9)

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He testified on the side of the prosecution.

He just kept saying that she was a good woman.

"I thought she was a good woman, but then she coldly and calculatingly murdered our children, orchestrating me to get out of the house so she could do it uninterrupted," apparently never came to mind, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:58 PM (qE8uT)
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He went further than that. He testified that he didn't think she should be blamed because she didn't know what she was doing. I knew the trial was over after that.

I suspect that such comic cuckness is because he's suing the doctors and that would be harder if he testified that there was nothing wrong with her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

232 no way they don't sequester the jury in the next trial

So, are you going to confiscate their cell phones?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (aD4fx)

233 I saw an interesting (and probably very racist) tweet yesterday about "white flight" and how Europeans -- ok, I prefer to call them Christian Europeans" as I think it has nothing to do with race -- have been moving and retreating for centuries. They build, non-Christian Europeans move in, they flee, cities they built turn to shit. Over and over and over

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (yIb5h)

This is one of my favorite lefty phenomena.

White move in - Gentrification. Racist.
Whites move out - White Flight. Racist.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 02:04 PM (PGK1w)

234 That HollyMathNerd substack is worth a read.

Postpartum psychosis is very rare and typically shows up in the first three months. Her youngest was eight months. That's why they thought she might be bipolar, which would explain it, even though there was no diagnosis of that. The only voices she heard started when she statted killing the kids and ended when she was done. A shrink at the trial said it doesn't work like that. She called her husband back, either during or right after she killed the kids, and had a conversation with him. There are a lot of legitimate questions here.

It's a big deal because she was affluent,like her supporters. If she gets off, they might too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 08, 2026 02:04 PM (bkuEU)

235 I know this is The Current Thing and it's mandatory that I fervently care about it, but I kinda don't.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (jBygX)

236 231 He went further than that. He testified that he didn't think she should be blamed because she didn't know what she was doing. I knew the trial was over after that.

I suspect that such comic cuckness is because he's suing the doctors and that would be harder if he testified that there was nothing wrong with her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Since he's not classified as an expert on her psychological state since he's not a psychologist, how is that opinion of his allowed in court?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (qE8uT)

237 Why is the Lindsay Clancy case getting so much attention when males killing their whole family happens daily?
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Because you don't have millions of people screaming and crying at the top of their lungs the men have the right to do it?

Why the fuck do they pretend things are so hard to understand? It's like their second favorite move.

"Why is everyone out there complaining about Lindsay Clancy when like avalanches kill people every day? I don't see people complaining about avalanches....... is it because avalanches are WHITE??!!!!"

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (vE0+H)

238 Rain again in van nuys

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (2caBu)

239 236 231 He went further than that. He testified that he didn't think she should be blamed because she didn't know what she was doing. I knew the trial was over after that.

I suspect that such comic cuckness is because he's suing the doctors and that would be harder if he testified that there was nothing wrong with her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Since he's not classified as an expert on her psychological state since he's not a psychologist, how is that opinion of his allowed in court?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (qE8uT)

B/c the prosecution asked for it. If you're the defense, with that answer, are you objecting?

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (tOcjL)

240 To dream the impossible dream . . .

The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
[Democrat political consultant] @SarahLongwell25: "Right now, the number one New York Times bestseller is Ted Cruz's biography of Clarence Thomas. The only thing I want in the world right now is to knock Ted Cruz off the New York Times bestseller list."

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I'd've gone with eternal youth, health, and wealth but then I'm a conservative.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (ndZc7)

241 She murdered her children one at a time, taking each one down to the basement as they were crying. She murdered them by strangling them with her exercise bands. Testimony indicated the murders were so violent the children’s eyes were bulging out. She even paused to take a call from her husband.

It was deliberate, premeditated murder that was carried out with malice.

Anyone who can defend that should get the chair along with this murderous asshole.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (bucPA)

242 "I thought she was a good woman, but then she coldly and calculatingly murdered our children, orchestrating me to get out of the house so she could do it uninterrupted," apparently never came to mind, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


That was the prosecution's job. They seem to have botched it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (vJrRc)

243 Divorced men whose ex spouse posts a video holding their child with the caption "Same, Lindsay"
need to file for permanent custody.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (NpAcC)

244 240 To dream the impossible dream . . .

The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
[Democrat political consultant] @SarahLongwell25: "Right now, the number one New York Times bestseller is Ted Cruz's biography of Clarence Thomas. The only thing I want in the world right now is to knock Ted Cruz off the New York Times bestseller list."

-
I'd've gone with eternal youth, health, and wealth but then I'm a conservative.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (ndZc7)

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The NYT best seller list is editorial and not reflective of sales, so it should be easy.

NYT admitted that in court.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qE8uT)

245 Diane Downs excepted too

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 08, 2026 02:06 PM (bkuEU)

246 158 Amanda Knox still looks pretty good.
Posted by: Bulg

In my mind, she and Anna Chapman both hit the zeitgeist around the same time.

Anna Chapman (redhead on the right) https://tinyurl.com/2tsz39k6

Amanda Knox: https://tinyurl.com/325ckdhy

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:07 PM (PkrKm)

247 228 Did Clancy give a crazy reason why she killed the kids or just that she was crazy?


she said she didn't want them to live without her (because she was going to kill herself) - which I mean that was the most obvious set up for a non-suicide every

anyway her ex husband and the other family think there's a payday in there suing the healthcare system. maybe. shouldn't be, however. they more than did a good job! they were mislead by a sociopathic and detail-oriented narcissist.

they will probably settle with the family tho, but I wish they wouldn't

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 02:07 PM (j+aD2)

248 Missed the first post of the day, so I'm responding here because I love chaos....and this AP article is just beyond the pale:

AP:
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country’s first far-right state government since World War II.

___________________________________

Did you catch that? The AP calls the NAZI party "far-right". The National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) is now Far-right. You don't hate the media enough.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 02:08 PM (dIske)

249 no way they don't sequester the jury in the next trial
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So, are you going to confiscate their cell phones?


Yup. Put 'em up at Holiday Inn with no wifi, no phone, no TV, no radio, and no newspapers. Just a big stack of crossword puzzle books to pass the time. And separate the rooms with bailiffs in the hallways to prevent collusion.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:08 PM (vTZFs)

250 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:07 PM (PkrKm)

Do I trust you this time, or not?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

251 He went further than that. He testified that he didn't think she should be blamed because she didn't know what she was doing. I knew the trial was over after that.

I suspect that such comic cuckness is because he's suing the doctors and that would be harder if he testified that there was nothing wrong with her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Since he's not classified as an expert on her psychological state since he's not a psychologist, how is that opinion of his allowed in court?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (qE8uT)
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As an expert opinion, it wouldn't be. But the basis of his lawsuit are allegations that the doctors fucked up and that led to his wife killing his kids.

Him testifying at her trial that it wasn't her fault is consistent with those allegations. It would be harder to prove those allegations if he's on record saying he thought she was fine.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

252 John Battaglia killed his two daughters in a case forensic psychologists linked to psychosis stemming from bipolar disorder.

The jury took just 19 minutes to deliberate.

He was executed in Texas in 2018.

Posted by: rickb223

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Remember that Asian woman at a gun control lecture who asked "can you guarantee that the gov. will not become tyrannical"? and the gun control advocate said "no" and that settled it.

I feel the same about these people -- even if they were "temporarily insane" that should be enough to end them. OK, she went crazy. Now I want her out of society even more -- if she had a good reason to kill I would know I am safe, but if she did it because she is nuts then no one is safe

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 02:08 PM (yIb5h)

253 Elofson explains that Rumpelstiltskin is "the perfect allegory for everything we are dealing with right now": a creature that creates wealth from nothing, wants to eat your children, and stomps and screams and calls you names when you name him, before disappearing back into the shadows.
Carlson's response: "Wow. That's definitely banned."
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He's just asking questions.
Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 01:56 PM (vE0+H)

Tucker going for the anti-Rumpelstiltskin vote wasn't on my bingo card. Probably should have been.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 02:09 PM (uhVAy)

254 The evidence, expert testimony is up to watch. And remember the baby's heart still beat as doctors began brain testing.

The hold out juror is a hero. How that man hung in there with the apparent BS he had to suffer from at least some of his co-jurors, idk.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 02:09 PM (NFX2v)

255 I suspect that such comic cuckness is because he's suing the doctors and that would be harder if he testified that there was nothing wrong with her"

I did see some interviews with him - he seems coached. Heavily.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:09 PM (cGjQu)

256 She was a labor and delivery nurse. Imagine that.

She also conveniently missed all her major arteries in her suicide attempt. Weird. Huh?

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 02:09 PM (bucPA)

257 It was deliberate, premeditated murder that was carried out with malice.


correct
those three babies were interfering with her many, very specific, plans for HERSELF

because HERSELF was all that ever mattered

and now HERSELF has lost her case. and now HERSELF is stuck in a wheelchair (that wasn't supposed to happen!). and HERSELF is in a mental institution.

I smile.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 02:09 PM (j+aD2)

258 Anyone who can defend that should get the chair along with this murderous asshole.
Posted by: That Guy

But, did you consider the fact she's a Leo?!?!?!

Posted by: Totally Serious AWFLs at September 08, 2026 02:09 PM (PkrKm)

259 I've been on a jury with a crazed liberal woman (she was not the foreman), barking orders about. She said the car jacker's life would be ruined if he went to jail. I said that is not true, that there is plenty of help for those who are penitent and want to change. (Why are we considering nothing but straight justice?! Nooo, we have to weigh how the car jacker was going to manage prison life.) When it came time to sentence him, a court assistant provided additional evidence that the guilty had committed prior car jackings. But before we could read it, the crazed liberal woman snatched the pages from the assistant and said that it would not be considered. We got the paper back and each voted on 5 years, I lobbied for 7. He got 5.

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (Wkrcf)

260 Sugar and Spice and everything nice...

-- millions of aborted children later

eh, not so much.

Posted by: a society without virtue at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (anL5R)

261 Rain again in van nuys

I was reliably informed that "It never rains in Southern California."

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (vTZFs)

262 235 I know this is The Current Thing and it's mandatory that I fervently care about it, but I kinda don't.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 08, 2026 02:05 PM (jBygX)
-----

Same, except to the extent that I pray for the souls of her murdered children and lament the fact that the mother is still wasting valuable Oxygen, I don't give a shit. Our justice system is and has been largely cooked for decades now. The jury system can't survive a tribalistic culture.

Posted by: ballistic at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (oqH4h)

263 TikTok is making women dumber.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (NpAcC)

264 "With my non-expert eyes; not only did the pilot float the plane down the runway, once he was on the ground he failed to deploy the thrust reversers."

Captain Steeeve reported that the plane was flying 35 knots too fast at the runway threshold. It should have been a go-around.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

265 Yes, I mourn my murdered children by suing the doctors for some cash and almost immediately marrying another woman.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (bucPA)

266 In my mind, she and Anna Chapman both hit the zeitgeist around the same time.

Anna Chapman (redhead on the right) https://tinyurl.com/2tsz39k6

Amanda Knox: https://tinyurl.com/325ckdhy
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar


You are not a nice person. But at least the Anna Chapman pic is good.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

267 He went further than that. He testified that he didn't think she should be blamed because she didn't know what she was doing. I knew the trial was over after that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

I don't think that mattered an iota. The trending opinion is that he murdered the kids himself and somehow projected his voice into her head. Subtle shades of meaning aren't in play here.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

268 Yeah, well 1,295 past the end of useable runway tells me he was going a tad too fast. Just a tiny bit.

Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 02:12 PM (bucPA)

269 "Did you catch that? The AP calls the NAZI party "far-right". The National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) is now Far-right. You don't hate the media enough.

Posted by: Orson at September 08, 2026 02:08 PM (dIske) "

eh, Stalin formed that trope in the 1930s and his little supporters in the media have been parroting it ever since.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 02:12 PM (VyBeY)

270 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:07 PM (PkrKm)

Do I trust you this time, or not?
Posted by: Bulg

Russian roulette.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 02:12 PM (mqudn)

271 MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory"

You know who else had a resounding victory in Magdeburg?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:13 PM (cGjQu)

272 Many Leftist feminist women are saying that if they find out they are having a boy they will have an abortion.
I

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 02:14 PM (NpAcC)

273 Turns out the real insane people were the friends they made along the way.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 02:14 PM (4aa1M)

274 You know who else had a resounding victory in Magdeburg?

===

The Catholic League ??

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:14 PM (AKptf)

275 250 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:07 PM (PkrKm)

Do I trust you this time, or not?
Posted by: Bulg

You have a 50-50 chance of getting the good photo.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:14 PM (PkrKm)

276 What's needed is sensible exercise band control -- Democrat Platform 2028.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 08, 2026 02:14 PM (bX16E)

277 funny, I gave my wife a similar read of the dynamic inside the jury room. They had one hold out, and dude probably said something along the lines of, " might as well call it, I'm not changing my mind on this." And then foreperson gave the ole, "we'll see about that" and then WROTE HER NOTE TO THE JUDGE. Figures she can make something up (or exaggerate something that was said) and get the guy tossed off the jury.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 08, 2026 02:15 PM (Iwv3U)

278 MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory"

You know who else had a resounding victory in Magdeburg?
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:13 PM (cGjQu)

Well the Catholic League did in the 30 years war.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 08, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)

279 The jury system can't survive a tribalistic culture"

Singapore agreed

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 02:15 PM (cGjQu)

280 220 I had to laugh at the picture of the lady holding the sign asking, "Do you stand with Lindsay?" Well, considering she's in a wheelchair, no.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 08, 2026 02:01 PM (bNf8H

Biden tried that during a campaign rally - speaking to Chuck Graham who is wheelchair bound.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2026 02:15 PM (N39Ws)

281 she said she didn't want them to live without her (because she was going to kill herself) - which I mean that was the most obvious set up for a non-suicide every


Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 02:07 PM (j+aD2)


That's not post partum symptoms . PP symptoms are the total non connection to the baby/child

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (KC5Lt)

282 Prosecutors do not have to establish a motive for a crime to prove a defendant guilty of murder. They only need to prove the required elements of the crime, such as the act itself and the specific intent (mens rea).

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (NFX2v)

283 >>>Remember that Asian woman at a gun control lecture who asked "can you guarantee that the gov. will not become tyrannical"? and the gun control advocate said "no" and that settled it.
~~~~~

Lily Tang Williams. She's running for Congress in New Hampshire. Love her--she's a little firecracker.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (3ImbR)

284 I don't blame him for immediately remarrying. What do you expect him to do? Nothing will bring the kids back. He can't stay with the crazy wife.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (bkuEU)

285 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

286 You are not a nice person. But at least the Anna Chapman pic is good.
Posted by: Bulg

Russian Redhead Spy. Takes your soul, your bank account, AND your secrets.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (PkrKm)

287 As an expert opinion, it wouldn't be. But the basis of his lawsuit are allegations that the doctors fucked up and that led to his wife killing his kids.

Him testifying at her trial that it wasn't her fault is consistent with those allegations. It would be harder to prove those allegations if he's on record saying he thought she was fine.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

From what I heard from the trial, she never told any of her providers that she had any ideations of harming her children. As a nurse, she knew that they are mandated reporters and if she had told them that she had any thoughts of harming her kids, they would have to report it to authorities.

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (oiNtH)

288
285 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

====

DA had a press conference where he all but said there would be another trial.

So, we'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (qE8uT)

289 "What is wrong with these women?"

Smart phones.
Posted by: davidt

Feminism and a million proud abortions a year.

Posted by: Kill your kids for likes and hits! at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (TbWk/)

290

She should have claimed she was feeling floopy. That works for me.

Posted by: LisaK at September 08, 2026 02:18 PM (YYJpW)

291 288
285 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

====

DA had a press conference where he all but said there would be another trial.

So, we'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (qE8uT)

There is a hearing on Sept 28 (I think) where one of the items to be discussed is a retrial.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2026 02:18 PM (N39Ws)

292 The jury system can't survive a tribalistic culture"

Truth.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (mqudn)

293
Their brains are melted soft serve ice cream.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Deport! Deport! Deport! at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (rE7Gw)

294 You are not a nice person. But at least the Anna Chapman pic is good.
Posted by: Bulg

Russian Redhead Spy. Takes your soul, your bank account, AND your secrets.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (PkrKm)

Also a kidney

Posted by: As is tradition at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (TbWk/)

295 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)
________

I don't. I don't think the prosecution will ever get a conviction. He must know that. 11-1 to acquit isn't just one or two unreasonable lunatics that might not be on the jury in the retrial. 11-1 to acquit is a function of a big flaw in the prosecution's case or trial strategy. I proposed a theory above as to why the case was doomed.

I think there will be some kind of plea deal.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

296 DA had a press conference where he all but said there would be another trial.

So, we'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hasn't she suffered enough? Her children are dead, her husband abandoned her in her hour of need, and she's a paraplegic!!!

Posted by: Defense Attorney at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (PkrKm)

297 Algebra teaches how to abstract, how to find the essence of a problem, reduce it to symbolic notation, and then apply axioms to manipulate the symbols to reveal the answer to the problem, and possibly new insights into the nature of the problem.

If a person comes away from algebra understanding nothing more than the process of abstraction, then it is worthwhile.

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 02:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

298 Lindsay Clancy Supporters’ TikToks Are Now Being Used AGAINST THEM in Custody Cases!

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 02:20 PM (RHGPo)

299 Yes, I mourn my murdered children by suing the doctors for some cash and almost immediately marrying another woman.
Posted by: That Guy at September 08, 2026 02:10 PM (bucPA)
~~~~~

He remarried more than three years later. Not quite immediately.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 08, 2026 02:20 PM (3ImbR)

300
I can't wait for the Law and Order SVU "ripped from the headlines" Very Special Episode.

Spoiler alert: The villain is the Evil Cigar Smoking Rich White Man CEO Who Has A 19 Year Old Blonde Nympho Cheerleader Coed Trophy Wife of the Big Pharma company that manufactures her antacid tablets.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 02:20 PM (y9nCu)

301 285 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)


According to defense attorney the just concluded trial had ripped out the soul of his client. Yes, that is something he said.

Chutzpah, that guy has it

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 08, 2026 02:20 PM (Iwv3U)

302 I looked into this all yesterday because someone told me that she told three doctors that she might harm the kids. It wasn't true. She told one doctor, her mom and the husband that she was afraid she might have thoughts about harming her kids and herself. She never actually said that she had thoughts like that. She seems to have thought she was a failure because she wasn't the mother she thought she should be. Very rigid personality.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 08, 2026 02:21 PM (bkuEU)

303 Yeah we’re fucked as a society.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (U1NLK)

304 I don't blame him for immediately remarrying. What do you expect him to do? Nothing will bring the kids back. He can't stay with the crazy wife.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (bkuEU)

Broken record but this was is more reason why I think the father is a prick. He knew how crazy she was and knew that allegedly most of it arose out of her PP from the first kids and he went and had another kid.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (KC5Lt)

305 Lindsay Clancy Supporters’ TikToks Are Now Being Used AGAINST THEM in Custody Cases!
Posted by: SMOD

Good

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (mqudn)

306 According to defense attorney the just concluded trial had ripped out the soul of his client. Yes, that is something he said.


ha ha! that's funny

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (j+aD2)

307 I can't wait for the Law and Order SVU "ripped from the headlines" Very Special Episode.

Spoiler alert: The villain is the Evil Cigar Smoking Rich White Man CEO Who Has A 19 Year Old Blonde Nympho Cheerleader Coed Trophy Wife of the Big Pharma company that manufactures her antacid tablets.


You left out "Christian" but I guess that's just assumed.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (vTZFs)

308 Anyone who can defend that should get the chair along with this murderous asshole.
Posted by: That Guy

But, did you consider the fact she's a Leo?!?!?!
Posted by: Totally Serious AWFLs


Her Mercury thermometer was in Gatorade!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (/xJ/M)

309 25. The husband was the worst offender. He literally said that he didn't blame Lyndsay and that she didn't know what she was doing. WTF?

You cannot win a case when your own witnesses praise and excuse the defendant.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

That quick divorce to get away from Lindsay and her lifelong maintenance plus his hefty individual lawsuit - cutting her out of receiving so much as a penny (and she has her own individual lawsuit going) - gave him an optimistic outlook for the future, perhaps.

That and maybe a fine 2nd marriage to a physician.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (NFX2v)

310 I think it's pretty tacky to go after Patrick tbh

he did not strangle three small children

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (j+aD2)

311 Lindsay Clancy Supporters’ TikToks Are Now Being Used AGAINST THEM in Custody Cases!
****

That would be the only real justice coming from this case.

Posted by: clarence at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (311fa)

312 Spoiler alert: The villain is the Evil Cigar Smoking Rich White Man CEO Who Has A 19 Year Old Blonde Nympho Cheerleader Coed Trophy Wife of the Big Pharma company that manufactures her antacid tablets.

You left out "Christian" but I guess that's just assumed.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (vTZFs)

An episode based on Bill Belichick?

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (KC5Lt)

313 I know I posted about it last week, but it blew up a bit recently and I can't recall if Ace talked about it. The Socialist of America or something had a recent conference, and a speaker talked about how they can't compete with fascists on fitness and health, and those are bad anyway, and the more dysgenic the Left is, the better lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (PkrKm)

314 295
I think there will be some kind of plea deal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

I think that is the best path forward. I don't think she'll ever leave the state mental hospital. She isn't thriving there - even after being there 3+ years. (not defending or excusing her in any way, just repeating what I read). Not eating the food, not keeping up with personal hygiene. She's on a 1:1 suicide watch.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (N39Ws)

315 313 I know I posted about it last week, but it blew up a bit recently and I can't recall if Ace talked about it. The Socialist of America or something had a recent conference, and a speaker talked about how they can't compete with fascists on fitness and health, and those are bad anyway, and the more dysgenic the Left is, the better lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (PkrKm)

=====

Heart disease medicine is counter-revolutionary, comrade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (qE8uT)

316 301 According to defense attorney the just concluded trial had ripped out the soul of his client. Yes, that is something he said.

Chutzpah, that guy has it


well, he's a lawyer; that's his job.

Posted by: anachronda at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (v3pYe)

317
You left out "Christian" but I guess that's just assumed.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 02:22 PM (vTZFs)



I ran out of capitalized adjectives.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (y9nCu)

318 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (mqudn)

319 How was everyone's Labor Day?

I went to the in-laws. They were making chicken and I wanted burgers. I brought a ten pack of patties, cheese, and buns because I'm considerate. My wife didn't approve of the cheese I bought, so I bought another kind of cheese.

When it came time to make the burgers, I polled the crowd to see how many patties I needed to cook. I made exactly that number. Then when I told the crowd the burgers were ready, suddenly more people wanted burgers. I had to turn away some people and felt like a dick. I did let them know there were more patties, but they'd have to cook their own.

I know I could have cooked all the patties, but I didn't sign up for that. I just wanted my own burger. I feel like I went above and beyond by bringing and making extra.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (mkw2N)

320 311 Lindsay Clancy Supporters’ TikToks Are Now Being Used AGAINST THEM in Custody Cases!
****

That would be the only real justice coming from this case.
Posted by: clarence at September 08, 2026 02:23 PM (311fa)

Not to mention being a deal breaker for those in the dating scene.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2026 02:24 PM (N39Ws)

321 288
285 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

====

DA had a press conference where he all but said there would be another trial.

So, we'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
==========
Usually retrials work to the defendant's advantage due to seeing the complete prosecution case. This one was a bit weird as Clancy used an affirmative defense that she was mentally ill at the time. And apparently it damn near worked.

So a retrial where she gets scrutinized by the prosecution in every little detail may go worse for her with a new jury. I also expect some pointed prosecution questions for prospective jurors that exclude those that are fascinated by real crime and/or idiotic feminist takes on child murder.

The prosecution also knows all of Reddington's tricks this time and are likely to counteract them.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 02:26 PM (E4rtv)

322 No, you are wrong. No one knew she was crazy. Not even her mother or her sister. She was struggling with insomnia and some depression. She used weasel words about whether she was suicidal. She was not isolated and alone. She had help from her mom and a nanny. The doctors didn't miss anything

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 08, 2026 02:26 PM (bkuEU)

323 She’ll be out of the mental hospital within a year. She will run for political office within 3 years and probably win.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 02:26 PM (U1NLK)

324 From what I heard from the trial, she never told any of her providers that she had any ideations of harming her children. As a nurse, she knew that they are mandated reporters and if she had told them that she had any thoughts of harming her kids, they would have to report it to authorities.
Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2026 02:17 PM (oiNtH)

It appears very much that she made it up ex post facto as part of the legal defense of PPP and "the system failed me," not as a legitimate diagnosis. Not that I think that should make a difference in the outcome but it shows how disingenuous it is.

Posted by: Child murderers lying? No way! at September 08, 2026 02:26 PM (TbWk/)

325 NOOD: the real victims of 9/11 - guess who?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 08, 2026 02:27 PM (BHqbG)

326 Some of youz guyz are confusing me.

Patrick Clancy divorced Lindsay a year after she murdered the children.

He remarried three years and three months after she murdered the children and more than two years after the divorce.

Would any of you really call that immediate? And would any of you want to stay married to the person who murdered your children?

I don't know if Patrick is a white hat or a black hat, but I don't think anything he did wrt divorce and remarriage deserves criticism.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 08, 2026 02:29 PM (3ImbR)

327 Just the fact she is willing to do anything to avoid responsibility for the crime of strangling her own children makes her a monster. The temporary insanity think would be a little more plausible if she were consumed by guilt and horrified by what she had done.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 02:30 PM (2ap+5)

328 314. I think that is the best path forward. I don't think she'll ever leave the state mental hospital. She isn't thriving there - even after being there 3+ years. (not defending or excusing her in any way, just repeating what I read). Not eating the food, not keeping up with personal hygiene. She's on a 1:1 suicide watch.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Bullsh*t. She will leave the state mental institution. She's not dead after 3 1/2 years because she had hope. And she still has hope, even more than before the trial.

She is one of the great master manipulators you'll ever see in your time, imo.


Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 02:32 PM (NFX2v)

329 who thinks there is going to be new trial ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

Her lawyer.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:34 PM (vE0+H)

330 I think there will be some kind of plea deal.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

In such a deal she would have to plead guilty to something.

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 02:36 PM (vE0+H)

331 This same jury of her peers would scream and want to hang a man if he killed his children.

Or if he clubbed a baby seal.

It is apparently ok to kill your own children one by one if you are stressed due to hormones.

I don't see how this woman will wheel herself to freedom. For starters she needs care due to her paralysis. Even then she is on suicide watch, which would be difficult, I would think, all things considered unless she squirreled pills away for an overdose.

If there is a retrial I hope the jury is half women/half men (no transgenders) and sequestered. With her army of supporters shrieking two blocks away. SICK

A year long postpartum depression now opens up a new profit for Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 08, 2026 02:43 PM (hzuYO)

332 eh, Stalin formed that trope in the 1930s and his little supporters in the media have been parroting it ever since.
___

Nearly 100 years of inbred retardism is long enough!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 02:48 PM (xQz2n)

333 PS...I just tried to figure out when PPD diagnosis went to a year vs the first 3mo (due to lack of sleep,healing episiotomy stitches, c-sections, adjustment, etc).

From what I can tell it was around 2020. Possibly another gift from covid? Dunno.

Then I found that JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) says it can occur up to THREE YEARS after birth!!! Article from December 2020. Based on answers of women who, um, could like or be simply regularly depressed, or drinking or taking drugs, or lying for attention.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfk96za

This is insane. Ooopsie! Just had a bad day and killed my entire family! Not guilty by reason of hormones!

To my knowledge in the early 1980's after the hatching of our two boys I don't recall being asked if I was depressed or homicidal by a pediatrician. Probably because I appeared happy to have healthy babies?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 08, 2026 02:51 PM (hzuYO)

334 If, somehow, the governor does grant Lindsay Clancy a pardon, then we can rest well knowing her strangulation, along with the strangulation of lawyer Kevin Reddington, will be written off as not guilty due to post-pardon depression.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 08, 2026 03:50 PM (4h45B)

335 prior to her trial she was never diagnosed by ANY Doctor with post-partum anything ... this was just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks defense ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at September 08, 2026 04:33 PM (DBAaD)

336 No body has asked the grandparents how they feel that she murdered their grandchildren.

Posted by: grandpa at September 08, 2026 05:18 PM (s9TOl)

Germany's Incompetent Chancellor Merz "Shocked" by AfD Winning Nearly an Outright Majority in Regional Elections in Saxony

I'm shocked that he's shocked.

Note that while Alternativ fur Deutschland won a near majority, the usual European "firewall" f*ckery will now ensue in which the Greens, communists, "center" left socialists, and moderate "right" parties will form an ungodly Frankenstein coalition to block AfD from governing Saxony-Anhalt.

AfD is only three seats away from an outright majority in Saxony-Anhalt, but right now, that three seats is enough to keep them out of power.

Or is it? A far-left party that supports both Russia and sealing the borders says it might join the AfD, and that small party's five seats would be enough for a majority.

Meanwhile, the moderate "right" party continues to unmask and shows that they'll align with the Greens, socialists, and communists rather than do the one thing the public is screaming for them to do, seal the f***ing borders already.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doubled down Monday on pushing through unpopular reforms to Europe's largest economy after a far-right party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election, with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.

Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was "deeply shocked" by what he called "the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades." But he indicated that he's determined to stay at the helm and said that "giving up is not an option for me."

The anti-migration and Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany, or AfD, fell just short of a majority in Sunday's vote in Saxony-Anhalt, a small eastern state that gained outsized prominence as AfD eyed power there. Its regional branch is one of several considered a proven right-wing extremist group by Germany's domestic intelligence agency.

LOL. It's led by a lesbian who's married to a Sri Lankan.


AfD's victory is a major distraction for Germany and Merz at a time when Europe faces several challenges, including Russia's continued aggression against Ukraine, a suspected sabotage campaign targeting NATO countries, and difficult dealings with U.S. President Donald Trump.

It's a "distraction" from the Uniparty doing what the Uniparty wants to do against the wishes of the public.

Gee, sorry to "distract" you, Uniparty.


Merz said he wanted to assure Germany's allies that "our institutions are resilient and stable" and the country will stick to its values and constitution after the AfD win. "We know that Germany carries special responsibility because of its history," he said.

By refusing to even budge on unlimited mass migration, you are the ones guaranteeing that a truly "far right" party will eventually sweep into power.


Because of Germany's Nazi past, far-right movements have always come under strong scrutiny. Other major parties have refused to cooperate with AfD in a so-called "firewall." Unlike many countries in Europe, modern Germany hasn't yet had a far-right or right-wing populist party leading a national, state or major-city government.

Determination to continue reforms 'unbroken'

Merz vowed to weaken AfD before he came to power last year, but instead has seen the party's support increase.

The governing coalition of his Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats has developed a reputation for squabbling and become deeply unpopular, as has Merz himself. The government has struggled to persuade voters that it can get the country's chronically sluggish economy moving, through potentially painful reforms, including to the pension system.

So far, this article has acknowledge the economy, unpopular "reforms," and Ukraine, but has completely suppressed the issue actually driving the election, unlimited mass migration.

...

Germany faces another two regional elections on Sept. 20 -- in Berlin and in another eastern state, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where AfD is also strong.

...

AfD is three seats short of a majority. It could reach out to the hard-left BSW party, which won five seats. The two parties share a Russia-friendly course and oppose immigration but disagree on some other issues.

BSW has criticized the "firewall" against AfD and signaled again Monday that it could allow Siegmund to become governor by abstaining in a potential third round of voting for a new governor in the state legislature, in which a simple majority would suffice.

Record support for the "extreme far right" AfD. Did you know that 44% of Germany's voters are extreme far right? Must be true, all the media says so.

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record 44% in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, leaving a small party with seats that could determine whether it can lead the nation's first far-right state government since World War II.

Why it matters: Germany rebuilt its democracy after Nazi rule with unusually strong safeguards against extremism. AfD's breakthrough shows those barriers aren't stopping Europe's far right from becoming dominant electoral forces.

The latest: AfD more than doubled its 20.8% share in 2021, hitting its highest vote share ever in a state election and finishing ahead of the center-right CDU at 17%.

BSW, the party that hasn't ruled out working with the AfD, barely cleared the 5% threshold parties need for parliamentary representation.
Together, AfD and BSW would hold 43 seats, one more than a majority.
BSW, a populist party, combines far-left economics with far-right migration policies and calls for closer ties to Russia.


Send them home, is AfD's motto.

In an interview on German broadcaster ZDF, the AfD's national co-chair, Alice Weidel, advocated for closing Germany's borders and exiting Europe's Schengen treaty, saying, "Illegal migration, unchecked open borders, anyone can get in. Our internal security is suffering. People are honestly fed up with this situation."

Weidel added, "All Syrian refugees must have their protected status revoked because the reason for their flight no longer exists. These people must return to their homeland. If they don't leave voluntarily, then they must be deported by force."

Adding that many of the 1.3 million Syrians in Germany are being naturalized, "we must stop naturalizing these people who should actually be leaving our country. We have Islamization."

#Based.

In May 2025, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" group, citing "anti-migrant positions and an ancestry-based definition of German identity." This past February, according to Deutsche Welle, that classification was put on hold by a German court after "Judges found that while there was evidence of potentially unconstitutional statements and policies within the AfD... it said that there was not sufficient evidence to characterize the party as a whole as extremist."

In other words, they're "far right" because they reject the idea that Germany should be made up primarily of Afghans, Syrians, Egyptians, and Nigerians. That's an "ethnically-based" idea of German identity, you see.


AfD attracted 42% of young voters and 40% of female voters of all ages, who are usually soft-headed and, how do I put this, dumb.

I cannot find a cite for this so take it with a grain of salt until confirmed.

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Sep 6
It gets crazier...

Young voters (18-24): 42% AFD
Female voters (all ages): 40% AFD

Both traditionally far-left voting blocs

CNN had a "meltdown" over the results, obvvie.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM




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Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

2 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (9Q+nP)

3 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (9Q+nP)

4 Goose stepping is back in style in Germany
CNN

Posted by: steevy at September 08, 2026 12:14 PM (YwEeS)

5 4 Goose stepping is back in style in Germany
CNN

Posted by: steevy at September 08, 2026 12:14 PM (YwEeS)

========

The left could trans so many more kids if they closed the borders.

But open borders is just more important to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:15 PM (qE8uT)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 08, 2026 12:15 PM (hG5L0)

7 how was your weekend Ace?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 12:15 PM (j+aD2)

8 I'm shocked they haven't set aside the victory.
Fuckers did that in Hungary

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 08, 2026 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

9 Or is it? A far-left party that supports both Russia and sealing the borders says it might join the AfD, and that small party's five seats would be enough for a majority.

===

Horseshoe , but in a good way.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 12:16 PM (AKptf)

10 But open borders is just more important to them."

Of course! Who else will work to cover retirements?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (cGjQu)

11 AFD is honestly just another Euro leftwing party...just one with a rational immigration policy.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

12 Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was "deeply shocked" by what he called "the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades." But he indicated that he's determined to stay at the helm and said that "giving up is not an option for me."

You know who else was determined to stay at the helm and thought giving up was not an option for him?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

13 >>>7 how was your weekend Ace?

Thanks for asking. It was fine. And yours?

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

14 that should have been a "?"

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (AKptf)

15 A lot of people on X pointed out that in this, the first election since USAID shut down, AfD did dramatically better than in the past.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

16 It still cracks me up that the Chancellor of Germany is named Fred Merz.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

17 "I've said it before and I'll say it again. Democracy doesn't work."

Kent Brockman

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b)

18 "Far right." I do not think that means what they think it means.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (9Q+nP)

19
10 But open borders is just more important to them."

Of course! Who else will work to cover retirements?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (cGjQu)

========

"Not the Syrian immigrants we immediately put on all the welfare."
-the Christian Democrats of Germany

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (qE8uT)

20 Meanwhile, the moderate "right" party continues to unmask and shows that they'll align with the Greens, socialists, and communists rather than do the one thing the public is screaming for them to do, seal the f***ing borders already.

Sounds familiar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (mqudn)

21 Thanks for asking. It was fine. And yours?
Posted by: ace

How was your cookout with the crows?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

22 61% of people with a job voted for AFD.

I haven't seen a breakdown on retirees vs the welfare/immigrant class in Germany because it would be interesting to see if their votes differ and I expect they do.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

23 12 Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was "deeply shocked" by what he called "the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades." But he indicated that he's determined to stay at the helm and said that "giving up is not an option for me."

You know who else was determined to stay at the helm and thought giving up was not an option for him?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

Literally Stalin?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 08, 2026 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

24 This clown, literally minutes after the polls closed in the national election, formed an alliance with the socialists in order to keep the AfD out of power. He lied about everything his party stood for, and he is surprised at the voting this time?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (1S6X6)

25 "I cannot find a cite for this so take it with a grain of salt until confirmed"

I'm taking it with a dump truck of salt. I'm not even sure how anyone tracks or can accurately poll voting by age. Exit polls, sure, but they are notoriously unreliable.

I'd like it to be true, though, that Germany's young people are turning red.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

26 Not the Syrian immigrants we immediately put on all the welfare."
-the Christian Democrats of Germany"

Ah yes. They add to the GDP. Or something

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (cGjQu)

27 1939: Germany must expand into every other country in Eurasia and wipe out their native populations.

2026: Germany must accept every lowlife from every s***hole country in the world, and then every native citizen must kill himself while shivering in the dark.

Totes the same.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

28 it was good just overly busy!

I feel like a truck hit me and I still have an "event" tonight to participate in

lol holidays! they're fun

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (j+aD2)

29 It still cracks me up that the Chancellor of Germany is named Fred Merz.

He's old enough that he was an ally of Reagan during the Cold War and at one point he made a half hearted challenge against Merkel

I wonder what modern European elites bought him with?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (sKqQm)

30 I wonder if she'll be truly able to follow thru or was her talking points just bs?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (/xJ/M)

31 I’m kinda surprised at AfD’s affinity for the Russians. You could arguably make the case that Russia colluded with CDU to commence the entire invasion under Merkel. Mass migration was meant to do exactly as it is doing, weaken the ethnic German state. That benefits a lot of globalists, but a weak Germany also benefits the Russians. The Russians have been caught more than a few times running shadow campaigns and proxy ops that push and assist mass migration. They’re actually still doing it in the Baltics and in Poland.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (78Y69)

32 Just a reminder, Saxony-Anhalt used to be part of GDR - German Democratic Republic. They know stuff about stuff!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (AKptf)

33 It really doesn't matter how well afD did, they didn't get a majority and the other parties are simply going to freeze them out.

The only upside is that the ruling coalition is going to keep governing like the suicidal buffoons they are and maybe next go round afD will be able to get an outright majority.

That presupposes that afD doesn't get outlawed as a way to fix the glitch of the people voting in afD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (Lm2uZ)

34 Meanwhile, the moderate "right" party continues to unmask and shows that they'll align with the Greens, socialists, and communists rather than do the one thing the public is screaming for them to do, seal the f***ing borders already.

Sounds familiar.


Well, Thune IS an Aryan name. (Norwegian)

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

35 Not the Syrian immigrants we immediately put on all the welfare."
-the Christian Democrats of Germany"

Ah yes. They add to the GDP. Or something
Posted by: man

3 a.m. kebabs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (mqudn)

36 Is it Springtime for Hilter and Germany yet?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (Fn+3X)

37 Thanks for asking. It was fine. And yours?
Posted by: ace

How was your cookout with the crows?
Posted by: Bulg


10 & 20 black birds baked in a pie.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (/xJ/M)

38 These deck chairs need more work. I think if we put them in groups of two with some space between, it would have better feng shui.

Posted by: Deck Chair Coordinator for RMS Titanic at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (Y/06r)

39 >>> Because of Germany's Nazi past, far-right movements have always come under strong scrutiny. Other major parties have refused to cooperate with AfD in a so-called "firewall."

I appreciate the Germans never want to return another Hitler-like leader to power. But that does not mean they have to commit national suicide, or seppuku via toxic empathy, just to be washed of their sins. Destroying your culture as some form of penance is idiotic.

Germany is a beautiful country, and should stay German. As should England stay English, France stay French, etc.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (Eng1Z)

40 I see a speech from Alice Weidel where she was angry and speaking in Germany and since this was on a left leaning site they all argued...SEE NAZIs!

Of course if you listened to her speech she was angry about Germany importing millions of third worlders and putting them on welfare.

Which means the left thinks the problem with Hitler is he took welfare away from Jewish immigrants to Germany?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

41 >>>How was your cookout with the crows?

I did see them one morning. The male and female pair. They ate some bread I put out for them. That was nice.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (1wjle)

42 Elected officials in every western country need to realize that secure borders and remigration are the moderate positions. They really won’t like what comes next.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (u73oe)

43 She's not incompetent, she is deliberately malicious. Merckel not only admitted that she flooded the country with hostile invaders to "stop the far right" but probably was behind that day when like five right wing politicians all died. And then the news vanished.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (K32Fz)

44 The way European countries' multiple political parties are, and the way their elections are held and implemented are cray.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (qBdHI)

45 they can fool around with the "parliamentary system" etc but I think the people there and in other countries are very much aware that the ballot box option is way, way over.

so.

should be interesting.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (j+aD2)

46

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxony began to hate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (Cqx++)

47 I’m kinda surprised at AfD’s affinity for the Russians. You could arguably make the case that Russia colluded with CDU to commence the entire invasion under Merkel. Mass migration was meant to do exactly as it is doing, weaken the ethnic German state. That benefits a lot of globalists, but a weak Germany also benefits the Russians. The Russians have been caught more than a few times running shadow campaigns and proxy ops that push and assist mass migration. They’re actually still doing it in the Baltics and in Poland.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (78Y69)
________

It's not so much affinity for Russia as a country or culture, but an affinity for cheap Russian oil and opposition to endlessly funding Ukraine in the war.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

48 Weidel/AFD share some similarities to the NAZIs in that they have the same leftwing technocratic economic policies the rest of the Euro parties have.

Of course Weidel being gay married to a Sri Lankan puts the lie to the claim they have any other ties.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

49 Native Germans just don't drive through Festivals and Christmas Markets in the way we've become accustomed to.

Posted by: Under My Wheels at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (Fn+3X)

50 I did see them one morning. The male and female pair. They ate some bread I put out for them. That was nice.

Sounds like a good morning I hope you are rested up and feeling better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (K32Fz)

51 I appreciate the Germans never want to return another Hitler-like leader to power. But that does not mean they have to commit national suicide, or seppuku via toxic empathy, just to be washed of their sins. Destroying your culture as some form of penance is idiotic.

And, as usual, those calling for seppuku are NOT those who will actually do it. They're protected by their wealth.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

52
It's not so much affinity for Russia as a country or culture, but an affinity for cheap Russian oil and opposition to endlessly funding Ukraine in the war.


Russia is no threat to German normies.

The EU/current German government is

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)

53 The only upside is that the ruling coalition is going to keep governing like the suicidal buffoons they are and maybe next go round afD will be able to get an outright majority.

That presupposes that afD doesn't get outlawed as a way to fix the glitch of the people voting in afD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 12:20 PM (Lm2uZ

And they'll get a chance to work on voter fraud,

GatewayPundit had an article saying mail-in ballots played a role.

It'd be hilarious if the Republicans did that for a few election cycles. Millions of conservative votes. Then we'd hear about election security.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

54 I did see them one morning. The male and female pair. They ate some bread I put out for them. That was nice.
Posted by: ace

How do you tell the difference between male and female crows? Size differential?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

55 That presupposes that afD doesn't get outlawed as a way to fix the glitch of the people voting in afD.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Germany could ban the AfD or just ban voting altogether. Either way, they would be doing it to save democracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 12:24 PM (1S6X6)

56 Weidel/AFD share some similarities to the NAZIs in that they have the same leftwing technocratic economic policies the rest of the Euro parties have.

Of course Weidel being gay married to a Sri Lankan puts the lie to the claim they have any other ties.


One thing at a time. If they manage to shut the border, a lot of other things become possible.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

57 with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.

Um, the Notsees were NOT far right; they were Socialists! Socialists are leftists...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (l3cgK)

58 He's old enough that he was an ally of Reagan"

Wasn't he in the war?

/oh, wrong Mertz... hey, still German

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (cGjQu)

59 Remember the photo of Merkel standing over a table and glaring at a seated Trump and Trump is feigning boredom looking past her, which only served to anger Frau Merkel to peak Infuriated German Chancellor mode? Payback!

Posted by: 13times at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (6iKlf)

60 That presupposes that afD doesn't get outlawed as a way to fix the glitch of the people voting in afD.


One of the points for Democracy is that it gives a peaceful way to change policies and leadership.

In the old days if you didn't like the King;s policies you had to kill him and his henchmen.

Democracy allows this to be done peacefully.

If you take that away you remove any option for a peaceful change in direction

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)

61 I wonder if a concentrated effort to stifle the AfD will increase or decrease it's appeal over the next 2.5 years leading up to the next federal elections...

Nah, what am I saying?

There can't be negative, unforeseen consequences to ensuring that the party with 44% support gets no say in the regional affairs when it's easily the largest single party.

Negative, unforeseen consequences don't actually happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:26 PM (qE8uT)

62 I don't quite understand how some European governments are supposed to work. Seems like there's a dozen or more factions and how they get elected is just weird.

But.... I'll note that our own government is beginning to fracture too. The GOP is becoming a hodgepodge of conservatives and rank and file grifters while the Democrats are fracturing into Commies, Islamists, Socialists and traditional grifters.

Neither bode well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 12:26 PM (2Cry5)

63 44 The way European countries' multiple political parties are, and the way their elections are held and implemented are cray.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (qBdHI)

But it also shows how undemocratic the modern era is.

1) Far right (or whatever) party wins more elections.

2) The other parties are supposed to look at this and perhaps adopt some small things from the core issues and moderate them in their own way.

3) what we are seeing is a complete rejection of the will of the voters because the ONLY thing the parties can agree on is the ONE thing the voters do not want- immigration.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:26 PM (Y/06r)

64 I do have to laugh the FNM regularly claims that both NAZIs and anarcho-capitalists are "far right wing"

You can only pick one. And the anarcho-capitalists as far right actually makes the most sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:26 PM (sKqQm)

65 You would think the Trump example would wake them up.

But the ruling class in EU decided that it is easier to demonize Trump than to admit they were wrong about fucking their countries with migrants.

Remigration is "Trumpian" so it must be stupid; Trump is stupid so his policies must be crazy.

Now some also feel like the USA tricked them into accepting migrants (by example with our loose border to Mexicans and by the M. E. wars.)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (yIb5h)

66 55 That presupposes that afD doesn't get outlawed as a way to fix the glitch of the people voting in afD.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Germany could ban the AfD or just ban voting altogether. Either way, they would be doing it to save democracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 12:24 PM (1S6X6)

And we ALL know the best way to save democracy is with Communism, right?...Right? I mean, it *might* not save democracy, but it certainly will fix it, just like a taxidermist fixes things...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (l3cgK)

67 How do you tell the difference between male and female crows? Size differential?

The female has lipstick and long eyelashes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (K32Fz)

68 57 Um, the Notsees were NOT far right; they were Socialists! Socialists are leftists...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (l3cgK)

=======

"Hitler cozied up to Russia!"

"Should we talk about CDU officials taking money from Russian gas companies?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (qE8uT)

69 Negative, unforeseen consequences don't actually happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:26 PM (qE8uT)

These are actually very foreseen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)

70 The government has struggled to persuade voters that it can get the country's chronically sluggish economy moving, through potentially painful reforms, including to the pension system.
-----

You can't get a "chronically sluggish economy moving", regardless of "painful reforms...to the pension system" without ALSO closing the damn border and ENDING the handouts to those foreign and domestic who aren't pulling their weight. They KNOW you can't give money to strangers and re-vive an economy at the same time--they just don't want YOU to know that they know it.

Posted by: Crusader at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (TN0g+)

71 You would think the Trump example would wake them up.

He did. That's why they are deeply invested into election fraud, arresting opposition leaders, and banning any ideas that run counter to their narrative

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

72 69 Negative, unforeseen consequences don't actually happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:26 PM (qE8uT)

These are actually very foreseen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)

Yeah, it ain't no black swan event.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:28 PM (l3cgK)

73 I feel the need to point out again that European media and politicians never seem to refer to any right wing, no ordinary right. Its always "FAR" right or "EXTREME" right. And there is no far left, its always just the left or moderate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:28 PM (K32Fz)

74 The current German government and associated NGOs are trying to formally ban the AfD. This started when the Verfassungsschutz, the domestic intelligence service, tried to classify the AfD as "confirmed right-wing extremist", although it was blocked for the moment after the AfD sued.

Oh, it's CONFIRMED! They're right-wing extremists (left undefined)! By you. The people who have, and want to keep power. Well then, carry on.

https://tinyurl.com/4w552jmx

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

75 All of these center-right parties would have had to do is be credible on a pretty common sense issue they dont want to be invaded by the 3rd world and have their demographics change overnight.

But they're not willing to do that , lest they be called racists or Na#is.

See Tory party and GOPe for other notable examples.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 08, 2026 12:29 PM (uksHY)

76 71 You would think the Trump example would wake them up.

He did. That's why they are deeply invested into election fraud, arresting opposition leaders, and banning any ideas that run counter to their narrative

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

Democracy, voting, free speech, free press...these are all tools in the hands of the left that, when they become inconvenient, are taken away. For the Children!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:29 PM (l3cgK)

77 "Hitler cozied up to Russia!"

I mean he did, from 39-41. He only felt comfortable invading Poland with the USSR as his ally.

Of course then he started preparing for war with the USSR while Stalin tried to negotiate a larger alliance with him.

You can easily imagine an alternate history where the USSR invades Iran/India as a German ally...before Hitler stabs him in the back later.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (sKqQm)

78 Afternoon Ace.
Merkel was a leftist one worlder from the beginning. She went to get togethers of Socialist International youths. Putin attended also. She sold out her country the minute she took office

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (v6vok)

79 You would think the Trump example would wake them up.

But the ruling class in EU decided that it is easier to demonize Trump than to admit they were wrong about fucking their countries with migrants.

Remigration is "Trumpian" so it must be stupid; Trump is stupid so his policies must be crazy.

Now some also feel like the USA tricked them into accepting migrants (by example with our loose border to Mexicans and by the M. E. wars.)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 12:27 PM (yIb5h)
_______

I think they knew exactly what they were doing with open borders and mass migration of slovenly deadbeat basketcase savages. Same as Biden and the Democraps do here.

They have the same Replacement Theory fever dreams in EU as the Democraps do here. Plus, a lot of people make a lot of money off mass migration and cheap labor, and those people donate to political campaigns.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

80 Merkel's daddy was a bigwig in the East German govt. The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (mqudn)

81 And, as usual, those calling for seppuku are NOT those who will actually do it. They're protected by their wealth.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)
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...for now.

When their economy implodes due to their malicious incompetence, they may find that their wealth isn't as much of a shield as they thought.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (FZ29D)

82 75 All of these center-right parties would have had to do is be credible on a pretty common sense issue they dont want to be invaded by the 3rd world and have their demographics change overnight.

But they're not willing to do that , lest they be called racists or Na#is.

See Tory party and GOPe for other notable examples.
Posted by: Sharpie at September 08, 2026 12:29 PM (uksHY)

Which means money. Or... some other method of control. That is being used by someone who wants all of this to continue (i.e. the complete collapse of the west.) My money would be China or GloboCommie or perhaps Technocrat faction.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)

83 Siegmund took the seat from Thomas Staudt of the CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union). The CDU is the main center-right party — where "center-right" is a little to the left of the American Democratic Party.

Gee, so right-wing...LOL. Being left of the Dems is being left of the Socialists of America, basically commies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)

84 How do you tell the difference between male and female crows? Size differential?


I don't know. I'm not a biologist.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

85 After the fall of the USSR leftwing policies were adrift for a few years. But then they came up with two ideas:

1) Chinese style "communism" is good enough
2) Who needs to beat right leaning parties if you co-opt them.

And looking back home remember the Dems managed to get Dennis Hastert installed as the most powerful R in DC in 1999.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

86 >>>Send them home, is AfD's motto.

It's another Trumpmas miracle. Yeah, I credit Trump for making it OK to stand up to screeching woke Karen's and for making it socially acceptable to care about destruction of one's country, society, and culture.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 08, 2026 12:32 PM (P5+54)

87 79 I think they knew exactly what they were doing with open borders and mass migration of slovenly deadbeat basketcase savages. Same as Biden and the Democraps do here.

They have the same Replacement Theory fever dreams in EU as the Democraps do here. Plus, a lot of people make a lot of money off mass migration and cheap labor, and those people donate to political campaigns.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

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They hold to it with religious fervor. It's weird.

I occasionally reference the Italian Democrat Party. A real force in the country in the 2000s, they're essentially a rump party now (2nd overall in Parliament, but the 1st and 3rd largest coalition together, so the Democrats are a complete non-factor), and it aligns perfectly with their embrace of open borders.

They literally won't stop embracing it even as they get less and less powerful in the government every passing election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:32 PM (qE8uT)

88 "Hitler cozied up to Russia!"

I mean he did, from 39-41. He only felt comfortable invading Poland with the USSR as his ally.

Of course then he started preparing for war with the USSR while Stalin tried to negotiate a larger alliance with him.

You can easily imagine an alternate history where the USSR invades Iran/India as a German ally...before Hitler stabs him in the back later.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (sKqQm)
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I think Russia's poor showing in the Winter War convinced Hitler -- and a lot of others -- that the Red Army was a paper tiger

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

89 The funny part of this is the German government sold massive immigration as a way to pay for retirement benefits for Germans.

Now they argue it doesn't matter if the immigrants are mostly on welfare instead of working

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

90 88
I think Russia's poor showing in the Winter War convinced Hitler -- and a lot of others -- that the Red Army was a paper tiger

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

========

"I can kill so many of my own men."
-Stalin

"That's...not the point of war."
-airbrushed advisor, forgotten to history

"It's the point of my war, comrade."
-Stalin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:33 PM (qE8uT)

91 And, as usual, those calling for seppuku are NOT those who will actually do it. They're protected by their wealth.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)
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...for now.

When their economy implodes due to their malicious incompetence, they may find that their wealth isn't as much of a shield as they thought.


That's where the ditches, walls, and machine guns come in.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

92 Dear normal Germans,

Fortunately for you, there is a blueprint for you to follow. Just go to your favorite search engine and type “when in the course of human events.”

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 08, 2026 12:33 PM (u73oe)

93 This is the big flaw in parliamentary systems -- they tend to move power toward a vague middle ground controlled by the elites. It is a consensus form of gov. the removes personality and individuals, preferring committees.

In the US system, there are two parties who have to stand for things. And they ultimately produce candidates who have to stand for things. That distinction follows through from the campaign to the decisions they make. In a parliamentary system small parties break out with very clear goal, but then they join in as a coalition where those very strong goal are completely ignored. It is like a safety valve to allow them to campaign on real issues and then stick the platform in a drawer to be ignored until next campaign.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (yIb5h)

94
I think Russia's poor showing in the Winter War convinced Hitler -- and a lot of others -- that the Red Army was a paper tiger

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

I'm sure Napolean felt the same way about the Tsar's forces too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (l3cgK)

95 Napoleon...damn fingers

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (l3cgK)

96 You know... hypothetically. If this were a grand strategy game in the style of Crusader Kings II. Given the conditions. I'd start hiring assassins and get rid of every WEF guy above bottle washer and see what happened.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (Y/06r)

97 "It's the point of my war, comrade."
-Stalin


A lot of the Russian dead in that war were in Penal units or former White soldiers so he wasn't that upset with the death toll (though it was significantly more then the Soviets expected)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

98 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (y/3jL)

99 Merz literally abandoned every principle his party stood for on his first morning as leader, purely to stop AfD. He is getting exactly what he deserves.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 12:35 PM (1S6X6)

100 You know... hypothetically. If this were a grand strategy game in the style of Crusader Kings II. Given the conditions. I'd start hiring assassins and get rid of every WEF guy above bottle washer and see what happened.

I found it very easy to do an early unification of Spain with the help of a talented assassin...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:35 PM (sKqQm)

101 97 "It's the point of my war, comrade."
-Stalin

A lot of the Russian dead in that war were in Penal units or former White soldiers so he wasn't that upset with the death toll (though it was significantly more then the Soviets expected)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

Mao did the same thing with his old comrades, shunting them to the front lines in Korea...dead men tell no tales...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:35 PM (l3cgK)

102 It's led by a lesbian who's married to a Sri Lankan.
____

Suggested edit: put "married" in quotes

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 12:35 PM (xQz2n)

103 Ah yes. They add to the GDP. Or something
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (cGjQu)


Government spending, including welfare, is included in GDP. This is why GDP is retarded, fake and ghey

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (rbvCR)

104 I think Russia's poor showing in the Winter War convinced Hitler -- and a lot of others -- that the Red Army was a paper tiger
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Well, it sure didn't help that Stalin had so thoroughly destroyed the officer corps.

But the Japanese still feared it enough after their trouncing by it in Inner Mongolia to sign a nonaggression pact with the USSR.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

105 Merz is shocked, SHOCKED!
Clearly they failed to ballot stuff

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (EGSGm)

106 A lot of the Russian dead in that war were in Penal units or former White soldiers so he wasn't that upset with the death toll

I mean, I get the impression that Stalin wasn't very upset about any deaths of anyone

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (K32Fz)

107 103 Ah yes. They add to the GDP. Or something
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:19 PM (cGjQu)

Government spending, including welfare, is included in GDP. This is why GDP is retarded, fake and ghey

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (rbvCR)

======

Government spending should be considered negative to GDP.

I have said it. Let it be done. Let it be so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (qE8uT)

108 "Should we talk about CDU officials taking money from Russian gas companies?"

Or CDU shutting down all the nuclear plants to guarantee reliance on Russian oil and gas.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (2ocoG)

109 Government spending, including welfare, is included in GDP. This is why GDP is retarded, fake and ghey
Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (rbvCR)

Lame. Retarded, Fake, Gay and lame.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (Y/06r)

110
I feel the need to point out again that European media and politicians never seem to refer to any right wing, no ordinary right. Its always "FAR" right or "EXTREME" right. And there is no far left, its always just the left or moderate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Just like here in the USA

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:37 PM (Cqx++)

111 105 Merz is shocked, SHOCKED!
Clearly they failed to ballot stuff

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 08, 2026 12:36 PM (EGSGm)

There will be lots of stuffing before Thanksgiving in Kalifornia...to support turkeys for election.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 12:37 PM (l3cgK)

112
But the Japanese still feared it enough after their trouncing by it in Inner Mongolia to sign a nonaggression pact with the USSR.


Japan had very outmoded ideas on ground combat. If it worked in the last war against Russia it will certainly work in this one right?

Probably why they didn't do better in China against 2nd tier opponents as well

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

113
Merz is shocked, SHOCKED!

Don't look, Ethel!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (Cqx++)

114
I think they knew exactly what they were doing with open borders and mass migration of slovenly deadbeat basketcase savages. Same as Biden and the Democraps do here.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

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Some, not all. I said yesterday that I think a big driver initially was Germany trying to understand why Germany was struggling in the 90s compared to US and Japan. They credited US energy and cheap labor.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (yIb5h)

115
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

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Germany's being run by Fred Merz? It's not surprising that he's not up to the job.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (biznJ)

116 Government spending, including welfare, is included in GDP. This is why GDP is retarded, fake and ghey

I saw someone put the SP500 against gold and it is mostly flat.

But remember inflation under Biden was single digits while the SP500 was increasing by double digits...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

117 Dear normal Germans,

Fortunately for you, there is a blueprint for you to follow. Just go to your favorite search engine and type “when in the course of human events.”
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Touch my monkey! Touch it!

Now we dance.

Posted by: Dieter from Sprockets at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (mqudn)

118 >>> I do have to laugh the FNM regularly claims that both NAZIs and anarcho-capitalists are "far right wing"

Projection. American lefties are good at it too.

Larry Elder: the black face of white supremacy
Stephen Miller: jewish Nazi

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:39 PM (Eng1Z)

119 Japan had very outmoded ideas on ground combat. If it worked in the last war against Russia it will certainly work in this one right?


The Japanese emphasis on Bushido spirit, and the WWI French idea of elan had a lot in common.

Here's the plan. We form a compact mass and run at machine guns waving swords and yelling. It can't lose!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

120 How do you tell the difference between male and female crows?

==

Ah, very important question! Here is how, the one that is yelling at the other is a female!

Posted by: AOS AI-foo at September 08, 2026 12:39 PM (AKptf)

121 116 I saw someone put the SP500 against gold and it is mostly flat.

But remember inflation under Biden was single digits while the SP500 was increasing by double digits...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

=========

Trump hasn't completely reversed this, therefore all price increases are his fault.

Never mind that July saw actual deflation (-0.3%) in grocery prices and rents are decreasing (unevenly, a whole lot more where 287g agreements are in place).

There was no inflation under Biden, and Trump is responsible for all inflation from 2021 to 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:39 PM (qE8uT)

122 If we make it through all this bullshit with at least one first world nation not subsumed by the commie hordes, then I am pretty sure that we will end up with a new concept; that importing an asston of a foreign demographic to drown an existing demographic of citizens is defacto ethnic cleansing.

It's surprising it already isn't, given how the Russians have enthusiastically done it for two centuries. It isn't a new tactic.

In any case it is vile and deserves to be answered with open violence.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:40 PM (TkJMd)

123 Germany's being run by Fred Merz? It's not surprising that he's not up to the job.

He needs to stop pulling his pants up to his armpits.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

124 80 Merkel's daddy was a bigwig in the East German govt. The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (mqudn)

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can't take East Germany out of the girl.

Posted by: Mark Steyn at September 08, 2026 12:40 PM (0CU3H)

125 80 Merkel's daddy was a bigwig in the East German govt. The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (mqudn)

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can't take East Germany out of the girl.

Posted by: Mark Steyn at September 08, 2026 12:40 PM (0CU3H)

126 There was no inflation under Biden, and Trump is responsible for all inflation from 2021 to 2024

It is no common for lefties to post graphs of price increases between 2020-2025 that show all the increases in 21/22 and yet rant "see prices are up under Trump!" and I legitimately think they do not understand the graph they are posting.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

127 124 80 Merkel's daddy was a bigwig in the East German govt. The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (mqudn)

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can't take East Germany out of the girl.
Posted by: Mark Steyn at September 08, 2026 12:40 PM (0CU3H)

125 80 Merkel's daddy was a bigwig in the East German govt. The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:30 PM (mqudn)

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can't take East Germany out of the girl.
Posted by: Mark Steyn at September 08, 2026 12:40 PM (0CU3H)

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can't take East Germany out of the girl.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at September 08, 2026 12:41 PM (Y/06r)

128 I appreciate the Germans never want to return another Hitler-like leader to power. But that does not mean they have to commit national suicide, or seppuku via toxic empathy, just to be washed of their sins. Destroying your culture as some form of penance is idiotic.

Germany is a beautiful country, and should stay German. As should England stay English, France stay French, etc.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (Eng1Z)


The purpose of the EU is to destroy national sovereignty and independence of the European states, for the purpose of avoiding future wars.
It is one of the plans to create peace by destroying what was considered the drivers of war and conflict. Very similar to the progressives that have been pushing for a leadership of the elites to rule scientifically ever since Wilson.
The attraction is that it gives a broader base to abuse and steal from

Ursula Von Der Leyen is not talking about nationalizing all bank accounts in the EU to reinvest that money in the redeveloping the EU
(this means they have run out of money, have run out of creditors, have run out of collateral to hock and now need to steal it from their kids)

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (rbvCR)

129 That's where the ditches, walls, and machine guns come in.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

But enough about my home fortifications...

Posted by: pookysgirl hasn't even gotten to the Tesla coil yet at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (Wt5PA)

130 Larry Elder: the black face of white supremacy
Stephen Miller: jewish Nazi
Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:39 PM


George Zimmerman, white Hispanic

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

131 Germany seems hell-bent on genociding ethnic groups. This time the target is Germans within Germany. What is the opposite of Lebensraum?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (xQz2n)

132 A lot of people on X pointed out that in this, the first election since USAID shut down, AfD did dramatically better than in the past.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

It's helpful when AfD candidates are dying all over the place like they were last time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (PGK1w)

133 126 There was no inflation under Biden, and Trump is responsible for all inflation from 2021 to 2024

It is no common for lefties to post graphs of price increases between 2020-2025 that show all the increases in 21/22 and yet rant "see prices are up under Trump!" and I legitimately think they do not understand the graph they are posting.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

========

To be fair, Democrats have largely erased Joe Biden's presidency from their minds. He was never president.

When they reminisce about the good old days, they don't talk about Biden. They talk about Obama.

So, thinking Trump has been president uninterrupted from 2016 to now does make some sense in that context.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:43 PM (qE8uT)

134 Ursula Von Der Leyen is not talking about nationalizing all bank accounts in the EU to reinvest that money in the redeveloping the EU
(this means they have run out of money, have run out of creditors, have run out of collateral to hock and now need to steal it from their kids)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (rbvCR)

She's a creepy bitch. The Lindsey Clancy school of Charisma.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:43 PM (Y/06r)

135 The purpose of the EU is to destroy national sovereignty and independence of the European states, for the purpose of avoiding future wars.

The purpose is to match US economic output by forming an ersatz cargo cult Federal government. Except without freedom or guaranteed rights or any of that icky stuff.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:44 PM (2ocoG)

136 Germany seems hell-bent on genociding ethnic groups. This time the target is Germans within Germany. What is the opposite of Lebensraum?

Lebensloch? Lebenstaubsauger?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

137 Government spending should be considered negative to GDP.

I have said it. Let it be done. Let it be so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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This is exactly right.

I think a really big driver now is that all these migrants need services, and buy shit on Amazon or Aldi, and send kids to schools.... Everything paid by gov.

None of that is "productive" or wealth creating for the country, as it is pure consumption

The whole point of GDP is producing things not consuming. It says so right in the name.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 12:44 PM (yIb5h)

138 >>> Touch my monkey! Touch it! Now we dance.
Posted by: Dieter from Sprockets at September 08, 2026 12:38 PM (mqudn)

Love that skit. Wish Mike Meyers had turned out cool like his other SNL cohosts and not a lefty toolbag.

Apparently he recently posted a picture of the feckless leader of Canada in a Captain America style superhero costume with a big maple leaf on it. As if he is single handedly taking on the supervillain Trump to save Canada.

Myers didn't get the memo that SHIELD was infiltrated by HYDRA, aka the new world order, to destroy his beloved Canada.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:44 PM (Eng1Z)

139 "
It is no common for lefties to post graphs of price increases between 2020-2025 that show all the increases in 21/22 and yet rant "see prices are up under Trump!" and I legitimately think they do not understand the graph they are posting.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)"

They know, they just lie. Their entire ideology is built on lying because they feel they have achieved permanent, unconditional correctness.

This is no different than the last 50 years of Dems conflating debt, deficit, and growth in rate vs absolute rate in whatever way is convenient.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (TkJMd)

140 Another point about inflation - it least hits two groups:

1) Those on welfare, the government will just give them a COLA

2) The very wealthy that can move their money into assets that will increase in value due to inflation

Those most screwed? Members of the middle class with few assets - like renters.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

141 1.3 million Syrians in Germany
......

U so farked.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (UjdFS)

142 One thing about the Germans , when they start something they go all in. Kaiserism, Naziism , onto the leftist green one worlder movement which led them to gut their energy sector and open their borders.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (v6vok)

143 >>>CNN had a "meltdown" over the results, obvvie.

Heh.
Way with words, boss.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (odBC9)

144 with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.
-------
Um, the Notsees were NOT far right; they were Socialists! Socialists are leftists...


"The parties switched!!"

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (vTZFs)

145 Ursula Von Der Leyen is not talking about nationalizing all bank accounts in the EU to reinvest that money in the redeveloping the EU
(this means they have run out of money, have run out of creditors, have run out of collateral to hock and now need to steal it from their kids)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (rbvCR)

She's a creepy b***h. The Lindsey Clancy school of Charisma.


Nice looking for an older, closet Nazi, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

146 137 This is exactly right.

I think a really big driver now is that all these migrants need services, and buy shit on Amazon or Aldi, and send kids to schools.... Everything paid by gov.

None of that is "productive" or wealth creating for the country, as it is pure consumption

The whole point of GDP is producing things not consuming. It says so right in the name.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 12:44 PM (yIb5h)

======

Even just removing government spending, not making it negative, we haven't had positive economic growth since TARP.

That's of early last year. Don't know if things have changed. We have had several GDP reports where government spending was negative based on current measuring techniques.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:46 PM (qE8uT)

147 The German political spectrum is overall a bit more diverse and to the left of the Americans, so it is hard to give an accurate comparison, but the AfD is basically Nazis.

What was completely normal and common sense 20 years ago (10 years ago, really) is now labeled as "far right" today. And yet the political left wants to think that it's everybody else who has been radicalized. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so darn scary.

A German commentator on BBC says:
a) it’s eastern Germany, which still hasn’t recovered economically from reunification, and
b) voters there are asking for economic answers, not complaining about migration.

Sounds like media running damage control. The voters are absolutely anti migration. Even women were voting afd

The fascists are returning to power all around the world. Lots of coverage on this one specifically because the last time fascists ran Germany it wasn't very good for the rest of the world

"Fascists" and it's just a moderately right-wing party that wants closed borders LMAO. Redditors never fail to put a smile on my face

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 12:46 PM (t19vo)

148 Nice looking for an older, closet Nazi, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

Imagining her in a leather suit and a riding crop in hand?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

149 Germany seems hell-bent on genociding ethnic groups. This time the target is Germans within Germany. What is the opposite of Lebensraum?


The point here is a little different. They are trying to re-introduce serfdom.

Immigrants don't mind it and it gives them muscle to deal with the local population if they do anything outside of vote for controlled opposition parties

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

150 Saving democracy demands Germany abandon elections!

Posted by: CNN at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (D2n7p)

151 Always bothered me that they refer to the Nazis as being "right wing." Hitler was one of the most left wing leaders ever - don't believe me? Run a search for "Hitler" and "25 Points," the latter being the platform for the Nazi party.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (GMWTj)

152 Government spending should be considered negative to GDP.

I have said it. Let it be done. Let it be so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



Government spending is money already earned and the taxed. At the very least, it should be removed from GDP. Including it is double counting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (1S6X6)

153 A German commentator on BBC says:
a) it’s eastern Germany, which still hasn’t recovered economically from reunification


*stares blankly*
Yeah, reunification with West Germany was a real economic blow.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

154 "Fascists" and it's just a moderately right-wing party that wants closed borders LMAO. Redditors never fail to put a smile on my face

AfD isn't a right leaning party. They aren't even a center left party.

They are a standard Euro-left party that just doesn't want immigration.

Put Weidel and co in the Germany of 1996 and they'd be a standard leftwing party

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

155 147 The fascists are returning to power all around the world. Lots of coverage on this one specifically because the last time fascists ran Germany it wasn't very good for the rest of the world

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 08, 2026 12:46 PM (t19vo)

========

Are they willing to defeat fascists by closing the border?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (qE8uT)

156 151 Always bothered me that they refer to the Nazis as being "right wing." Hitler was one of the most left wing leaders ever - don't believe me? Run a search for "Hitler" and "25 Points," the latter being the platform for the Nazi party.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (GMWTj)

BUT, they were nationalistic. THAT was the thing the commies fixated on as the defining characteristic of being on the right. The rest of it they loved, but the nationalism was counter to their goals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Y/06r)

157 >>> What was completely normal and common sense 20 years ago (10 years ago, really) is now labeled as "far right" today. And yet the political left wants to think that it's everybody else who has been radicalized. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so darn scary.

Wait, is that a moment of drive-by sanity on a Reddit post?!

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Eng1Z)

158 The German political spectrum is overall a bit more diverse and to the left of the Americans, so it is hard to give an accurate comparison, but the AfD is basically Nazis.
=================
Socialists?

Posted by: CNN at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (D2n7p)

159 The krauts are suffering from Weltschmerz.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (UjdFS)

160 "That's where the ditches, walls, and machine guns come in.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)"

For the first time since I last pulled down a government check, I'm going to actually get out and practice some machinegunnery this fall.

Ammo budget is going to need to go up.


Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:49 PM (TkJMd)

161 Ace, SfD DID win an ourright majority.

The the fruad kicked in and they stole it from them.

Just tlike in the US, it was the vote-by-mail "ballots" that denied them 50%.

AfD was at 51% and rising, until thw vote-by-mail ballots were counted, and suddenly the fraydsters runnings hte givt had just eniugh to knock AfD under 50%.

It's what happened to Trump in 2020.

It's what happened to Spencer Pratt in LA.

The cancer of American electrion fruad techniques has now spread internationally.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 12:49 PM (Av6i5)

162 157 >>> What was completely normal and common sense 20 years ago (10 years ago, really) is now labeled as "far right" today. And yet the political left wants to think that it's everybody else who has been radicalized. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so darn scary.

Wait, is that a moment of drive-by sanity on a Reddit post?!
Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Eng1Z)

It does happen. I figure they are rapidly purged by moderators.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:49 PM (Y/06r)

163 Wait, is that a moment of drive-by sanity on a Reddit post?!

That person has probably been banned already.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

164 George Zimmerman, white Hispanic
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

Lindsay Clancy, loving mother

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Eng1Z)

165 Are they willing to defeat fascists by closing the border?

This is the question.

*to Euroleft* All you have to do to defeat the "fascists" is close the border. You can keep all the rest of your policies in place, no matter how stupid. Why aren't you?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

166 IIRC, AfD won twice as many seats as the next largest party.

It's one thing to cobble together a tiny majority to stop the formation of an AfD government, but being the largest party, by far, give AfD a virtual veto on all other issues important to a functioning government, like roads, bridges, building permits, government hiring, law enforcement usw.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

167 'Send them back' chants rock European Parliament"
Sooooo..Germans going to expel 90% of Soccer Team?

Posted by: Long Duc Dong at September 08, 2026 12:51 PM (gZceY)

168 Germany could ban the AfD or just ban voting altogether. Either way, they would be doing it to save democracy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


Couple of nights of some broken glass and it's all fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 12:51 PM (/xJ/M)

169 Very similar to the progressives that have been pushing for a leadership of the elites to rule scientifically ever since Wilson Plato.

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FIFY

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 08, 2026 12:51 PM (amcLV)

170 165 Are they willing to defeat fascists by closing the border?

This is the question.

*to Euroleft* All you have to do to defeat the "fascists" is close the border. You can keep all the rest of your policies in place, no matter how stupid. Why aren't you?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

========

"Immigration is just a giant distraction now, preventing us from focusing on cutting off kids' dicks and lowering the age of consent. We have to abandon the open borders game to pursue true trans rights."
-soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (qE8uT)

171 What was completely normal and common sense 20 years ago (10 years ago, really) is now labeled as "far right" today. And yet the political left wants to think that it's everybody else who has been radicalized. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so darn scary.
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"Fascists" and it's just a moderately right-wing party that wants closed borders LMAO. Redditors never fail to put a smile on my face

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison


"Warming up the banhammer, boss."
-- Reddit mods

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (vTZFs)

172 He did. That's why they are deeply invested into election fraud, arresting opposition leaders, and banning any ideas that run counter to their narrative
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)


The problem with shutting down, cancelling or even arresting people who ask the wrong question is that it turns people against your position, but it also makes the other position really attractive: "if these f___s are against it and they see it as a threat, we should adopt it because these f___s are keeping us from succeeding and we need that sort of threat to succeed"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (rbvCR)

173 CNN had a "meltdown" over the results, obvvie.

Heh.
Way with words, boss.
Posted by: m

Careful there, Ace...

Posted by: Abbvie at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (w9Wax)

174 166 IIRC, AfD won twice as many seats as the next largest party.

It's one thing to cobble together a tiny majority to stop the formation of an AfD government, but being the largest party, by far, give AfD a virtual veto on all other issues important to a functioning government, like roads, bridges, building permits, government hiring, law enforcement usw.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

=====

It's Europe.

They're going to chose a weird coalition of 56% that doesn't include the 44% and the government in the region will fail miserably.

Europeans don't know any other way to do things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (qE8uT)

175 Wait, is that a moment of drive-by sanity on a Reddit post?!

A couple on there, probably all banned now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:53 PM (K32Fz)

176 For the first time since I last pulled down a government check, I'm going to actually get out and practice some machinegunnery this fall.

Ammo budget is going to need to go up.
Posted by: heya



Dillon Aero M134D. About $2500 a minute.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 12:53 PM (/xJ/M)

177 *to Euroleft* All you have to do to defeat the "fascists" is close the border. You can keep all the rest of your policies in place, no matter how stupid. Why aren't you?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

The first Democrat to campaign on Medicaid for All, Single-Payer, and closed borders will win in a walk.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:54 PM (PGK1w)

178 "
BUT, they were nationalistic. THAT was the thing the commies fixated on as the defining characteristic of being on the right. The rest of it they loved, but the nationalism was counter to their goals.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Y/06r)"

Yes, as opposed to those totally not nationalistic Russians. All the antinationalist talk has always been just that, talk, even if the Russians ultimately gave birth to a self sustaining monster.

The commies are mad because Hitler betrayed them, defacto forcing them to switch sides and causing decades of awkward efforts to keep people from remembering who started the war in europe.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:54 PM (TkJMd)

179 Bill Clinton, admirer of women.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:55 PM (mqudn)

180 call me when the Pograms start.

Posted by: Shaftoe at September 08, 2026 12:55 PM (BrTPw)

181 Sauregurkenzeit.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 12:55 PM (UjdFS)

182 If I was the Fuhrer in Germany I would decree that anyone declaring someone to be a Nazi when that person doesnt support the Nazi ideals and program be required to attend a six week class on Nazism. Wanting recent arrivals to your country who wish to change the culture of your country to theirs and being against the current leadership of your country who wish to support and encourage the interests of the recent arrivals over the natives is decidely not Nazism.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 08, 2026 12:56 PM (CGH66)

183 BUT, they were nationalistic. THAT was the thing the commies fixated on as the defining characteristic of being on the right. The rest of it they loved, but the nationalism was counter to their goals.

Communists == international socialists
Nazis == national socialists

They weren't enemies, they were competitors for the same target market.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 12:56 PM (vTZFs)

184 *to Euroleft* All you have to do to defeat the "fascists" is close the border. You can keep all the rest of your policies in place, no matter how stupid. Why aren't you?

I firmly believe now that the point of open borders is to bring in compliant serfs and eliminate European whites, who are the only identifiable ethnic group that has a winning record against tyranny.

"Our betters" have a hankering for being actual medieval lords, and Crusader Kings 2 doesn't scratch the itch.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

185 Yes, as opposed to those totally not nationalistic Russians. All the antinationalist talk has always been just that, talk, even if the Russians ultimately gave birth to a self sustaining monster.

The commies are mad because Hitler betrayed them, defacto forcing them to switch sides and causing decades of awkward efforts to keep people from remembering who started the war in europe.
Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:54 PM (TkJMd)

But one could argue that there is a specifically nationalistic flavor to all of the governments who embraced socialism/communism/fascism. China is functionally a fascist state. Or that is just flat out what they are.

The thing is that all of these countries have exported the ideas to the west and THAT is anti-Nationalistic, because it is for use in functioning, non-commie states- until they stop functioning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 12:57 PM (Y/06r)

186 "The first Democrat to campaign on Medicaid for All, Single-Payer, and closed borders will win in a walk.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:54 PM (PGK1w)"

They are impatient and axing USAID has them spooked. They don't want those things you listed; they want a leninist dictatorship, and to genocide specific groups. They think the latter will deliver then former in their lifetime if they just keep up the flood of barbarians.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:57 PM (TkJMd)

187 140 Another point about inflation - it least hits two groups:

1) Those on welfare, the government will just give them a COLA

2) The very wealthy that can move their money into assets that will increase in value due to inflation

Those most screwed? Members of the middle class with few assets - like renters.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

Yes, lower middle class and middle class and upper middle class get annihilated by inflation. Old folks have their COLAs matched. Welfare get their COLAs matched. And rich folks have the ability to rotate assets to benefit and do not spend much of their day to day income on the assets that usually inflate (house, food, utilities, even education and healthcare)...

Working people get absolutely screwed b/c no business pays wage increases that keep up with inflation...so you fall further and further behind every year...see the Biden years...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 12:57 PM (tOcjL)

188 Far-right party considered Nazi-like. Hopes to ally with far-left party. Economy trashed, borders open, ready to go to war with Russia.

I don't think there's any way I could understand Germany.

Posted by: mindful webworker - neo-Moron at September 08, 2026 12:58 PM (aKb34)

189 Germany rejects the nationalism but keeps the socialism parts of their national socialist past. They would have been better off rejecting the socialism and keeping the nationalism.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 08, 2026 12:58 PM (xQz2n)

190 From what I've read, Hitler didn't really care about the socialist stuff in his party, but tolerated it to get working-class support and co-opt the Bolshies. The socialist stuff was put in by others. Hitler was more focused on foreign conquest and getting rid of the Jews.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

191 Bill Clinton, admirer of women.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 12:55 PM (mqudn)

Edmund Kemper, devoted son

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:59 PM (Eng1Z)

192 I still don't get calling Nazis far right. They were the enemies of small government and sought to take government control of industry, control the schools, eliminate free speech, and oh yeah, kill the jews.

Sounds exactly like the dems to me.

Posted by: LASue at September 08, 2026 12:59 PM (lCppi)

193 Germany rejects the nationalism but keeps the socialism parts of their national socialist past.

but dumped the corporatist part which was the only segment that made the socialism less awful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:59 PM (K32Fz)

194 BTW, it looks like Xcancel is back. At least for now.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)

195 Communists == international socialists
Nazis == national socialists

They weren't enemies, they were competitors for the same target market.


National socialism comes from Mussolini. He was a run of the mill socialist who then differed as to whether you could support your own country in WWI.

Prior to that the socialists argued that countries were bad and they needed world wide socialism (world wide here meaning the US, Anglosphere and Europe, not the 3rd world)

So Mussolini and later others like Hitler implemented socialism in their own countries. And the funny thing is all socialist systems end up doing this: Mao, Stalin or Pot etc

Because text book communism is impossible and something like the German Nat Socialist system isn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)

196 Edmund Kemper, devoted son
Posted by: LizLem

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Nick Reiner

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

197 You know who else was a lesbian and married to a Ceylonian?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 08, 2026 01:01 PM (oKZ/s)

198 Another point about inflation - it least hits two groups:

1) Those on welfare, the government will just give them a COLA

2) The very wealthy that can move their money into assets that will increase in value due to inflation

Those most screwed? Members of the middle class with few assets - like renters.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)


The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. -- maybe John Maynard Keynes

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 01:01 PM (ExV1e)

199 Trying to make sense of National Socialism in contemporary left-right terms is a fool's errand. The social revolutionary wing, Gregor Strasser, Ernst Rohm, was killed off during the night of long knives.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 08, 2026 01:02 PM (wGerL)

200 1pm

MSNow - trade war!
CNN - toxic air! Trade war!
Fox - GOP Texas convention

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)

201 Remember, the only two choices in Germany are unlimited immigration or the second coming of Adolph Hitler.

There are no other alternatives.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 08, 2026 01:04 PM (aD4fx)

202 Isn't "the trade war" just the US matching existing Canadian tariffs?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

203 I firmly believe now that the point of open borders is to bring in compliant serfs and eliminate European whites, who are the only identifiable ethnic group that has a winning record against tyranny.

"Our betters" have a hankering for being actual medieval lords, and Crusader Kings 2 doesn't scratch the itch.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)
----
The tragic flaw in this plan is that the "compliant serfs" they are importing are nothing of the sort. The immigrant population from MENA sees themselves as CONQUERORS, not serfs. They are going to reach critical mass soon, if they haven't already, and we will see an even more radical shift as more and more MENA imports start achieving greater political control within the system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 01:04 PM (FZ29D)

204 201 Remember, the only two choices in Germany are unlimited immigration or the second coming of Adolph Hitler.

There are no other alternatives.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 08, 2026 01:04 PM (aD4fx)

=======

"Well, I hate unlimited immigration and Hitler never did anything bad to me..."
-the logic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:04 PM (qE8uT)

205 Always bothered me that they refer to the Nazis as being "right wing." Hitler was one of the most left wing leaders ever - don't believe me? Run a search for "Hitler" and "25 Points," the latter being the platform for the Nazi party.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 08, 2026 12:47 PM (GMWTj)


I shan't believe it, you might as well be claiming that he adopted a lot of FDR's New Deal policies as his own, or Eugenics policies from liberal leaning states in the US.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

206 Hitler didn't really care about the socialist stuff in his party, but tolerated it to get working-class support and co-opt the Bolshies. The socialist stuff was put in by others. Hitler was more focused on foreign conquest and getting rid of the Jews.
Posted by: Bulg

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Bulg, what is more socialist than genocide? It is always their main ingredient.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:05 PM (yIb5h)

207 "Well, I hate unlimited immigration and Hitler never did anything bad to me..."
-the logic


This is one possible outcome of this strategy. Amusingly the left regularly argues something like "if you call any economic intervention communism eventually people won't think communism is so bad"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

208 And AfD won an absolute majority of the in-person votes.

However, AfD got a much smaller share of the mail-in votes.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 08, 2026 01:06 PM (aD4fx)

209 "Warming up the banhammer, boss."
-- Reddit mods
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (vTZFs)


Obvious fake. Reddit mods would say comrade, not boss.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

210 Bulg, what is more socialist than genocide? It is always their main ingredient.

Socialism does a poor job in creating wealth. So it instead then feels pressure to take wealth from others and that is easiest if you kill them as part of the process.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

211 210 Socialism does a poor job in creating wealth. So it instead then feels pressure to take wealth from others and that is easiest if you kill them as part of the process.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

======

*invades all its neighbors*
-Revolutionary France

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:07 PM (qE8uT)

212 Hitler was more focused on foreign conquest and getting rid of the Jews.

Also, since Nazi Germany exercised complete control over private companies, who cares if they are formally state-owned or not?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 08, 2026 01:07 PM (aD4fx)

213 Lots of Turks in Germany, too.
The West Germans started bringing them in during the 1960s for labor.

There are so many Erdogan campaigned in Germany years ago just to get the expat vote.
The Germans told him not to do that again.

So he opened the borders and let all the Syrians walk through Turkey.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 01:08 PM (6ydKt)

214 202 Isn't "the trade war" just the US matching existing Canadian tariffs?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:04 P

A bit more. But President Trump is right. We've been ungratefully coasting on US goodwill.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 01:08 PM (Sco7b)

215 It's Europe.

They're going to chose a weird coalition of 56% that doesn't include the 44% and the government in the region will fail miserably.

Europeans don't know any other way to do things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:52 PM (qE8uT)
=======

Considering the party-growth trendline, Germany's AfD and France's RN are in a neck-and-neck race to crack the pro-EU national government cordons. The old rules are no longer in play.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:08 PM (rj6Yv)

216 John Wayne Gacy, aspiring clown

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 01:08 PM (mqudn)

217 Hitler didn't really care about the socialist stuff in his party,...The socialist stuff was put in by others. Hitler was more focused on foreign conquest and getting rid of the Jews.
-----------

"Other than the genocide, Hitler was not at all socialist"

Sounds like: "other than the milk and cream, our ice cream is not at all a dairy product."

genocide is the defining trait of socialism --- "once we get rid of all the wreckers, we will have utopia, trust me."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:08 PM (yIb5h)

218 215
Considering the party-growth trendline, Germany's AfD and France's RN are in a neck-and-neck race to crack the pro-EU national government cordons. The old rules are no longer in play.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:08 PM (rj6Yv)

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The funny part of the German equation is that the Germans will definitely do this but it's only for a regional legislature. The example will just tell the rest of the country that AfD lite just leads to anti-AfD coalitions. The people will react.

Polling suggests that RN in France may already be clear majority. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:09 PM (qE8uT)

219 "U.S. Treasury sanctions 36 targets over their support for Iran’s aviation sector, including 27 Iranian commercial airlines and several foreign companies and individuals accused of facilitating Mahan Air’s operations.

The foreign targets are based in the UAE, Oman, Turkey, the UK and Malaysia."

....but mostly Turkey...

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 01:09 PM (AKptf)

220 Bulg, what is more socialist than genocide? It is always their main ingredient.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Eh, plenty of non-socialist countries have carried out genocide: The Germans in Namibia, the Ottomans in Armenia, even, on a couple of occasions, the Brits (Beothuk in Newfoundland and the Tasmanians).

Socialists tend to be equal-opportunity exterminators, and base their killings on perceived socio-economic class rather than ethnicity.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

221 Fascism is just socialism with nationalism tacked on. The German industries may have been private but they didn't go against the government and were generally toadies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (v6vok)

222 You know who else was a lesbian and married to a Ceylonian?"

*golf clap

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (cGjQu)

223
In Europe, you have the rights the government deigns to permit you. That same government also makes it clear that it will revoke those rights if it wants to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (eRlcH)

224 Holy underwear! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentleman!

Posted by: Herr Merz at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (5rh/l)

225
221 Fascism is just socialism with nationalism tacked on. The German industries may have been private but they didn't go against the government and were generally toadies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (v6vok)

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Nationalization of industry was de facto rather than de jure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (qE8uT)

226
*to Euroleft* All you have to do to defeat the "fascists" is close the border. You can keep all the rest of your policies in place, no matter how stupid. Why aren't you?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

The first Democrat to campaign on Medicaid for All, Single-Payer, and closed borders will win in a walk.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

=====================

This is true on both counts, but you know the Euroleft and the Dems would both open the borders the minute they took power.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (XJ22o)

227 Ladies of the View, thought leaders

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 01:11 PM (v6vok)

228 Hitler was more focused on foreign conquest and getting rid of the Jews.

Before he became fuhrer Hitler's initial target was Jewish financiers. The argument was that "Jewish capitalism" was bad for Germany. He hated Jews as a whole and planned to do bad things to Jewish people collectively when he got the opportunity, but blaming their economic activity sold better when elective politics still mattered.

And yes if you substitute Jew for Musk right now you can hear the same arguments from the left...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)

229 226 The first Democrat to campaign on Medicaid for All, Single-Payer, and closed borders will win in a walk.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

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This is true on both counts, but you know the Euroleft and the Dems would both open the borders the minute they took power.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (XJ22o)

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No one will that message will get the kind of press support necessary to carry anything in the Democrat Party for at least 2 more election cycles.

If Democrats underperform in 2026 and lose in 2028 all while flying their freak flags, maybe the losses will convince them to push into moderation.

Still, there's the Italian Democrat Party to take as an example. They keep losing and keep not letting go of the open borders nonsense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:12 PM (qE8uT)

230 194 BTW, it looks like Xcancel is back. At least for now.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)

Lots of links using it on Instapundit.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:12 PM (odBC9)

231 They don't break eggs to make omelettes,

They promise you omelettes to justify breaking all the eggs.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:12 PM (yIb5h)

232
231 They don't break eggs to make omelettes,

They promise you omelettes to justify breaking all the eggs.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:12 PM (yIb5h)

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"We broke the stove while breaking the eggs. We don't know how to make a stove."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (qE8uT)

233 The Brits also built the first of what we now call concentration camps during the Boer Wars.

The Boers certainly thought it was genocide-ish.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (6ydKt)

234
The funny part of the German equation is that the Germans will definitely do this but it's only for a regional legislature.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I was wondering what a regional legislature can do about the borders.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (XJ22o)

235 >>> Eh, plenty of non-socialist countries have carried out genocide: The Germans in Namibia, the Ottomans in Armenia, even, on a couple of occasions, the Brits (Beothuk in Newfoundland and the Tasmanians).

I read an interesting thing about the British when they went there to control Nigeria. There was so much open blood sacrifice and child slaughter that the Brits were openly horrified. Funny how Nigeria does not mention that in the travel pamphlets. I assume the Brits put a stop to that like they did the bride burning in India.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (Eng1Z)

236 He needs to stop pulling his pants up to his armpits.
Posted by: Archimedes
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At some point, a man has to decide, 'Over, or, under'. Suspenders are an option.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (XeU6L)

237 Nationalization of industry was de facto rather than de jure"

It's de thing we do

/socialists

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (cGjQu)

238 "our institutions are resilient and stable" and the country will stick to its values and constitution after the AfD win.

-
Wir haben Deep State.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:14 PM (ndZc7)

239 You know who else was a lesbian married to a Sri Lankan?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 08, 2026 01:14 PM (guGkK)

240 Lots of Turks in Germany, too.

I saw a thing on X today that there's a beauty salon in Istanbul called "7 October" (yes, in English). So you can get a perm and thrill to killing Jews for Allah in one stop.

Make Istanbul Constantinople Again.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 01:14 PM (2ocoG)

241 Read a lot about this over the weekend. Lots of 'far right' stuff but not one article identified what the party stands for.

When I finally found one, I was truly shocked. As ace says, these nasty Germans don't want to pay ME men to rape their kids and be forced to cheer it on.

Everyone knows you have to let small dicked ME men touch your daughter or its the holocaust all over.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:14 PM (XOmY9)

242 239 You know who else was a lesbian married to a Sri Lankan?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 08, 2026 01:14 PM (guGkK)

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Arthur C. Clarke where the Sri Lanken is a 7 year old boy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:15 PM (qE8uT)

243 The Brits also built the first of what we now call concentration camps during the Boer Wars.

The Boers certainly thought it was genocide-ish.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 01:13 PM (6ydKt)
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Time for another viewing of "Breaker Morant"?

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

244 Make Istanbul Constantinople Again.
Posted by: Ian S.

The Eastern Orthodox still call it that.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

245 230 194 BTW, it looks like Xcancel is back. At least for now.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)

Lots of links using it on Instapundit.
Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:12 PM (odBC9)

I've pretty much weaned myself off 𝕏 in the last, what, couple of weeks? Giving me many more free hours in a day!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:15 PM (odBC9)

246 "In May 2025, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" group..."

The EuroWeenie Establishment labels every party to the right of Lenin a right-wing extremist group. It's their dog whistle meaning N@zis.

Posted by: Gref at September 08, 2026 01:16 PM (5rh/l)

247 Nazis == national socialists

They weren't enemies, they were competitors for the same target market.
Posted by: Oddbob


100% correct.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 01:16 PM (Av6i5)

248 Arthur C. Clarke where the Sri Lanken is a 7 year old boy?"

Ok, I was trying to figure out an Arthur C Clark reference...

*tips cap

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (cGjQu)

249 nood clancy

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (odBC9)

250 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

251 In May 2025, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" group

Some real "51 former intelligence officers asserted that Trump and Putin assaulted them in the dressing room at Bergdorf's" energy there.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

252 247 Nazis == national socialists

They weren't enemies, they were competitors for the same target market.
Posted by: Oddbob

100% correct.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2026 01:16 PM (Av6i5)

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"False. Nazis were small government libertarians who only wanted the government to fund national defense and roads."
-that hippy I knew in Italy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (qE8uT)

253 "In May 2025, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" group..."


That'll be $10 million in taxpayer funding please.

Posted by: The Southern Poverty Law Center at September 08, 2026 01:17 PM (guGkK)

254 The Turks came over in the 80s and 90s. Supposed to work adn leave but never did. They live in segregated neighborhoods and are basically second class citizens.

Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (XOmY9)

255 When the NAZIs first started to acquire political power in Germany there was a debate in the USSR as to whether or not this was the communism Marx had predicted.

Remember he did NOT predict communism breaking out in backwards like the old Russian Empire but in more advanced societies like the US, the UK or...Germany.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

256
Communists == international socialists
Nazis == national socialists

They weren't enemies, they were competitors for the same target market.

Posted by: Oddbob
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They would kill each other for it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (6T7Go)

257 Time for another viewing of "Breaker Morant"?
Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

I believe I watched some of that movie when I was a kid. I didn’t know anything about it, didn’t understand what the hell was going on, got bored, and never watched it again.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the entire film.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (6ydKt)

258 BTW, it looks like Xcancel is back. At least for now.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)
******
What is Xcancel?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (NpAcC)

259
If Democrats underperform in 2026 and lose in 2028 all while flying their freak flags, maybe the losses will convince them to push into moderation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I think that as soon as 2028 they'll be trying to square that circle. If Kamala is the candidate, I'll listen out for something about how "we left the Trump administration with a fully secured border" but ICE is out of control and we need to restore our national values to our immigration policy. How's that sound? They ought to hire me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (XJ22o)

260 The Boers certainly thought it was genocide-ish.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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Or you could say it was the opposite of genocide, as the purpose was to isolate non-combatants who were supplying the combatants.

The alternative was to just kill them all.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (yIb5h)

261 The Turks came over in the 80s and 90s. Supposed to work adn leave but never did. They live in segregated neighborhoods and are basically second class citizens.
Posted by: MJ at September 08, 2026 01:18 PM (XOmY9)
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Based on what I'm reading lately, it's more like the younger set see themselves as first-class citizens of Turkey biding their time in Germany.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:20 PM (rj6Yv)

262 zuletzt!

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2026 01:20 PM (UjdFS)

263 259
I think that as soon as 2028 they'll be trying to square that circle. If Kamala is the candidate, I'll listen out for something about how "we left the Trump administration with a fully secured border" but ICE is out of control and we need to restore our national values to our immigration policy. How's that sound? They ought to hire me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (XJ22o)

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Kamala is more likely to run on giving citizenship to anyone deported by Trump than moderating on immigration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 01:21 PM (qE8uT)

264 Fascism is just socialism with nationalism tacked on. The German industries may have been private but they didn't go against the government and were generally toadies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 01:10 PM (v6vok)


Fascism is the development of the idea that if workers, bankers and those that own the means of production work together they can do greater things. In such the production of all industries are set up as cartels between money, labor and capital. This recreates the medieval guild structure.
Since all tend to cheat on each other, the government is brought in to mediate, and winds up being the main partner, and the main customer where it is not the main path that good get to market. In that path the government then dominates all industries.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

265 To dream the impossible dream . . .

The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
.@SarahLongwell25: "Right now, the number one New York Times bestseller is Ted Cruz's biography of Clarence Thomas. The only thing I want in the world right now is to knock Ted Cruz off the New York Times bestseller list."

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I'd've gone with eternal youth, health, and wealth but then I'm a conservative.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (ndZc7)

266 believe I watched some of that movie when I was a kid. I didn’t know anything about it, didn’t understand what the hell was going on, got bored, and never watched it again.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the entire film.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 01:19 PM (6ydKt)
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I recommend it.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (rj6Yv)

267 They don't break eggs to make omelettes,

They promise you omelettes to justify breaking all the eggs.

Posted by: bob


Where's the omelette?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 01:22 PM (jlUZM)

268 ICE is murdering our citizens

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 01:23 PM (6T7Go)

269 145 Nice looking for an older, closet Nazi, though.

soup nazi > closet nazi

*no closet for you*

Posted by: anachronda at September 08, 2026 01:26 PM (v3pYe)

270 You know who else was a lesbian married to a Sri Lankan?

Arthur C. Clarke?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (vTZFs)

271 Trump has gone too far now!

Bad Hombre
@Badhombre
Marjorie Taylor Greene just went on Chris Cuomo’s show, where both claimed to have received text messages from President Trump saying their children deserve to be murdered.
Neither Greene nor Cuomo has made the text messages public, because it never happened. They don’t exist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:30 PM (ndZc7)

272 Well, I can no longer access comments or read the full post on the top post, because of the ad. I supposed iPhone/Safari users are only a small minority. No biggie.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 08, 2026 01:32 PM (UWN7z)

273 Well, we can all agree with Tucker about this.

Max 📟
@MaxNordau
Tucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.
Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."
They discuss how they've never met anyone in their life who uses algebra, which is "fake math" for people "in the matrix."
They conclude that caring about algebra is something that only "good little goy slaves" do.

https://tinyurl.com/3fawztw7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 01:33 PM (ndZc7)

274 What is Xcancel?

Basically, a no-registration-required access to X content. Change any x.com URL to xcancel.com and get around X's login restrictions.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (vTZFs)

275 "Illegal migration, unchecked open borders, anyone can get in"

That's only true for certain groups. If I wanted to move to Germany it would be nearly impossible.


Posted by: Ripley at September 08, 2026 01:34 PM (GUOwU)

276 Tucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.
Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."


"Those who refuse to do math are doomed to speak nonsense."*
-- Prof. John McCarthy

* from memory so maybe not exact but close enough

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 01:37 PM (vTZFs)

277 “ LOL. It's led by a lesbian who's married to a Sri Lankan.”

How is this just not more Uniparty? This dyke cunt doesn’t actually stand for a goddamned thing. Clearly co-opting the movement.

Posted by: Deceesed Foosball Coach Schnellenberger at September 08, 2026 01:38 PM (r/N61)

278 The reasons the AfD is very bad news are several.

The most pressing one is the continued presence of Björn Höcke and his adherents. This guy openly admits to just that slightly bit misquoting banned NSDAP, SA and SS slogans for the purpose of trying force a free speech fight.

Björn Höcke however is merely the most visible sympton of a larger illness. And thankfully I can put it in terms easily understood for an american political audience:
You know how the Democrats in the US are being eaten from inside by the DSA? Björn Höcke is the most visible face of that, but from the actual far right direction.
The AfD started as a primarily euro-sceptic party and it was that platform that saw her first modest successes.
Then something happened that is almost automatic in german politics: It got flooded by new members. Being largely prior apolitical college professors at that time the then AfD leadership made a crucial mistake. It didn't know to vet the members.
This is a mistake in german politics because successful new parties attract parasites: Actualy far right members of micro parties that know they unelectable because there are too many damning quotes by their own leadership 1/??

Posted by: DoesNotMatter at September 08, 2026 03:03 PM (xlDu7)

279 out. We're talking "There was no holocaust" and such.
So those elements got in and normally a party dies there. The parasites can't help themselves, open their mouths, ordinary members flee in droves.
This also almost happened - most of the founding members left after losing internal power struggles. The difference here is two fold: One, disillusioned CDU and SPD members also joined the AfD and that tilted the balance enough that the parasites feel restrained. Two, it was about 2015 and the refugee crisis and the political handling of it really tilted parts of the electorate.
So the AfD could cling on until 2020 and, well, you know.

So that is reason 1 why the AfD ain't good news, it harbors some actual far right assholes.

Reason 2 is that there is unfortunate connections to the East. While most german politicians are deeply sceptical these days of russian claims, doing business in Russia etc. the AfD is a notable exception.

Reason 3 is that some of political promises the AfD are genuine violations of the german constitution. Stripping someones german citizenship by the state is banned at the constitutional level, in direct consequence from 1933-1945 abuses of that.
2/?

Posted by: DoesNotMatter at September 08, 2026 03:18 PM (xlDu7)

280 So the various noises the AfD makes how they want to solve some immigration related issues are almost always unconstitutional.

Personally however I see no chance of a non-AfD state government going the distance there.
Any coalition that has to rely on Die Grünen, Die Linke and BSW not flipping over the table over in retrospect trivial shit is doomed.
So there is probably a AfD state government there either now or in a few months after the next election. And it'll probably be Tim Walz or Gavin Newsom levels of fucked.
Because at the end of the day the AfD has very little actual proven to be able to govern candidates or business men willing to put their neck out to assemble a government out of.
Not being able to use another party as coalition partner slash meatshield for failures is not going to end well for them. 3/3

Posted by: DoesNotMatter at September 08, 2026 03:30 PM (xlDu7)

The Morning Rant

punk-monkey.jpg

Transfer payments? MORE transfer payments? That is the last thing on earth the United States of America needs, and for the administration to suggest more welfare -- because that is what it is -- suggests that they are unserious about the deficit and the debt.

And for JD Vance to spearhead this wrongheaded policy just adds fuel to the fire that he isn't quite the principled conservative that he would like us to see.

Welfare is a corrosive influence on a culture, even if its intent is in furtherance of conservative ideals: the nuclear family with one parent at home raising children. It expands the deep state by giving government officials control over the decisions of citizens, and it will never end. It distorts the economy by shifting reliance to government, and it impedes the creation of wealth by short-circuiting capital formation and flow, tamping down entrepreneurialism, and is wildly wasteful because it funnels cash through government, which is famously inefficient.

Trump Administration Floats Subsidizing Parents To Raise Children At Home

Officials are drafting a rule that would let married couples with one stay-at-home spouse tap federal child care subsidies, a priority of Vice President JD Vance, the New York Times reported. The plan would carve out a new category the draft calls "parent-based child care," letting one married parent draw assistance to care for their child while the other works at least 35 hours a week, according to the Times.

Hey JD...cut welfare, support strong voting security, continue the administration's work enforcing a strong border and tossing illegals out. No matter what your experience with multigenerational poverty, government is not the answer, and 60 years of Johnson's Great Society has shown us that in most cases, government is the cause!

Shrinking government is the best way to solidify the family in America. Give Americans more of their own money, and the problem will mostly be solved. Getting rid of many millions of illegals who hoover up housing stock and medical care and distort the labor market will pretty much finish the job. If America has it in itself to return to a saner culture, that is the way to give it a chance. More welfare will do the opposite.

And as long as I am giving Vance some advice...deal with your Tucker Carlson problem, or you are going to lose conservative support. The fact that you have not forcefully rejected Carlson's lunacy, which include attacks on President Trump and his policies, suggests that you are trying to please everyone, including Carlson's army of Pakistani bots and America-hating leftists who gobble up Carlson's nonsense.

That's a dangerous path, and one that might not work the way you want.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 1.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 10:42 AM (zdLoL)

2 I don't agree with it but I can see the possible long term benefits.

You open up jobs in the economy formerly held by working moms and you have a child raised by a parent instead of the streets.

That said, I grew up with two parents working full time blue collar jobs and I turned out somewhat normal. My father wouldn't have taken a subsidy anyway.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:46 AM (KC5Lt)

3 SPONGE!!!

And this is an wildly stupid idea, imao.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 10:46 AM (9Q+nP)

4 Early

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 10:47 AM (mqudn)

5 $40 trillion in debt.

Yes, keep spending!

Posted by: Looking For A Handout at September 08, 2026 10:47 AM (Z8Kuq)

6 Get ready for Mohammed to get credits for 12 non existent kids, raised by his non existent wife.

Meanwhile John who has 1 child will be denied because he didn’t fill out form 1021-23 in full.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:48 AM (U1NLK)

7 I think this JD/Tucker thing is just distraction. Tucker is obviously a shill for other's money but that doesn't mean he cant be a friend.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 08, 2026 10:48 AM (3Ope8)

8 It'll be fraud-free!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 10:48 AM (mqudn)

9 Im not saying people in my area have bad teeth, but one woman just smiled in Walmart and the barcode scanner picked it up as a set of saucepans.

Posted by: clarence at September 08, 2026 10:48 AM (311fa)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:49 AM (ccf/V)

11 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:49 AM (U1NLK)

12 Second look at Evan McMullin?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 10:50 AM (iFTx/)

13 All the leaves are brown

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 08, 2026 10:50 AM (Qp6qM)

14 Congress appropriates fund. The executive branch is legally bound to spend the money. However, they can makes some changes to where the money goes. That is all that is happening here.

>>The money would come from the Child Care and Development Fund, a roughly $12 billion program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

See? All ready appropriated. If we want a cut in spending, and we do, it must come from congress.

Have a good day all.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:50 AM (viF8m)

15 Why wouldn't you just increase the child care credit on income tax?

If you're going to do anything.........Let them keep more of their money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

16 I won't vote for JD Vance in the primaries if he doesn't publicly disavow Tucker Carlson and all that bastard stands for. If Vance does win the primaries, I'll vote for him in the general with the same reluctance I felt when I voted for McCain. (Palin made it easier.) We simply can't lose this coming election.

Posted by: troyriser at September 08, 2026 10:52 AM (v1M8F)

17 If we want a cut in spending, and we do, it must come from congress.



Sir,

Last year we spent $100B on this program. The democrats wanted a $10B increase. We, the fiscally Conservative Party stood firm and only gave them an extra $9B. So as you see we actually cut $1B in spending.
- GOP

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:52 AM (U1NLK)

18 Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:50 AM (viF8m)

Did they explain it wouldn't be new funding but from existing funding? That should be the first thing said and last thing said whenever a statement about the proposed program is made.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:52 AM (KC5Lt)

19 I’m on team Rubio. Vance has always given be a weird vibe. His coziness to Tuqur just confirms it for me.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:53 AM (U1NLK)

20 Somehow I seriously doubt J.D. Vance is going to take the public's advice on dealing with his relationship with Tucker Carlson. When Vance officially adopts some/all of Carlson's positions I'll get concerned.

Until then.... the field, over there, is barren.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 10:54 AM (2Cry5)

21 Shrinking Government. So often harangued about, so often lamented over, yet, like Herpes never cured. No politician really wants that, bloviations aside. Power is money, money is power, something I learned long ago and I imagine all of us did too.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 10:55 AM (Gqar8)

22 Instead of offering a government check, structure it as a tax break for intact families with at least one parent working full time.

Should ensure that the benefit more more likely accrue to Conservative families.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 10:55 AM (1z8ji)

23 I think this JD/Tucker thing is just distraction. Tucker is obviously a shill for other's money but that doesn't mean he cant be a friend.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

JD actually gave a good response when he was doing the morning press briefing and someone asked him about Tucker. He basically said that he and Tucker disagree about a lot of things, but that he's not going to go down the leftist road of making everything about politics, so he's not going to "cancel" his friend Tucker over differing political views.

YMMV, but I thought that was a solid response.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

24 90% of posters here were in love with Tucker before the brain worm got him. I imagine it's harder to disown a friend as fast as arm length internet commentators can but I agree something has to be said soon by Vance.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:57 AM (KC5Lt)

25 Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 10:55 AM (Gqar

The Federal government is shrinking. Not enough for my taste, but Trump is doing what he said he would do.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 08, 2026 10:57 AM (iwxfK)

26 JR ain't tha guy.

Posted by: GigantorX at September 08, 2026 10:58 AM (LyMaz)

27 25 Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 10:55 AM (Gqar

The Federal government is shrinking. Not enough for my taste, but Trump is doing what he said he would do.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 08, 2026 10:57 AM (iwxfK)

He is not a professional politician. He is a Black Swan and his like will not be soon seen again.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 10:59 AM (Gqar8)

28 JR ain't tha guy.
Posted by: GigantorX

He's never been the same since he was shot.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

29 so he's not going to "cancel" his friend Tucker over differing political views.


That's fine but he needs to clarify exactly what he disagrees with and strongly condemn the other viewpoints if not Tucker personally.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:59 AM (KC5Lt)

30 Government solutions are always the answer with goverment people.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 08, 2026 11:00 AM (sV9n4)

31 It’s one thing to be friends with someone who thinks the top tax rate should be higher than what you think it should be.

It’s another to be friends with a guy who thinks 9/11 was an Israeli inside job or who thinks Charlie Kirk was killed by Mossad.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:00 AM (U1NLK)

32 The Federal government is shrinking. Not enough for my taste, but Trump is doing what he said he would do.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 08, 2026 10:57 AM (iwxfK)

In two years, Trump made the Federal government the smallest it's been in sixty years.

I'm not sure how much faster you think he could shrink it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:01 AM (PGK1w)

33 If you can't end the fraud then cut me in on it.

Posted by: DaveA at September 08, 2026 11:01 AM (FhXTo)

34 I'm beginning to equate Vance with Pence. He's definitely not MAGA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)

35 Transfer payments? MORE transfer payments? That is the last thing on earth the United States of America needs, and for the administration to suggest more welfare -- because that is what it is -- suggests that they are unserious about the deficit and the debt.

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This is not more transfer payments.

This is redirecting transfer payments that were going out no matter what.

Only Congress can end this program. So...get to calling your legislators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:02 AM (qE8uT)

36 It is September 2026. The 2028 campaign has kicked off, apparently. It is like Target and Halloween merchandising.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:03 AM (Gqar8)

37 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:49 AM (U1NLK)


Worked. Past tense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:03 AM (ExV1e)

38 32 In two years, Trump made the Federal government the smallest it's been in sixty years.

I'm not sure how much faster you think he could shrink it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:01 AM (PGK1w)

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He's shrinking it to the max degree that he can alone. Slashing regulations and canning federal workers is great.

But more requires Congress passing laws that repeal existing laws that established programs et al.

It's the same argument over visas. Trump is minimizing them as much as possible, but he can't end then. Congress has to do that.

Hell, maybe if the GOP keeps the House next year, some repeals may get through with a Senate that no longer includes Mitch, Cassidy, Cornyn, or Ernst.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:04 AM (qE8uT)

39 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

I thought the kid had left Vance's employ.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

40 22 Instead of offering a government check, structure it as a tax break for intact families with at least one parent working full time.

Should ensure that the benefit more more likely accrue to Conservative families.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 1

I really like that idea. I thought there was an asian country where you don't pay income tax if you have so many kids. Which is how it should be so welfare leaches don't benefit since they don't work.

I'd also like homeschooling families to be paid directly out of general education funds. Make the schools compete for the dollars. Maybe we'll see less than 69 genders.

Star Trek Day on 'The Price is Right.' Hmmm. Cool sets.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 11:05 AM (Sco7b)

41
39 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

I thought the kid had left Vance's employ.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

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All I know is that kids always match their parents politics exactly.

Just ask my prison abolition progressive sister when she talks to my GOP establishment father.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:05 AM (qE8uT)

42 41
39 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

I thought the kid had left Vance's employ.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

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All I know is that kids always match their parents politics exactly.

Just ask my prison abolition progressive sister when she talks to my GOP establishment father.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:05 AM (qE8uT)

So you are saying that Thanksgiving is your favorite holiday?

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:06 AM (Gqar8)

43 Vance came out of nowhere to become a senator and then 2 years later VP. That’s unusual to say the least. All because a book he wrote? Sounds sus as the kids would say.

I find it somewhat ironic that many of the people who are up in arms about flock cameras shrug at Vance being besties with the guy who started Palantir.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:06 AM (U1NLK)

44 Economics involves math

I'll just watch

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you if no one's open, just throw it away at September 08, 2026 11:07 AM (ZxPkt)

45 42 So you are saying that Thanksgiving is your favorite holiday?

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:06 AM (Gqar

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heh

My sister turns off the politics when around family. It's not bad at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:07 AM (qE8uT)

46 That's fine but he needs to clarify exactly what he disagrees with and strongly condemn the other viewpoints if not Tucker personally.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:59 AM (KC5Lt)


Do other politicians, say Rubio, need to provide an exhaustive list of their personal relationships and where they disagree with each, or only Vance and only because people with an axe to grind keep mentioning that he's friends with an unperson?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

47 I'm beginning to equate Vance with Pence. He's definitely not MAGA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 11:02 AM



Wow.

That's quite a leap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 11:09 AM (ccf/V)

48 11 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Used to. Now doing his own consulting. Bigger question might be who do his two Democrat daughters work for.

Anyway, 4 months ago, in his Podcast, Tucker and conservative brother, Buckley, discussed their regrets backing Trump.

I think J.D. might be playing his own independent game. Certainly not the 1st VP to do so.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

49 If Vance is the nominee I’ll vote for him because a Democrat alternative is a non starter. However he will not be my choice in the primary.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:09 AM (U1NLK)

50 I find it somewhat ironic that many of the people who are up in arms about flock cameras shrug at Vance being besties with the guy who started Palantir.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:06 AM (U1NLK)

The same Palantir whose tech is helping the Trump Administration find and remove illegals?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (PGK1w)

51 With Tuq'r Qatar-son going his current trajectory, what's the current odds on the betting apps that, despite Vance sticking by Tuq'r, Tuq'r is instead going to campaign for the Democrat? Even during the primaries.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (4h45B)

52 I have already made up my mind as to who I will vote for in 2028, and I won’t be moved. It will be Not- Democrat.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (Gqar8)

53 Do other politicians, say Rubio, need to provide an exhaustive list of their personal relationships and where they disagree with each, or only Vance and only because people with an axe to grind keep mentioning that he's friends with an unperson?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

If Rubio had a good friend that says the same thing Tucker says then absolutely yes they need to clarify their differences. Silence is perceived as acceptance to many.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (KC5Lt)

54 Great, yet another way to create more dependency on government.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 08, 2026 11:11 AM (+9wcF)

55 It's actually brilliant! Since Congress won't decrease the program, Vance moves the program funding from wildly liberal families to wildly conservative ones...which will make Congress probably decrease the funding.

Win/win as I'm sitting here.

Now that Trump's name is on it, the program will be cut immediately, which is what Trump wants...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:12 AM (tOcjL)

56 other politicians, say Rubio, need to provide an exhaustive list of their personal relationships and where they disagree with each, or only Vance and only because people with an axe to grind keep mentioning that he's friends with an unperson?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

Does Rubio have good friends who are out and proud Nazis funded by Qatar to spread anti-American propaganda? If so then yes I’d like an explanation from him as well.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:12 AM (U1NLK)

57 Thx CBD.
I'm not into Republican social engineering any more than I'm into Democratic social engineering.
Have government do what it should do and efficiently, and leave the rest alone. It'll work out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (v6vok)

58 Carlson is notmletting friendship get in the way of grift.Priorities!!

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (Gqar8)

59 53 Do other politicians, say Rubio, need to provide an exhaustive list of their personal relationships and where they disagree with each, or only Vance and only because people with an axe to grind keep mentioning that he's friends with an unperson?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

If Rubio had a good friend that says the same thing Tucker says then absolutely yes they need to clarify their differences. Silence is perceived as acceptance to many.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (KC5Lt)

Rubio was Gang of 8, so I'm certain he's friends with a few undesirable D Senators...that doesn't disquailify him for me, anymore than Vance's friendship does, as long as it's "friendship, not policy advisor"...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (tOcjL)

60 I think J.D. might be playing his own independent game. Certainly not the 1st VP to do so.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 11:09 AM (NFX2v)
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A cause for concern. A reminder of how Mike Pence turned out as our VP.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (4h45B)

61 Women working from home is not just a choice, it is something that became obligatory in the early 70's. I remember when mom went back to work. She hadn't intended to do so until I was older, but it made sense because money was tight. It was tight for everyone.

Oddly it is still tight, the quote I saw is that salaries are not really keeping up to costs unless you start switching out cheaper food and supplies for what we used to get, and that is all shitified so we get to buy more when it breaks.
I don't see this as a subsidization of families, as it is the first step to supporting parents to have a single working parent and a stay at home mom.

Here is an article on the great capitalist swindle that was pulled on "feminists" that touches on this idea

https://tinyurl.com/ftm96362

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (rbvCR)

62 If Rubio had a good friend that says the same thing Tucker says then absolutely yes they need to clarify their differences. Silence is perceived as acceptance to many.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (KC5Lt)


Ah, but if you're left in ignorance about his friendships... that's okay? Vance has said that he disagrees with Carlson about many things. Carlson isn't an advisor. His son, when he worked for Vance, wasn't an advisor. Ask yourself who benefits from sowing distrust about the VP. It's an op. Same as everything else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

63 57 Thx CBD.
I'm not into Republican social engineering any more than I'm into Democratic social engineering.
Have government do what it should do and efficiently, and leave the rest alone. It'll work out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (v6vok)

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Since the president can't end the program on his own, what should Trump do with it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:15 AM (qE8uT)

64 Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (tOcjL)

Illogical comparison to say the least.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:15 AM (KC5Lt)

65 We must punish JD Vance for his loyalties. After all, loyalty is just a form of discrimination.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:16 AM (rbvCR)

66 Great, yet another way to create more dependency on government.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 08, 2026 11:11 AM (+9wcF)


It's money which is already appropriated and must legally be spent. They're talking about giving some to stay at home mothers rather than daycares. That's it.

I'd prefer that the money wasn't spent but that isn't going to happen. It is what it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

67 64 Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (tOcjL)

Illogical comparison to say the least.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:15 AM (KC5Lt)

Not really - every D Senator at this point has adopted the anti-Jew platform b/c it is now the default D platform...so they and Tucker have a lot in common...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:16 AM (tOcjL)

68 "...he's not going to "cancel" his friend Tucker over differing political views.

YMMV, but I thought that was a solid response."
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

We're not talking about 'differing political views' here. My late wife was a Democrat. I live in an uber-liberal town and have a number of Leftist friends just slightly to the right of Vladimir Lenin. We get along, usually steering clear of arguments, keeping it civil. However, if a life-long friend reveals to me that they believe an evil Zionist cabal owns the President and that friend further admits they secretly take payola from billionaires in Qatar, then that friend would no longer be my friend.

Posted by: troyriser at September 08, 2026 11:17 AM (v1M8F)

69 66 Great, yet another way to create more dependency on government.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 08, 2026 11:11 AM (+9wcF)

It's money which is already appropriated and must legally be spent. They're talking about giving some to stay at home mothers rather than daycares. That's it.

I'd prefer that the money wasn't spent but that isn't going to happen. It is what it is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

And do we want the money going to illegal Somali fraud daycares in MN...or American families of 12 in Iowa?

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:17 AM (tOcjL)

70 And as long as I am giving Vance some advice...deal with your Tucker Carlson problem, or you are going to lose conservative support. The fact that you have not forcefully rejected Carlson's lunacy, which include attacks on President Trump and his policies, suggests that you are trying to please everyone, including Carlson's army of Pakistani bots and America-hating leftists who gobble up Carlson's nonsense.

>>> The guys at Powerline (yes, I still read the site) have been hammering this for months.

Posted by: pookysgirl has hugged her kids today at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Wt5PA)

71 Meanwhile, back in Iran, it is starting to take a wheelbarrow of rials to by a kebab.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar8)

72 71 Meanwhile, back in Iran, it is starting to take a wheelbarrow of rials to by a kebab.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar

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Trump has no response to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (qE8uT)

73 My sister turns off the politics when around family. It's not bad at all.

Yeah, but is she hawt?

Posted by: On The Prowl at September 08, 2026 11:19 AM (Fn+3X)

74 72 71 Meanwhile, back in Iran, it is starting to take a wheelbarrow of rials to by a kebab.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar

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Trump has no response to this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (qE8uT)

Snort.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:19 AM (Gqar8)

75 16 I won't vote for JD Vance in the primaries if he doesn't publicly disavow Tucker Carlson and all that bastard stands for. If Vance does win the primaries, I'll vote for him in the general with the same reluctance I felt when I voted for McCain. (Palin made it easier.) We simply can't lose this coming election.
Posted by: troyriser at September 08, 2026 10:52 AM (v1M8F)
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If you needed another reminder of what a P.O.S. McCain became (or always was?), his and his family's post-election treatment of Palin was a disgrace. Maybe there was a legit reason to ban her from McCain's funeral. They never gave one. He's a P.O.S., the family isn't much better.

And never forget his role in the Keating Five scandal. The lone Republican among the group; makes you wonder if he actually ever was one.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 08, 2026 11:19 AM (4h45B)

76 Meanwhile, back in Iran, it is starting to take a wheelbarrow of rials to by a kebab.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar

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Trump has no response to this.
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No. Wrong. Its a terrific Kebab. Really Really Great. Enjoy it while you still can.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at September 08, 2026 11:19 AM (anL5R)

77 Does Rubio have good friends who are out and proud Nazis funded by Qatar to spread anti-American propaganda? If so then yes I’d like an explanation from him as well.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:12 AM (U1NLK)


I don't know that he does but you don't know that he doesn't. Since people are saying that Vance is suspect merely for stating that he's friends with Carlson, not knowing isn't really an option. Political candidates should be forced to declare every person with whom they've ever interacted, from birth, and how they agree, or disagree, with their political opinions. Obviously.

Otherwise, this is just people trying to find an excuse to support one politician over another for a reason beyond "he's dreamy and from Florida".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

78 It wasn't that long ago when JD was universally hailed by our side as the best thing since boobs were invented.

But now, despite not changing his positions on anything major, and being overall a solid asset for MAGA, he's ... not.

I smell an op. JD is the guy in 2028. No doubt about it. Don't fall for any efforts to muddy his rep.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

79 >Trump has no response to this.
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oh this got away from him months ago

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you if no one's open, just throw it away at September 08, 2026 11:20 AM (ZxPkt)

80 We're not talking about 'differing political views' here. My late wife was a Democrat. I live in an uber-liberal town and have a number of Leftist friends just slightly to the right of Vladimir Lenin. We get along, usually steering clear of arguments, keeping it civil. However, if a life-long friend reveals to me that they believe an evil Zionist cabal owns the President and that friend further admits they secretly take payola from billionaires in Qatar, then that friend would no longer be my friend.
Posted by: troyriser
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This!!

Tuqur isn’t just some wacky leftist with crazy ideas on the minimum wage or some shit. He’s a fucking Nazi.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:21 AM (U1NLK)

81 Meanwhile, back in Iran, it is starting to take a wheelbarrow of rials to by a kebab.
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar

Achmed's House of Wheelbarrows. Where you can get a rial deal!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 11:21 AM (1z8ji)

82 Yeah, just what we need, another entitlement program to paper over generations of deliberate wage suppression. Which, if I were to be quite honest, I do not trust Vance on, or much of anyone else right now.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:21 AM (OUMaO)

83 Otherwise, this is just people trying to find an excuse to support one politician over another for a reason beyond "he's dreamy and from Florida".
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Don't forget the boots.

Posted by: Wickett at September 08, 2026 11:21 AM (anL5R)

84 82 Yeah, just what we need, another entitlement program to paper over generations of deliberate wage suppression. Which, if I were to be quite honest, I do not trust Vance on, or much of anyone else right now.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:21 AM (OUMaO)

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By "another", do you mean that this is a new program or one that has existed for 30 years?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (qE8uT)

85 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

You guys have condemned more people than I can name by minor association but it seems when the person is someone you support is close to a person who is an influencer and obviously unhinged , you don't think they should have to clarify their differences. This inconsistency drives me crazy . And it's not like it's requesting Vance do something beyond the pale.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (KC5Lt)

86 What bothers me most about this is that there are so many "conservative" pundits out there who damn well know better defending this and attacking people who question or oppose it.

And it comes down to an effect I noticed a while ago: almost nobody is truly small government, they just want their opponents to not have the power of government. Too many social "conservatives" want government to be huge, just powerful in their favor. Too many fiscal "conservatives" are perfectly fine with massive spending on projects they support.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (K32Fz)

87 JR ain't tha guy.
Posted by: GigantorX

He's never been the same since he was shot.
Posted by: Bulg

A guy can dream, can't he?

Posted by: Larry Hagman at September 08, 2026 11:23 AM (w9Wax)

88 We must punish JD Vance for his loyalties. After all, loyalty is just a form of discrimination.

Now do Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker.

Posted by: Al E. at September 08, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)

89 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (vTZFs)

90 If you needed another reminder of what a P.O.S. McCain became (or always was?), his and his family's post-election treatment of Palin was a disgrace. Maybe there was a legit reason to ban her from McCain's funeral. They never gave one. He's a P.O.S., the family isn't much better.

And never forget his role in the Keating Five scandal. The lone Republican among the group; makes you wonder if he actually ever was one.
Posted by: Another Anon
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McCain worshipped himself--a clear narcissist to which other people's rules did not apply.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)

91 I am all for the federal government promoting and defending proper families, marriage, and childbearing. Just... not with subsidies. Not only is it expenses we don't need and cannot afford, but when you subsidize something, that gives the government power over that thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (K32Fz)

92 what's the definition of nazi in 2026?

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (enNUy)

93 86 What bothers me most about this is that there are so many "conservative" pundits out there who damn well know better defending this and attacking people who question or oppose it.

And it comes down to an effect I noticed a while ago: almost nobody is truly small government, they just want their opponents to not have the power of government. Too many social "conservatives" want government to be huge, just powerful in their favor. Too many fiscal "conservatives" are perfectly fine with massive spending on projects they support.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (K32Fz)

Verily verily, money and power. For us, the power to implement those things we love. For them, the same.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (Gqar8)

94 88 We must punish JD Vance for his loyalties. After all, loyalty is just a form of discrimination.

Now do Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker.

Posted by: Al E. at September 08, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)

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El-Sayed invited Piker to campaign with him like 2 months ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (qE8uT)

95 You guys have condemned more people than I can name by minor association but it seems when the person is someone you support is close to a person who is an influencer and obviously unhinged , you don't think they should have to clarify their differences. This inconsistency drives me crazy . And it's not like it's requesting Vance do something beyond the pale.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (KC5Lt)


May I ask who I have condemned for a minor association? Or, indeed, any association?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

96 By "another", do you mean that this is a new program or one that has existed for 30 years?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


Is this an existing one redirected? Or is it new? My brain's too foggy to work it out. Either way it's still just a way to avoid dealing with the things that have actually put most American workers in the mess they're in: Wage suppression and currency devaluation (aka "inflation").

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

97 Plus he torched an aircraft carrier

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (ZxPkt)

98 95 May I ask who I have condemned for a minor association? Or, indeed, any association?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

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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, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (qE8uT)

99 86 What bothers me most about this is that there are so many "conservative" pundits out there who damn well know better defending this and attacking people who question or oppose it.

And it comes down to an effect I noticed a while ago: almost nobody is truly small government, they just want their opponents to not have the power of government. Too many social "conservatives" want government to be huge, just powerful in their favor. Too many fiscal "conservatives" are perfectly fine with massive spending on projects they support.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (K32Fz)

In the current CR, Congress pretty much insisted all money must be spent by the departments they sent it for...so when stuck with a problem of being forced to send money to one's friends or one's enemies, I know I'd prefer Trump to send it to friends b/c it's likely that Congress will be willing to rescind that money...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (tOcjL)

100 95 You guys have condemned more people than I can name by minor association but it seems when the person is someone you support is close to a person who is an influencer and obviously unhinged , you don't think they should have to clarify their differences. This inconsistency drives me crazy . And it's not like it's requesting Vance do something beyond the pale.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:22 AM (KC5Lt)

May I ask who I have condemned for a minor association? Or, indeed, any association?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

garrett?

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (Gqar8)

101 92 what's the definition of nazi in 2026?
Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (enNUy)

Whatever the Left says it is.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (N39Ws)

102 Tucker’s kid works for JD Vance. It’s more than a distraction.

Trump and Vance used Tucker's kid to feed false intel to Iran and Qatar via Tucker and then fired the kid.

It's kind of amazing that this needs to be said about anyone in tight with Donald Trump at this point, but watch what he does, not what he says.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (2ocoG)

103 And it comes down to an effect I noticed a while ago: almost nobody is truly small government, they just want their opponents to not have the power of government. Too many social "conservatives" want government to be huge, just powerful in their favor. Too many fiscal "conservatives" are perfectly fine with massive spending on projects they support.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Everybody covets the Ring...

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

104 96 Is this an existing one redirected? Or is it new? My brain's too foggy to work it out. Either way it's still just a way to avoid dealing with the things that have actually put most American workers in the mess they're in: Wage suppression and currency devaluation (aka "inflation").

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

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It's redirecting funds that Congress appropriated.

So, with no changes, it keeps going one direction no matter what. With changes, it goes in a new direction.

The choice without changes from Congress is the direction of the money, not the program's existence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (qE8uT)

105 So many politicians are being cancelled for what they say, or not saying every thing demanded because of course failure to be perfect means they are not good at all. I remember when . . .

I remember John Cena being celebrated for saying the right things, until he didn't say all the right things while promoting his show in China He was cancelled, and that was celebrated because he was a coward who was being paid to promote a brand and WWE, and thought that was more important than being ideologically correct.

And now JD Vance, who was celebrated for his patriotism, his service, his family, his background, being Trump's VP, his faith and for saying the right things, and now, he won't say all the right things to satisfy you, so he is "untrustworthy" and "perhaps wrong for the job"

I hate that attack. "untrustworthy" is up there with "inappropriate". This is such a mind-op thing to say. It is really bitch move and and a female attack on character. It is so amorphous to be impossible to defend against.

It does have the benefit of turning all political discourse into a hostage video, or a maoist struggle session due to "political deviance" so that will be fun.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (rbvCR)

106 >what's the definition of nazi in 2026?
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someone who disagrees with you

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (ZxPkt)

107 86 What bothers me most about this is that there are so many "conservative" pundits out there who damn well know better defending this and attacking people who question or oppose it.

And it comes down to an effect I noticed a while ago: almost nobody is truly small government, they just want their opponents to not have the power of government. Too many social "conservatives" want government to be huge, just powerful in their favor. Too many fiscal "conservatives" are perfectly fine with massive spending on projects they support.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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It is reprogramming existing funds for daycare from businesses like the Learing Center and to individuals. Not an entitlement but simply paying the same stipend that otherwise would go to some childcare center.

And no, this is NOT an entitlement but subject to whatever Congress appropriates for subsidies to daycare centers.

Entitlements are subject to special budgetary rules making them very difficult to change--Social Security for example cannot even be changed via Budget Reconciliation.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)

108 90, endorsed.

keating 5, wow, there's a blast-from-the-past.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (VyBeY)

109 May I ask who I have condemned for a minor association? Or, indeed, any association?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

For starters, anyone who worked for the Bushes.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (KC5Lt)

110
106 >what's the definition of nazi in 2026?
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someone who disagrees with you

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (ZxPkt)

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No it's not, you Nazi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (qE8uT)

111 This is all part of Trump's "give Vance enough rope" strategy. Vance is smart, and wrote a book, and is articulate, but is not necessarily a conservative. He still views government as the solution. He's also still pals with Tucker.

Posted by: Joefrombako at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (Bf5aC)

112 I think its not a great sign that "conservatives" want to hand out checks so people can not work.

I understand the concept is to enable, a parent to stay home and raise kids, but its a short hop to universal basic income from there. The country spends too much money on too much stupid crap as it is.

The elites already think they can run the country with AI and robots and don't need a working class anymore. Once they turn 70% of the population into liabilities, then the program will be to reduce those liabilities. One way or another.

Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (anL5R)

113 Vance and Tuqur has the same vibe as Obama being shocked that his pastor believed things he said every Sunday for 20 years.

It was bullshit then. It’s bullshit now.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (U1NLK)

114 The choice without changes from Congress is the direction of the money, not the program's existence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


Ah. My larger point regarding not addressing the actual problem(s) still stands, though.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (OUMaO)

115 Sanity returned to the University of Florida Saturday when the Gators took on the Florida Atlantic Owls at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida.

ESPN reported that this included the popular “gator bait” chant, in which fans would extend their arms in front of them and clap their hands together like an alligator seizing its prey.

... this seems a bit on the silly side, but RACIST ? NO.

Are all silly people racist ?
Would explain the Left's hatred of comedy and comedians.

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

116 New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

117 Great, yet another way to create more dependency on government.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 08, 2026 11:11 AM (+9wcF)

It's money which is already appropriated and must legally be spent. They're talking about giving some to stay at home mothers rather than daycares. That's it.

I'd prefer that the money wasn't spent but that isn't going to happen. It is what it is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

That puts a different spin on it --if it ends there, which seems to never happen.

Posted by: LASue at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (lCppi)

118 Here. If you want a ton of immigrant kids living high on the hog in comparison to their shitholes, have a program like this.

The Canada Child Benefit (CCB) provides a maximum annual benefit of $7,997 per child for families with children under 18, depending on family income and the number of children. Payments are made monthly and are tax-free


Holy Crap. Star Trek lego set on 'The Price is Right.' $640.
AMERICAN DOLLARS!

Some lady won a Star Trek Cruise. If you can't score on a Star Trek cruise....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (Sco7b)

119 97 Plus he torched an aircraft carrier
Posted by: Don Black

He did not

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (J4Dwc)

120 >>> He needs to clarify exactly what he disagrees with and strongly condemn the other viewpoints if not Tucker personally. Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:59 AM (KC5Lt)

There have been rumors around JD for a long time that he is a Manchurian candidate. May be 2nd to Trump, but that his REAL handlers, Palpatine style, are working from the shadows. That if he became POTUS, he would cave to them and be as feckless as any of the other turncoat RINOS.

Playing footsies with Tucker doesn't help quell those rumors for me. But I also remember Reagan's commandment not to speak ill of another Republican, and maybe that's where JD is coming from. But Tucker isn't a republican, JD! He's a shill willing to sell his soul. Huge difference.

JD says all the right things very eloquently, and he is the Democrat's wet dream of a candidate that they wish they had, and are trying to find in degenerate lobster farmers. (Raised in poverty and worked hard, married to a beautiful successful minority woman, picture perfect family.) Love him and Marco, but both of them have at times been RINO adjacent. Rubio was, before getting a spine in Trump's cabinet. Hope they are both the real deal.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (Eng1Z)

121 And it comes down to an effect I noticed a while ago: almost nobody is truly small government, they just want their opponents to not have the power of government.

AtC has noted for years that there is no actual constituency for a balanced budget.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 11:29 AM (2ocoG)

122 May I ask who I have condemned for a minor association? Or, indeed, any association?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

garrett?
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:25 AM (Gqar


Which bathhouses garrett chooses to frequent are his own business.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

123 Never forget when Nancy Pelosi revealed the Democrat Party's entire playbook:

‘The Wrap Up Smear’

“You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest and then you merchandise it and then you write it and they’ll say, see, it’s reported in the press that this, this, this and this, so they have that validation that the press reported the smear and then it’s called a wrap-up smear.

Now I am going to merchandise the press’ report on the smear that we made. It’s a tactic”

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 11:29 AM (RHGPo)

124 114
Ah. My larger point regarding not addressing the actual problem(s) still stands, though.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:28 AM (OUMaO)

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Talk to your Congresscritter!

The federal leviathon has only grown for a century. Until the 80s, it was almost all by statute, and even statutory changes and additions kept going until about the middle of Obama's presidency (the ACA was the last major actual policy change passed by Congress, everything else has been arguments over levels of funding, though there were some policy changes in the OBBB, but that wasn't the overall point of it).

To undo it, requires a lot of...statutory language. From Congress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (qE8uT)

125 Get RID of these damn pop up adds !!

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (zqeQL)

126 9/10 shows Tuqur does is related in some way to how Jews run the world . If that’s not a Nazi then I don’t know what is.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (U1NLK)

127 I have already made up my mind as to who I will vote for in 2028, and I won’t be moved. It will be Not- Democrat.
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (Gqar

That's where I'm at. What's Romney been doing, btw?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (g8Ew8)

128 Some lady won a Star Trek Cruise. If you can't score on a Star Trek cruise....

"The odds are good but the goods are odd."

Posted by: Oddbob at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (vTZFs)

129 Love him and Marco, but both of them have at times been RINO adjacent. Rubio was, before getting a spine in Trump's cabinet. Hope they are both the real deal.

I'm old enough to remember when Ace joked about pawing through Rubio's garbage, and then declared Rubio *is* garbage.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 11:31 AM (2ocoG)

130 121 AtC has noted for years that there is no actual constituency for a balanced budget.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 11:29 AM (2ocoG)

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If Obama hadn't stolen 2012 and Romney accepted it with a whimper, we might have had an opportunity to try the weak-wonk approach to dealing with the debt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:31 AM (qE8uT)

131 127 I have already made up my mind as to who I will vote for in 2028, and I won’t be moved. It will be Not- Democrat.
Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:10 AM (Gqar

That's where I'm at. What's Romney been doing, btw?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (g8Ew

The power of prayer will kick in at some point for me.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Gqar8)

132 Trump and Vance used Tucker's kid to feed false intel to Iran and Qatar via Tucker and then fired the kid.

It's kind of amazing that this needs to be said about anyone in tight with Donald Trump at this point, but watch what he does, not what he says.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Some of the issue is positioning for post Midterms--aka the invisible primary for Presidential candidates. Cruz for example came out with a biography of Clarence Thomas just now. Activists are lining up for Team Vance versus Team whoever, donors are trying to get their hooks into prospective candidates, fake and gay no hopers are looking to be paid to be designated vote splitters and money sinks.

And the easiest thing to criticize as a sidewalk supervisor is our awful political process. And that awful process is directly related to the US being a hegemon and wealthy.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 11:31 AM (E4rtv)

133 Most people want to cut govt spending in the abstract. But everyone has their pet govt cheese they don’t want cut. Which is why no politician will ever cut spending. It’s electoral suicide no matter which side of the aisle they’re on.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:32 AM (U1NLK)

134 Yeah, I don't like the "disavow person that you know because what they've said is unpopular," but on the other hand, Tuq'r has gone off the deep end. So I'm not as up in arms as others because I can see both sides, but I also remember when Rush would say something and the MSM would screech about not enough Republicans distancing himself from him.

Posted by: pookysgirl, always playing Tchaikovsky at September 08, 2026 11:32 AM (Wt5PA)

135 For starters, anyone who worked for the Bushes.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (KC5Lt)


I don't recall that. I object to people who seem to continue working for the Bushes - in a political capacity. If I have wronged someone otherwise, I retract it fully.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:33 AM (ExV1e)

136 It is reprogramming existing funds for daycare from businesses like the Learing Center and to individuals. Not an entitlement but simply paying the same stipend that otherwise would go to some childcare center.

We're 40 trillion dollars in debt.
Every dollar that the government subsidizes people with, gives them control over those people (do this or I take away that money).
The smaller the federal government, the more liberty we have.
The smaller the federal government is, the less corruption we'll see.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (K32Fz)

137 So, the NYT reports?

And anyone believes it?

Sad.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (cGjQu)

138 In the old days barrels of rotgut whiskey bought the votes. Fast forward and it was Obama phones. Now, though, it is buying votes through insane ideas and flights from reality for the Left.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (Gqar8)

139 136 We're 40 trillion dollars in debt.
Every dollar that the government subsidizes people with, gives them control over those people (do this or I take away that money).
The smaller the federal government, the more liberty we have.
The smaller the federal government is, the less corruption we'll see.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (K32Fz)

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So, get Congress to repeal the appropriations.

Until then, what should the administration do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (qE8uT)

140 130 121 AtC has noted for years that there is no actual constituency for a balanced budget.

Posted by: Ian S.

I think it is more to the point that common wisdom of the crowds refuses to have key safety net items like Medicare and Social Security removed when it is apparent that the ruling class, corporate government contractors, and their pet immigrants are robbing this country blind. If Musk was correct, or even Bessent, approximately 800 billion to 1.5 trillion of the current budget is fraud, waste, and abuse of the spending process. And that leaves off state and local government fraud waste and abuse which is likely in the hundreds of billions of dollars range.

The ruling class is going to have to take a hit first by fraud, waste, and abuse like ngos, institutes, illegals, criminals, and other such bullshit first.

Posted by: whig at September 08, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)

141 139 136 We're 40 trillion dollars in debt.
Every dollar that the government subsidizes people with, gives them control over those people (do this or I take away that money).
The smaller the federal government, the more liberty we have.
The smaller the federal government is, the less corruption we'll see.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (K32Fz)

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So, get Congress to repeal the appropriations.

Until then, what should the administration do?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (qE8uT)

Expose Congress for their villainy, mostly.

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 11:35 AM (Gqar8)

142 J.D. looks like a bigger & bigger sucker as time goes on, imho.

I would say this is not a 'concept' to release before mid-terms elections. He/they've played right into the D's hands.

Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, " Subsidies eyed for at-home parents. Existing benefit target of change.
September 7, 2026
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Carlson's son used to work for J.D. He's got his own consulting firm now. Where his two also Democrat sisters are, who knows?

Just 4 months ago, in his Podcast, Carlson and his 'conservative' brother - also Buckley - commiserated about backing Trump.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (NFX2v)

143 Get RID of these damn pop up adds !!

Somebody get these BEGGARS out of here!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (K32Fz)

144 someone who disagrees with you
Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (ZxPkt)


I remember when "antisemite" was used for people who discriminated against jews instead of someone it was OK to discriminate against. Same with Nazi.
But, no one remembers the "10 steps to genocide" even though we were supposed to be taught it in school

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (rbvCR)

145 Until then, what should the administration do?

pay the debt down and tell congress to appropriate less in the next budget or you'll do the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (K32Fz)

146 A guy can dream, can't he?
Posted by: Larry Hagman"

Here, rub this lamp

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (cGjQu)

147 Problem with this program is that like very other program it will grow. Giving stay at home parents some tax relief, sure sounds good in theory.

But you know very well it will then expand to not just parents but any “caregiver” which can include aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins. Then it won’t just be for daycare it will be for “special needs” which will be defined as anything and everything. Then before you know it every family will get a check for this because every family will qualify.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (U1NLK)

148 145 Until then, what should the administration do?

pay the debt down and tell congress to appropriate less in the next budget or you'll do the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (K32Fz)

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So, until Congress does something with the appropriations levels while this discussion is happening, what should the administration do with the appropriations set out to be paid out by law?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:37 AM (qE8uT)

149 147 Problem with this program is that like very other program it will grow. Giving stay at home parents some tax relief, sure sounds good in theory.

But you know very well it will then expand to not just parents but any “caregiver” which can include aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins. Then it won’t just be for daycare it will be for “special needs” which will be defined as anything and everything. Then before you know it every family will get a check for this because every family will qualify.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (U1NLK)

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This program has existed for 30 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:37 AM (qE8uT)

150 and the MSM would screech about not enough Republicans distancing himself from him."

Indeed. We're sadly sliding back to the "all Republicans must..." stage.

Here, let's elect another bush.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:38 AM (cGjQu)

151 pay the debt down and tell congress to appropriate less in the next budget or you'll do the same thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (K32Fz)


The money is required, by law, to be spent in roughly the manner that it's being spent. You're suggesting that the President act in a dictatorial manner because you like/trust Trump but he won't always be President.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 11:39 AM (ExV1e)

152 Benjamin Franklin once said that the surest way to eliminate poverty is to not let the poor grow too comfortable. Ben was right most every time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 08, 2026 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)

153 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (K32Fz)

You're starting from the position of "we shouldn't be spending this money in the first place!" and you're right.

You're also overlooking that the Executive Branch CAN'T stop spending this money. They can only shift it from lefty recipients to righty recipients. Which they're doing.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:39 AM (PGK1w)

154 Program has been around but not allowing stay at parents to claim the credit. If this is enacted I’ll bet my bottom dollar within a year or two parents will be expanded to more family members. It will grow in score and size and funding to accommodate it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:40 AM (U1NLK)

155 Until then, what should the administration do?

pay the debt down and tell congress to appropriate less in the next budget or you'll do the same thing.
==
Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt. It won't happen again.

Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)

156 The money is required, by law, to be spent in roughly the manner that it's being spent.

Congress cannot tell the executive branch how to spend the money in a program, only that the program must exist and what it does. Its a separation of powers issue. That's why the president is slashing departments like the DOE, because the law created the department and gave it goals and guidelines, but cannot tell the executive exactly how to run it or how many employees etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (K32Fz)

157 Paying debts is racist. Probably.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (U1NLK)

158 pay the debt down and tell congress to appropriate less in the next budget or you'll do the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:34 AM (K32Fz)

It is illegal for the administration to do this. The money must be spent in a manner similar to its allocation by Congress.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:42 AM (PGK1w)

159 Ben was right most every time."

Even as Silence Dogood...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:42 AM (cGjQu)

160 Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt. It won't happen again.
Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)

But that was when the national debt was tree fiddy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

161 It is illegal for the administration to do this. The money must be spent in a manner similar to its allocation by Congress."

Teh Won laughs...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:43 AM (cGjQu)

162 >>> I'm old enough to remember when Ace joked about pawing through Rubio's garbage, and then declared Rubio *is* garbage. Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 11:31 AM (2ocoG)

Me too! Good times.

Going deep. Out... Agree with you, I'm struggling with the ads on my iphone. It's pretty much unreadable at this point. And no, switching to Android and nuking my iphone from orbit is not an option.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 11:44 AM (Eng1Z)

163 100% what you wrote.

From ancient times, paying people to have families has never worked. Trying it again under some pretense of supporting families as a conservative principle will not change that success rate.

Posted by: Sam at September 08, 2026 11:44 AM (7jMef)

164 You can give tax breaks for families, reduce onerous regulations and costs for families, etc. That's how you help families and increase having kids. Make it less expensive and more attractive. The most powerful tool that the government has to encourage things is to lift the boot off their necks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:45 AM (K32Fz)

165 It is illegal for the administration to do this. The money must be spent in a manner similar to its allocation by Congress."

Teh Won laughs...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:43 AM (cGjQu)

That's actually the point. That's precisely the point.

Do we seriously want a president who acts, functions, and attaches to himself powers he doesn't actually have?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:45 AM (PGK1w)

166 Didn’t Congress also write some laws about illegal aliens not being allowed into the country? Biden laughed at those laws too.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:46 AM (U1NLK)

167 This is sort of my fear when you lean heavily into populism. It starts going off the rails and just becomes Democrat policies.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 08, 2026 11:46 AM (hRrXl)

168 Geez, I stop by for a glance and see that if JD or Rubio are out picks for 2028 then its dems all the way... just stop it all of you. There is never a perfect candidate - geez take a breather and get ahold of yourselves.

Heck, just compare what your thoughts were about Trump back in 2016. Good grief. I'm off to lunch.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at September 08, 2026 11:46 AM (VkY89)

169 50% of tax filers pay $0 federal income tax. This is just more welfare and not a tax cut.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:47 AM (U1NLK)

170 Didn’t Congress also write some laws about illegal aliens not being allowed into the country? Biden laughed at those laws too.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:46 AM (U1NLK)

I want to make sure I'm on the same page going forward.

Are we in favor of following the law or are we not in favor of following the law?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:47 AM (PGK1w)

171 From ancient times, paying people to have families has never worked. Trying it again under some pretense of supporting families as a conservative principle will not change that success rate.

Posted by: Sam


It will, however, buy political support, which is the real point of the play.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:47 AM (OUMaO)

172 This is sort of my fear when you lean heavily into populism.

Right, populism has its drawbacks. Not what the partisan leaders scream but yeah there are real problems

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:47 AM (K32Fz)

173 On the other hand, either "If you want more of something subsidize it" is true or it isn't.

if congress won't stop spending the money, using it to subsidize something you want - i.e. a stay-at-home parent for small children instead of day care - is... the least worst option.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (vJrRc)

174 Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt. It won't happen again.

Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)

Mint about 50 Trillion dollar coins, well actually 150 Trillion dollar coins for unfunded liabilities, and you're good.

CNN - Amazon plane crash
FoxNews- women kicked out of game for 'XX - XY' shirts
MSNow - dismissed transgender army seargent speaks out - FINALLY...lol

CBC - I'm guessing tariffs and President Trump is evil personified.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (Sco7b)

175 I'm off to lunch.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM


Has Skip given his permission yet?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

176 Agree that paying homeschooling families a "living wage" will get abused, and the money will NOT go the families it should. I think child tax credits for stay at home parents would ensure the parents are productive.

That being said, I do feel for the homeschooling families I know who could use the extra money. It must be galling to pay their property taxes, and see it get utterly squandered by the public schools, which is why they are teaching at home in the first place!

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (Eng1Z)

177 Geez, I stop by for a glance and see that if JD or Rubio are out picks for 2028 then its dems all the way



Who said anything of the sort?

It’s OK to have an internal debate on who is the better nominee. Vance isn’t a prince and he shouldn’t be crowned as next in line just because.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (U1NLK)

178 171
It will, however, buy political support, which is the real point of the play.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:47 AM (OUMaO)

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I mean...yeah.

Also, our baby bust it's really "our" baby bust.

Conservatives keep having babies at replacement rate. No material change from the 90s to now.

"Our" baby bust is progressives stopped having kids. Going from roughly 2.0 per couple to about 1.3 per couple in the last 30 years.

Still, America can still be America with a declining birth rate as long as we don't mass import non-Americans. And that crazy shit would never happen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (qE8uT)

179 The world is chock full of problems. Politicians think they have to have a solution to those problems. It leads to spending, and bureaucracy and sometimes geopolitical conflict. World's broken and no politician or party going to fix it. We should try to live within our means and stop trying to turn the Country into free Disneyland.

Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:50 AM (anL5R)

180 being said, I do feel for the homeschooling families I know who could use the extra money. It must be galling to pay their property taxes, and see it get utterly squandered by the public schools, which is why they are teaching at home in the first place!
Posted by: LizLem

That’s something that should be addressed at the state or county level. Property tax reform is getting traction, this should be part of it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:50 AM (U1NLK)

181 Also Vance looks like he wears eyeliner

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 11:50 AM (ZxPkt)

182 Still, America can still be America with a declining birth rate as long as we don't mass import non-Americans. And that crazy shit would never happen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (qE8uT)

If it ever did, you'd definitely see net-negative population growth at the beginning...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:50 AM (PGK1w)

183 It's not easy trying to take care of the world.

Posted by: Case at September 08, 2026 11:51 AM (noln+)

184 It will, however, buy political support, which is the real point of the play.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired


Certainly a better play than the "Vote for us so we can take away your rights" that the "repeal the 19th" contingent is running...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 11:51 AM (vJrRc)

185 I want to make sure I'm on the same page going forward.

Are we in favor of following the law or are we not in favor of following the law?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:47 AM (PGK1w)

Following the law, of course. However, I will still probably drive 80mph in a 75mph speed zone.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

186 Conservatives keep having babies at replacement rate. No material change from the 90s to now

Which is cultural suicide. You need to have as many kids as you possibly can manage, raise them outside state control, and teach them to do the same.

Imagine if every conservative in the 1980s had 5-8 kids each, home schooled them, and taught them to do the same? We'd lose some to the left, but the bulk would be more conservative. By now the population would be 5:1 right vs left.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:51 AM (K32Fz)

187 4 Yeah, I don't like the "disavow person that you know because what they've said is unpopular," but on the other hand, Tuq'r has gone off the deep end. So I'm not as up in arms as others because I can see both sides, but I also remember when Rush would say something and the MSM would screech about not enough Republicans distancing himself from him.
Posted by: pookysgirl, always playing Tchaikovsky at September 08, 2026 11:32 AM (Wt5PA)


Tucker and Candace are doing the Steve Bannon shtick: veiled references to deep sources, dark information he can't reveal, bitch comments about moral qualities that never get defined, and just outright accusations that are never followed up on. It is a shame, too, because although Tucker is about as interesting politically as Joe Rogan, he could interview people very well, and for a while he could get non-loons to talk with him.

Levin and Beck in contrast are tools, but at least they are clearly doing it for money. Beck needs to support his museums and whims, and Levin apparently has a high burn rate and maintenance cost for his bunker.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:51 AM (rbvCR)

188 A huge game in my region is home healthcare. Grandma or Grandpa or whoever qualify for some in home aid. They - for example - go grocery shopping and half the family - signed up as aides - run over and carry groceries in, etc. Then they may or may not hangout.

Doesn't matter. All get at least $15 an hour clear, often for not even showing up. Partying money. They call in local talk radio programs and laugh about the absurdity of several government subsidized programs, especially this.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 11:52 AM (NFX2v)

189 Also, our baby bust isn't really "our" baby bust.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


It's worldwide. So it's everybody's baby bust.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

190 189 Also, our baby bust isn't really "our" baby bust.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


It's worldwide. So it's everybody's baby bust.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

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American conservatives seem to be the only group of whites who actually believe in the future, if you go by birthrates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (qE8uT)

191 I mean...yeah.

Also, our baby bust it's really "our" baby bust.

Conservatives keep having babies at replacement rate. No material change from the 90s to now.

"Our" baby bust is progressives stopped having kids. Going from roughly 2.0 per couple to about 1.3 per couple in the last 30 years.

Still, America can still be America with a declining birth rate as long as we don't mass import non-Americans. And that crazy shit would never happen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films


I mean, it's almost as if aborting...and occasionally just killing...all your kids makes for a hell of a drag on your population numbers, or something. Crazy idea, right?

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (OUMaO)

192 188 What museums does Beck have?

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

193 Certainly a better play than the "Vote for us so we can take away your rights" that the "repeal the 19th" contingent is running

I think 90% of the "repeal the 19th" is either trolling or exasperated exaggeration. It is difficult to overstate how horrified men are at seeing so many women go "akshually murdering all your babies isn't so bad"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (K32Fz)

194 Final showcase - a signed William Shatner communicator.
Priceless?

CBC - US may impose more tariffs today.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 11:54 AM (Sco7b)

195 191
I mean, it's almost as if aborting...and occasionally just killing...all your kids makes for a hell of a drag on your population numbers, or something. Crazy idea, right?

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (OUMaO)

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"Not enough! Tell those that survived that they're evil because of their skin color! And that the world is ending no matter what we do! And that kids are a burden that prevent you from living your best life! And that those that do have kids were born wrong and need to have their genitals removed!"
-the past 30 years' messaging on the left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:54 AM (qE8uT)

196 >>> Also Vance looks like he wears eyeliner

Some guys have naturally thick lashes. Of all the things a politician might do to boost his look (Like Desantis' platform cowboy boots, or Trump's spray tan), guyliner is a weird flex.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (Eng1Z)

197 Certainly a better play than the "Vote for us so we can take away your rights" that the "repeal the 19th" contingent is running...

Posted by: FeatherBlade


Not like the other side's coalition doesn't include far more radical thoughts in that vein, but never mind that for now...

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (OUMaO)

198 I mean, it's almost as if aborting...and occasionally just killing...all your kids makes for a hell of a drag on your population numbers, or something. Crazy idea, right?

"As long as you keep sending your kids to our schools and drown them in our media, we don't need to have kids of our own!"
--leftists

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (K32Fz)

199 Certainly a better play than the "Vote for us so we can take away your rights" that the "repeal the 19th" contingent is running

I think 90% of the "repeal the 19th" is either trolling or exasperated exaggeration. It is difficult to overstate how horrified men are at seeing so many women go "akshually murdering all your babies isn't so bad"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

My wife said the other day (I think we were discussing the Clancy case) that she would gladly give up her right to vote if it would also be taken away from liberal white women.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

200 Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt. It won't happen again.
Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)


Where did Jackson get the money?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

201 A little ironic, since one of the biggest bits of federal fraud recently uncovered was because they wanted to let gov't subsidies flow to those who decided against institutionalizing their elderly parents and taking care of them at home themselves.

Posted by: GWB at September 08, 2026 11:56 AM (kU0PQ)

202 My sister turns off the politics when around family. It's not bad at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Mrs B's sister is a real piece of work in the best of time. Insufferable really. Covid drove her off the cliff and she gave Mrs B a raft of shit over all the hysterical overreactions. They didn't speak for about four years.

She recently called to visit with Mrs B. She never apologized really, but Mrs B took it as sign of admission she was a little wrong. Which is huge considering it's her.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 08, 2026 11:56 AM (l26NL)

203 Final showcase - a signed William Shatner communicator.
Priceless?

Used alien panties from Kirk's quarters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 11:56 AM (mqudn)

204 Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt. It won't happen again.

Posted by: Its not like i am an expert or anything at September 08, 2026 11:41 AM (anL5R)

Where did Jackson get the money?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

Tariffs, selling federal land, and taxing alcohol and tobacco.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:57 AM (PGK1w)

205 I think 90% of the "repeal the 19th" is either trolling or exasperated exaggeration. It is difficult to overstate how horrified men are at seeing so many women go "akshually murdering all your babies isn't so bad"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


It has been suggested that the only real choice is who eventually puts an end to women's rights, Islam or some sort of neo-alt-West thing. I hope that isn't the case, but there are times I wonder.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:57 AM (OUMaO)

206 204 Tariffs, selling federal land, and taxing alcohol and tobacco.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 11:57 AM (PGK1w)

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"It's fine when OUR guy does it!"
-the remnants of the Whiskey Rebellion, probably

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:58 AM (qE8uT)

207 My wife said the other day (I think we were discussing the Clancy case) that she would gladly give up her right to vote if it would also be taken away from liberal white women.

And she probably didn't even mean it but yeah, I get it.

I don't want to take away the vote from women, I mean there are a host of guys I don't want to vote but that's part of the cost of democratic elections. But I get it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:58 AM (K32Fz)

208 JD can decide who he wants to be friends with.

Why try to bully him into doing with YOU think he should do. Fuck that.

I make my own friends. And I don’t have to justify TO ANYONE why they are my friend.

Get off your high horse and mind your own damn business.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 11:58 AM (W2Pud)

209 Very disappointed when I saw this idea floated. Argue against socialism by creating more socialism. 🙄

And can you imagine the number of somali kids that every somali mom will claim.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2026 11:58 AM (n5tGW)

210 If I were 20 years younger right now I’d absolutely have no kids. The future for white people in America isn’t too bright. I think my kids will do OK-is as we are still in the transition phase. But 40-50 years from now, when whites a small minority…I don’t see good times ahead.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 11:58 AM (U1NLK)

211 Do we seriously want a president who acts, functions, and attaches to himself powers he doesn't actually have?"

We just had two...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:59 AM (cGjQu)

212 A little ironic, since one of the biggest bits of federal fraud recently uncovered was because they wanted to let gov't subsidies flow to those who decided against institutionalizing their elderly parents and taking care of them at home themselves.

Posted by: GWB


Do. Not. Get. Me. Started. On. This. Subject.

Posted by: Brother Tim is tired at September 08, 2026 11:59 AM (OUMaO)

213 182 Still, America can still be America with a declining birth rate as long as we don't mass import non-Americans. And that crazy shit would never happen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 11:48 AM (qE8uT)
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We don't need to import labor. We have a labor pool in waiting all we have to do is stop paying them to not work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 11:59 AM (6T7Go)

214 And she probably didn't even mean it but yeah, I get it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

You don't know my wife.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

215 From ancient times, paying people to have families has never worked. Trying it again under some pretense of supporting families as a conservative principle will not change that success rate.
Posted by: Sam at September 08, 2026 11:44 AM (7jMef)


1) and will preferring one section of society over another garner more votes?
2) will having a stay at home parent lead to more or less conservative families?
3) what seems to be important now, the next couple of elections, or standing on our rock ribbed principles and telling kids starting a family who can barely pay the rent that they won't get help if they stop paying daycare and the wife stays at home and they should be happy that the conservative world is focusing on their children's eventual economic future should Congress get around to it and they can shut up now?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:00 PM (rbvCR)

216 Do we seriously want a president who acts, functions, and attaches to himself powers he doesn't actually have?"

We just had two...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 11:59 AM (cGjQu)

And condemned them up one side and down the other.

Do you now advocate for Trump doing the exact same thing because it's in service to a goal you support?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:00 PM (PGK1w)

217 Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 11:51 AM (vJrRc)

It's so ridiculous- this whole " Let's repeal votes for women."" I understand many women vote stupidly. So do many men. Talking voting away from women will never happen unless, perhaps, we become a Muslim theocracy - in which case we have much bigger problems than just womens votes being taken away.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 12:00 PM (P5Y6m)

218
Paying debts is racist. Probably.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez


Beans and rice. Rice and beans.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:00 PM (Cqx++)

219 they wanted to let gov't subsidies flow to those who decided against institutionalizing their elderly parents and taking care of them at home themselves.

Which on its face is a good thing, but again these programs are never about what they claim to be, they're a way for grifters to open the spigot. Its yet another reason in so many for government to not hand out other people's money, even in a very positive cause.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:00 PM (K32Fz)

220 212 A little ironic, since one of the biggest bits of federal fraud recently uncovered was because they wanted to let gov't subsidies flow to those who decided against institutionalizing their elderly parents and taking care of them at home themselves.

Posted by: GWB
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Best thing is to institutionalize them, put them on a gurney and roll them to the end of the hall. They go quiet after a couple of days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:01 PM (6T7Go)

221 >>> What museums does Beck have?

Glenn Beck? He's a massive American History collection junkie. He's commented before that his wife has had concerns he'll spend all their money on buying up history. The plan is to one day build a massive museum for it all, I'm guessing in TX.

When the Tea Party thing was still kicking, he did a pop-up mini museum in SLC and I dragged my family to it. It was so cool. He had blocks of pressed tea original to the Boston Tea Party era, so you could see what the actual tea looked like that was thrown into the harbor. And the emancipated slave in chains iconic items that became popular for abolitionists to wear and put on pamphlets.

He bought up some documents coveted by libs, I think connected to Roe v Wade? Not to revere them, but to ensure they are not altered or destroyed by libs. Keep their vile history intact for the future to see.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:01 PM (Eng1Z)

222 Not like the other side's coalition doesn't include far more radical thoughts in that vein, but never mind that for now...
Posted by: Brother Tim is tired


I have a theory on that.

I think people don't believe Leftists when they say that kind of thing and worse, because they perceive Leftists as not having the stones to actually follow through.

People believe right-leaning types when they say things like that, because the perceive men of the right as the people who get things done.

Whether those perceptions are accurate are another matter entirely...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 12:02 PM (vJrRc)

223 And condemned them up one side and down the other"

And that slowed what, exactly?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu)

224 The govt picking winners and losers has always been a bane to this country.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2026 12:03 PM (n5tGW)

225 Certainly a better play than the "Vote for us so we can take away your rights" that the "repeal the 19th" contingent is running

I think 90% of the "repeal the 19th" is either trolling or exasperated exaggeration. It is difficult to overstate how horrified men are at seeing so many women go "akshually murdering all your babies isn't so bad"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

My wife said the other day (I think we were discussing the Clancy case) that she would gladly give up her right to vote if it would also be taken away from liberal white women.
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)
_____

Take the vote away from unmarried women of all races, and you're 95% there. Take away the votes of non-working women gets you maybe 50% there.

Hell, while we're at it, take away the votes from all unmarried and/or nonworking women and men.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 08, 2026 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

226 I think people don't believe Leftists when they say that kind of thing and worse, because they perceive Leftists as not having the stones to actually follow through.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 12:02 PM (vJrRc)

I think it's because the nation has been conditioned (by the left) to reflexively think the left is good and kind. If things don't work out, welp... they tried really hard. They'd NEVER do something like that on purpose.

Even though a Dem candidate, this cycle, literally ran on instituting concentration camps for Joos...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (PGK1w)

227 Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:01 PM (Eng1Z)

Wow, thanks. That's very cool.

Always thought Beck was kind of a loon, but this raises my opinion of him. Good for him!

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (77rzZ)

228 What museums does Beck have?
Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)


https://americanjourneyexperience.com/

I think he also loses money on cattle

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)

229 I'm done bugging all of you. Last word on tariffs from X

Ian Lee, as Canada’s counter-tariffs hit: this isn’t a mood. It’s jobs.

~45,000 Canadian firms export to the U.S.; 30,000 export only there. $400B in sales, ~2 million jobs. “We are literally playing with fire.”

Sales collapse → “You lay off workers.” Ottawa can’t put them all on payroll

His fix: get back to the table. “I don’t accept the argument that we can’t negotiate.” Trump has done 19 deals since 2025. “Elbows up is an emotional response. That’s not a policy.”

Sovereignty demands? “That was a claim Canada made. I wasn’t in the room.” Greer denies it. Negotiate instead of walking away The real problem is older: “We should never have allowed ourselves to become so dependent. 71% of our exports go to the States.” Diversify later. Jobs first

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (Sco7b)

230 208 JD can decide who he wants to be friends with.

Why try to bully him into doing with YOU think he should do. Fuck that.

I make my own friends. And I don’t have to justify TO ANYONE why they are my friend.

Get off your high horse and mind your own damn business.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 11:58 AM (W2Pud)

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I am reminded of sportswriters asking Tom Brady, "When are you going to sever your friendship with that awful Donald Trump."

If it looks like a liberal and talks like a liberal, it's a liberal.

Posted by: Common Sense Christian Wisdom at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (cc+Kg)

231 Pop quizzes at the polling places

you gotta get 4 out of 5 to get in

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (ZxPkt)

232
Order of Maternal Glory

Elevating the Status of Motherhood Solves Low Birthrates: The Extraordinary Case of Mongolia
For 68 years, Mongolian leaders have given the Order of Maternal Glory to mothers. This raised the status of motherhood and helped forge a remarkably pronatal culture.

Mongolia birthrate 2.64



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (6T7Go)

233 229 Sovereignty demands? “That was a claim Canada made. I wasn’t in the room.” Greer denies it. Negotiate instead of walking away The real problem is older: “We should never have allowed ourselves to become so dependent. 71% of our exports go to the States.” Diversify later. Jobs first

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:04 PM (Sco7b)

=======

Don't worry. China will save you by forcing you to buy cheap missiles that fail in launch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:05 PM (qE8uT)

234
Very disappointed when I saw this idea floated. Argue against socialism by creating more socialism. 🙄

Trump Accounts!
Trump Accounts!
Get your Trump Account right here!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:05 PM (Cqx++)

235 Do. Not. Get. Me. Started. On. This. Subject."

This. I'm sitting at mom's "assisted living" right now, burning resources I don't have. Meanwhile, illegals are sending home millions siphoned off from "care".

F me

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:05 PM (cGjQu)

236 I have been trying lately to avoid bringing up how stuff is not constitutional -- and this is not -- because it has become completely obvious that we are not a constitutional republic any longer and the only time it ever comes up is when someone wants to stop an opponent. There's no point bringing it up, its like mentioning the NBA rules at a Harlem Globe Trotters game or OSHA in a Three Stooges movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:06 PM (K32Fz)

237 "I think 90% of the "repeal the 19th" is either trolling or exasperated exaggeration. It is difficult to overstate how horrified men are at seeing so many women go "akshually murdering all your babies isn't so bad"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 11:53 AM (K32Fz)"

I don't expect anyone to make a serious effort to repeal it, but out of all of the women in my circle of my close acquaintances, most had stated they'd nuke the 19th if you presented them a magical button to do so. The last couple of holdouts agreed agreed after this whole Clancy trial clusterfuck. This isn't men nagging them into it - I'm talking about unprompted declarations.

It is hard to overstate how furious these women are at feeling the need to take that position, but ... All of my people are escapees from blue shitholes, or have watched their institutions get razed by dangerhairs and cat ladies. And they've all watched these freaks try to go after their kids and flood our towns with criminals. They have a burning hatred for the AWFLs and the damage they've done.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:06 PM (TkJMd)

238 >I think he also loses money on cattle

Posted by: Kindltot
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oh yeah he was gonna be a cowboy or something

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (ZxPkt)

239 Hell, while we're at it, take away the votes from all unmarried and/or nonworking women and men.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


Equal application of the law to both sexes, or no application at all.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (vJrRc)

240 Don't worry. China will save you by forcing you to buy cheap missiles that fail in launch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:05 PM (qE8uT

Carney was just on.

We're apparently going to make Canada stronger by blowing our economic brains all across the room.

Sweet.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (Sco7b)

241 I'd give up my right to vote if AWFLs were nuked from space. 100% immediately.

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (enNUy)

242 Do you now advocate for Trump doing the exact same thing because it's in service to a goal you support?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:00 PM (PGK1w)


There are those that believe that allying themselves with the Devil will give them great powers to do good.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR)

243 240 Carney was just on.

We're apparently going to make Canada stronger by blowing our economic brains all across the room.

Sweet.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (Sco7b)

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"Splooge."
-like 70% of Canada

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (qE8uT)

244 And condemned them up one side and down the other"

And that slowed what, exactly?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu)

Nothing.

So Trump should do it too, yes? I just want you to be clear.

You're calling on President Trump to ignore the law in order to pursue a goal you support. Nevermind the moral and ethical concerns there, but we're also like seven minutes away from Midterms which could very easily end in multiple impeachment trials.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (PGK1w)

245 FWIW, nurse speaks wisdom. Again.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (cGjQu)

246 I make my own friends. And I don’t have to justify TO ANYONE why they are my friend.

While I agree in principle, I think you would have the integrity to say "but I don't like this about them" or "that thing they said was crazy and I disagree"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (K32Fz)

247 Carney was just on.

We're apparently going to make Canada stronger by blowing our economic brains all across the room.

Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (Sco7b)

Carney is the best possible salesman that the Alberta Independence movement could wish for.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (1z8ji)

248 244 but we're also like seven minutes away from Midterms which could very easily end in multiple impeachment trials.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:08 PM (PGK1w)

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With a majority of one, Jeffries will announce the impeachment subcommittee before the next Congress is seated, no matter what.

Empty, pointless theater is all Congress is good for, and with a bare majority in one chamber and nothing in the Senate but bitter disappointment, he has to deliver something to his base.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:09 PM (qE8uT)

249 They have a burning hatred for the AWFLs and the damage they've done.
==
You shall not suffer a witch to live - or something like that...
Hmm, wonder what prompted that line...

Posted by: Crazy Beeches can't be accomodated at September 08, 2026 12:10 PM (anL5R)

250 WaPo

Courts & Law
Lindsay Clancy's attorney makes public pleas for Trump pardon
Kevin Reddington also said he hope to arrange an agreement with prosecutors that would be "acceptable to both sides."
Today at 10:10 am

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NO

And it's BS.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 12:10 PM (NFX2v)

251 Canadians will get a good deal on a jumping BYD car.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:10 PM (Cqx++)

252 Best thing is to institutionalize them, put them on a gurney and roll them to the end of the hall. They go quiet after a couple of days.

So, the Scandanavian Model then

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:10 PM (K32Fz)

253 You're calling on President Trump to ignore the law "

Que? Yeah, sure. Run with that.

*sigh

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (cGjQu)

254 Empty, pointless theater is all Congress is good for, and with a bare majority in one chamber and nothing in the Senate but bitter disappointment, he has to deliver something to his base.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:09 PM (qE8uT)

Correct.

Which is why it's politically retarded to demand Trump ACTUALLY break some laws to do a Thing You Want.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (PGK1w)

255 >>> My wife said the other day (I think we were discussing the Clancy case) that she would gladly give up her right to vote if it would also be taken away from liberal white women. Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

I refuse to give up my right to vote if a sex pest, dog shocking degenerate like Hasan Piker gets to retain his. Immigrated here and given a cushy nepo life by his uncle Chenk, yet hates America. Find a way to rescind the votes of everyone who truly hates this country and roots for its downfall, and maybe we'll talk.

I've researched that era so heavily, and the people advocating to repeal the 19th have no idea how badly women were treated as chattel before they got the vote. No idea. You were completely at the mercy of the men in your life, you had very little autonomy unless a man deigned to give it to you. Not every man was like John Adams, who revered his wife and viewed her as his equal.

Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (Eng1Z)

256 TJM , went to mow lawn. The answer to your question is to get Congress to act to end as many social engineering programs as possible. Now I have to go play center field for the Yankees

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (v6vok)

257 The 2028 primary has started here. You can tell because the knives come out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (1S6X6)

258 We're apparently going to make Canada stronger by blowing our economic brains all across the room.

Carney is a sock puppet for China.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (K32Fz)

259 They tried this idea in Sweden. It didn’t work. You have to convince women that being a mother is a good, even a noble thing.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (jMluN)

260 254 Correct.

Which is why it's politically retarded to demand Trump ACTUALLY break some laws to do a Thing You Want.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (PGK1w)

=======

I'm still hoping for Jeffries gets his majority of one, and one Democrat dies peacefully in his sleep before Congress is seated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:12 PM (qE8uT)

261 Women are slaves to their emotions and must be protected
Clancy is not responsible for the murder because hormones control

pic.twitter.com/k9Ueisg8HL

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:12 PM (6T7Go)

262 Oh, let's take a peak over at the UK:

Also WaPo -
Citing ‘ethnic cleansing,’ U.K. bars imports from Israeli settlements in West Bank
Numerous other European countries immediately pledged support for the effort, which prompted Israel to close Britain’s consulate in Jerusalem. By Steve Hendrix and Lior Soroka, 27 minutes ago

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (NFX2v)

263 Ugh. VP Vance told the Michigan Arab to keep his wife's "name out of his mouth."

I hate it when adults use millennial-talk. It's puerile.

Try this: "the next time you talk any shit about my wife, I'll make you pay for it, and I ain't hardly halfway fucking with you, boy."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (BI5O2)

264 Glenn Beck? He's a massive American History collection junkie.
------

Met him once. Gave him a WWII Armed Forces Hymnal. I was told later that Beck, sotto voce, sang a few on the plane home.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (XeU6L)

265 Nood!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (9Q+nP)

266 256 TJM , went to mow lawn. The answer to your question is to get Congress to act to end as many social engineering programs as possible. Now I have to go play center field for the Yankees

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (v6vok)

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Until then, the programs will exist with money that the executive must spend.

So, the only practical question is how should the administration spend the money?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (qE8uT)

267 =======

I'm still hoping for Jeffries gets his majority of one, and one Democrat dies peacefully in his sleep before Congress is seated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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Wouldn't it be better to win the house?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (6T7Go)

268 @232 Mongolian doesn't have much else to do but screw and try not to freeze to death

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (v6vok)

269 Carney is the best possible salesman that the Alberta Independence movement could wish for.
--
He is a one man event horizon for charisma. He enters a room, and everything turns dull, grey and muted.

Good luck Canada.

Posted by: Oh FFS Canada - new anthem at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (anL5R)

270 267 Wouldn't it be better to win the house?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (6T7Go)

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Not for the lulz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 12:14 PM (qE8uT)

271 Hell, while we're at it, take away the votes from all unmarried and/or nonworking women and men.

From all men and women who don't own land / pay taxes.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 12:14 PM (2ocoG)

272 my problem with the "repeal the 19th amendment" thing is that there are at least as many idiotic dudes out there who vote stupidly and are destroying our culture as women. The women only accomplish what they do because men either assist or step aside and let it happen.

You cannot condemn only women here. If we men would step up and show some leadership, if we would do the right thing instead of being lazy and cringy and simping, then both bad men and bad women would have less impact.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:14 PM (K32Fz)

273 @232 Mongolian doesn't have much else to do but screw and try not to freeze to death

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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https://tinyurl.com/bdmmkdnw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:15 PM (6T7Go)

274 Women are slaves to their emotions and must be protected
Clancy is not responsible for the murder because hormones control
==
Yo, how can we get in on this hormone dealio?

Posted by: Serial Rapists Everywhere at September 08, 2026 12:16 PM (anL5R)

275
I'm still hoping for Jeffries gets his majority of one

Will the DSA vote for Jeffries to be speaker?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:16 PM (Cqx++)

276 You cannot condemn only women here.
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How many men have gotten off or received reduced sentences because of some hormonal related malady?

Zero.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (6T7Go)

277 Good luck Canada.

They had a final shot at at least slowing the destruction but thew a tantrum at Trump calling Canada the 51st state and voted against sanity. It is very difficult to take them seriously as a country.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 08, 2026 12:17 PM (K32Fz)

278 "Posted by: LizLem at September 08, 2026 12:11 PM (Eng1Z)"

To be clear, *I* do not advocate repealing the 19th, but the position of the ladies I know that do is basically that regressing would be preferrable to progressing to 1917 v2.0. What the progs have in mind is far worse than any pre suffrage shittiness.

I think long term the AWFL problem can be fixed with sufficient -and extreme - social pressure. But the government and courts we have likely won't let us exert that pressure, at least not on this side of a massive seizure of violence that likely would not see many AWFL survivors anyways.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (TkJMd)

279 oh yeah he was gonna be a cowboy or something
Posted by: Don Black, reminding you that a swim move can defeat a double team at September 08, 2026 12:07 PM (ZxPkt)


Every one loses money on cattle, I think a rancher gets 15 cents of the dollar paid for beef at the store.
The problem is the market is structured so the rancher has little say in how or what is done in raising beef, it is all directed by the slaughterhouses and the brokers who resell it.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (rbvCR)

280 You cannot condemn only women here. If we men would step up and show some leadership, if we would do the right thing instead of being lazy and cringy and simping, then both bad men and bad women would have less impact.
==
Well don't assume all women are willing to be "led". I think the divide is very real. Its a cultural thing. A lot of people have no use for model that made western civilization possible. And some people flat out hate it. The counter narrative has been empowered by the media, and subsidized by social policy. Gigachads aren't going to deprogram that portion of society by themselves. The culture has to change and so does social policy.

Posted by: Serial Rapists Everywhere at September 08, 2026 12:21 PM (anL5R)

281 oops

Posted by: off terrible sock at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (anL5R)

282 From all men and women who don't own land / pay taxes.
Posted by: Ian S.


You might want to check the political demographics of landowners before you make that your qualification.

Employed childless leftists may have more spare money with which to buy real estate than employed right-wing family men do.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (vJrRc)

283 "Following the law, of course. However, I will still probably drive 80mph in a 75mph speed zone."

I'm guessing you drive 80 in a 35mph zone. Cuz you're special!

Posted by: Will Robinson at September 08, 2026 12:23 PM (A3xvt)

284 Every one loses money on cattle, I think a rancher gets 15 cents of the dollar paid for beef at the store.
The problem is the market is structured so the rancher has little say in how or what is done in raising beef, it is all directed by the slaughterhouses and the brokers who resell it.
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After one season of watching clarkson's farm, its pretty obvious that the farmers get screwed at every turn by the middle men.

Posted by: so you wind up with large corporate farms vertically integrating at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (anL5R)

285 Carney is a sock puppet for China The Bank of England and the ECB.

FIFY Christopher

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:25 PM (rbvCR)

286 Also WaPo -
Citing ‘ethnic cleansing,’ U.K. bars imports from Israeli settlements in West Bank
Numerous other European countries immediately pledged support for the effort, which prompted Israel to close Britain’s consulate in Jerusalem. By Steve Hendrix and Lior Soroka, 27 minutes ago
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 08, 2026 12:13 PM (NFX2v)


And in citing this, Israel is now backing the Argentine claim over the Malvinas.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)

287 "Employed childless leftists may have more spare money with which to buy real estate than employed right-wing family men do.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 08, 2026 12:22 PM (vJrRc)"

Sure... but WHY can so many fewer families afford homes now?

That sort of imbalance was a lot more tenable when governments enforced order with strong arms and sharp things made of rare and expensive materials. With drones, guns, and explosives, not so much. Don't assume that sort of arrangement is stable.

Let's boil down most of this comment thread to the core issue: neurotic, mostly childless busybodies are threatening the families and livihoods of many millions of hardworking normies. That never ends well.

Posted by: heya at September 08, 2026 12:31 PM (TkJMd)

288 Get RID of these damn pop up adds !!
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 08, 2026 11:30 AM (zqeQL)

What popup ads?? I see no popup ads, nor do the majority of Morons here. Download Brave and use it.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 08, 2026 01:06 PM (hmYU4)

289 How dare we give our own supporters benefits and make their lives better. s/

Posted by: Fred of Rick at September 08, 2026 04:08 PM (7oE8a)

290 Tucker Carlson is opposed to the government corruption and incompetence that got us here. Deal with it.

Posted by: Jumpininhere at September 08, 2026 04:43 PM (LGV74)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Bouguereau Innocence.jpg


Innocence

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (/xJ/M)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

3 I'm sensing a theme...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (+gK6I)

4 Well, this one isn't feeding......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (ccf/V)

5 Very nice.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (6VrV7)

6 Fitting title.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (ccf/V)

7 BOING!

What innocence? She's on the lamb!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (hnKw3)

8 Both her kids.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (2Cry5)

9 Lamb, "Baa!! Why am I here?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (2GVsD)

10 They don't look like twins...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:32 AM (l3cgK)

11 Lovely. I knew who painted that before I scrolled down to the artist's name.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

12 I love this!
Have we had this painting before?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

13 Cute kid!!

Posted by: muldoon at September 08, 2026 09:32 AM (qgHp7)

14 Definitely not Black Betty bam-a-lamb.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:32 AM (2GVsD)

15 A lovely painting. A beautiful rendering of her face and of the lamb too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

16 whoa. good lookin'.

Posted by: cmeat at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (Bep7s)

17 Note the distinct lack of lactation.

Posted by: Lactose enthusiast at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

18 This is serene.

Posted by: Piper at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (ZdaMQ)

19 She's barefoot, but probably not pregnant.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (l3cgK)

20 Lamb, "Baa!! Why am I here?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (2GVsD)
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Props to you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (hnKw3)

21 Beautiful painting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 09:33 AM (mqudn)

22 "Anybody know how to get baby poop out of a white wool coat?"

Posted by: A lamb at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (qgHp7)

23 Very calming .
Would hang, like the color scheme also
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (TrqdA)

24 22 "Anybody know how to get baby poop out of a white wool coat?"

Posted by: A lamb at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (qgHp7)

I thought it didn't stick to the fur...

Posted by: Bear in the woods at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (l3cgK)

25 Frightening!

Posted by: Lindsey Clancy's Shoulder Devil at September 08, 2026 09:35 AM (EyiRc)

26 Shari Lewis, the early years

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 08, 2026 09:35 AM (i4CGk)

27 "Anybody know how to get baby poop out of a white wool coat?"

Posted by: A lamb at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (qgHp7)
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Relax. You're soaking in it!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 09:35 AM (hnKw3)

28 That lamb has seen things.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 08, 2026 09:36 AM (8mulE)

29 Anybody know how to get lamb poop out of a white swaddling cloth?

Posted by: The baby at September 08, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

30 Obviously an allegory of mother and child, as well as Mary and the Christ Child both as the human and as the last sacrifice for us.

Posted by: Piper at September 08, 2026 09:37 AM (ZdaMQ)

31 "Ma'am, we have the results of the DNA tests..."

Posted by: State crime laboratory at September 08, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7)

32 Same, Lindsay
~ the crazy women on TikTok.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

33 That's a very beautiful painting. I double-checked. It really is.

Art -related news from the BBC too.

Police are still searching for two suspects after millions of pounds worth of Renoir paintings were stolen from a museum on the French Riviera.

Here's what we know so far:

Shortly before 06:00 local time on Tuesday, thieves broke into the Renoir museum and stole four paintings, before abandoning two in the museum gardens as they fled
They were armed with a "knife and a hacksaw", and entered the museum grounds by cutting a hole through the fence, according to local mayor Bryan Masson

The sound of police sirens and the museum's alarms caused the thieves to rush from the scene

Police have cordoned off what appears to be the entry point to the heist

The two paintings that remain missing are: The portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910), and Jeune femme au puits (1886)

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (Sco7b)

34 Innocence. Don't see much.of that round these parts.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (sl73Y)

35 "Anybody know how to get baby poop out of a white wool coat?"
Posted by: A lamb

My fleece is no longer white as snow.
*baaah*

Posted by: I lamb at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (w9Wax)

36 How much for the lamb?

Posted by: Mohammed M. Mohammed at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (9Q+nP)

37 Nice painting. The world is sorely lacking in innocence.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)

38 30 Obviously an allegory of mother and child, as well as Mary and the Christ Child both as the human and as the last sacrifice for us.
Posted by: Piper at September 08, 2026 09:37 AM

I knew that.
Just didn't want to be the first one say it, that's all.

Posted by: The person who didn't even think of it at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

39 "You f*ck one sheep......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

40 Nice, the dude knows how to paint a beautiful female and not have her look like a chud.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 09:40 AM (S41Gd)

41 Oh Fab, we're glad, they put lemon-freshened Borax in you!

Posted by: Laundry List at September 08, 2026 09:40 AM (Fn+3X)

42 siamese.

Posted by: cmeat at September 08, 2026 09:40 AM (Bep7s)

43 Nice painting. The world is sorely lacking in innocence.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (g8Ew



This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

44 I had some snarky, dark comments about current events, but didn't want to spoil what is just a lovely painting and an ode to beautiful things.

Posted by: red speck at September 08, 2026 09:40 AM (Ve/HL)

45 Jeune femme au puits

Young lady at the well seems a popular theme.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:41 AM (2GVsD)

46 This is nicely done

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 09:42 AM (lJSJs)

47 Green baby-poop stains? Just spray on Spray'n' Wash, rub, then launder as usual.

Posted by: Betty White (1976) at September 08, 2026 09:42 AM (Fn+3X)

48 Innocence is the lamb, its for dinner

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 09:42 AM (lJSJs)

49 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. The Baby Jesus. Awww. I like it. You hear his name a lot on the course during Geezer Golf Tuesdays. (But not from me.)
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 08, 2026 09:43 AM (2WIwB)

50 My dad used to buy a lamb at a fundraiser auction every year for slaughter.

I really don't remember eating much lamb, but I'm guessing it wasn't bad, or I'd damn sure remember that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)

51 Oh God all I could think of is which is she planning to sacrifice to Moloch?

Posted by: epador at September 08, 2026 09:43 AM (rzJJ8)

52 Green baby-poop stains? Just spray on Spray'n' Wash, rub, then launder as usual.

Betty, you put the baby in the spin cycle?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:43 AM (2GVsD)

53 nice. very, very nice!

thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 09:43 AM (VyBeY)

54 that kind of thing is what causes furries.

Posted by: cmeat at September 08, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)

55 Shari Lewis, the early years
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 08, 2026


***
Lemme tell ya, Shari was hot. She appeared in a 1967 U.N.C.L.E. episode as a dancer, and, well, wow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

56
Betty, you put the baby in the spin cycle?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:43 AM (2GVsD)




In China, they put blacks in and get whites out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)

57 Could no one buy her some sandals, or Crocs?

Posted by: Thom McCan at September 08, 2026 09:44 AM (Fn+3X)

58 Would I habg? Yes, probably in a nursery. Maybe turn it into a postcardntonsend to Planned Parenthood executives.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (yb/17)

59 38 I knew that.
Just didn't want to be the first one say it, that's all.
Posted by: The person who didn't even think of it at September

I am very somber and pensive today as the kid gets her braces on along with the check that goes with it. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (ZdaMQ)

60 This is really great art.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (xcxpd)

61 Lemme tell ya, Shari was hot. She appeared in a 1967 U.N.C.L.E. episode as a dancer, and, well, wow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)



Shari don't like it.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (ccf/V)

62 No boobs, no dog-pass.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (Fn+3X)

63 Young lady at the well seems a popular theme.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:41 AM (2GVsD)

King David of the ancient biblical times made that scenario popular.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (g8Ew8)

64 baby in the high chair, turkey in the oven.

Posted by: cmeat at September 08, 2026 09:46 AM (Bep7s)

65 So beautiful it brings tears to my eyes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

66 The kid skipped arm day.

Posted by: Joe Weider at September 08, 2026 09:47 AM (Fn+3X)

67 i'm on the lam, but i ain't no sheep.

Posted by: cmeat at September 08, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)

68 Lamb, "Baa!! Why am I here?"

*kent rollins fires up chuck wagon off camera

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 09:47 AM (cGjQu)

69 It really is a beautiful painting. I came back and looked again. Everything. Her face and hair, barefoot, the baby, the lamb, the scene.

Just a very beautiful painting.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 09:48 AM (Sco7b)

70 Baby looks bored with this.

Lamb is looking to kick free and run about.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:48 AM (ccf/V)

71 "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what you're going to say. I notice we never have roast leg of baby with mint jelly..."

Posted by: A 3-legged lamb at September 08, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)

72 The kid skipped arm day.

Posted by: Joe Weider at September 08, 2026 09:47 AM (Fn+3X)





Geez.....talk about reaching up and pulling out a name.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:49 AM (ccf/V)

73 Shari Lewis was an excellent dancer, performer, apart from the puppetry.

Posted by: Lamb Chop at September 08, 2026 09:49 AM (Fn+3X)

74 Lovely!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2026 09:49 AM (rOKnE)

75 Very nice.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (6VrV7)



Next up: EVANINK vear!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)

76 Lovely.

Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 08, 2026 09:51 AM (SRRAx)

77 "Well, you see kids. When a ram loves a woman very much, eventually they want to express that love physically, etc. etc. yada yada, et voila!"

Posted by: The mom at September 08, 2026 09:51 AM (qgHp7)

78 In the next moment, a muffled "Gwach" was heard as both child and lamb unloaded on the fair lady's garment.

Posted by: 20 Mule Team Borax at September 08, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)

79 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 08, 2026 09:51 AM (SRRAx)



*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:52 AM (ccf/V)

80 This brings joy.
Shear joy.

Posted by: Oh, no... at September 08, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

81 I would definitely hang this.

So beautiful...

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 08, 2026 09:53 AM (X7z/W)

82 Shari Lewis was an excellent dancer, performer, apart from the puppetry.
Posted by: Lamb Chop


***********

What was she doing all those years, checking your prostate?

Posted by: muldoon at September 08, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)

83 I always say it... and it's always true. Just love Bouguereau. His style really suits my fancy.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 08, 2026 09:54 AM (j6nUo)

84 Hey Teresa. : )

Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 08, 2026 09:55 AM (X7z/W)

85 80 This brings joy.
Shear joy.
Posted by: Oh, no... at September 08, 2026 09:52 AM

Ewe-phoria.

Posted by: Uh oh... at September 08, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

86 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 08, 2026 09:55 AM (X7z/W)


*also hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM (ccf/V)

87 Shari Lewis was an excellent dancer, performer, apart from the puppetry.
Posted by: Lamb Chop at September 08, 2026 09:49 AM (Fn+3X)

She's the woman who started the sock puppet craze.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

88 BTW CBD, thanks for the daily art thread. I kind of set my internal alarm so as not to miss it. Last week when you missed a thread the rest of the day just did not feel right.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM (lJ0H4)

89 I'm not sure why, but I really, really like this painting.

Posted by: Chuck Woolery at September 08, 2026 09:57 AM (qgHp7)

90 Shari Lewis was an excellent dancer, performer, apart from the puppetry.
Posted by: Lamb Chop


***
At Petco, there are actual dog and cat toys in the likeness of Lamb Chop with his name on them: "The Lamb! The Legend!"

Marketed to Boomers, no doubt. Nobody much younger would remember Shari and her little lamb buddy, would they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

91 She's the woman who started the sock puppet craze.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM



Shut ya stinkin' trap!!!!

Posted by: Skank at September 08, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)

92 22 "Anybody know how to get baby poop out of a white wool coat?"
Posted by: A lamb at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (qgHp7)

I poopied, mommy!

Posted by: Kindergarten regiment at September 08, 2026 09:57 AM (PI7fX)

93 Kids'll eat ivy too, woolen ewe?

Posted by: muldoon at September 08, 2026 09:58 AM (qgHp7)

94 No dogs

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 08, 2026 09:58 AM (PI7fX)

95 Shut ya stinkin' trap!!!!

Posted by: Skank at September 08, 2026 09:57 AM (ccf/V)

There's a deep cut

Posted by: Kamala at September 08, 2026 09:58 AM (wZ1U2)

96 This is, to my eye, a typical William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting and that is high praise. The emotional intent is clear, the details of the persons (and lamb in this case) are natural and realistic while just a bit idealized. The skin tones are lovely. Think of this one in a nursery.

CBD,
Thanks. Any Bouguereau painting is a treat. I have a collection of his paintings on Kindle. I look through it on a ten inch tablet a couple of times a year.

Posted by: JTB at September 08, 2026 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

97 Last week when you missed a thread the rest of the day just did not feel right.
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM (lJ0H4)



He never explained himself, either........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V)

98 I like Bouguereau.

He has an interesting color technique.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (Y/06r)

99 I mean... there's a deep cut

Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (wZ1U2)

100 Beautiful. Not only is the woman serene
and the baby adorable ( Is it supposed to be a reference to Mary and Jesus and that's why the lamb is also included? Today is the RC church is the feast day of the Nativity of Mary, I believe ) . I also like the light coming through the tree on the back. This artist had a lot of nice works featuring kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (rHgXV)

101 88 BTW CBD, thanks for the daily art thread. I kind of set my internal alarm so as not to miss it. Last week when you missed a thread the rest of the day just did not feel right.
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM (lJ0H4)

This. We fear chaos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (Y/06r)

102 I mean... there's a deep cut
Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (wZ1U2)



Heh.

It is amazing the useless shit that gets stuck in my brain sometimes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (ccf/V)

103 "Nice looking kid," Tom said sheepishly!

Posted by: muldoon at September 08, 2026 10:00 AM (qgHp7)

104 This artist had a lot of nice works featuring kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (rHgXV)



I'm listening.......

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 08, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)

105 99 I mean... there's a deep cut
Posted by: ... at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (wZ1U2)

This is a fun metaphor to try to explain to kids today, I would imagine.

'So, you had records right, spinning discs of the finest polyvinyl...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:00 AM (Y/06r)

106 I poopied, mommy!
Posted by: Kindergarten regiment at September 08, 2026 09:57 AM

When Jill Not A Doctor praised Joe after the debate it sounded like a potty training session.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

107 The two paintings that remain missing are: The portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910), and Jeune femme au puits (1886)
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 09:39 AM (Sco7b)


Yesterday's art was a Renoir, n'cest-ce pas?

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 10:01 AM (2ap+5)

108 104 This artist had a lot of nice works featuring kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 09:59 AM (rHgXV)


I'm listening.......
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 08, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)

Sorry joe. He also had a lot of naked women. Naked ADULT women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:01 AM (Y/06r)

109 Yesterday's art was a Renoir, n'cest-ce pas?
Posted by: Oglebay

Oui

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:02 AM (lJ0H4)

110 Remember how ther used to be a troll that would blabber about Nike stock doing well even though they went gay and retarded?

Well, if you held Nike for the past 5 years, you would have evaporated 80% of your money.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 10:02 AM (4aa1M)

111 Kids'll eat ivy too, woolen ewe?"

So? Mares eat oats...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:03 AM (cGjQu)

112 BTW CBD, thanks for the daily art thread. I kind of set my internal alarm so as not to miss it. Last week when you missed a thread the rest of the day just did not feel right.
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 09:56 AM (lJ0H4)

Did ya feel real loose like a long-necked goose?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:03 AM (g8Ew8)

113 Mutton for nothing and wool for free.

Posted by: M. Knopfler at September 08, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

114 Farage Warns UK Very Close to “Serious Civil Disturbance” Over Migrant Crisis

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They may postpone tea time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

115 110 Remember how ther used to be a troll that would blabber about Nike stock doing well even though they went gay and retarded?

Well, if you held Nike for the past 5 years, you would have evaporated 80% of your money.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 10:02 AM (4aa1M)

BINO or MooMoo? Or Jwest?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:04 AM (Y/06r)

116 113 Mutton for nothing and wool for free.
Posted by: M. Knopfler at September 08, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

Dirty Deeds. Done with Sheep.

https://youtu.be/O-4lk2-UA_I

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:05 AM (Y/06r)

117 "Nice looking kid," Tom said sheepishly!"

"Sniper is in the trees," Tom pointed out...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:05 AM (cGjQu)

118
Well, if you held Nike for the past 5 years, you would have evaporated 80% of your money.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 10:02 AM (4aa1M)



The X posts with images of their executive lineup explains a lot.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:05 AM (ccf/V)

119 This is a beautiful painting

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 10:05 AM (gkBVP)

120 >114 Farage Warns UK Very Close to “Serious Civil Disturbance” Over Migrant Crisis

-
They may postpone tea time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

England is done. Defiled goat out front shoulda toldja.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 10:05 AM (cJ8nD)

121 Prime Air 767 crash at MIA.

Am I missing something or did the pilots not only float the plane down 1/3 of the runway before touchdown, but also failed to deploy the thrust reversers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:06 AM (2GVsD)

122 You can't keep a good man down.

Rob Reiner Wins Posthumous Emmy for Role in “The Bear”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

123 Remember how ther used to be a troll that would blabber about Nike stock doing well even though they went gay and retarded"

Yeah. Even after pointing out that nike went full bore into the Chinese market post kraperdick...

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:07 AM (cGjQu)

124 You can't keep a good man down.

Rob Reiner Wins Posthumous Emmy for Role in “The Bear”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)



Bad Bunny won everything, including for that shitshow at the SB Halftime........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:07 AM (ccf/V)

125 Always mix up this artist with Pierre Auguste Cot.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:07 AM (KC5Lt)

126 When Jill Not A Doctor praised Joe after the debate it sounded like a potty training session.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

**********

"Call of Doody: C-I-C Edition"

Posted by: muldoon at September 08, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7)

127 Didn't some high spirited Scottish yutes just burn down an immigrant centre?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:07 AM (2GVsD)

128
Well, if you held Nike for the past 5 years, you would have evaporated 80% of your money.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 08, 2026 10:02 AM (4aa1M)


The X posts with images of their executive lineup explains a lot.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:05 AM (ccf/V)

Yup.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:08 AM (g8Ew8)

129 Has anybody else noticed the blog seems to be a little slow at refreshing today? I'm noticing the same thing on both my laptop and my desktop, and even after I've cleaned out the memory and other junk, the blog seems to hesitate a tiny bit on refresh. Don't notice it on other sites.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

130 Rob Reiner Wins Posthumous Emmy for Role in “The Bear"

Why? What did the bear do?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:08 AM (cGjQu)

131 127 Didn't some high spirited Scottish yutes just burn down an immigrant centre?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:07 AM (2GVsD)

There was a live stream posted on Insty from the coastal protests that kept having interruptions. Saturday, I think?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (Y/06r)

132 Farage Warns UK Very Close to “Serious Civil Disturbance” Over Migrant Crisis

-
They may postpone tea time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

What clued them in? Was it the rider on horseback yelling "the British are leaving" ?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (S41Gd)

133 Beautiful cbd. My current church project is restoring a statue of the Blessed Virgin that the hand fell off, the base was degraded and it needs major repainting. I hope that the Blessed Virgin guides my hand in this endeavor.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (2NHgQ)

134 Has anybody else noticed the blog seems to be a little slow at refreshing today? I'm noticing the same thing on both my laptop and my desktop, and even after I've cleaned out the memory and other junk, the blog seems to hesitate a tiny bit on refresh. Don't notice it on other sites.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

No problem on my iPad.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)

135
Why? What did the bear do?
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:08 AM (cGjQu)



Was it the same bear that raped DiCaprio?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (ccf/V)

136 129 Has anybody else noticed the blog seems to be a little slow at refreshing today? I'm noticing the same thing on both my laptop and my desktop, and even after I've cleaned out the memory and other junk, the blog seems to hesitate a tiny bit on refresh. Don't notice it on other sites.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

Could be your ISP, mine seems fairly normal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (Y/06r)

137 Prime Air 767 crash at MIA.

Am I missing something or did the pilots not only float the plane down 1/3 of the runway before touchdown, but also failed to deploy the thrust reversers?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Video and flight simulator recreation.

https://tinyurl.com/2vcc24bw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

138 but also failed to deploy the thrust reversers"

Can that be done before touchdown?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:10 AM (cGjQu)

139 It's telling, and a shame, that academic painters of that era like Bougeureau are not household names today. He was extremely accomplished, lived to 80, and was painting his best work well into his 70s.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 08, 2026 10:10 AM (NYInA)

140 Has anybody else noticed the blog seems to be a little slow at refreshing today? I'm noticing the same thing on both my laptop and my desktop, and even after I've cleaned out the memory and other junk, the blog seems to hesitate a tiny bit on refresh. Don't notice it on other sites.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 10:08 AM (wzUl9)
-

Please email bob@nsa.gov.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 10:10 AM (hnKw3)

141 Rob Reiner Wins Posthumous Emmy for Role in “The Bear”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

Rob Reiner is dead? Huh.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:10 AM (g8Ew8)

142 Has anybody else noticed the blog seems to be a little slow at refreshing today? I'm noticing the same thing on both my laptop and my desktop, and even after I've cleaned out the memory and other junk, the blog seems to hesitate a tiny bit on refresh. Don't notice it on other sites.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026
*
Could be your ISP, mine seems fairly normal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026


***
It's barely noticeable; scarcely an inconvenience. Seems to be happening less as the morning goes on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 10:11 AM (wzUl9)

143 Rob Reiner is dead? Huh.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:10 AM (g8Ew

Yes. He was murdered.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:11 AM (Y/06r)

144 Rob Reiner Wins Posthumous Emmy for Role in “The Bear”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

Rob Reiner is dead? Huh.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:10 AM (g8Ew
-

From the neck up.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 10:11 AM (hnKw3)

145 Higher education.

UC prof says it’d be funny if someone killed Nick Shirley at Harvard “before the Kirkiversary”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

146 Rob Reiner is dead? Huh."

And during the McCain funeral? And close to Pride month?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (cGjQu)

147 but also failed to deploy the thrust reversers"


***
"All engines back full, Mr. Sulu!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

148 Nike's are too narrow and don't come in wide widths.

My Hobbit feet need breathing room.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (Lm2uZ)

149 Am I missing something or did the pilots not only float the plane down 1/3 of the runway before touchdown, but also failed to deploy the thrust reversers?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:06 AM (2GVsD)


Don't know about the reverse thrusters but it looked to me like they touched down about halfway down the runway.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (ExV1e)

150 I want to kill the lamb and eat it.

Posted by: Not Paul at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (y0LCM)

151 145 Higher education.

UC prof says it’d be funny if someone killed Nick Shirley at Harvard “before the Kirkiversary”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

At this point it is just trolling- but that doesn't mean they don't need a hickory shampoo prescription.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:13 AM (Y/06r)

152 "All engines back full, Mr. Sulu!"

"Sulus, sir. Thousands of them"

/

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:13 AM (cGjQu)

153 148 Nike's are too narrow and don't come in wide widths.

My Hobbit feet need breathing room.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (Lm2uZ)

Probably why I have never owned a pair. Running shoes in general are hard to find in wide widths.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:14 AM (Y/06r)

154 I'm really starting to hate some of our GOP senators. Now the Kansas Senator is supporting Canada because Kansas has a Bombardier factory.

It's never about Country anymore. It's about short term gain and getting re-elected. I understand the jobs created but Canada doesn't let Gulfstream do any business in Canada IIRC. We can't keep letting other countries crap on us and say thank you.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:15 AM (KC5Lt)

155 It’s already Tuesday. Woo hoo.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:15 AM (U1NLK)

156 I am looking at video footage of the crashed plane and I am seeing no indication that the thrust reverser panels slid back on the engines. There should be a dark colored split in the cowling when they are engaged.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:15 AM (2GVsD)

157 Buckingham Palace Shuts Down Hopes for a Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Comeback

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Geez, Harry, if you're going to throw away your life for a girl, shouldn't she at least be attractive?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:15 AM (ndZc7)

158 Per the Post, killer Clancy's lawyer makes a plea to PDT to pardon his client. Says she's a wonderful person. Geez Louise.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:16 AM (lJ0H4)

159 I am looking at video footage of the crashed plane and I am seeing no indication that the thrust reverser panels slid back on the engines. There should be a dark colored split in the cowling when they are engaged.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:15 AM (2GVsD)



They messed up. Bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:16 AM (ccf/V)

160 Nike's are too narrow and don't come in wide widths.

My Hobbit feet need breathing room.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:12 AM (Lm2uZ)

Probably why I have never owned a pair. Running shoes in general are hard to find in wide widths.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026


***
My first pair of lightweight running shoes (after some lead-heavy Converse ones) were Nikes. That was back in the '70s, though. I've gone through a lot of other brands since then, but have never come back to Nike. They seem higher-priced compared to others that fit me just as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

161 Per the Post, killer Clancy's lawyer makes a plea to PDT to pardon his client. Says she's a wonderful person. Geez Louise.
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:16 AM (lJ0H4)



He can't.

There's nothing wonderful about a person who murders her 3 children in cold blood.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:16 AM (ccf/V)

162 We’re the Emmys on? I had no idea. Nor do I care.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:17 AM (U1NLK)

163 Whichever museums hold works by this wonderful artist, consider additional security in the likely event art thieves are selecting targets based on AoS HQ.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 10:18 AM (2ap+5)

164 This is what a thrust reverser on a 767 looks like in operation.

https://youtu.be/dZ-wh8Kuh1M

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:18 AM (2GVsD)

165 Was she charged with a federal crime? Otherwise the president can’t pardon her.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:18 AM (U1NLK)

166 We can't keep letting other countries crap on us and say thank you."

Sure we can.

/ the boosh family

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:19 AM (cGjQu)

167 We’re the Emmys on? I had no idea. Nor do I care.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:17 AM (U1NLK)


I don't believe I've watched the Emmys since... shortly before I was born.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:19 AM (ExV1e)

168 Was she charged with a federal crime? Otherwise the president can’t pardon her.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:18 AM (U1NLK)



Her lawyer is a nincompoop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:19 AM (ccf/V)

169 Probably why I have never owned a pair. Running shoes in general are hard to find in wide widths.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026

New Balance has the best wide models IMO. Plenty of room in the toe box. Lightweight with good support as well. A wonder of modern technology. This is not a commercial; I don’t work for ‘em, I just buy them

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 10:19 AM (gkBVP)

170 99 Percent of Asylum Claims in Britain Are Fake

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It was all fake from the beginning.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:20 AM (ndZc7)

171 We’re the Emmys on? I had no idea"

The award shows have mostly gone to streaming. Their appeal has become more...selective.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)

172
Today is the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady. So, appropriate. Well done, CBD. Art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 10:20 AM (eRlcH)

173 He can't.

There's nothing wonderful about a person who murders her 3 children in cold blood.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:16 AM (ccf/V)

If I were DJT: "No, I don't have the power to do that. If I had the power to order her to be put to death, I would that in a heartbeat, though."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (1z8ji)

174 It was all fake from the beginning."

And British, therefore ghey

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (cGjQu)

175 >>Her lawyer is a nincompoop.

Nah. His lawyer is playing to Clancy's audience of rabid leftwing Karen's and trying to make Trump the bad guy.

He's been trying this case in the media since day 1. He's disgrace but he's not stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)

176 New Balance has the best wide models IMO. Plenty of room in the toe box. Lightweight with good support as well. A wonder of modern technology. This is not a commercial; I don’t work for ‘em, I just buy them
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 10:19 AM (gkBVP)


The New Balance 990 has been a top shoe since its introduction in 1982. To me, it looks about the same as well.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (2ap+5)

177 170 99 Percent of Asylum Claims in Britain Are Fake

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It was all fake from the beginning.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:20 AM (ndZc7)

They do not want asylum- they are not running from anything. They want easy pickings. They are predators- not victims.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (Y/06r)

178 Really, the only war torn countries where people should be seeking asylum from are the Christians in North Africa.

Everyone else can f*ck right off with their bullshit asylum claims.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (ccf/V)

179 Too nice

not my thing

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (ZxPkt)

180 Surprised it’s only 99%. Maybe they’re grounding down. Cuz the real number is 99.9999%. There was that one guy in 2011 who was an actual refugee.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:22 AM (U1NLK)

181 My go to sneaker is a Sketchers Afterburn slip-in, extra wide with memory insole.

What I do is sew a leather counter into the heal and you get twice the service life out of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:22 AM (Lm2uZ)

182 They are predators- not victims.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (Y/06r)



As displayed in the video out of the UK where the 'asylum seeker' told the guy "I'm just here to f*ck."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:22 AM (ccf/V)

183 Very nice art this morning.

I’m sensing a theme this week.

And, mornin’, all. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

184 And there's no such thing as a 'palestinian.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)

185 He's been trying this case in the media since day 1. He's disgrace but he's not stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)
---
Trying to score a "moral victory" in the court of public opinion...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 10:23 AM (FZ29D)

186 >Her lawyer is a nincompoop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:19 AM (ccf/V)

I had a conversation with a neighbor about the case over drinks on my front porch. She is engrossed / obsessed with the case. I didn't peg her as an AWFL, but clearly she is devastated by the mistrial. She confessed she gets all of her 'news' from TikTok. It was a very strange conversation.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (cJ8nD)

187 I haven’t had cable in 15. Is network TV even a thing anymore? I honestly don’t know.

Seems like whenever I hear about Emmy winners it’s all Netflix and hbo shows.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (U1NLK)

188 As displayed in the video out of the UK where the 'asylum seeker' told the guy "I'm just here to f*ck."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:22 AM (ccf/V)


Bring me a buffet of white 12-year olds. -- asylum seeker

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (ExV1e)

189 She confessed she gets all of her 'news' from TikTok. It was a very strange conversation.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (cJ8nD)



Ugh.......TikTok provides very little fact whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (ccf/V)

190 Today is the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady. So, appropriate. Well done, CBD. Art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Even though there is no dog?

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

191 A palace can do that?

Posted by: The white house at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)

192 There was that one guy in 2011 who was an actual refugee."

What? One got thru?

/USCIS Senior Immigration Services Officers Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu and Adeniyi Akeem Somoye

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (cGjQu)

193 185 He's been trying this case in the media since day 1. He's disgrace but he's not stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:21 AM (viF8m)
---
Trying to score a "moral victory" in the court of public opinion...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 10:23 AM (FZ29D)

Also to taint the potential jury pool beyond recognition. He needs a *types* *deletes* to the forehead.

Fuck. This is evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (Y/06r)

194 I am seeing a video on TikTok that claims Reddington is in legal trouble of his own. Four counts have been referred to the MA version of the bar association.

Namely to whit, with other clients, Kevin Reddington and his paralegal have been mingling client money into his personal bank account.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (2GVsD)

195 The lawyer may be an immoral asswipe. But that’s exactly who you want as a defense lawyer. Guy who will do just about anything to keep you out of prison. You don’t want a Boy Scout.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (U1NLK)

196 Trump can't pardon her
the governor of Illinois can

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (ZxPkt)

197 I enjoy the art. Sadly the interview is not only cancelled, but the position filled. Guess that's God saying emphatically, "Not this one!"

So.. hoping for one of the others to come through as I continue applying. Also working through training videos to apply to be a substitute teacher because hey, maybe some kinda income...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (aJQbY)

198 Is network TV even a thing anymore?"

It's the bee's knees!

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (cGjQu)

199
Even though there is no dog?
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

_________

I know this sounds shocking, but there are things even more important than dogs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (eRlcH)

200 I do find it hilarious/good that there are several videos on ewetub of women complaining about getting dumped by husbands/boyfriends after they supported Clancey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (Y/06r)

201 >>New Balance has the best wide models IMO. Plenty of room in the toe box. Lightweight with good support as well. A wonder of modern technology. This is not a commercial; I don’t work for ‘em, I just buy them

Axshully, it's old technology. I used to live next door to the guy who bought New Balance and turned it into what it is today. New Balance has been around for a long time under a different name. The company was originally founded to produce arch supports and other orthodics.

And made in the good ole Us of A.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:27 AM (viF8m)

202 Namely to whit, with other clients, Kevin Reddington and his paralegal have been mingling client money into his personal bank account.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (2GVsD)

Color me surprised.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:27 AM (Y/06r)

203 Titty Baby!

Posted by: Titty Baby at September 08, 2026 10:28 AM (Z8Kuq)

204 The problem with 'French academy' approved painters at that time and actually most professional painters since before that is they were all taught the same techniques thus their paintings are all similar though some painters stand out with their skill.

Today we have a lot of good art but the reason we also have a lot of bad art is because artists want to stand out and separate themselves from everyone else. They want people to look at their paintings and say ' that painting has to be by X '

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:28 AM (KC5Lt)

205 198 Is network TV even a thing anymore?"

It's the bee's knees!
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (cGjQu)

23 Skidoo!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:28 AM (Y/06r)

206 195 The lawyer may be an immoral asswipe. But that’s exactly who you want as a defense lawyer. Guy who will do just about anything to keep you out of prison. You don’t want a Boy Scout.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (U1NLK)

This guy is more scummy than usual. He is trying to get that juror killed- it addition to the three kids his client strangled.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:29 AM (Y/06r)

207 Illinois, Massachusetts, 220,221 whatever it takes.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:29 AM (U1NLK)

208 Trump can't pardon her
the governor of Illinois can
Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (ZxPkt)


Even though she's in Massachusetts? Wow, he has a lot of authority.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:29 AM (ExV1e)

209 >195 The lawyer may be an immoral asswipe. But that’s exactly who you want as a defense lawyer. Guy who will do just about anything to keep you out of prison. You don’t want a Boy Scout.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (U1NLK)

Exactly. Mrs. Meta is appalled by the lack of a guilty verdict. I explained the defense attorney's only job is to plant the seed of reasonable doubt by virtually any legal means necessary.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 10:30 AM (cJ8nD)

210 Axshully, it's old technology. I used to live next door to the guy who bought New Balance and turned it into what it is today. New Balance has been around for a long time under a different name. The company was originally founded to produce arch supports and other orthodics.

And made in the good ole Us of A.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:27 AM (viF8m)

I did not know that! They make the best running shoes by far…. Only company that even comes close is Asics

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 10:30 AM (gkBVP)

211 207 Illinois, Massachusetts, 220,221 whatever it takes.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:29 AM (U1NLK)

208 Trump can't pardon her
the governor of Illinois can
Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (ZxPkt)

Even though she's in Massachusetts? Wow, he has a lot of authority.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:29 AM (ExV1e)

I was holding the shitpost because I did not know if he wasn't talking about another case of a felonious woman.

Gotta make hay while the sun shines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:30 AM (Y/06r)

212 Probably why I have never owned a pair. Running shoes in general are hard to find in wide widths.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026

Amazon has equipment you can buy to stretch out shoes. They work well. I used to do a lot of outdoor running.

Catching up on the trade war, which I have no control over. I hope no one here is affected.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Sco7b)

213 Bad news. Incredibly bad news. The Russians have discovered Shitposting. This is existential.


Margarita Simonyan
@M_Simonyan
2h
Lavrov: "Burnham said, we will be with Ukraine to the end. Since the end of Ukraine is not a happy end, I feel sorry for Britain."

Posted by: Kindltot at September 08, 2026 10:31 AM (rbvCR)

214 Exactly. Mrs. Meta is appalled by the lack of a guilty verdict. I explained the defense attorney's only job is to plant the seed of reasonable doubt by virtually any legal means necessary.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 10:30 AM (cJ8nD)

Kudos to Mrs Meta. You are not living with a hormonal psychopath. Grats, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:31 AM (Y/06r)

215 Talking about the monster who hung her two-year old son from the rafters because he was 'the devil'?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:32 AM (2GVsD)

216 UC prof says it’d be funny if someone killed Nick Shirley at Harvard “before the Kirkiversary”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

At this point it is just trolling- but that doesn't mean they don't need a hickory shampoo prescription.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:13 AM (Y/06r)

Of course it's just trolling. Just.....trolling....

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:32 AM (g8Ew8)

217 Very nice post and understand why it was made today!

Posted by: KPDog at September 08, 2026 10:33 AM (vP3iW)

218 I know this sounds shocking, but there are things even more important than dogs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Stop it right now! Who's socking a regular?

Posted by: There's Rules Here at September 08, 2026 10:33 AM (Fn+3X)

219 >>I did not know that! They make the best running shoes by far…. Only company that even comes close is Asics

His condo next to mine was just his city place. He had a lot of money. He had a big deck on the back and used to have a Marathon party every year on race day to help promote his brand.

I have wide feet and NB always fit me well.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 10:33 AM (viF8m)

220 Of course it's just trolling. Just.....trolling....
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:32 AM (g8Ew

Well, until we start taking their threats seriously.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:33 AM (Y/06r)

221
At this point it is just trolling- but that doesn't mean they don't need a hickory shampoo prescription.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:13 AM (Y/06r)



No, I'm pretty sure a professor at UC would want Nick Shirley dead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:33 AM (ccf/V)

222 Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:25 AM (U1NLK)

I hate the ends justify the means philosophy. Knowingly lying, exaggerating, targeting jurors , etc should not be part of the defense attorney's job.

Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (KC5Lt)

223 198 Is network TV even a thing anymore?"

It's the bee's knees!
Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (cGjQu)

23 Skidoo!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:28 AM (Y/06r)

Jeepers!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (wVcYX)

224 >Even though she's in Massachusetts? Wow, he has a lot of authority.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
-----

Yes I got that wrong!
I blame Johnson, and this damn war


my point, she did not commit an offense against the United States, which is the standard for a Presidential pardon

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (ZxPkt)

225 215 Talking about the monster who hung her two-year old son from the rafters because he was 'the devil'?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 10:32 AM (2GVsD)

There have been several cases lately- or maybe we are just hearing about them. Woman slit her kids throats as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (Y/06r)

226 >I did not know that! They make the best running shoes by far…. Only company that even comes close is Asics

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 10:30 AM (gkBVP)

Never could find a NB model that works for me. Was a long-time Asics fan, but their quality went downhill about 10 years ago. I was lucky if I could get 200 miles out of a pair before they fell apart. I switched to Mizunos and have been satisfied. I'll never buy anything Nike. Eff them.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (cJ8nD)

227
my point, she did not commit an offense against the United States, which is the standard for a Presidential pardon
Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (ZxPkt)



Just like everyone telling me Owebama was so damn smart..........this lawyer.......

There's a difference between being smart and just f*cking downright evil. That lawyer is f*cking evil.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)

228 What has Nick Shirley done to deserve death threats from Harvard Perfessors?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:35 AM (Lm2uZ)

229
I hate the ends justify the means philosophy. Knowingly lying, exaggerating, targeting jurors , etc should not be part of the defense attorney's job.
Posted by: polynikes at September 08, 2026 10:34 AM (KC5Lt)


"A new trial is granted on account of incompetent counsel - he didn't blame Trump!"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 08, 2026 10:36 AM (2ap+5)

230 I did not know that! They make the best running shoes by far…. Only company that even comes close is Asics
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

ASICS and Saucony are my go to brands. Currently have a couple pairs of ASICS.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 10:36 AM (lJ0H4)

231 New Balance = Dad Shoes.

Have been without as Academy seemed to stop carrying them in stores, at least my favorite "walking" shoe.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 10:36 AM (wVcYX)

232 What has Nick Shirley done to deserve death threats from Harvard Perfessors?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:35 AM (Lm2uZ)



The only thing Shirley has done is point out the rampant fraud taking place in blue shitholes by 'immigrants.'

He's broken no laws, hurt or injured anyone and is doing investigative reporting.

They hate when the rug is pulled back to reveal leftist ideology.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:37 AM (ccf/V)

233 There's a difference between being smart and just f*cking downright evil. That lawyer is f*cking evil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)

But enough about his wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:38 AM (Y/06r)

234 I was holding the shitpost because I did not know if he wasn't talking about another case of a felonious woman.

Holding in your shitposts can cause health issues. Flow freely, my friends.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

235 What has Nick Shirley done to deserve death threats from Harvard Perfessors?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 10:35 AM (Lm2uZ)

To be fair it’s UC professors.
But his crime is speaking the truth. That’s kryptonite to a leftist.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:38 AM (U1NLK)

236
Holding in your shitposts can cause health issues. Flow freely, my friends.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 10:38 AM (ExV1e)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Mao at September 08, 2026 10:39 AM (ccf/V)

237 Trump can't pardon her
the governor of Illinois can
Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:26 AM (ZxPkt)

Even though she's in Massachusetts? Wow, he has a lot of authority.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Pritzker can do anything. Well, except pass by an all you can eat restaurant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)

238 That lawyer will never have to advertise again.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 10:39 AM (U1NLK)

239 I posted the Rant early because I have a doctor appointment. And he is running...early!

Wow.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 08, 2026 10:40 AM (iwxfK)

240
Pritzker can do anything. Well, except pass by an all you can eat restaurant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)



Or a child sex trafficking operation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 10:40 AM (ccf/V)

241 Easy

I don't own a television

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 10:41 AM (ZxPkt)

242 Correction: Academy has NB shoes, but I have sticker shock.

FU Joe Biden!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 10:42 AM (wVcYX)

243 Ran tup.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 10:43 AM (zdLoL)

244 > I am looking at video footage of the crashed plane and I am seeing no indication that the thrust reverser panels slid back on the engines. There should be a dark colored split in the cowling when they are engaged.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Left main landing gear also doesn't fully extend to the runway, or rather, the plane is tilted so it can't make contact with the runway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 10:43 AM (2Cry5)

245 Lindsay Clancy iceberg.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
The online female TikTok community is becoming convinced that Patrick Clancy was part of a pedo ring that included the ADA, the chief of police, & doctors.
Speaking"Would [Clancy] then enlist the help of that ADA, that chief of police, those doctors and nurses that are in that ring to help him cover it up?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

246 245 Lindsay Clancy iceberg.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
The online female TikTok community is becoming convinced that Patrick Clancy was part of a pedo ring that included the ADA, the chief of police, & doctors.
Speaking"Would [Clancy] then enlist the help of that ADA, that chief of police, those doctors and nurses that are in that ring to help him cover it up?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

I am surprised they are not saying he's a Trump supporter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Y/06r)

247 Morning rant is nood in case you did not get CBD's nood call earlier.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:50 AM (Y/06r)

248 246 245 Lindsay Clancy iceberg.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
The online female TikTok community is becoming convinced that Patrick Clancy was part of a pedo ring that included the ADA, the chief of police, & doctors.
Speaking"Would [Clancy] then enlist the help of that ADA, that chief of police, those doctors and nurses that are in that ring to help him cover it up?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

I am surprised they are not saying he's a Trump supporter.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 10:45 AM (Y/06r)

So Candace Owens base has been identified?

Posted by: tubal at September 08, 2026 10:51 AM (Gqar8)

249 I am looking at video footage of the crashed plane and I am seeing no indication that the thrust reverser panels slid back on the engines. There should be a dark colored split in the cowling when they are engaged.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Left main landing gear also doesn't fully extend to the runway, or rather, the plane is tilted so it can't make contact with the runway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 10:43 AM (2Cry5)

Storms in the area too, which is evident in the video. A strong inflow gust could have caused the delayed touchdown by floating the plane further down the runway. Or, it just came in too fast. Either way, the pilots botched the recovery.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 08, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

250 Art.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 08, 2026 10:56 AM (Be17s)

251 >>A strong inflow gust could have caused the delayed touchdown by floating the plane further down the runway

Sure, run with that.

Or maybe the apparent fact that the aircraft crossed the numbers at around Vref+35 based upon ADS-B data instead of right at Vref caused the forever float.

(You want to be at Vref+10 on the approach, Vref crossing over the runway numbers and Vref -10 in the round out).

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 11:01 AM (J4Dwc)

252 never owned a pair of nike. wore NB steel-toes for years.
currently a Skechers fan, not specially durable, but comfortable; ... my field is limited to manufacturers who make 15 wides.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 11:23 AM (VyBeY)

253 onitsuka.

Posted by: cmeat at September 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Bep7s)

254 25 Frightening!
Posted by: Lindsey Clancy's Shoulder Devil at September 08, 2026 09:35 AM (EyiRc)

Very good!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 11:27 AM (odBC9)

255 What a beautiful piece after all the ugliness with women killing their children. Thank you, CBD

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 08, 2026 11:38 AM (FGA9/)

The Morning Report — 9/ 8 /26

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Good morning kids. Hope you all had a relaxing Labor Day holiday... With that in mind,I give you the always inspiring words of the great Ronald Reagan on his final Labor Day in office back in September of 1988.

We salute working people because they have built our land with skill, energy, and resourcefulness, transforming raw materials into a shining edifice of freedom and prosperity. On Labor Day we recognize these achievements and reflect on the meaning and dignity of work and on the values it protects and strengthens — the values we as a nation hold most dear.. . Let us always remember that so much of what we are, we owe to working men and women.

Today, in spite of everything, we have some outstanding economic news that the Commie propagandists are doing their best to suppress. First, wow!


American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now.

Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August.

Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.”

The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.”

The workforce participation rate rose as well — which matters, because people who drop out of the labor force are invisible in unemployment rates that only count those who are looking for work... Establishment economists predicted none of this.

You can bet your sweet ass they didn't, and you can bet they were rooting for our economy to completely collapse. And yet we also have this to cheer about:


The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night that the analysis shows an extremely strong job market for those between 22 and 34 years of age without diplomas from a higher education institution. . . The historically low unemployment rate among this demographic, which rivals lows since 2003, breaks with the rates of unemployment among college-educated peers in the same age window, per the analysis . . .The report comes days after an extremely strong jobs report on Friday, with the United States adding 162,000 jobs in August with unemployment holding at 4.1 percent, the same rate as in July. The report blew past economists’ forecast of just 55,000 jobs and an uptick in unemployment to 4.2 percent.


And with that we have the forces of darkness and evil in the form of the Democrat Party ready as they have been for 200 years set to strike:

After watching Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo in last year’s mayoral race, both radicals and relative moderates alike took the hint: Voters are desperate for candidates who speak to the frustration they feel at the gas pump, in the grocery line and after every utility payment. . . Embattled Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer won’t shut up about his conference’s “affordability agenda,” and the progressive caucus in the House is pitching itself using the exact same phrase. “Democrats in Key Senate Races Campaign on Addressing GOP Affordability Crisis, Bringing Down Costs, and Making Life Easier,” crowed the wordy headline of a Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee press release issued on Friday.

In the opening months of their reign, they swiped taxpayers’ credit card for $1.9 trillion. So they swiped again, this time running up a tab of well over $700 billion for what they dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”That’s right, they dumped almost $3 trillion in cold hard cash into the economy under the supposition that would make everyone’s dollar go further.

Supply and demand: What is it? . . . Dismissing them as a hoax is folly. But they’d be well within their rights to remind Americans that Democrats’ only real interest in “affordability” is as a cynical slogan. And that all of their actual ideas undermine it in practice.

Don't be fooled by the feud between the alleged Moderates and the DSA. None of it is about policy. It's about control of the Democrat Party as well as how best to bamboozle the American people into thinking they have their and America's best interests at heart, and not the dismantling of America as founded and replacing it with a degenerate Socialist shit hole as was the fate of much of Europe and the world post the Second World War. Yeah, we won the war but the peace, not so much.

And so now, here's greasy Greaseball Newsom, the likely Democrat nominee for 2028:

Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “So, let me ask you about how Democrats can win back control of Congress, because it’s been a pretty revealing primary season for the party, right? A reckoning, some have called it, too. You saw how many wins DSA candidates, Democratic Socialist candidates, were able to win, Donavan McKinney in Michigan, Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, he doesn’t identify as DSA, but was sort of aligned with them. If you have these candidates and this platform that is clearly animating the base, energizing turnout, should more of those ideas be worked into the broader Democratic platform?” Nawaz then cut in to say, “But there seems to be a little distance between some leadership and those DSA candidates.”

Newsom responded, “But not the ideas. We want — I believe in universal healthcare, and I believe in Medicare for All. The party does overwhelmingly, you poll people in the party. So, if it’s about more money in your pocket, lowering costs, it’s about getting money out of politics, and it’s about Medicare for All, I think we’re pretty aligned. It’s about recognizing that we’ve got a planet that is getting hotter and drier, and that we’ve got to address the issue of climate change, and we want energy security, and we want to move off fossil fuels. That’s a DSA position. That’s a mainstream position within the Democratic Party. So, I think, in many ways — it’s just a label. And it’s a familiar — forgive me, you’re talking to the wrong person, it’s such a familiar label to me. We called them progressives. It was the Green Party. I ran against the Green Party. It sounded — the exact same platform 20 years ago, maybe it’s because I’m from the Bay Area, maybe it’s because I’m from California. And I think it’s healthy. I just think it’s — I’m not consumed by this.

And he's supposedly mainstream and moderate. They're all scum, criminals, vermin and tyrants. Poor Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave. And if we're not careful, we'll be spinning right along with him as the last tiny vestiges of America as founded are utterly annihilated.

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 08, 2026 07:27 AM (I43vL)

2 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

4 Things were quiet that Tuesday morning.

Too quiet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 07:29 AM (/FYr+)

5 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

6
Today's my birthday. You better be nice to me. And I'd like a big box of money.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 07:30 AM (eRlcH)

7 Hello again! Oh look; we have articles!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:30 AM (+4yJ5)

8 Morning!

Would appreciate prayers for the interview this afternoon. Still hoping to hear positives from the other interviews last week and a half. Still applying to anything I'm remotely qualified for (even applying to be a substitute teacher...).

Thanks in advance for the prayers!

(Now to read the content)

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 07:30 AM (aJQbY)

9 Happy birthday, H7

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 07:31 AM (mqudn)

10 Hadrian the Seventh

I have some cash from my Monopoly game. Would that do?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

11 Piker, in 2020, while discussing constitutional protections, said, “F—- the Constitution. I wipe my a— with the Constitution. It’s a piece of paper. F—- the Constitution. F—- this country.”

Democrat women: "He's soooo dreamy and he thinks like we do!"

That being said, I'm fine with him living outside the protection of the Constitution. He'd be begging for mercy within ten seconds.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:32 AM (+4yJ5)

12 Hadrian the Seventh

I could sing to you, but as you're a lover of fine opera, I will not do that. That is my real gift, no singing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

13 Hey! Hey! We Boomers are here to stay! Hey! Hey! We Boomers are here to stay!

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant at September 08, 2026 07:34 AM (9uuIQ)

14
Reached my three score and 10. It's only in the last very few years that I've woken up and stopped living like an idiot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 07:34 AM (eRlcH)

15 “But not the ideas. We want — I believe in universal healthcare, and I believe in Medicare for All. The party does overwhelmingly, you poll people in the party. So, if it’s about more money in your pocket, lowering costs, it’s about getting money out of politics, and it’s about Medicare for All, I think we’re pretty aligned. It’s about recognizing that we’ve got a planet that is getting hotter and drier, and that we’ve got to address the issue of climate change, and we want energy security, and we want to move off fossil fuels. That’s a DSA position. That’s a mainstream position within the Democratic Party. So, I think, in many ways — it’s just a label. And it’s a familiar — forgive me, you’re talking to the wrong person, it’s such a familiar label to me. We called them progressives. It was the Green Party. I ran against the Green Party. It sounded — the exact same platform 20 years ago, maybe it’s because I’m from the Bay Area, maybe it’s because I’m from California. And I think it’s healthy. I just think it’s — I’m not consumed by this."
===
Ravings of a lunatic.

Does this make any fvcking sense at all?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:34 AM (RIvkX)

16 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

17 Happy Birthday Hadrian the Seventh! It is also my girlfriends so I must endeavor to make her happy.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 08, 2026 07:35 AM (Q/FnY)

18 Happy birthday Hadrian. Virgos Rule the World.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

19 Happy birthday! Howdy all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at September 08, 2026 07:36 AM (Rwdkj)

20 So things are being described as "zesty" and "not that tight."

Posted by: Used to date her at September 08, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)

21 Happy birthday Hadrian.
And a good week to the rest of you.

State media here in Canuckistan informs me that we'll be fine as we pull the trigger with the loaded gun pointed in the direction our economic brains should be in a trade war I'm betting most Americans won't even know about.

Every other country in the world except us and China were able to come to terms with President Trump. Make the lesson memorable President Trump.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 07:38 AM (Sco7b)

22 Voters are desperate for candidates who speak to the frustration they feel at the gas pump, in the grocery line and after every utility payment. .

Obama: "Under my policies, energy prices will necessarily increase". (referring to shutting down Big Coal).

Europe: Lets shut down all oil and gas production in the North Sea and see what happens. And while we are at it, destroy our agricultural economy.

AI Data Centers = Bad
80 million illegal aliens = Good.

And lets not forget, Ukraine and Russia, #1 and #2 in wheat and grain exporters, are busy destroying each other's ability to feed the world.

So the guy who made the US energy independent, has worked to stop the Eastern European war, and has gone after the food cartels is the guy to blame, and we need to return to power those who brought us all of these problems.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 07:38 AM (nCgQz)

23 Good luck RandomDave!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 08, 2026 07:39 AM (Sco7b)

24 Willowed: Just figured I might as well run out the clock before AI replaces me
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

What got things started for me was driving into work, looking around and asking "Why am I doing this to myself?" and not being able to come up with an answer.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026


***
Same here. My employer's knuckling under to The Sniffle Scare had wiped out any respect I had for the place; I was tired of the commute; and my office was about to move, which I would have had the thrill of organizing, to a much less convenient location. I said "Buh-bye."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 07:40 AM (wzUl9)

25 RandomDave I feel like some good news is coming your way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

26 HEY

Arby's has 1.99 mozzarella sticks with minimum $5 purchase!

Take that, you tofu up the butt commie bastards!

Posted by: Miklos forces Positive Thinking even if it kills me at September 08, 2026 07:43 AM (4RYRd)

27 Hey! Hey! We Boomers are here to stay! Hey! Hey! We Boomers are here to stay!

Any correlation at all that as the Boomers retire, the enshittification of everything is on the increase?

And the number one actor to Make America Great Again is a Boomer?

Or are your saviors the AOCs, the Gavin Newsoms, Mandamis, and The New Generation of Marxists, Communists, DSA and Islamic "leaders"?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 07:43 AM (PVBkQ)

28 San Franpsycho - from your lips to God's ears!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 07:44 AM (aJQbY)

29 Now that AfD has won 44% of the votes in Saxony, we get to see if every other party combines to prevent them from governing, or if the German federal government outlaws the largest political party to save democracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 07:44 AM (UDAfK)

30 the earlier donations were used.”
Karmelo Anthony’s Family Asks Public for Another $250,000 Despite 2025 Fundraising Haul“

True Headline - Karmelo’s new Attorneys, who are only in it for the easy money even though they know his appeal has no chance, are asking his gullible supporters for another $250k.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 07:45 AM (/FYr+)

31 Miklos forces Positive Thinking

Does your harem get upset if you don't go to Waffle House?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

32 AI Data Centers = Bad
80 million illegal aliens = Good.


In related news, Anduril's AI drones just scored a 100% kill rate on a live-fire "China invading Taiwan" exercise. The company was immediately denounced by Xi and the CCP, so they're clearly doing things right.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 07:45 AM (sabhw)

33 Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, an ex- senior Immigration Services Officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was arrested along with his associate, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye.
----

Who could have foreseen this?!

The increasing number of Star Wars names in government positions is "concerning", as they like to say.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 08, 2026 07:46 AM (kpS4V)

34 Happy Birthday, Hadrian! I had one at the end of last month. Nothing special happened, but I'm still above ground, so, winning!

May you enjoy yours more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 07:46 AM (wzUl9)

35 Why did The Democratic Chicken cross the road? Because the communist rooster kept fucking her in the ass.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 08, 2026 07:46 AM (eP2ub)

36 Thomas Paine

Has an official vote count been released?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

37 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 07:46 AM (/xJ/M)

38 Rev. Wishbone

Why did the Robot cross the Road?

It was programed by the chicken.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

39 and we need to return to power those who brought us all of these problems.
Posted by: Community Notes


"We don't like Trump's tone of voice when he's solving all these problems!"

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:47 AM (+4yJ5)

40 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 08, 2026 07:46 AM (kpS4V)
======

Principles of HR Ledership:
A people hire A people
B people hire C people
C people hire D people
And so on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

41 The company was immediately denounced by Xi and the CCP, so they're clearly doing things right.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026


***
The "feminist Western" I read this week was roundly disliked by progressives and feminists* on Goodreads; so I think this author did something right.

*I'm guessing. The posters yammered about "failure to address gender issues" and "lack of intersectionality," so I'm pretty sure of my diagnosis.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 07:48 AM (wzUl9)

42 >>>The official told Al Jazeera that the assessment followed a months-long U.S. Navy operation to clear Iranian mines from the strait

Whoa, whoa, whoa...there were mines in the strait?

That's funny, because the guy here who never STFU assured us repeatedly that Iran navy had no means available to deploy mines.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 07:48 AM (J4Dwc)

43 Does your harem get upset if you don't go to Waffle House?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I just sit and wait right here

They know the lot number

It's on their payday loan receipts

Posted by: Miklos hazy a lazy bone, some girls like that at September 08, 2026 07:49 AM (4RYRd)

44 "Same here. My employer's knuckling under to The Sniffle Scare had wiped out any respect I had for the place..."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at 7:40 AM.

I was a Quiet Quitter. After I watched my entire management chain bully pregnant employees into a medical procedure they didn't want in '21, I just did the bare minimum for a couple of years. In '24 there was a fun opportunity I threw myself into, but then I coasted. Handed in my badge this past April 20th. Buh bye. Now every day is Saturday.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 07:49 AM (2Ez/1)

45 I especially love finding out that a job in the US...
has hired a contract company HQed in India...
to hire Americans (or US-located persons) to do the work.

Because somehow that makes sense apparently?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 07:50 AM (aJQbY)

46 "failure to address gender issues" and "lack of intersectionality,"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

damn

I knew something was missing in my life

Posted by: Miklos is clearly a hate-filled bigoted failure at September 08, 2026 07:50 AM (4RYRd)

47 Thomas Paine

Has an official vote count been released?
Posted by: NaCly Dog


They haven't opened all of the trunks of the Buicks yet.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 08, 2026 07:51 AM (UDAfK)

48 I was a Quiet Quitter. After I watched my entire management chain bully pregnant employees into a medical procedure they didn't want in '21, I just did the bare minimum for a couple of years. In '24 there was a fun opportunity I threw myself into, but then I coasted. Handed in my badge this past April 20th. Buh bye. Now every day is Saturday.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026


***
I kind of coasted too. Not that my job (office manager for a small department) was a very busy one even before.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

49 26 HEY

Arby's has 1.99 mozzarella sticks with minimum $5 purchase!

Take that, you tofu up the butt commie bastards!
Posted by: Miklos forces Positive Thinking even if it kills me at September 08, 2026 07:43 AM (4RYRd)

I LOVE Arby's!!

They give Ralphy a free small cup of meat when we go. He goes insane.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 07:51 AM (Sco7b)

50 >>Now every day is Saturday.

Heh - the week has 3 days: Saturday, Sunday, and Trash Day.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 08, 2026 07:51 AM (NcvvS)

51 Oil hits 94 dollars because idiot Trump is in total control of the Strait of Hormoz. 100 dollar oil equates to $4.50 gas

So the Iranians have absolutely nothing to do with $94/g oil.

Neither does the war in Ukraine/Russia (aka Gas Station with nuclear weapons)

Or Canada, Australia and Western Europe's Green Policies that have crushed their own oil and gas business?

Or Florida and California refusing to allow any recovery of oil off their own coasts

But the guy who brought 64billion barrels of oil back on line from Venezuela, who has turned the US into an energy exporting nation, has accelerated the move of Gulf Nations to use pipe rather than shipping and is challenging China for dominance in the new generation of nuclear energy is The Problem

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 07:52 AM (9s47C)

52 So, on one hand Bernie Sanders in advocating for the destruction of AI...

And on the other hand Chuck Schumer's daughter's hired by OpenAI to advocate for the continuation of AI development.

Disconnection much?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 07:52 AM (2Cry5)

53 one hour sober,

Out of claimed hundreds...

there were about 10? The rest were simply floated junk to make people think they had a pervasive mine setup.

And about half of those 10ish weren't even functional.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 07:52 AM (aJQbY)

54 San Franpsycho

From Clinton to Harris, this is so true.

Trump is an A person. His Cabinet is stuffed with doers and good picks. As always, no matter how elite an organization is, there is a finite amount of stupidity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

55 I LOVE Arby's!!

They give Ralphy a free small cup of meat when we go. He goes insane.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026


***
I dated a cute brunette Arby's manager in '91. I ought to get a freebie some way!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)

56 Paul honey-
Your special friend raimondo keeps calling and calling. He wants you to come over and play. Wants you to bring the "dog toys". Do what you want, sweetie, but tell him to stay away from the windows.

Posted by: Paul's mom at September 08, 2026 07:54 AM (4RYRd)

57 The posters yammered about "failure to address gender issues" and "lack of intersectionality," so I'm pretty sure of my diagnosis.

Sounds like they probably went to that socialist convention people have been mocking the videos from. A woman in a full-face Covid mask gave a speech on how being fat and ugly is how you defeat fascism, and she literally said "the more dysgenic, the better".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 07:54 AM (sabhw)

58 In Tucker Carlson’s latest podcast, he proved that he is beyond parody. In it, he attacked Algebra, said it was fake math, said that no one uses it or needs it, and admits that he never really understood it.

Tucker is finally revealed as a low IQ clown who is apparently proud of how little he knows or understands.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 07:55 AM (/FYr+)

59 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

A while ago I got more change than expected from paying cash at an Arby's. I asked why? "We gave you the senior discount."

Unbidden.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

60 "...no matter how elite an organization is, there is a finite amount of stupidity.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:53 AM"

This about me?

Posted by: The Strategic Stupidity Reserve at September 08, 2026 07:55 AM (2Ez/1)

61 Tucker will change his mind once his Qatari buddies inform him that algebra was invented by a Muslim.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 07:56 AM (6ydKt)

62 "failure to address gender issues"

Is this about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank at September 08, 2026 07:56 AM (Q+gd/)

63 I was a Quiet Quitter. After I watched my entire management chain bully pregnant employees into a medical procedure they didn't want in '21, I just did the bare minimum for a couple of years. In '24 there was a fun opportunity I threw myself into, but then I coasted. Handed in my badge this past April 20th. Buh bye. Now every day is Saturday.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026

Over the years, I came to the conclusion that "Total Quality Management" was a bullshit story.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 07:56 AM (mqudn)

64 I dated a I dated a cute brunette Arby's manager in '91. I ought to get a freebie some way!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreamingin '91. I ought to get a freebie some way!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

Ya want it dressed?

Posted by: cute brunette Arby's manager in Noo Awlins at September 08, 2026 07:56 AM (4RYRd)

65 So, on one hand Bernie Sanders in advocating for the destruction of AI...

And on the other hand Chuck Schumer's daughter's hired by OpenAI to advocate for the continuation of AI development.

Disconnection much?


Bernie's sided with the DSA, while Schumer represents the "traditional" Democrats who talk a lot about socialism but are only really interested in making themselves rich at taxpayer expense.

So from that point of view it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 07:56 AM (sabhw)

66 In Tucker Carlson’s latest podcast, he proved that he is beyond parody. In it, he attacked Algebra, said it was fake math, said that no one uses it or needs it, and admits that he never really understood it.

Tucker is finally revealed as a low IQ clown who is apparently proud of how little he knows or understands.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 07:55 AM (/FYr+)
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Has anyone told him about the usefulness of imaginary numbers?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 07:56 AM (FZ29D)

67 In Tucker Carlson’s latest podcast, he proved that he is beyond parody. In it, he attacked Algebra, said it was fake math, said that no one uses it or needs it, and admits that he never really understood it.

Tucker is finally revealed as a low IQ clown who is apparently proud of how little he knows or understands.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 07:55 AM (/FYr+)
=====

His guest literally called algebra "goyslop."

The Nazis attacked physics as "Jewish science."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:57 AM (RIvkX)

68 Unbidden.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

You wanna make 25 cents the hard way?

Posted by: Rodney Miklosfield at September 08, 2026 07:57 AM (4RYRd)

69 A while ago I got more change than expected from paying cash at an Arby's. I asked why? "We gave you the senior discount."

Unbidden.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026


***
I get that at a CC's Coffee here (Community Coffee, their coffee shops). The other day I'd asked to have my coffee reheated a bit in the microwave, and they did so cheerfully . . . and about fifteen minutes later the counter lady (who was our age) brought me out a free cup of the same, "For your trouble."

Plus they are a bit cheaper than most coffee shops in town.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 07:58 AM (wzUl9)

70 there were about 10? The rest were simply floated junk to make people think they had a pervasive mine setup.

And about half of those 10ish weren't even functional.


There were 11 total and I think 4 or 5 actually were in working condition.

To be fair, if an oil tanker hits one of the ones that works they're going to have a very bad day.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 07:58 AM (sabhw)

71 Meanwhile, more Americans have college degrees than ever, just as artificial intelligence is doing more of the entry-level work companies typically hire young graduates for.

So we solve the problem of H1-B folks taking jobs and now we have a new problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:59 AM (+4yJ5)

72 Tom Servo

Oh, Tuck has not been shy about what an idiot he is.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

73 The Nazis attacked physics as "Jewish science."
Posted by: San Franpsycho

My field of Givafukks is carefully cultivated according to strict Lysenko principles

Posted by: Miklos is unsurprised when he Beholds at September 08, 2026 08:00 AM (4RYRd)

74 IMO says 80 mines were laid as of June.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:00 AM (J4Dwc)

75 Learn to coal.

Posted by: The West Virginia Employment Commission at September 08, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ez/1)

76 Glenn H. Reynolds: Reddington, in an unhinged press conference after a mistrial was called, accused the dissident of stealing his fellow jurors’ time: “They know that they were robbed by one man for whatever his agenda was, who stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors.”

--

I find this defense attorney's behavior and actions absolutely shocking and unconscionable. This lone juror man will be hunted down like a beast in the jungle. If there is any law to back him up, I'd tell him to sue this attorney's pants off for slander and for putting him in the coming danger we all know he's going to be in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

77 I dated a cute brunette Arby's manager in '91. I ought to get a freebie some way!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
*
Ya want it dressed?
Posted by: cute brunette Arby's manager in Noo Awlins at September 08, 2026


***
I liked her undressed.

She had more of an Uptown accent. Went to that big Cat'lick girls' school on St. Charles.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:00 AM (wzUl9)

78 I suspect the Russia/Ukraine war is having much more of an impact on oil prices than people realize. The Ukes have been targeting refineries, creating a huge gasoline and diesel shortage inside Russia and also wrecking Russia’s export market, which was significant.

China is having to bid up oil prices, having lost both of their major suppliers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:01 AM (/FYr+)

79 Does Ralphy have an opinion on the US/Canada Trade War? What about Snowflake?

Posted by: America's Hat at September 08, 2026 08:01 AM (Fn+3X)

80
Oh, Tuck has not been shy about what an idiot he is.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026


***
Amazing, how stupid people are so proud of not knowing anything.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:01 AM (wzUl9)

81 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

82 You Catholic girls start way too late.

Posted by: William Joel at September 08, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)

83 The Nazis attacked physics as "Jewish science".

"I mean, Ein-STEIN. Do we have to spell it out for you goyim? Oy vey" - the International Jooo Conspiracy, probably

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:03 AM (sabhw)

84 Report: Unemployment Rate Among Non-College Grads Reaches One of Lowest Points in Past 23 Years

Expel 3+ Million illegals and people with high school diplomas get a job.

Strange how that works.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 08:03 AM (/+uur)

85 both radicals and relative moderates alike took the hint: Voters are desperate for candidates who speak to the frustration they feel at the gas pump, in the grocery line and after every utility payment"

Yeah, sure. I'm voting for mayor because gas prices are lower than under the previous administration?

SMH

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:04 AM (XuXeR)

86 >>>In Tucker Carlson’s latest podcast, he proved that he is beyond parody. In it, he attacked Algebra, said it was fake math, said that no one uses it or needs it, and admits that he never really understood it.

Tucker is finally revealed as a low IQ clown who is apparently proud of how little he knows or understands.

Posted by: Tom Servo

>When I was designing products for a company a few years ago I used algebra regularly to enhance range and fine tune performance. We need an equation for Tucker's mouth.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 08, 2026 08:04 AM (eP2ub)

87 In the opening months of their reign, they swiped taxpayers’ credit card for $1.9 trillion.

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Then, after months of denying the consequences of their actions, they finally admitted that something ought to be done about it.

So they swiped again, this time running up a tab of well over $700 billion for what they dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”

They added about 40% to M2. We still may have another 10 to 12% inflation to absorb.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 08:04 AM (/+uur)

88 My 7th grade algebra teacher Mr. Blackman gave me panic attacks that affected bowel urgency IYKWIMAIKTYD

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

89 EXCLUSIVE: UN Sought to ‘Cover-Up’ UNRWA Staff’s Role in Oct 7 Attack and Ties to Hamas by Undermining Internal Probe, US Watchdog Finds

They'll send TWICE the number of Islamist investigators...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:05 AM (l3cgK)

90 IMO says 80 mines were laid as of June.
Posted by: one hour sober

80 lays?

In a month?

you mean per minute

Posted by: the 5,000 man crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln, in Thailand after 271 days at sea at September 08, 2026 08:05 AM (4RYRd)

91 Vance's ties to Tucker Carlson are deeply disappointing to me. I was fully in his corner a few short months ago for the '28 nomination. That has pretty much disappeared in my view. Cruz? I voted for Cruz in '16, but I simply don't believe he has the star power to attract enough voters in quantities that can overcome the freight train of fraud and lies that will descend on him. We still have a bit of time, but I'm putting Rubio ahead at the moment. I'd also go for Bessent if necessary. Maybe there's a dark horse out there yet to reveal himself, but suffice it to say that Vance has really disappointed me. If you can't disavow a nutjob like Carlson, you've got some major problems.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

92 JD Vance Dishonored Himself for Tucker Carlson

And is pushing me to Team Rubio

Posted by: Delurker at September 08, 2026 08:05 AM (2Drhq)

93 Here's a cute Jewish joke.

https://youtube.com/shorts/1Yxr6DuZuoE

Posted by: Non-tribe member at September 08, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

94 You Catholic girls start way too late.
Posted by: William Joel at September 08, 2026


***
The Arby's manager girl told me about her senior class's little act of rebellion. There's a tall white plaster statue of Mother Mary that faces the avenue. She and her fellow classmates rigged up a giant can of Budweiser, red and white, and a gigantic cigarette, and taped one to each of her hands. Visible from the avenue a good distance away.

She managed to graduate and go on to college, so I suspect the admin never found out who had done it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)

95 Meanwhile, more Americans have college degrees than ever, just as artificial intelligence is doing more of the entry-level work companies typically hire young graduates for.

That's an interesting phenomenon in the tech industry now. Entry-level hiring is down, allegedly due to AI but actually due to H1B restrictions, and senior people can't get hired because of DEI, so your best bet is to be middle of the road.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:07 AM (sabhw)

96 Sounds like they probably went to that socialist convention people have been mocking the videos from. A woman in a full-face Covid mask gave a speech on how being fat and ugly is how you defeat fascism, and she literally said "the more dysgenic, the better".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 07:54 AM (sabhw)

Wolfus get's Arby's managers.
This sounds more like what I'd attract.

Okay, quick news check. Nothing much. Time for work.

Paxton was on FoxNews on the weekend. He seemed optimistic. And President Trump's PAC dropped him $10 million. MS Now said he had $403 million but wasn't going to spend it because of his correption, grifting and greed. They really should be sued.

Back to work. I have to create stuff.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 08:07 AM (Sco7b)

97 A while ago I got more change than expected from paying cash at an Arby's. I asked why? "We gave you the senior discount."

Unbidden.
Posted by: NaCly Dog


I had that happen once. It was a FML feeling.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 08:07 AM (/xJ/M)

98 JD Vance Dishonored Himself for Tucker Carlson

So, we should be like leftists and declare that if you disagree with me on anything, on some certain set of things, that we cannot be friends otherwise?

So tiring.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

99 Affordability is a feeling not a fact.

Posted by: Change my mind at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (2Ez/1)

100 Expel 3+ Million illegals and people with high school diplomas get a job.

Strange how that works.
Posted by: r hennigantx

This is the first time in my life that a high school diploma seems like it might be worth something

Posted by: Miklos has one, a Jr. High Ph.D. in fact under the name Arday at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (4RYRd)

101 Vance's ties to Tucker Carlson are deeply disappointing to me.

What ties? Vance participated in using Tucker's son or nephew or whatever to feed false information to Iran and then fired the guy.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (5hs8R)

102 We still have a bit of time, but I'm putting Rubio ahead at the moment.

We want Mr Amnesty now?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (nCgQz)

103 Yeah, Vance's unwillingness to publicly attack even Tucker's POSITIONS, much less the man himself, is more than a little concerning. I'm not totally against him, but he's got to do something if he really wants the big chair.

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (U1fU7)

104 JD Vance Dishonored Himself for Tucker Carlson"

So we're back to "all Republicans must publicly disavow everyone that might have ever been thought of as an ally but really isn't" again?

SMH 2.0

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

105 >>I had that happen once. It was a FML feeling.

I has lunch with old friends on Sunday. When the cute, young waitress brought the bill I asked if it included the senior discount.

"You aren't old enough" she lied.

I gave her a nice tip.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 08:09 AM (viF8m)

106 98 So, we should be like leftists and declare that if you disagree with me on anything, on some certain set of things, that we cannot be friends otherwise?

That's disingenuous because it's not "just anything."

Posted by: Delurker at September 08, 2026 08:09 AM (2Drhq)

107 Ask your doctor if Dysgenic is right for you.

Posted by: Really Fat Pharma at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

108 declined to discuss how the earlier donations were used

Well... that's not a red flag or anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

109 You Catholic girls start way too late.
Posted by: William Joel


Um, in engine performance, Catholic girls are 350's while public school girls are 302's. In my limited experience.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (/xJ/M)

110 Wolfus get's Arby's managers.
This sounds more like what I'd attract.


***
Stateless, she would have stood out in any crowd. Italian, devastating smile, slim and well-spoken. Among the employees at the Arby's, she was a diamond found in a pile of hogslop. (And this was more than thirty years ago; such a thing would be almost unheard of in da Deep South now)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (wzUl9)

111 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

112 Rubio is clean-shaven, so I will probably support him, should he decide to run

I don't trust a politician who wears the perma-scruff beard look

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (ZxPkt)

113 A while ago I got more change than expected from paying cash at an Arby's. I asked why? "We gave you the senior discount."

Unbidden.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

-take the cash

-write your number on the receipt and slide it back

-bitch know who gots de moneys

Posted by: Senior Fast Food Pickup Artist at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (4RYRd)

114 Newsom.



HA!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

115 Morning Horde thx JJ.
The article about Jaguar is funny in an odd way. It says the company, owned by an Indian conglomerate. The articles says most of the jobs that are being cut are in England. India will show them for being colonial.
Always thought Jaguars were great looking, apparently not well built over the last couple decades

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 08:10 AM (TrqdA)

116 not "just anything."

Quotation marks, what do they mean?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

117 Just saw a Paul comment nuked in real time. I salute the COBs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (XvL8K)

118 Gavin Newsom talking about lower costs and affordability when he governs a state that has some of the highest costs in the world.

Priceless........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (ccf/V)

119 Second look at me? Tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: Pat Paulsen at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (6W6ju)

120 I'm so old I remember when "little Marco" was a thing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)

121 Don’t Laugh, Don’t Smirk, Don’t Count Him Out: Ted Cruz Could Beat JD Vance in 2028

Ted Cruz will never be President. He isn't likable enough. It may be sad that this is a consideration but it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

122 So, we should be like leftists and declare that if you disagree with me on anything, on some certain set of things, that we cannot be friends otherwise?

So tiring.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e)
====

I agree with you in principle but these differences go beyond mere "disagreements" to fundamental incompatibility.

Tucker Carlson is a traitor to the United States.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

123 The article about Jaguar is funny in an odd way. It says the company, owned by an Indian conglomerate. The articles says most of the jobs that are being cut are in England. India will show them for being colonial.

Because this is the HQ, you must call out that the Indian owner is named "Tata".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (5hs8R)

124 Vance's ties to Tucker Carlson are deeply disappointing to me.

Seriously ? How about Trump's ties ? They were best buds during the election of 24'.. He campaigned with Trump....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (+gK6I)

125 You Catholic girls start way too late.
Posted by: William Joel
*
Um, in engine performance, Catholic girls are 350's while public school girls are 302's. In my limited experience.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026


***
I gotta go with Rick on this one. Of the major relationships in my life, the Catholic girls all have been V-8s in one department or another.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9)

126 Vance is disappointing. He said he won’t throw a friend under the bus… but Carlson has already thrown him under the bus. Doesn’t he recognize that? Sigh…. Rubio it is

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (gkBVP)

127 Catholic girls are 350's while public school girls are 302's."

So, they're overweight iron blocks?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

128 >Um, in engine performance, Catholic girls are 350's while public school girls are 302's. In my limited experience.

Posted by: rickb223
---

Back in HS, I briefly dated a Catholic schoolgirl. Plaid skirt and everything. Got to second base. True story.

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

129 How was your Labor Day?

I celebrated working by not working, one f*cking bit. I accomplished absolutely nothing.

We did take the daughter her car over the weekend. She's yet to drive it. She's nervous. Understandable.

We did love spending a little time with her, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

130 351's > 350's

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:13 AM (ccf/V)

131 Gloria Steinem was the beautiful face of an ugly ideology.

Beautiful? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

132 Tucker Carlson is a traitor to the United States"

Journalist. So....

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR)

133
Seriously ? How about Trump's ties ? They were best buds during the election of 24'.. He campaigned with Trump....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 08:12 AM (+gK6I)



He was seemingly on Trump's side back then. Qatucker used him, obviously.

He is a traitor.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:13 AM (ccf/V)

134
He is a traitor.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:13 AM (ccf/V)

Yes he is, but throwing JD under the bus for it seems a bit much.. I still like JD

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I)

135 Expel 3+ Million illegals and people with high school diplomas get a job.

Strange how that works.
Posted by: r hennigantx

This is the first time in my life that a high school diploma seems like it might be worth something

Posted by: Miklos has one, a Jr. High Ph.D.


Help me out, I'm not good at algebra.

So employers previously preferred ignorant savages from third world nations over domestic GDE or HS Diploma bearing labor. But now that these savages are either in prison or somewhere else, they are hiring HS diploma back fill.

Doesn't that imply that a HS diploma has less value than whatever a semi-literate retard criminal from the jungle brings?

I've heard Man On The Street interviews. A HS Diploma implies entitlement, wokeness and zero work ethic.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (a6PrB)

136 351's > 350's"

.38, .39 - whatever it takes"

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (XuXeR)

137 Happy birthday Hadrian.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

138 DSA platform is “about recognizing that we’ve got a planet that is getting hotter and drier, and that we’ve got to address the issue of climate change, and we want energy security, and we want to move off fossil fuels. That’s a DSA position. That’s a mainstream position within the Democratic Party.”

I shall translate:
DSA wants an EU America. Poorer, colder, hotter, and extremely more expensive.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)

139 Um, in engine performance, Catholic girls are 350's while public school girls are 302's. In my limited experience.
Posted by: rickb223

But those small block 302s tend to run hot

Posted by: Mustang nostalgist Miklos at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (4RYRd)

140 How funny is it the Dem party is in such shambles, Hunter Biden thinks he needs to come swooping in and save it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (ccf/V)

141 You know about the cylinder sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

142 Seriously ? How about Trump's ties ? They were best buds during the election of 24'.. He campaigned with Trump....

--

Maybe he did, but I don't recall Carlson going off his rocker at that time. He's since become someone I don't associate with his former self. I don't recall his anti-Jew statements; I don't recall him giving props to the beauty of Islam. Could be I wasn't paying attention back then, but Tucker seems to have had a conversion, a piano dropped on his head...something. Everything that comes out of his mouth these days is lunacy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (qBdHI)

143 Vance is disappointing. He said he won’t throw a friend under the bus… but Carlson has already thrown him under the bus. Doesn’t he recognize that? Sigh…. Rubio it is

I don't understand how being the bigger man makes Vance terrible. It costs him nothing to say "that guy hates me, and whatever".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:16 AM (5hs8R)

144
But those small block 302s tend to run hot
Posted by: Mustang nostalgist Miklos at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (4RYRd)



The best bolt on upgrade engine ever.

"It's not how fast you want to go. It's how fast you can AFFORD to go."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

145 In my day, the Catholic School girls who smoked cigs on the bus stop were the randiest. One on my block quietly went away for about six months before reappearing.

Posted by: Home For Wayward Girls at September 08, 2026 08:17 AM (Fn+3X)

146
I don't understand how being the bigger man makes Vance terrible. It costs him nothing to say "that guy hates me, and whatever".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:16 AM (5hs8R)



Yeah. I read comments like that and the only thought in my head is FFS.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

147 So employers previously preferred ignorant savages from third world nations over domestic GDE or HS Diploma bearing labor"

Sure. They cost less, thanks to taxpayers. It ain't rocket math.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR)

148 Doesn't that imply that a HS diploma has less value than whatever a semi-literate retard criminal from the jungle brings?

I've heard Man On The Street interviews. A HS Diploma implies entitlement, wokeness and zero work ethic.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:15 AM (a6PrB)

I think it implies that employers love the semi-slave wages and control that comes with illegal employment.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 08:17 AM (/+uur)

149 Could be I wasn't paying attention back then, but Tucker seems to have had a conversion, a piano dropped on his head...something. Everything that comes out of his mouth these days is lunacy.


Tucker has always been bought and paid for, including when he was allegedly conservative. Those of us who remember him 25 years ago in the bow tie on MSNBC as the tame opposition have always understood that.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:17 AM (5hs8R)

150 Back in HS, I briefly dated a Catholic schoolgirl. Plaid skirt and everything. Got to second base. True story.
Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026


***
The Catholic schoolgirl look has never turned me on particularly. But when I first dated the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, she occasionally wore a plaid skirt like that. She'd graduated from a public high school the year before, so it wasn't her uniform; it must have been a conscious fashion choice. I thought it pretty damn nice.

(She made a LOT of good conscious fashion choices)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:18 AM (wzUl9)

151
Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Aw, but sooner or later, it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one

Posted by: The Source Material at September 08, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

152
Tucker has always been bought and paid for, including when he was allegedly conservative. Those of us who remember him 25 years ago in the bow tie on MSNBC as the tame opposition have always understood that.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:17 AM (5hs8R)



Tucker simply went back to who he is, only funded now by the muslhams.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:19 AM (ccf/V)

153
122 So, we should be like leftists and declare that if you disagree with me on anything, on some certain set of things, that we cannot be friends otherwise?

So tiring.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

I guess you missed that part where Tucker called for Trump to be immediately impeached and also said that he could only support radical leftists from now on, because they’re the only ones that hate Jews enough.

Maybe you’re comfortable being friends with those who want you dead. I’m not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:19 AM (/FYr+)

154 For 99% of the electorate, Tucker is a non-entity. He's an online podcaster wiith limited appeal, more limited daily. He's also kinda stupid.

I'd prefer Vance cut ties but unless something changes radically it won't affect my vote in '28.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 08:19 AM (viF8m)

155 Gloria Steinem when she was a Playboy Bunny

https://tinyurl.com/49wdvrd3

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 08:20 AM (ZxPkt)

156 351's > 350's
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


351/M400

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 08:20 AM (/xJ/M)

157 Ted Cruz will never be President. He isn't likable enough. It may be sad that this is a consideration but it is.

Ted Cruz wants to be an internet Influencer. His time in office, where he promised Texans he would "fight for them" has been mostly finding opportunity to mine for sound bite material he can later podcast.

I'm pretty sure that his Goldman Sachs wife has made bank over his Insider Connections.

He is the other side of Jasmine Crockett who also uses Congress as source material for her preferred Internet Influencer career.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:20 AM (a6PrB)

158 For 99% of the electorate, Tucker is a non-entity. He's an online podcaster wiith limited appeal, more limited daily. He's also kinda stupid.

His audience is almost entirely bot farms and people like Ace that need content.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:20 AM (5hs8R)

159 We Are in World War Xi

I told you it was World War Eleven!

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at September 08, 2026 08:21 AM (l3cgK)

160 In the War of Ideas, Tucker is on the other side.

J.D. should be able to criticize the ideas, the words, the beliefs without "throwing his friend under the bus."

That is just a convenient excuse and belies a subtextual approval.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

161 So we solve the problem of H1-B folks taking jobs and now we have a new problem.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:59 AM (+4yJ5)


Same as it ever was. There's always something screwing with the system. Wait until companies find out that AI doesn't do the higher level stuff that they were training new hires to do and the old folks who learned it have all retired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

162 I always assumed that Sister Christian was inspired by Only the Good Die Young. But the interwebs tell me tell me that's not true:

"Sister Christian" was written by drummer Kelly Keagy as a tribute to his younger sister, Christy, with the title originally being "Sister Christy" before bandmates misheard it as "Christian" during rehearsals.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 08:22 AM (XvL8K)

163 158 For 99% of the electorate, Tucker is a non-entity. He's an online podcaster wiith limited appeal, more limited daily. He's also kinda stupid.

His audience is almost entirely bot farms and people like Ace that need content.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:20 AM (5hs8R)

Bot farms that ask to see your Bobs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:22 AM (l3cgK)

164 I remember cubic inch engine sizes, but ever since I got into the Mercedes world in '97, I've been thinking of engines in liters. (Un-American of me, I know.)

Arby's Lady was a 3.8 with 300 hp. Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 was a 6.0L V-12 with 500 hp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:23 AM (wzUl9)

165 How far have we fallen as a military power when it took the Navy four months to clear 10 broken down, non-threatening Iranian mines?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:23 AM (J4Dwc)

166 >>>I've heard Man On The Street interviews. A HS Diploma implies entitlement, wokeness and zero work ethic.

Posted by: Community Notes

>Never forget the smartest man in the room is the man who just barely passed his GED. These are the guys that get promoted and favored because these are the yes men who will give you 60 hours a week. Modern day slavery. Tradesmen who see their wives and families one day a week.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 08, 2026 08:23 AM (eP2ub)

167 Bot farms that ask to see your Bobs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:22 AM (l3cgK)



"Show me your bobs and vagene!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V)

168 J.D. should be able to criticize the ideas, the words, the beliefs without "throwing his friend under the bus."

That is just a convenient excuse and belies a subtextual approval.


Again, Vance participated in using Tucker as a patsy to feed misinformation to Iran. He's clearly not going to join Tucker in the public execution of CBD for being Jewish and misuse of maple syrup.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:23 AM (5hs8R)

169
U.S. Interdicts Blow da Fuck Outta Drug Traffickers’ Floating Refueling Station

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

170 Tucker might need a CAT scan of his head. I've known two folks that began behaving strangely and the news was not good.

Posted by: Block Head Barry at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (Fn+3X)

171 Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Aw, but sooner or later, it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Posted by: The Source Material at September 08, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)
====

I've had a Billy Joel earworm for a week it is torture and this comment magnifies my pain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

172 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (53oGX)

173 I don't understand how being the bigger man makes Vance terrible. It costs him nothing to say "that guy hates me, and whatever".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 08, 2026 08:16 AM (5hs8R)

He said he’s still friends with Carlson and everyone knows this. He says he’s friends with a guy who’s denounced everything about the administration he’s a part of, is working to destroy that administration and the guy who’s denounced republicans (of which Vance is one). He’s not being a bigger man he’s being a cuck. Someone treating you that way is not a friend

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (gkBVP)

174 MyDeen: The App Building Islam’s Next Generation

Paula Deen shoulda made an app first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (l3cgK)

175 Here's the deal, most Senators are non-essential, same goes for congressmen, the machine pretty much runs things with very little input from individual Senators or Congressmen.

Eventually they find this out and spend their time generating noise, and feathering their own nests.

Why anyone thought Cruz would be different is beyond me.

They all suck.

Some suck a little less.

But they all suck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (Lm2uZ)

176 "Belies Subtextual Approval" was the working title for what Hemingway eventually published as The Sun Also Rises.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)

177 For 99% of the electorate, Tucker is a non-entity."

Heck, for most here it's the same. I couldn't pick him out of a lineup, but some seem to think he was the face of...something.

Frankly, it's boring, and I don't give a rat's fuzzy backside what any political figure says about a news reader. And anyone requiring me to disavow him will be laughed at.

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

178 Those of us who remember him 25 years ago in the bow tie on MSNBC as the tame opposition have always understood that.
Posted by: Ian S


Chatsworth Osborne Jr.

Posted by: Miklos looks over at his Rush Limbaugh Official Stuff at September 08, 2026 08:25 AM (4RYRd)

179 First, get a stick of butter...

Posted by: Paula Deen at September 08, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

180 I think some people put too much emphasis on what Tucker says. He's no policy wonk, and his influence (at least among some) isn't all that great. Not anymore.

I don't care if Vance and Carlson are buds. I'm not picking Vance's friends.

If and when Vance adopts some of Carlson's positions, officially, I'll take note. But not now. And I've not heard that Vance has adopted any of Tucker's hair brained ideas in an official capacity.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (2Cry5)

181 First, get a stick of butter...
Posted by: Paula Deen at September 08, 2026


***
No, no, Paula. It's "First, catch the rabbit . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (wzUl9)

182 179 First, get a stick of butter...

Posted by: Paula Deen at September 08, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

That's always a good start in the kitchen...and maybe even the bedroom...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK)

183 So things are being described as "zesty" and "not that tight."
Posted by: Used to date her at September 08, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)

I remember.

Posted by: But it's all over now at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (wVcYX)

184 one hour sober

CMDR Salamander and his lecture on "the weapon that waits" comes to mind.''

Minesweeping is hard to do quickly and safely.
We are using autonomous underwater vehicles to do it.
It may be tiny on a map, but the Strait of Hormuz is still a big place, with a lot of false positives.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

185 Yeah, Vance's unwillingness to publicly attack even Tucker's POSITIONS, much less the man himself, is more than a little concerning. I'm not totally against him, but he's got to do something if he really wants the big chair.
Posted by: American Hawkman at September 08, 2026 08:08 AM (U1fU7)


Vance has said, publicly and repeatedly, that he disagrees with things Carlson has said about a number of things. He won't attack him personally - something that people take to the fainting couches over when Trump does it. Carlson isn't an advisor, he's just someone Vance is friendly with.

The whole blow up is prep work for the Dems to try and destroy Vance should he be the nominee in '28. Don't do their work for them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

186 They all suck.

Some suck a little less.

But they all suck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

This is still about the katlick girls, rite?

Posted by: Miklos in Noo Awlins Yat-speak at September 08, 2026 08:27 AM (4RYRd)

187
They all suck.

Some suck a little less.

But they all suck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (Lm2uZ)



This. And the more we learn about our 'intellectual betters,' the more we learn that it's their f*cking STAFFERS that are doing all the work and destroying the country. They're bosses are just to busy getting drunk and laid to see it happening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:28 AM (ccf/V)

188 They all suck.

Some suck a little less.

But they all suck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
*
This is still about the katlick girls, rite?
Posted by: Miklos in Noo Awlins Yat-speak at September 08, 2026


***
Damn straight

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)

189 First, get a stick of butter..."

In Paris?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

190 Posted by: Paula Deen at September 08, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

That's always a good start in the kitchen...and maybe even the bedroom...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK)



I'm betting she did butt stuff back in her day. That's what landed her the millionaire fish she married.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

191 The whole blow up is prep work for the Dems to try and destroy Vance should he be the nominee in '28. Don't do their work for them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
__________

How can they destroy him by using Tucker positions they agree with?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (XvL8K)

192 The Kremlin signaled that trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States were on the table following U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s visit to Moscow and Kyiv.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the three-way format was possible but gave no timeline for the potential talks.

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (GIf+b)

193 "Belies Subtextual Approval" was the working title for what Hemingway eventually published as The Sun Also Rises.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin

I got yer "subtextual" right here

or not

Posted by: Jake Barnes at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (4RYRd)

194 I've had a Billy Joel earworm for a week it is torture and this comment magnifies my pain.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)


Hi there!

Posted by: Rick Astley at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (6W6ju)

195 190 Posted by: Paula Deen at September 08, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

That's always a good start in the kitchen...and maybe even the bedroom...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK)


I'm betting she did butt stuff back in her day. That's what landed her the millionaire fish she married.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

You saying she did spatchcocking?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

196 Oh, Star Trek fans, check your local cineplex.

Cinemark/Tinseltown is having a super quadruple billing today.

First is Star Trek: The Motion Picture is paired with the TOS episode "The Changeling."

Followed by Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and the episode "Space Seed."

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and "Amok Time."

And it concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and "City on the Edge of Forever."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:30 AM (2GVsD)

197 194 I've had a Billy Joel earworm for a week it is torture and this comment magnifies my pain.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

Hi there!

Posted by: Rick Astley at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (6W6ju)

Uptown Girls...Christy Brinkley...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

198 Hi there!
Posted by: Rick Astley"

Meh.

/1-800 Kars for Kids

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

199 I think it implies that employers love the semi-slave wages and control that comes with illegal employment.

Miklos said: "a high school diploma seems like it might be worth something"

Maybe we both need algebra refresher courses because the high school diploma added no value.

Lets say I need to move a trailer full of stuff. The freight logistics guy sees a domestic with a HS diploma, and a foreigner with jungle smarts and chooses the latter. The HS diploma adds zero value because the employer calculated the risks of having an illiterate illegal alien potentially ruining his business or the domestic with a HS diploma doing same.

The HS diploma added no value over the evaluation of the risk.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (pUU4E)

200 >>How far have we fallen as a military power when it took the Navy four months to clear 10 broken down, non-threatening Iranian mines?

Not sure where this idea comes from but I story yesterday that it took Navy SEALS working at night for 4 months to remover live, not dummy mines.

https://shorturl.at/dtGac

Sounds pretty impressive to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

201
165 How far have we fallen as a military power when it took the Navy four months to clear 10 broken down, non-threatening Iranian mines?

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:23 AM (J4Dwc)

Actually it was extremely impressive. First thing you get wrong - it was 10 fully functional mines mixed in with 190 decoys, which could not be proven to be decoys until someone checked them out.

Second, it was in a relatively large body of water, hundred of square miles, and the entire operation was carried out under the constant threat of drone and missile fire.

Third, due to the threat of drone and missile fire the entire operation was carried out under water, with submersible vehicles and men in scuba gear. Nothing like that has ever been done on this scale before.

So yes, it was extremely impressive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (/FYr+)

202 So does Tucker Carlson say to Vance in private: Don’t worry about all those horrible things I say about your administration in public… they’re not about you it’s just I hate your boss. Don’t worry, in 28 I’m right there for you… ??

If I’m Vance I’m not happy with that arrangement at all.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (gkBVP)

203 That's disingenuous because it's not "just anything."

No? Here's the thing. Back before I retired, I worked in tech, in Austin. That means that most of my co-workers were raving loons. I could not have disagreed with them about politics more if I tried. And, yet, we could sit down, go to lunch, be friendly about other things - the weather, the traffic, whatever.

That's real life. Not, OMG!!!!! you said something about the great untouchable topic with which I disagree. You are an unperson to me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

204 198 Hi there!
Posted by: Rick Astley"

Meh.

/1-800 Kars for Kids

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

J. G. Wentworth...877-Cash-Now!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (l3cgK)

205 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

lol

I was being facetious. Yes, it's a pretty big body of water, relatively speaking. I remember from flying over it many times during Operation Earnest Will.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:32 AM (J4Dwc)

206 She's real fine, my 409.
My four-oh-nine.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 08:32 AM (wVcYX)

207 Sounds dirty. But it's not.

Posted by: Just the punchline at September 08, 2026 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

208 No, no, Paula. It's "First, catch the rabbit . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Pauwa....I will woo you....with a WABBIT

Posted by: Besotten Elmer F. at September 08, 2026 08:32 AM (4RYRd)

209 Dominique.

Posted by: The Singing Nun at September 08, 2026 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

210 Tucker Carlson is a traitor to the United States.

What has Carlson done which makes him a traitor to the US?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

211 Come on Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners…. Worst ear worm ever…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (gkBVP)

212 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:30 AM (2GVsD)


Very cool, thanks

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

213 So does Tucker Carlson say to Vance in private: Don’t worry about all those horrible things I say about your administration in public… they’re not about you it’s just I hate your boss. Don’t worry, in 28 I’m right there for you… ??

If I’m Vance I’m not happy with that arrangement at all.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (gkBVP)



Remember: Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel are still friends.

Sometimes, this shit just happens......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

214 Oh JD, I'm not sure what to think, other than I refuse to condemn him just for not condemning Tucker loudly and at length.

I can easily envision him doing the embarassed "oh not again Tucker" in his head as he tries to pretend to himself that his once-friend is his still-friend.

I've known plenty of people who can't quite bring themselves to completely disassociate from someone who seems hell-bent on rushing down the path to perdition.

And if it weren't for those past ties, it would smack very loudly of "Why did you only denounce David Duke's endorsement three times? Why not three hundred? Why not three million?"

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (aJQbY)

215 Eight hours of the best of Trek for the 60th anniversary!

My oldest buddy, who got me into ST fandom, told me of watching the very first episode. He'd seen promos, and expected the ship to land as in Forbidden Planet and every other SF movie up to then. Instead, there's this shimmering, and Kirk, McCoy, and the first security guard to get scragged in the course of the series materialize on the planet surface. Blew his mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:34 AM (wzUl9)

216
What has Carlson done which makes him a traitor to the US?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)



Sold his soul to islhamic nations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)

217 Labor Day is done, so now the real political craziness begins. The GOPe will most likely come together with MAGA to at least hold were they are now.
The Dems and DSA will most likely kill each other. More popcorn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 08:35 AM (TrqdA)

218 “They know that they were robbed by one man for whatever his agenda was"

Really wondering if that lawyer is going to be sanctioned at all over this.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 08:35 AM (+4yJ5)

219 I noticed that the BBC ran with a headline I predicted the media would when USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into Thailand for port call.

"Why is the ship so rusty?" they asked.

You mewling worthless Commie cocksucking traitorous inbred low-IQ twits, go back and watch video of HMS Hermes returning from the Falklands War.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:35 AM (2GVsD)

220
Doo doo doo doot

doo doot, doo doot
Can't touch this

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 08:35 AM (ZxPkt)

221 Come on Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners…. Worst ear worm ever…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (gkBVP)

Too rye aye!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (wVcYX)

222 "Billy Joel Is In The House Tonight" was stripper code that blow jobs were available so as to avoid any legal entanglements.

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: The Platinum Club at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (9uuIQ)

223 What has Carlson done which makes him a traitor to the US?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

Saying that Trump should be immediately removed from office for not being nice enough to Muslims, for starters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (/FYr+)

224 - Had to fight my way through the ridiculous pop-up, that ace told his ad people to get rid of a week ago, just to say it's still there.
And it ain't worth fighting on every refresh.
Have fun.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (eblO+)

225 She's real fine, my 409"

Hey, let's name our new spray cleaner after something powerful....

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

226 This place...

lol

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (J4Dwc)

227 The RNC is in Dallas this week. A libtard baker in my town has decided this is unacceptable and is baking 'F*ck Trump' cookies in retaliation.

Never heard of the place, but I have now and will never darken it's door with my shadow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (ccf/V)

228 Dominique.
Posted by: The Singing Nun

I wonder why that is not some sort of lesbian fight song yet

Posted by: J. Talarico sings along at September 08, 2026 08:37 AM (4RYRd)

229 For the 60th, they should show "Space Seed" *before* Wrath of Khan. Original story first, then the expanded sequel.

Still, they have the right idea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:37 AM (wzUl9)

230 It's National Ants On A Log Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

231 I had schoolmates who would refer to it as "Star Track."
Being the word nerd that I was, I couldn't handle the error, and it just put me off from the whole thing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1)

232 I guess you missed that part where Tucker called for Trump to be immediately impeached and also said that he could only support radical leftists from now on, because they’re the only ones that hate Jews enough.

Maybe you’re comfortable being friends with those who want you dead. I’m not.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:19 AM (/FYr+)


Lots of people have called for Trump to be immediately impeached and also said that he could only support radical leftists from now on. I don't want them in power but I wouldn't cross the street to avoid them.

I'm far more tolerant in my personal life than I am in my politics.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

233 Oh, it is far more than eight hours, the runtime for "The Changeling" and Star Trek: The Motion Picture is over three hours.

To watch all four, would mean 12 hours at the cinema.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:38 AM (2GVsD)

234 Jenny 867-5309

Mickey

Two more annoying ear worms from the 80s

You’re welcome

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:38 AM (gkBVP)

235 Too rye aye!"

"You can dance if you want to"

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

236 Gloria Steinem when she was a Playboy Bunny

She was slim enough to wear the uniform and she was of ever so slightly above median attractiveness - maybe - but she wasn't beautiful.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

237 Pauwa....I will woo you....with a WABBIT
Posted by: Besotten Elmer F.

Elmer had a fine career, but everyone that turns 29+ needs a good home and support. He's here with us now.

Posted by: Happydale West Home at September 08, 2026 08:38 AM (Fn+3X)

238 >>Come on Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners…. Worst ear worm ever…

Actually heard that at the gym this morning. Lousy way to start the day.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (NcvvS)

239 It's a tough call whether to go with the International Maritime Organization's estimate of 80 mines deployed in the strait or a few random dudes commenting on AoSHQ who read something on the internet somewhere.

I'm going to have to give this much more thought.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (J4Dwc)

240 Wolfus, from how Tinseltown bills it on their site; that is the plan. Episode first, movie second.

But I decided to lead with the movies because they are more recognizable.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (2GVsD)

241 Oh, it is far more than eight hours, the runtime for "The Changeling" and Star Trek: The Motion Picture is over three hours.

To watch all four, would mean 12 hours at the cinema.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026


***
You're right, Anna; I was thinking just of the movies at two hours each.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

242
I'm going to have to give this much more thought.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (J4Dwc)



Don't you know who we are?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

243 As a kid, Star Trek was OK

But the kids actually ran home to see Dark Shadows

Posted by: Miklos sends a shout out to Barnbas Collins, know yer still around at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (4RYRd)

244 The Kremlin signaled that trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States were on the table following U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s visit to Moscow and Kyiv.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the three-way format was possible but gave no timeline for the potential talks.
Posted by: SMOD


Would be wonderful if they're serious about it and not just buying time. Praying for peace and common sense to break out.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (aJQbY)

245 I don't want them in power but I wouldn't cross the street to avoid them.

I'm far more tolerant in my personal life than I am in my politics.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

If I run into someone like that, I start wondering if I could charter a helicopter to toss them out of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (/FYr+)

246 >>Come on Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners…. Worst ear worm ever…

Gay

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (mqudn)

247 I wonder how Eileen feels about there being a song out there calling for dudes to come on her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (ccf/V)

248 Rule #1: Drown everything in butter. This is how you get to be a top chef. Make a saucy sauce put some green stuff on top and you too can be an expert.

It's all good, but you're just phoning it in. If butter is not your thing then use olive oil. Volume does not make you a better chef.

Look what's happening to that asshole, Salt Bae. How can you fuck up cooking meat?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (eP2ub)

249 go with a UN organization's estimate"

FIFY

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (XuXeR)

250 I had schoolmates who would refer to it as "Star Track."
Being the word nerd that I was, I couldn't handle the error, and it just put me off from the whole thing.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026


***
Star Trip was the most common at my junior high. Most of my classmates did not know the word "trek."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (wzUl9)

251 Anna Puma

Yup. First thing I thought of.

Steel, salt water, lots of time, and moving fast leads to rust, even with the good paint and a cathodic protection system.

The entire battlegroup did good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

252 217 Labor Day is done, so now the real political craziness begins. The GOPe will most likely come together with MAGA to at least hold were they are now.
The Dems and DSA will most likely kill each other. More popcorn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 08:35 AM (TrqdA)

=======

The GOP has more than $100 million more in ad buys reserved through the end of the election cycle, and their sudden purchasing of ad space was not matched by Democrats who have been burning through cash in July and August.

Ads are of limited value themselves, but the numbers are a useful indicator in terms of overall energy.

The tens of millions Talarico spent in July and August to "define" himself are going to be completely undone by a fraction of the amount of ads that include him talking crazy shit in September.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:41 AM (qE8uT)

253 I've heard Man On The Street interviews. A HS Diploma implies entitlement, wokeness and zero work ethic.

You've hear MotS interviews cherry picked to provide a specific view of the populace. It's an op. Like everything else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

254 As a kid, Star Trek was OK

But the kids actually ran home to see Dark Shadows
Posted by: Miklos sends a shout out to Barnbas Collins, know yer still around at September 08, 2026


***
It aired at 3:30 pm here, and I didn't get out of school until 3:15. Once I got home by bus, it was over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:42 AM (wzUl9)

255 He said he’s still friends with Carlson and everyone knows this.

And this is why Cancel Culture will never die. Even so-called "Conservative" feel a need to continuously out group.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:42 AM (BvPIe)

256 Elmer had a fine career, but everyone that turns 29+ needs a good home and support. He's here with us now.
Posted by: Happydale West Home

His Care Assistant LaQuisha votes him democrat and signs herself checks from Elmer's glue fortune

Posted by: Miklos needs Power of Attorney, one that will stick at September 08, 2026 08:43 AM (4RYRd)

257
But the kids actually ran home to see Dark Shadows
Posted by: Miklos sends a shout out to Barnbas Collins, know yer still around at September 08, 2026 08:40 AM (4RYRd)

I loved Dark Shadows.. Barnabas....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 08:43 AM (+gK6I)

258 The tens of millions Talarico spent in July and August"

Seemingly went to online adverts, oddly shown in places other than Texas.
Funny, no?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:43 AM (XuXeR)

259 Rule #1: Drown everything in butter. This is how you get to be a top chef. Make a saucy sauce put some green stuff on top and you too can be an expert.


Or just dress like a weirdo and roll salt off of your arm hair onto mediocre steak.

Posted by: Salt Bae, untalented hack at September 08, 2026 08:43 AM (9uuIQ)

260 Don't you know who we are?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

Wait until another plane crashes. That's when the experts really come out.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (J4Dwc)

261 The 2026 midterms are the latest test of an increasingly mistrusted industry.

From Truman to Trump: Why Election Polls Keep Getting It Wrong

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (GIf+b)

262 > It's a tough call whether to go with the International Maritime Organization's estimate of 80 mines deployed in the strait or a few random dudes commenting on AoSHQ who read something on the internet somewhere.
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IMO was keeping pretty good stats on what Iran/IRGC was doing with regards to laying mines.

Between them, and the various shipping companies who have a vested interest in the safety of their vessels I'd say they were likely spot on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (2Cry5)

263 They've had light plane crashes in FL and MA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (2GVsD)

264 The Iranians mined my pants!

Posted by: Joe In Lower Slower Delaware at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (Fn+3X)

265 The GOP has more than $100 million more in ad buys reserved through the end of the election cycle, and their sudden purchasing of ad space was not matched by Democrats who have been burning through cash in July and August.
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Talarico outraised Paxton by a mile, and has been steadily spending on ads. PDJT has been saving GOP money and is now ready to spend. Democrats are going to have to really step on the donor list to keep up, in Texas and around hte country generally.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (YHv4j)

266 258 The tens of millions Talarico spent in July and August"

Seemingly went to online adverts, oddly shown in places other than Texas.
Funny, no?

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 08:43 AM (XuXeR)

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Unless the Talarico campaign is a grift that knows it's going to lose and was designed to, instead of trying to win, pilfer as much from small dollar donors as possible to line the pockets of campaign consultants who know that Blexas is one of the most reliable keys to generational wealth in American politics.

Then it just makes sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (qE8uT)

267 It's me donna

My younger sister was enthralled with Dark Shadows. I never saw the appeal.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

268 I loved Dark Shadows.. Barnabas....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026


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There's a reference to it in David McDaniel's last published U.N.C.L.E. novel: In 1960s New England, Solo and Illya see a tree with the carved legend, "Barnabas Loves Josette." Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 had to explain it to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)

269 260 Don't you know who we are?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

Wait until another plane crashes. That's when the experts really come out.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (J4Dwc)

I once ate at a restaurant next to an airport called "Plane Food"...it wasn't spectacular, just average...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (l3cgK)

270 If and when Vance adopts some of Carlson's positions, officially, I'll take note. But not now. And I've not heard that Vance has adopted any of Tucker's hair brained ideas in an official capacity.

I think the noise is mostly coming from people who prefer Rubio - he's from Florida, after all - and so there's a lot of subtextual going on.

It'd be nice if they'd hold off trying to convince us that their preference is inevitable and the only correct choice at least until Vance and Rubio announce that they're running against each other but it is what it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

271
Wait until another plane crashes. That's when the experts really come out.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (J4Dwc)



I've been away for a few days. Did we tell the NTSB what happened to the Amazon plane in Miami yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

272 They've had light plane crashes in FL and MA.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (2GVsD)
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And in CA

Two people were killed when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airport Monday, officials said.

The crash occurred at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa after police received a report of the wreck around 5:21 p.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

273 265 Talarico outraised Paxton by a mile, and has been steadily spending on ads. PDJT has been saving GOP money and is now ready to spend. Democrats are going to have to really step on the donor list to keep up, in Texas and around hte country generally.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (YHv4j)

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Remember when Jamie Harrison outraised Lindsay Graham by a mile in 2020 and still lost by 9 because South Carolina is just a Republican state no matter how many ads get purchased?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (qE8uT)

274 Consider the Cosmic Justice wreaked on Dexy's Midnight Runners.

One song

one

For the rest of your mortal life

that one song

Posted by: the Fans only want to the old hits, Ok just the one at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (4RYRd)

275 Come, on Eileen. That was a porn flic I think

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (TrqdA)

276 You've hear MotS interviews cherry picked to provide a specific view of the populace. It's an op. Like everything else.


"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - not Churchill, but likely Jay E House (1920s-1930s)


Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:47 AM (BvPIe)

277 How can they destroy him by using Tucker positions they agree with?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 08, 2026 08:29 AM (XvL8K)


By suggesting that Vance agrees with them also. By saying that Vance, by refusing to condemn Carlson in the strongest terms ever, is secretly in cahoots with the Qataris, or whatever. Same as they do every primary season.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

278 272 They've had light plane crashes in FL and MA.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:44 AM (2GVsD)
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And in CA

Two people were killed when a small plane crashed at a San Diego airport Monday, officials said.

The crash occurred at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa after police received a report of the wreck around 5:21 p.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

I still call it Montgomery Field...Old names die hard.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (l3cgK)

279 Smell the GloveComma placement is very important.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

280 South Carolina is just a Republican state no matter how many ads get purchased?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That should not stop any candidate from attaching a Benjamin to each and all of their mailers

Posted by: How to get Miklos' Attention- at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (4RYRd)

281 " They're all scum, criminals, vermin and tyrants. "

you left out murderers, but all spot-on anyway.

they have been at war with America for decades if not centuries;
Americans are still struggling to grasp the idea that we are at war for our very existence.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (VyBeY)

282 A libtard baker in my town has decided this is unacceptable and is baking 'F*ck Trump' cookies in retaliation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Woah. That dude is standing at the corner of Stunning and Brave! I'm sure he'll be screaming "RESIST!" when he starts his work shift.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (+4yJ5)

283 Talarico outraised Paxton by a mile, and has been steadily spending on ads. PDJT has been saving GOP money and is now ready to spend. Democrats are going to have to really step on the donor list to keep up, in Texas and around hte country generally.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 08:45 AM (YHv4j)



A vast majority of the $$$$ sent to Talarico came from blue shitholes NOT in Texas.

He's Beta Cuck, just worse.

He hasn't been reported as trying to get his baby momma to eat the kids shit yet, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (ccf/V)

284 I never sleep.

Posted by: Rust at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

285 Never Too Young was a teen soap that was unsuccessful for ABC in 1965. It starred Tony Dow and ran for 153 episodes. It's cancellation led to room on the schedule for Dark Shadows which was much more successful and ran for multiple years.

Posted by: Child Of The 60s at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (Fn+3X)

286 Dark Shadows did not capture my interest the way Yeoman Rand in a short tunic and hair piled high did.

Ditto catwoman and batgirl in form-fitting suits.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (wVcYX)

287 280 South Carolina is just a Republican state no matter how many ads get purchased?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That should not stop any candidate from attaching a Benjamin to each and all of their mailers

Posted by: How to get Miklos' Attention- at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (4RYRd)

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"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and then vote against them, you've got no business being up here."
-Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (qE8uT)

288 282 A libtard baker in my town has decided this is unacceptable and is baking 'F*ck Trump' cookies in retaliation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Woah. That dude is standing at the corner of Stunning and Brave! I'm sure he'll be screaming "RESIST!" when he starts his work shift.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (+4yJ5)

Can I hire him to bake "Fuck Mandami" cookies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (l3cgK)

289 Smell the GloveComma placement is very important.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

There was a Cambridge comma, but turned out it was fake

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Miklos at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (4RYRd)

290 So does Tucker Carlson say to Vance in private: Don’t worry about all those horrible things I say about your administration in public… they’re not about you it’s just I hate your boss. Don’t worry, in 28 I’m right there for you… ??

If I’m Vance I’m not happy with that arrangement at all.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:31 AM (gkBVP)


Do they have private conversation at all these days?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

291 Remember when Jamie Harrison outraised Lindsay Graham by a mile in 2020 and still lost by 9 because South Carolina is just a Republican state no matter how many ads get purchased?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (qE8uT)

And amazing how people ignore the recent past. Cornyn famously spent $100 million in his primary race; Paxton spent $10 million and won by a 2-1 margin.

The biggest reason consultants and the professional political class hate candidates like Paxton is - guess where most of that $100 million actually went? And guess who didn’t pay them anything?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (/FYr+)

292 Unless the Talarico campaign is a grift...

It is a well established fact that high dollar campaigns favor the campaign manager's quest for generational wealth more than it does the McGuffin candidate's actual election.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (BvPIe)

293 I would love to catch all four movies, but no longer in college and the last movie not letting out till almost midnight. Not going to happen.

Wrath of Khan I think is the one for me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (2GVsD)

294 Newsom responded-

with the kind of word salad you get from a schizophrenic dude hanging out in front of a 7-11.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (+4yJ5)

295 My younger sister was enthralled with Dark Shadows. I never saw the appeal.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026


***
It was so different from most soap operas then (and maybe now?) that it was a shock. Most TV shows then, if they dealt with the supernatural, always explained it as some hoax by the villains. The supernatural was never taken to be real. DS took that route, opening the way for Ghostbusters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more I can't think of.

Roddenberry had a pilot called Spectre, with an occult detective duo similar to Holmes and Watson, in which the supernatural was boldly declared to be real. Robert Culp and Gig Young were the leads.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (wzUl9)

296 284 I never sleep.

Posted by: Rust at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

You've even gotten into coding...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (l3cgK)

297 Well, IDK. The WSJ just told me the senate is all but lost and the only reason the GOP will win two of the seats is because it fielded “moderate” candidates. They bleat that with Trump at 39% approval, an economy that’s good on numbers but hasn’t translated into gains for individuals and the high price of gas Democrats will probably sweep the senate and House, despite any funding advantage. Those factors will all combine into victory for Democrats who got us into this economic mess, used the government against the people, trampled the Bill of Rights and now has added socialism as a goal.

You see, they reason, the extremists in the Democrat Party are outliers, and don’t represent the mainstream, who BTW did all the thing I just mentioned plus impeached Trump, which he “mainstream” says they will do again. Right after they eliminate ICE, restore funding for frauds, and stack the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:51 AM (wUu8b)

298 283 A vast majority of the $$$$ sent to Talarico came from blue shitholes NOT in Texas.

He's Beta Cuck, just worse.

He hasn't been reported as trying to get his baby momma to eat the kids shit yet, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (ccf/V)

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"Well, if the election had been held in July, Talarico might have won."
-soon

"Bitch, the election is never held in July."
-also soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:51 AM (qE8uT)

299 Sold his soul to islhamic nations.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)


That makes him an idiot, but not a traitor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

300 Eric Daugherty -

While being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on GMA

Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney just asked President Trump to GIVE HER A PARDON

Un-freaking-real. He can't be serious.

"I'd like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case, Mr. President, I hope you'd consider this young lady, the type of person she is...and consider a pardon."

Trump CLEARLY said Clancy did a "horrible thing" and must face "consequences"

It's also a STATE case, not federal. A pardon would be merely symbolic.

HE CAN SHOVE IT!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

301 291 And amazing how people ignore the recent past. Cornyn famously spent $100 million in his primary race; Paxton spent $10 million and won by a 2-1 margin.

The biggest reason consultants and the professional political class hate candidates like Paxton is - guess where most of that $100 million actually went? And guess who didn’t pay them anything?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:50 AM (/FYr+)

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I fully expect Paxton to run behind Abbott.

I also fully expect Paxton to be announced the winner of the Senate race within thirty seconds of the polls closing in the western part of the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:52 AM (qE8uT)

302 Saying that Trump should be immediately removed from office for not being nice enough to Muslims, for starters.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (/FYr+)


That makes him a standard Democrat. Not even a radical, just a run of the mill Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

303 Can I hire him to bake "Fuck Mandami" cookies?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

With a festive little penis

Posted by: Miklos thinks apropos at September 08, 2026 08:52 AM (4RYRd)

304 > A libtard baker in my town has decided this is unacceptable and is baking 'F*ck Trump' cookies in retaliation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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If it's the same guy.... there was a post on X yesterday with a photo of the cookies. Not appetizing at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 08:52 AM (2Cry5)

305 I never caught on.

Posted by: The Princeton Semicolon at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

306 RCP still has Talarico winning in Texas, El-Sayed winning in MI and Susan Collins losing in Maine.

What are three things that will never happen, Alex?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (gkBVP)

307 The Democrat Party is Tan Rau, they want to sterilize your children.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (2GVsD)

308 I know we have all had enough of the Lindsay Clancy trial, but this was brought to my attention concerning Canada. They are getting right around a year with credit goe time locked up pre-trial.

Infanticide: Section 233 of the Criminal Codestates that a female commits infanticide if she causes the death of her newborn child by a wilful act or omission when her mind is disturbed as a result of the effects of giving birth. It is a law that is specific to women. It was added in 1948 because juries were refusing to convict mothers of murdering their own children and comes with less harsh sentencing. The penalty for infanticide is a maximum of five years imprisonment. There is no minimum penalty.

https://tinyurl.com/yyv2tkef

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (/xJ/M)

309 297 You see, they reason, the extremists in the Democrat Party are outliers, and don’t represent the mainstream, who BTW did all the thing I just mentioned plus impeached Trump, which he “mainstream” says they will do again. Right after they eliminate ICE, restore funding for frauds, and stack the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:51 AM (wUu8b)

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One of the only pollsters to even begin to trust, Harvard-Harris whose summer polls have been within 1% of the final generic congressional result since 2018, shows the race R+2 with Trump having a 44% approval with all voters and 48% approval with likely voters. You know...pretty much the same as 2024.

But throw that in with Quinnipac whose summer polling is regularly off by double digits because we have to aggregate known goods with known bads to get where things might be in reality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:54 AM (qE8uT)

310 There’s a difference in raising large sums of money from many donors in your state versus raising it from other places. Money doesn’t necessarily equal support. If your message sucks, and people don’t like you, they people who have to vote for you, you lose.

I think the entire cash=victory is a bit sophistic at times.

The GOP should remember that too.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (wUu8b)

311 306 RCP still has Talarico winning in Texas, El-Sayed winning in MI and Susan Collins losing in Maine.

What are three things that will never happen, Alex?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (gkBVP)

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Alexandra Daddario is more likely to arrive at my house tonight for a threesome than for Democrats to win all three of those races.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (qE8uT)

312
HE CAN SHOVE IT!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 08:52 AM (NpAcC)



He's an idiot that denies the existence of the human soul.

He will burn in Hell for eternity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

313 This is how you get to be a top chef.

Make the portion sizes small enough that people have to imagine what the food tastes like. Add a pretentious description and charge outrageously.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

314 >>>I've been away for a few days. Did we tell the NTSB what happened to the Amazon plane in Miami yet?

I dunno, probably, I was around only briefly this weekend.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (J4Dwc)

315 310 There’s a difference in raising large sums of money from many donors in your state versus raising it from other places. Money doesn’t necessarily equal support. If your message sucks, and people don’t like you, they people who have to vote for you, you lose.

I think the entire cash=victory is a bit sophistic at times.

The GOP should remember that too.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (wUu8b)

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Well, it's a good thing no one argued that cash equals victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (qE8uT)

316 306 RCP still has Talarico winning in Texas, El-Sayed winning in MI and Susan Collins losing in Maine.

What are three things that will never happen, Alex?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM
++++

Sniff...

Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

317 I doubt that baker would bake green dildo shaped cookies for the WNBA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)

318 Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (/xJ/M)

What Lindsay did was NOT infanticide...these kids were 5 years, 3 years, and 8 months...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)

319 I can’t remember where I saw it, but in the last few weeks I saw an article talking about how Abbott could well lose in Texas. I couldn’t discern if the author was concern trolling or just simply retarded

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gkBVP)

320 314 >>>I've been away for a few days. Did we tell the NTSB what happened to the Amazon plane in Miami yet?

Only thing I heard was the 5 that died were in a van.. The pilots survived

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (+gK6I)

321 And you have the GOP gaining in NH. Plus I think they will beat that idiot in GA with a lot of the voter cleanup they did.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (wUu8b)

322 With a festive little penis
Posted by: Miklos thinks apropos at September 08, 2026


***
They're ALL festive!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (wzUl9)

323 Vance adamantly refuses to take the honorable course. That makes him look weak at best. At worst, it makes him appear like a covert fellow traveler of Carlson’s degenerate, deranged, and destructive ideas. It also raises the question of whether Vance needs Carlson more than he needs the Trumpian coalition that made him vice president.

Tucker Carlson declared war on the GOP and on President Trump. Vance stands by him.

=======================
American Thinker is on the warpath against JD, over his refusal to denounce the Qatari agent, Carlson.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (msMYi)

324 Alexandra Daddario is more likely to arrive at my house tonight for a threesome than for Democrats to win all three of those races.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (qE8uT)

So there's a chance?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (l3cgK)

325 By suggesting that Vance agrees with them also. By saying that Vance, by refusing to condemn Carlson in the strongest terms ever, is secretly in cahoots with the Qataris, or whatever. Same as they do every primary season.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

Secret? Tucker recently purchased a residence in Qatar and visits there often. Tucker has publicly said that the US “gets nothing” from its ties to Israel, and he praises ties with Qatar as “clearly more beneficial”. Tucker meets in private with leading members of the Qatari government quite often. Not illegal, but don’t pretend it doesn’t happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (/FYr+)

326 "Co-host Amna Nawaz..."
I think I've spotted the problem...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (xAP/Y)

327 Talarico and Ossoff are in California on 9/10 for a fundraiser sponsored by big money. Paxton and the guy in Georgia should get mileage out of that.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (TrqdA)

328 I never caught on.
Posted by: The Princeton Semicolon at September 08, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

Same here.

Posted by: The William & Mary Ampersands at September 08, 2026 08:58 AM (wVcYX)

329 Anna Puma

Ohh. What a good request for a Liberal baker. But unlike the ones the Left asks the Christian bakers for.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 08:58 AM (u82oZ)

330 NTSB has only had one big news conference; to announce they are working the case.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:58 AM (2GVsD)

331 >> Well, it's a good thing no one argued that cash equals victory.

You don’t get out much, do you.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:58 AM (wUu8b)

332 $100 days the Amazon pilot was a DEI hire.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (wUu8b)

333 316 Sniff...

Posted by: Francesca Hong at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

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The story of polling this cycle, as emphasized by the Hong polling, was how badly polling firms are missing the white vote.

Vastly oversampling white college educated voters in urban areas and vastly undersampling white non-college educated voters in rural areas.

It happened in the WI governor's primary, it happened in the TX GOP primary race. These small firms with no track records are, if they're going any polling at all, are essentially running online, opt-in polling which vastly favors Democrats because of that demographic issue.

If turnout is unnaturally low, these things could be right because rural whites tend to not show up in greater numbers in lower turnout elections. But if turnout is going to be in line with, you know, major senate elections, then these polls are all wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (qE8uT)

334 I think Talerico loses, but the Al Sayed character has a chance in MI because of the cheat and the Muslim population...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (+gK6I)

335 He hasn't been reported as trying to get his baby momma to eat the kids shit yet, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:49 AM (ccf/V)


No, but one of their big arguments against Paxton was that HE'S HAD AN AFFAIR!!!! I wonder if they'll drop that now that two women! have accused Talarico of the same.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

336 Alexandra Daddario is more likely to arrive at my house tonight for a threesome than for Democrats to win all three of those races.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (qE8uT)
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Or any of them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (msMYi)

337 332 $100 days the Amazon pilot was a DEI hire.
Posted by: Vengeance


My bet: The mechanics were.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (+4yJ5)

338 But throw that in with Quinnipac whose summer polling is regularly off by double digits because we have to aggregate known goods with known bads to get where things might be in reality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

RCP did the yeoman work that I had almost decided to do myself. Not as thoroughly as I would like, but they show the different pollsters' results and in/accuracy for the last 5 four year election cycles. Quin-UH-PEE-ack is very consistent.

Posted by: Miklos does not mean in a good way at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (4RYRd)

339 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

Just want to let you know I tried the grilled figs with marscapone and pistachios. I rough chopped the pistachios in the spice grinder and rolled a little marscapone dollop in them then stuffed the figs after they came off the grill. There were no leftovers.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (3Ope8)

340
What Lindsay did was NOT infanticide...these kids were 5 years, 3 years, and 8 months...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)




Late term abortion, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (ccf/V)

341 332 $100 days the Amazon pilot was a DEI hire.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (wUu8b)

That's 5 x $20, same as in town?
Too much math?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (l3cgK)

342 Now this is an attention-grabbing title for a YouTube video -

"Woman so drunk she needs Deputy's help putting her bra on."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (2GVsD)

343 336 Alexandra Daddario is more likely to arrive at my house tonight for a threesome than for Democrats to win all three of those races.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 08:55 AM (qE8uT)
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Or any of them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (msMYi)

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MI...maybe Democrats win.

El-Sayed is a bad candidate who should see reduced turnout from rural whites and even blacks (he'll still win like 90% of the black vote, but their overall share of the electorate should be down), but Detroit, man...

I just hope the DOJ Civil Rights Division is prepped for shenanigans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (qE8uT)

344 340
What Lindsay did was NOT infanticide...these kids were 5 years, 3 years, and 8 months...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 08:56 AM (l3cgK)



Late term abortion, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:00 AM (ccf/V)

the Left is for killing babies and children, but not for killing rapists, child molesters, and murderers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)

345 Good morning, J.J. Happy birthday to you..

I will never idolize Ronald Reagan and I'll never understand why Republicans do. Forty years later we're still clawing our manufacturing base back. "Service economy"? Don't make me laugh.

Posted by: creeper at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (lWAes)

346 Now Collins in GA…. His campaign seems to be sputtering. This Ossoff guy has political luck; he’s also extremely annoying.

Should be beatable but maybe Kemp is intentionally sabotaging Collins. Ratfaceshitburger also

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (gkBVP)

347 I never caught on.
Posted by: The Princeton Semicolon


Same here.

Posted by: The William & Mary Ampersands
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Been there

Posted by: The interrobang?! at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (ZxPkt)

348 Inalienable is the word.

Posted by: The William & Mary Ampersands at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (wVcYX)

349 We're heading out this morning. First to my bank for a rough estimate of what my interest will be by 12/31 on my savings account so I can include it in my equally rough tax estimate for next year. Then off to a local food bank/thrift store, who are having an end-of-summer sale. Mostly women's clothes, but there are a few other items now and then. Once I bought a nice kitchen timer there, almost new and in the box, for very little money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (wzUl9)

350 TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

I answered one poll in the last 4 years two days ago. Just to mess up their sampling. My responses would have pegged their meter to the far right.

If polling was a science, my answers would be thrown out as outliers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

351 No, but one of their big arguments against Paxton was that HE'S HAD AN AFFAIR!!!! I wonder if they'll drop that now that two women! have accused Talarico of the same.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:59 AM (ExV1e)



Talarico is running ads here that Paxton was impeached by his OWN PARTY!!!!!

He leaves out the fact that investigations by the FBI in the trial showed NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER of him breaking any laws and the case was an outright acquittal........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (ccf/V)

352 319 I can’t remember where I saw it, but in the last few weeks I saw an article talking about how Abbott could well lose in Texas. I couldn’t discern if the author was concern trolling or just simply retarded
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gkBVP)
*****
No, I think Abbott is worried. He's running a bunch of ads and the race is also close. The Democrats have never been so energized.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

353 >>I think Talerico loses, but the Al Sayed character has a chance in MI because of the cheat and the Muslim population...

I think a lot of people are underestimating the work the Trump administration has done and continues to do to crack down on election fraud. I remember hearing that Trump couldn't win because of fraud particularly in places like Philapdelphia.

Trump won the popular vote.

Abdul barely won in the primary and was almost entirely because of muslims and college area voters. And he isn't getting more popular.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (viF8m)

354 Alexandra Daddario is more likely to arrive at my house tonight for a threesome than for Democrats to win all three of those races.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

If it were my house, I would be out harvesting some damn votes and buying drinks for the Dominion guys

Posted by: Miklos needs motivation at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (4RYRd)

355
319 I can’t remember where I saw it, but in the last few weeks I saw an article talking about how Abbott could well lose in Texas. I couldn’t discern if the author was concern trolling or just simply retarded
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gkBVP)

This is where you can prove that the Texas “polls” are idiotic propaganda pieces and nothing more. Ask around (I have) and you’ll find that 9 out of 10 Texans don’t even know the name of the woman running against Abbott this year. A totally generic backbencher with a Hispanic name that no one has ever heard of, with no money and running a non campaign.

Oh sure, Abbott could lose. Uh huh. In three previous Governor’s races, Abbott has always gotten between 57% and 63% of the vote. He’ll be in that range again, and any poll that does not reflect that is garbage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (/FYr+)

356
the Left is for killing babies and children, but not for killing rapists, child molesters, and murderers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)



What are you, some kind of animal!!!????

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (ccf/V)

357 The Democrats have never been so energized.

They borrowed Kaya's shock collar?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (2GVsD)

358
346 Now Collins in GA…. His campaign seems to be sputtering. This Ossoff guy has political luck; he’s also extremely annoying.

Should be beatable but maybe Kemp is intentionally sabotaging Collins. Ratfaceshitburger also

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (gkBVP)

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I was in Atlanta over the weekend.

The majority of political ads I saw were anti-Ossoff. I saw one pro-Ossoff ad, and it was milquetoast boilerplate stuff about supporting random bills.

Ads aren't everything by a long shot, but it really feels like Ossoff is playing prevent defense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (qE8uT)

359 I've been away for a few days. Did we tell the NTSB what happened to the Amazon plane in Miami yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)


Cheryl Ladd teleported from the future and caused the crash but left a tantalizing piece of future tech behind, that Kris Kristofferson found, so she had to go back to have sex with Kristofferson and retrieve the tech, and Daniel J. Travanti pushed the wrong button and died and Kris and Chery go to the future and live happily ever after ...

Posted by: John Varley fan at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (6W6ju)

360 Been there

Posted by: The interrobang?! at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (ZxPkt)

Sounds like something that happens in Turkish prisons...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (l3cgK)

361 "Mascarpone" always makes me think of a villain name from Zorro.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

362 No, but one of their big arguments against Paxton was that HE'S HAD AN AFFAIR!!!!



Ok. That makes him a democrat.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 09:04 AM (/xJ/M)

363 About the DSA and the radicalization of the D party.

Mamdani, AOC and Bernie are the public face of the Democratic Socialists of America. Its roots go back to the 1970s with founder Michael Harrington's plans to take over the Democratic party from within when he concluded that independent socialist parties could never win on their own. The idea was to organize as nominal Democrats to win at the local level and then metastasize.

AOC has always been DSA. She won a literal DSA beauty contest to get their backing to win her seat in 2018. She was a dues paying member at the time but went on the down low after she took her seat. Now she's publicly declaring her allegiance. 

Mamdami adds Islam to the bitch's brew.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 08, 2026 09:04 AM (dtajH)

364 Talarico had an affair? With a woman?? I find this highly unlikely

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:04 AM (gkBVP)

365 By suggesting that Vance agrees with them also. By saying that Vance, by refusing to condemn Carlson in the strongest terms ever, is secretly in cahoots with the Qataris, or whatever. Same as they do every primary season.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

Secret? Tucker recently purchased a residence in Qatar and visits there often. Tucker has publicly said that the US “gets nothing” from its ties to Israel, and he praises ties with Qatar as “clearly more beneficial”. Tucker meets in private with leading members of the Qatari government quite often. Not illegal, but don’t pretend it doesn’t happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (/FYr+)


Please re-read what I said. Let me remove the phrase which seems to be confusing...

...saying that Vance, by refusing to condemn Carlson in the strongest terms ever, is secretly in cahoots with the Qataris...

Carlson isn't running for anything. Ignore him and move on. He is inconsequential.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

366 *****
No, I think Abbott is worried. He's running a bunch of ads and the race is also close. The Democrats have never been so energized.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)



No one even knows who's running against him. They have no presence whatsoever and there are no ads, signs or anything relating to the Tx Gov race around here.

I've seen 3 yard signs and 1 vehicle window sticker for Talarico.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)

367 The Dems best hope to flip a Republican Senate seat are 1) NC and 2) Maine. I think Collins holds in Maine, NC is weird.
The Republicans best chance at flip 1) Michigan 2) NH. al-Sayed is toast, NH could be a rep pickup if the Dems nominate the DSA person in today's primary. Otherwise the Massholes could keep Pappas over Sununu

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (TrqdA)

368 By the way, the first ever Republican midtern convention starts tomorrow in Texas. Democrats don't have a convention.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (viF8m)

369 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

I'm only on the second cup of coffee.....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (3Ope8)

370 The mechanics -- DEI or not -- didn't eventually set the aircraft down well beyond the safe landing zone.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (J4Dwc)

371 Speaking of great speeches . . .

Stu Smith
@thestustustudio
🚨🚨🚨 Why is
@CalStateLA
professor Melina Abdullah identifying a specific ICE agent, telling a crowd where he may be staying, giving the street address, and repeatedly saying to “fuck him up”?

“Brian Palacios may be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn at 2000 Solar Drive… fuck him up.”

https://tinyurl.com/3dd4ps8e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (ndZc7)

372
JackOssOFF and Talacreepo headed to LA to fundraise.

3rd and 4th Senator from Californication

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)

373 In 2018, very bad GOP year, Abbott won by 13.

In 2022, when the base was going to punish Abbott because of his covid policies, he won by 11.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (qE8uT)

374 366 *****
No, I think Abbott is worried. He's running a bunch of ads and the race is also close. The Democrats have never been so energized.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)


No one even knows who's running against him. They have no presence whatsoever and there are no ads, signs or anything relating to the Tx Gov race around here.

I've seen 3 yard signs and 1 vehicle window sticker for Talarico.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)

Were any in Texas?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)

375 Democrats don't have a convention.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (viF8m)

They have the Evolution Revolution

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)

376 I saw an article talking about how Abbott could well lose in Texas. I couldn’t discern if the author was concern trolling or just simply retarded
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gkBVP)
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Was the author a lifelong Republican (TM)?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:07 AM (msMYi)

377 376 I saw an article talking about how Abbott could well lose in Texas. I couldn’t discern if the author was concern trolling or just simply retarded
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gkBVP)
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Was the author a lifelong Republican (TM)?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:07 AM (msMYi)

Power of AND?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:07 AM (l3cgK)

378 Did we tell the NTSB what happened to the Amazon plane in Miami yet?

I'm willing to bet that the NTSB will declare pilot error since it appears that the initial touchdown was too far down the runway for the plane to have been able to stop... which it didn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

379 No, I think Abbott is worried. He's running a bunch of ads and the race is also close. The Democrats have never been so energized.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

I’m not at all worried about that one. If Abbott loses I’ll run naked through Times Square on New Year’s Eve. And believe me, that is a lose-lose scenario for everyone!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:07 AM (gkBVP)

380 Networks aren’t even covering the convention- are they?

Plus what idiot decided it was a good idea to hold the convention NFL opening week?

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 09:08 AM (wUu8b)

381 Plus, Trump is rumored to be planning near daily campaigning in the month leading up to the midterms.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:08 AM (msMYi)

382 "Vastly oversampling white college educated voters in urban areas and vastly undersampling white non-college educated voters in rural areas."

Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

Public polls are especially bad at seeing swings in Turnout as their models assume past patterns. This will be especially true for the Novemeber mid-terms when the working class turnout, Let us Pray ..

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 08, 2026 09:08 AM (dtajH)

383 367 The Dems best hope to flip a Republican Senate seat are 1) NC and 2) Maine. I think Collins holds in Maine, NC is weird.
The Republicans best chance at flip 1) Michigan 2) NH. al-Sayed is toast, NH could be a rep pickup if the Dems nominate the DSA person in today's primary. Otherwise the Massholes could keep Pappas over Sununu

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 09:05 AM (TrqdA)

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I do think Cooper should be considered the underdog in NC.

Early voting numbers have started, and it's currently about 20 points more Republican on balance compared to 2022 and about 6 points more Democrat than 2024 on balance.

Trump won NC by 3 in 2024.

Whatley doesn't have any baggage like Robinson did for the governor's race, so the senate race should closely reflect the presidential race in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:08 AM (qE8uT)

384
Were any in Texas?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)



Yes. I can only report on what I see living here in Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:08 AM (ccf/V)

385 376 I saw an article talking about how Abbott could well lose in Texas. I couldn’t discern if the author was concern trolling or just simply retarded
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gkBVP)
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Was the author a lifelong Republican (TM)?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:07 AM (msMYi)

======

Voted for Trump 37 times and just can't anymore because he promised mass deportations and not one person has been deported.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:09 AM (qE8uT)

386 >> professor Melina Abdullah

Where does she live?

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 09:09 AM (wUu8b)

387 384
Were any in Texas?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:06 AM (l3cgK)


Yes. I can only report on what I see living here in Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:08 AM (ccf/V)

Dallas and Houston are Libbie sh!tholes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:09 AM (l3cgK)

388 Get out your style books.

[Police Officer] Ari Hoffman
@thehoffather
So in Seattle we aren't calling them "shooters" anymore? Now they are "trigger pullers"?

-
The world is divided into trigger pulleys and bullet catchers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

389 Oh, it is far more than eight hours, the runtime for "The Changeling" and Star Trek: The Motion Picture is over three hours.

To watch all four, would mean 12 hours at the cinema.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 08:38 AM (2GVsD)
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How much time is it when you include the endless previews and commercials?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (FZ29D)

390 LinusVanPelt -


Threat or Menace?

Posted by: Managing Editor Miklos at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (4RYRd)

391 I’ll never understand the popularity of a guy like Cooper in NC.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (wUu8b)

392
Dallas and Houston are Libbie sh!tholes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:09 AM (l3cgK)



Neither of which I frequent for that exact reason.

However, I was in San Marcos over the weekend and didn't see any signs at all, anywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (ccf/V)

393 The world is divided into trigger pulleys and bullet catchers.

That could apply to those who like to visit bathhouses.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (2GVsD)

394 >Plus what idiot decided it was a good idea to hold the convention NFL opening week?

Posted by: Vengeance
----

Football scheduling is getting out of hand, with CFB and NFL games sometimes on the same day

Posted by: Don Black, reminding you to never throw late over the middle at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (ZxPkt)

395 @383 TJM , hope you're right. Cooper has baggage but was a popular governor. Whately isn't the most inspiring candidate, but the Republican increase in registered voters could be the difference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (TrqdA)

396 $100 days the Amazon pilot was a DEI hire.

Show your DNA chart.
There is a tarbrush in your woodpile, guaranteed.
That's what gets your kind going every time.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (zdLoL)

397 355 Ask around (I have) and you’ll find that 9 out of 10 Texans don’t even know the name of the woman running against Abbott this year. A totally generic backbencher with a Hispanic name that no one has ever heard of, with no money and running a non campaign.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 09:03 AM (/FYr+)

Which is why I’m now seeing Talarico signs with Hinojosa’s name on the bottom in a smaller font. I guess she’s piggybacking off of his signs because of obvious reasons.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (SjAWL)

398 On Reddit and LinkedIn it’s the worst job market ever. Cuz you know who.

Posted by: Propaganda Works at September 08, 2026 09:12 AM (U1NLK)

399 "I’m recently excited about the formation of a bipartisan criminal justice reform caucus in the Texas House with prominent Democrats and prominent Republicans who understand that we have to move away from a tough-on-crime approach to a smart-on-crime approach, and that, I think, filters down to our schools," Talarico said in a 2020 interview on school disciplinary practices and their effect on minorities.

I believe the soft on crime ideas that Progressives love is a goal to crash the system. Then local popo will become a Nationalized TSA type of central law enforcement.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)

400 Professor Squirrel

Showtimes are - 11:20am, 3:35pm, 7:35pm, and 9:20pm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:13 AM (2GVsD)

401 The world is divided into trigger pulleys and bullet catchers.

That could apply to those who like to visit bathhouses.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (2GVsD)

😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:13 AM (AKptf)

402 391 I’ll never understand the popularity of a guy like Cooper in NC.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (wUu8b)

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It's actually easy.

He was a milquetoast Democrat white guy who wasn't allowed to govern like a Democrat because he was up against clear majorities (and even supermajorities) of Republicans in the legislature.

So, he gets sound bites and decent governance.

However, he shit the bed on the governance part by the end (Helene response...Western NC is still pissy about this for good reason, and the releasing of a bunch of criminals).

I finally saw a pro-Cooper ad recently, and it might be one of the worst things I've seen.

Whatley's been hammering him because of the criminal thing, and Cooper's ad says, "He blamed me for this one in SC that I had nothing to do with!" It's like half the ad. He's highlighting his opponent's own message against him. It's so awful. Practically "I'm not a witch" territory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:13 AM (qE8uT)

403 Newsom is on twitter decrying California gasoline prices and shortages, as "Trump's fault" after he himself closed 20% of California refineries during his term in office.

Gavin Newsom is shameless and thinks everyone else is just stupid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:14 AM (YHv4j)

404 Practically "I'm not a witch" territory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:13 AM (qE8uT)

I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!! - one of the best lines ever

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:14 AM (gkBVP)

405 395 @383 TJM , hope you're right. Cooper has baggage but was a popular governor. Whately isn't the most inspiring candidate, but the Republican increase in registered voters could be the difference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (TrqdA)

========

He was popular...and then Helene.

I think his popularity is vastly over-estimated.

And, besides, we have another example recently of a popular governor of the wrong party running for senate.

Larry Hogan in MD. Very popular Republican governor of a Democrat state. Left office with very good approval ratings.

Decides to run for senate...loses by double digits because he's of the wrong party.

People are willing to vote for the wrong party for governor a lot more than they are willing to vote for the wrong party for federal races.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (qE8uT)

406 403 Newsom is on twitter decrying California gasoline prices and shortages, as "Trump's fault" after he himself closed 20% of California refineries during his term in office.

Gavin Newsom is shameless and thinks everyone else is just stupid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:14 AM (YHv4j)

Don't forget that Kali has, for many years, MANDATED

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (l3cgK)

407 So in Seattle we aren't calling them "shooters" anymore? Now they are "trigger pullers"?



Okay Chief-

We got it doped the trigger pullers were a pair of cheap mooks, a couple of two-bit hoods taking their orders straight from Fingers Liebowitz, the big noise running the rackets out of Shytown.

Ice 'em or bring 'em in?

Posted by: Gumshoe Miklos at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (4RYRd)

408
Don't forget that Kali has, for many years, MANDATED the use of special blends for summer and winter...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (l3cgK)

409 Which is why I’m now seeing Talarico signs with Hinojosa’s name on the bottom in a smaller font. I guess she’s piggybacking off of his signs because of obvious reasons.
Posted by: TxAnn at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (SjAWL)



Isn't she the former lesbo Dallas DEI police chief? She ran against Abbott last time and got unbelievably smoked.

I can't imagine she's gained any popularity since then........And again, I've seen zero ads for her and actually had to look up who was running after seeing an Abbott ad.

This is the quietest governor race ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (ccf/V)

410 I’m not at all worried about that one. If Abbott loses I’ll run naked through Times Square on New Year’s Eve. And believe me, that is a lose-lose scenario for everyone!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Ain't nobody wanna see that!

Posted by: Don't look, Ethel! at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (Fn+3X)

411 Cultural appropriation.

https://tinyurl.com/4p4e42sy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (ndZc7)

412 403 Newsom is on twitter decrying California gasoline prices and shortages, as "Trump's fault" after he himself closed 20% of California refineries during his term in office

We pay $1.24 in taxes on a gallon of gas

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:16 AM (+gK6I)

413 Ice 'em or bring 'em in?

Posted by: Gumshoe Miklos at September 08, 2026 09:15 AM (4RYRd)
----
ICE'em? Isn't that assuming they are illegal aliens?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 09:16 AM (FZ29D)

414 Dallas and Houston are Libbie sh!tholes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:09 AM (l3cgK)

Not liberal like Austin, Seattle, or Portland. More like 3rd World. True number - 97% of Dallas school district students are black and Hispanic, and so is the staff. Houston population is about 30% foreign born, and significant parts of it are non English speaking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 09:16 AM (/FYr+)

415
Gavin Newsom is shameless and thinks everyone else is just stupid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:14 AM (YHv4j)



Never underestimate the stupidity of the California voter.

Remember: They recalled Newsom, then re-elected him overwhelmingly in the forced election.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

416 412 403 Newsom is on twitter decrying California gasoline prices and shortages, as "Trump's fault" after he himself closed 20% of California refineries during his term in office

We pay $1.24 in taxes on a gallon of gas

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:16 AM (+gK6I)

Special blends, high tax rates...and those tax monies were SUPPOSED TO go to fixing highways around the State, but were pilfered for "other" uses...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (l3cgK)

417 I’ll never understand the popularity of a guy like Cooper in NC.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 08, 2026 09:10 AM (wUu8b)

Jon Tester a far left Dem won 3 Montana senate races. Same principle. Many voters are retarded.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (U1NLK)

418 Never underestimate the stupidity of the California voter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)
----
Also don't underestimate the efficiency of the Machine when they really, really want their candidate to "win."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (FZ29D)

419 Even Qatucker Qatarlson said that Newsome was the most pure, unrelenting liar he's ever been around. He has no moral compass whatsoever.

He's pathological.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:18 AM (ccf/V)

420 Don't forget that Kali has, for many years, MANDATED the use of special blends for summer and winter...

==

Pot ???

Posted by: runner, joins in the middle of conversation at September 08, 2026 09:18 AM (AKptf)

421
----
Also don't underestimate the efficiency of the Machine when they really, really want their candidate to "win."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (FZ29D)



Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:18 AM (ccf/V)

422 So in Seattle we aren't calling them "shooters" anymore? Now they are "trigger pullers"?

say wut???

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (/+uur)

423 418 Never underestimate the stupidity of the California voter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)
----
Also don't underestimate the efficiency of the Machine when they really, really want their candidate to "win."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2026 09:17 AM (FZ29D)

Indeed. All you have to know is that this Dem-controlled state refuses to clean up their voter rolls, keeps passing laws that allow for cheating via ballot boxes, and pass laws to punish whistleblowers and independent media undercover investigations.
At one point (and probably true today), San Diego county had an over 100% registration rate. Really impressive, no?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)

424 Gavin Hairgel blaming CA gas prices on Trump is like OJ blaming the mystery killer for the murder of his ex-wife and vowing to find him.

Gavin — You’ve got blood all over your hands and the glove fits! Idiot

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (gkBVP)

425 and so it begins!

CNN: Voters overwhelmingly support requiring photo ID to vote.

GOP: 🟢 95%
Dem: 🟡 62%
Independents: 🟢 77%

All voters: 🟢 77%

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (AKptf)

426 ICE'em? Isn't that assuming they are illegal aliens?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Another wise guy, eh?

Sgt. O'Moose, explain the Policy

But go easy this time

Posted by: Gumshoe Miklos #37 Mooks on the Loose at September 08, 2026 09:20 AM (4RYRd)

427 Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney just asked President Trump to GIVE HER A PARDON
-----

Every young lawyer thinks he's a new Pliny, most fall short, and a few become Regulus.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 08, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)

428 It doesn't bode well for Trump and the Republicans, however, driving down Texas freeways and seeing Diesel fuel for $6.07 a gallon.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)

429 Seattle is liberal and 3rd World. Walk into some Walmarts or Costcos and if you hear English spoken it’s a special occasion.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 09:21 AM (U1NLK)

430 428 It doesn't bode well for Trump and the Republicans, however, driving down Texas freeways and seeing Diesel fuel for $6.07 a gallon.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)

Ouch!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:21 AM (l3cgK)

431 The media, who hate you with a passion, amplify the messaging they want you to believe and suppress the info they don't want you to hear.

I'd imagine almost all of the polls, election reporting and so on is full blown horseshit.

The left is trying to reclaim the levers of power and the media's squarely on their side. So's the judiciary, but that's another story.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 09:21 AM (2Cry5)

432 , however, driving down Texas freeways and seeing Diesel fuel for $6.07 a gallon.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)


$ 7.99 here for diesel

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:21 AM (+gK6I)

433 Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney just asked President Trump to GIVE HER A PARDON

And when I dream, I have a pony. Her name is Sparkles.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 09:21 AM (+4yJ5)

434 and so it begins!

CNN: Voters overwhelmingly support requiring photo ID to vote.

GOP: 🟢 95%
Dem: 🟡 62%
Independents: 🟢 77%

All voters: 🟢 77%
Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (AKptf)



Begins? That's been the case since the SAVE Act was first introduced.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (ccf/V)

435 I don't understand why people would like Cucker Tarlson in the first place. "He was on FOX and I listened to him for years!" But...things happened since then. Unless they like what he says....then, yeah, birds of a feather.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (AKptf)

436 So in Seattle we aren't calling them "shooters" anymore? Now they are "trigger pullers"?

say wut???
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (/+uur)
======================
Even that some small responsibility is assigned to a human surprises me. The shooting is the fault of the gun, after all. It's "gun violence".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (YHv4j)

437 Begins? That's been the case since the SAVE Act was first introduced.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (ccf/V)

Nothing will happen!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (AKptf)

438 Kali-

According to the Hindus, Kali is Death, Destroyer of Worlds

Posted by: Miklos figures that figures at September 08, 2026 09:23 AM (4RYRd)

439 If at first you don't succeed . . .

Not satire: Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks President Trump for pardon on "Good Morning America"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 08, 2026 09:23 AM (ndZc7)

440 436 So in Seattle we aren't calling them "shooters" anymore? Now they are "trigger pullers"?

say wut???
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 08, 2026 09:19 AM (/+uur)
======================
Even that some small responsibility is assigned to a human surprises me. The shooting is the fault of the gun, after all. It's "gun violence".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (YHv4j)

And the car or truck driven by a drunk driver or Jihadist is also the fault of the vehicle...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:23 AM (l3cgK)

441 438 Kali-

According to the Hindus, Kali is Death, Destroyer of Worlds

Posted by: Miklos figures that figures at September 08, 2026 09:23 AM (4RYRd)

=======

*pulls heart from Miklos' chest*
*laughs hysterically*
*heart bursts into flames in my hand*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:23 AM (qE8uT)

442 Johnny Maga

In her TikTok video,

Tim Walz’s daughter calls it “a racist rallying cry” for people to want the old Minnesota flag back instead of the hideous new flag that resembles Somalia’s.

“The old flag was very damaging and they’re using it as like their Confederate flag type thing.”

Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

443 "Trump’s Orders On Ranchers Might Be A Badly Needed Step In The Right Direction"
- - - - - -
Left unsaid in a lot of the current articles that I've tried to find so far is that the current beef shortage, which leads to high prices, was another victim of COVID-19.

With the COVID shutdown in early 2020, the meat processing plants weren't running. So ranchers and other animal farmers had a high supply of raw animals, but no way to process them so they could be sold. And the animals were expensive to maintain, so they just killed and wasted everything to keep costs down.

I found one example article from April 2020 about the issue "Farmed Animals Culled En Masse as COVID-19 Outbreaks Halt Meat and Dairy Production" at "sentient media.org" (actual URL posting was blocked). But no mention these days; only ones at the time before they started linking 2 and 2 together and found the number 4 was sexoracist against Fauci.

The egg shortage that was on every Democrat's shit-stained lips (until the stories mysteriously disappeared) was due to a culling of poultry from 2022-2024, as well. Not COVID, but Bird Flu. So more waste and destruction, breaking supply chains.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (4h45B)

444 Had to fight my way through the ridiculous pop-up, that ace told his ad people to get rid of a week ago, just to say it's still there.
And it ain't worth fighting on every refresh.
Have fun.
Posted by: TeeJ at September 08, 2026 08:36 AM (eblO+)

Why are people still complaining about pop-ups when there are so many ways of eliminating them??

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (hmYU4)

445 438 Kali-

According to the Hindus, Kali is Death, Destroyer of Worlds

Posted by: Miklos figures that figures at September 08, 2026 09:23 AM (4RYRd)

Kali-ma!

Posted by: Thuggees at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)

446 If he could have, Cooper would have backfilled every swimming pool in the state during the COVIDs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (mqudn)

447 Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer is a scumbag. After seeing his behavior in that trial this is a certainty

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (gkBVP)

448
Nothing will happen!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:22 AM (AKptf)



"Damn right!!!"

- - - - - - - - John Thune

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (ccf/V)

449 but, but, but, but big tent! but, but, but, cancel culture ! for a guy who has a million audience. but, but, but, that is what democrats do!! no, that is not, and that is why they are DSA now

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (AKptf)

450 "The Democratic Chicken—or the Socialist Egg?"

Democrats are not Democratic.
Should be just "The Democrat Chicken".

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (vbXSk)

451 >>>Jon Tester a far left Dem won 3 Montana senate races. Same principle. Many voters are retarded.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

>Jon got his fingers caught in a meat processing machine. In my mind that disqualifies him from everything but dog catcher. Those choices you made in life should count for something.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (eP2ub)

452 Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer is a scumbag. After seeing his behavior in that trial this is a certainty
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (gkBVP)



He's a scumbag and the DA sucks at his job.

Everyone loses. Except murderers. THEY seem to win.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:25 AM (ccf/V)

453 So now we have 9/11 gate ? Trump isn't attending the NYC ceremony because he can't give a speech so he's going to the Pentagon instead ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:25 AM (+gK6I)

454 I have seen a report that Reddington, Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, has been referred to the MA version of the bar association because he and his paralegal were comingling client money into Reddington's personal bank account.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:25 AM (2GVsD)

455 450 "The Democratic Chicken—or the Socialist Egg?"

Democrats are not Democratic.
Should be just "The Democrat Chicken".

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (vbXSk)

Commie Chicken Pol-Pot Pie...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:25 AM (l3cgK)

456 I guess it can work, Obama would not let go of rev Wright, still won.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2026 09:26 AM (AKptf)

457 Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney just asked President Trump to GIVE HER A PARDON

Even if Trump were willing, murdering her children isn't a federal offense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

458 Commie Chicken Pol-Pot Pie...

One hour later, still starving.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:26 AM (2GVsD)

459 Tim Walz’s daughter calls it “a racist rallying cry” for people to want the old Minnesota flag back instead of the hideous new flag that resembles Somalia’s.

“The old flag was very damaging and they’re using it as like their Confederate flag type thing.”
Posted by: redridinghood at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)



Walz's daughter is an ignoramus? I would've never guessed.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:26 AM (ccf/V)

460
457 Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney just asked President Trump to GIVE HER A PARDON

Even if Trump were willing, murdering her children isn't a federal offense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 08, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

=========

"Oh! Can I get attention by trying to make it one?!"
-Nancy Mace

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 08, 2026 09:27 AM (qE8uT)

461 458 Commie Chicken Pol-Pot Pie...

One hour later, still starving.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:26 AM (2GVsD)

Indeed...the "F" in Communism is for Food...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)

462 So now we have 9/11 gate ? Trump isn't attending the NYC ceremony because he can't give a speech so he's going to the Pentagon instead ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:25 AM (+gK6I)



I'd actually look at is as him avoiding the kill shot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V)

463 Tampon Timmy's daughter has the IQ of a walnut. That is elite education for you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 09:27 AM (2GVsD)

464
I'd actually look at is as him avoiding the kill shot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V

Me too, but they have to go after Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:28 AM (+gK6I)

465 Everyone loses. Except murderers. THEY seem to win.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Unless you're a white male. Then it takes less than two hours of deliberations to put you on death row.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 09:28 AM (/xJ/M)

466
Me too, but they have to go after Trump
Posted by: It's me donna at September 08, 2026 09:28 AM (+gK6I)



Remember: The media IS the enemy of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 08, 2026 09:28 AM (ccf/V)

467 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

*counters with Ancient Mayan Xtabentun from the Temple of the Talking Cross*

Posted by: Miklos been at this since this TJM could get of his underoos without help at September 08, 2026 09:28 AM (4RYRd)

468 > Not satire: Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks President Trump for pardon on "Good Morning America"
-----------
Interested to see if anyone in Trump's orbit thinks this is a good idea.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 09:29 AM (2Cry5)

469 468 > Not satire: Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks President Trump for pardon on "Good Morning America"
-----------
Interested to see if anyone in Trump's orbit thinks this is a good idea.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2026 09:29 AM (2Cry5)

It's not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (l3cgK)

470 450 "The Democratic Chicken—or the Socialist Egg?"

Democrats are not Democratic.
Should be just "The Democrat Chicken".

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (vbXSk)

Commie Chicken Pol-Pot Pie...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 08, 2026 09:25 AM (l3cgK)
-

With spicy Mao!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (hnKw3)

471 after he himself closed 20% of California refineries during his term in office"

So, we see massive reductions in supply, level demands, and increased prices.

You know, there might be a relationship there.

*muses thoughtfully

Posted by: man at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (cGjQu)

472 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2026 09:30 AM (/xJ/M)

473 447 Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer is a scumbag. After seeing his behavior in that trial this is a certainty
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 08, 2026 09:24 AM (gkBVP)

If I’m ever a position to need a lawyer I want the scumbaggiest one there is.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (U1NLK)

474 HB H7!

Just sent a boxcar full of cash.

Posted by: Miflin at September 08, 2026 09:31 AM (aA6YN)

475 Rials BOK?

Posted by: Miflin at September 08, 2026 09:32 AM (aA6YN)

476 Interested to see if anyone in Trump's orbit thinks this is a good idea.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Let's check with unnamed sources close to the President, who know this kid who's going with a girl my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Trump pass out during a phone call with Putin or some other guy.

-Thanks Simone, looks grim for a weak Trump in the midterms

Posted by: without permission to speak on the record, but it's ALL TRUE at September 08, 2026 09:34 AM (4RYRd)

477 @jemelehill
Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
America was built on the institution of slavery. It is how America became a world economic power — the buying and selling of people being tied to the economy. That is effectively white supremacy, since it was a race-based system.

Fast forward to other economic policies that were guided by race — housing, employment, etc. There were rules that prevented Black people from equally participating in the free economy.

In fact, one of the most glaring features of American capitalism is racial inequality. The racial wealth gap exists because specific policies were put in place to suppress economic participation.

So yes, capitalism is tied to white supremacy.

-----
Readers added context
Economic historians find slavery enriched owners but was not the main driver of US economic power. Cotton ~5% of GDP; North industrialized freely. Emancipation produced large gains (4-35% of GDP).

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

478 "Forty years later we're still clawing our manufacturing base back. "Service economy"? Don't make me laugh.

Posted by: creeper at September 08, 2026 09:01 AM (lWAes) "

sounds like what I was saying back then.no one listened.
some people, concerned, told me I didn't understand.

here we are.
wish I could feel happier about being right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 09:37 AM (VyBeY)

479 🚨 BREAKING:

Fox producer: "Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "He sexually exploited and harassed me on his show."

FB: "That's not true."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "He accused me of wanting to have a relationship with Stephen Miller. So why don't you tell me what you think is acceptable to say to a woman?"

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

480 Europe's Von der Leyen Wants To Put Private Bank Deposits Under State Direction

The EU is on the brink of a sovereign debt crisis.... climate policy, overregulation and state intervention are paralyzing the European economy. Ursula von der Leyen odders a solution: the activation of EU citizens’ bank deposits by government decree.

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

481 479 🚨 BREAKING:

Fox producer: "Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "He sexually exploited and harassed me on his show."

FB: "That's not true."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "He accused me of wanting to have a relationship with Stephen Miller. So why don't you tell me what you think is acceptable to say to a woman?"
Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

Says the same bitch who accused her adversaries of wanting to date her.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 08, 2026 09:47 AM (jBygX)

482 Talk to the Hand: Karen Bass Snubs Congress, Too Busy to Explain Where All the Money Went

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo)

483 Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks President Trump for pardon on "Good Morning America"

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

484 Word on the Street: Seattle Police Officer Says They Use ‘Trigger-Puller’ Instead of ‘Shooter’

.. in kid's schools, it's OK to use "blaster" but not "gun"

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

485 Army Physician Theresa Long deserves great respect. She is a Flight Surgeon (yeah, the Army flies rotary and fixed wing aircraft) who very bravely opposed the COVID vaccine for pilots and stood her ground despite intense groundfire. I met her in passing a long time ago. Before COVID. RFK Jr picked well.

Posted by: epador at September 08, 2026 09:53 AM (rzJJ8)

486 I LOVE Arby's!!

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 08, 2026 07:51 AM

*fist bump*

Posted by: David Puddy at September 08, 2026 10:14 AM (P5BPp)

Daily Tech News 8 September 2026

Top Story

Tech News

  • Got a wiki? Fuck you, go to jail, says Google. (Weird Gloop)

    Well, that's helpful. I'm already replacing AWS, do I need to replace Google as well?


  • Continuing work on my software suite - I will get back to my book, I just took a detour to solve literally ever other problem first. Nothing terribly exciting added today; still porting Hack to a never-was computer and Ada to a bytecode runtime. I did add the ability to branch databases for testing - one command (and a little time, though the database never locks) and you have a copy of the entire database available for testing, that you can throw away once you're done, or split off and use standalone.


Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: I write Ada now. Ada is cool.

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3 Mornin'

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Okay, Brave's mom.



It is pretty good. You should be proud, Brave's mom.

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6 Guten morgen, horde.

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Man, that started off a lot like

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Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

8 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 04:41 AM (VyBeY)

9 Godley & Creme. I seem to recall a song used in an episode of Miami Vice.

Ah, I knew it! Haven't watched Miami Vice in a long while. May have to binge it soon.

youtu.be/eAngURbGoG4

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

10 Sounds like something a Brave or any Browser would say. LOL, Pixy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 04:41 AM (Tgq0P)

11 >>>Disclaimer: I write Ada now. Ada is cool.

haha!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

12 Woman from Finland writes on empty bottles and "Ready to be filled". 2 Corinthians 4:7-18

https://tinyurl.com/mr2ptv8a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 04:44 AM (JrHfD)

13 9 Godley & Creme. I seem to recall a song used in an episode of Miami Vice.

Ah, I knew it! Haven't watched Miami Vice in a long while. May have to binge it soon.

youtu.be/eAngURbGoG4
Posted by: Puddleglum


I was tossing up which Godley & Creme song to do today and chose Wedding Bells over Cry since it's a little less well-known.

And the reason I was choosing which Godley & Creme song to do today is that's what I do every day. Well, not Godley & Creme in particular but whichever artist featured this day last year.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 08, 2026 04:47 AM (BLOW1)

14 Man struck by lighting survives and goes to church to thank God. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/mrytd9vn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 04:48 AM (IbQ1f)

15 Come clean Pixy

Minx .8 beta will be replaced by a Unix based forked system


Of your own ingenious design

Posted by: Miklos thinks you're not even being subtle about it at September 08, 2026 04:48 AM (4RYRd)

16 This was linked yesterday on Instapundit. It's great.

Holly's Substack
How to Convict Lindsay Clancy
Holly Mathnerd

https://tinyurl.com/583rmft6

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:49 AM (odBC9)

17 That's ok, Pixy. 'Cry' is the only song I know from them. Nice to know they did another! 😉

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:49 AM (sAmhv)

18 Long commute to the Animal Hospital
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Comedian explains how getting out of bed changes with age. "Faithpot site"
Scroll down for video:

https://tinyurl.com/46jnszb3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 04:50 AM (IbQ1f)

20 I have a tech question for Pixy.
I imagine that you keep track of blog traffic. Has there been a change since the problem with the ads ?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 04:50 AM (E0Et6)

21 20 I have a tech question for Pixy.
I imagine that you keep track of blog traffic. Has there been a change since the problem with the ads ?
Posted by: Ben Had


I actually don't know. I keep the engines running and let others keep track of where we're headed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 08, 2026 04:51 AM (BLOW1)

22 I actually don't know. I keep the engines running and let others keep track of where we're headed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

NOT IN THE CONTRACT

All parties agreed to Consultation

Posted by: Teamsters and Hamsters Union at September 08, 2026 04:53 AM (4RYRd)

23 Pixy, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 04:54 AM (E0Et6)

24 also via Instapundit

Grummz
@Grummz
15h
Okay, this is the best way to explain why AI Slop is not what you think.

By using AI Denzel Washington to explain it all. This is actually really good. Well written, directed and generated.

It's about you not needing the studios anymore.
Nekodificador

https://tinyurl.com/2znffh4p

(xcancel)

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:56 AM (odBC9)

25 where we're headed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

We?

Ether garret won't like this, or things are in fact Different than what we (another we) thought we knew

Posted by: Miklos so notes at September 08, 2026 04:56 AM (4RYRd)

26 13 And the reason I was choosing which Godley & Creme song to do today is that's what I do every day. Well, not Godley & Creme in particular but whichever artist featured this day last year.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 08, 2026 04:47 AM (BLOW1)

huh!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:57 AM (odBC9)

27 Knowing how corrupt goggle is, I would bet they are conspiring with the dumped host to sabotage the new competitor.

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2026 05:01 AM (GbONR)

28 25 where we're headed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

We?

Posted by: Miklos so notes at September 08, 2026 04:56 AM (4RYRd)

Das Kollektiv, Herr Miklos.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:02 AM (odBC9)

29
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 08, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

30 AltonJackson, good morning to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 05:13 AM (E0Et6)

31 Brave is prettier, smarter, and smells better than any other browser, says Brave. (Brave)

And you like her! You really, really like her!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

32 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 08, 2026 05:19 AM (Pny+9)

33 Old time hymn with nice pictures, "Be still my soul":

https://tinyurl.com/5b2kf6pv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 05:20 AM (SzveA)

34 olddog, good morning. Hope you and yours are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 05:21 AM (E0Et6)

35 Spouse has rules for his bus today, one of which is "Use your inside voice." LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 05:22 AM (SzveA)

36 Morning, Ben Had. All doing well here. Getting ready to leave the lake soon. Have to wait until 6a when the transfer station opens so I can get rid of trash.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 08, 2026 05:23 AM (Pny+9)

37 Good morning, all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 05:25 AM (SzveA)

38
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 08, 2026 05:26 AM (AMvSw)

39 Morning, everyone! Despite my best efforts, I am awake and at work.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 05:28 AM (+4yJ5)

40 35: Fen, let me know how well that works out. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 05:28 AM (+4yJ5)

41 @35/FenelonSpoke: { Spouse has rules for his bus today, one of which is "Use your inside voice." LOL. }

It's not a bad rule, I hope he's successful, but based on what I've experienced on my bus with kids, they just naturally get louder and more excited as they talk about things they like, and then they argue and get loud and talk over each other, and this escalates quickly.

The biggest plus I've experienced in control over the kids has been sticking with the route and giving them the consistency in driver that they both want, and need.

Y'know how kids act up for substitute teachers? The same's true for drivers. Kids want routine. If you give them that, they're a lot happier and easier to get to behave. Kids feel secure when they know the fence is there, and if they push on it, it doesn't move.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 08, 2026 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

42 G'morning, all!

Pro-tip: Do not use the official Volvo parts diagram to reassemble your P-2 platform PCV system.

You will wind up swapping the location of two hoses, and have to disassemble the entire assembly again to swap the two hoses.

Which gives you new opportunities to drop other bolts that will fall down the front of the engine and disappear again until you re-disassemble what you just put back together again.

And each time, you get to deal with what is known as the most difficult banjo bolt on the entire engine.

There is a reason why the labor to do this is usually over $1,000.00.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2026 05:33 AM (iMotb)

43 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 08, 2026 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

I think spouse is ever hopeful 😉. But he's been doing this for about 11years, so he's used to them. Other rules are "Remain seated", keep hands to self, no eating on bus and obey bus driver."

Have a great day, ( not so ) Grumpy and Recalcitrant .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 05:39 AM (SzveA)

44 Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 05:28 AM

Lol

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 05:40 AM (SzveA)

45 banjo bolts are an abomination.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2026 05:43 AM (VyBeY)

46 @43/FenelonSpoke: Sounds like our basic rules (no surprise there.)

You have a good day too!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 08, 2026 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

47
Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, washing of bed laundry started. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a big double cup of coffee recording highlights from Meyerbeer's Le prophète. Less than 20 tracks to go to fill in all the gaps in my big playlist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 05:45 AM (eRlcH)

48 9 Godley & Creme. I seem to recall a song used in an episode of Miami Vice.

Ah, I knew it! Haven't watched Miami Vice in a long while. May have to binge it soon.

youtu.be/eAngURbGoG4
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

Funny! Twelve minutes!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 05:45 AM (odBC9)

49 Evening and morning, weary toilers and early risers! 'Tis Tiu's Day again. How wuz yer Labo(u)r Day?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

50 Temps are a hair lower this morning, and we are due for rain the rest of the week. Not that it means the place will be cool, just "less hot."

I checked on my estimated taxes yesterday, and when I go through the "taxable amount of SS" worksheet, I get a figure much lower than I expected -- backed up by three different 'Net calculators. Naturally I need to go over it again. But it looks like I've already paid my 2026 taxes and will be due a small refund. Whoo, as they say, hoo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

51 Leaving work early today for an appointment with my finance dude. Nothing majorly wrong; just making sure my retirement funding is where it needs to be.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 05:53 AM (+4yJ5)

52 "banjo bolts are an abomination."

I don't normally mind them, and Volvo usually uses them in the appropriate locations.

This particular one is on the underside of the intake on the passenger side, with minimal clearance and access. Best installed using a stubby 17mm box wrench. And the location allows for the top crush washer to fall off in the attempt, and if you did not place a rag over the alternator, the crush washer can fall into the windings of the alternator.

All together, I would rather not ever have to deal with that bolt. But events caused me to remove and install the thing four times during the fun filled event.

And the whole thing starts because of a less than 1/4 inch diameter semi rigid tube that goes from the banjo bolt to the oil trap under the intake gets brittle over time and either cracks or clogs. And if it breaks, you get wild trouble codes for Mass Air signal too low with no visible reason for it. And because the tube is inside an insulation sleeve, the break is not visible unless you do a smoke test of the system and suddenly discover smoke pouring out from under the intake on the passenger side.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2026 05:55 AM (iMotb)

53 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 08, 2026 05:55 AM (2Ez/1)

54 The furry thugs are well. Stirling continues on his (to him) starvation diet; I need to weigh him to see how things are going. Little Dagny is eating all of what I give her now too. I used to leave a ilttle dry food out for them overnight. Now that I'm not, to decrease Stirling's vast intake, she seems hungrier at mealtimes.

Tomorrow I have to get blood drawn again, to check on some mildly-off readings last time. Which means no breakfast or coffee from midnight until after my 8 am appointment. I'll try to stay up later tonight and have a small snack late, then sleep later than usual, so I won't have to sit around before leaving. At least I can look forward to breakfast at a favorite diner afterward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

55 Speaking of eating out, the trip to Cracker Barrel yesterday was pretty good. It started out with strong rain, then that vanished and we had a good run out to the far side of the lake. Had to wait about a quarter-hour for a table; at 10:15 on a Labor Day morning, the place was busy. The place looked like CB used to, with the old logo and decorations. Food was good, if expensive; with OJ for Miss L., coffee for me, and two lunch plates plus tip, I got dinged close to $40. Grrrr.

Smooth traffic-free run mostly at 70 back home, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

56 VIA, the one Volvo I've ever had, a mid-'70s 164 (?) sedan, was fun to drive while I had it. That's the one that caught fire and burned up while I was driving it in early 1985 and put me off foreign cars for quite a while. I don't think I had it long enough to do any maintenance on it myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

57
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy return this afternoon. This morning will be devoted to an orgy of bed laundry being washed, food cooked and the house cleaned and vacuumed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 06:06 AM (eRlcH)

58 I checked on my estimated taxes yesterday, and when I go through the "taxable amount of SS" worksheet, I get a figure much lower than I expected -- backed up by three different 'Net calculators. Naturally I need to go over it again. But it looks like I've already paid my 2026 taxes and will be due a small refund. Whoo, as they say, hoo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

Wolfus, unless there's some business you're running that we're unaware of, why do you do your taxes quarterly? Unless I'm misunderstanding and you're just estimating what you'll owe or receive after filing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026 06:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

59 And the "Southern Decadence" festival, an annual orgy of gay and weirdo visitors and locals over Labor Day weekend, is over at last.

Not that I go near the French Quarter nowadays at all. It's like being exiled from the town where you grew up because you're normal and the old place has gone ding-a-ling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:10 AM (wzUl9)

60 "I don't think I had it long enough to do any maintenance on it myself."

At 287,000 miles, I am fortunately able to do most of the maintenance myself. And at that hight mileage, even the PCV work is considered maintenance rather than repair.

I think this is the third timing belt, water pump and idler on the thing.

But...if you can keep up on these things, they do keep running. And as long as I'm spending less than car payments on repairs, I'm still ahead financially.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2026 06:10 AM (iMotb)

61 Wolfus, unless there's some business you're running that we're unaware of, why do you do your taxes quarterly? Unless I'm misunderstanding and you're just estimating what you'll owe or receive after filing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026


***
Because I don't have SS withhold anything. You can't tell them a specific amount to take out, and their minimum is 7% a month, which is for me close to $200. I'd be way overpaying the Feds in return for a big refund next year. I can put that money to use every month better for my purposes than they can. And I don't want to make a big payment in April.

So yes, I am trying to estimate what I'll owe. Earlier this year I sent them quarterly payments. Then I got my big refund -- I'd miscalculated on my 1040, quite a bit -- and saw that my SS was taxed lower than I'd thought. This year, it looks as if I'll be taxed even less.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

62 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I got nothin'.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 08, 2026 06:18 AM (amcLV)

63 And as long as I'm spending less than car payments on repairs, I'm still ahead financially.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2026


***
And there's that indefinable, immeasurable thing about "liking the vehicle better than anything you could buy at present." Even if your repairs are a bit more than a reasonable car payment (that mythical animal), if you love the car, love driving it, and smile when you walk up to it, you're still ahead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

64 So yes, I am trying to estimate what I'll owe. Earlier this year I sent them quarterly payments. Then I got my big refund -- I'd miscalculated on my 1040, quite a bit -- and saw that my SS was taxed lower than I'd thought. This year, it looks as if I'll be taxed even less.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

I see. I just set my SS at ten percent. We're in the twelve bracket, so I figure that's close enough. But, next year - or most of it - should be non-taxable if Trump's new rule of non-taxing SS benefits for over sixty-fives is still in force.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026 06:18 AM (1Ff7Z)

65 "Zen and the Art of Estimating Income Taxes."

Ideally, I never wanted a big refund (c'mon man, why lend them the money?) nor a big bill to pay.

Now that you income is somewhat constant, you should be able to be successful.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 08, 2026 06:21 AM (36x1j)

66 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

67 mornin yall. My buddy Bruno has taken a turn for the worst over the weekend. I'm going to have to call the vet when they open.

Posted by: fd at September 08, 2026 06:26 AM (MWfyi)

68 "Zen and the Art of Estimating Income Taxes."

Ideally, I never wanted a big refund (c'mon man, why lend them the money?) nor a big bill to pay.

Now that you income is somewhat constant, you should be able to be successful.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 08, 2026


***
During my working years, I always tried to balance withholding so that I would have neither a huge refund or a huge tax bill. I'm just continuing the procedure minus the withholding part.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

69 Poor Bruno hope the vet opens soon

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:31 AM (RIvkX)

70 Is Tehran burning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

I don't think President Trump is planning on burning them, just strangle them. It'd be nice if they ran out of fuel and water before the election. Or, if Cuba's government collapses. A nice, big win before the mid-terms should knock the Ds down.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026 06:32 AM (1Ff7Z)

71 Pro-Palestine photographer, friend shot dead by Muslim man in murder-suicide anti-LGBTQ hate crime.

The incident occurred in Tucson, Arizona, just after midnight last Monday.
=====

This wouldn't have happened in Gaza!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

72 I don't think President Trump is planning on burning them, just strangle them. It'd be nice if they ran out of fuel and water before the election. Or, if Cuba's government collapses.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026 06:32 AM (1Ff7Z)
=====

I need a date. Would Thursday work?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:34 AM (RIvkX)

73 I need a date. Would Thursday work?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:34 AM (RIvkX)

Sorry, the girls are off on Thursday. I've heard the Friendly Neighborhood Miklosian Dating Service has some Ukranian girls, if you're so reclined.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026 06:38 AM (1Ff7Z)

74 Anybody seen Mitch?

Posted by: Mildly curious at September 08, 2026 06:39 AM (2Ez/1)

75 !!!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:40 AM (RIvkX)

76 So today is this week's de facto Monday

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2026 06:42 AM (ZxPkt)

77
Tuesday is the worst day of the work week. The energy stored over the weekend is dissipated on Monday, yet there's no immediate prospect of Saturday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 06:44 AM (eRlcH)

78 Four day weeks are the longest weeks.

Posted by: It is known at September 08, 2026 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

79 Tuesday is the worst day of the work week. The energy stored over the weekend is dissipated on Monday, yet there's no immediate prospect of Saturday.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 06:44 AM (eRlcH)
=====

Why do you hate tacos?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

80

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 08, 2026 06:48 AM (xjtas)

81 Coffee acquired. Bought a breakfast sandwich from the cafeteria and I feel regret. Not due to internal issues. Just because it's not very good. And they raised the price.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 06:49 AM (+4yJ5)

82 The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for San Francisco.

Sunny, clear, high 81.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:49 AM (RIvkX)

83 Moons Over My Hammy is Denny’s ham and scrambled egg sandwich made with Swiss and American cheeses on sourdough bread. It’s been a Denny’s bestseller since it was introduced in the early 1990s.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

84 The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for San Francisco.

Sunny, clear, high 81.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 06:49 AM (RIvkX)

(looks at temp outside) 81. Seems cool.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 08, 2026 06:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

85 Belated BOING!

90F here in Jerusalem.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 07:03 AM (pG0Ez)

86 Just glanced outside - star/planet and crescent moon together on the eastern horizon this morning. Nice looking conjunction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 07:04 AM (/FYr+)

87 81 degrees here in Central Texas. Of course, the sun isn't up yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 07:06 AM (E0Et6)

88 Good morning everyone!

I tried to get a good picture of the Moon with Venus trailing below but the Privit bush and Sweetgum conspired to limit my camera view.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 08, 2026 07:06 AM (Q/FnY)

89 72 here in Nashville land. High of 90 today.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 07:09 AM (lJ0H4)

90 That'll larn ya!

Posted by: The Privit bush and Sweetgum at September 08, 2026 07:09 AM (2Ez/1)

91 87 81 degrees here in Central Texas. Of course, the sun isn't up yet.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 07:06 AM (E0Et6)

yikes

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 07:10 AM (odBC9)

92 The first time Girl F. went back east she called me a little panicky, "Dad it's still hot at night here!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

93 Four day weeks are the longest weeks.
Posted by: It is known


The only thing longer than four day weeks are three day weeks, when the work is scaled to 5.5-day weeks.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 08, 2026 07:13 AM (aJQbY)

94 Anyone got an addy for contacting Piper?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 07:13 AM (pG0Ez)

95 I know Piper is on X

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:14 AM (RIvkX)

96 Piper

@piper_moves

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 07:16 AM (odBC9)

97 I found it amusing that the heat and humidity of my state missed me so badly it followed me to FL for my cruise.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:17 AM (+4yJ5)

98 Biden's Dog. if that doesn't work I have her contact information.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2026 07:17 AM (E0Et6)

99
Her Majesty stopped mid-afternoon in Thackerville, OK. The temperature was 102, feels like 104. The AC in the RV only got it down to 77 inside.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2026 07:18 AM (eRlcH)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 07:18 AM (odBC9)

101 The guy at Fidelity told me I could retire early if I wanted to. Not sure I want to. Not that I love working or anything. Just figured I might as well run out the clock before AI replaces me

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 08, 2026 07:22 AM (2Nrce)

102 I'm old enough to have used a two 5 1/4 " floppy controlled IBM -PC in college and the AI article suggests to me that the AI got together with its friends, asked for help to break out of jail, and was able to do that all while the humans did not recognize what they were up to. This has frightening implications to me. But maybe I don't understand. I really need to know that Merrill Lynch Pearce Fenner and Smith have my piddly investments secure from being digitally wiped out.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 08, 2026 07:24 AM (pZ64F)

103 The guy at Fidelity told me I could retire early if I wanted to. Not sure I want to. Not that I love working or anything. Just figured I might as well run out the clock before AI replaces me
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 08, 2026 07:22 AM (2Nrce)
====

The trick is to both retire and keep your job as long as possible until they fire you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

104 Joke of the day:

The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

My English Professor mom would like it .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2026 07:26 AM (mXZ+5)

105 Just figured I might as well run out the clock before AI replaces me
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo


What got things started for me was driving into work, looking around and asking "Why am I doing this to myself?" and not being able to come up with an answer.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:27 AM (+4yJ5)

106 In the early days our computers would scream in horror when we connected them to the Internet.
That should have been a warning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 07:27 AM (2Ez/1)

107 J.J.S Runway 010

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

108 Merrill Lynch Pearce Fenner and Smith
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When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2026 07:28 AM (RIvkX)

109 What got things started for me was driving into work, looking around and asking "Why am I doing this to myself?" and not being able to come up with an answer.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 08, 2026 07:27 AM

+++
Yes. And this particular Tuesday was the low point of the year. School buses were back. Commuters were back. Sun glare because I was eastbound in the morning. The neighborhood pool was closed. The kid's morning breakfast routine, and so on.

Then tonight would be the paperwork avalanche from the kid's backpack. Health forms, permission forms, supply lists, sign up for the PTA, some random fundraiser...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2026 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)

110 Whoo, as they say, hoo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Should I tell Wolfus that I have been selling his SSN in the Home Depot parking lot for months?

Good time to consult a tax expert on how to handle all that reported income.

Posted by: Miklos did a Bad Thing at September 08, 2026 07:34 AM (4RYRd)

111 The trick is to both retire and keep your job as long as possible until they fire you.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I worked way past my retirement age mainly for the heath insurance benefts(husband had Alzheimer's). After he died I just couldn't face it anymore so I said adios. Glad I did.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2026 07:35 AM (lJ0H4)

112 When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We earn it the hard way, you skulls full of mush

Posted by: Prof. Miklos, chasing paper investments at September 08, 2026 07:36 AM (4RYRd)

113
The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

My English Professor mom would like it .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

would have liked

Posted by: Prof. Miklos, perfect in the past at September 08, 2026 07:37 AM (4RYRd)

114 Sitting right here.

Posted by: Past perfect at September 08, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1)

115 A recent Brave update broke hardware acceleration. I'm not clear on specifically what hardware it is broken for, other than mine and all the other people complaining about it.

Lot's of web pages won't work at all without hardware acceleration.

Brave is trying really hard to not be my favorite.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at September 08, 2026 07:59 AM (RH1Fs)

116 50 Whoo, as they say, hoo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

ha ha!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 09:11 AM (odBC9)

117 The Extraordinary Assumption Behind The AI Trade

Expectations for almost limitless compute demand are driving the AI trade, leaving it with a core vulnerability

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

118 Pixy, your musical choices come out of nowhere I'm familiar with, and often crack me up. Today's is great that way.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 08, 2026 09:50 AM (sl73Y)

119 another new day is here and so are we

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 11:14 AM (6T7Go)

120 Brave is my goto browser. I really like it, but I wish the BAT token thing had worked out better.

Posted by: Thatch at September 08, 2026 11:36 AM (S6YCM)

Monday Night ONT - September 7, 2026 [TRex]

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday shenanigans. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.

[Top photo: Sailor Bill Tattooing, Victory Drive, Columbus, GA - near US Army Fort Benning - 1982]

***

The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine tonight with very random results.

Harvesting wheat in Ritzville, Adams County, Washington (1936)

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Butte, Montana (1939) - possibly E Park Street near S Main - note the circular M&M neon sign for the M&M Cafe and Bar which was a 24-hour miners' hangout since the 1890s). The original M&M Cafe/Bar building burned down on May 7, 2021 but was re-built in a neighboring building starting in 2023. It reportedly still serves all-day breakfast, burgers, and drinks. The original 20-foot neon M&M sign was salvaged from the fire, restored, and rehung on the new building in March 2025.

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Chops Bowling on South 13th Street in Omaha, Nebraska (1988 ) - it is still operating and looks exactly the same today.

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B-25 assembly at North American Aviation, Inc. in Inglewood, Califiornia (1942)

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Christ Chapel in Boise, Idaho (1974) - this church was originally St. Michael's Episcopal Church, built in 1866 at 7th and Bannock Streets in downtown Boise. After St. Michael's Cathedral opened in 1902, it was moved to 15th and Ridenbaugh. It was moved a third time in 1963-64 to the Boise State University campus, restored, and rededicated as a nondenominational chapel.

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The James T. Staples (aka "Big Jim") sternwheel river packet underway on the water near Mobile, Alabama (circa 1910) - it typically ran the Tombigbee River route between Mobile and Demopolis, carrying passengers and up to 2,500 bales of cotton. A boiler explosion destroyed the boat in 1913, killing more than two dozen people.

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Elephant parade on 8th avenue (near 48th) in New York City (1920) - circus must have been in town

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Pentagon construction (circa 1941)

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Willard Hotel, Washington, DC (circa 1904) - Ulysses S. Grant liked to sit in the lobby after work, smoking cigars and drinking whiskey. Those seeking favor with him knew to find him there. Hotel lore claims this is how the word "lobbyist" originated. Some hotel staff have claimed that his cigar-smoking ghost still appears in the lobby at night.

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Windmill on Mountauk Highway in Suffolk County, New York (circa 1968 ) - it still exists

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The Hollywood Dream Factory on Sylvania Avenue, Toledo, Ohio (1988 ) - it sold movie posters, memorabilia, vintage cameras and projectors, etc. At some point, it switched to a mail order business. No sign of the Dream Factory signage remains.

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***

The Monday ONT is brought to you by these messages:

Before seeing this, I had never seen a commercial for a dictionary.

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You want music in your ONT? I give you the Everly Brothers from 1957.

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This ONT was brought to you by the 1939 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York:

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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be lost by the email gnomes. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at September 07, 2026 10:00 PM (pplPl)

2 That's the end of

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 10:00 PM (EYrlY)

3 that

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 10:00 PM (EYrlY)

4 Good evening morons en bedankt Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 10:01 PM (WXg6e)

6 Sorry I'm late, I forgot to check the power sterring fluid on my surfboard.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:03 PM (PMi3m)

7 The problem with a place like Sailor Bill's Tattoos is that not all tattoo parlors are so upscale. You never know what you'll get.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Riz8t)

8 Thought experiment for the Horde: Why weren't the McDonald's fruit pies of the 70s used as heat sources for electrical generation plants? More heat per unit volume than that of nuclear fission without that messy radiation to deal with.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 10:04 PM (WXg6e)

9
Mmmmm, Tastykakes

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:04 PM (eRlcH)

10 The Cheesesteak Shop on Divisdadero used to bring in Tastykakes from Phildelphia.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX)

11 Definitely not first. Now to skim the content.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 07, 2026 10:06 PM (PE5pE)

12 Thanks for the ONT, Dino.
Ritzville, been through there a time or two. But not in 1936.

Posted by: scampydog at September 07, 2026 10:06 PM (41CYW)

13 Sailor Bill's is the best tattoo shop anywhere. Bill did my tramp stamp of Bigfoot peeking out from that big patch of hair on my lower back.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 07, 2026 10:06 PM (r7+Q7)

14 Thought experiment for the Horde: Why weren't the McDonald's fruit pies of the 70s used as heat sources for electrical generation plants? More heat per unit volume than that of nuclear fission without that messy radiation to deal with.

Most of them were used to power the Voyager spacecraft.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:06 PM (Riz8t)

15 I knew I should have worn my vintage fedora and saddle shoes for tonight's ONT.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:06 PM (PMi3m)

16 Ah yes. Uncle Sam's School for Badly Behaved Boys.

When I think of the wildcats my brother brought home for weekends....

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 07, 2026 10:07 PM (Vvh2V)

17 Sorry I'm late, I forgot to check the power sterring fluid on my surfboard.
Posted by: tankdemon


Not sure if typo or if I just don't know surfer slang, dude.

Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 10:08 PM (FPn9B)

18 Nice ONT, TRex! Thanks for the old stuff.

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

19 Tasty Baker is creepy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:08 PM (Cqx++)

20 1939 World's Fair. Kept going even after hostilities started in September. Of course, certain countries stopped participating.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

21
Elephant parade on 8th avenue (near 48th) in New York City (1920) - circus must have been in town

__________

The New York Rangers were regularly displaced from Madison Square Garden every spring for the circus.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

22 Greetings Horde!

Eclectic content, I like the old stuff.

Well done Mr T R

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at September 07, 2026 10:09 PM (GhY67)

23 Victory Drive aka VD boulevard. Just like the area around any military base.
Strip clubs, tattoo parlors, and payday loans.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2026 10:10 PM (Lo97M)

24 Outstanding ONT content, my good dinosaur!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 07, 2026 10:10 PM (PE5pE)

25 The New York Rangers were regularly displaced from Madison Square Garden every spring for the circus.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

The Chicato Blackhawks and Bulls used to have extended road trips while the circus was in town too.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:11 PM (PMi3m)

26 Good evening Horde! Thanks for being here and thanks to those who enjoy the content.

Posted by: TRex- eclectic dino at September 07, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)

27 That Tasty Cake puppet is pure nightmare fuel.

Posted by: Chemist at September 07, 2026 10:12 PM (sSCNn)

28 Sailor Bills is a franchise operation, isn't it?

Like Subway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 10:12 PM (wpRMV)

29 I have been to Ritzville. Nice little town. Used to have a blues festival every summer, maybe still do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:12 PM (1z8ji)

30 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 10:13 PM (sAmhv)

31 A good friend of mine was the Ritzville Ford dealer for years.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

32 The Chicato Blackhawks and Bulls used to have extended road trips while the circus was in town too.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:11 PM (PMi3m)

That also reninds me that the first NFL Championship game was moved indoors due to crappy weather. The venu had just hosted the circus and the story is that they did not do a very thorough job of cleaning up after the elephants before opebing kickoff.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:14 PM (PMi3m)

33 I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY. Same location?

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)

34 Had some trouble loading the ONT tonight. Problem might be on my end. I had thought Pixy Misa might be rolling out the new version of Minx, but it seems to be 0.8 beta.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jc4hv)

35 Cool vintage photos in tonight's ONT, T Rex! Thank you!

I recall reading a story about a B-25 not too long ago. Very interesting to see the assembly factory.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 07, 2026 10:17 PM (D/6p1)

36 Good evening, Horde! Would appreciate prayers from the praying ones for my interview tomorrow, early afternoon!

Now to read the content.... thanks in advance, T-Rex

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 10:17 PM (aJQbY)

37 I was born in Butte. Dad was in school. He was an NCR employee, but I think some of his schooling was through MT Tech. Not sure. We were not there long, moved to Billings when I was about 6 months old. I was born in St. James hospital, the old one, the one that is now an empty edifice populated by bums and the restless dead.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 07, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

38 I used to see the Ringling Bros. Circus at Madison Sq Garden annually as a kid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 10:18 PM (RIvkX)

39 Whenever the big time circus came to DC, local radio spots would offer the elephant shit as 'free fertilizer'. They called it 'pachyderm-powered poo'.

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

40 The Tastykake Puppet's hair style gives me vibes of a red-headed Lord Farquad...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:19 PM (l3cgK)

41
The Chicato Blackhawks and Bulls used to have extended road trips while the circus was in town too.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:11 PM (PMi3m)

____________

The circus was 1) very popular with the public and 2) performed three times a day. Hence it was highly profitable to the arena to host it, which is why the sports teams were displaced when it was in town.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:19 PM (eRlcH)

42 39 Whenever the big time circus came to DC, local radio spots would offer the elephant shit as 'free fertilizer'. They called it 'pachyderm-powered poo'.

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 10:19 PM (ZxPkt)

It cost them peanuts to make...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:20 PM (l3cgK)

43 The circus was 1) very popular with the public and 2) performed three times a day. Hence it was highly profitable to the arena to host it, which is why the sports teams were displaced when it was in town.

Apparently not that popular, since most circuses are out of business. I suppose the "attractions" were badly dated and couldn't compete with cell phone screens and minuscule attention spans.

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

44 Nice ONT, TRex! Love the old photos.

We used to drive through Ritzville (from Spokane) on the way to grandparents' house, when I was little. Scenery was ugly and boring most of the way.

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 10:21 PM (rdVOm)

45
I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY. Same location?
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)

__________

Flushing Meadows, yes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:21 PM (eRlcH)

46 I have had a drink at the bar in the Willard Hotel. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 10:21 PM (ZxPkt)

47 17 Sorry I'm late, I forgot to check the power sterring fluid on my surfboard.
Posted by: tankdemon

Not sure if typo or if I just don't know surfer slang, dude.

Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 10:08 PM (FPn9B)

Sex wax goes on the outside...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)

48 Had a circus here in OK last week (indoors). Ran for three evenings, I think. With our hot temps, probably did well.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:22 PM (Jr+re)

49 I've been inside Ebbets Grill a few times, which is in the same building as Willard Hotel. On the 3rd floor of the Pentagon, there is a corridor dedicated to the building and reconstruction (post 9/11). It's very interesting. If you tour it, you probably will go through it. I work there so I can meander around the building and do frequently. The perks of mid shift. That windmill? Long Island? There is a very old and very respected golf course there. I'll have to look it up as the name escapes me. Also, Montauk has a 1/4, asphalt race track (Riverhead raceway). I could be wrong about that. In the area anyway. Watch lots of racing.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

50 Sex wax goes on the outside...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

It's the best wax for your stick!

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

51 Thanks for the ONT TRex. Lovely historic glimpses.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 07, 2026 10:23 PM (CHHv1)

52
Apparently not that popular, since most circuses are out of business. I suppose the "attractions" were badly dated and couldn't compete with cell phone screens and minuscule attention spans.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

___________

The AR crew got to them. Houston had them in NRG Stadium up to about 10 years ago.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:23 PM (eRlcH)

53 Apparently not that popular, since most circuses are out of business. I suppose the "attractions" were badly dated and couldn't compete with cell phone screens and minuscule attention spans.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

Well, when the animal rights activists forced them to give up their elephants, most of the reason for going to the circus went away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:23 PM (1z8ji)

54 “Wake Up Little Susie,” a song about reputation. It might as well have been from another age, which I guess it is. The close harmony of the Everly Brothers comes through clearly. It is somehow reassuring to see how poor NTSC resolution was in 1957. An age of relative innocence.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 10:23 PM (Jc4hv)

55 Didn't clowns enter the big top to "March of the Gladiators?"

How on earth the composer thought it was martial music, I'll never know. It's now associated with clowns, not gladiators. I wonder if the composer ever knew it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

56 These days we don't have to go to the circus to find freaks, bearded women, and heavily tatooed women...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (l3cgK)

57 47 Sex wax goes on the outside...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)

Now you tell me.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (PMi3m)

58 Good point, Jim!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (Jr+re)

59 I've been to Toledo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:25 PM (Cqx++)

60 That windmill? Long Island? There is a very old and very respected golf course there. I'll have to look it up as the name escapes me. Also, Montauk has a 1/4, asphalt race track (Riverhead raceway). I could be wrong about that. In the area anyway. Watch lots of racing.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 10:22 PM (sAmhv)

Timing is everything, if you want to get the ball in the doorway without hitting the windmill blade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:25 PM (1z8ji)

61
How on earth the composer thought it was martial music, I'll never know. It's now associated with clowns, not gladiators. I wonder if the composer ever knew it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

__________

Julius Fučík, the Czech Sousa, died in 1916.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:25 PM (eRlcH)

62
These days we don't have to go to the circus to find freaks, bearded women, and heavily tatooed women...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


You've seen that cartoon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:26 PM (Cqx++)

63 These days we don't have to go to the circus to find freaks, bearded women, and heavily tatooed women...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (l3cgK)

And you can see wonderful gymnastics at several venues around town, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji)

64 A cartoon about the circus: the ringmaster appears to the inhabitants of the Freak Show - the Bearded Lady, the Tattooed Man, the Pinhead, the Siamese Twins and tells them “I have to let you go. You’re just not freaks anymore.”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 10:27 PM (Jc4hv)

65 I have never seen Alka-seltzer advertised for sun relief... until today.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 10:28 PM (aJQbY)

66 Julius Fučík, the Czech Sousa, died in 1916.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:25 PM (eRlcH)

Then maybe he did know what became of his composition. Was it part of some opera or something? Gotta be embarrassing. Something martial turned into clown music.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

67 61
How on earth the composer thought it was martial music, I'll never know. It's now associated with clowns, not gladiators. I wonder if the composer ever knew it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

__________

Julius Fučík, the Czech Sousa, died in 1916.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:25 PM (eRlcH)

Someone's comment on EweToob:
Julius Fučík: “Let me compose something powerful and dramatic for the military.”

History: “Best I can do is clowns.”


LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:29 PM (l3cgK)

68 Listened to the worlds fair music. Thrice. Snappy.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 07, 2026 10:29 PM (sl73Y)

69 Then maybe he did know what became of his composition. Was it part of some opera or something? Gotta be embarrassing. Something martial turned into clown music.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

Was he getting royalties?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:29 PM (1z8ji)

70
The Entry of the Gladiators is really a fine piece. Here it is played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Václav Neumann.

https://youtu.be/RLC6EXyQoNE

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:30 PM (eRlcH)

71 Most excellent ONT, Mr. TRex-thank you! I love all the old photos, and the videos were a blasé from the past! The photo of Butte was interesting, as I have a distant relative who was one of the founders of the Anaconda Copper Mine in Butte. I'm going thru family history at the present time, and learn something new every day!

Who was the band for the World's Fair video - Jimmy Dorsey? Love big band music!

Posted by: misslurk'ette at September 07, 2026 10:31 PM (mLJwj)

72 27 That Tasty Cake puppet is pure nightmare fuel.
Posted by: Chemist at September 07, 2026 10:12 PM (sSCNn)

Reminds me of Mr Rogers puppets, they were scary too.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 07, 2026 10:32 PM (y171U)

73 I wonder how many German spies are in the 1939 World's Fair video. The theme was "World of Tomorrow", so you can bet there were people looking over the exhibits since RCA and Ford played a big role that year. For those unfamiliar, the World's Fair at Flushing, NY started in early 1939, but didn't end until late the following year.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

74 Circus? What’s a circus?

- Someone born since 2000.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 10:34 PM (Jc4hv)

75 33 I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY. Same location?
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)

I would have loved to have attended any of the NY Worlds Fairs.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 07, 2026 10:34 PM (y171U)

76
Who was the band for the World's Fair video - Jimmy Dorsey? Love big band music!
Posted by: misslurk'ette


Might be an AI band.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)

77 The 1939 World's Fair featured two exhibits that celebrated the female form. There was a Salvador Dali Pavilion featuring actual topless mermaids swimming about and an outdoor exhibit (separate admission) that was a Sun Worshipper theme. Topless or sheer topped women sunning, playing badminton, walking about. Most were recruited from NYC burlesque houses and mostly very attractive. There's film and pictures of them online somewhere.

Posted by: Pulchritude On Parade at September 07, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)

78 At 2:25 of the World's Fair clip, it appears there's a hammer (or something) and sickle on the display.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:36 PM (Riz8t)

79 Mr. Roger’s puppets were so obviously puppets that they never bothered me. You got some phobia about puppets?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 10:36 PM (Jc4hv)

80

I attended Expo '74: Spokane World's Fair

www.historylink.org/File/10791

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:38 PM (Cqx++)

81 Didn’t Sally Rand do her famous balloon dance at the 1939 World’s Fair?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 10:38 PM (Jc4hv)

82 The Entry of the Gladiators is really a fine piece. Here it is played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Václav Neumann.

https://youtu.be/RLC6EXyQoNE
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:30 PM (eRlcH)

Except for about forty seconds of the piece, it's not bad.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

83 The National Golf Links is what I'm thinking of.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 10:40 PM (sAmhv)

84 7 The problem with a place like Sailor Bill's Tattoos is that not all tattoo parlors are so upscale. You never know what you'll get.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Hepatitis, syphilis, trichinosis, sepsis?



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 10:40 PM (EYrlY)

85 I also went to Expo '67 in Montreal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

86 I attended Expo '74: Spokane World's Fair

www.historylink.org/File/10791
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:38 PM (Cqx++)

I was there too. We stayed in a house on Libeter Lake.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2026 10:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

87 An artist who painted many murals for the '39 World's Fair, Louis Ross, also made and painted the oak panel I'm sitting next to in 1941. There are pictures of him on a scaffold sketching and painting the murals on the Smithsonian site. The figures he is painting look very much like the ones I'm looking at. My panel is 8'X9'.

Posted by: #7 To Flushing at September 07, 2026 10:42 PM (Fn+3X)

88 If we moved the 1939 World's Fair to present day, a bunch of college students would be protesting Poland committing genocide on the Nazis.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 10:42 PM (dIske)

89 Joemarine, it was a significant deal to about 65 Boy Scouts from northern Oklahoma. New York City! We rode the subways without harm and went to an Automat for lunch one day. Slept in a National Guard gym in Queens, I think. The fair itself was overwhelming! We were there for four days and I would guess I missed seeing at least a third of it! Chrysler had their turbine car idling for some extended period - it was running on some kind of vegetable oil.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:42 PM (Jr+re)

90 In 68, I was in basic training in San Antonio and went to that fair. It was boring, but it wasn't basic training!

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

91 I was 9, 10 years old in 64 and 65 when the Fair was running. We lived in Brooklyn and went to the Fair four times. We also went north for Expo 67

Posted by: Those Were the Days at September 07, 2026 10:45 PM (Fn+3X)

92 Apparently not that popular, since most circuses are out of business. I suppose the "attractions" were badly dated and couldn't compete with cell phone screens and minuscule attention spans.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)


A number of reasons, but a circus without elephants is just a carnival, and PETA et al have made it hard to employ elephants and the other animals

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 10:45 PM (rbvCR)

93 %#*^ PETA.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

94 85 I also went to Expo '67 in Montreal.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

That was my first World's Fair.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 07, 2026 10:47 PM (0CU3H)

95 Might be an AI band.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)

The song is "How High The Moon". A jazz standard. Benny Goodman, recorded it in 1940. Ella Fitzgerald covered it. So did Les Paul and Mary Ford, and a host of others.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:47 PM (1z8ji)

96 Part of the fun of the World's Fair,
Is the Subway Special that takes you there.
Anytime, night or day,
Just pay fifteen cents, Hop aboard,
And you're on your way......

Posted by: Flushing Line #7 at September 07, 2026 10:48 PM (Fn+3X)

97 52
Apparently not that popular, since most circuses are out of business. I suppose the "attractions" were badly dated and couldn't compete with cell phone screens and minuscule attention spans.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Circus are cruel to animal don't you know?
Karen tear down all krewl.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 10:50 PM (EYrlY)

98 Wake Up Little Susie: I was pretty young when that came out, but even then I could recognize BS when I heard it. Fell asleep in the theater? And didn't get kicked out, and were out til 4? Riiiight.

Susie was a tramp.

Posted by: mindful webworker - had to marry the girl after she started 'showing' at September 07, 2026 10:50 PM (aKb34)

99 I don't doubt that the loss of elephants didn't help, but most circuses were in financial trouble long before that. I took my kids to Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey, and the selling of schlock in the aisles was nonstop. I read somewhere that it just wasn't a financially viable business model anymore, and as I said, I think the acts were outdated and today's kids were bored with them.

Cirque de Soleil is probably the only successful modern circus, and it's more of a theater experience in many ways.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:51 PM (Riz8t)

100 Strip clubs, tattoo parlors, and payday loans"

What about us?

/Buy Here, Pay Here Used Cars

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 10:52 PM (XuXeR)

101 >>>
The song is "How High The Moon". A jazz standard. Benny Goodman, recorded it in 1940. Ella Fitzgerald covered it. So did Les Paul and Mary Ford, and a host of others.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Goodman handed the baton off to Charlie Parker who put
Ornithology on top of HHtM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 10:52 PM (EYrlY)

102 Buy Here, Pay Here Used Cars, No Credit Check!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:52 PM (Jr+re)

103 Cirque de Soleil is probably the only successful modern circus, and it's more of a theater experience in many ways.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 10:51 PM (Riz8t)

Also gheyer than Liberace's hairdresser.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji)

104 At 2:25 of the World's Fair clip, it appears there's a hammer (or something) and sickle on the display.

I think it's an 'or something' along with the sickle. Now, what's it supposed to represent?

:shrug:

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 10:53 PM (aJQbY)

105 The 1939 World's Fair featured two exhibits that celebrated the female form. There was a Salvador Dali Pavilion featuring actual topless mermaids swimming about and an outdoor exhibit (separate admission) that was a Sun Worshipper theme.

I'm a bit surprised CBD has never featured Dali's "Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity" on the art thread.

It's right up our alley.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 10:54 PM (WXg6e)

106 Susie was a tramp.
Posted by: mindful webworker - had to marry the girl after she started 'showing'

And Suzy is a Headbanger.

Posted by: Do It One More Time For Me at September 07, 2026 10:55 PM (Fn+3X)

107 I had to look it up, but it is How High The Moon - Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Helen Forrest,

I remember it being one of those workhorse tunes for the big bands when I was a wee little kid and my grandparents liked music

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

108 Thanks TRex. When I was little my best friend had a record player. One of the 45's she had was "Wake Up Little Susie".

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 07, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

109 I think it's an 'or something' along with the sickle. Now, what's it supposed to represent?

:shrug:
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 10:53 PM (aJQbY)

I think it was the Soviet Russian pavilion. It was a World's Fair after all. They would have been invited.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:56 PM (1z8ji)

110 >>>were badly dated and couldn't compete with cell phone screens
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there's something terribly wrong about the uncontrolled use of cell phones

I'd say smash them but the genie is out of the bottle therefore we must learn how to deal with it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 10:56 PM (EYrlY)

111 >>Susie was a tramp.

And what of her *date*?

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 10:57 PM (rdVOm)

112 Also gheyer than Liberace's hairdresser."

Feeling groovy...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 10:58 PM (XuXeR)

113 Question for The Horde.

What is the different between a sports bar and sports lounge?

https://youtu.be/44fpxXv7rcs Talks about a sports lounge, and I've never heard the term before.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 07, 2026 10:58 PM (qx7Zg)

114 Ragtime Suzy:

https://youtu.be/2Xqxgut7MNM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)

115 Fell asleep in the theater? And didn't get kicked out, and were out til 4? Riiiight.
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You're too young to remember drive inn's very well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 11:00 PM (EYrlY)

116 >>What is the different between a sports bar and sports lounge?

About 2 dollars per beer, and 5 dollars per cocktail.

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

117 The Hartford Circus Fire of 1944 killed 167 people, injured 700. Charles Nelson Reilly was a child in the audience. He never liked sitting in an audience from that day forward, which he didn't do much as a performer, director.

Posted by: CNR! at September 07, 2026 11:00 PM (Fn+3X)

118 Helen Forrest was one of those singers that had a voice pitched for the gramophones.

This is Benny Goodman's Orchestra - Scatterbrain with Louise Tobin

youtu.be/8QnqNvPaHuo

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

119 >>What is the different between a sports bar and sports lounge?

About 2 dollars per beer, and 5 dollars per cocktail.
Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

Got it. In this case, you're paying for the smoky ambiance.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 07, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)

120
Sports bar: crappy, overpriced food and too much noise. Eat or watch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 11:05 PM (eRlcH)

121 Thank you Mr. TRex!

Greetings Horde.

It's good to be home though it feels like we're still in Arkansas thanks to Tropical Storm Marie..

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 11:05 PM (QGaXH)

122 Thanks for the tip, AOP; I didn't t think of Benny Goodman. Didn't give a thought to AI, but unfortunately that could be possible!

Posted by: misslurk'ette at September 07, 2026 11:06 PM (mLJwj)

123 April 17, 1964, the Mustang was released to the public at the Ford Pavilion. It was an instant hit.

Posted by: NY Worlds Fair at September 07, 2026 11:07 PM (Fn+3X)

124 Where did the picture of Chops bowling alley come from? For forty years, the XO and I lived just a couple blocks from there on 12th St. My bookstore was on 13th, about ten blocks north of Chops.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 07, 2026 11:08 PM (DK5Sh)

125 33 I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY. Same location?
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)

Same here! My fav was the GM exhibit with the cars you could sit in and pretend drive as they went thru the exhibit. (I was 6 y.o.)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 11:09 PM (QGaXH)

126 35 Cool vintage photos in tonight's ONT, T Rex! Thank you!

I recall reading a story about a B-25 not too long ago. Very interesting to see the assembly factory.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 07, 2026 10:17 PM (D/6p1)

I wonder where in Inglewood that was. Perhaps adjacent to what is now Hawthorne Airport, now also where Elon started SpaceX

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 11:11 PM (QGaXH)

127 We moved out of Spokane when school ended in '73. Parents would not take us to Expo. I felt...cheated.

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

128 If you were at the NY World's Fair in 1964, and visited the IBM exhibit, and tried using the terminals they had for the public to use to play simple text games, but found the screen was blanked, or had a bunch of gibberish on the screen, that may have been a young proto-hacker who discovered that if you hit CLR the screen went blank, and you could use the arrow keys and type anything anywhere on the screen as long as you didn't hit Enter.

Or so I heard.

Posted by: mindful webworker - oh look at this! at September 07, 2026 11:13 PM (aKb34)

129 Both sides of my family are from Demopolis, Alabama.
The City of the People.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 11:14 PM (2Ez/1)

130 38 I used to see the Ringling Bros. Circus at Madison Sq Garden annually as a kid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 10:18 PM (RIvkX)

Interesting how many of us started out in NYC. We left when I was 7 for Florida thanks to the guy in those commercials in the winter who'd gesture with his arm saying 'so c'mon down...,'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 11:15 PM (QGaXH)

131 >>>These days we don't have to go to the circus to find freaks, bearded women, and heavily tatooed women...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 10:24 PM (l3cgK)

And you can see wonderful gymnastics at several venues around town, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

>But if you still like the circus, we have dwarfish Fauci and the Jennie AOC.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 07, 2026 11:15 PM (eP2ub)

132 ARiK, as far as I know, NAA used the same basic construction facilities for about everything they ever built. You've probably got the right place.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 11:15 PM (Jr+re)

133 Thanks for the ONT.

I think I missed all of the World's Fairs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:16 PM (Y/06r)

134 Not looking forward to winter, but hoping the heat lets up soon ...

Posted by: Adriane the Sometimes Less Critical than Other Times Critic . . . at September 07, 2026 11:17 PM (3ZUWJ)

135 I’ve nbeen to the M&M in Butte! Great spot.
Also The Acoma. And The Finlen Hotel. How about The Metals Bar.


Butte rocks.

It was especially fun in the mid 00s for Evel Knievel Days. Dude.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 11:18 PM (IjKjy)

136 We stayed at the Willard Hotel by accident when I was 6yrs old (bro was 4). My father never believed in making hotel reservations on trips as something would work out. We arrived bedraggled and tired. I remember the lobby and not much else other than the White House was near, which we toured but did not see Jackie or JFK. I remember Mt. Vernon & Arlington. How short the beds were at Mt. Vernon as our ancestors were midgets.

Before we got there we were in Gatlingburg where we were inducted into the Confederate Army and rode on a train. My brother took this seriously. I found out on this trip that the South lost & it ticked me off to be on the losing team.

My father got a speeding ticket, which was also normal, and agreed that he was speeding. Had to follow the hwy patrol to the courthouse to pay.

Little bro would get car sick a lot & of course did on this trip. I would cling to the passenger door to get as far away as I could. He once harfed into his straw cowboy hat and my mother washed it & kept it, which grossed me out further.

Daddy felt we were close enough to NYC that we might as well go but my mother had enough & we went home.

It is no wonder I have phobias.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 07, 2026 11:18 PM (hzuYO)

137 How many of you went to Prince Albert's Great Exposition

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 11:18 PM (ZxPkt)

138 Come to the Fair (193:

https://youtu.be/RShmBrOaBCI

The version I heard originally by this singer was slower (and I think a bit better.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:19 PM (Y/06r)

139 45
I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY. Same location?
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)

__________

Flushing Meadows, yes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 10:21 PM (eRlcH)

Location of the climactic scene in Men in Black. The towers were the GM exhibit as I recall.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 11:19 PM (QGaXH)

140 How many of you went to Prince Albert's Great Exposition
Posted by: Don Black


It was great !!! But since I skipped work, I got canned ...

Posted by: Adriane the Sometimes Less Critical than Other Times Critic . . . at September 07, 2026 11:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

141 Despite being born in Butte, I have spent little time there. I was there at the MEPS station when I entered active duty.

Flying from Billings to Butte in a small plane was fun. When we passed the mountains we immediately began a sharp descending circle to hit the runway. I did see the Lady of the Rockies.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 07, 2026 11:22 PM (0aYVJ)

142 This seems closer:

https://youtu.be/yMmja8vvD04

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:23 PM (Y/06r)

143 How many of you went to Prince Albert's Great Exposition
Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 11:18 PM (ZxPkt)


Quite often, in my Time Machine.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 11:24 PM (jMluN)

144 The Lady of the Rockies is breathtaking.

You can see her from Butte.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 11:24 PM (IjKjy)

145 It is one thing that is interesting about older recorded music is that like a live concert you had different versions and arrangements recorded so you could get a recording of an artist done at a different time and it would be different.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:24 PM (Y/06r)

146 We don't have any travelling medicine show wagons any more.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 11:26 PM (Cqx++)

147 The Lady of the Rockies is breathtaking.

You can see her from Butte.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 11:24 PM (IjKjy)

We once drove through Butte during a snow squall after dark. She glowed blue. It was wonderful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 07, 2026 11:26 PM (0aYVJ)

148 Ritzville is a cool town.

Stop. Grab a frosty. Say hello. You might learn something.

In the blue shithole state of Washington.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 11:26 PM (IjKjy)

149 Susie was a tramp.
Posted by: mindful webworker - had to marry the girl after she started 'showing' at September 07, 2026 10:50 PM (aKb34)


So you’re saying “Ooh, La La”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 11:28 PM (jMluN)

150 I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)
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I don't recall seeing you there.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 07, 2026 11:36 PM (i2Ycu)

151

Maria Bartiromo has reportedly spoken with CBS News chief Bari Weiss about a potential broadcasting role on 60 Minutes following her sudden exit from Fox News.

https://t.ly/grz6p

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 11:37 PM (Cqx++)

152 How on earth the composer thought it was martial music, I'll never know.

The whole genre of music known in Europe as "cavalry marches"
was generally referred to in the US as "circus marches."

There's an odd link between Hawaiian royalty and Kaiser Wilhelm. The Queen asked him to send her a music master so her people could have the blessing of musical education. He did -- a good one, and there's a story with that -- so all "Hawaiian" music has some German roots. And that is how we got the unique form, "Hula March." It's some of the base stock of country music.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 07, 2026 11:38 PM (zdLoL)

153 I don't recall seeing you there.


Probably out having lunch . . . . . .


Admittedly, I looked a lot like the many other Boy Scouts on hand!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 11:39 PM (Jr+re)

154 The song is "How High The Moon". A jazz standard. Benny Goodman, recorded it in 1940. Ella Fitzgerald covered it. So did Les Paul and Mary Ford, and a host of others.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
___________________

Surprised Willie Nelson never covered it.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 11:42 PM (dIske)

155 Good night, horde! Thanks for a great ONT.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 11:44 PM (Jr+re)

156 150 I went to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, NY.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 07, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)
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I don't recall seeing you there.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,



My parents, with my sister who was just a few month old, were there. They lived in NYC for a few years in the early 60s. I'm very thankful they moved back home to Western Pennsyltucky. Both parents grew up in Western PA. Sister was born in Brooklyn. I try not to hold that against her! 😉

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 11:45 PM (sAmhv)

157 Maria Bartiromo has reportedly spoken with CBS News chief Bari Weiss about a potential broadcasting role on 60 Minutes following her sudden exit from Fox News.

https://t.ly/grz6p
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 11:37 PM (Cqx++)

That’s awesome, she’d be perfect. I know people who say she was the last reason they still watched Fox for anything, and they’ve been pissed off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 11:46 PM (/FYr+)

158 Well, in the continuing saga of how to most efficiently scrap out a car alternator, I think I have it about nailed. Used a cutoff wheel in the angle grinder to lop off the slip ring end of the shaft flush with the face of the pole piece. Put it in the drill press and drilled three 9/32" holes in the cut end, about a half inch deep. That relieved the interference fit, and two screwdrivers popped the pole piece off the shaft with next to no effort, exposing the wire spool. End flange peeled of the spool with pliers, and grabbed the inner end of the wire, and pulled out a few yards. With the inside layers pulled out, the whole spool came free, and into the copper pail it went.

The stator, I cut through at one point with the cutting disc, cutting both laminations and windings. Then I opened it up straight, when opened all the wire slots. It was then easy to pull all the windings free.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 11:46 PM (1z8ji)

159 Nice work, AOP! You're won the battle there.

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

160
cutting both laminations and windings.

That is what is best in life, Conan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 11:49 PM (Cqx++)

161 . A boiler explosion destroyed the boat in 1913, killing more than two dozen people.
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Pfft.

Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

162 We've had our first taste of Autumn here, over the weekend. Should warm up & stay pleasant for another month or so before it turns cold again.

I'd better clean out & prep the pellet stove, and check the chimney soon. (And buy a load of pellets before the next price increase.)

Posted by: JQ at September 07, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

163 >>>>Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
********
Most of the dead were recently released Union army soldiers who had been POWs of the Confederacy.

Posted by: Cosda at September 07, 2026 11:54 PM (QpvR0)

164 Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

And most of them were confederate veterans trying to get home as the war ended, which was why the boat was so overloaded. Incomprehensible loss of life - 19th century steam engines were dangerous as hell.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 11:57 PM (/FYr+)

165 I see we’ve heard different stories - Union or confederate. At least it’s certain most were soldiers, I guess it depends which way it was traveling,

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 11:58 PM (/FYr+)

166 Looks like I'll be driving a u-haul cross-country, east to west, next week or the week after.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 11:58 PM (Fv808)

167 And most of them were confederate veterans trying to get home as the war ended, which was why the boat was so overloaded. Incomprehensible loss of life - 19th century steam engines were dangerous as hell.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 11:57 PM (/FYr+)

Wouldn't surprise me to learn that the engineer tied down the safety valve to get a few more revolutions from the paddle.

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

168 Uh-oh, Dark Lixtiquatal... doesn't sound like happy news.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

169 local radio spots would offer the elephant shit as 'free fertilizer'.

In the days when you could almost make a living with a single-axle dump truck "on by the ton" hauling stone or blacktop for highway construction, a whole job site would shut down for a couple of days when Ringling Bros. was in town. All the drivers went to hauling the elephant droppings, as it paid better. A loader stayed busy all day and night, and several trucks would be lined up to load, just like at the quarry. And then you had to hose out the bed, naturally.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 12:00 AM (zdLoL)

170 We're looking at 95F in S.F. Wenzday. That's a big, fat yuck.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 08, 2026 12:01 AM (Fv808)

171 A loader stayed busy all day and night, and several trucks would be lined up to load, just like at the quarry. And then you had to hose out the bed, naturally.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 12:00 AM (zdLoL)

Cominco's zinc smelter in Trail, B.C. used to sell "Elephant Brand" fertilizer.

No shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 12:05 AM (1z8ji)

172 Sultana disaster:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/sultana-disaster

Posted by: Cosda at September 08, 2026 12:06 AM (QpvR0)

173 151

Maria Bartiromo has reportedly spoken with CBS News chief Bari Weiss about a potential broadcasting role on 60 Minutes following her sudden exit from Fox News.

zzzzzttt

Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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That link went to the wr-- this is the link

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJxMd3Pls8


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:06 AM (EYrlY)

174 Nope. Talked to mom on the phone today. She's really not eating or drinking now and said "I want to get outta here". Then she asked about mother and dad. Her parents died 32 years ago. There's not much left of her because she's just dying of old age. Not on any painkillers stronger than OTC stuff which is good. She was happy when I told her the big cat she's fond of came by this morning. So when the time comes, I'll fly out, take care of arrangements, and then pack up what I'm taking back. Probably head to I-80 from D.C. and then straight on in.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 08, 2026 12:06 AM (Fv808)

175 A maternal uncle grew wheat near Spokane, WA. I 've stripped wheat kernels and eaten them, and laid in the hay from the wheat in a scarily old barn. Good memories.

Posted by: GWB at September 08, 2026 12:07 AM (kU0PQ)

176 Well this gets interesting.

CA AG Bonta spent $460k in legal fees from his camapign fund to deal with a DoJ investigation into a federal probe of corruption involving a recycling business owned by the Duong family that resulted in one mayor getting recalled while she and the Duongs are facing prosecution.

Bonta over the course of years received over $150,000 in political contributions from the Duong family. He has now quietly returned the money.

Maybe this explains why the Filipino Newsome and his wife railroaded the Stop Nick Shirley Act through the CA legislature.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 12:07 AM (2GVsD)

177 163, 164

Ok. Which one? Of course, both could be true.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 12:10 AM (sAmhv)

178 The General Slocum sidewheeler caught fire and sank near Hells
Gate in NYC in 1904. 1,021 of the 1,342 folks on the boat died. Nearly all of the victims were from a German Church on the Lower East Side. Almost all were women and children on a Sunday School picnic. Hundreds of men lost their wives and kids. The Germans on the Lower East Side moved uptown, leaving room for the influx of Jewish immigrants more commonly known as Lower East Siders.

Posted by: The Painted Ponies Go Up And Down at September 08, 2026 12:11 AM (Fn+3X)

179 Steamboat Arabia Museum in KC will close permanently this November, so see it if you get the chance. It's just great.

Riverboats were incredibly dangerous, partly because of the rivers, and then there was short-sighted boatbuilding and the expensive way to discover the need for safety features.

I'm pretty sure Sultana was the reason why later steamboats had automatic refill pumps, called a "doctor." When people went up a gangplank, they'd ask "Is there a doctor on board," and it wasn't about their need for medical care.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 12:12 AM (zdLoL)

180 Probably head to I-80 from D.C. and then straight on in.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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Take care.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:15 AM (EYrlY)

181 Evenin’, All.

Hey, TRex!

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:16 AM (77rzZ)

182 So, from what I've gathered about women is that they like their breasts, they hate their butts, and they are conflicted about the reproductive bits.

Probably the only place on the internet where I can say this without being banned. Although, if I should be banned, why not.

Alcohol: threat or menace?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 08, 2026 12:16 AM (CHHv1)

183 >>>177 163, 164
Ok. Which one? Of course, both could be true.
Posted by: Puddleglum,
****See 172.

Posted by: Cosda at September 08, 2026 12:17 AM (QpvR0)

184 Took a couple of church trips on the Belle of Louisville back in the 60's.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 08, 2026 12:17 AM (Cqx++)

185 Oh Star Trek fans, check your local cineplex.

Cinemark/Tinseltown is having a super quadruple billing tomorrow.

First is Star Trek: The Motion Picture is paired with the TOS episode "The Changeling."

Followed by Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and the episode "Space Seed."

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and "Amok Time."

And it concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and "City on the Edge of Forever."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 12:24 AM (2GVsD)

186 I’ve read that the loss of life from the Sultana disaster was comparable to that from the Titanic sinking.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:24 AM (77rzZ)

187 CA AG Bonta spent $460k in legal fees from his camapign fund to deal with a DoJ investigation into a federal probe of corruption involving a recycling business owned by the Duong family....

Funny thing about that. Oakland jacked its waste hauling fees for small landlords in 2016 to fund the corruption your post refers to. I was tasked with drafting a lawsuit that the rate increases violated the CA constitution. I knew jack shit about this but diligently studied up. Oakland got my suit thrown out on the grounds that the rates were not unconstitutional. Later (I was not involved), the CA Supreme Court said I should have won the demurrer. :->

You can look up the 2015-2016 Alameda County grand jury report here:
https://grandjury.acgov.org/reports/
Oakland is just so effing incompetent in every regard. It could be a great place to live because it's a bit warmer than S.F., has a lot of open space, etc., but nope....

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 08, 2026 12:25 AM (Fv808)

188 Bulg

RMS Empress of Ireland. 1,012 deaths. But hardly anyone remembers the disaster.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 12:26 AM (2GVsD)

189 The Samson V, a steam-powered stern wheeler was built in New Westminster, B.C. in 1937, and served as a snag boat on the lower Fraser River until it was retired in 1980. Now maintained as a floating museum in New Westminster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)

190 Happy Monday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 08, 2026 12:28 AM (ibDUx)

191 151

Maria Bartiromo has reportedly spoken with CBS News chief Bari Weiss about a potential broadcasting role on 60 Minutes following her sudden exit from Fox News.

zzzzzttt

Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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I hope it happens. The lamentations will be glorious.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 08, 2026 12:30 AM (r7+Q7)

192 188 I looked it up, Anna Puma. Thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:30 AM (77rzZ)

193 190 Happy Tuesday, Debby!

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:32 AM (77rzZ)

194 US forces sink narco-refueling station linked to Ecuadorian cartel in Pacific: SOUTHCOM
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That's the second one in weeks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:32 AM (EYrlY)

195 Hi, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 12:34 AM (rdVOm)

196 Remember that AI video of the cats playing ZZTop music? I thought of another one. Have a cat called Jerry Lee Mewis, sitting at a grand piano, playing "Great Hairballs of Fire".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 12:38 AM (1z8ji)

197 Bartiromo goes to CBS.
CBS does exclusive on Fox deliberately hiding important news information effecting the president. CBS starts burnishing conservative cred while shining a light on Fox DeepState complicity.

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

198 That photo - I'm turning 61 this month (...sigh) and strangely getting closer to getting a tattoo. Would be my first. A USN-USA themed anchor/eagle on the arm. Have zero idea what they cost, etc, but the condition of that building is how I imagine the sanitary conditions on the inside of most.

Posted by: Sailor Smitty at September 08, 2026 12:41 AM (hyQrc)

199 Steamboat Arabia Museum in KC will close permanently this November, so see it if you get the chance. It's just great...
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 08, 2026 12:12

Been there, you're right it is awesome. Yes, go see it if possible.

Do you know what they are doing with the collection? I'm retired from a museum that has a particular interest in 1856 (the yr the Arabia sunk).

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 08, 2026 12:42 AM (4Qj8V)

200 Tats are gay. Jus’ sayin’.

Posted by: Bulg at September 08, 2026 12:42 AM (77rzZ)

201 Man, those Tastykake commercials take me back to the eight years I spent in Dover when my dad was stationed there.

Dangit...now I want some Butterscotch Krimpets.

Posted by: goozer at September 08, 2026 12:43 AM (eTh1u)

202 >> and "City on the Edge of Forever."

Edith Keeler must die.

One of the stations ran a TOS marathon today, and I watched that one. This is the one where Kirk and Edith walk right in front of Floyd's Barber Shop on the Mayberry set.

Posted by: Lt. Bepi Colombo at September 08, 2026 12:43 AM (w6EFb)

203 Wikipedia says, FWIW, that the casualties in the explosion of the Sultana were mostly Union soldiers recently released from Confederate POW camps. The explosion was apparently due to a badly repaired boiler. Badly repaired because a proper repair would have taken days and have lost the Sultana the fee it was receiving for returning the soldiers promptly.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 08, 2026 12:45 AM (jMluN)

204
And scroll down Don Pettit's X feed here. He's posting pictures of cities at night from orbit showing the transition to LED lighting and what a noticeable change that made in how they look.

https://t.ly/IUcml

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

205 So many thoughts, few lucid enough to bother relating.

Time to limp off to bed.

My aunt used to own a harp. I didn't get much opportunity to mess around on it, but did figure out the basics. Would have liked to have had more time on it.
菊次郎の夏

https://youtu.be/1X2ffope27U

G'night, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - Summer isn't quite through with us yet at September 08, 2026 12:48 AM (aKb34)

206 I am going to head off to bed, too. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2026 12:53 AM (1z8ji)

207 Night mindful, night AOP.

That link was very cool, publius, thank you.

Dark, safe travels for you, and prayers for your Mom.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 08, 2026 12:57 AM (ibDUx)

208 Do you know what they are doing with the collection? I'm retired from a museum that has a particular interest in 1856 (the yr the Arabia sunk).
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 08, 2026 12:42 AM (4Qj8V)

I looked up the story - it’s a great collection - and it said the city cancelled the lease for blah blah reasons and the operators are looking for a bigger, better venue, probably in another city.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 01:01 AM (/FYr+)

209 Not much of a crowd here tonight, Debby.

I feel sluggish too, but not ready for bed just yet.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)

210 JQ, we are supposed to get a warmup later this week, I need to tend to some winterizing tasks too.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 08, 2026 01:03 AM (ibDUx)

211 Yeah, it's time to trudge around the property & put things in order before Winter...

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

212 JQ, I don't think that I will be up that late either, I'll probably lurk for a while though.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 08, 2026 01:09 AM (ibDUx)

213 Ran into a guy from work, at the grocery today-- I'd given him some trees ~30 years ago, Ponderosa Pines from parents' lake house that needed to be removed...

He said they're 50-60ft tall now! Awesome. Was surprised they survived the transplanting.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 01:13 AM (rdVOm)

214 Três minutos de Elis Regina.
youtube.com/watch?v=pNWpquMzJSY

Posted by: gp at September 08, 2026 01:14 AM (Jr5Lq)

215 185 Oh Star Trek fans, check your local cineplex.

Cinemark/Tinseltown is having a super quadruple billing tomorrow.

First is Star Trek: The Motion Picture is paired with the TOS episode "The Changeling."

Followed by Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and the episode "Space Seed."

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and "Amok Time."

And it concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and "City on the Edge of Forever."
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2026 12:24 AM (2GVsD)

That's... not a bad match up. Do they do the episodes before the movies?

Space Seed ending is a bit jarring with the movie.

Changeling kind of throws shade at Motion Picture.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 08, 2026 01:20 AM (Y/06r)

216
Well, the story of the lunatic who had to be duck-taped to his seat on the flight just took a wild turn.

What set him off? A *religious discussion*. The lunatic's seat mate turned out to be Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic Jew and author of that prophecy book "The Harbinger".

Cahn's latest book is "The Altar of Pergamon" (he was on Coast to Coast AM a few days ago with this, BTW). Chan mentioned that, and that's when the guy freaked out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 01:33 AM (w6EFb)

217
The Daily Mail has that story, but it's behind the paywall.

The lunatic's name was Layne Lundeen, an AZ realtor. Cahn said they were having a friendly conversation, and got to talking about their religious beliefs. Lundeen said he rejected Christ and Christianity after his divorce (he's now on his third wife or something).

Cahn then apparently tried to encourage him to not to do that, and that's what began to set him off.

Cahn then disengaged, but Lundeen sort of kept going with. Then the "Altar of Pergamon" book came up somehow, and Lundeed really lost then.

At one point, Lundeen told Cahn he was going to "punch your Jew face in" or something like that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

218 Not even 2am yet

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 01:45 AM (Ia/+0)

219 Yeah, it's time to trudge around the property & put things in order before Winter...

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)


Not looking forward to winter.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 01:46 AM (S41Gd)

220 At one point, Lundeen told Cahn he was going to "punch your Jew face in" or something like that.

Sounds like a perfect match for Clancy.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 08, 2026 01:47 AM (Fv808)

221 The lunatic's name was Layne Lundeen

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

That right there is a reason to hate the world.lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 01:47 AM (S41Gd)

222 We need images of The Dream Theater, at 701 Lighthouse Ave, Monterey, CA. It does not exist anymore. But this is where Dream Theater got its name from.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 08, 2026 01:52 AM (PI7fX)

223 173 151

Maria Bartiromo has reportedly spoken with CBS News chief Bari Weiss about a potential broadcasting role on 60 Minutes following her sudden exit from Fox News.

zzzzzttt

Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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That link went to the wr-- this is the link

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJxMd3Pls8


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 12:06 AM (EYrlY)

She’ll be 59 on Friday.

Meaning that if she goes to 60 Minutes, she will be the youngest person there by decades..

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 08, 2026 01:55 AM (PI7fX)

224
Here's a video Cahn did about this incident on his Youtube channel:

https://t.ly/6tBP3

He gets into the Altar of Pergamon stuff in there as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

225 Fauci! That guy stills owes me money!

Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at September 08, 2026 01:58 AM (uTyB3)

226 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 08, 2026 01:01

Thanks Tom. I wonder who in the city govt they pissed off. Also wonder if KC govt is as corrupt as it used to be.

That is an awesome museum. They display everything that was recovered from the steamboat Arabia which was going up the Missouri River to the frontier when it sunk in 1856. Lots of things you would never expect.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at September 08, 2026 01:58 AM (4Qj8V)

227 Sweet dreams Horde, I don't want to but I need to sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 08, 2026 01:58 AM (ibDUx)

228 Night, Debby.
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>>Not looking forward to winter.

I'm not either, Bers. Sucks being alone in this ol' dump...

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

229 Sister was born in Brooklyn. I try not to hold that against her! 😉

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 11:45 PM (sAmhv)
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Does she tawk funny?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 02:06 AM (QNSrI)

230 Here is a somewhat antique link:

Dream Theatre & Lighthouse Square

www.amap1.org/history/dream.html

Not an https site but rather just http.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 08, 2026 02:12 AM (jMluN)

231 Hero at the race track in Shanghai:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4zdsdb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 02:15 AM (QNSrI)

232 231 Hero at the race track in Shanghai:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4zdsdb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 02:15 AM (QNSrI)

Wonderful! I can't stand to watch the video; glad there's a still shot.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 02:21 AM (odBC9)

233 He gets into the Altar of Pergamon stuff in there as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Why are thing so dragged out, repetitive, redundantly presented?
It's because HueTuubes pay scale increses if the presentation goes more than x number of minutes. A Moron brought this up the other day.
I'm kicking the speed up to 1.35 or so. I want to here this.

JQ, Debby, Publius, Berserker; good to see y'all. Just can't kick my brain in tune.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 02:24 AM (EYrlY)

234 To express my unique personal self, I need tattoos

Like everyone else

Posted by: rebellious conformist at September 08, 2026 02:24 AM (4RYRd)

235 >>Not looking forward to winter.

I'm not either, Bers. Sucks being alone in this ol' dump...

Posted by: JQ
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Crazy, Big Joe Bastardi said this could be a very cold winter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 02:27 AM (EYrlY)

236 233 Why are thing so dragged out, repetitive, redundantly presented?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 02:24 AM (EYrlY)

ISWYDT

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 02:28 AM (odBC9)

237 >> Why are thing so dragged out, repetitive, redundantly presented?

I just sort of skip around and try to hit on the right spot in these things. I can stand speeding things up a little, but it does annoy me a little with some. Some more than others, somehow depending.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb)

238 >>Not looking forward to winter.

I'm not either, Bers. Sucks being alone in this ol' dump...

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

I could be in a castle with a harem and still hate winter. I used to hate summer more than winter. I started riding the bike again a few years ago and it made summer a little more fun, so now I hate them equally. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 02:29 AM (S41Gd)

239 Hi, Braenyard!

Yeah, U-toob sux. Neighbor kids came over to visit my nephew (a while back...) and wanted to watch U-toob teevee on my Roku setup.

*double-take* it wanted over $80/month for subscription! WTF? Surely I read it rong!

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

240 I'm with ya, Bers-- I hate summer & winter just about equally, too.

Consider moving, but where would I go? Not that I can afford it anyway, so there's not even a dream of *elsewhere* for me.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

241 237 >> Why are thing so dragged out, repetitive, redundantly presented?

I just sort of skip around and try to hit on the right spot in these things. I can stand speeding things up a little, but it does annoy me a little with some. Some more than others, somehow depending.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb)

Cahn reeaallyy drags this out. I lasted a little over a minute!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 02:33 AM (odBC9)

242 Why are thing so dragged out, repetitive, redundantly presented?




Could you say that again one more time, but in more detail?

Posted by: Miklos showed up late, needs a distraction at September 08, 2026 02:33 AM (4RYRd)

243 Crazy, Big Joe Bastardi said this could be a very cold winter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 02:27 AM (EYrlY)

Last winter wasn't so bad. We usually average high 20's to low 30's. I few years ago it was stupid cold. It came on in November and didn't let up until march. It was 4 degrees on new years eve. I don't want to see that again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 02:34 AM (S41Gd)

244 242 Why are thing so dragged out, repetitive, redundantly presented?
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Could you say that again one more time, but in more detail?
Posted by: Miklos showed up late, needs a distraction at September 08, 2026 02:33 AM (4RYRd)

And a one, and a two, and a

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 02:38 AM (odBC9)

245
Also remember Cahn is selling his book(s).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)

246 I've got to get hubby's car sold. Then, can have 3 pallets of fuel pellets delivered into that space in the driveway. That'll get me thru winter.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

247 Not even 2am yet
Posted by: Skip

Bring Auntie Miklos...the whole bottle. It's next to the fresh blueberry wine muffins

Posted by: Increasingly less Strict Aunt Miklos at September 08, 2026 02:38 AM (4RYRd)

248 And a one, and a two, and a
Posted by: m

And now is the time on ONT when ve dance

Posted by: Lawrence Welk meets Dieter from Sprockets at September 08, 2026 02:41 AM (4RYRd)

249 Also remember Cahn is selling his book(s).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

"Selling your own book" is a well known term in investment circles

Posted by: Miklos von Rothschild at September 08, 2026 02:42 AM (4RYRd)

250
Ol' Randall Carlson can comically get bogged down in some minutiae and drag things on and on with some of his videos.

He'll get sidetracked by some simple calculation he wants to make, get all screwed up, and go on and on.

One funny one is he and some others were discussing that Nepal flood, and some sends him the exact coordinates of the glacier collapse to put in his map program. So he starts trying to type it manually from the screen email or chat message into the box in the map program.

And gets the digits all messed up.... Randall, just copy and paste! Yeah, I could do that.... So 5 minutes of Randall fumbling with coordinates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 02:42 AM (w6EFb)

251 You're all acquainted with the term "birthing people."

Now, it's time for a new term for a certain class of criminals:

https://tinyurl.com/yfwtvtzk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2026 02:43 AM (QNSrI)

252 Yeah, U-toob sux. Neighbor kids came over to visit my nephew (a while back...) and wanted to watch U-toob teevee on my Roku setup.

*double-take* it wanted over $80/month for subscription! WTF? Surely I read it rong!
Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

YouTube TV is a live streaming service that has all the normal cable channels on it. It’s basically like cable/satellite over internet. Hulu and a few other services do something similar.

That’s why it’s $80, and that’s just basic, add-on channels will run you north of $120 for everything.
I looked into getting it to replace Dish satellite but didn’t do it.

YT also has YouTube Premium for $14.99/month (last time I checked) for YouTube without ads.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 02:45 AM (6ydKt)

253
Just imagine if Columbo had a Youtube channel. It would take him 3 hours to get to whatever point he was trying to make.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 02:45 AM (w6EFb)

254 Fauci! That guy stills owes me money!
Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable

Foorish loundeye

Posted by: Offshore Miklosian Research Fund Services (Macao) at September 08, 2026 02:45 AM (4RYRd)

255 I'm with ya, Bers-- I hate summer & winter just about equally, too.

Consider moving, but where would I go? Not that I can afford it anyway, so there's not even a dream of *elsewhere* for me.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

Tough question. I wouldn't know where to move either. I hate extreme heat, and I hate extreme cold. I like having 4 seasons actually. When things are normal around here we get a couple weeks of stupid hot, and a few weeks of stupid cold. I can deal with that. It makes the exceptions easier to deal with when things are usually normal and bearable. One year we had 19 snow storms, and we also had a few years of nothing, not a flake. Last year we had one storm, and maybe one the year before. We had a January that was 60 degrees for over half the month, and january where it probably didn't go over 10 degrees.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 02:45 AM (S41Gd)

256 Just imagine if Columbo had a Youtube channel. It would take him 3 hours to get to whatever point he was trying to make.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

A typical cooking Yootoob takes three hours to make grits

They explain it all step by step though

Posted by: Instant Stone Ground Yellow Miklos at September 08, 2026 02:49 AM (4RYRd)

257 224
Here's a video Cahn did about this incident on his Youtube channel:

https://t.ly/6tBP3

He gets into the Altar of Pergamon stuff in there as well.
Posted by: publius



I'm not sure about Cahn but I'm glad he's ok and I'm glad he got to tell the guy next to him the message of the Gospel. Ok, the dude took that message about as well as that demonic possessed guy that Jesus saw near the Sea of Galilee. The one where the demons went into the pigs. Sounds like Cahn disengaged and the dude went bonkers anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 02:55 AM (sAmhv)

258 229:Does she tawk funny?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,



If she has any accent at all, it's a Yinzer one.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2026 02:57 AM (sAmhv)

259 Most of the places with the most pleasant weather are filled with the most awful people.

So embrace the fickle unkindness of the elements, I guess. It keeps the riff raff away.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2026 02:57 AM (Ot/FD)

260 >>YouTube TV is a live streaming service that has all the normal cable channels on it. It’s basically like cable/satellite over internet. Hulu and a few other services do something similar.

That’s why it’s $80, and that’s just basic, add-on channels will run you north of $120 for everything.
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Oh. That makes sense. It wasn't clear on their sign-up page, however. Still... too rich for my blood! I get plenty of freebies with current Roku apps.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

261 Now, it's time for a new term for a certain class of criminals:

https://tinyurl.com/yfwtvtzk
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs

Yeah, pull the other one

Posted by: Unamused Miklos at September 08, 2026 02:58 AM (4RYRd)

262 245
Also remember Cahn is selling his book(s).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 08, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)

I am constantly amazed at people who have solved every mystery in the world and connected everything to everything else, and still can't see Jesus in front of their faces.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 02:59 AM (H9BGx)

263 Most of the places with the most pleasant weather are filled with the most awful people.

So embrace the fickle unkindness of the elements, I guess. It keeps the riff raff away.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Correct. Once I've finished whining and feeling sorry for myself, I remember this fact!

LOL

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

264 I went to the Vargas Bros. Circus at old Westgate Park in San Diego (The home of the Pacific Coast League Padres) around 1965 and saw an elephant defacate. The poops were the size of basketballs.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 08, 2026 03:00 AM (36x1j)

265 The poops were the size of basketballs.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 08, 2026 03:00 AM (36x1j)

Apparently that made an impression on you.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 08, 2026 03:02 AM (H9BGx)

266 If I win the lottery (yeah, yeah, bear with me)

I will move further North. Why? Because with loads of $, I won't need to worry about home repairs or other crap... and the riff-raff won't be around, trying to pitch a tent in my yard because TOO COLD!

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:03 AM (rdVOm)

267 So

What to do with all these unconsumed Labor Day Specials?

Those look like little umbrellas, they are actually small chinese coolie hats

Posted by: Stakhanovite bartender Miklosov at September 08, 2026 03:03 AM (4RYRd)

268 Oh. That makes sense. It wasn't clear on their sign-up page, however. Still... too rich for my blood! I get plenty of freebies with current Roku apps.
Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

YouTube TV is a separate system from regular YouTube, it may have a second app on the Roku store that confused you. But if you have cable the kids would have the same experience, just different channel numbers for Cartoon Network or whatever they wanted to watch.

Regular YouTube is free on every platform through the web browser or a dedicated app. It just has lots of ads to pay for it (unless you pay for Premium).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 03:03 AM (6ydKt)

269 "It's called 'Poops like Brown Basketballs'. It's the spiritual successor of 'Hills Like White Elephants'. There's still a bunch of drinking and hunting and racism. But now there's big poops, too. The poops symbolize... uh... I don't know, being gay or something, whatever...."

"Are you drunk again, Ernest?"

"Define 'Again'."

Posted by: Overheard through the editor's office door... at September 08, 2026 03:04 AM (Ot/FD)

270 Most of the places with the most pleasant weather are filled with the most awful people.

So embrace the fickle unkindness of the elements, I guess. It keeps the riff raff away.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

South Carolina is a unique sinkhole of heat, humidity, and giant flying cockroaches.

NOT RECOMMENDED

Posted by: Fodor's on $50 a Day at September 08, 2026 03:07 AM (4RYRd)

271 Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 03:03 AM

Thanks.

Nah, only have "the kids" occasionally, when nephew visits for a week or so once a year.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:08 AM (rdVOm)

272 Until one can get adblock for Roku... will simply do my U-toob watching on the desktop. U-toob is otherwise *unwatchable* imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

273 269 "Are you drunk again, Ernest?"
Posted by: Overheard through the editor's office door... at September 08, 2026 03:04 AM (Ot/FD)

Hemingway?

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 03:17 AM (odBC9)

274 "Are you drunk again, Ernest?"


*Ernest T. Bass throws a rock at Otis thought the jail cell bars.*

Otis picks it up, opens the cell door, politely returns the rock to Ernest T, and returns to cell closing the door behind him.

Ernest T. Bass learns a lesson

Posted by: THAT is the America Miklos grew up in at September 08, 2026 03:24 AM (4RYRd)

275 202 >> and "City on the Edge of Forever."

Edith Keeler must die.

One of the stations ran a TOS marathon today, and I watched that one. This is the one where Kirk and Edith walk right in front of Floyd's Barber Shop on the Mayberry set.
Posted by: Lt. Bepi Colombo at September 08, 2026 12:43 AM (w6EFb)


She shows up in LordRicco666's fanvid for William Shatner's version of "Common People" (a Pulp cover), albeit the scene where she and Kirk are standing in front of the Groceries window, looking up at the sky:

https://youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs

That whole video is like an Easter egg hunt, where the furniture and bushes are also made of Easter eggs.

Posted by: SciVo at September 08, 2026 03:27 AM (ke3zm)

276 Could you say that again one more time, but in more detail?

Posted by: Miklos showed up late, needs a distraction
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I could but my pizza would be cold before I finished.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:28 AM (EYrlY)

277 I could but my pizza would be cold before I finished.

Posted by: Braenyard

You got more coming

Posted by: Prank pizza ordering teenage Miklos at September 08, 2026 03:30 AM (4RYRd)

278 and giant flying cockroaches.
---


They aren't cockroaches they are waterbugs.
They just want a sip.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:31 AM (EYrlY)

279 277 I could but my pizza would be cold before I finished.

Posted by: Braenyard

You got more coming
Posted by: Prank pizza ordering teenage Miklos at September 08, 2026 03:30 AM (4RYRd)

You guys just triggered a long dormant trauma of the days when I'd order a pizza before checking to see if I had cash on me and then panicking until I could find my wallet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2026 03:32 AM (Ot/FD)

280 278 and giant flying cockroaches.
---
They aren't cockroaches they are waterbugs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:31 AM (EYrlY)

Close enough!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 03:34 AM (odBC9)

281 then panicking until I could find my wallet.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Or somebody else's

Posted by: it's OK we're roommates at September 08, 2026 03:34 AM (4RYRd)

282 >>> and the riff-raff won't be around, trying to pitch a tent in my yard because TOO COLD!

Posted by: JQ
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Dark Liqidatormyxlplyx has the same idea. He lives at the top of the hill. Says riff raff to lazy to climb the hill. - as long as there's food and dope down there probably so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:36 AM (EYrlY)

283 giant flying cockroaches.
---
They aren't cockroaches they are waterbugs.
---------

Oh, God! I don't care what you call those giant flying cockroaches-- they're just creepy as hell.

Saw one in my bathroom (while in Florida) and *screamed* It was so freaking huge, and startled me!

Didn't help that I'd never ever even seen a roach before moving to FL, and there were plenty of *those* in that crappy apartment, and then... UGH!!!

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

284 SC does have some big bugs.

"Palmetto Bugs" are basically huge (1 to 2 inches long) cockroaches that will occasionally fly if you get too close (trying to hit them with a shoe, usually).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 03:41 AM (6ydKt)

285 I currently (heh) live on a river.

So I guess a moat is technically possible

Posted by: Miklos sees this as a training exercise for the initial Dignity Canal Comrades at September 08, 2026 03:41 AM (4RYRd)

286 Had cable while taking care of mom. For me it was Stewart Varney and Charles Payne.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:44 AM (EYrlY)

287 I could but my pizza would be cold before I finished.

Posted by: Braenyard

You got more coming
Posted by: Prank pizza ordering teenage Miklos at September 08, 2026 03:30 AM (4RYRd)

You guys just triggered a long dormant trauma of the days when I'd order a pizza before checking to see if I had cash on me and then panicking until I could find my wallet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2026 03:32 AM (Ot/FD)
Mrs B brought home the pizza from hell. She was at the beach today and there is a pizza place there with gigantic size pizza. She brought home a whole pie. I did a 150 mile ride today, stopped at a few places, ate a cheeseburger called the hangover. It had bacon, cheese, taylor ham (porkroll), and a fried egg on it, and came with a shitload of fries. On the way home I stopped at this one wawa gas station which seems to be were all the bikes seem to stop to gas up as they leave the pine barrens and shore area. Got a coffee, some goodies to go with it. Then I came home an hour or so later, killed 2 huge slices of the barbarian size pizza, sat in the recliner and passed out until a few hours ago. The pizza did me in. Now I'm wide awake.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 03:44 AM (S41Gd)

288 Let us remember: in the urgent times of World War 2 training accidents, in aitcraft of all types, killed over 15,000 airmen.

In training.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 08, 2026 03:46 AM (llBIB)

289 I live on a creek. At first it was cool and mostly private.
But come bad times, people will travel the creeks and rivers.
Unknown people, people looking for something.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:46 AM (EYrlY)

290 Braenyard-- yes, the riff-raff are lazy as hell. Whatever they can get, as easily as possible, is how they roll. Fk 'em.

I don't *give* to panhandlers. I don't *donate* to programs that make it easy for druggies/slackers to get by.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

291 people looking for something.

Posted by: Braenyard

And you had to bring the Eurythmics into a serous discussion

Posted by: Miklos travelled the world and five of the seven seas at September 08, 2026 03:50 AM (4RYRd)

292 I live on a creek. At first it was cool and mostly private.
But come bad times, people will travel the creeks and rivers.
Unknown people, people looking for something.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 03:46 AM (EYrlY)

My last house had a lake behind it. People would fish there. Then a fad started where people would camp there so they could wake up at the crack of dawn and start fishing. I got worried that eventually the camping would extend beyond fishing, but it didn't. Not when I got out of there anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 08, 2026 03:51 AM (S41Gd)

293 Short week,I think I can handle that

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 03:53 AM (Ia/+0)

294 But I'm grateful for those 'restricted entry' programs for those who are willing to make an effort to better their own lives. Union Gospel Mission comes to mind... where I sent BIL... they have the resources and personnel to actually help people to help themselves. (BIL had more problems than I could possibly help him deal with.)

They wouldn't even take him in, until after he had passed breathalyzer and urine tests.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:54 AM (rdVOm)

295 I don't *give* to panhandlers. I don't *donate* to programs that make it easy for druggies/slackers to get by.
Posted by: JQ

I could tell in great detail how begging is an organized racket. I know about Budapest and Rome specifically, but same same wherever.

Posted by: Miklos knows things that affect his natural Optimism at September 08, 2026 03:55 AM (4RYRd)

296 I'd like to have a huge, foldable, dripping with grease from the pepperoni and cheese, NY style slice.

But then my brain starts screaming "HEARTBURN" in my ears and I think better of it.

Besides, not many NY style pizza places in this neck of the woods. There are some, but nowhere near as many as a chain brand pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 03:58 AM (6ydKt)

297 Understood, Miklos... There was one local "panhandler" here for a few years. Dude made bank! And lived in a huge motorhome! Would see him at the wallyworld parking lot entrance often.

Local paper did an exposé and the jerk moved on... Yeah, tax-evader.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

298 There are two pizza chains in this town, bad and not as bad.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:03 AM (EYrlY)

299 There's one a few miles away, appropriately named, "Vinny's Pizza", the owner moved here from NYC about 15 years ago.

He makes an excellent pie, and has a large Italian style menu, but it ain't cheap, at all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (6ydKt)

300 >>I'd like to have a huge, foldable, dripping with grease from the pepperoni and cheese, NY style slice.

But then my brain starts screaming "HEARTBURN" in my ears and I think better of it.
---------

*Any* food after 9 p.m. is no-no for me. Hiatal hernia. Sucks.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)

301 Enjoyed being here, finally got out of the funk. Thanks.
See y'all tomorrow. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (EYrlY)

302 25 years after 9-11 counter attack CBS news shows taliban patroling kabul (soon to be Bin Ladin city) in american armored vehicles wearing u.s. tactical gear. 50 years ago Viet Cong patrolling saigon now Ho Chi Ming City in captured american vehicles and flying captured f-5! Yet the morons here talk about dump winning Iran war that the draft dogger claims he already won. Murdock's owned rag wsj says dump is winning or they will be fired like the journalists at stars and stripes. 2 months till america takes the country back from trumpsters and makes sure they will never be a problem again.

Posted by: raimondo at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (bUNj2)

303 300

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (odBC9)

304 As a Wise man said-

"Get out, before Pixy gets In"

Posted by: Miklos notes tha minx is under threat of upgrade at September 08, 2026 04:06 AM (4RYRd)

305 285 I currently (heh) live on a river.

So I guess a moat is technically possible
Posted by: Miklos sees this as a training exercise for the initial Dignity Canal Comrades at September 08, 2026 03:41 AM (4RYRd)

Water you doing on a river

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:06 AM (odBC9)

306 Water you doing on a river
Posted by: m

Rolling

As one does

Posted by: Miklos in best Tina Turner voice at September 08, 2026 04:08 AM (4RYRd)

307 300 *Any* food after 9 p.m. is no-no for me. Hiatal hernia. Sucks.
Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)

Oh. That's tough, JQ.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:11 AM (odBC9)

308 Apparently the trolls are all Union

Got Labor day off

Posted by: Miklos is hip with the Youth of Today! and also knosw actual working peoples at September 08, 2026 04:13 AM (4RYRd)

309 *Any* food after 9 p.m. is no-no for me. Hiatal hernia. Sucks.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)

Supposedly it's bad for you to eat late.
I used to be a severe midnight snacker but since I go to sleep so early now my midnight snacks come around 7 p.m.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 08, 2026 04:13 AM (6ydKt)

310 By the way, the Waffle House does not close for Labor Day.

BUT

Staff get time-and-a-half

Not a Union thing, a Waffle House thing

Posted by: Miklos is is plesed to inform until the end of shift at 6 when hell is likely to immanantize at September 08, 2026 04:17 AM (4RYRd)

311 As long as my last meal or snack is 3-4 hours before bedtime, I'm good. Antacids only do so much, and I must take omeprazole each morning (or will suffer after breakfast & lunch)

It's manageable. So far...

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:18 AM (rdVOm)

312 310 By the way, the Waffle House does not close for Labor Day.

BUT

Staff get time-and-a-half

Not a Union thing, a Waffle House thing
Posted by: Miklos is is plesed to inform until the end of shift at 6 when hell is likely to immanantize at September 08, 2026 04:17 AM (4RYRd)

Waffle House is Good.

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:20 AM (odBC9)

313 It's not good to lie down immediately after eating, for anyone. Gets the stomach acids churning, and then gives an easy path up the esophagus... no bueno.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:22 AM (rdVOm)

314 I try to eat nothing 2 hours before bedtime

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2026 04:25 AM (Ia/+0)

315 Good plan, Skip!

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:26 AM (rdVOm)

316 It's not good to lie down immediately after eating, for anyone. Gets the stomach acids churning, and then gives an easy path up the esophagus... no bueno.
Posted by: JQ

fukk

And I was so ready to get all horizontal

Posted by: Miklos now realized the remainder of the Key Lime Pie is a Legitimate Target at September 08, 2026 04:27 AM (4RYRd)

317 Posted by: Miklos notes tha minx is under threat of upgrade at September 08, 2026 04:06 AM (4RYRd)

#twoweeks

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:27 AM (odBC9)

318 I try to eat nothing 2 hours before bedtime
Posted by: Skip

FACT CHECK

Skip does not sleep

Posted by: quick AI from Groklos at September 08, 2026 04:28 AM (4RYRd)

319 318 I try to eat nothing 2 hours before bedtime
Posted by: Skip

FACT CHECK

Skip does not sleep
Posted by: quick AI from Groklos at September 08, 2026 04:28 AM (4RYRd)

He does, tho.
Or: he says he does....

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

320 And I was so ready to get all horizontal
Posted by: Miklos
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Once in a while probably won't cause problems. Just don't do it all the time.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

321 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

322 The reflux happens when you eat too much, too late. Earlier is better, less is better. Portioning is killing civilization.

I can't stuff a loaf a bread in my mouth when I order a sandwich.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 08, 2026 04:31 AM (eP2ub)

323 Once in a while probably won't cause problems. Just don't do it all the time.
Posted by: JQ

I do have a special Indicator Device that informs and regulates my behavior sometimes.

Posted by: Dixie, on night guard duty, but why at September 08, 2026 04:32 AM (4RYRd)

324 I can't stuff a loaf a bread in my mouth when I order a sandwich.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Wish the sandwich shops realized this! Mostly bread now, because fillings are "too expensive"-- fkers.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:36 AM (rdVOm)

325 Night, all.

Everyone else is on tech thread now.

Posted by: JQ at September 08, 2026 04:38 AM (rdVOm)

326 Tucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.

Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."

They discuss how they've never met anyone in their life who uses algebra, which is "fake math" for people "in the matrix."

They conclude that caring about algebra is something that only "good little goy slaves" do.

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 06:03 AM (O7XEN)

327 BUT

Staff get time-and-a-half

Not a Union thing, a Waffle House thing
Posted by: Miklos is is plesed to inform until the end of shift at 6 when hell is likely to immanantize at September 08, 2026 04:17 AM (4RYRd)

Waffle House is Good.
Posted by: m at September 08, 2026 04:20 AM (odBC9)

Don’t you dare get caught sharing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 08, 2026 07:16 AM (PI7fX)

328 Wired:

Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan.

To Boldly Dough! Le Creuset Sent Its New Star Trek Cooking Collection Into Space

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:18 AM (GIf+b)

329 CNBC:

Iran foreign ministry takes aim at Canada for support of U.S. actions in Strait of Hormuz

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:21 AM (GIf+b)

330 The Kremlin signaled that trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States were on the table following U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s visit to Moscow and Kyiv.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the three-way format was possible but gave no timeline for the potential talks.

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:28 AM (GIf+b)

Labor Day Cafe

praguegoldenhourMiroMarsik.jpg
Prague
Miro Marsik

Mama otter comforts a crying pup. (Sea otters, of course.)

Biological alarm.

Inappropriate use of Holiday Road, classics edition.

An oldie but a goodie: Goth nightclub.

The world's oldest hotel is in Japan, continuously operating since 705 AD and run by the same family for 52 generations. Fun fact: The floors and walls are now made entirely of dried spunk.

Porcupine enjoys a snack.

Ultimate cat stand.

Saving a dog in a very high flood. The dog is smart enough to understand what he's being told to do.

Why he no play ball?


Any Speed Racer fans? Of course there are.

You know the Mach 5's auto-jacks or jump-jacks? The jacks that could make the car jump over obstacles (with a choing-choing-choing sound effect)?

Could this now be real? Or is this more AI slop?


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM




Comments

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 07:11 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Moby's best line-up. Queequeg on bass was tight.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 07, 2026 07:16 PM (eP2ub)

3 At 5500 lbs. that BYD might be able to jump once or twice like that, but knowing Chinese engineering I’d suspect it will break the suspension and axles by jump five.

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

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 07, 2026 07:16 PM (hG5L0)

5 I think Prague is one of the few central European cities that escaped destruction in WW2, so most of its pre-war architecture remains intact and is wonderful to see.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 07, 2026 07:16 PM (y171U)

6 Mama otter comforts a crying pup. (Sea otters, of course.)

Thanks for clarifying. Otter is some kind of gay term like bear that I do not understand nor do I want to.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 07:17 PM (2Drhq)

7 The static stars clip is cool. I wonder what sort of contraption they used to house the camera.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

8 Ultimate cat stand.

I feel like only black cats should use such a goth-looking stand.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 07:18 PM (2Drhq)

9 And if you believe
Click your heels
three times

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 07:18 PM (EYrlY)

10 Prague

No 20-minute epics replete with Moog solos. Not Prague.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 07:20 PM (2Drhq)

11 Corvo is all nice and beautiful until that volcano roars back to life one night and you wake up floating in the ocean a hundred miles away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

12 I'd call bullshit on the chinese supercar. It seems like a cumbersome and would have to be weighty system to include in a supercar when weight and space is usually an issue.

Also... anyone notice this is like the lift jumping kits hispanic guys put in their cars? Kind of funny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 07:21 PM (Y/06r)

13 I believe that's called a Nantucket Sleighride so
Holiday Road is not THAT inappropriate.

Posted by: a demon at September 07, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)

14 BYD Yangwang U9: the Chinese supercar leaps over road hazards.


From the comments:

Yeah, but does it have Fart Mode"?...😂

Elon's "fart in the car" Tesla mode is genius.

If you cut an air biscuit, press a button and a fart sound comes out of the passenger seat.

The passenger starts getting all defensive and “Voila”, you're off the hook.

https://x.com/E_Rodney_/status/
2095578470642512223?s=20

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 07, 2026 07:23 PM (Pny+9)

15
Corvo, a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, Portugal.

--------

There used to be an island there. Now there's a crater.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 07:23 PM (HLgI3)

16 oops off dem sock.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)

17 7 The static stars clip is cool. I wonder what sort of contraption they used to house the camera.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

They make camera mounts for tripods that will slowly rotate the camera 360 degrees for panorama shots. Looks like this guy set one at an angle.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 07:24 PM (6ydKt)

18 Are they going to build BYD cars in Canada?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 07:26 PM (Cqx++)

19 Could this now be real? Or is this more AI slop?
===

If it's from the CCP, you know the answer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 07:27 PM (RIvkX)

20 Better, you are spinning with the Earth beneath you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:28 PM (X5qGl)

21 The car might jump and your spine might collapse.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

22 BYD Yangwang U9

Yangwang Sweet Poontang

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 07:28 PM (2Drhq)

23 Santorini is still an island even though the eruption 🌋 of its volcano helped end the Bronze Age.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:30 PM (X5qGl)

24 Commenters at the dog rescure site say it's AI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 07:30 PM (Cqx++)

25 3 At 5500 lbs. that BYD might be able to jump once or twice like that, but knowing Chinese engineering I’d suspect it will break the suspension and axles by jump five.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 07:16 PM (6ydKt)
Autonomous car will drive you in a pond and drown your ass.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 07:31 PM (LHPAg)

26 The "Speed Racer was a Sociopath" memes are hilarious:

https://tinyurl.com/42uttph9

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 07:32 PM (2Drhq)

27 The byd thing is a simple lie.

Yes, the car can jump, or hop. I guess any car with hydraulic suspension can do that. The problem is it can only hop a couple inches. To "hop over something" you have to be going very very fast.

And you have to detect it from a distance. So no one is jumping over nail strips or a body in the road.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 07:32 PM (tOY9K)

28 Corvo, a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, Portugal.

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There used to be an island there. Now there's a crater.


Aka a caldera.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 07:33 PM (Riz8t)

29 Equatorial mount, like they use to keep a telescope fixed on a star.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:33 PM (X5qGl)

30 23 Santorini is still an island even though the eruption 🌋 of its volcano helped end the Bronze Age.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:30 PM (X5qGl)
The community hid away in the volcano will be the first to witness the next eruption so there's that.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 07:34 PM (LHPAg)

31 It worked in “Speed Racer”!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:34 PM (X5qGl)

32 I know that wonderful photo of Prague is likely showcasing the rising sun with the morning mist. But, if you make it just a tad more yellow, you have the everyday air quality of Beijing.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 07:35 PM (dIske)

33 Cute baby elephant pictures, always appreciated.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 07:35 PM (noln+)

34 Jack be nimble, Jack be quick (Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh)
Take a ride on the West Coast kick (Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh)

Holiday road
Holiday road
Holiday road
Holiday road

If you do not play this song when you leave the house on VACA you are missing out.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 07:38 PM (/+uur)

35 Why did The Station nightclub in Rhode Island have to burn and not that creepy Goth Bat Club. Life isn't fair.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at September 07, 2026 07:40 PM (Fn+3X)

36 I shot an elephant in my babys pajamas
I only wounded him and he swapped out to a Garanimals outfit and was headed to the PreK playground.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 07:40 PM (/+uur)

37 Afternoon, all. It's been a busy weekend, but productive both in terms of needed household work and hobby work. I'm (sadly) quite a few years from retirement, but I could easily keep myself occupied if I didn't have employment taking up a nominal 40 hours per week.

Posted by: PabloD at September 07, 2026 07:42 PM (zIBZT)

38 First there is a crater, then there is no crater, then there is...

Posted by: Reject Donovan Lyrics at September 07, 2026 07:43 PM (Fn+3X)

39 Why did The Station nightclub in Rhode Island have to burn and not that creepy Goth Bat Club. Life isn't fair.
Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3

Preaching to the choir.

Posted by: Great White at September 07, 2026 07:43 PM (m4aQ8)

40 So Speed Racer is a sociopath because he won’t throw a race to let somebody else win? Say it ain’t so, Joe! If this other guy is so great, and needs the money to pay for his sister’s medical treatment, Speed Racer can just give him his legitimate winnings as a donation. Trixie calling for him to throw the race is the one in the wrong.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:43 PM (X5qGl)

41 Good pic of Prague. Looks like it should be in another planet.

Posted by: 88C+u supposed that 1946-89, it was at September 07, 2026 07:46 PM (88C+u)

42 If you do not play this song when you leave the house on VACA you are missing out.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Lindsey Buckingham's solo career gets slept on. "Trouble" and "Go Insane" were also great

Posted by: 88C+u at September 07, 2026 07:47 PM (88C+u)

43 Trixie calling for him to throw the race is the one in the wrong.

Core Toddler Ethics in play: "Share"

Of course the woman hates that a man is competitive in her presence. But he damned well better be competitive outside her presence because she won't give any man without earned status the time of day. And status requires being competitive.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 07:48 PM (PVBkQ)

44 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:43 PM (X5qGl)

He did let a dude die in a thermal mushroom cloud every opening intro.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 07:48 PM (2Drhq)

45 Nonsense. The universe revolves around me.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 07:49 PM (MWfyi)

46 wtf.

Speed was right. Compete to win.

Otherwise it’s rigged bullshit. I hate this world that winning is now evil.

If you’re not first, you’re last.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 07:49 PM (Mrl86)

47 Watched to a sad Critical Drinker Crash and Burn on Ellen/Elliot Page. After watching I have to ask "What did she/he think was going to happen to her career after transitioning?".

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 07:49 PM (lJ0H4)

48 It's a lot of pressure but I can take it.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 07:49 PM (MWfyi)

49 For The Emperor!

Posted by: Accomack at September 07, 2026 07:53 PM (EJ7WG)

50 I know I should not hug the baby porcupine, but I would really like to hug the baby porcupine.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 07:53 PM (PMi3m)

51 There is a mural uncovered on Santorini by archeologists showing the inner circular harbor filled with Bronze Age ships. Santorini, or Thera in those days, may have been the source for Plato’s legend of Atlantis with its circular waterways.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:56 PM (X5qGl)

52 If you’re not first, you’re last.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 07:49 PM (Mrl86)

I thought second place was the first loser!

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 07, 2026 07:57 PM (NVyR5)

53 I could have been first but there was a monkey in my trunk.

Posted by: S. Racer at September 07, 2026 07:59 PM (MWfyi)

54 Death hangs over Santorini like a cloud. Only place I’ve ever been that felt cursed. Creepy sensation. The wine was decent though.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 07, 2026 08:00 PM (NVyR5)

55 Get Trixie to help with that monkey in your trunk, Speed!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:00 PM (X5qGl)

56 That volcano would be a prime location for Trump to develop a golf course.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 07, 2026 08:01 PM (eP2ub)

57 Daryl Hall made a comment to Kenny Loggins when Loggins was on his show that his compositions /arrangements were kind of complicated/difficult. Loggins seem to take offense to that. Seemed kinda of a dick.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:02 PM (KC5Lt)

58 Hope everyone had a good holiday and have a good night

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 08:05 PM (Ia/+0)

59 5500 lbs. that BYD might be able to jump once or twice like that"

And at 100 to 120 Kph?

60 mph? Suuure

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 08:06 PM (XuXeR)

60
Watched to a sad Critical Drinker Crash and Burn on Ellen/Elliot Page. After watching I have to ask "What did she/he think was going to happen to her career after transitioning?".
Posted by: Tuna

===============

There aren't many roles like the one Linda Hunt got in The Year of Living Dangerously.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 07, 2026 08:07 PM (XJ22o)

61 Jesse Waters - El-Sayed interview now.

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

62 Remember that guy who tried to jump a car into Canada?

Posted by: S. Racer at September 07, 2026 08:09 PM (MWfyi)

63 Didn't work.

Posted by: S. Racer at September 07, 2026 08:10 PM (MWfyi)

64 Prague has a laundromat that's one of the best in Europe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:10 PM (wpRMV)

65 Did anyone else watch Speed Racer? I still remember my dad would always poke his head in my room when he got home from work where I was watching the cartoon on the old black & white TV and say something like "he's not gonna make it, they got him this time".

Also is Elon's lair in that volcano? If not, I suggest he build it there.

Posted by: Iris at September 07, 2026 08:10 PM (286+n)

66 Daryl Hall's solo album Sacred Songs (produced by Robert Fripp) is one of my all-time favorites.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:11 PM (2Drhq)

67 23 Santorini is still an island even though the eruption 🌋 of its volcano helped end the Bronze Age.

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To be fair, the Bronze Age had overstayed its welcome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:11 PM (wpRMV)

68 People who vote for people who despise the USA aren't my fellow countrymen and I feel no obligation or empathy to them as citizens.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:11 PM (KC5Lt)

69 Can you give a street address for that laundromat in Prague? For the next time I visit there.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:12 PM (Jc4hv)

70 Tin was always the problem with bronze.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:13 PM (Jc4hv)

71 McAllen, Texas — the military first used a high-energy laser weapon system to down suspicious drones, military officials told CBS News there has been a roughly 75% decrease in the number of drones probing the southern border in the Rio Grande Valley.

-- 11 by laser in two weeks

The laser is a version of a system, LOCUST produced by the company AeroVironment.
... individual unit cost ~ $17.4 to $25 million, -but- Each shot only costs around $3,
...cartels use drones,... so they know which areas to avoid when smuggling ..
...cartels are also using armed drones inside Mexico to attack rival groups...
-- we could take advantage of that tech

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:13 PM (EYrlY)

72 "Did anyone else watch Speed Racer?"

I did. Even though it and that animation style make me slightly nauseous. Also, the bad guy on Underdog made me feel somewhat distressed.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 08:14 PM (MWfyi)

73 68 People who vote for people who despise the USA aren't my fellow countrymen and I feel no obligation or empathy to them as citizens.

Posted by: polynikes
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The C-17s await.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:14 PM (EYrlY)

74 69 Can you give a street address for that laundromat in Prague? For the next time I visit there.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:12 PM (Jc4hv)

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Wenceslas Square, behind the National Museum, the Main Street on the left. One block down.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:15 PM (wpRMV)

75 Daryl Hall's solo album Sacred Songs (produced by Robert Fripp) is one of my all-time favorites.
Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:11 PM (2Drhq

It was Loggins who seemed like a dick.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:15 PM (KC5Lt)

76 70 Tin was always the problem with bronze.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:13 PM (Jc4hv)

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Tin? Pfft.

Posted by: Arsenical Bronze at September 07, 2026 08:16 PM (wpRMV)

77 At 5500 lbs. that BYD might be able to jump once or twice like that, but knowing Chinese engineering I’d suspect it will break the suspension and axles by jump five.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 07:16 PM (6ydKt)


If they just would use better alloys than chinesium, the things they make might not break so easily.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:18 PM (Jc4hv)

78 "I'll get you, Underdog!" Man that guy was creepy. Reminds me of Janet Yellen.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 08:19 PM (MWfyi)

79 Killing your smiths with arsenic is not a good way to advance metallurgy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:21 PM (Jc4hv)

80 RethugliKKKan atacks ohio democrat candidate Amy Action. The midterm elctions are heating up!

Posted by: raimondo at September 07, 2026 08:21 PM (D6vIN)

81 Is this true?

That Reddington is in trouble with the MA bar association on charges of misusing client, not Lindsay in filings, money??

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:21 PM (2GVsD)

82 Fuck the chinese, if I want to see jumping cars I'll go to East LA.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 07, 2026 08:22 PM (eP2ub)

83 70 Tin was always the problem with bronze.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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See that vid on casting Babbit bearings? Tin was the main mineral, then copper and some antimony. Think it was antimony.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:22 PM (EYrlY)

84 Just watched Ad Astra and Bad Times at the Royale again. I like free streaming.

Both good but totally different.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:22 PM (KC5Lt)

85 83 Think it was antimony

I thought antimony was a synonym for divorce.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:24 PM (PMi3m)

86 If you use Liberals in your castings, you will get plenty of acrimony.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:24 PM (2GVsD)

87 ...cartels use drones,... so they know which areas to avoid when smuggling ..
...cartels are also using armed drones inside Mexico to attack rival groups...
-- we could take advantage of that tech

Posted by: Braenyard

Sheeeeeet. I'd bet some deeply buried USAID $$$$ funded that technology. On contract from the cartels.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 08:26 PM (WXg6e)

88 "if I want to see jumping cars I'll go to East LA.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone "

Did you see the Porsche crash at Laguna Seca on Saturday? Talk about a holy shit moment. He lost the brakes at the corkscrew and it took off like the Mach 5 over the track and into the woods. The driver survived but I bet he's hurting.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)

89 84 Just watched Ad Astra and Bad Times at the Royale again. I like free streaming.

Both good but totally different.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:22 PM (KC5Lt)

I liked Cynthia Erivo in Bad Times at the El Royale. Something happeded to her between that and Wicked.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:27 PM (PMi3m)

90 Prague has a laundromat that's one of the best in Europe.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:10 PM (wpRMV)
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Noted.

I went to a nice one in Brussels. Electrolux. The load I did there for 8 Euros would have cost upwards of 250 Euros if the hotel did it.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 08:27 PM (ek8iC)

91 "I'll get you, Underdog!" Man that guy was creepy. Reminds me of Janet Yellen.
Posted by: fd

Yellen always reminded me of Crabby Appleton.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 08:27 PM (WXg6e)

92 liked Cynthia Erivo in Bad Times at the El Royale. Something happeded to her between that and Wicked.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:27 PM (PMi3m)

Crap that's her ? !

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:28 PM (KC5Lt)

93 Just watched Ad Astra and Bad Times at the Royale again. I like free streaming.
Posted by: polynikes

Today I watched Plan 9 from Outer Space, then Ed Wood. Hey, it's my day off.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 07, 2026 08:29 PM (l26NL)

94 I alos watched Ultraman. That and Speed Racer both seemed "off" to me as a little kid as I didn't understand they were Japanese productions dubbed into English.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:29 PM (2Drhq)

95 "Yellen always reminded me of Crabby Appleton.
Posted by: Tonypete "

Her voice reminds me of Lionel Barrymore.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 08:30 PM (MWfyi)

96 I went to a nice one in Brussels. Electrolux. The load I did there for 8 Euros would have cost upwards of 250 Euros if the hotel did it.
Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 08:27 PM (ek8iC)
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Also, don't overlook the opportunities that doing your own laundry gives you to interact with the local Belgii, or whatever the hell they are.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:31 PM (wpRMV)

97 92 Crap that's her ? !
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:28 PM (KC5Lt)

Yep. She also did a passable job in a Harriet Tubman biopic a year kt two later also, though I thought the theatrucal release was closer to TV movie of the weem quality.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:31 PM (PMi3m)

98 Getting tin for bronze was the limiting factor in making bronze. Arsenic has its own problems. But you needed international trade to sustain the amounts of tin you needed for bronze and that’s why the Bronze Age fell. Bronze is actually stronger than steel, often enough. It’s just that iron can be made into steel anywhere you have the ore, if you have man-power to drive a blast furnace. It does not depend on tin deposits in far away lands.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:32 PM (Jc4hv)

99 Also, don't overlook the opportunities that doing your own laundry gives you to interact with the local Belgii, or whatever the hell they are.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:31 PM (wpRMV)
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Didn't get the chance. There were two American guys, one young lady, and eventually a cute young couple with a baby. Who were Asian, but maybe Belgii too for all I know.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 08:33 PM (ek8iC)

100 I thought antimony was a synonym for divorce.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:24 PM (PMi3m)


Nah, antimony is what your wife gets after the divorce.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:34 PM (Jc4hv)

101 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:32 PM (Jc4hv)

Bronze is harder than iron but more brittle but you are absolutely correct the reason iron replaced bronze was because iron was easier to produce.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:36 PM (KC5Lt)

102 Oh, and then there was Prince Planet. Can't forget Prince Planet when it came to old Japanese cartoon series. I made myself a magic pendant and would run around yelling Pee-Pazow! hoping to turn into Prince Planet.

Man, those shows were all from the mid-60s but they were still being rerun, in the US at least, long after that. Probably were all on UHF but I don't remember for sure.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:37 PM (2Drhq)

103 100 I thought antimony was a synonym for divorce.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:24 PM (PMi3m)

Nah, antimony is what your wife gets after the divorce.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:34 PM (Jc4hv)

Anti-money is what's left in your savings account after the divorce.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:37 PM (PMi3m)

104 If they just would use better alloys than chinesium, the things they make might not break so easily.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Have to remove the impurities first.
First they have no concept of impure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:37 PM (EYrlY)

105 and eventually a cute young couple with a baby. Who were Asian, but maybe Belgii too for all I know.

Ah, the Park-Peeters family. Wow! Was that a wedding!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 08:37 PM (WXg6e)

106 Retardo! On a holiday bringing his bullshit stories.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 08:38 PM (m4aQ8)

107 I'm antimony.

Posted by: Guy who hates the Shondells at September 07, 2026 08:39 PM (MWfyi)

108 With arsenical bronze, you were good for the first three or four decapitations, but after that, it was a pure crapshoot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:39 PM (wpRMV)

109 The earliest steel is meteoritic, but that doesn’t really allow production at scale,

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:39 PM (Jc4hv)

110 Retardo's trolling level is even lower than usual. Every word of that story's been thoroughly debunked.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:40 PM (2Drhq)

111 The AI dog rescue video is heartwarming.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 07, 2026 08:41 PM (U/j9n)

112 107 I'm antimony.
Posted by: Guy who hates the Shondells at September 07, 2026 08:39 PM (MWfyi)

So that song doesn't make you feel so good?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 08:41 PM (PMi3m)

113 Yellen always reminded me of Crabby Appleton.
Posted by: Tonypete "

She looks like she reeks of ben gay and cat piss.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 08:41 PM (m4aQ8)

114 Bronze is harder than iron but more brittle but you are absolutely correct the reason iron replaced bronze was because iron was easier to produce.
Posted by: polynikes

"Iron" is generally a much cooler word than "bronze". "I am bronze man", "Cast bronze for a bloodstream", "Bronze Mike Sharpe", "Strike while the bronze is hot", "leg bronzes", "bronzeic". Nah.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 08:42 PM (Fv808)

115 Captain Steeeve covers the Amazon 767 cargo plane accident.
youtube.com/watch?v=u2oVWUZ6Qww

tl;dr: The plane was flying 35 knots too fast at the runway threshold. He should have done a go-around.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 08:42 PM (Jr5Lq)

116 "So that song doesn't make you feel so good?
Posted by: tankdemon "

I said yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah!!!

Posted by: Guy who hates the Shondells at September 07, 2026 08:42 PM (MWfyi)

117 The laser is a version of a system, LOCUST produced by the company AeroVironment.
... individual unit cost ~ $17.4 to $25 million, -but- Each shot only costs around $3,
...cartels use drones,... so they know which areas to avoid when smuggling ..
...cartels are also using armed drones inside Mexico to attack rival groups...
-- we could take advantage of that tech

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:13 PM (EYrlY)

Well, if you used each unit to make 20 million shots, each shot would cost only 4 dollars, capital cost included. Moral? Use the fuck out of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 08:42 PM (1z8ji)

118 The earliest steel is meteoritic, but that doesn’t really allow production at scale,
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:39 PM (Jc4hv)


The earliest Iron smelting appears to have been related to the use of Iron oxides as a flux for purifying copper and bronze melts that caused iron prills to form in the slag. The Hittites were working on that problem but things fell apart before they cracked the problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 08:44 PM (rbvCR)

119 Sharknado II on Comet TV

Total garbage. Whoot!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 08:45 PM (nwXO5)

120 It does not depend on tin deposits in far away lands.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:32 PM (Jc4hv)

Tin is so scarce, and hard to mine, that it really should be considered a precious metal. It's white and lustrous, just like silver, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 08:46 PM (1z8ji)

121 Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

"We have in Europe a significant part of the elites that have been swept into the most radical post-nationalist places -- places of identification, essentially, with Islamist nationalism, with the Palestinians, with Hamas.

These movements are very, very hostile toward the State of Israel.

And it really bothers them when national forces in Israel and outside Israel -- such as Vox in Spain, the French National Rally, and others -- connect and act together."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:47 PM (EYrlY)

122 Fucking Hittites.

Posted by: The Phoenicians at September 07, 2026 08:47 PM (wpRMV)

123 Nonsense. The universe revolves around me.

The math works!

Posted by: Al E. at September 07, 2026 08:47 PM (vTZFs)

124 The design of the Gurkha’s kukri suggests to my eye that it was originally made of bronze.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 08:51 PM (Jc4hv)

125 Eleven minutes of Renee Rosnes Trio.
youtube.com/watch?v=KyF3ji7OwG4

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 08:51 PM (Jr5Lq)

126 The Bronze Age Collapse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B965f8AcNbw

Posted by: davidt at September 07, 2026 08:51 PM (Q+gd/)

127 Prince of Space and Ultra Q are live action series like Warning from Space is a live action movie. All from Japan.

Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:51 PM (2GVsD)

128 If you have a little time to say a quick prayer for Brit Lass she would appreciate it. Her ordered tests are tomorrow morning, finally. So far everything has come out okay and she's feeling better than she did. She's worried about bad things, but we're hoping tomorrow removes the rest of the worry. Thanks!

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 08:51 PM (vE0+H)

129 The Hittites were working on that problem but things fell apart before they cracked the problem.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 08:44 PM (rbvCR)

They accidentally created some early steel when they smelted iron over coals that caused the iron carbon mix ( steel)

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:52 PM (KC5Lt)

130 Nurse,

No Zombeavers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:52 PM (2GVsD)

131 Bats! We have bats!!!! O frabjous day!!!!

Thank you, Ace!

Also, I overheard from the Café Custodial Engineers that the Café Strategic Febreeze Reserve is just starting to refill a bit following the drastic drawdowns its recently experienced.

Magna Spheniscidae delenda est

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)

132 I watched Ad Astra and Bad Times At the Royale. Never again. Ad Astra sucked so bad I thought Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones were so hard up they were living in a tent in LA. Wanted to pass the hat to give them a few bucks to get the care they needed. Bad Times is a pretty good quirky movie, but Jeff Bridges blew it with going Dudes for Kamala which translates to he hates me. Won't give one tenth of a cent in residuals to any talent that has that opinion and makes it public.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 08:55 PM (gm9Sb)

133 from upstream

H. Ford used mostly tin for his Babbit bearings for the Model T crankshaft.
Tin, copper & some antimony.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:55 PM (EYrlY)

134 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 08:55 PM (gm9Sb)

Different strokes for different folks.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:56 PM (KC5Lt)

135 >>>Did you see the Porsche crash at Laguna Seca on Saturday? Talk about a holy shit moment. He lost the brakes at the corkscrew and it took off like the Mach 5 over the track and into the woods. The driver survived but I bet he's hurting.

Posted by: fd

>That was a pretty grim incident. On the bright side, a lot of data can be coordinated to come up with new, better safety measures.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 07, 2026 08:56 PM (eP2ub)

136 To go back to an earlier discussion, the point of no return IMO was Obama weaponizing "Little Trayvon" with that cheapshot about it being like his "son".

Such absolutely perfect horseshit and it cauterized the split they had been working towards for a decade.

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 08:56 PM (vE0+H)

137 Fucking Hittites.
Posted by: The Phoenicians at September 07, 2026 08:47 PM (wpRMV)


actually the Phoenicians rose into power in the vacuum left by the collapse of the Hittites and the Canaanites following Egypt's victory in the battle of Kadesh. Any experience the Phoenicians had with the Hittites would have been with successor states and the tail end of the neo-Hittite empire

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 07, 2026 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

138 Any word on the dog Diogenes was watching?
I hope it's alright.


CBC - 41% of Canadians view the US as an enemy country.
Ace of Spades - 0% of Americans give a damn.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 08:57 PM (Sco7b)

139 Canada has always been an enemy country but we let it slide. They gave aid and comfort to deserters and draft dodgers.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:58 PM (KC5Lt)

140 Annual tin production by country:
https://tinyurl.com/4fdc5r9n

Total annual output: 260K tons.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 08:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

141 The Hittites were brought down by the Late Bronze Age Collapse. They went from a regional power to nothing more than a scattered bunch of inconsequential hamlets.

Make of it what you will.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 08:59 PM (wpRMV)

142 H. Ford used mostly tin for his Babbit bearings for the Model T crankshaft.
Tin, copper & some antimony.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 08:55 PM (EYrlY)

Poured bearings made of babbitt have been widely used since the 1840's. And the replaceable shell bearings used today still have a lining of babbitt or similar soft metal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 08:59 PM (1z8ji)

143 Ha!

Anna Puma
No ZOMBEAVERS. Alas.

But schlock horror is best when stumbled upon free antenna tv.

Hey Duncanthrax,
Sea otters were placed above bats. If you’re not first,
You’re last.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 09:01 PM (LdAYY)

144 It is interesting to see OT interactions between the early Hebrews and the Hittites. For example Bathsheba’s first husband (that King David had killed in battle) was Uriah the Hittite, one of King David’s mighty men of valor.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 09:02 PM (Jc4hv)

145 Cocaine Bear

Highly recommended farce based on real events.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 09:02 PM (RIvkX)

146 Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 08:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

Yeah we're pretty much screwed and it's sorta important.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:03 PM (KC5Lt)

147 139 Canada has always been an enemy country but we let it slide. They gave aid and comfort to deserters and draft dodgers.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 08:58 PM (KC5Lt)

You're not wrong. Canadians should be more grateful.

Rubio interview on Hannity now. May 13th,

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 09:03 PM (Sco7b)

148 143 Hey Duncanthrax,
Sea otters were placed above bats. If you’re not first,
You’re last.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 09:01 PM (LdAYY)

How were the otters above the bats when the bats were on the ceiling?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 09:04 PM (PMi3m)

149 The Bronze Age Collapse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B965f8AcNbw
Posted by: davidt at September 07, 2026 08:51 PM (Q+gd/)


I really liked Dr Eric Cline's lectures on the Bronze age collapse, but that documentary is interesting.

I have been fascinated by the lions' gate in Hattusha and the lion's gate in Mycenae that included a Minoan-style pillar. The lionesses are symbols of Ishtar, but the inclusion of the pillar is very political, and I wonder what the influence Crete and Hattusha had over some place like Mycenae.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 09:05 PM (rbvCR)

150 There are some reported tin occurrences in Alaska.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:05 PM (1z8ji)

151 Did Canadians burn Washington in the War of 1812 or were they British troops?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 09:06 PM (Jc4hv)

152 139 Yep. Met the Boss's second wife who was most proud of her son going north to escape the draft. With good scotch in me I asked if she realized some poor bastard (maybe me) went in his place. The following Monday, the Boss came by and gave me an attaboy. Guy said he never liked the little fucker anyway.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 09:06 PM (gm9Sb)

153 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 09:06 PM (gm9Sb)

👍

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:08 PM (KC5Lt)

154 Burning of Washington





Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 09:06 PM (Jc4hv

Wikipedia I think....

British naval attack on the United States during the War of 1812

The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear Admiral George Cockburn during Admiral John Warren's Chesapeake campaign. It was the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power had captured and occupied a United States capital

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 09:08 PM (Sco7b)

155 I axed an AI "how much tin is used annually to make stannous fluoride for toothpaste?"

He doesn't know. Big Dentifrice does not disclose their annual raw material input volumes. He speculates that it must be something less than the total amount mined though.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

156 Die Hard is on now. It sure opens as a Christmas movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:10 PM (KC5Lt)

157 He doesn't know. Big Dentifrice does not disclose their annual raw material input volumes. He speculates that it must be something less than the total amount mined though.

---------

That would make sense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 09:11 PM (wpRMV)

158 Mama Publius was reminiscing about the smell of her mama's fresh-baked bread when she was a girl. So I baked bread today for the first time in many years. She had two pieces, slathered with melting butter.

Reminded me of "Heidi" minus the goat cheese.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 07, 2026 09:12 PM (w6EFb)

159 Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

If I'm not mistaken it's part of the soldering for computer boards right?

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:12 PM (KC5Lt)

160 Three minutes of Cherrie Currie performing in California yesterday. She's still around.
youtube.com/watch?v=yWV-imqbt4I

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

161 Poured bearings made of babbitt have been widely used since the 1840's. And the replaceable shell bearings used today still have a lining of babbitt or similar soft metal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

OT - I mentioned soldering irons ( style heated in a small furnace) only to discover that they are totally obsolete. How have they or what has replaced them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (EYrlY)

162
"Yellen always reminded me of Crabby Appleton.
Posted by: Tonypete "

Her voice reminds me of Lionel Barrymore.


Simon Bar Sinister

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (Cqx++)

163 "If I'm not mistaken it's part of the soldering for computer boards right?"

The best solder for electronic work used to be 63% tin, 37% lead. That's what I use, but these days, with lead-free solder ascendant, I don't know what they use anymore.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

164 He doesn't know. Big Dentifrice does not disclose their annual raw material input volumes. He speculates that it must be something less than the total amount mined though.
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

Look on your toothpaste tube. It should tell you what the stannous fluoride content is. If not, there should be some journal articles on the subject of fluoridating toothpaste, and one should be able to get a ballpark figure there. Once you have a per tube, or per gram value, multiply by the known volume of toothpaste sold.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)

165 Neener Neener Neener

Your mother’s got a weener.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 09:15 PM (QsvZb)

166 Annual tin production by country:
https://tinyurl.com/4fdc5r9n

Total annual output: 260K tons.

Posted by: gp
---

That's alarming.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:17 PM (EYrlY)

167 He jumped the shark!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 09:17 PM (QsvZb)

168 OT - I mentioned soldering irons ( style heated in a small furnace) only to discover that they are totally obsolete. How have they or what has replaced them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (EYrlY)

I still have several of them. Useful for soldering gas tanks, as fire or electricity never gets near the tank. You can buy large electric soldering irons, in the 300 watt range.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:17 PM (1z8ji)

169 The best solder for electronic work used to be 63% tin, 37% lead. That's what I use, but these days, with lead-free solder ascendant, I don't know what they use anymore.
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

Lead-free solder is crap. I always snag any rolls of solder I find at flea markets or yard sales.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:19 PM (1z8ji)

170 164 I was kinda hoping the AI would do that for me

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

171 The best solder for electronic work used to be 63% tin, 37% lead. That's what I use, but these days, with lead-free solder ascendant, I don't know what they use anymore.

Posted by: gp
---

Lead free solder is crap.
If memory serves, it's either 50/50 or 60/40.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:20 PM (EYrlY)

172 164 I was kinda hoping the AI would do that for me
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

Maybe AI is not that intelligent. Lead it by the hand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:21 PM (1z8ji)

173 Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

Cherie's still a badass. And a MAGA Republican. Love her.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 09:22 PM (2Drhq)

174 Lead free solder is crap.
If memory serves, it's either 50/50 or 60/40.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:20 PM (EYrlY)

50/50 was used for tin work, radiators, etc.
60/40 for electrical connections.
63/37 is the actual eutectic, the lowest melting point obtainable with a tin/lead alloy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:23 PM (1z8ji)

175 I still have several of them. Useful for soldering gas tanks, as fire or electricity never gets near the tank. You can buy large electric soldering irons, in the 300 watt range.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--

Wanting an old style kit, looked at amazon. It was like, wut?
Had some but donated it. Hope it has a good home. They probably thought it was junk.
That's the last job I did with them. Over Thanksgiving, Dad said, if you're going to school Monday you'll finish that tank.
And you are going to school.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:24 PM (EYrlY)

176 "Lead-free solder is crap."

I expect so. The best solder I ever used was the stuff supplied with Heathkits. It would leap into a joint and saturate it fully just on sight. Didn't have to hardly even heat it up.

I'm looking at my two rolls of solder here. Kester "44" is the gold standard 63/37 that I prefer; that was $30/lb. The other is Chemtronics 60/40, which I just happened to find a roll of, for free.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Soldering coppers are still being made and sold. Not cheap:

kappalloy.com/accessories/soldering-coppers/

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:27 PM (1z8ji)

178 You can buy large electric soldering irons, in the 300 watt range.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

iirc, phased plasma rifles are only available up to the 40-watt range.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 09:28 PM (WXg6e)

179 "Lead it by the hand." Yes, I do that a lot, on serious projects.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:29 PM (Jr5Lq)

180 Before written history, the Greeks used to sail to Cornwall to trade for tin. You have to wonder what they brought for the Cornish.

British industrial history only talks about how hard tin mining was on the workers -- of course -- but the last tin mine in Cornwall closed in 1998, and may reopen.

The other great industry in Cornwall was piracy, and we are led to believe that nobody lives there any more.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 07, 2026 09:30 PM (zdLoL)

181 Well, if I am going to eat dinner, I had better go and make something.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)

182 177 Soldering coppers are still being made and sold. Not cheap:

kappalloy.com/accessories/soldering-coppers/
---

Kick my butt, I gave away two coppers and the furnace. All it needed was a new hose. Oh, well.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:32 PM (EYrlY)

183 Hey Duncanthrax,
Sea otters were placed above bats. If you’re not first,
You’re last.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 09:01 PM


I'm happy you got sea otters.

As you know, I'm a simple man. A Café with bats, no penguins, and good friends, and I'm a happy man.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 09:32 PM (0sNs1)

184 The stars are moving too.

Posted by: Pooklord at September 07, 2026 09:33 PM (9MAOs)

185 There is serious fighting going on over access control to the Red Sea.
This has not been on my news feed at all.
Over 300 killed in a recent attack by the Saudis (last thread).
(Bab al-Mandeb Strait on the map close to Mokha)

Now a map of Yemen showing current territorial control. Houthi, Saudi and Yemen govt areas are marked. Can’t imagine why US media is not reporting on this.

https://tinyurl.com/y4fyvy3m

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:34 PM (EYrlY)

186 Looking at current prices, Kester "44" costs way more now than when I purchased my 1lb roll for $30, years ago.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:35 PM (Jr5Lq)

187 The stars are moving too.
Posted by: Pooklord at September 07, 2026 09:33 PM


I have been told many times that, how you say, the Earth moved.

Posted by: Paolo at September 07, 2026 09:35 PM (0sNs1)

188 “Cats seem to be associated with worse mental health measures for children, while other pets, including rabbits, reptiles, or amphibians, seem to have the opposite effect.”

I have a niece that lived like a cat for about a year when she was 8 or 9.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:39 PM (/+uur)

189 Well, if I am going to eat dinner, I had better go and make something.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)
====
Kaboom?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 09:40 PM (RIvkX)

190 The Houthi let their army get caught out in the open without a place to run to, and they’re getting their asses kicked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 09:41 PM (/FYr+)

191 Kaboom?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 09:40 PM (RIvkX)

the kaboom kaboom kaboom kaboom kaboom and milk does not have much kaboom in it.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:42 PM (/+uur)

192 190 The Houthi let their army get caught out in the open without a place to run to, and they’re getting their asses kicked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 09:41 PM (/FYr+)

tethering virgin goats is against allah

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:43 PM (/+uur)

193 >>Cats seem to be associated with worse mental health measures for children,
---


Toxoplasmosis

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:43 PM (EYrlY)

194 5 I think Prague is one of the few central European cities that escaped destruction in WW2, so most of its pre-war architecture remains intact and is wonderful to see.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 07, 2026 07:16 PM (y171U)


I vaguely recall that part of the strike package sent to burn down Dresden lost their way and wound up over Prague and said "Fuck it, there's a city down there and we ain't hauling these bombs home", and unloaded on it.

Posted by: a.moron at September 07, 2026 09:44 PM (X5Jzz)

195 The Cooper's hawk came back this evening and ate another baby bunny. It's a target rich environment for raptors. The shed behind our apartment produces a new batch of bunny nubbins every 6 to 8 weeks. Lots of bunny sex, apparently.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at September 07, 2026 09:45 PM (0aYVJ)

196 Sheep are disappearing in Spain.
But only the females.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:45 PM (EYrlY)

197 Toxoplasmosis

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:43 PM (EYrlY)

Nope

Catitude

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:45 PM (/+uur)

198 the kaboom kaboom kaboom kaboom kaboom and milk does not have much kaboom in it.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:42 PM (/+uur)
=====

Does it have any spam in it?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 09:47 PM (RIvkX)

199 Zelensky expects war to continue after US envoy talks../
---

Because he likes taking it up the kazoo and doesn't GAS about citizens. They ought to hang him by his heels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:48 PM (EYrlY)

200 Sheep are disappearing in Spain.
But only the females.

Posted by: Braenyard

There's a "They'll never be another ewe" joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 09:52 PM (WXg6e)

201 Accipiter hawks will crash-dive straight into thick brush if they see prey in there. It's a sight to see.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:53 PM (Jr5Lq)

202 Well, some home-made chili simmering in the pot. I have a rum and coke at hand, and my knee is hurting way less than last night. All is well. Rained lightly all day here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:54 PM (1z8ji)

203 Technically we are spinning with the ground. The stars are spinning around something too.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 07, 2026 09:57 PM (PE5pE)

204 Jimmy John's restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri
(east St. Louis?)

According to investigators, the girl's mother's boyfriend [27 yo Adam White] arrived at the restaurant with her 14-year-old daughter. A confrontation escalated, and gunfire erupted.

[Erupted, you mean like a volcano?]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 09:57 PM (EYrlY)

205 169 The best solder for electronic work used to be 63% tin, 37% lead. That's what I use, but these days, with lead-free solder ascendant, I don't know what they use anymore.
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 09:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

Lead-free solder is crap. I always snag any rolls of solder I find at flea markets or yard sales.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 09:19 PM (1z8ji)


When the lead free crap first came out, I stocked up on the good stuff. I have more than a lifetime supply of 63/37 and 60/40. Even with a hotter iron, repairing something built with the lead free crap is a pain. If I need to remove a component, I melt the lead free crap, flood the joint with leaded solder, solder wick the excess off, then proceed with the repair.

Posted by: a.moron at September 07, 2026 09:57 PM (X5Jzz)

206 If I need to remove a component, I melt the lead free crap, flood the joint with leaded solder, solder wick the excess off, then proceed with the repair.

Posted by: a.moron at September 07, 2026 09:57 PM (X5Jzz)

I have done the same thing. Use the molten 60/40 as a solvent to dissolve the lead-free crap, and flush it away.

Mercury would do that too, but it has issues...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:00 PM (1z8ji)

207 Sheep are disappearing in Spain.
But only the females.

Posted by: Braenyard

How do they know they are the females?

Posted by: Ketanji Brown Genius at September 07, 2026 10:01 PM (vE0+H)

208 Mercury would do that too, but it has issues...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:00 PM (1z8ji)


it will develop you like a Daguerreotype?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 10:03 PM (rbvCR)

209 it will develop you like a Daguerreotype?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 10:03 PM (rbvCR)

One might get mad as a hatter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 10:08 PM (1z8ji)

210 I'll say this slowly for the retards in the back...

-Iran was already found to have missiles with a range much longer than anyone thought
-Iran HAD Uranium that was close to 60% weapons grade
-If Iran got a nuke and hit our east coast ~40 MILLION Americans could die
-Iran has PROMISED to nuke America
-Iran has been chanting "DEATH TO AMERICA" FOR 40 YEARS!!

So instead of talking shit about Trump nonstop just STFU and say THANK YOU!!!

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:22 AM (GIf+b)

211 The 2026 midterms are the latest test of an increasingly mistrusted industry.

From Truman to Trump: Why Election Polls Keep Getting It Wrong

Posted by: SMOD at September 08, 2026 08:43 AM (GIf+b)

Open Thread: Dingo and Hyena Rescues


Rescuing stray dogs who have formed a pack in the desert:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM




Comments

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1 Howdy all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at September 07, 2026 06:02 PM (Rwdkj)

2 Hi! Happy Labor Day!

Posted by: Iris at September 07, 2026 06:02 PM (286+n)

3 Random wow

Posted by: Okjohn at September 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Rwdkj)

4 I like to think of most of these "orphan" videos are by people who snatch these poor animals from a loving, caring animal family for clicks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 07, 2026 06:07 PM (dK+Kv)

5 Noah Fifita is the best QB in college.

Posted by: Accomack at September 07, 2026 06:08 PM (EJ7WG)

6 Nice and heartwarming

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 06:08 PM (aJQbY)

7 Maybe a dingo ate your baby.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 06:09 PM (viF8m)

8 Aren't they worried the dingo will eat a baby?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ftFVW)

9 129 126 BC also has a problem because it's "indigenous people" keep making successful land grabs. No thx

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Old greeting to Indians, How.
New greeting to Indians, No.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:13 PM (EYrlY)

10 Hyenas are interesting, it is claimed that because they live on carrion, they are immune to most bacteria, and one researcher claimed that hyena bites would not fester because their saliva was an active antibiotic. This he claimed after going to the emergency room to get stitched up for a bite from a hyena he was working with and refused antibiotics. He apparently survived, so maybe he was right.

I find them frightening.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

11
Aren't they worried the dingo will eat a baby?
Posted by: She Hobbit

Meryl Streep (Lindy) hardest hit.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 07, 2026 06:15 PM (QVmho)

12 THAT'S A DINGO!!!

Posted by: Colonel Hans Landa at September 07, 2026 06:16 PM (dIske)

13
The genetic trait that makes a dog a dog is behavioral. Other canines will remain wild animals even if raised as pets, not very trainable and potentially dangerous.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 06:18 PM (7xqnr)

14
*rushes through door*

*drops big pile of papers on desk*

OK, what do we got here?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 06:19 PM (eRlcH)

15 @Osint613 - 2h

The UK will announce a trade ban on Israeli settlements tomorrow, an official told i24NEWS. Foreign Minister Ed Miliband will unveil the measures after a cabinet meeting.

PM Andy Burnham informed President Trump of the proposed ban in a Monday phone call,
--
- 1h

Israeli Minister Smotrich called for the British ambassador's expulsion over the sanctions expected tomorrow: "Expel the British ambassador tonight!"

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:19 PM (EYrlY)

16 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama be during twoday ?

We love him and miss him..

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at September 07, 2026 06:24 PM (jGtoG)

17 The baby from this morning's art thread could feed several dingoes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

18 🎵 There was an Ozzie wgo had a dog
And Dingo was his neame-O
🎶D-I-N-G-O

Posted by: Smilin' Freddy's Quality Used Cars at September 07, 2026 06:24 PM (PMi3m)

19 At Ma’ale Adumim, Netanyahu buried the two-state solution
Paperwork signed by PM in settlement city east of Jerusalem enables construction in E1 area...
_timesofIsrael, 2025
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Britain's actions were fast-tracked ...[because] The UK has raised concerns over Israel's plan to build the E1 settlement between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem. _Osint613
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Britain's got it's head as far up it arse as Canada.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:26 PM (EYrlY)

20 England was a lot better when Benny Hill was the Prime Minister ....

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 07, 2026 06:26 PM (PxgV0)

21 8 Aren't they worried the dingo will eat a baby?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ftFVW)

Is it showing signs of post partum depression?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 06:26 PM (PMi3m)

22 Hi Mary. It is apple season! Have you been out to the orchards to scream at the trees for being revanchists yet?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 06:26 PM (rbvCR)

23 Had steak on grill for first time all summer. Had to get parts to fix it

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

24 Why are Scotland and Wales still part of the UK ???

The only thing England is good for is.... is.... is.... is.... is ..

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 07, 2026 06:30 PM (PxgV0)

25 23 Had steak on grill for first time all summer. Had to get parts to fix it
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

I didn't know you could get spare parts for steak. Spare ribs, yeah, but not steak.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 07, 2026 06:31 PM (PMi3m)

26 Smotrich has been the Israeli Bessant. He has put more hurt on the fakestinians than any military maneuver could ever do.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 06:32 PM (E0Et6)

27 Britain is in a slow motion civil war. The police are acting as the old British colonial police in that they protect the colonists from the indigenous population being colonized.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 07, 2026 06:34 PM (l26NL)

28 I have grim news. Either the grocery store played the Coldplay girl/world song twice in a row, or.. there's an *extended* version. And I hate, Hate, HATE that song.

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 06:34 PM (7Wnc/)

29 Chicken Burritos were gauged a success! I cooked chicken breasts in a skillet with (lots) butter, one side till browned, then flip, and add 3/4 cup chicken stock or bouillon and cover. Sort of poached for about 7 to 10 more minutes. then it shreds easily with a fork. Never made it this way before and works pretty good. Then saute with Salsa & onions, add in Beans, Rice etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 06:34 PM (lYAIJ)

30 @25 well son you don't eat a cow like that all at once ( just the modified punchline)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:35 PM (TrqdA)

31 Days of fighting near strategic Red Sea chokepoint have left more than 300 dead;
Saba news agency,... reported seven people were killed by Saudi airstrikes on the prison in Al-Hazm in the north of Yemen
...
Earlier, Saba reported, “the Saudi enemy targeted the provinces of Jawf, Al-Bayda, Marib and Taiz with several airstrikes and cruise missiles.”
...as the Houthis try to capture land bordering the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

The Bab al-Mandeb Strait forms the southern entrance to the Red Sea, a shipping artery that has become vital for Saudi oil exports amid Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the US-Iran war.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:36 PM (EYrlY)

32 Scotland seems more looney than England proper, not sure Ireland is any more sane.

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)

33 Common Tater, I poach my chicken breasts in green enchilada sauce then shred them.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 06:38 PM (E0Et6)

34 26 Smotrich has been the Israeli Bessant. He has put more hurt on the fakestinians than any military maneuver could ever do.
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Can't have one without the other.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:38 PM (EYrlY)

35 Watched a Winston Marshall short showing the protests

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

36 I wonder how safe, or sane it is to take in wild animals.

Being wild and all...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 06:40 PM (2Cry5)

37 I poach my chicken breasts in green enchilada sauce then shred them.
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Yeah, it’s kind of fun, I rendered it down a little bit and let it thicken. A can of tomatos, some onions, garlic, and a can of those smoked chipotle in adobo. It needed Rice but that isn’t happening at this elevation. Some chili beans and cheeeese. If I has some sour cream that would be better. Endless variations!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 06:43 PM (lYAIJ)

38 Braenyard, true. Someone quoted, the military wins the battle and the economy wins the war.

Iran's biggest ports are ghost towns. No goods coming in or going out.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 06:43 PM (E0Et6)

39 Dingos, Hyenas, and Bats make us sick. Exterminate.

Posted by: The Merry Marching Penguin Majority at September 07, 2026 06:43 PM (Fn+3X)

40 Is Bessant Jewish? I know he's gay, but just curious. We could use a lot more like him.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 07, 2026 06:43 PM (l26NL)

41 Common Tater, that chicken is also good in quesadillas.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 06:44 PM (E0Et6)

42 Glad to see the Saudis pitching in. Keeping the Bab al-Mandeb Strait open is a big incentive to them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:45 PM (EYrlY)

43 Don't poke the bear.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 07, 2026 06:46 PM (eP2ub)

44
I wonder how safe, or sane it is to take in wild animals.

Remember that song about the woman and the snake?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 06:46 PM (Cqx++)

45 Right, that’s basically what I made. I really need to finish off the tortilla when wrapped up in a hot pan so they is nice and crispy. Maybe a little bacon grease in the pan. Dust in garlic

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 06:47 PM (lYAIJ)

46 Common Tater, bacon grease would work. I use butter because it is handy.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 06:49 PM (E0Et6)

47 27 Britain is in a slow motion civil war. The police are acting as the old British colonial police in that they protect the colonists from the indigenous population being colonized.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 07, 2026 06:34 PM (l26NL)

England swings like a pendulum do, bobbys on bicycles two by two, Westminster Abbey, the Tower Big Ben, and the rosy cheeks of the little children…..especially the little children.

apologies to Roger Miller

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 06:49 PM (LHPAg)

48 Yemenis, Somalis and Eritreans. The Red Sea/ Bab el-Mandeb sure has a great collection

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:50 PM (TrqdA)

49 Dutch driver Loek Hartog pulled British rival Ollie Millroy from a burning Ferrari at a China GT race in Shanghai on Saturday.

Hartog stopped his Porsche, used a fire extinguisher on the flames and dragged Millroy clear before marshals arrived. Millroy credits him with saving his life

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:50 PM (EYrlY)

50 All day I have been deluged with FB posts about how Hitler just won an election in Germany. I have read a lot about Germany and the Nazis and have never heard anything about how their big goal was to drive out a large amount of recent arrivals who insisted on imposing their culture upon Germany. But maybe that was in another book.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 07, 2026 06:51 PM (CGH66)

51
All right, I got The Word. Use part of the package of chicken thighs for soup and bake the other half. And we're having salmon (wild caught, of course) for dinner tomorrow night.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 06:51 PM (eRlcH)

52 Le Pen in France and the AFD in Germany would be leftist in the USA. Far right is only by commie standards

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:53 PM (TrqdA)

53 Sweden was ...one of Europe’s most welcoming countries for refugees. ...
But today it has one of the continent’s most restrictive migration policies.
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Sweden will buy around 10 HIMARS rocket systems from Lockheed Martin for $729 million, with deliveries starting in 2027.

Saab will produce the ammunition in Sweden

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:57 PM (EYrlY)

54
Le Pen in France and the AFD in Germany would be leftist in the USA. Far right is only by commie standards
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:53 PM (TrqdA)

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In the US, "right wing" means Constitutional governance and leave me alone. In Europe, right wing means nasty pieces of work.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 06:59 PM (eRlcH)

55 England was a lot better when Benny Hill was the Prime Minister ....
Posted by: Jackson K. at September 07, 2026 06:26 PM (PxgV0)


Now I have “Yakkety Sax” as an ear worm.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 06:59 PM (X5qGl)

56 In Europe, right any or no wing means nasty pieces of work.

FIFY

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 07:02 PM (aJQbY)

57 The European right is basically entire parties filled with Jeb Bushes & Mitt Romneys.

Restore Britain has the most comprehensive conservative plan to conserve England.
Deport them all and stop giving out welfare to anybody who sets foot in the country.

This is practically Nazi talk to half the population.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 07:09 PM (6ydKt)

58 Now I have “Yakkety Sax” as an ear worm.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

*slapping Little Jackie Wright on the head*

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 07, 2026 07:10 PM (l26NL)

59 You’re a GOOD MAN, Hadrian

Make a raspberry or blackberry sauce for the salmon. Butter, berries, lemon juice and a little sugar depending on the ripeness of the berries. I use a little berry jam to help thicken…. The pectin in the jam is the secret.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 07:10 PM (s+TvN)

60 LE CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 07:11 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Beautiful day on the lake today. High 89. NE wind 5-7mph. No white caps.

Whooped up a batch of penne pasta with sauteed baby bella 'shrooms and frozen peas and grated parmesan.

Life is good.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Pny+9)

62 In Europe, right wing means nasty pieces of work.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 06:59 PM (eRlcH)


“Daddy, my leg hurts!”

“Which one is it son, your left leg or your far right?”

I do not know if the current right wing movements are antisemitic, given that it’s Europe, there may some elements that are. But I do not believe any “official” source in Europe that says they are. After all, the press here in the States assures me Trump is a Fascist, and I know he is not. What is the evidence that the nationalist movements in France or Germany are actually “Far Right” = Fascist = Antisemitic? Being for remigration is not proof. Also I now the nationalist movements in the UK and Ireland are tarred with this, and I know they are not.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 07:18 PM (X5qGl)

Bears: A National Concern Open Thread

Very good boy backs down a menacing bear.

Baby bear nibbles on the boot of a wildlife photographer. Out of control.

This bear was out of control, but then put himself back in control by whacking himself in the fuzzy nuts.

What is up with these stupid bears?

They're probably on drugs!!!!


Want proof? Okay -- what's this bear doing hanging out with these hippies, if he's not trying to buy drugs?

More drugs.

JackStraw is probably lousy with bears. His house is probably a bear shooting gallery.

Bear decides to attack a car. Out of control.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM




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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 07, 2026 04:52 PM (hG5L0)

2 * takes off shirt *

The right to bare arms.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (0sNs1)

3 Cocaine's a helluva drug!

Posted by: Rick James at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (FZ29D)

4 That Trail Cams channel is the best thing on Twixxer since the Japanese guys showed up.

And we all feel for bear that whipped himself in the nads with the plastic strap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (K32Fz)

5 Be more interesting to arm bears

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 07, 2026 04:54 PM (hG5L0)

6 That bear took a swipe at my midsection!

Posted by: Claude Bawls at September 07, 2026 04:55 PM (0sNs1)

7 Big Ursa is a powerful lobby.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 04:56 PM (2Drhq)

8 I meant to do that!

Posted by: Bear who missed the tree at September 07, 2026 04:56 PM (Cqx++)

9 And we all feel for bear that whipped himself in the nads with the plastic strap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (K32Fz)

Posted by: Rick James at September 07, 2026 04:57 PM (FZ29D)

10 I don't like bears. Teddy bears are ok but the real thing...nope.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 04:57 PM (lJ0H4)

11 I've got PTSD...

Posted by: Obligatory Leo DiCaprio sock at September 07, 2026 04:57 PM (XE5AP)

12 And we all feel for bear that whipped himself in the nads with the plastic strap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (K32Fz)
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"Oooh...I gotta lie down..."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2026 04:57 PM (FZ29D)

13 Same, Bear.
Same.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 04:58 PM (6ydKt)

14 Big Ursa is a powerful lobby.
Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 04:56 PM


Pffft. As subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary.

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 07, 2026 04:59 PM (tmVBj)

15 @mfa_russia · 5h
In response to Germany’s unfriendly actions, Russia is taking retaliatory measures:

– Germany’s Consulate General in St Petersburg must close by September 18, 2026;

– Goethe-Institut cultural centres in Russia must cease operations
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What did Germany do, this time?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:01 PM (EYrlY)

16 Bearclaw Vindaloomon is a threat to all pastries.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 05:01 PM (GN2QT)

17 Matt Suhey fullback for the Bears in their Super Bowl year died last night. Cleared a lot of ground for Walter Payton

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 05:03 PM (TrqdA)

18 Germany closed the Russian Consulate General in Bonn.

No borscht for you!

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:03 PM (2Drhq)

19 I'd love to watch the embedded videos but the more X tries to get me to create an account, the more determined I am not to create one.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:03 PM (ek8iC)

20 Bearclaw Vindaloomon is a threat to all pastries.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 05:01 PM


He can get licked, but not by me.

Posted by: Ariana Grande at September 07, 2026 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

21 Germany, how is your energy grid doing running off green fever dreams and unicorn farts??

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 05:05 PM (GN2QT)

22 I can barely contain my excitement.

Posted by: dantesed at September 07, 2026 05:05 PM (Oy/m2)

23 C'est incroiable, something Ariana Grande won't do.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 05:06 PM (GN2QT)

24 I'd love to watch the embedded videos but the more X tries to get me to create an account, the more determined I am not to create one.
Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:03 PM


What we have here is a failure to communicate.

This is exactly the kind of defiant attitude that got you so much time in the hole.

Posted by: The Captain at September 07, 2026 05:07 PM (0sNs1)

25 Bears Eat Beets

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:08 PM (KC5Lt)

26 >> Germany, how is your energy grid doing running off green fever dreams and unicorn farts??

The election results in Germany are pretty stunning. Seems they might finally be waking up.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 05:09 PM (viF8m)

27 I'd love to watch the embedded videos but the more X tries to get me to create an account, the more determined I am not to create one."


I admire your steadfast refusal to part with an email address and a name.

Kudos!

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 07, 2026 05:09 PM (A3xvt)

28 I'm getting an idea for a Bears ,Bat, Crows and Penguin painting.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:10 PM (KC5Lt)

29 GPT-5.6 Luna

...the aircraft and airport operation were Ukrainian, but that is different from saying the drone came from Ukraine.
...
...the careful summary is: Ukrainian plane, German airport, alleged Russian operation—not a confirmed Ukrainian-launched drone. My earlier wording was too definitive: Germany’s conclusion was an official attribution, not an independently proven fact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:11 PM (EYrlY)

30 Are they playing poker?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 05:11 PM (GN2QT)

31 Are they playing poker?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 05:11 PM (GN2QT)

I was thinking more of a gang fight like in Anchorman. The Penguin would definitely be carrying the trident.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:12 PM (KC5Lt)

32 24 I'd love to watch the embedded videos but the more X tries to get me to create an account, the more determined I am not to create one.
Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:03 PM
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https://twitterviewer.net/


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:13 PM (EYrlY)

33 I'm getting an idea for a Bears ,Bat, Crows and Penguin painting.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:10 PM (KC5Lt)
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I'm picturing a Napoleonic-era battle scene...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2026 05:13 PM (FZ29D)

34 26 >> Germany, how is your energy grid doing running off green fever dreams and unicorn farts??

The election results in Germany are pretty stunning. Seems they might finally be waking up.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 05:09 PM (viF8m)

Well, they could use other farts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 05:13 PM (l3cgK)

35 google

california bear breaks into zoo

this happened last year. Probably to buy drugs.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 05:14 PM (tOY9K)

36 >>>The election results in Germany are pretty stunning. Seems they might finally be waking up.

Posted by: JackStraw
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GM has shipped big trunk Buicks to the opposition.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:14 PM (EYrlY)

37 I thought the AfD's victory was overturned by some late mail-in votes discovered in a car trunk in Saxony-Anhalt?

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:15 PM (2Drhq)

38 >The election results in Germany are pretty stunning. Seems they might finally be waking up.

Posted by: JackStraw

You know who else had stunning election results.

Posted by: dantesed at September 07, 2026 05:16 PM (Oy/m2)

39 26 >> Germany, how is your energy grid doing running off green fever dreams and unicorn farts??

The election results in Germany are pretty stunning. Seems they might finally be waking up.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Fucking Drumpf!

Posted by: Smartest country in the world. at September 07, 2026 05:16 PM (tOY9K)

40 bluebell,


If you give Elon any credit for saving our country, please just create an X account. Use a burner gmail addy. It’s free.

He saved free speech. And The Babylon Bee was the catalyst.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 05:16 PM (n1LfN)

41 Thank you, Braenyard. When I went up to the videos to try to get the URL to paste in your link, this time they worked for me on this page. I've given up trying to understand how it all works.

For those of you who think I am being silly for not wanting to sign up for an X account, I'll just mention that I have no social media accounts of any kind and never have. Just personal preference.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ek8iC)

42 @zerohedge · 5h

The Copper Chart Causing Alarm
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AOP and that alternator will be the end of us all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:17 PM (EYrlY)

43 I guess I need an Otter in the painting also.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)

44 I can levitate bears but nobody cares.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 05:17 PM (u73oe)

45 "JackStraw is probably lousy with bears. His house is probably a bear shooting gallery."

I think he spends too much time on the water to run a trap house for hairy male homosexual intravenous drug users.

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ke3zm)

46 "xcancel" is working for me on Brave.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 07, 2026 05:18 PM (A62KL)

47 I guess I need an Otter in the painting also.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:17 PM


And a yak, for Ben Had.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 05:19 PM (0sNs1)

48 I thought xcancel got hit with a cease and desist?

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ek8iC)

49 It's a new link. Go to the link then paste the url of the video you want.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:19 PM (EYrlY)

50 Nothing sharpens the senses quite like coming upon a heap of fresh bear scat in the woods while hiking, that I can tell you.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:19 PM (2Drhq)

51 bluebell,

If you never follow anyone and never post, you’re not involved.

But you do get to see the silly animal videos.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 05:19 PM (n1LfN)

52 I guess I need an Otter in the painting also.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:17 PM

And a yak, for Ben Had.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 05:19 PM (0sNs1)

And I thought about Pandas but they would be useless in a fight

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:20 PM (KC5Lt)

53 Thanks, nurse. Maybe some day. I'm just weird about some stuff, lol.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:21 PM (ek8iC)

54
Did the non-refrigerated shopping on Saturday and did the refrigerated items just now. Making Cajun-seasoned roasted potatoes right now. Not sure whether to make the New Orleans style chicken and rice soup tonight or tomorrow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 05:21 PM (eRlcH)

55 Because no one talks about this, I will not shut up about it.

This goes back the the 90s when the Euroweenies were upset because the US economy was gangbusters and theirs sucked.

Germany, in particular, thought that the problem with US was that we had lots of energy and cheap migrant labor. So they decided
- push Kyoto to hobble us
- Partner with Russia to divide continent with Germany as distribution hub for Russian gas
- Import lots of foreign workers
- have their EU market import lots more migrant consumers
- go all in on Green -- no nukes, no GMO, no BGH, no US food, no fracking, etc. This would keep US out of their market, and make them less dependent on US security in the Gulf for energy. Brilliant.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (tOY9K)

56 Plus, I like giving Elon another account.

It’s the least I can do to show a thumbs up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (n1LfN)

57 Not sure whether to make the New Orleans style chicken and rice soup tonight or tomorrow.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 05:21 PM (eRlcH)
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If you wait until tomorrow I might be able to get there in time for dinner.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (ek8iC)

58 I thought xcancel got hit with a cease and desist?

They definitely had some kind of 'suspending services' thing up there for a while. Not sure if they in particular got hit with an actual letter or were doing 'better safe than sorry'; or maybe Elon put a kibosh on lawyers lawyering? *shrug*

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (aJQbY)

59 Thanks, nurse. Maybe some day. I'm just weird about some stuff, lol.
Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:21 PM (ek8iC)

I've put off subscribing to YouTubeTV because I don't want to open a Google account which is necessary.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (KC5Lt)

60 Bears don’t buy drugs. They sell drugs. Duh.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (v/qpK)

61 46 "xcancel" is working for me on Brave.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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ME TOO!

IT'S BACK UP!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (EYrlY)

62 Any update on the dog from Diongynes?

I hope it's alright.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 05:23 PM (Sco7b)

63 We're here! We're queer! And we don't want anymore bears!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at September 07, 2026 05:24 PM (V362x)

64 I have attempted to create an X account with just a gmail address, and it won't let me. I have to tie it to a phone or something. I didn't care enough to examine the obstacle too closely.

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 05:24 PM (ke3zm)

65 Re: Pizza Hut from earlier threads. Went into the local one cause wife saw ad for buffet and wanted to try out of nostalgia. Some of the worst pizza I have had in quite a while. Just about even or slightly worse than inhouse made school lunch pizza. Not as good as like Jack's frozen pizza. Some time ago Pizza Hut was semi decent mainstream chain pizza, a bit better than frozen. Cant speak to whether the retro ones make the pizza better cause this one wasnt one. No bears though.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 07, 2026 05:25 PM (CGH66)

66 I don’t have a YouTube acct. or Instagram. Or Facebook.

I have Snapchat that I share with 8 people.

And the HQ. That’s it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 05:26 PM (n1LfN)

67
Whadda 'bout Da Bears skeedaddling to Indiana?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 07, 2026 05:26 PM (ixS3i)

68
If you wait until tomorrow I might be able to get there in time for dinner.
Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (ek8iC)

___________

I'm a person of limited skills. But I make good soup.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 05:26 PM (eRlcH)

69 I'm doing up some Gordon Ramsay's famous Chile Ginger Crispy Beef tonight. It's actually 50/50 beef and pork, despite the name. That recipe is magically delicious! I do need to run and get a red chile and a lime.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:26 PM (2Drhq)

70 Droning on by myself downstairs

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 05:28 PM (Ia/+0)

71 Mark Carney declared that Canada’s old relationship with the United States..economic integration and tight military cooperation..was over. [He's nutz. If he won by legitimate election, they're nutz]

https://tinyurl.com/u93sueaf


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:29 PM (EYrlY)

72 Big Ursa is a powerful lobby.

But they are nothing compare do Big Penguin™ 🐧.

It isn't coincidence that Antarctica, literally meaning "no bears", is dominated by penguins.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 05:30 PM (U4c/V)

73 Everything causes an alarm at zerohedge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 05:31 PM (Cqx++)

74 Whadda 'bout Da Bears skeedaddling to Indiana?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 07, 2026 05:26 PM (ixS3i)

We are shocked; shocked I tell you, that a team would play outside of the city it's named for.

Posted by: The Giants and the Jets at September 07, 2026 05:32 PM (A62KL)

75 I am not surprised if Pizza Hut's buffet has lousy pizza. Buffets are expensive and its expensive to run a dining room. There's a reason they dropped the restaurants, and it wasn't some hatred of customers. They gotta cut costs somewhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 05:32 PM (K32Fz)

76 71 Mark Carney declared that Canada’s old relationship with the United States..economic integration and tight military cooperation..was over. [He's nutz. If he won by legitimate election, they're nutz]

https://tinyurl.com/u93sueaf


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:29 PM (EYrlY)

Yeah, Canada retaliates tomorrow,
I doubt most people in America even know

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Sco7b)

77 64 I have attempted to create an X account with just a gmail address, and it won't let me. I have to tie it to a phone or something. I didn't care enough to examine the obstacle too closely.

Posted by: SciVo
---

It's entirely safe. Just open up your back door to the most skillful coder and digital assimilator in they world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:33 PM (EYrlY)

78 That recipe is magically delicious! I do need to run and get a red chile and a lime.

Don't forget the Mango Chutney and Chili Jam

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 05:34 PM (K32Fz)

79 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:29 PM (EYrlY)

He's gonna cuddle up even more with China.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 05:34 PM (mXZ+5)

80 Until THRUSH breaks into his database.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:34 PM (EYrlY)

81 >>GM has shipped big trunk Buicks to the opposition.

You know didn't send the opposition money this election cycle?

USAID

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 05:35 PM (viF8m)

82 Pandas, of course, are the retards of the bear species, and it doesn't appear to be a particularly high bar.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)

83 tight military cooperation

What a joke, 'Merica *is* their military for all intents and purposes. America's Hat can go piss up a rope.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:38 PM (2Drhq)

84 GM has shipped big trunk Buicks to the opposition.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:14 PM (EYrlY)
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Well, it's Germany, so I suppose they could find some old VW bugs stashed full of ballots in a junkyard somewhere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2026 05:38 PM (FZ29D)

85 >>>
He's gonna cuddle up even more with China.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
--

As if we don't have enough problems.

Well, looks like the probability of Alberta becoming a US territory has increased. Probably have to take British Columbia too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:39 PM (EYrlY)

86 60 Bears don’t buy drugs. They sell drugs. Duh.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 07, 2026 05:22 PM (v/qpK)
______________________

Drugs just fall out of the sky where I live.

Posted by: Cocaine Bear at September 07, 2026 05:40 PM (dIske)

87 ----
Well, it's Germany, so I suppose they could find some old VW bugs stashed full of ballots in a junkyard somewhere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
---

Times past they made a station wagon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:40 PM (EYrlY)

88 85 Well, looks like the probability of Alberta becoming a US territory has increased. Probably have to take British Columbia too.

And rename it American Columbia, of course.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:41 PM (2Drhq)

89 I have turkey burgers, turkey dogs (both 100% breast meat)

Suddenly Salad, Michelob ultra, 6 new kittens

My life is awesome

Fuck the communists

Posted by: Kittens! at September 07, 2026 05:41 PM (jrgJz)

90 Canada is a Five Eyes partner. Probably not a great idea to be sharing intel with China's new BFF.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 05:41 PM (viF8m)

91 Bear was drunk

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

92 The "far right" leader of AFD in Germany is a lesbian with a Sri Lankan wife. Just like another German...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 05:43 PM (TrqdA)

93 Speaking of Bears, Matt Suey died today.

RIP

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 05:43 PM (sAmhv)

94 " Pandas, of course, are the retards of the bear species, and it doesn't appear to be a particularly high bar.
Posted by: Orson"

I seen what you done.

Posted by: Daniel Boone, who kilt a bar at September 07, 2026 05:44 PM (MWfyi)

95 Suddenly Salad, Michelob ultra, 6 new kittens

My life is awesome

Fuck the communists
Posted by: Kittens! at September 07, 2026 05:41 PM (jrgJz

Awww. Snowflake's mom Starry had 6 litters before she was fixed. I took care of her and her sister Twilight once.

2 adult cats and 12 kittens. It was like walking in a minefield.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Sco7b)

96 Knew I should have read the thread first. #17 already mentioned Matt Suey.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 05:45 PM (sAmhv)

97 Had to chase a bear of out of our airbnb in Yosemite just a couple weeks ago. Woke up at 6 a.m., stepped out of the bedroom, and there he was across the room halfway through the window.

Posted by: frammish at September 07, 2026 05:47 PM (rcENI)

98 https://twitterviewer.net/
Posted by: Braenyard


ah, it's back up again? THanks.

I wonder for how long until that greedy Eloon nukes them again.

Posted by: mindful webworker - still not joining the club at September 07, 2026 05:47 PM (aKb34)

99 #96 no worries, great minds and all that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TrqdA)

100 88 85 Well, looks like the probability of Alberta becoming a US territory has increased. Probably have to take British Columbia too.

And rename it American Columbia, of course.
Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:41 PM (2Drhq)
_________________________________

The possibility of Alberta claiming independence is extremely remote to nil. First, they have a Premier who is on record saying she doesn't want that, which means she will honor the Canadian Supreme Court, and at least three treaties with "indigenous" tribes. Also, there is something called the Clarity Act that outlines the obligations to claim indedepence. That incluedes "a clear will of the people" (which was worded vaguely on purpose to allow the courts to decide). And, it says, a clear majority vote (also, vague in what that means). Finally, it would require the Canadian Constitution to be revised (which would require approval from all the Provinces that only exist because Alberta and Saskatchewan's payment into the equalization fund).

PS: Trust me. You don't want BC. They are as bad as the Eastern Provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the prizes in this contest.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 05:48 PM (dIske)

101 JackStraw I agree, they probably have a line to Peking like the Pentagon use to

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 05:49 PM (Ia/+0)

102 97 Had to chase a bear of out of our airbnb in Yosemite just a couple weeks ago. Woke up at 6 a.m., stepped out of the bedroom, and there he was across the room halfway through the window.

Holy shiznit!

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 05:49 PM (2Drhq)

103 Knew I should have read the thread first.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 05:45 PM


AoSHQ veterans are supposed to read the thread first? When did this change?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 05:49 PM (0sNs1)

104 Pandas are supposedly dumb. But despite being tiny in numbers, and existing only in a a remote location in China, they are by far the most famous and recognizable bears.

Cities pay China tens of millions to get a panda.

Zoos who have pandas make that the centerpiece of their advertisings.

Pandas are the most coddled, most loved, and most well-taken care of bears in the history of the world.

Kung Fu Panda made billions. Kung Fu Grizzly was gay porn.

So … who exactly is dumb here?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 07, 2026 05:49 PM (v/qpK)

105 94 " Pandas, of course, are the retards of the bear species, and it doesn't appear to be a particularly high bar.
Posted by: Orson"

I seen what you done.
Posted by: Daniel Boone, who kilt a bar at September 07, 2026 05:44 PM (MWfyi)

___________________

LMAO...I'm elated that someone actually picked up on that. Everybody drink!!!

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 05:51 PM (dIske)

106 Kung Fu Grizzly was gay porn.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 07, 2026 05:49 PM


A genre I have no familiarity with, so I'll take your word on it. ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 05:52 PM (0sNs1)

107 >>JackStraw I agree, they probably have a line to Peking like the Pentagon use to

Probably has some big implications for NORAD, too.

I don't think the average Canadian understands how much they have to lose by flipping the US off.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 05:52 PM (viF8m)

108 He's gonna cuddle up even more with China.

That's what is behind this whole split. Trump jacked up tariffs with China to match theirs on the USA, and China started slipping steel in to Canada so they can slap a new label on it and sell to the USA under a lower tariff.

So Trump said "we're not playing that game" and Canada went nuts

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 05:54 PM (K32Fz)

109 This bear was out of control, but then put himself back in control by whacking himself in the fuzzy nuts.

Rather human in response. Try to walk it off for 2 seconds then collapse once the full pain kicks in.

Posted by: Don't whack your fuzzy nuts at September 07, 2026 05:55 PM (TbWk/)

110
All I'm seeing is videos of "high functioning" women (whoever they are) who say they are "burned out" and in "survival mode" (whatever that is) and can't get out of bed between Friday evening and Monday morning. Didn't that used to be called "adulthood"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 05:56 PM (eRlcH)

111 All of the babies are mostly grey, one is for sure a mackerel tabby like mommy, 2 have a black bandit face, one might be a grey and white tuxedo, one just grey.

One of the Mommy faucets is far superior to the other 5

My uncle used to own a fish camp in canuckistan, we would check out the bears at the dump, they would get drunk and sit around lying about fishing

Posted by: Kittens! at September 07, 2026 05:56 PM (jrgJz)

112 988

Veterans suicide hotline

Talked me down last night

Maybe tonight

Posted by: The Clit Didler at September 07, 2026 05:57 PM (Dgvzh)

113 Probably has some big implications for NORAD, too.

I don't think the average Canadian understands how much they have to lose by flipping the US off.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 05:52 PM (viF8m)
___________________________

I'm convinced that Trump did the Lake Ontario to Lake America to screw over Carney. His constituents are so poorly informed (thanks to a State media well beyond even what is in the US)....that they believe there is a way out for Canada where they come out of negotiations in good shape. So Trump upped the ante by winding them up with the Lake name change. Eventually, Carney has no choice but to capitulate, or the Loonie is going to be giving Iran a competition on whose currency can dip the lowest. We're talking Depression...not Recession. The people losing everything and jumping out of buildings type. Then, the free benefits to immigrants stop, which winds up the looting, violence and crime.

All the while, Carney's constituents are oblivious, so when he eventually capitulates, his political career is over.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 05:58 PM (dIske)

114
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy made it down to Thackerville, OK and will be home tomorrow afternoon. Thanks to everyone who kept them in mind last night. It was a hard trip down from Des Moines to Topeka.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 05:58 PM (eRlcH)

115 ...[Alberta]
PS: Trust me. You don't want BC. They are as bad as the Eastern Provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the prizes in this contest.

Posted by: Orson
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Alberta: All of that constitutional stuff, treaties included is out the window if Alberta leaves. That's like saying we had obligations to Britain after we dissolved that.

It's necessary to take BC to keep the Chinese out. We take BC, Canada's only port access is from the Atlantic. We can make terms to deal with BC. They get protection, no access.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 05:59 PM (EYrlY)

116 Ok. Don't say I never gave the morons at ASHQ.anything Very Pretty blonde girl at an college ( Old Miss
Game). She's fully clothed, but I think there's a tiny photo of her in a bikini

Good night all. Time to have dinner with the family and then watch "Cinderella Kid" about boxer James Braddock and starring Russell Crowe:

https://tinyurl.com/bddedacx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 06:00 PM (ONl1C)

117 The problem with BC is that its basically California, but more Chinese. Like half the population, and they aren't assimilating, they are there to take over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 06:01 PM (K32Fz)

118 Fen she is a very good looking woman

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)

119 988

Veteran suicide hotline

Saved me last night maybe tonight

Posted by: The Clit Didler at September 07, 2026 06:02 PM (CMgzl)

120
Diana says it's time for her dinner. Diana has to wait another hour.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 06:03 PM (eRlcH)

121 Black bears are harmless if you don't bother them they wont bother you.

Polar bears are probably the most dangerous wild animal for humans. Very few encounters though.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 07, 2026 06:04 PM (R86kT)

122 Hawaii is getting another hurricane.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 06:05 PM (Cqx++)

123 Canada works for China now. They will be propped up however necessary to further China’s anti US agenda.

Posted by: Accomack at September 07, 2026 06:05 PM (EJ7WG)

124 Hey only three shot and three stabbed at NYC Caribbean festival. No one dead. I guess that's an improvement

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:06 PM (TrqdA)

125
Hawaii is getting another hurricane.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 06:05 PM (Cqx++)

__________

Better them than me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 06:06 PM (eRlcH)

126 BC also has a problem because it's "indigenous people" keep making successful land grabs. No thx

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:08 PM (TrqdA)

127 Posted by: Cocaine Bear at September 07, 2026 05:40 PM (dIske)

————

Pussy

Posted by: Viagra Dolphin at September 07, 2026 06:11 PM (u73oe)

128 Yeah its odd all the big storms are in the Pacific this year

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 07, 2026 06:12 PM (K32Fz)

129 126 BC also has a problem because it's "indigenous people" keep making successful land grabs. No thx

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Old greeting to Indians, How.
New greeting to Indians, No.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 06:12 PM (EYrlY)

130
124 Hey only three shot and three stabbed at NYC Caribbean festival. No one dead. I guess that's an improvement
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 06:06 PM

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The festival's not over yet.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 06:13 PM (7xqnr)

131 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is be during twoday ? We love him and miss him..

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at September 07, 2026 06:21 PM (KIa9K)

132 Hawaii is getting another hurricane.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 06:05 PM (Cqx++)

__________

Better them than me.
Posted by: Hadrian
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Same here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 08:23 PM (XeU6L)

Macro Photography Open Thread

antface.png

Below, some videos from an account called "Macrofying," showing extreme close-ups of tiny things.

He says these are all real, but I don't believe a camera can move so precisely to get these shots. I can believe that most of this is real, but surely the transitions between shots must be some kind of CGI morphing. Right?

Anyway, some cool stuff.

Zooming into a cup of coffee.

Zooming into a leaf.

Close-up of a 3D resin printer's head.

A tattoo needle.

A falling grain of salt.


honeybee.jpg


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM




Comments

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 03:42 PM (9iRTe)

2 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 03:43 PM (9iRTe)

3 Nightmare fuel

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:43 PM (u73oe)

4 It's quiet here...too quiet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 03:44 PM (9iRTe)

5 That critter up top looks like something from a horror movie.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

6 It's quiet here...too quiet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 03:44 PM (9iRTe)

—————

In the distance, a coyote howls.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:45 PM (u73oe)

7 Some neat, some give me new phobias...

The leaf link seems to go to the coffee cup again?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 03:45 PM (aJQbY)

8 In the distance, a coyote howls.
Posted by: Duke Lowel

A screen door slammed...

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

9 No doubt pretty neat...if only the vids would open for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 03:47 PM (XeU6L)

10 Where is everyone? Did they all get one of these “lives” I hear so much about?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:48 PM (u73oe)

11
That critter up top looks like something from a horror movie.
Posted by: Bulg


Species 8472

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 03:48 PM (Cqx++)

12 A screen door slammed...
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

——————

Then the murders started.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:49 PM (u73oe)

13 In the distance, a coyote howls"

Cool.

*limbers up Weatherby in 6.5 CR...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 03:50 PM (XuXeR)

14
Zooming into a cup of coffee.

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Germs!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (VWtfl)

15 Where is everyone? Did they all get one of these “lives” I hear so much about?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Seriously. It's Deadsville around here today.

Let's see if this helps:

BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

16 Never forget:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJxMd3Pls8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (EYrlY)

17 12 A screen door slammed...
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

——————

Then the murders started.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:49 PM (u73oe)

The mournful whistle of a train in the distance.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (QGaXH)

18 Everything reminds me of her...

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 03:52 PM (tOY9K)

19 The mournful whistle of a train in the distance.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (QGaXH)

——————

The Pinkertons had arrived.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:53 PM (u73oe)

20 ... down the alley the ice wagon flew...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 03:53 PM (XuXeR)

21 The mournful whistle of a train in the distance.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
---------

Two riders were approaching...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 03:53 PM (XeU6L)

22 >>A screen door slammed..

Mary's dress swayed

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 03:53 PM (viF8m)

23 Top picture could be a demon

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

24 12 A screen door slammed...
Posted by: Bulg

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Mary's dress sways

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 03:54 PM (tOY9K)

25 I believe what he’s done, ace, is filmed this in 8K (7680 × 4320 pixels), at 120 fps, which gave him room to zoom in & out and rotate the image during those fast transitions in the editing software, along with a transition filter which added some blur.

It’s definitely some cool looking professional kevel work, but AI isn’t needed to do it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)

26 I never know much, but the leaf macro looks like it was spliced into LandSat image of the Amazon at the end when the image was supposed to be at the tightest resolution.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:55 PM (rbvCR)

27 Top picture could be a demon
Posted by: Skip

Lindsey Clancy

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

28 *level

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:55 PM (6ydKt)

29 You're too slow bob! I drank your milkshake!

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 03:55 PM (viF8m)

30 What's up with the sad Stan insect?

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 07, 2026 03:56 PM (JqJBt)

31 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

32 7 Some neat, some give me new phobias...

The leaf link seems to go to the coffee cup again?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 03:45 PM (aJQbY)

RandomDave - I mostly lurk but I've been wanting to tell you don't despair. I spent some time in the wilderness during my 40+ year career before my dream engineering job literally dropped in my lap after five years 'hard time' in Quality. I wish you the best. Never give up.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (QGaXH)

33 Never mind, wrong question.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

34
Top picture reminds me of a guy I used to work for. He wasn't evil, just sort of looks like him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (azNOR)

35 The honeybee looks really nice.
The right lens, lots of light and a really fast shutter speed and, you too, could get a shot like that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:58 PM (6ydKt)

36 Some day might have to get X just to see without a fight these Cafe type videos.

The leaf makes it look like the microscopic world might have beings on it that to them is the whole planet

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 03:58 PM (Ia/+0)

37 Thanks, ARiK. I keep trying, I keep hoping, I keep praying, and most days I keep my spirits up. The Horde helps. Church helps. My prayer life has never been so strong!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 04:00 PM (aJQbY)

38 Microscopic sculptures are popular now: a guy named David Lyndon holds the record of smallest sculpture.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 04:01 PM (KC5Lt)

39 24 12 A screen door slammed...
Posted by: Bulg

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Mary's dress sways
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 03:54 PM (tOY9K)

Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 04:03 PM (QGaXH)

40 The picture up top is clearly Rose DeLauro, after she got extensive plastic surgery to improve her looks.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 04:03 PM (Riz8t)

41 115 Soon...
Posted by: Letters of Marque at September 07, 2026 03:27 PM (t19vo)

Talk about a blast from the past…
Posted by: Cow Demon

I wonder if it would be economically viable as a business venture? I asked Grok what the value of the 3 recently sunk ships would have been if captured and sold instead.

Rough estimate: on the order of $80–150+ million total for the three ships if sold as-is (or repaired) in a secondhand/auction market, likely toward the lower end or below due to age, sanctions status, and shadow-fleet associations. Individual estimates roughly $40–70 million for the VLCC and $20–40 million each for the two Suezmaxes under optimistic assumptions.

Elon, yo! I'm intimately familiar with the sea, and naval combat. Talk to the Don, put up the money for a ship and crew, and I can turn a tidy profit for all involved! Plus some sweet video footage exclusively for X!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 07, 2026 04:03 PM (t19vo)

42 40 The picture up top is clearly Rose DeLauro, after she got extensive plastic surgery to improve her looks.
Posted by: Archimedes

Really? I just assumed Madonna did some kind of collaboration with the Blue Man Group.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 07, 2026 04:04 PM (t19vo)

43 Microscopic sculptures are popular now: a guy named David Lyndon holds the record of smallest sculpture.

Depending on how you define "sculpture", I'd say it's something made with an AFM or STM.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 04:05 PM (Riz8t)

44 31 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)
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It's never a bad idea....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 07, 2026 04:05 PM (JqJBt)

45 Seeing things like this used to require weed.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:07 PM (LHPAg)

46 President Donald Trump said Monday that Canadian aerospace company Bombardier can no longer sell in the U.S. unless it starts making its products there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 04:08 PM (EYrlY)

47 Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 04:05 PM (Riz8t)

These sculptures are hand made . They fit in the eye of a needle or top of a pin.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 04:08 PM (KC5Lt)

48 I spelled name wrong. It's David Lindon

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 04:09 PM (KC5Lt)

49 Here's a story.

In HS I took the hardest AP English the school offered, which was Modern Poetry. I did this because i was bad at English and didn't want to skate.

One project was to analyze a poem in groups and present. My group picked Thunder Road (songs counted as poetry) as I was a Springsteen fan.

Every friday one group presented and it was brutal. No one talked, no one asked questions, no one cared. The week my group was up, I was presenting. I told one kid in our group to hang back and ask questions -- to get a discussion going. A plant. His name was Elio.

Well, it worked perfectly, we presented and asked if there were any questions, and Elio's hand pops up. "Good questions,.. blah blah blah"
About the third question, the teacher (a big busted blonde but I can't remember her name) said "wait a second Elio, aren't you in this group?"

Well everyone realized what we had done, and busted up. After that, all the presentations were a great success because I had somehow broken the ice.

And yet, we got a B. I think the teacher was downplaying that I had saved her stupid time waster and made it into a real interactive discussion that worked. F U Miss whatever.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 04:09 PM (tOY9K)

50 44 31 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Don't know about Spencer but read the .45LC shoots up with the .44 magnum.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 04:09 PM (EYrlY)

51
That critter up top looks like something from a horror movie.
Posted by: Bulg

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Imagine being the opposite sex insect and that's your dating pool.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 07, 2026 04:10 PM (XJ22o)

52 These sculptures are hand made . They fit in the eye of a needle or top of a pin.

I take it the artist doesn't drink a lot of coffee.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 04:11 PM (Riz8t)

53 39 24 12 A screen door slammed...
Posted by: Bulg

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Mary's dress sways
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 03:54 PM (tOY9K)

Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone)

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Her sweater puppies nearly knock her unconscious as the DJ makes a rather sudden transition from Dan Fogelberg to House of Pain...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 07, 2026 04:11 PM (JqJBt)

54 Imagine being the opposite sex insect and that's your dating pool.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 07, 2026 04:10 PM (XJ22o)

It's all about the pheromones, baby.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 04:12 PM (6ydKt)

55 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea."

Dunno. Once saw a guy buy a Colt 45 in Spencer, WV once, tho...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 04:12 PM (XuXeR)

56 More good news for the feminists.

Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 04:12 PM (ndZc7)

57 Kill it. Kill it with fire!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 04:13 PM (Y/06r)

58 38 Microscopic sculptures are popular now: a guy named David Lyndon holds the record of smallest sculpture.
Posted by: polynikes

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I don't recall the details, but there is a museum in LA (I think on Ventura) called the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and one of their permanent exhibits was a series of microscopic sculptures. I saw it in the 90s so this all may be OBE, but I am sure they have a website.

It was (is?) a wild museum. The whole idea was that you could not trust anything as it was half lies and half just outrageous. The sculptures could only be viewed through a microscope so you had no idea if they were real. (kind of like Ace's posts that we always doubt if they are real.)

Anyway, if you are in LA, check it out. You may need time machine though.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 04:15 PM (tOY9K)

59 The Moslems will let you know what you believe

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 07, 2026 04:15 PM (cS2Yy)

60 The Feminists will love Sharia law

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

61 For the anglophiles:

The Telegraph@Telegraph · 5h

The King has decided that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to be treated as “private citizens” while in Britain, and do not represent the Royal family.

The Duke and Duchess cannot use “HRH” and will not work on behalf of the Royal family, a letter written by a representative for the King says.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 04:17 PM (EYrlY)

62 31 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)
I say yes. But then I used to drink Jack Daniels with orange juice.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg)

63 Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 04:12 PM (ndZc7)

——————

So enriching!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 04:18 PM (u73oe)

64 To expand on the idea of micro-sculptures, this is a review of the process of resin 3-D printing using immersed fiber optics transmitting UV laser light.


finishing with 250mu benchies

youtu.be/UvV2CH5il3Q

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 04:19 PM (rbvCR)

65 56 More good news for the feminists.

Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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A mooslimb cleric has written a book on the proper way and improper ways to whip your wife. One of the caveats is breaking bones; it is forbidden.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 04:19 PM (EYrlY)

66 I'm surprised more people aren't doing their lawns today.

Mine's done and I'm doing my friends before they come home. Their cat Snowflake just left after sleeping here most of the afternoon.

I hooe the dog from a few threads back is alright. Okay, back to it.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 04:20 PM (Sco7b)

67 63 Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 04:12 PM (ndZc7)

——————

So enriching!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 04:18 PM (u73oe)

*looks at the Clancy devotees*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 04:20 PM (Y/06r)

68 OK, I just checked and the Museum of Jurassic Tech (MJT) is still there. on Venice Blvd. (doh.)

The miniature exhibit is:

The Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian

and there is a lot on the web about him, some of it at mjt.org

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 04:21 PM (tOY9K)

69 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)


I have a Spencer carbine in 56-50.

It's the coolest gun I own, even though I will never fire it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 07, 2026 04:22 PM (k5CNB)

70 Imagine being the opposite sex insect and that's your dating pool.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I don’t have to imagine. I live in Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 04:25 PM (wZB1K)

71 Ohio Dems attacked at Canfield fair. Sounds like it might be a false flag . At least some of the responders to article think so:

https://tinyurl.com/mtf6k64d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:25 PM (mXZ+5)

72 Youtube seems to be shitting the bed. Anyone else see this?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 04:25 PM (diia5)

73 Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 04:12 PM (ndZc7)
We are past the point of censorship and well into persecution of Jews and Christians. Wake up, America! You don't want to be like Mogatroit.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:27 PM (LHPAg)

74 71 Ohio Dems attacked at Canfield fair. Sounds like it might be a false flag . At least some of the responders to article think so:

https://tinyurl.com/mtf6k64d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:25 PM (mXZ+5)

It was on CNN and MS Now this morning. The guy apparently had a taser and 2 pistols but decides to lunge at the Dem?

What the hell?

Dead bodies or it's fake.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 04:27 PM (Sco7b)

75 I broke an elcheapo camera by cleaning the lens w too much alcohol. the lens assemble fell apart. with nothing but the photo array lens, we tried taking pics. it turned out to be an uber macro cam.

I took a pic of a lady bug and you can make out the mite that was on the ladybugs eye.

I forgot how to share pics, or I would.

Posted by: photoBug at September 07, 2026 04:28 PM (LxTdt)

76 There's a new (three hour long!) Elizabeth Holmes documentary coming out where this comedian/filmmaker guy was with Holmes and her BF at her their home for 12 hours a day for months before she went to prison, and then two years later when she is in prison.

You Can See Everything - trailer

https://youtu.be/GGJSRFWALTI

She has the biggest crazy wide eyes I have ever seen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 04:28 PM (6ydKt)

77 Ohio Dems attacked at Canfield fair. Sounds like it might be a false flag . At least some of the responders to article think so:
https://tinyurl.com/mtf6k64d
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


@GuntherEagleman
🚨 HERE WE GO AGAIN: Amy Acton’s “assassination attempt” story is collapsing in real time.

Police charged the suspect with assault and disorderly conduct. He was holding a phone. He did NOT brandish a weapon.

He did not pull a gun.

Nearly a full day later there is still ZERO video and ZERO photos of this so-called “lunge.”

But there IS video of Acton slurring her words and sounding drunk at the same event.
@LauraLoomer has more of it.

This is not an assassination plot. This is a campaign manufacturing a victim narrative to smear the Right as violent and harvest sympathy votes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 04:29 PM (diia5)

78 Diogenes,

Watch this video. If it is what you are seeing, head for an emergency vet
https://tinyurl.com/mttcctyd

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 07, 2026 04:30 PM (bkuEU)

79 Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 04:29 PM (diia5)

Thanks for the additional info.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:31 PM (mXZ+5)

80 Called United, yesterday, to make a payment. Went through the whole ID routine with the computer thing only to be told that they were closed, call back when we are open.
Their freaking computer keeps business hours.
Called today to make the payment.
Their computer has holidays off too.
United Ins. cares about you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 04:33 PM (EYrlY)

81 >> HERE WE GO AGAIN: Amy Acton’s “assassination attempt” story is collapsing in real time.

Here's the chaser. Alcohol and prescription drugs don't mix well, Amy.

https://tinyurl.com/a739dw8f

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 04:37 PM (viF8m)

82 But there IS video of Acton slurring her words and sounding drunk at the same event.
@LauraLoomer has more of it.

This is not an assassination plot. This is a campaign manufacturing a victim narrative to smear the Right as violent and harvest sympathy votes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 04:29 PM (diia5)

Is this the dem woman that's being hailed as brave and compassionate for trying to help a 'victim' and not caring about herself?

Posted by: LASue at September 07, 2026 04:37 PM (lCppi)

83 More cultural enrichment.

>>@javiernegre10
·
3h
>>Translated from Spanish
Something very curious is happening in France..

>>Flocks of sheep are disappearing, only the females are stolen from the farms, the males are not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 04:40 PM (viF8m)

84 81 >> HERE WE GO AGAIN: Amy Acton’s “assassination attempt” story is collapsing in real time.

Here's the chaser. Alcohol and prescription drugs don't mix well, Amy.

https://tinyurl.com/a739dw8f
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 04:37 PM (viF8m)
Amy looks just like my ex wife, the one who beat up my truck with a tire iron.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:41 PM (LHPAg)

85 Seeing the words "Close it up" at the bottom hit differently on this post.

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 04:43 PM (vE0+H)

86 The weather is glorious in SF today. In a little while we will walk over to Hippie Hill there is a Grateful Dead cover concert. Some dude we met at the wedding last night said he is the band manager and promised to get us backstage.

Like, wow, man.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 04:44 PM (RIvkX)

87 Amy looks just like my ex wife, the one who beat up my truck with a tire iron.
Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:41 PM (LHPAg)
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What did the truck do to her?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 04:45 PM (RIvkX)

88 Lotus Eaters discusses the situation in Portsmouth where some of the English were attempting to stop a migrant boat from landing:

https://youtu.be/X6-C4xVTOyE

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)

89 Amy looks just like my ex wife, the one who beat up my truck with a tire iron.
Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:41 PM (LHPAg)
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What did the truck do to her?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 04:45 PM

What's the popular country song where the jealous girlfriend does this?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 04:48 PM (2Ez/1)

90 Cloudy and 64 here on the beach. Quiet too.

So nice.

Tourists will be gone soon.
Why do they call it “Tourist Season” if we can’t shoot em?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 04:48 PM (7KluB)

91 Lotus Eaters discusses the situation in Portsmouth where some of the English were attempting to stop a migrant boat from landing:

https://youtu.be/X6-C4xVTOyE
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Should've used mortars, or at least some drones.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 04:48 PM (diia5)

92 Dead cover concert. Some dude we met at the wedding last night said he is the band manager and promised to get us backstage.

Like, wow, man.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 04:44 PM (RIvkX)

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Don't eat the brown acid....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 07, 2026 04:49 PM (JqJBt)

93 Should've used mortars, or at least some drones.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 04:48 PM (diia5)

Probably more effective than grannies in kayaks, but not as photogenic.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

94 Peak tourist season is over here, too, but we want them here for the summer.

Posted by: Accomack at September 07, 2026 04:52 PM (sStKZ)

95 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (hG5L0)

96 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 04:53 PM (0sNs1)

97 A mooslimb cleric has written a book on the proper way and improper ways to whip your wife. One of the caveats is breaking bones; it is forbidden.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 04:19 PM (EYrlY)

They go short of anything requiring advanced medical treatment. They're not barbarians.

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 04:54 PM (vE0+H)

98 62 31 I have a chance to buy a Spencer in .45 Colt. Is this a good idea, or merely an idea.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)
I say yes. But then I used to drink Jack Daniels with orange juice.
Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg)


I drank scotch with root beer. More than once!

I don't have an opinion on the gun, just wanted to get that confession off my chest. (A really cheap scotch with a fancy root beer is actually good, but with a basic root beer you'd be better off with a Jack & Coke.)

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 04:54 PM (ke3zm)

99 Amy looks just like my ex wife, the one who beat up my truck with a tire iron.

No, no -- I said a five iron! -- Tiger

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 07, 2026 04:57 PM (zdLoL)

100 Women can get more radicalized than men

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 05:10 PM (Ia/+0)

101 Have a rib eye on the grill, first time using it since I got rebuilding parts

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)

102 Once upon a time, I had a Vivitar 80-210mm 35mm SLR zoom lens with a macro ring; I used to take lots of close-up still shots of flowers in the Rosengarten.

Posted by: DavidD at September 07, 2026 05:35 PM (MSTeU)

103 Look up Walter McCrone, a relative of mine who did interesting things with cameras and microscopes. I always looked forward to his Christmas cards.

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

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 07, 2026 05:56 PM (Q/FnY)

104 That bug close up is bug Mike Damone

Posted by: Rodney Smith at September 08, 2026 01:38 AM (yPBPH)

Open Thread: "Thief Busters" Hurt More Would-Be Thieves

I said last time that I'm not sure this is real, because the stupid legal system we live under would probably punish these guys as serious criminals for rigging a bike to electrify a thief. No punishment for the thief, but the guy putting out a bait bike: Maximum penalties.

Still, this all looks very real.

Setting up a Bait Truck to lure thieves into, before taking them on a rough ride:

Skateboard with a steel wire:

Electrified bike:

I'm sure I linked this electrified bike video before. But if you want to see thieves in pain, check it out.


Moped loaded with a paint bomb plus electrified handlebars:

Could this be real? I don't know. My heart says yes, but my brain says it's just a well-done fake.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM




Comments

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1 There you go.

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 02:29 PM (vE0+H)

2 Foist?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 02:31 PM (2Ez/1)

3 Missed it by THAT much.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 02:32 PM (2Ez/1)

4 bait bucket>>>bait bike

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 02:34 PM (QGaXH)

5 We're gonna need these guys for our star chamber.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 02:35 PM (RIvkX)

6 There you go.
Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 02:29 PM

You even beat Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

7 Yeah, fake. And gay.

Also, the NYT is supposedly bemoaning the loss of Kenyan jobs writing college papers to AI...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (XuXeR)

8 ...the stupid legal system we live under would probably punish these guys as serious criminals for rigging a bike to electrify a thief. No punishment for the thief, but the guy putting out a bait bike: Maximum penalties.
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And this is a good measure of know how far away from simple justice and common sense our civilization has veered.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 02:38 PM (RIvkX)

9 Yeah, fake. And gay.

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (XuXeR)

It hits you right in the need to see justice done to lowlifes.

So, yeah, 90+% chance of fake.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 07, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)

10 'Bait Car' title? was an incredible show, I'm surprised it ever maee it to air considering it was just black after black stealing cars.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 02:39 PM (Sco7b)

11 What I read (comments at some website) is that they pay the thieves to participate. So they find rando would-be street people, and make them sign a release without knowing exactly what will happen.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 02:42 PM (tOY9K)

12 I think the glitter bomb packages are real but beyond that, no idea.

Posted by: I'm fine with zapping thieves at September 07, 2026 02:42 PM (TbWk/)

13 What I read (comments at some website) is that they pay the thieves to participate. So they find rando would-be street people, and make them sign a release without knowing exactly what will happen.
Posted by: bob

Fake and gay.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 02:44 PM (7AjME)

14 Boy, not many folks hanging out here today.

Maybe we need to up the boob talk.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:45 PM (77rzZ)

15 @8 a good measure of know how far away from simple justice and common sense our civilization has veered.

Stupid old Katko v. Briney anyway.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 07, 2026 02:45 PM (zdLoL)

16 It hits you right in the need to see justice done to lowlifes.

So, yeah, 90+% chance of fake.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

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There is a whole genre of video of thieves getting comeuppance. Brazil biker punks, Russian car jackers, various armed robberies of stores, etc.

There are websites that specialize in this stuff. I don't recall where, but I have seen them and they really are glorious.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 02:47 PM (tOY9K)

17 Tonight's dinner: basil marinated chicken kebabs 🍢 with corn on the cob, couscous and Greek salad. Apple crisp for desert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 02:48 PM (7AjME)

18 The videos of backpacks setup as bait that are cabled to a post or tree are funny.

The thief typically grabs the backpack and then runs off. Only get the bag jerked right out of their hands. Most of the time they've a death grip on it, so they end up biting the sidewalk. Some will grab it again and take off... only to bite it again.

Thieves be stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 02:48 PM (2Cry5)

19
Ugh. Got finished with the yard ahead of Her Majesty's returntomorrow. Hard, hot work. Took a pretty good beating. Feeling rather ill.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 02:48 PM (eRlcH)

20 As an attorney I would advise my clients not to do this , from a civil or criminal law standpoint.
A concept in the law is the "spring gun" cases. A person's home keeps being broken into so they set up a gun aimed at the window where the break in occurs. The burglar goes through window again, triggers gun shooting and killing burglar. Homeowner charged with murder. As kharmic as this sounds , bad idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 02:50 PM (TrqdA)

21 Tonight's dinner: basil marinated chicken kebabs 🍢 with corn on the cob, couscous and Greek salad. Apple crisp for desert.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

What kind of booze should I bring?

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

22 Homeless people in their area live by finders keepers so the lesson is lost on me. If they did their bait stuff in decent neighborhoods I would be more impressed.

Doing it in run down homeless areas is shooting fish in a barrel and useless.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:50 PM (KC5Lt)

23 10 'Bait Car' title? was an incredible show, I'm surprised it ever maee it to air considering it was just black after black stealing cars.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 02:39 PM (Sco7b)

Didn't 'Cops' suffer the same criticism? It was just one black perp after another. I think the show went on hiatus during Covid but now it's back but with most non-black perps.

I recall asking a friend at work if he watched 'Cops' and his response was 'OMG! Those people are barbarians...killing each other over a pair of sneakers....'

I worked in a place culturally closer to Star Trek than say...Roseann...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 02:51 PM (QGaXH)

24 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 02:51 PM (QGaXH)

The First 48 is the current show that does the black community no favor.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:52 PM (KC5Lt)

25 Funny as hell, but no way it’s real.

They’d have to sign contracts and waivers and pay up front for all the crap they do to these homeless guys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 02:52 PM (6ydKt)

26 Thieves be stupid."

Always been that way. Also the truck vid... would be more believable if one of the guys didn't keep falling the opposite way - watch the door move)

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

27 Ugh. Got finished with the yard ahead of Her Majesty's returntomorrow. Hard, hot work. Took a pretty good beating. Feeling rather ill.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You provided the labor on Labor day.

Relax in the a/c.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 02:52 PM (7AjME)

28 What kind of booze should I bring?
Posted by: Bulg

Your favorite bourbon.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 02:54 PM (7AjME)

29 Tonight's dinner: basil marinated chicken kebabs 🍢 with corn on the cob, couscous and Greek salad. Apple crisp for desert.

Tonight's dinner: a pound of hamburger with... something, I dunno what yet. Maybe a jar of spaghetti sauce. Oreos for dessert. Livin' the life, yo.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (vTZFs)

30 Seems like a elaborate solution for things that already exist for cooling. Bigger heatsink/fan with a filter on the case works for 90% of systems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop
--

If the subject is cooling a mini-pc
Beelink is mounted on the back of a Gateway monitor, a $1.98, 12v cooling fan encased in Styrofoam is strung on an insulated wire from one of the mounting screws. Its cuddled up to the Beelink and the residual air is then ducked via envelope downward to the two mounted external HDs. It's all cool.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (EYrlY)

31 the show went on hiatus during Covid"

During blm...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (XuXeR)

32 Not all thieves are stupid. You just don't see them because they don't get caught.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (KC5Lt)

33
24 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 02:51 PM (QGaXH)

The First 48 is the current show that does the black community no favor.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:52 PM (KC5Lt)

You're right -that's another one. They have to go where the material (content) is. I don't find new 'Cops' as good as original 'Cops'.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (QGaXH)

34 Driving away .. Kidnapping.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 02:56 PM (NnhvP)

35 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 02:38 PM (RIvkX)

Did I hear correctly earlier that you're at Half Moon Bay?

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

36 Thanks for the dog advice Hordemates. She is sleeping now and seems a bit more settled. And no, she did not get into my liquor cabinet. I may be hitting it soon though.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 02:57 PM (2WIwB)

37 Posted by: Oddbob at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (vTZFs)

Mix it with a can of bush's bake beans, rice and sweet baby ray's honey bbq sauce.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:58 PM (KC5Lt)

38
Didn't 'Cops' suffer the same criticism? It was just one black perp after another. I think the show went on hiatus during Covid but now it's back but with most non-black perps.

__________

I think it was the George Floyd riots and anti-cop pressure from the wackos that put it on hiatus.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 02:59 PM (eRlcH)

39 American forces hit three Iranian oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked two U.S. warships.
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this happened the other day but no talk of seizing the ship or the cargo

Why didn't we seize the ships and cargo? The cargo could be auctioned off; the ships too. If the ships aren't viable they can be scrapped.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:59 PM (EYrlY)

40 31 the show went on hiatus during Covid"

During blm...
Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:55 PM (XuXeR)

That's right. The two events were concurrent, but BLM was the cause, not Covid.

Why couldn't they just stick to managing open land and leave the cities alone????

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 02:59 PM (QGaXH)

41 Diogenes, what kind of dog?

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

42 Did I hear correctly earlier that you're at Half Moon Bay?"

Used to go there for pumpkins...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 03:00 PM (XuXeR)

43 Cops, in its 90s - 00s prime was probably 70% blacks and 30% everybody else.

They filmed mainly in large cities so that’s the reality you’re going to get.

They have On Patrol: Live now on Reelz channel.
Used to be on A&E until George Floyd and they got scared and ran.

That show has about the same demographic makeup depending on which cities they’re on that night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

44 Did I hear correctly earlier that you're at Half Moon Bay?"

Used to go there for pumpkins...
Posted by: man

Beautiful place.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

45 used do do something like this with my bicycle back in the day, when I would leave it outside a store briefly: pop the quick-releases on the wheels.
- lift the bike, front wheel falls off
- jump on to ride off, pedaling pulls the rear wheel forward until axle disengages; tangled mess.
lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (VyBeY)

46
Of course, 90% of crimes are committed by white, Christian, heterosexual oil executives.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (eRlcH)

47 43 Cops, in its 90s - 00s prime was probably 70% blacks and 30% everybody else.

They filmed mainly in large cities so that’s the reality you’re going to get.

They have On Patrol: Live now on Reelz channel.
Used to be on A&E until George Floyd and they got scared and ran.

That show has about the same demographic makeup depending on which cities they’re on that night.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

I swear every time I saw Cops it featured the Fort Worth PD.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (WB/3O)

48 I submitted an AI generated resume for a job posting that was created with AI. I got back an AI generated email asking to schedule an interview with an AI bot. I’m tempted to have my chatbot take the interview for me, and close the loop.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (U1NLK)

49 Diogenes, what kind of dog?
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:59 PM (77rzZ)


English spaniel.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 03:03 PM (2WIwB)

50 If blacks want to stop being “over represented” on cop shows, perhaps they should stop stealing shit and shooting people in a greater proportion to the general population.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 03:04 PM (opniS)

51
I swear every time I saw Cops it featured the Fort Worth PD.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (WB/3O)

__________

Some PDs are eager to be filmed and others refuse to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:04 PM (eRlcH)

52 Beautiful place."

Indeed. Lovely

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 03:04 PM (XuXeR)

53 this happened the other day but no talk of seizing the ship or the cargo

Why didn't we seize the ships and cargo? The cargo could be auctioned off; the ships too. If the ships aren't viable they can be scrapped.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:59 PM (EYrlY)

And this is where the logistician in me has LOTS of questions.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:04 PM (WB/3O)

54 90% of crimes are committed by white, Christian, heterosexual oil executives.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (eRlcH)

We’re looking for some new writers, interested?
- Law & Order

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 07, 2026 03:04 PM (U1NLK)

55 I mean, did a single white person try and steal anything in these videos?

Stereotypes are a big time saver.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 07, 2026 03:05 PM (rWBoI)

56 First 48 does different cities. I like the Tulsa detectives the best. Birmingham has a great detective crew also. Minneapolis has the worst imo.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:05 PM (KC5Lt)

57 Having watched a lot of Law & Order in my (checks notes) 29 years, my learned opinion is as follows:

You could get away with the tied down backpacks, bikes, skateboards, etc. That's simply securing your property.

Glitter bombs require absolute intent, so you could (probably) get away with it.

Electrification is a no-no without clear warnings such as you would find on a fence.

The box truck is absolutely staged. Closing the door could be construed as detainment (although get ready for a legal bill). The second you drive away, that is false imprisonment, kidnapping and reckless endangerment.

Also also, see the Argentine film 4X4 or it's western remake Locked.

Posted by: Captain Comic at September 07, 2026 03:05 PM (tso+q)

58 50 If blacks want to stop being “over represented” on cop shows, perhaps they should stop stealing shit and shooting people in a greater proportion to the general population.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 03:04 PM (opniS)

Something much harder:

Embrace the nuclear family. Celebrate fatherhood and being a present father.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:05 PM (WB/3O)

59 46, isn't it more like 96 - 98%?

just like on teevee

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 03:08 PM (VyBeY)

60 48 I submitted an AI generated resume for a job posting that was created with AI. I got back an AI generated email asking to schedule an interview with an AI bot. I’m tempted to have my chatbot take the interview for me, and close the loop.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
---

Posted here: fellow had a Dr.s appointment. Doc recorded the q&t, put it in AI and AI wrote the diagnosis. The Doc did nothing but ask questions.

Yes let your chatbot take the interview. Get the job and let chatbot do work at home for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:08 PM (EYrlY)

61 Urban yutes are not always crafty criminals. It's not necessarily that they are stupid, but if you sell illegal drugs openly on a street corner you can expect to get arrested sooner or later. A lot of suburban yutes are more circumspect or have plausible cover to be doing more obviously suburbany things at suburbany places. "Fair" got nothin' to do with this, that comes once a year to Des Moines.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 03:08 PM (NUTV4)

62 181 Critical Drinker's take in Ellen Page was good and also quite sad . She was an attractive good actress. Now a 5 foot tall creation who has no roles to act for.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Nonsense! Rings of Power will probably introduce Sméagol soon, there's a Harry Potter series that could use a Dobby, a new Star Trek series is rumored to be in the works that could use weird, vaguely humanoid actors as aliens...all sorts of possibilities. Danny Devito didn't get roles off his good looks!

She can't play a ginger or Mon Calamari, though. Those roles have to go to authentic, natural actors.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 07, 2026 03:08 PM (t19vo)

63 58 - IOW reverse every bit of social programming since lbj

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 03:09 PM (VyBeY)

64 38
Didn't 'Cops' suffer the same criticism? It was just one black perp after another. I think the show went on hiatus during Covid but now it's back but with most non-black perps.

Every time I saw Cops it showed them doing the right thing - interacting with people like convenience store cashiers, winning hearts and minds that way. Checking in on people.

Then dealing with, frankly, white trash. More often than not in trailer parks.

I never saw every Cops episode but that seemed to be a theme for the ones I saw.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:09 PM (WB/3O)

65 You even beat Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

I really didn't. But someone should.

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 03:09 PM (vE0+H)

66
Embrace the nuclear family. Celebrate fatherhood and being a present father.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:05 PM (WB/3O)

_________

60 years ago, the 25% rate of black illegitimate births was considered a time bomb. Now what is it? Near 80%?

No-fault divorce is another catastrophe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:09 PM (eRlcH)

67 >>>And this is where the logistician in me has LOTS of questions.

Posted by: Cow Demon
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Bring them here. American ports and companies can bid on them or the various rights; auctioneers, warehouses, etc. while the ships are in transit. The ships are docked at the winning port.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:10 PM (EYrlY)

68 I swear every time I saw Cops it featured the Fort Worth PD.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:02 PM (WB/3O)

The original On Patrol on A&E used to follow the Sheriff’s department in the county I live in on a few nights a month. They might still do it, haven’t seen it in years.

It’s wild seeing idiots being chased down by cops on a street you recognize on live national tv.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

69 60 48 I submitted an AI generated resume for a job posting that was created with AI. I got back an AI generated email asking to schedule an interview with an AI bot. I’m tempted to have my chatbot take the interview for me, and close the loop.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
---

Posted here: fellow had a Dr.s appointment. Doc recorded the q&t, put it in AI and AI wrote the diagnosis. The Doc did nothing but ask questions.

Yes let your chatbot take the interview. Get the job and let chatbot do work at home for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:08 PM (EYrlY)

LOL

A wise man did say “Authenticity is the currency of the future.”

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:10 PM (WB/3O)

70 "Fair" got nothin' to do with this, that comes once a year to Des Moines.
Posted by: Common Tater

Don't I know it. (Iowa currently ranks as the 7th most obese state in the United States, with an adult obesity rate of approximately 37-38%)

Posted by: Substantially Elevated Cholesterol Levels at September 07, 2026 03:12 PM (t19vo)

71 Phffff. Bait trucks? Exploding bikes? What a bunch of pantywaists. Everybody knows the proper way to deal with thieves is to rape them, but not in a gay way.

Posted by: A Former Senatorial Candidate at September 07, 2026 03:12 PM (0vB2I)

72 I'm watching Bodycam on Roku right now.. I note that white and black crime differ a lot . White perps whine a lot more too.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:13 PM (KC5Lt)

73 craftiest long term theft scheme I ever saw was downtown Chicago on a side street behind the Federal Reserve building; a street sign whose pole was not attached to the base.
lock your bike to the pole; guy drives up, lifts pole, tosses bike into back of van & drives off
finally caught by video cameras.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 03:13 PM (VyBeY)

74 No-fault divorce is another catastrophe.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Agreed.

Divorce is a cancer.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

75 I wonder if seizing cargoes and ships would be possible outside of a declaration of war, and if that could be construed as a defacto state of war, and so would restart that war-powers act clock.

Of course I suppose some administrations wouldn't much care about things like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:14 PM (rbvCR)

76 Bring them here. American ports and companies can bid on them or the various rights; auctioneers, warehouses, etc. while the ships are in transit. The ships are docked at the winning port.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:10 PM (EYrlY)

With what money? If the ships are not viable and must be scrapped, how do you intend to bring them here? How do you deal with those who bought that crude? What do you do with the proceeds - put them in escrow for Iran when they get their shit together, or do you support demontage?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:14 PM (WB/3O)

77 I say, old boy! It seems I’ve a spot of nausea, eh what!

Posted by: English Spaniel at September 07, 2026 03:15 PM (u73oe)

78 75 I wonder if seizing cargoes and ships would be possible outside of a declaration of war, and if that could be construed as a defacto state of war, and so would restart that war-powers act clock.

Of course I suppose some administrations wouldn't much care about things like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:14 PM (rbvCR)

Declarations of war are for diplomats.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:15 PM (WB/3O)

79 76. demonta what????

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 03:16 PM (QGaXH)

80 Then dealing with, frankly, white trash. More often than not in trailer parks.

Summer teeth and no shirt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 03:16 PM (7AjME)

81 Declarations of war are for diplomats.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:15 PM (WB/3O)


[Clemenceau] said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought.

--General Jack D. Ripper, USAF

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:18 PM (rbvCR)

82 I'd like to believe the truck prank is real, but possible charges of kidnapping? No. i think that's fake.

The bikes may be real, but the law takes a dim view on traps

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 03:18 PM (llBIB)

83 I am sure U-Haul did not appreciate having their truck bashed around all over the boondocks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 03:19 PM (1z8ji)

84 White perps whine a lot more too.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:13 PM (KC5Lt)

Asmongold has reacted to a few bodycam videos of young, attractive white girls getting arrested for some dumb thing or another.

It always goes the same way; indignation, smartassery, bossgirl, toddler tempter tantrum, kicking, screaming, begging, crying, fetal position, followed by a tazer or straight to handcuffs.

The black girls are an entire different experience but nonetheless just as entertaining.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:21 PM (6ydKt)

85 75 I wonder if seizing cargoes and ships would be possible outside of a declaration of war, and if that could be construed as a defacto state of war, and so would restart that war-powers act clock.
---

They broke the rules, break the rule pay the price.
What are they going to do? Go stompy feet?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:22 PM (EYrlY)

86
I say, old boy! It seems I’ve a spot of nausea, eh what!
Posted by: English Spaniel at September 07, 2026 03:15 PM (u73oe)

__________

I don't have the energy to put up with a Sporting breed. It can be cd, wet and windy and a Sporting dog will say, "Great day for hunting! Let's play two!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:23 PM (eRlcH)

87 The first thing the detectives do on the First 48 is check the suspect’s social media.

“Hey everybody, look at all the money I stole from the guy I killed with this gun!”

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 03:23 PM (u73oe)

88 Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:21 PM (6ydKt

Hah! Just watched that scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:25 PM (KC5Lt)

89 Heroes of 9/11. Todd Beamer and the passengers of flight 93 that went down in Shanksville, PA:

https://tinyurl.com/mp3wsum7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 03:25 PM (mXZ+5)

90
Least to most unhinged

1) White guys
2) Black guys
3) White girls
4) Black girls

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:25 PM (eRlcH)

91 They broke the rules, break the rule pay the price.
What are they going to do? Go stompy feet?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:22 PM (EYrlY)


Who are you talking about, the Iranians who are still trying to count how many missiles they have that will fly, or Congress who are busy counting how many more votes they need for impeachment?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 03:25 PM (rbvCR)

92 75 I wonder if seizing cargoes and ships would be possible outside of a declaration of war, and if that could be construed as a defacto state of war, and so would restart that war-powers act clock.

Of course I suppose some administrations wouldn't much care about things like that.
Posted by: Kindltot

Soon...

Posted by: Letters of Marque at September 07, 2026 03:27 PM (t19vo)

93
Note to criminals. If you are driving while carrying illegal guns, stolen goods or drugs, obey all traffic laws and make sure your lights work.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:27 PM (eRlcH)

94 “Hey everybody, look at all the money I stole from the guy I killed with this gun!”
Posted by: Duke Lowell

"I'm just layin' low at LaCreesha's crib 'til the heat's off."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 03:28 PM (7AjME)

95
The three Iranian tankers that the US hit were empty. Enough flammable juice still in the plumbing to make some fireballs, though.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 03:28 PM (VWtfl)

96 With what money? If the ships are not viable and must be scrapped, how do you intend to bring them here? How do you deal with those who bought that crude? What do you do with the proceeds - put them in escrow for Iran when they get their shit together, or do you support demontage?

Posted by: Cow Demon
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If it doesn't have power and can't be towed sell it to whom ever wants to buy it.
Those that bought the crude are forfeit. They did know or should have known they were doing business with Iran which is forbidden.
The proceeds? Everything is auctioned off in America at below cost and resold below cost. It's a piece of bounty to all.

And the crew. They were probably work at next to slave labor. They will be happy with a ticket home.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:29 PM (EYrlY)

97 Note to criminals. If you are driving while carrying illegal guns, stolen goods or drugs, obey all traffic laws and make sure your lights work.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:27 PM (eRlcH)

————-

This is one of those.

Posted by: Sergeant Curtiss at September 07, 2026 03:29 PM (u73oe)

98 A Claymore mine in the shape of a bicycle seat. Brought to you by Acme Industries, nemesis of Wile E. Coyote.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

99 White girls being arrested are definitely the most unhinged.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:30 PM (KC5Lt)

100 The three Iranian tankers that the US hit were empty. Enough flammable juice still in the plumbing to make some fireballs, though.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 03:28 PM (VWtfl)

India has a very active shipbreaking industry. Just sail them there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 03:31 PM (1z8ji)

101 Hadrian needs a labrador, sounds like.

Truly some of my favorite dogs.
Loyal and loving, and nice flappy ears made for petting. Calm personalities.

They’d also be perfect if you could teach them to open the fridge to bring you something because the live to fetch.

(and handy dandy webbed paws as a bonus - they would swim the Atlantic if you let them)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

102 India has a very active shipbreaking industry. Just sail them there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 03:31 PM (1z8ji)

Yes I watched a doc on that industry. Very interesting.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:32 PM (KC5Lt)

103 100 Videos of that sends shivers down my spine. Operating heavy equipment and cutting torches in shorts and flip flops for very few rupees a day.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 03:33 PM (gm9Sb)

104 99 White girls being arrested are definitely the most unhinged.
Posted by: polynikes

You think so? There's a bit more variety in reactions, but often white girls end up crying and begging (for mercy or their mom), although a substantial number are just combative and argumentative. Black women seem to almost always be violent and argumentative, rarely cry, and are always pregnant/can't breathe/etc

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 07, 2026 03:33 PM (t19vo)

105 I don't have the energy to put up with a Sporting breed. It can be cd, wet and windy and a Sporting dog will say, "Great day for hunting! Let's play two!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hadrian, what class do borzois fit into? They are also hunting dogs, no?

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

106 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 07, 2026 03:33 PM (t19vo)

Resisting and being violent is different to me than being unhinged. White girls being arrested become Hulk Karens.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 03:35 PM (KC5Lt)

107 100 The three Iranian tankers that the US hit were empty. Enough flammable juice still in the plumbing to make some fireballs, though.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 03:28 PM (VWtfl)


India has a very active shipbreaking industry. Just sail them there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Bingo


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:36 PM (EYrlY)

108 “If it doesn't have power and can't be towed sell it to whom ever wants to buy it.”

To who and with what money? Where does that come from, by the way?

“Those that bought the crude are forfeit. They did know or should have known they were doing business with Iran which is forbidden.”

When confronted with that, whoever bought the crude will pause, ponder your wisdom, and say “Oh OK” and do nothing. Um, check that, no they won’t.

“The proceeds? Everything is auctioned off in America at below cost and resold below cost. It's a piece of bounty to all.” So you ARE supportive of demontage.

“And the crew. They were probably work at next to slave labor. They will be happy with a ticket home.”

Their home countries will be happy to hear that. Oh, with what money?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:29 PM (EYrlY)

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:37 PM (WB/3O)

109
Hadrian needs a labrador, sounds like.

Truly some of my favorite dogs.
Loyal and loving, and nice flappy ears made for petting. Calm personalities.

__________

We were once at a show in Delaware, OH. There was a Lab specialty there that always had an outdoor ring. This day it was about 43 degrees, windy and raining to beat the band. The judge and exhibitors looked like zeks at Kolyma. The dogs were having a blast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 03:37 PM (eRlcH)

110 You guys might want to sit down. You aren't going to believe but apparently violence broke out at the annual Caribbean festial in NYC yesterday. 3 guys were also stabbed.

https://tinyurl.com/49r6t9wp

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 03:38 PM (viF8m)

111 >>>Resisting and being violent is different to me than being unhinged. White girls being arrested become Hulk Karens.

Posted by: polynikes
--

Hispanics and blacks are always submissive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:38 PM (EYrlY)

112 India has a very active shipbreaking industry. Just sail them there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Brownsville, TX does a lot of shipbreaking.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:38 PM (WB/3O)

113 98 A Claymore mine in the shape of a bicycle seat. Brought to you by Acme Industries, nemesis of Wile E. Coyote.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

Hi bill in arkansas. Wife and I just spent a couple weeks in your beautiful state including Lake Chicot SP, Hot Springs and Fort Smith NHS. Enjoyed the people and the scenery but it was unseemingly hot!

I was tempted to write something about stopping by and knocking at 3AM but thought better of it....laughing!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 03:39 PM (QGaXH)

114 The black girls are an entire different experience"

It's called the WNBA...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 03:40 PM (XuXeR)

115 Soon...
Posted by: Letters of Marque at September 07, 2026 03:27 PM (t19vo)

Talk about a blast from the past…

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:40 PM (WB/3O)

116 Their home countries will be happy to hear that. Oh, with what money?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:29 PM (EYrlY)

Posted by: Cow Demon
---

You sound like a bureaucrat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:40 PM (EYrlY)

117 Shipbreaking?

Stacey Abrams going to India?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 03:42 PM (GN2QT)

118 apparently violence broke out at the annual Caribbean festial in NYC"

No. I shan't belive it. I just shan't.

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 03:42 PM (XuXeR)

119 Nood. Macro photography.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 03:43 PM (9iRTe)

120 The oil was probably destined for India or China.
They can’t resist the discount.

Xi’s visiting D.C. soon.
Trump might’ve been sending a message to not just the Iranians.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:45 PM (6ydKt)

121 You sound like a bureaucrat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 03:40 PM (EYrlY)

You sound like a tactician.

Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics. It’s fine to capture these ships. Then what? That’s not bureaucratic BS, that’s real consequences you must deal with realistically. It could well be that those ships were attacked, set on fire and sunk because it was the easiest thing to do from a logistical standpoint.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (WB/3O)

122 Xi’s visiting D.C. soon.
Trump might’ve been sending a message to not just the Iranians.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 03:45 PM (6ydKt)

Ya think?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:51 PM (WB/3O)

A Head for Heights Open Thread

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM




Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 GatewayPundit

After its historic victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has dropped from 44.4 % of the vote to 43.8% after mail-in ballots were counted, with all other parties gaining abnormally from mail-in ballots. Attorney Dirk Schmitz called this a sign of “systematic manipulation”.

German elections have been thought to be fairly secure, with mainly in-person same-day voting, photo ID requirements, and a Supreme Court ban on digital voting machines, as I explained to Ben Harnwell on The War Room.


Riiiiighht

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 01:21 PM (Sco7b)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 07, 2026 01:23 PM (NcvvS)

3 I will not be Willowed!

"The IBM PS/2 series came out in 1987. The architecture was a dead end but it did give us VGA and the PS/2 keyboard connector.

I worked for an IBM dealer at that time. IBM spent a whole bunch of money training us on those products and I sold a boatload of Model 30s, 50s, and 70s. Those went for about $2k, $3K, and $4K, respectively. And then you needed a VGA CRT monitor, $300-$3000 at the time."

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (MWfyi)

4 I lost my license. Now I don't fly.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

5 I'm not watching any of those videos. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (77rzZ)

6 I don't mind the freefall. Losing sight of everything while doing it? Yeah, no.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 01:25 PM (7AjME)

7 Anyway, people are complaining about memory prices but they forget that PCs used to cost a lot more for a lot less computer than you can get nowadays. $1000 for a 80Gb drive??? Outrageous!

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:25 PM (MWfyi)

8 Those heights make me feel as wobbly and Renoir's wicker chair when the fat woman shows up with her monster baby for a portrait.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 07, 2026 01:26 PM (tOY9K)

9 80Mb, I mean.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:26 PM (MWfyi)

10 1 GatewayPundit

After its historic victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has dropped from 44.4 % of the vote to 43.8% after mail-in ballots were counted, with all other parties gaining abnormally from mail-in ballots. Attorney Dirk Schmitz called this a sign of “systematic manipulation”.

German elections have been thought to be fairly secure, with mainly in-person same-day voting, photo ID requirements, and a Supreme Court ban on digital voting machines, as I explained to Ben Harnwell on The War Room.


Riiiiighht
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 01:21 PM (Sco7b)

Not the worst part.

The Firewall is still in effect. Watch it get deployed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:28 PM (WB/3O)

11 Hell to the fuck to the no

Posted by: Nope train to fuckthatville at September 07, 2026 01:28 PM (TbWk/)

12 "Heights are afraid of me"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 07, 2026 01:29 PM (2ap+5)

13 "The IBM PS/2 series came out in 1987. The architecture was a dead end but it did give us VGA and the PS/2 keyboard connector.

I worked for an IBM dealer at that time. IBM spent a whole bunch of money training us on those products and I sold a boatload of Model 30s, 50s, and 70s. Those went for about $2k, $3K, and $4K, respectively. And then you needed a VGA CRT monitor, $300-$3000 at the time."
Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (MWfyi)

I have an IBM PS/1 on the shelf. My first computer. Still works, AFAIK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:29 PM (1z8ji)

14 4 I lost my license. Now I don't fly.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

Your Cessna plane goes 185?

Posted by: Not Joe Walsh at September 07, 2026 01:31 PM (TbWk/)

15 Those videos have really annoying music on them, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:31 PM (1z8ji)

16 My first hard drive was 120 mb, and it was “more than I would ever need”.

Now, get off my lawn

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 07, 2026 01:32 PM (g9+4z)

17 80Mb, I mean.
Posted by: fd
+++
I bought my first computer in 1988 or 89. It had a 20Mb hard drive. I thought I would never need a hard drive bigger than that.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2026 01:32 PM (Lo97M)

18 Generally I am not afraid of heights, wouldn't say in every situation. Did climb water towers twice in my younger days

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)

19 From the Tech thread:

80 I have an LG.
Turned a lot if the offending settings off at original setup.

I have never in my life felt like talking to my remote control to get it to do something, so I never turned the Voice Control on.

Went through the menu again just now and switched some settings off that had been turned on after a recent software update, deleted Ad/Content information, and Reset the Ad ID.

It’s ridiculous that LG feels this irresistible urge to nickel & dime the customer even on their OLEDs which are not cheap and shouldn’t need to be subsidized by marketing the customer’s information.

If you can’t make enough money in South Korea charging $800 to $4000 for millions of TVs, without resorting to data brokering, you are doing it wrong.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 06:27 AM (6ydKt)


IIRC, car & truck makers sell your driving data (whatever they're able to collect from your model) for a couple bucks. Not annually; total. I would gladly pay them a dollar over that to keep my data to themselves, and then a dollar more to not collect it in the first place.

I offer... four dollars! They can *double* what they're making now. Am I not generous?

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 01:33 PM (ke3zm)

20 "I have an IBM PS/1 on the shelf. My first computer. Still works, AFAIK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

My uncle still has a Model 25 that they used to use at his furniture store supposedly for inventory but mostly to play solitaire on.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:33 PM (MWfyi)

21 I aerial tower probably still would climb up, these mountains straight up and camping in middle no fiw

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:34 PM (Ia/+0)

22 Generally I am not afraid of heights, wouldn't say in every situation. Did climb water towers twice in my younger days
Posted by: Skip

I've tried rock climbing once in my life. Froze in fear halfway up and could not continue.

Repelling back down was fun, though.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

23 We used to install 10Mb full height 5 1/4 drives in IBM Ps for around $800. Those drives would shake the table when the drives were accessed.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:35 PM (MWfyi)

24 re: 'Imagine getting paid to do this for a living'

Oh. Fuck. No.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:35 PM (Y/06r)

25 I'm afraid of widths.

-Steven Wright

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 01:35 PM (ZxPkt)

26 Did climb water towers twice in my younger days
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)

——————

To defend your sister’s honor? You might be a redneck.

Posted by: Jeff Foxworthy at September 07, 2026 01:36 PM (u73oe)

27 $1000 for a 80Gb drive??? Outrageous!
Posted by: fd

First 1 gig drive I worked with was 5 grand.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:37 PM (NnhvP)

28 IIRC, car & truck makers sell your driving data (whatever they're able to collect from your model) for a couple bucks. Not annually; total. I would gladly pay them a dollar over that to keep my data to themselves, and then a dollar more to not collect it in the first place.

I offer... four dollars! They can *double* what they're making now. Am I not generous?
Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 01:33 PM (ke3zm)

Good thing I don't own any cars new enough to support that "feature". My '08 Suburban does not have OnStar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:37 PM (1z8ji)

29
Have these Red Bull stunts gotten anybody killed yet? Seems like a matter of time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 01:37 PM (VWtfl)

30 My nose bleeds and my ears pop just getting out of bed some mornings.

Posted by: Flatlander, Myself at September 07, 2026 01:37 PM (Fn+3X)

31 re: 'Imagine getting paid to do this for a living'

Oh. Fuck. No.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
+++
They wouldn't have to pay me for long. I'm sure I would fall off in less than 5 minutes.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Lo97M)

32 Imagine doing this for a living

All aboard the Nope Train to Fuckthatville!

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (/k3in)

33 >>>Two Red Bull pilots tried the craziest stunt ever swapping planes mid-air.

Pffft.

Posted by: Zombie Jason Arday at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (dK+Kv)

34 15 Those videos have really annoying music on them, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:31 PM

I guess I'm venturing ever further into geezerdom, but I find that bothering me more and more. My first run through the video is preoccupied with turning down the volume of whatever free and unlicensed garbage music the creator felt obligated to use to "enhance" the viewing experience.

Posted by: Suck it, eh? at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)

35 16 My first hard drive was 120 mb, and it was “more than I would ever need”.

Now, get off my lawn
Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 07, 2026 01:32 PM (g9+4z)

I got a copy of PC World from April 1987.

The cover: CD-ROM: Harnessing The Power of Unlimited Storage

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (WB/3O)

36 I still watch Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd movies and realize that today's dare devil lunatics are only copy cats.

Thos two were certifiably insane on so many levels.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 01:39 PM (dIske)

37 32 Imagine doing this for a living

All aboard the Nope Train to Fuckthatville!
Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (/k3in)

*hearty golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:39 PM (Y/06r)

38 Have these Red Bull stunts gotten anybody killed yet? Seems like a matter of time.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 07, 2026 01:37 PM (VWtfl)

Red Bull is nasty shit, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:39 PM (1z8ji)

39 "First 1 gig drive I worked with was 5 grand.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron"

That's what I mean, folks nowadays are spoiled by cheap PC components. Once you have spent $3000 on a monitor (in 80s dollars, even), that much for a video adapter doesn't seem so bad.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (MWfyi)

40
'Imagine getting paid to do this for a living'

Sure wouldn't do it for free.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (Cqx++)

41 Red Bull is nasty shit, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:39 PM (1z8ji)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (Y/06r)

42 There's a plastic bin in my garage. There's an original copy of IBM DOS in it. Two 3-ring binders, one with the 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.

Also about 100 CD's with various bootleg software. Everything from word processing, databases, etc. and a crapload of IBM/MS DOS compatible games from 1990 - 2000.

Industrial little hackers, we were.

All obsolete now and worthless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (2Cry5)

43 4 I lost my license. Now I don't fly.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

Anytime I see a Maserati I utter the famous line.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (WB/3O)

44 41 Red Bull is nasty shit, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:39 PM (1z8ji)

This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (Y/06r)

There is only one energy drink: coffee.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:42 PM (WB/3O)

45 Pffft.
Posted by: Zombie Jason Arday at September 07, 2026 01:38 PM (dK+Kv)

Heh. We still don't know what means you used to exit Stage Left. I wonder if it was an "accidental" hanging, like David Carradine?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:42 PM (1z8ji)

46 I'm a bit surprised the ironworkers aren't required to have some kind of a safety line securing them to the scaffolding. It would be very intrusive, but all it takes is one stumble, and you're a pavement pizza.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 01:42 PM (Riz8t)

47 "All obsolete now and worthless.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

Why do we save it? I dunno. Maybe some Moron will want it someday.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:42 PM (MWfyi)

48 I don't know if I've ever seen a Maserati.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Cqx++)

49 All obsolete now and worthless.

I'm right here ya know.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (vTZFs)

50 'Imagine getting paid to do this for a living'

Sure wouldn't do it for free.


Yeah, but chicks dig it.

Posted by: Those guys at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Riz8t)

51 I don't know if I've ever seen a Maserati.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

You can't see them because they go so fast.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (77rzZ)

52 I'm looking at a RIZEN mini pc with Win 11 and all the bells and whistles for under 700 right now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:44 PM (NnhvP)

53 I don't know if I've ever seen a Maserati.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Cqx++)

You probably have, and not noticed. The Biturbo sedan was fairly popular and also quite plain looking.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:45 PM (1z8ji)

54 I'm a bit surprised the ironworkers aren't required to have some kind of a safety line securing them to the scaffolding. It would be very intrusive, but all it takes is one stumble, and you're a pavement pizza.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's probably a macho thing.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:45 PM (77rzZ)

55 *hearty golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Thank you sir but it's from a meme I have as opposed to something I created. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:46 PM (/k3in)

56 I'm looking at a RIZEN mini pc with Win 11 and all the bells and whistles for under 700 right now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:44 PM (NnhvP)

2 GB of DDR4?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 07, 2026 01:46 PM (dK+Kv)

57 Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobs over next two years.

JLR announced they are cutting 4000 jobs, citing the Trump tariffs and the fallout from a cyber attack last year.


Yeah, the Trump tariffs. That's it. That's what did it.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh7rjk4

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 01:47 PM (Riz8t)

58 I see Maseratis every once in awhile, has to be a ddaler on the Main Line I would think

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:47 PM (Ia/+0)

59 No one would pay me what I would demand to set foot on that planking. May their work succeed as the work on the Chrysler Building (O dead) versus the Empire State Building (5 dead).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 01:48 PM (X5qGl)

60 It's probably a macho thing.

It's pretty macho. I'll give them that.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 01:48 PM (Riz8t)

61 Imagine doing this for a living

All aboard the Nope Train to Fuckthatville!
Posted by: NR Pax

*hearty golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Called the bank. My nope account is overdrawn.

Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 01:48 PM (RDRQY)

62 AfD has been wifely condemned for being anti drmetic and a threat to Jewish life
They deny the Holocaust

Is that a positive or a negative for morons?

Posted by: Paul at September 07, 2026 01:49 PM (LZCSM)

63 I'm a bit surprised the ironworkers aren't required to have some kind of a safety line securing them to the scaffolding. It would be very intrusive, but all it takes is one stumble, and you're a pavement pizza.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's probably a macho thing.
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:45 PM (77rzZ)


Listen to them talk. They ain't American. I suspect this was in a second/third-world country.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 01:50 PM (g8Ew8)

64 Paul, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 01:50 PM (u73oe)

65 Listen to them talk. They ain't American. I suspect this was in a second/third-world country.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Could be even more a macho thing, then.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)

66 I'm a bit surprised the ironworkers aren't required to have some kind of a safety line securing them to the scaffolding. It would be very intrusive, but all it takes is one stumble, and you're a pavement pizza.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's probably a macho thing.
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:45 PM (77rzZ)


Listen to them talk. They ain't American. I suspect this was in a second/third-world country. No OSHA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 01:51 PM (g8Ew8)

67 Posted by: Paul at September 07, 2026 01:49 PM (LZCSM)

Have you considered suing your mother for having not aborted you?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:51 PM (1z8ji)

68 62: link or slink.

Holocaust denial is BANNED in Germany. AfD would be SHUT DOWN. Not an annoyance to SPD or CDU/CSU. SHUT DOWN.

And their leader scissors with a Sri Lankan.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:51 PM (WB/3O)

69 Have you considered suing your mother for having not aborted you?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:51 PM (1z8ji)

——————

That’s some Ace level cruelty right there.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 01:52 PM (u73oe)

70 Holy shit! How'd that happen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 01:52 PM (g8Ew8)

71 "Imagine doing this for a living"

I'm sure those gentlemen get paid plenty.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 01:53 PM (lJ0H4)

72 Sure wouldn't do it for free.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I watched a 300' cell tower being assembled close enough to our backyard that I could hear the workers talking. Later I watched a 2 (1 man 1 woman) crew climb to the top with their tools and lunch pails clanging, up they went at 8:00am, and didn't come back down until 8:00pm.
I looked up what the hourly wage was at the time, 2010, and it was app $18.00 an hour. I was amazed that it wasn't 4,5x more.

Posted by: old chick at September 07, 2026 01:54 PM (F3Dlr)

73 Paul, you and your kind whine about how the Holocaust turned out so sit quietly and leave the grownups alone.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (/k3in)

74 Holy shit! How'd that happen.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I blame Trump's ballroom.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

75 AfD has been wifely condemned for being anti drmetic
Posted by: Paul


No one will accuse you of being anti-dramatic, ya mincing pooftah.

Wifely? Maybe.

And the only party that's trying to prevent an invasion of "death to Israel"-chanting head-choppers is objectively the least anti-Semitic party, no matter what you think they said.

Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (RDRQY)

76 >>I'm a bit surprised the ironworkers aren't required to have some kind of a safety line securing them to the scaffolding. It would be very intrusive, but all it takes is one stumble, and you're a pavement pizza.

There's a famous photo from the construction of the Empire State Building with a bunch of guys sitting on a steel beam eating lunch.

Un, no.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (viF8m)

77 ironworkers aren't required to have some kind of a safety line securing them to the scaffolding.

Trespassed pyramid bldg in Frisco under construction. Last few of 40 stories were ladders tied to outside girders. Good times

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (8Xfi1)

78 Holy shit! How'd that happen.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I blame Trump's ballroom.
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

Oh hell no. It was that damned arch.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 01:56 PM (g8Ew8)

79 I strive every day to make it through the day without being wifely condemned.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

80 I looked up what the hourly wage was at the time, 2010, and it was app $18.00 an hour. I was amazed that it wasn't 4,5x more.
Posted by: old chick

I hope their benefits are spectacular.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 01:56 PM (lJ0H4)

81
2 GB of DDR4?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

16G

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:56 PM (NnhvP)

82 Posted by: Paul at September 07, 2026 01:49 PM (LZCSM)

**********

You're not worth responding to, but I'll make an exception this time. You and your ilk should do something about the anti-semites in your ranks who cheered on the Palestinians on October 8th and beyond before you and your ilk even think about criticizing the AfD.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 07, 2026 01:57 PM (Esixy)

83 Gee, they didn't teach that during my private pilot training. Maybe you learn it as part of your Acrobatic pilot rating.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 01:57 PM (llBIB)

84 2 GB of DDR4?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

16G

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:56 PM (NnhvP)

DDR4, that's decent. DDR5, that's impressive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 07, 2026 01:58 PM (dK+Kv)

85 the most ignorant of sluts look down upon paul as if from a great height.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 01:58 PM (VyBeY)

86 @44/Cow Demon: "There is only one energy drink: coffee.

Preach it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 07, 2026 01:59 PM (O7YUW)

87 I strive every day to make it through the day without being wifely condemned.

Paul aspires to wifedom.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 01:59 PM (Riz8t)

88 Posted by: Paul at September 07, 2026 01:49 PM (LZCSM)

I don't believe you, because if it were true, then the DSA would be the AfD's biggest fan.

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 01:59 PM (ke3zm)

89 Gee, they didn't teach that during my private pilot training. Maybe you learn it as part of your Acrobatic pilot rating.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 01:57 PM (llBIB)

Never jump out of a serviceable airplane.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (1z8ji)

90 My chronic vertigo bows down in homage to you.

Posted by: epador at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (TRnzq)

91 Bravo, AOP!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (VyBeY)

92 And the only party that's trying to prevent an invasion of "death to Israel"-chanting head-choppers is objectively the least anti-Semitic party, no matter what you think they said.
Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 01:55 PM (RDRQY)

Israel is much like West Berlin: an island of sanity in a sea of insanity. Does the Left in this country agree? No.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (WB/3O)

93 I don't believe you, because if it were true, then the DSA would be the AfD's biggest fan.

No links, as usual.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (Riz8t)

94 56 I'm looking at a RIZEN mini pc with Win 11 and all the bells and whistles for under 700 right now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

One thing to be aware of with mini pcs. A) most of them use proprietary parts, B) heat management is a thing. Heat kills chips and if you don't make time to remove the cruft that builds up in a normal house from them, they get hot, start throwing errors, and then die.

Small cases unless you get the low power Ryzens or Intel T models that are a slower and designed for laptops to sip electricity, build up heat faster than bigger cases with better airflow and space between components.

That makes cleaning the inside of the cases using compressed air or stronger methods like isopropyl alcohol if you use things like indoor fireplaces or non vented gas space heaters. Leaves a greasy film everywhere that suck up dust.

Small cased electronics tend to have a shorter lifespan because of the small cases and difficulty in cleaning them whether it is stereos, dvd or set top boxes, routers, etc.

Posted by: whig at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (E4rtv)

95 Friends tell me that native americans often have those insane jobs walking around in high rise construction. No net, no safety line -- a bit off balance, a gust of wind, but they're immune.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 02:00 PM (llBIB)

96 r/DSA

At the Socialism 2026 conference, Beatrice Adler-Bolton argued that the left must abandon the "fantasy of being fitter than the fascists," stating that "the more dysgenic, the better."

The clips floating around the internet today really highlight the need for the DSA to be viewed independently from things like Socialism Conference.

I'm out of the loop. Wtf does dysgenic even mean? It needs to be fucking said: We need to be eugenic. Leftists need to be having more kids. Leftists need to have more instrumental personality traits. Leftists need to be intellectually rigorous.
We need fit people. not because it helps capital, but because it makes us healthier and smarter.

Imagine using words like "dysgenic" while wearing a covid mask in 2026 and talking about how being fat and unkempt is good.

this is why we don't have universal health Care and lots of holidays like they have over in europe, because the so-called American leftists were poisoned pill by propaganda from the elites to see the white conservative as the true enemy instead of the billionaires and the big corporations.. divide and conquer..

We use to be Nazi Punchers man

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 07, 2026 02:01 PM (t19vo)

97 Paul aspires to wifedom.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 01:59 PM (Riz8t)

He's going to have to learn how to make a sammich, then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:01 PM (1z8ji)

98 Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

Good for you ! Be anti dremetic as well which sounds like a combination of anti dramtic and some sort of medicine ( emetic?) as well

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 02:01 PM (mXZ+5)

99
There's a famous photo from the construction of the Empire State Building with a bunch of guys sitting on a steel beam eating lunch.

Un, no.
Posted by: JackStraw

The guy taking the picture was insane.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 02:01 PM (NnhvP)

100 It was inevitable, but Critical Drinker has a Crash and Burn story about Elliott Page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYuLWF_iDCg

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 02:02 PM (Riz8t)

101 I flew under a lot of powerlines. Still have a commercial ticket.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 02:02 PM (LHPAg)

102 86 @44/Cow Demon: "There is only one energy drink: coffee.

Preach it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 07, 2026 01:59 PM (O7YUW)

THIS IS MY COFFEE. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE. MY COFFEE IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER COFFEE AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE. WITHOUT ME MY COFFEE IS USELESS. WITHOUT MY COFFEE I AM USELESS.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 02:03 PM (WB/3O)

103 >>Friends tell me that native americans often have those insane jobs walking around in high rise construction. No net, no safety line -- a bit off balance, a gust of wind, but they're immune.

They were so popular back in the early days of skyscrapers and bridges they got a nickname, Mohawk Skywalkers.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

104 Those former pilots must have attended the DB Cooper school of aviation

Posted by: White knuckles at September 07, 2026 02:03 PM (llBIB)

105 100 It was inevitable, but Critical Drinker has a Crash and Burn story about Elliott Page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYuLWF_iDCg
Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 02:02 PM (Riz8t)

A good one. And sad.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 02:03 PM (WB/3O)

106 I missed the last thread, and several before that, so I was unable to point out that.....

He believes younger generations may feel a similar pull toward the Pizza Hut Classics.

"I think it does take them back to a little clip of time and an era where, in their minds, things weren't as hectic," Sparks said. "It was a little simpler time."


.....the word of the day is "anemoia."

"Nostalgia for something one has never experienced."

Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 02:04 PM (RDRQY)

107 I don't know if I've ever seen a Maserati.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Cqx++)

You probably have, and not noticed. The Biturbo sedan was fairly popular and also quite plain looking.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Then...there was the ill-fated Chrysler TC by Maserati.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 02:04 PM (XeU6L)

108 Small cased electronics tend to have a shorter lifespan because of the small cases and difficulty in cleaning them whether it is stereos, dvd or set top boxes, routers, etc.
Posted by: whig

I put a USB fan on them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 02:05 PM (NnhvP)

109 DDR4, that's decent. DDR5, that's impressive.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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16g should be considered the minimum for smooth running albeit slow Windoze 11. Fine for windows 10 or earlier.

16 gb Works fine for Macs or Linux and 8gb on either OS is tolerable compared to 8gb on Windoze 11.

For close to that price,consider one of the mini Macs as Apple has superior hardware and reliability for the minis versus most of the Windoze offerings of mini pcs.

Used factory minis are around and the M series of Apple processors is damn impressive. Only caveat, not so great for gaming.

Posted by: whig at September 07, 2026 02:05 PM (E4rtv)

110 It needs to be fucking said: We need to be eugenic. Leftists need to be having more kids. Leftists need to have more instrumental personality traits. Leftists need to be intellectually rigorous.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison


No idea what "instrumental personality traits" means but I do know what tends to happen to people that raise their own families and people that try to be intellectually rigorous. They tend to become more conservative.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 07, 2026 02:05 PM (vTZFs)

111 I flew under a lot of powerlines. Still have a commercial ticket.
Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 02:02 PM (LHPAg)

If you are doing aerial spraying, that goes with the territory, right? Also landing on public roads (with ground crew closing off a section for duration of event).

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:06 PM (1z8ji)

112 101 I flew under a lot of powerlines. Still have a commercial ticket.
Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 02:02 PM (LHPAg)

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What type aircraft? That's wild -- those power lines reach out and grab you

Posted by: White knuckles at September 07, 2026 02:06 PM (llBIB)

113 WHITE BOYZ BE CRAZY

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:07 PM (KC5Lt)

114
They were so popular back in the early days of skyscrapers and bridges they got a nickname, Mohawk Skywalkers.
Posted by: JackStraw

Saw an interview. The mohawk said' there were no other jobs'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 02:07 PM (NnhvP)

115 Reasons number 1001, 1002, 1003... why women live longer than men?

Posted by: White knuckles at September 07, 2026 02:08 PM (llBIB)

116 6 I don't mind the freefall. Losing sight of everything while doing it? Yeah, no.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 01:25 PM (7AjME)

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what if its not a cloud but fog... splat

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 07, 2026 02:09 PM (9FfUF)

117 I could do that pilot thing. I just don’t want to right now.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 02:09 PM (u73oe)

118 I saved my programs on my first computer using a cassette drive.

Then I graduated to one with two fullheight 5.25" floppy drives, each disk held 360Kb.

Then I got my first machine with a hard drive... a whole 10 megabytes.

Then I built my first XT machine (4.77 MHz/10 MHz turbo, 8088.) I put in a Miniscribe 3650 and had an amazing 40 megabytes of storage. Later I bought an RLL controller (instead of the MFM I had first) and extended that out to 65 megabytes.

I skipped 286's, and built a 386 sx with an 80 megabyte ide drive. That held me for a while.

And then Command and Conquer came out and I was "forced" to upgrade to my first Pentium machine and a 250 meg IDE drive. Wow playing that game was sweet though.

After that came a Dual Pentium III 450MHz machine (motherboard was from iWill) and I remember it had an awesome feature that if you bricked the motherboard with a flash update, you could name the rom .BIN file a certain name, put it on a 3.5" floppy, put it in, and upon boot, the motherboard would recognize it on POST and re-flash the rom all by itself. Now that's good design. This was my last machine with a hardware jumper for write-protecting the BIOS.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 07, 2026 02:10 PM (O7YUW)

119 >>Saw an interview. The mohawk said' there were no other jobs'.

I'd invent one if the only other option was walking around on steel beams 50 stories in the air.

Not this guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 02:10 PM (viF8m)

120
The guy taking the picture was insane.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

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I just came in to say that! Here are two of them. (You might need Facebook to get the second.)

https://tinyurl.com/msrnx49w

https://tinyurl.com/yc3bkvt8

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 07, 2026 02:10 PM (XJ22o)

121 I put a USB fan on them.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Indoor air quality matters and fans are a plus/minus thing. If your indoor air quality is good, its okay, if your air quality sucks, then it simply adds to the dust coating internally. You can put filters on that but then that restricts the airflow.

Ugly but practical sometimes is a big honking heat sink from a conductive metal like aluminum or copper. Passive heat sinks do not add to problems of air flow but do need to cleaned now and again as dust acts as a insulator over time.

Liquid cooling is better but introduces its own problems.

Posted by: whig at September 07, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

122 (continued) After the Dual Pentium III, I went AMD Athlon, and finally an Intel i7 which I still run today.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 07, 2026 02:10 PM (O7YUW)

123 What type aircraft? That's wild -- those power lines reach out and grab you
Posted by: White knuckles
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Yeah.

Posted by: Lancaster bomber, Operation Chastise at September 07, 2026 02:10 PM (XeU6L)

124 "Women make 73% of what men make."

Men account for 96% of on-the-job fatalities.

This is why both. Even if the first is no longer true.

Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 02:11 PM (RDRQY)

125 If you are doing aerial spraying, that goes with the territory, right? Also landing on public roads (with ground crew closing off a section for duration of event).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:06 PM (1z8ji)
Hughes and Bell helicopters. And where we go we don't need any roads. Or runways. See you next month, eh?

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 02:11 PM (LHPAg)

126 No idea what "instrumental personality traits" means but I do know what tends to happen to people that raise their own families and people that try to be intellectually rigorous. They tend to become more conservative.
Posted by: Oddbob

I watched Neo Genesis Evangelion, and it’s getting dangerously close to "Human Instrumentality Project."

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 07, 2026 02:11 PM (t19vo)

127 A good one. And sad.

True. As CD says, there are plenty of these stories where you're absolutely rooting for the jerk to get his or her comeuppance. This one is just...sad.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 07, 2026 02:13 PM (Riz8t)

128 Seriously is it just Caucasians that embrace being daredevils ? That mindset is likely the answer to how the USA was formed and became successful.

Just crazy enough.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:14 PM (KC5Lt)

129 It needs to be fucking said: We need to be eugenic.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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Precisely the argument made by the antebellum communists.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 02:15 PM (XeU6L)

130 Legitimate job opportunity: cell tower technician. The speaker says, all you need is a pair of climbing boots.They train you to do the rest

https://tinyurl.com/haew3amk

Oh, and big balls

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 02:15 PM (llBIB)

131 "Nostalgia for something one has never experienced."
Posted by: mikeski at September 07, 2026 02:04 PM (RDRQY)

I remember Pizza Hut pizza in the 80s & 90s.
Their pizzas haven’t tasted that good in two decades. I tried one a few months back just to see if they’d gotten any better after not eating any Pizza Hut for many years.
Nope, it still sucks.

If they could get the pizza part of Pizza Hut right I might actually go in a restaurant again, but just the nostalgia for some red seated booths, checkerboard tablecloths, and tall red plastic tumblers isn’t going to cut it for me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

132 My '08 Suburban does not have OnStar."

It did...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:16 PM (XuXeR)

133 I'd rather work building skyscrapers than be a deckhand on an Alaskan crab boat.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 02:16 PM (KC5Lt)

134 Hughes and Bell helicopters. And where we go we don't need any roads. Or runways. See you next month, eh?
Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2026 02:11 PM (LHPAg)

I have seen them close off a section of gravel road near here so that an aerial spray plane could reload its tanks close to the spray site, saving air time and fuel. He had flagmen to close off a mile of road. Land and taxi to the farm gate where the tanker was; flagmen opened the road, and closed it again for takeoff.

Sure hope to make it next month, yes!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:17 PM (1z8ji)

135 then Command and Conquer came out "

*sigh

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:17 PM (XuXeR)

136 >Small cased electronics tend to have a shorter lifespan
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this is not good because I am taking delivery on a mini pc tomorrow

it's a re-furbed Dell WIN11 SSD
it's replacing a WIN10 Dell that struggles to open a image file or any kind of file, really

I really think PCs are designed to hit 5 yrs service, then slowly die

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 02:18 PM (ZxPkt)

137 I'm out of the loop. Wtf does dysgenic even mean? It needs to be fucking said: We need to be eugenic. Leftists need to be having more kids. Leftists need to have more instrumental personality traits. Leftists need to be intellectually rigorous.
We need fit people. not because it helps capital, but because it makes us healthier and smarter.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 07, 2026 02:01 PM (t19vo)


Was that Shoe0nhead? If not, there may be *two* sane leftists!

Posted by: SciVo at September 07, 2026 02:18 PM (ke3zm)

138 cost me like $300

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 02:19 PM (ZxPkt)

139 It did...
Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 02:16 PM (XuXeR)

It is an ex-RCMP rig, bought as government surplus. Pretty sure it never had OnStar. No sign of it ever having the little shark fin. Several other antennas, though. And an alternate headlight flasher, LOL. They forgot to remove that, but I did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji)

140 If you have a little time to say a quick one for Brit Lass she would appreciate it. Her ordered tests are tomorrow morning, finally. So far everything has come out okay and she's feeling better than she did. She's worried but we're hoping tomorrow removes the rest of the worry. Thanks!

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 02:21 PM (vE0+H)

141 Regarding the left, here is where I think we are. Progtards were content with the long march ans slow, steady progress toward their retarded utopia. Then the unthinkable happened and Trump won. This interrupted their plans. They then took back control in 2020 believing they needed to make up for lost time. They turned up the heat too quickly and the frog noticed. This is happening both here and in Europe. Just my opinion.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 02:21 PM (u73oe)

142 I still watch Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd movies and realize that today's dare devil lunatics are only copy cats.

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I honestly think Buster Keaton didn't necessarily want to die but didn't really care if he did

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 07, 2026 02:21 PM (ubXQT)

143 This gentleman crammed a computer in to a gaming mouse. Granted, it was actually the guts from a Samsung S21 5G, and I have no idea what he planned to use for a keyboard. His solution to the heat sink was inspired though
It would be easier to have put it all inside a keyboard, really. His solution to the heat sink was inspired though, tres Steampunk


youtu.be/nv2UwswI8D

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 02:21 PM (rbvCR)

144
I really think PCs are designed to hit 5 yrs service, then slowly die
Posted by: Don Black
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I regularly make use of a Tandy Model 102.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 02:22 PM (XeU6L)

145 We use to be Nazi Punchers man
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You still can be, motherfucker. Try.

Posted by: ... at September 07, 2026 02:22 PM (vE0+H)

146 https://tinyurl.com/haew3amk
Oh, and big balls
Posted by: JM in Illinois

wow, starting pay is still $18-$20.
Thankfully we have people with such abilities.

Posted by: old chick at September 07, 2026 02:22 PM (F3Dlr)

147 126, LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 02:22 PM (VyBeY)

148 20 MB, 40 MB, 80 MB, 120 MB hard drives…

One high pixel count jpeg pic can hit those sizes now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 02:23 PM (6ydKt)

149
Head for Heights >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Proboscis for Penguins

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 07, 2026 02:23 PM (0sNs1)

150 Harold Lloyd was a daredevil, but a lot of his work was on forced perspective sets on top of buildings. It doesn't mean it wouldn't have killed him if he slipped, but at least it was easier for the camera crews to film

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

151 (AfD) party has dropped from 44.4 % of the vote to 43.8% after mail-in ballots were counted, with all other parties gaining abnormally from mail-in ballots
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They have Buicks in German?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:23 PM (EYrlY)

152 it's a re-furbed Dell WIN11 SSD
it's replacing a WIN10 Dell that struggles to open a image file or any kind of file, really

I really think PCs are designed to hit 5 yrs service, then slowly die
Posted by: Don Black

I hadn't thought of used.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 02:24 PM (NnhvP)

153 But it’s going to be interesting to see how the euroweenies keep AfD out of power. Same with.Marine Le Pen in France.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 02:24 PM (u73oe)

154 So I've been dog sitting my daughter's dog.
It has yakked twice this morning, panting, and drooling, and is trying to eat every blade of grass.
I've no idea what to do and I really don't want to drop a grand at the local vet.
Any vet experts out there in Hordeland?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 02:25 PM (2WIwB)

155 We use to be Nazi Punchers man

Yippee Ki-yi-yo! Get along hitlerjugend, for you know Berli-in will be your new home!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2026 02:25 PM (rbvCR)

156 CatAssTrophy

That name, CatAssTrophy, came up on my scratch sheet today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:26 PM (EYrlY)

157 Regarding the left, here is where I think we are. Progtards were content with the long march ans slow, steady progress toward their retarded utopia. Then the unthinkable happened and Trump won. This interrupted their plans. They then took back control in 2020 believing they needed to make up for lost time. They turned up the heat too quickly and the frog noticed. This is happening both here and in Europe. Just my opinion.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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I'll be touting the Moron-reccomended 'A Conservative History of the American Left'. A VERY revealing, thorough documentation of what has happened here...and a very good read.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

158 So I've been dog sitting my daughter's dog.
It has yakked twice this morning, panting, and drooling, and is trying to eat every blade of grass.
I've no idea what to do and I really don't want to drop a grand at the local vet.
Any vet experts out there in Hordeland?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 02:25 PM (2WIwB)

Any chance it could have drank some antifreeze, or eaten poisoned food?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:27 PM (1z8ji)

159 153 But it’s going to be interesting to see how the euroweenies keep AfD out of power. Same with.Marine Le Pen in France.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 02:24 PM (u73oe)

The Firewall.

That’s why I wish the AfD would have gotten an outright majority.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 02:27 PM (WB/3O)

160 I've no idea what to do and I really don't want to drop a grand at the local vet.
Any vet experts out there in Hordeland?
Posted by: Diogenes

Have you tried contacting your daughter and asking her? Maybe the dog has been afflicted this way in the past.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

161
the so-called American leftists were poisoned pill by propaganda from the elites to see the white conservative as the true enemy instead of the billionaires and the big corporations.. divide and conquer..

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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So it's not us -- it's the billionaires and the big corporations?? Are they taking the "drop the identity obsession" advice seriously?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 07, 2026 02:28 PM (XJ22o)

162 I hadn't thought of used.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron


I've bought refurbished stuff before. They last no more than 2 years. So, it's a temporary fix.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 02:29 PM (diia5)

163 this is not good because I am taking delivery on a mini pc tomorrow

it's a re-furbed Dell WIN11 SSD
it's replacing a WIN10 Dell that struggles to open a image file or any kind of file, really

I really think PCs are designed to hit 5 yrs service, then slowly die
Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 02:18 PM (ZxPkt)

The Mini PCs have laptop chips in them, so they can take some heat. You couldn’t run them dry without a heatsink and fan but they’re designed to run in confined spaces compared to a desktop chip.

If heat buildup is a worry you can always go into the BIOS and undervolt the chip or turn down some pther power settings to keep it a little cooler.

I undervolt my desktop chip just to make it idle in the 30 - 45 C range with a tower cooler.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 02:29 PM (6ydKt)

164 It's my understanding that dogs eat grass because they need to vomit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:29 PM (1z8ji)

165 American forces hit three Iranian oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked two U.S. warships.
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this happened the other day but no talk of seizing the ship or the cargo

Why didn't we seize the ships and cargo? The cargo could be auctioned off; the ships too. If the ships aren't viable they can be scrapped.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:30 PM (EYrlY)

166 They need to vomit and may have worms. We always took it as a sign of worms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:31 PM (EYrlY)

167 Why not put the whole mini-PC inside one of those baby refrigerators? Would keep dirty air from fouling its insides, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:32 PM (1z8ji)

168 Has the dog been into your liquor cabinet?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 02:33 PM (u73oe)

169
Elliot Page might never work again. It shouldn't be long before AI kills all the jobs.

Rachel Zegler (the Snow White who hated the 1938 classic) appeared at the beginning of Critical's video. She might get a great stage career in New York and London and barely ever get her face on the screen again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 07, 2026 02:34 PM (XJ22o)

170 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

171 Diogenes do you have house plants? Some of those are pretty toxic. Also things in the yard that they may have ingested.

Posted by: tubal at September 07, 2026 02:35 PM (Gqar8)

172 154 So I've been dog sitting my daughter's dog.
It has yakked twice this morning, panting, and drooling, and is trying to eat every blade of grass.
I've no idea what to do and I really don't want to drop a grand at the local vet.
Any vet experts out there in Hordeland?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 02:25 PM (2WIwB)

I’d give the dog access to plenty of water all day and feed it some dry food, bread or something and see how it’s doing tomorrow.

Sounds like it ate something it shouldn’t have if it’s eating grass. It might have bad heartburn or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 02:35 PM (6ydKt)

173 Why not put the whole mini-PC inside one of those baby refrigerators? Would keep dirty air from fouling its insides, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Seems like a elaborate solution for things that already exist for cooling. Bigger heatsink/fan with a filter on the case works for 90% of systems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (diia5)

174
Why didn't we seize the ships and cargo? The cargo could be auctioned off; the ships too. If the ships aren't viable they can be scrapped.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:30 PM (EYrlY)

Where to?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (WB/3O)

175 Diogenes haven't much experience with dogs, but cats eat grass to force themselves to barf. Guess is that might help if they ate something wrong

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 02:36 PM (Ia/+0)

176 Some dogs become ill, lethargic, stop eating/drinking due to separation anxiety from their "people", even if the person staying/caring for them is known to them.
If the dog develops diarrhea it is probably time to get advice from a vet.

Posted by: old chick at September 07, 2026 02:37 PM (F3Dlr)

177 The drooling part indicates sickness not worms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:38 PM (EYrlY)

178 167 Why not put the whole mini-PC inside one of those baby refrigerators? Would keep dirty air from fouling its insides, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 02:32 PM (1z8ji)

If you can drill a hole for the power cord and figure out a way to stop any condensation in the PC it would probably work like a champ.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 02:38 PM (6ydKt)

179 On the planking: the men seem to be calling out numbers in Spanish: “Cuatro,” “Ocho,” and the crosswalk markings on the streets below are not US standard, so somewhere in Latin America, maybe? Early on I thought I saw the Chrysler Building, but it’s not. Maybe that shows how influential that style has been elsewhere in the world.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 02:39 PM (X5qGl)

180 Where to?

Posted by: Cow Demon
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Bring them here. American ports and companies can bid on them or the various rights; auctioneers, warehouses, etc. while the ships are in transit. The ships are docked at the winning port.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:41 PM (EYrlY)

181 Critical Drinker's take in Ellen Page was good and also quite sad . She was an attractive good actress. Now a 5 foot tall creation who has no roles to act for.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 02:43 PM (TrqdA)

182 No audio necessary

https://tinyurl.com/33uxbvvb

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:44 PM (EYrlY)

183
Seems like a elaborate solution for things that already exist for cooling. Bigger heatsink/fan with a filter on the case works for 90% of systems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop
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If the subject is cooling a mini-pc
Beelink is mounted on the back of a Gateway monitor, a $1.98, 12v cooling fan encased in Styrofoam is strung on an insulated wire from one of the mounting screws. Its cuddled up to the Beelink and the residual air is then ducked via envelope downward to the two mounted external HDs. It's all cool.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:51 PM (EYrlY)

184 Bring them here. American ports and companies can bid on them or the various rights; auctioneers, warehouses, etc. while the ships are in transit. The ships are docked at the winning port.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 07, 2026 02:41 PM (EYrlY)

With what money? How do you intend to do all that? What with the proceeds? You put them in an escrow account for when Iran shakes off the shackles or are you good with demontage? What with the ships? The crew?

I PROMISE I’m not trying to be a jerk here. But there really a million considerations. It isn’t as simple as “just capture the ships and their cargo”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 03:01 PM (WB/3O)

185 I believe the ships in question or at least two of them were at anchor in Iranian ports. Not in transit in int'l waters. "Seizing" them would actually be a (foolhardy) military operation going into the highest threat zone in order to get low-value probably poorly maintained small tankers.

The seizure question may apply more logically to Iranian-flagged ships elsewhere, like those languishing in SE Asian waters. Admin recently moved to re-activate a court that oversees actions related to seizing ships at sea, I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 07, 2026 03:41 PM (U/Byj)

186 I'm worried about a torsion

https://tinyurl.com/mttcctyd

If this video is what youare seeing, head for an emergency vet now

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 07, 2026 04:27 PM (bkuEU)

Open Thread: Were the Eighties the Last Good Decade?

John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC

What made the 80s special was that almost NO ONE -- except some teachers who still thought it was the 60s -- was uptight.

Everyone was cool. Everyone could take a joke. You never had to walk on eggshells. The girls were cool. Race relations were cool. We all had part-time jobs. We all had beater cars. We all drank beer, smoked cigs, went to the movies, watched MTV, and only wanted to have fun, not prove we were good people.

You had to be there.

The nineties were pretty chill, too. Except that that Boomer Pervert Clinton couldn't keep it in his pants and turned the country upside down with his lies. (Or, "lies" -- I don't think the lefties defending him ever believed him.)


Coddled Affluent Professional
@feelsdesperate

I don't think I'm above being propagandized. In fact, I'd probably go along with anything as long as the propaganda was good enough.

Along these lines one of the great puzzles of Woke 1 was why so much cultural production was made dumb, off putting, and aesthetically repugnant. As a Good Person you were supposed to 'eat your vegetables' and act like you enjoyed it, and this worked for those engaged in specific types of reputational and social competition.

But on the whole, for society at scale, libs lost a great deal of soft power by making laughably bad, ideologically doctrinaire art that no one with any honesty would admit to liking or finding pleasurable. In fact, it was the opposite: the more unpleasant, inane, and cartoonish the art became the better a test it became of the ideologically committed and craven - you knew someone was completely committed when they would breathlessly report how something obviously terrible was wonderful. This signified that they were all in and had sacrificed all credibility in service of ideological commitment. The downside of course was that the postwar lib cultural apparatus that was at its peak from the early 1960s to late 2000s ran off the rails and completely lost its ability set defining cultural narratives.


Related:

pizzahutclassicinterior.jpg

Florida's only Pizza Hut Classic, featuring the nostalgic red plastic cups, vinyl booths, Tiffany-style lamps and checkerboard tablecloths reminiscent of the 1980s, has become so popular that employees from other locations have been brought in to help accommodate the influx of guests at the Homosassa Springs restaurant.

...

Pizza Hut started the Classic initiative around 2017, according to Sparks.

"They approached a few franchisees and said, 'Hey, we're thinking about doing this retro look. Do you guys want to participate in the test?' So I jumped at that opportunity," he said.

...

Customer feedback showed that the throwback styling "really resonated with everybody," Sparks said. Daland currently operates 39 Pizza Hut Classic locations.

Since the Homosassa Springs restaurant was converted, dine-in sales have more than doubled, FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported.

"Tons of people" travel from well over an hour away to visit the Pizza Hut Classic that Daland operates in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, which has attracted significant attention on social media, according to Sparks.

"There's only 1,700 people in that town, and they will almost double the national average of Pizza Hut this year in sales," he said.

...

He believes younger generations may feel a similar pull toward the Pizza Hut Classics.

"I think it does take them back to a little clip of time and an era where, in their minds, things weren't as hectic," Sparks said. "It was a little simpler time."

Sparks has also noticed another phenomenon when customers visit the Classic restaurants.


"People put their phones down," Sparks said.

"Once they're over the excitement, and they're taking pictures of the Pac-Man machine and the salad bar and the Tiffany lights ... they set it down, and they start having conversation," he said. "I can't explain it, but it's super cool to watch."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM




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1 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Afternoon, Ace. Did you have a cookout with the crows over the weekend?

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

3 Starting to think its been downhill since 1980s

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)

5 90s were pretty good too. Did not notice too much cultural insanity in the 00s (but you could see it coming.)

Teens is where everything went off the rails.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (Y/06r)

6 Everyone was cool. Everyone could take a joke. You never had to walk on eggshells. The girls were cool. Race relations were cool. We all had part-time jobs

The left argues this is because black people and women didn't know how bad they had it.

I'm not kidding.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (sKqQm)

7 Florida's only Pizza Hut Classic, featuring the nostalgic red plastic cups, vinyl booths, Tiffany-style lamps and checkerboard tablecloths reminiscent of the 1980s, has become so popular that employees from other locations have been brought in to help accommodate the influx of guests at the Homosassa Springs restaurant.

OMG! There isn't a TV every three inches on the wall! How can anyone stand being there?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (ExV1e)

8 Here willowed but we may be hearing about the story below. Something's wrong. He had 2 pistols and lunged at the DEM? Was he not getting in range time?

132 Paxton was on Fox last night. President Trump put in $10 million and he feels more will be coming in. He's optimistic but should be shocked Talarico isn't being laughed out of Texas.

Price is Right. A lady was off on the final showcase by $411 dollars. That's an incredible bid. BUT the other lady was off by $408 and won.

News

CBC - We're in full retard mode with a Trade War mkst people on your street won't even notice. I'd love for President Trump to put in 6 months notice on the Free Trade deal and pump billions into industries like steel to completely destroy us. Just destroy us.

Fox - Outnumbered. Yeah, it must be a holiday. That's an unattractive cast. Flock cameras.

CNN - armed man arrested after lunging toward Gov Dem nominee. I'm guessing this'll disappear after facts emerge.

MSNow - same story. Taser and two pistols.

They're all wee weed up. I'm going to self ban myself for a few minutes.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Sco7b)

9 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)


Only in America.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 12:16 PM (ExV1e)

10 90s were pretty good too. Did not notice too much cultural insanity in the 00s (but you could see it coming.)

Teens is where everything went off the rails.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (Y/06r)


Maybe starting right around January 2009?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

11 Now if they could just get the pan pizza crust back to way it was in the 80s.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 12:18 PM (XvL8K)

12 I was a teenager starting in 83. I think the 80s were actually a lot of fun. And it's hilarious pointing out to co-workers that the show Stranger Things was mild with regards to what we did and said back then.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 12:18 PM (/k3in)

13 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.

My original CD copy of Alice in Chains' "Dirt" says otherwise.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)

14 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)

Possibly the worst cultural development of the 21st Century was when classic rock radio started playing 90s music.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (/OKHJ)

15 Didn't even know that Pizza Hut did away with the classic look. That tells you how long ago I've been in one.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (J4Dwc)

16 80's girl here. Yes, it was freaking awesome.

Posted by: moki at September 07, 2026 12:20 PM (wLjpr)

17 Maybe starting right around January 2009?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

He's like a reverse trump. He is an excuse people used to let their stupid out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:20 PM (Y/06r)

18 Price is Right. A lady was off on the final showcase by $411 dollars. That's an incredible bid. BUT the other lady was off by $408 and won.

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So she won both showcases. Mazel!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:20 PM (nbUa5)

19 The left: Up until the 2020s people could afford to live on a normal wage. Corporate greed must be ended and we must roll back the clock!

Also the left: The 80s were a NAZI like reich where everything was evil and the poor were literally hunted down and murdered by the rich. Also Reagan personally gave every gay person AIDS

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

20 If you think the 80's were good, you should have seen the 70's.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 12:21 PM (QZkUY)

21 2 Afternoon, Ace. Did you have a cookout with the crows over the weekend?
Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

Haha! Or: Caww!

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 12:21 PM (odBC9)

22 I just can’t even!

Posted by: Ryan Renolds at September 07, 2026 12:22 PM (u73oe)

23 13 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.

My original CD copy of Alice in Chains' "Dirt" says otherwise.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)

*fistbump*

https://youtu.be/nWK0kqjPSVI

Don't do drugs, kids.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)

24 As far as a decade being "cool" I think the nostalgic feeling is related to the idea that we have allowed Marxism into every facet of life. There is nothing the fascists have not managed to politicize in ways both large and small. It is mentally exhausting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:23 PM (nbUa5)

25 3 Starting to think its been downhill since 1980s
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (Ia/+0)

... and since the 70s, and since the 60s, and since the 50s....

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 12:23 PM (odBC9)

26 Blake, you want me to loofa your stretch marks?

Posted by: Ryan Renolds at September 07, 2026 12:23 PM (u73oe)

27 23 13 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.

My original CD copy of Alice in Chains' "Dirt" says otherwise.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)

*fistbump*

https://youtu.be/nWK0kqjPSVI

Don't do drugs, kids.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)

Not even once.

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 12:23 PM (odBC9)

28 The Left has been trying to poison, subvert, corrupt, abnormalize and degrade America for 100 years. The process has moved from subtle and covert infiltrations to institutional intimidation to open terror and assassination. Part and parcel of this long siege has been the background campaign to kill any expressions or celebrations of individuality and joy that depart from or challenge their narratives of cultural guilt and inferiority.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 07, 2026 12:24 PM (7s9Qe)

29 20 If you think the 80's were good, you should have seen the 70's.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 12:21 PM (QZkUY)

Carter's inflation would beg to differ...

Posted by: moki at September 07, 2026 12:24 PM (wLjpr)

30 The left argues this is because black people and women didn't know how bad they had it.

I've seen that claim and it's laughable. The top show on TV was Cosby. The top musician was Michael Jackson. The top sports celebrities were Michael Jordan and Mike Tyson. Richard Pryor was out telling jokes that would get him described as "a white African" by the New York Times today. And nobody gave a shit that any of those guys were black.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:24 PM (QZThv)

31 70s was great but also riven with the negative consequences of Watergate, the oil shock, the prostrate Jimmy Carter, and disco.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:25 PM (nbUa5)

32 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)

No. It's still going on. Good music stopped being aired on Top 40 radio and MTV. But it's out there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 12:26 PM (1z8ji)

33 I lived the '80s and concur with this assessment.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 12:26 PM (NnhvP)

34 “Customer feedback shows that the throwback styling "really resonates with everybody," Sparks says. Daland currently operates 39 Pizza Hut Classic locations”
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This might be a weird question. Is the Pizza any good? Pizza Hut took a big nosedive some many years back. Is expecting a decent enough pizza Nostalgic too?

Some of the best Barbecue you’ll ever find is in some non-descript cinder block building. The location or decor doesn’t matter.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (lYAIJ)

35 I don't use the word "cuck" very often but, man, that Ryan Reynolds video sends off those vibes.

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (odBC9)

36 Used to go through that Pizza Hut buffet like a hot knife through butter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (nbUa5)

37 I was a kid in the early 70s, teenager in the late 70s, spent my 20s in the 80s. It was a different world. I had a ball those years. Jr. Black finds it almost impossible to believe America was the way it was back then. When gays/trannies and all the offended, victimization classes didn't rule everywhere. Where you laughed at jokes, where music was great, where we all got along and nobody really gave a darn about politics, and your entire persona wasn't wrapped up in constant virtue signaling. I'd love to go back and stay there. I hate what we've become.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (qBdHI)

38 I don't do pizza, but I'd so eat at a PH classic...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (cGjQu)

39 And nobody gave a shit that any of those guys were black.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:24 PM

Don't forget about us!

Posted by: George Jefferson and Fred G. Sanford at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

40 Disco baby !

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 12:28 PM (+gK6I)

41 30, exactly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 12:29 PM (VyBeY)

42 I spent much of the 80s in the miliary. When I wasn't halfway around the world, I was in California emersed in the training cocoon prepping for the next deployment half way around the world. Seems I missed a lot.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 12:29 PM (J4Dwc)

43 70s was great but also riven with the negative consequences of Watergate, the oil shock, the prostrate Jimmy Carter, and disco.
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Elvis collars, polyester, mood rings, and Harvest Gold/Avocado appliances. Only .01c!!! Columbia House 8-tracks on the way, baby!!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 12:29 PM (lYAIJ)

44 Afternoon Ace.
HS, college and law school in the 80s. Lot of good times

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 12:29 PM (TrqdA)

45 Eight years of Ronaldus Magnus and Bloom County in color on Sundays.

Posted by: Good times, good times at September 07, 2026 12:30 PM (2Ez/1)

46 9/11 changed most things, the advent of Obama changed everything.

Basically, everything started to go to absolute sh*t around 2009-2011 time frame.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 07, 2026 12:30 PM (XV/Pl)

47 If you think the 80's were good, you should have seen the 70's.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 12:21 PM (QZkUY)

Carter's inflation would beg to differ...
Posted by: moki

My 70's was awesome. Great job, great music, we bought our first house. I have no bad memories of that decade.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 12:30 PM (lJ0H4)

48 So she won both showcases. Mazel!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:20 PM 

Nope. $250 for both.
But she won and has a great story.

Oh. I saw Al Sharpton on MS Now yesterday. Man he looks like hell. Jesse Jackson looks better and he died a while back.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 12:31 PM (Sco7b)

49 32 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)

No. It's still going on. Good music stopped being aired on Top 40 radio and MTV. But it's out there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 12:26 PM (1z8ji)

No, it actually stopped on August 27, 1990. That's the day Stevie Ray Vaughan died. That's the day I stopped listening to any new music.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 12:31 PM (edUvp)

50 'Sanford and Son' was hilarious.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 12:32 PM (Sco7b)

51
I was born in '59.
The '80s were the best years of my life.

Posted by: Speller at September 07, 2026 12:32 PM (pSotA)

52 nobody really gave a darn about politics, and your entire persona wasn't wrapped up in constant virtue signaling. I'd love to go back and stay there. I hate what we've become.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 07, 2026 12:27 PM (qBdHI)

This: the "hate your neighbor" ethos that has bubbled up like noxious fumes from hell. It hasn't made the world a better place.

Posted by: moki at September 07, 2026 12:32 PM (wLjpr)

53 Fox News reported it the same way" armed man lunges at Democrat"

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 12:32 PM (YwEeS)

54 Elvis collars, polyester, mood rings, and Harvest Gold/Avocado appliances. Only .01c!!! Columbia House 8-tracks on the way, baby!!

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I had a mood ring and thought it was so cool. LOL Didn't have a pet rock, but I did have toe socks and we had the standard issue avocado appliances. And a trash compactor to match!

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (qBdHI)

55 Pizza Hut had a tangy , creamy Italian dressing at the salad bar. I'd go to Pizza Hut just for that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (TrqdA)

56 From my perspective, the 80's were a mixed bag.

Movies were the greatest during this era. Attitudes in general were the best.

On the downside, the job market sucked rocks when I finished my undergrad in '85 and I ended up in grad school. The Challenger exploded, Chernobyl blowed up real good, etc., etc.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (iIyc0)

57 Sam Reid makes great videos. Here he obsesses over Pizza Hut for 20 minutes:

https://youtu.be/DA6KrQyw2w0

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (2Ez/1)

58 Another part of the 80s - any of the Dem presidential candidates from that era would be called far right wing extremists right now...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)

59 The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

60 I was going to seminary part time in the late 90's through 2004, I don't remember any time being bad until Obama got in office.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 12:34 PM (mXZ+5)

61 PCU came out in 1994.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 12:34 PM (YwEeS)

62 "Tiffany-style lamps"

You watch your ass or the lawyers come next.

Posted by: Louis Comfort Tiffany at September 07, 2026 12:34 PM (r7+Q7)

63 Eh. I was a little kid in the 80s, but I remember them being... OK. Though, I was also living outside Pittsburgh in a dying mill town, so it maybe didn't seem as cool as in better places. We lived in a better part of the town, but it was already rotting and we had our house broken into, and my parents sent us into Pittsburgh for better schools, etc.

I lived through the '90s in the Rocky mountains, where everything was DOPE. It was a fun, rural area where you could play in some of the world's coolest natural features, and close enough to a city for us hillbillies to go raise hell. So for me, I think the 90s were cooler.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 07, 2026 12:35 PM (BI5O2)

64 I turned 18 in 1980.

Yes. The 80's were fucking awesome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 12:35 PM (2Cry5)

65 Eight years of Ronaldus Magnus and Bloom County in color on Sundays.
Posted by: Good times, good times
_________

I know he was lampooning us, but Steve Dallas was his greatest character. He also used him to go after the left when he briefly turned him into a hippie.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 12:37 PM (XvL8K)

66 55 Pizza Hut had a tangy , creamy Italian dressing at the salad bar. I'd go to Pizza Hut just for that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (TrqdA)
_________________

Yeah, for some reason, some meddler decided to put sugar (or even worse, corn syrup) into all brands of creamy Italian salad dressing for some reason.

And, btw, when Pizza Hut in my neck of the woods announced their closing, I went in and asked to buy all the Romano Salad dressing they had in stock (that was my favorite). They gave me a five gallon jug for free.

Posted by: Orson at September 07, 2026 12:38 PM (dIske)

67 The 80s were great. Computers were still fun. Y2K was two decades away.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 12:38 PM (MWfyi)

68 *ahem*
I gave you the first ten full years of El Rushbo.

Posted by: The 1990s at September 07, 2026 12:39 PM (2Ez/1)

69 53 Fox News reported it the same way" armed man lunges at Democrat"

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 12:32 PM (YwEeS)

Yeah. And he had pistols??

And suddenly decided to go old-school?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 12:39 PM (Sco7b)

70 Social Media made everything worse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 12:39 PM (mXZ+5)

71 Intellivision and the first Nintendo.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 12:40 PM (XvL8K)

72 Devo was right.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 12:40 PM (MWfyi)

73 53 Fox News reported it the same way" armed man lunges at Democrat"

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 12:32 PM (YwEeS)

Yeah. And he had pistols??

And suddenly decided to go old-school?
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 12:39 PM (Sco7b)

He had arms? (sobs uncontrollably)

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 07, 2026 12:41 PM (1z8ji)

74 I used to have ACTUAL music videos.

Posted by: MTV at September 07, 2026 12:41 PM (2Ez/1)

75 1968
The best music, the best cars, miniskirts, and bra burning.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 12:41 PM (2WIwB)

76 I shed 185lbs in 1980. The divorce was painless.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 12:42 PM (E0Et6)

77 I turned sixteen in 1980. Bought a computer instead of a car. Two years later, could be a small-town kid going to a semi-ivy league college without the snobbishness of the sixties and earlier, or the totalitarian fear of the twenty-first century.

Drifted around a bit after 1986 (four year degrees still existed!) but around 1989 ended up with some college friends in San Diego working on a software startup (HyperCard->SuperCard) that led to being “that guy” who compiled and understood the web server software in 1994 at a small private college. Which turned into a to-retirement career.

Now I write about vintage food and other odd bits of history in my spare time and hang out with morons.

“Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention…”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 07, 2026 12:42 PM (kYmoU)

78 No. It's still going on. Good music stopped being aired on Top 40 radio and MTV. But it's out there.

100%. A lot of current European metal is great. If you remember in the 80s when every guitar magazine was hyping Doro Pesch, she's still pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwcO2saJTA0

(And yes, that band's name does mean "fire dick", exactly like JJ Sefton would tell you)

Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:42 PM (QZThv)

79 Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 07, 2026 12:41 PM (1z8ji)

——————-

You shoulda armed yourself.

Posted by: Will Muny at September 07, 2026 12:43 PM (u73oe)

80 Another lunatic went all stabby-stabby in NYC this morning.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 12:43 PM (J4Dwc)

81 boy wow fox "news" is really all in on being msnbc lite, innit?

indistinguishable from the demonrat party line.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 12:44 PM (VyBeY)

82 Devo was right.
Posted by: fd

"Whip it good!"?

Yeah, there was plenty of that going around then too.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 12:44 PM (WXg6e)

83
There were all kinds of crazy, weird things that happened in the '80s, but I've got this for the weirdest.

The Lake Nyos Disaster:
https://youtu.be/_vnCOI8dbhM?is=m7il04pp11E9xlGW

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 07, 2026 12:44 PM (BI5O2)

84 58 Another part of the 80s - any of the Dem presidential candidates from that era would be called far right wing extremists right now...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)

************

It can be argued to a certain extent that Trump has a fair amount in common with Dick Gephardt. Imagine how today's Democrats would receive Dick Gephardt - LOL!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 07, 2026 12:44 PM (Esixy)

85 On the downside, the job market sucked rocks when I finished my undergrad in '85 and I ended up in grad school. The Challenger exploded, Chernobyl blowed up real good, etc., etc.

On the plus side, the Chernobyl incident was one of the warning signs that Ted Kennedy was wrong and the USSR was falling apart.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

86 boy wow fox "news" is really all in on being msnbc lite, innit?

I mostly watch Newsmax now, aside from some Gutfeld. They run a promo constantly where Trump says Fox has disappointed him but Newsmax is doing a great job.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)

87 I was in boot camp in 1985. On sundays you were allowed to buy a newspaper. The first thing I checked every Sunday was Bloom County.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:48 PM (u73oe)

88 No, it stunk, too.

Mortgage rates soared in the early 1980s as the Federal Reserve raised borrowing costs to fight severe inflation.
According to Bankrate, “Mortgage rates peaked at 18.4% in October 1981 alone as the Federal Reserve fought runaway inflation.”

Mid-Decade: Rates hovered in the 12% to 14% range between 1983 and 1985.Late-Decade: As inflation cooled, rates eased down, closing out the decade at an average of about 10.25% to 9.78% in 1989.

The U.S. unemployment rate in the 1980s peaked at 10.8% in late 1982 during a severe economic downturn.

Daycare in the 1980s experienced a massive surge in demand as middle-class mothers entered the workforce in record numbers, creating severe facility shortages, rising costs, and national moral panics over safety.

Women made up 43% of the U.S. labor force by 1980, marking a rapid shift toward professional and managerial careers driven by the cultural ideal of "having it all.

^Thanks to AI Overview.

Horrible music: We Built This City, Mickey, The Final Countdown, Careless Whispers, Funkytown,

But great movies.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 12:49 PM (NFX2v)

89 FWIW, the 2nd O' administration is when "things" took a huge turn to the worse...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 12:49 PM (cGjQu)

90 Hit my teens in the mid-late '90s and 'murica was still pretty cool then. Feel sorry for my little hobbits being in their teens now. Kinda sucks.

On the plus side, they still have classic rock and older music to love. Oldest is into grunge (what a good boy), middle loves and plays metal guitar, little one still finding his preferences, but I've caught him listening to everything from Marley to Ozzy.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 12:50 PM (ftFVW)

91 On the plus side, the Chernobyl incident was one of the warning signs that Ted Kennedy was wrong and the USSR was falling apart.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:45 PM


In September 1989 Boris Yeltsin visits the Houston grocery store.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 12:50 PM (2Ez/1)

92 It can be argued to a certain extent that Trump has a fair amount in common with Dick Gephardt. Imagine how today's Democrats would receive Dick Gephardt - LOL!

Gephardt ran a proto-Trump campaign focused on unfair trade practices of our allies at the time and the need for the government to focus on providing services for working American citizens...

I vaguely recall he had some moderate position on abortion too, not Trump 2024's but what the left now calls "denying healthcare to women"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

93 I went to high school from 82-86. Then college. The 80s if not the best, is better than anything I have experienced since. And I am the last of six, so I got to watch my older siblings experience the 70s from my young eyes. Some of that affected me. I had a mint green leisure suit with an orange silk shirt for my First Communion Day. Thought I was styling.

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at September 07, 2026 12:51 PM (HueKi)

94 The 80s were good. In my Ohio town, with the exception to Sheet and Tube in Youngstown, the mills were running pretty good as was GM's interests. Many people making a good buck. Speaking of Youngstown, the local crews went on a bombing campaign against each other, so you had local stories to keep you amused. And now, my home town has gone down nearly 50% in population, weeds growing through the asphalt in factory parking lots. Fortunately, I've been reading of small time comebacks in industry in the area.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 12:52 PM (gm9Sb)

95 Horrible music ! The greatest era in Metal began in the 80's

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 12:52 PM (YwEeS)

96 Horrible music: We Built This City, Mickey

My HS cheerleading squad did a routine to Mickey at a pep rally.

Old Bulg still remembers.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

97 It can be argued to a certain extent that Trump has a fair amount in common with Dick Gephardt.
Posted by: Sasquatch

Except that Trump gets called names much, much worse than Dick.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 12:53 PM (Fv808)

98 I was in college during the Carter Malaise. I remember listening for the thump of the Sunday Boston Globe landing on the doorway so we could pour through the ever-thinning jobs section.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 07, 2026 12:53 PM (bX16E)

99 And yes 8 years of Obama was catastrophic(12 out of16 years counting the vegetable admin)

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 12:53 PM (YwEeS)

100 The 80's were also the era of "Dress For Success" for business/financial workers.

I owned several tailored dress suits, shirts, shoes. Commuted by train into the big city, where most of the men wore suit coats/ties, carried briefcases and read the daily newspapers. Woman also wore business dresses.

The goal was for success in business and one had to dress like a business executive.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 07, 2026 12:54 PM (y171U)

101 Bowling for Soup "1985"

youtu.be/K38xNqZvBJI

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 07, 2026 12:54 PM (0vB2I)

102 A good argument can be made for the postwar, go-go 1950s, except for all the racial segregation, and you have to be older than dirt to remember those years.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 12:54 PM (llBIB)

103 Back in my day, people actually watched SNL and talked about it on Sundays.

Posted by: The Late 70s and Early 80s at September 07, 2026 12:54 PM (2Ez/1)

104 The 80s were great in Hollywood. I was starting my career and there was work all over the place.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 07, 2026 12:55 PM (7s9Qe)

105
The Lake Nyos Disaster:
https://youtu.be/_vnCOI8dbhM?is=m7il04pp11E9xlGW
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You know...if you get on top of a bus you can survive that type of event.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 12:55 PM (NnhvP)

106 Life is what you make of it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 12:55 PM (EitEl)

107 Generation X saw the last vestiges of America. What a fucking shame.

80's Pizza Hut sucked ass just as bad as present day PH.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 12:56 PM (7AjME)

108 I'm back, did you miss me?

crickets chirp

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 12:56 PM (aJQbY)

109 I think things were good up until shortly after 2005, then things took a real nose dive. Looking back it was gradually, starting with TV propaganda in the 60's and it took until smart phones for it to be suddenly. If it can flip one way, it can flip back. It just takes effort and momentum.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at September 07, 2026 12:56 PM (jt7Bz)

110 Speaking of 70s music, Funeral for a Friend just came up on the playlist. Perfect for getting into fall/Halloween season. I love the guitar lick ending the intro.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 12:56 PM (XvL8K)

111 Girls in the 80s. See movie Major League. Big hair and tank tops.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 12:56 PM (gm9Sb)

112 Diamond Age was published in the 90s and today we are right at the point where The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer could become reality. The replacement of classrooms with individual AI tutors is going to turn out a well educated generation of kids who have never had to deal with dull classes, violent classmates and state indoctrination.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 07, 2026 12:56 PM (2ap+5)

113 Speaking of "Dick", is there anyone who goes by the name "Dick" (being short for Richard) who's under 65? Being an early Gen-X'er, I learned that "dick" meant penis long before I learned it was short for "Richard". I've *never* met, or known of, anyone my age or younger who went by "Dick" (voluntarily), including Richards - Richard, Rich, Rick, Ricky, but not Dick.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 12:57 PM (Fv808)

114 A downside to the 80's was the media's obsession with nuclear war. And Russia. But mostly nuclear war.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 12:57 PM (2Cry5)

115 "Women also wore business dresses."

++++

And the girls, who try to look pretty.
~ BTO

Posted by: Takin' Care Of Business at September 07, 2026 12:57 PM (2Ez/1)

116 Everything is awful and horrible and you’re all going to die!!!!

Posted by: Msm at September 07, 2026 12:57 PM (U1NLK)

117 The thing about the "best of times" is that it can usually only be recognized in the "worst of times"

Posted by: SMOD at September 07, 2026 12:58 PM (O7XEN)

118 867-

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:58 PM (u73oe)

119
If you think the 80's were good, you should have seen the 70's.

Carter's inflation would beg to differ...
Posted by: moki


He wan't there until the second half.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 12:58 PM (Cqx++)

120 80's Pizza Hut sucked ass just as bad as present day PH.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Aw, that seems harsh. As a little hobbit in the '80s I was always stoked for a trip to the Hut to get my free BookIt pizza.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 12:58 PM (ftFVW)

121 He's like a reverse trump. He is an excuse people used to let their stupid out.

+++
Back in the day I believe he was called Shit Midas in these here parts.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at September 07, 2026 12:59 PM (jt7Bz)

122 Now if they could just get the pan pizza crust back to way it was in the 80s.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 12:18 PM

I think the problem is that it's white-bread bland.

I miss the priazzo they had in the '80s. It was the most like my family's homemade pizza.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 07, 2026 12:59 PM (fy544)

123 5309

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2026 12:59 PM (EitEl)

124 Unfortunately I wasn't quite old enough in the 1980s to enjoy the full benefits. The "AIDS is a heterosexual disease" lie/panic had already hit full stride. Plus I was raised to be a dickless chickenshit good little boy so I missed all the fun. But for those who came of age then, and got to be normal people, it really was a blast from what I'm told.

Posted by: Best is behind us the worst is still brewing at September 07, 2026 01:00 PM (TbWk/)

125 Best decade is when you were 17-23 years old.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 07, 2026 01:00 PM (U1NLK)

126 "Funkytown" was great.

The video, that is...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:00 PM (cGjQu)

127 In the 1980s, Red Lobster and the newly created Olive Garden experienced massive growth (an uncle worked for "restaurant" placement and expansion) as popular, upscale-feeling family dining destinations.

Trips to Red Lobster or Olive Garden as special occasions where kids might got dressed up, too.

And then the older folk & certain groups descended and still hang tight.

🤪

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 01:00 PM (NFX2v)

128 118 867-
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:58 PM

Is this about me?

Posted by: Jenny at September 07, 2026 01:00 PM (2Ez/1)

129 Difference between 70's and 80's is that drugs in the 70's were a coping mechanism.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 01:00 PM (Fv808)

130 Nurse is pick in up what I’m putting down.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 01:01 PM (u73oe)

131 Commies ruin everything.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 01:01 PM (7AjME)

132 In 1985 in La Jolla, CA (UC/SD), I discovered Chicago-style pizza and it was awesome.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 01:01 PM (Fv808)

133 LOL.. The guy pushing his way up to the front at the Dem. Ohio Gov. candidates rally was making an assassination attempt... At least CNN says so...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 01:02 PM (+gK6I)

134 Generation X saw the last vestiges of America. What a fucking shame.

80's Pizza Hut sucked ass just as bad as present day PH.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
----------

I wrote a song about this.

Posted by: Don McLean at September 07, 2026 01:02 PM (XeU6L)

135 Also the left: The 80s were a NAZI like reich where everything was evil and the poor were literally hunted down and murdered by the rich.

Hey, us military kids hunted them too! Stop trying to belittle our contribution.

Also Reagan personally gave every gay person AIDS

I've pointed out that he funded research more than any other world leader back then and they still refuse to concede anything.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:02 PM (/k3in)

136 You know...if you get on top of a bus you can survive that type of event.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 12:55 PM (NnhvP)

Lakes in temperate climates usually turn over once a year, so that sort of disaster cannot happen. Other lakes in the tropics, particularly deep ones, could be disasters waiting to happen. I think it would be prudent to sound such lakes with probes to measure the dissolved CO2 content at depth.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 07, 2026 01:03 PM (1z8ji)

137 generation of kids who have never had to deal with dull classes, violent classmates and state indoctrination"

Don't get the hopes up...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:03 PM (cGjQu)

138 To paraphrase the foxu Kirsche, "anyone who uses Woke 1 is either a fucking Communist or a retard."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

139 Springsteen and that efin' "Sussudio" were freaking everywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

140 The nostalgia for the 1980s is forgetting something: we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR. It was a nation-wide anxiety that was constantly being fueled by the media and Hollywood and everything else (presumably for political reasons). I'm not tying this to Ryan Reynolds's ridiculous claim that it was about the Cuban missile crisis, I'm just saying that the 80s were permeated with either nuclear anxiety or nuclear fatalism.

Posted by: Blahblahblah at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (ca+Gv)

141 Aw, that seems harsh. As a little hobbit in the '80s I was always stoked for a trip to the Hut to get my free BookIt pizza.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 12:58 PM

There's an app for that now. I was shocked.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (fy544)

142 As for how great the 1980s were, our lips are sealed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

143 Last year was my high school class's 35 year reunion. Yikes! HS class of 1985 straddled the 80's, first half high school (roughly) and second half college (roughly). And enough appreciation for/exposure to the 70's through TV shows and lunch boxes.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (Fv808)

144 From my hindsight here, I'm going to agree with the statement made in The Matrix: 1999 was the peak of human civilization.

It has all been downhill since then. Possible exception of AI optics and firearms development. Everything else...cars, cinema, economy, world events....trash.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (xcxpd)

145 I would love to go
Back to the
80’s.

We were feral children and teenagers moving in to young adulthood. We wanted and needed to move out of our parents’s homes and believed in the greatness of America and ourselves.

Miracle On Ice;
Reagan;
The hostages being released;
Defeating the USSR and communism.

Good times and it’s a shame we let it all be taken away by woke bull$hit and feelings.

Posted by: Czech Chick at September 07, 2026 01:05 PM (uFuUP)

146 Foxu News (on the other hand) is a National Treasure !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 01:05 PM (VyBeY)

147 No, not the 1970's. Mother's Little Helper, back in 1966.
Coping drugs and a lot more.

Sadly, the term "crack whore" began appearing in mainstream media and public usage during the mid-1980s

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 01:05 PM (NFX2v)

148 Now if they could just get the pan pizza crust back to way it was in the 80s.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 12:18 PM

I think the problem is that it's white-bread bland
Posted by: NaughtyPine
________

I assumed they changed the oil or whatever they're using. Crust was always too soggy or crisp after the 80s.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 01:05 PM (XvL8K)

149 "we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR."

I didn't. I never once had any concern over nuke war. Don't know why. Just didn't.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (Fv808)

150 There's an app for that now. I was shocked.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

Well that seems less fun than getting stamps on the little card.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (ftFVW)

151 Plus I was raised to be a dickless chickenshit good little boy so I missed all the fun.

I suppose that could be used to describe me as well although I would call it painfully shy and introverted. Still, I have neither children nor ex-wives from that period and precipitated no abortions so I'm generally good with it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

152 90s were the last best decade. It was still demographically American as the invasion had not begun yet. Pre 9/11 post Cold War sweet spot on the foreign policy front. The internet was around kind of but no social media. Great decade for movies and music. Stock market and .com boom post 1995 made a lot of people rich even if temporarily before the crash in 2000/2001. Late 90s anyone with a pulse could get a good high paying job in tech.

Life was good.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (U1NLK)

153 Graduated HS in the '80's. The '80's and 90's were great!

Posted by: lin-duh at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (VCgbV)

154 we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR"

No one actually believed that. It was just a media trope...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (cGjQu)

155 Bruce Springfieldstein the beekeeper?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (lWlz/)

156 140, lol, I never believed in either one of those views.

media has been selling FUD as long as I can remember

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 01:07 PM (VyBeY)

157 The 80s. Come home from a tough day at the mill, and wife is vacuming the floor, listening to MTV when it didn't suck. And both of us take a break during kid's nap time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 01:07 PM (gm9Sb)

158 As for how great the 1980s were, our lips are sealed."

Wake me up

/ wait for it

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:07 PM (cGjQu)

159 John Nolte is right - the '80s were the best. And at the very end, the Berlin Wall came down. Great way to finish that decade.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (ek8iC)

160 Media hype?

Oh yeah, The Day After and Threads with Carl Sagan talking about nuclear winter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2GVsD)

161 Also in the 80s, all the kids actually had lives and hobbies and (as mentioned) part-time jobs outside of high school, instead of being hyper-focused on assembling a resume for college with loads of extra-curricular activities and mandatory "volunteer" work for some retarded left-wing cause.

You could do stupid teenage shit without the entire world seeing photos or videos of it.

Old hippies would try to bring us down by going on about how our crazy senile president was going to attack the poor innocent Russians and start a nuclear war, but unlike the modern "Climate Crisis" the kids pretty much just ignored them.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (BGygK)

162 Loved the 80s. 90s were pretty good too. The oughts were okay. Downhill from there.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (BoLwk)

163 154 we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR"

No one actually believed that. It was just a media trope...
Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (cGjQu)

Oh it was a real fear. So was the fear of AIDS. The Press was really good at fearmongering and there was no alternative outlets apart from some self-published books that were throughly marginalized.

And don't get me started on the Eschatological fear. Fucking Hal Lindsey and his bullshit.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (xcxpd)

164 Sam's Club 3meat pizza is better than Pizza the Hutt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (lWlz/)

165 Circa 1983 I was exposed to my first dose of NPR's All Things Considered. It sounded so erudite and intellectual...news for the educated thinking person. Then after ten days I realized according to these people the only things going on in the world was AIDS in America and apartheid in South Africa. Just turned it off.

Later in life I became an unrepentant dittohead.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2Ez/1)

166 Big hair and tank tops.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Tank tops? TUBE tops for the win.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:09 PM (NnhvP)

167 The nostalgia for the 1980s is forgetting something: we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR. It was a nation-wide anxiety that was constantly being fueled by the media and Hollywood and everything else (presumably for political reasons).

Ehhhhhh, yeah some people believed it - and it was all basically anti-Reagan propaganda by Commie agents and their useful idiot treasonous faggot toadies - but it never bothered me. I didn't think we were all actually going to die in nuclear was despite what the talking heads and libtard Hollyweirdos were saying and besides, in the extremely ridiculously highly unlikely event we did, I really didn't give a fuck anyway.

Posted by: Life sucks enough without phantom fear at September 07, 2026 01:09 PM (TbWk/)

168 164 Sam's Club 3meat pizza is better than Pizza the Hutt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM

Hey big boy...

Posted by: The Costco food court at September 07, 2026 01:10 PM (2Ez/1)

169 154 we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR"

No one actually believed that. It was just a media trope...
Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (cGjQu)

And the glory that was spandex and aerobics craze. Fit, hot girls in skin tight clothes. Peak. Just Peak.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 01:10 PM (xcxpd)

170 The nostalgia for the 1980s is forgetting something: we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR. It was a nation-wide anxiety that was constantly being fueled by the media and Hollywood and everything else (presumably for political reasons). I'm not tying this to Ryan Reynolds's ridiculous claim that it was about the Cuban missile crisis, I'm just saying that the 80s were permeated with either nuclear anxiety or nuclear fatalism.
Posted by: Blahblahblah
-------

Jeebers...the 50's were much worse in that regard. Weekly tests of the air raid sirens, practicing huddling under your school desk. Here's just a sample:
https://shorturl.at/lcBNz

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

171 And a ragtag bunch of teenagers did battle with the Ruskies in Colorado and won WWIII.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (u73oe)

172 Yeah, yeah I meant tube tops. Looked so good.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (gm9Sb)

173 A large Costco pizza is like $10. And it’s an actual LARGE pizza, Like feed 5 people and have a slice or two left over large. As oppose to a “large” that most pizza places call a small pizza.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (U1NLK)

174 I came of age in the 70's. I'm one of the fortunate few who was too young to register for the draft and too old to have to register for selective service.

I recently read an article where the writer asserted that for all intents and purposes, time and culture stopped Dec. 31, 1999. As ludicrous as it sounds, the more I think about it, the more it rings true.

Happy Labor Day everyone, especially our host Ace.


One other thought. Sefton mentioned the subject of Trump renaming everything in his content this morning. I don't think it's misplaced ego. I think it's his way of sticking it to Obama and his 'fundamental transformation of America'. Remember it was Obama who started renaming stuff - like 'Squaw' Valley and McKinley. Biden continued it with removing Rebel names from military bases. Trump's just giving them a taste of their own stoopid medicine.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (QGaXH)

175 AIDs/HIV?

Dr. Anthony Fauci waves.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (2GVsD)

176 142 As for how great the 1980s were, our lips are sealed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:04 PM (2GVsD)

Anna a Go-go?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 01:12 PM (xcxpd)

177 "Devo was right.
Posted by: fd

"Whip it good!"?"

We are Devolving.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:12 PM (MWfyi)

178 The intro to Funeral for a Friend is Amazing. The other part meh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 01:12 PM (lWlz/)

179 I suppose that could be used to describe me as well although I would call it painfully shy and introverted. Still, I have neither children nor ex-wives from that period and precipitated no abortions so I'm generally good with it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

Always a silver lining I reckon

Posted by: Accentuate the positive at September 07, 2026 01:12 PM (TbWk/)

180 And a ragtag bunch of teenagers did battle with the Ruskies in Colorado and won WWIII.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Wolverines!

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 01:12 PM (ftFVW)

181 Wolverines didn't win WWIII, only two of them made it to Free America.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:12 PM (2GVsD)

182 Never really thought Nuclear War would start, but then didn't worry about Islamic war to end all wars.

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Ia/+0)

183 173 A large Costco pizza is like $10. And it’s an actual LARGE pizza, Like feed 5 people and have a slice or two left over large. As oppose to a “large” that most pizza places call a small pizza.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (U1NLK)

A huge slice of pepperoini, a hotdog and a drink for $3.50. You can't beat that for a meal anywhere anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

184 Our local Hut was a small footprint store in a strip mall. It smelled like childhood accidents. Why was every restaurant in the '70s so dark? Was it the drugs? It was the drugs, wasn't it? The lunch special was ok, but I don't get the nostalgia.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (diia5)

185 Go-Gos and the Bangles for the win.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (2GVsD)

186 Ronald Reagan, the investment boom and my Detroit Tigers won the World Series. Plus Mrs. Paco became a naturalized citizen at a ceremony at the Orange Bowl, presided over by VP George H.W. Bush. And both of my children were born in the 80s. It was a golden age.

Posted by: Paco at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (2L+MU)

187 In some ways, the 90s were an extension of the 80s.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (WB/3O)

188 I've pointed out that he funded research more than any other world leader back then and they still refuse to concede anything.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:02 PM (/k3in)
----------
Trouble was, they gave the money to Fauci.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 07, 2026 01:13 PM (amcLV)

189 The workplace became much more hectic with the fax machine's introduction. We had a little more time for reflection on our work product in the first half of the '80s when we put documents in envelopes which were picked up by USPS at the end of the day.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 07, 2026 01:14 PM (2ap+5)

190 4 Good music stopped being created December 31, 1989.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (u73oe)

July 7, 1992: Images and Words by Dream Theater was released.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:14 PM (WB/3O)

191 Mostly remember everyone was packing around pounds they didn't need to

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:14 PM (Ia/+0)

192 BTW-H&I Channel is running Star Trek TOS (the only TRUE series) all day long and several days during the week.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 07, 2026 01:15 PM (QGaXH)

193 15 Didn't even know that Pizza Hut did away with the classic look. That tells you how long ago I've been in one.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (J4Dwc)

I don't believe there are many sit-down restaurant Pizza Huts these days. Some of the small strip-center outlets have a few seats and stools at a small counter. No or very small tables for one or two. No waitress service.

Posted by: Gref at September 07, 2026 01:15 PM (5rh/l)

194 Trouble was, they gave the money to Fauci.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea


At least our country was willing to do more except point out the obvious behaviors that if stopped could have saved a lot of lives.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 01:15 PM (/k3in)

195 Jeebers...the 50's were much worse in that regard. Weekly tests of the air raid sirens, practicing huddling under your school desk. Here's just a sample:
https://shorturl.at/lcBNz
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

Agree. By the '80's, the writing was on the wall. The Soviet Union was failing big time, but they were sane enough to not want to start a nuclear war.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:15 PM (1z8ji)

196 " BTW-H&I Channel is running Star Trek TOS (the only TRUE series) all day long and several days during the week.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan"

So you are saying that Star Trek is on?

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:16 PM (MWfyi)

197 By the way the movie The Brink Of War is pretty good.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 01:16 PM (2Ez/1)

198 I suppose if I had to pick a single Point of No Return, it would be the "journalist" chick who wrote that women should be lining up to give Bill Clinton blow jobs for keeping abortion legal. That was the black-and-white admission that politics -- everywhere and always -- trumped principle.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 07, 2026 01:16 PM (vTZFs)

199 We be alls think the best yeers were when's Presdent Obana was are leeder. He was a loving blank Presdent!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at September 07, 2026 01:16 PM (+3Cdu)

200 And the glory that was spandex and aerobics craze. Fit, hot girls in skin tight clothes. Peak. Just Peak"

This. Wore much Polo and Boathouse Row sweaters....

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:16 PM (cGjQu)

201 Hut's

LMAO. That apostrophe is kicking everyone's asses.

Posted by: Cal at September 07, 2026 01:17 PM (zhWvq)

202 Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 07, 2026 01:18 PM (amcLV)

203 So you are saying that Star Trek is on?"

Is BeastMaster on?

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:18 PM (cGjQu)

204 And don't get me started on the Eschatological fear. Fucking Hal Lindsey and his bullshit.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (xcxpd)

As someone who was raised partially in those circles (which not coincidentally contributed to being a pussy) I can attest that the END OF THE WORLD was coming every other week. Apocalyptic predictions and literature reached a fever pitch alongside Satanic panic. Lot of fucking weirdos.

Posted by: EHRMAGHEDDON at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (TbWk/)

205 Oh yeah, The Day After and Threads with Carl Sagan talking about nuclear winter.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2GVsD)

Only the most infamous examples. By the way…Carl Sagan appeared in the Viewpoint special Ted Koppel hosted after the former. Don’t forget the music. “It’s A Mistake” by Men at Work. “Shout” by Tears For Fears. Radio KAOS by Roger Waters. “Two Suns In The Sunset” by Floyd, Pink…

Scholastic Book Orders had books on offer depicting the world after nuclear war.

And so on.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (WB/3O)

206 The 80's was a huge success for the Hi-Fi generation. When a "rack" was stereo gear and not computers (or that other set of things.)

Separate amp, tuner, turntable, tape deck, equalizer, etc. And blow your eardrums out speakers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (2Cry5)

207 Watching a couple of Star Trek shows today and yesterday

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)

208
I recently read an article where the writer asserted that for all intents and purposes, time and culture stopped Dec. 31, 1999. As ludicrous as it sounds, the more I think about it, the more it rings true.

The Y2K singularity

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Cqx++)

209 At least our country was willing to do more except point out the obvious behaviors that if stopped could have saved a lot of lives.
Posted by: NR Pax

By the time of my first sex ed class, HIV/AIDS was included. But they made a huge deal out of the kid that got it from a transfusion. Don't remember much emphasis on avoiding butt sex and needles. Funny that.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (ftFVW)

210 As someone who was raised partially in those circles (which not coincidentally contributed to being a pussy) I can attest that the END OF THE WORLD was coming every other week. Apocalyptic predictions and literature reached a fever pitch alongside Satanic panic. Lot of fucking weirdos.
Posted by: EHRMAGHEDDON at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (TbWk/)

Shoulda run away and joined the circus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:20 PM (1z8ji)

211 @BREAKING NUUZ!!!
BREAKING NUUZ!!!
5m

This just in !!!

President Trump has renamed all Pizza Hut franchises to "America Hut" !!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 07, 2026 01:20 PM (A3xvt)

212 And blow your eardrums out speakers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (2Cry5)

"thirty inches of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping, nuclear brain damage!"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2ap+5)

213 Separate amp, tuner, turntable, tape deck, equalizer, etc. And blow your eardrums out speakers."

Pioneer, Thorens, SAE, Advent ...

Rock on

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:21 PM (cGjQu)

214 Then there were those fleeting six weeks when it was actually OK to wear a Members Only jacket.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 01:22 PM (2Ez/1)

215 Speaking of the 80s, a minor plot point in the Megan sequel was noting the major tech breakthrough Xerox made back in the 80s...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm)

216 Nood open thread.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 07, 2026 01:22 PM (NcvvS)

217 The IBM PS/2 series came out in 1987. The architecture was a dead end but it did give us VGA and the PS/2 keyboard connector.

I worked for an IBM dealer at that time. IBM spent a whole bunch of money training us on those products and I sold a boatload of Model 30s, 50s, and 70s. Those went for about $2k, $3K, and $4K, respectively. And then you needed a VGA CRT monitor, $300-$3000 at the time.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:22 PM (MWfyi)

218 thirty inches of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping, nuclear brain damage"

Dominator, baby

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 01:23 PM (cGjQu)

219 Fine. Just go away then.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 01:23 PM (MWfyi)

220 The 80's was a huge success for the Hi-Fi generation. When a "rack" was stereo gear and not computers (or that other set of things.)

Separate amp, tuner, turntable, tape deck, equalizer, etc. And blow your eardrums out speakers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (2Cry5)

Stereo "receivers" were coming on strong, too. All the functions in one box, aside from turntable and tape deck, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 01:23 PM (1z8ji)

221 President Trump has renamed all Pizza Hut franchises to "America Hut" !!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!
Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 07, 2026 01:20 PM


Now serving America Dry ginger ale.

Posted by: Suck it, eh? at September 07, 2026 01:23 PM (2Ez/1)

222 166 Big hair and tank tops.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Tank tops? TUBE tops for the win.

I have the 70's halter tops neck and neck with tube tops.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 01:23 PM (QZkUY)

223 119
If you think the 80's were good, you should have seen the 70's.

Carter's inflation would beg to differ...
Posted by: moki

He wan't there until the second half.

I was there for the whole thing. Aside from Carter, it was fantastic.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (QZkUY)

224 15 Didn't even know that Pizza Hut did away with the classic look. That tells you how long ago I've been in one.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (J4Dwc)

I don't believe there are many sit-down restaurant Pizza Huts these days. Some of the small strip-center outlets have a few seats and stools at a small counter. No or very small tables for one or two. No waitress service.Posted by: Gref at September 07, 2026 01:15 PM (5rh/l)

I just checked. The last one I was in was on Grand Haven Rd, across from the movie theaters in Norton Shores, Michigan. It's a Classic. Kudos to the franchise owner.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 01:24 PM (J4Dwc)

225 208
I recently read an article where the writer asserted that for all intents and purposes, time and culture stopped Dec. 31, 1999. As ludicrous as it sounds, the more I think about it, the more it rings true.

The Y2K singularity

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Cqx++)


Y2K was one of the 10,000 things that have occurred during my life the Media and Democrats (BIRM) preached would exterminate me and all of humanity. Still alive! (You bastards!)

Posted by: Gref at September 07, 2026 01:26 PM (5rh/l)

226 47 If you think the 80's were good, you should have seen the 70's.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 12:21 PM (QZkUY)

Carter's inflation would beg to differ...
Posted by: moki

My 70's was awesome. Great job, great music, we bought our first house. I have no bad memories of that decade.

Same. The music, the lady's fashions, just how laid-back everything was. You had Richard Pryor, Cheech and Chong, George Carlin and Mel Brooks doing comedy that would be eviscerated by the wokies today.

Posted by: Happy at September 07, 2026 01:27 PM (QZkUY)

227 That table cloths. That vinyl fascia with the cloth/fiber backing. Shiny and yet yielding to the touch. Easy to clean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Y/06r)

228 Jeebers...the 50's were much worse in that regard. Weekly tests of the air raid sirens, practicing huddling under your school desk. Here's just a sample:
https://shorturl.at/lcBNz
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
-----

I'll add that peoplewere building bomb shelters in their back yards. In municipalities, Civil Defence Fallout Shelter signs were everywhere

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

229 Y2K was one of the 10,000 things that have occurred during my life the Media and Democrats (BIRM) preached would exterminate me and all of humanity. Still alive! (You bastards!)
Posted by: Gref at September 07, 2026 01:26 PM (5rh/l)

I think it was the first time I really noticed it. On the other hand, you had acid rain, ozone hole, peak oil, etc etc.

Then the polar bears started showing up everywhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:29 PM (Y/06r)

230 Teenagers in the 80s were not particularly afraid of nuclear war, certainly not to the extent that teens today seem to be terrified of Muh Climate Crisis. There were some good "nuclear war is bad" songs and some good post-apocalyptic movies, but that's about it. Certainly nobody was making it their entire personality or sinking into a deep depression the way kids now are doing about climate.

Despite AIDS and the insistence of the 60s hippie crowd that "anyone can get it" (because they didn't want to stigmatize the gays), teenagers in the 80s were still having sex. Like, normal sex. A boy and a girl would date for a while and then they'd do it in the backseat of a car or sneak into one of their bedrooms while the parents were asleep. Girls who put out too easily were sluts. Boys had the occasional stolen Playboy but weren't crippled with "porn brain" from seeing every act imaginable online.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 07, 2026 01:30 PM (BGygK)

231 AIDs/HIV?

Dr. Anthony Fauci waves.
Posted by: Anna Puma


Only if gay or from Chicago, check when Number one showed up after a trip to Africa.. 1968 or 9 IIRC.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 07, 2026 01:31 PM (NnhvP)

232 I really miss just randomly showing up to a movie theater and having 3 choices, all of which later were considered classics.

Posted by: Texican ette at September 07, 2026 01:31 PM (SNf74)

233 1910 was the last “good” year for this country.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 07, 2026 01:32 PM (X5qGl)

234 232 I really miss just randomly showing up to a movie theater and having 3 choices, all of which later were considered classics.
Posted by: Texican ette at September 07, 2026 01:31 PM (SNf74)

And variety. You actually had multiple types of comedies.

Now, it's like we are in Warhammer 40k- but without the cool stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:34 PM (Y/06r)

235 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 01:34 PM (Y/06r)

236 The nostalgia for the 1980s is forgetting something: we thought we could die at any moment if nuclear war started with the USSR. It

This was more seventies and earlier. I remember duck-and-cover practice in the seventies. In the eighties, the fear was mostly gone—Reagan decided that a good defense against nuclear weapons was a better idea than mutally-assured-destruction, and suddenly a media and elite that had been ridiculing MAD for years decided it was sacrosanct.

At which point we stopped fearing, because obviously the fears were all media-inspired.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 07, 2026 01:40 PM (kYmoU)

237
I'll add that peoplewere building bomb shelters in their back yards. In municipalities, Civil Defence Fallout Shelter signs were everywhere
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

Occasionally you still see fading Fallout Shelter signs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 01:43 PM (WB/3O)

238 Please excuse but not reading all the way down.

Since most of us here seem to be 10 years plus or minus of 29, OF COURSE our younger years (in the 70s-80s) were GREAT! We did not have current adult responsibilities nor the past regrets behind us.

Oh. Willowed. Damn it.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 07, 2026 01:44 PM (3AwA+)

239 1780’s

Posted by: epador at September 07, 2026 01:57 PM (TRnzq)

240 “Were the 80’s the last good decade?”

Yes!

And I spent the vast majority of that decade in the NAVY…out at sea!

Dammit.

Posted by: Dansgirls at September 07, 2026 02:09 PM (9NZyJ)

241 There was a Pizza Hut exactly like the old time one across from the HS in our neighborhood.
We went to it for sometime
That was around 1998-2004, it unfortunately was sold and is now a Mexican restaurant

Posted by: Gonzotx at September 07, 2026 02:43 PM (nGraA)

242 This might be a weird question. Is the Pizza any good?
Posted by: Common Tater
-----
With the example of Chuck E Cheese in front of them, that question should be "front of mind", to coin a phrase.
That franchise should have made Bushnell another couple of hundred million, but, instead, cost him about that much.
The kids loved the place, but the pizza was TERRIBLE. Not just mediocre, but actively bad. Cardboard crust, where the cardboard was slightly moldy. Very acidic sauce. Toppings where you could taste the freezer burn.
The parents simply refused to take the kids in sufficient numbers to make it successful.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 07, 2026 05:50 PM (nll5z)

THE MORNING RANT: There’s A Lot of Great News as We Start the Homestretch to the Midterm Elections

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Labor Day is the unofficial start of the campaign season for the November mid-term elections. The primaries are over, the phony summer push-polls are in the rearview mirror, and we’re about to be flooded with campaign ads. We have every reason to be excited to go to the polls to ensure an ongoing Congressional Republican majority, and to keep the DSA-influenced Democrats away from any levers of power.

The 20 months since President Trump’s inauguration in early 2025 have had the most significant conservative victories of my lifetime, far exceeding President Reagan’s accomplishments. Here are just a few of the things President Trump and his team have done:

• Closed the border to illegal invaders.

• Deported hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, and caused millions more to self-deport.

• Slashed the federal workforce.

• Eliminated DEI and wokeness from the military and federal agencies.

• Eliminated EV mandates and green energy subsidies.

• Effectively terminated corporate average fuel economy requirements for auto manufacturers.

• Engaged the military to eliminate narco-terrorists.

• Engaged the DOJ to target corporations engaged in illegal racial discrimination in hiring.

There are so many more milestone accomplishments beyond those.

For decades the conservative base has clamored for the above victories. President Trump finally delivered. Amidst all this, there are many “conservative” influencers who are promoting doom. For many of them, that is their job - being paid to blackpill conservative voters to stay home, so as to elect a Democrat Congress. The resumption of Democrat lawfare against the Trump administration is their goal.

High prices are a problem, and are very frustrating to Americans, because there is an unrealistic expectation that prices will come down from the crazy inflation of the Biden years. At one point inflation exceeded 9% annually according to government record keepers. (We all know it was much higher, and that it compounded year over year.) Inflation is back down to 3%, but even if it falls to 0%, the runup in prices during the Biden years aren’t going away. Wage growth is the answer to this problem, and that is now happening thanks to Trump’s policies.

There is abundant great news on the economic front:

Wages: The combination of industrial growth and elimination of off-the-books foreign labor is creating demand for employees and pushing up wages. Per the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, wage growth is outpacing inflation, especially for those changing jobs, as employers are now having to compete for employees.

Industrial Activity: As I frequently write about, there is an explosion of industrial growth and economic activity in this country. The re-shoring of industry thanks to Trump’s tariffs and his America-first agenda is one of the drivers.

Job Creation: The most recent jobs report revealed job creation that was triple the expectation of “experts.” In addition, the number of job openings is surging. More than 1,000,000 new private sector jobs, filled by American citizens, have been created since Trump’s 2025 inauguration.

Here are just a few recent headlines that we can celebrate:

“August jobs report delivers unexpectedly strong news for US economy” [USA Today – 9/04/2026]

What’s funny about the great jobs report is that most media still tried to spin this as bad news, because it could lead to a rate hike by the Federal Reserve. Why would the Fed need to raise rates based on more people getting hired? There is a tired old economic trope (especially when Republicans are in power) that an expanding economy which is creating jobs with good wages is necessarily inflationary, and therefore the central bank has an obligation to raise rates to stifle economic growth and stop the jobs growth, thus staving off inflation.

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“SNAP food aid enrollment drops 13% as new federal work requirements take effect” [Fox 11 L.A. – 8/22/2026]

More than 5 million people have stopped receiving food stamps thanks to the Trump administration. This is largely due to eligibility requirements that disallow the able-bodied from choosing dependence over employment.

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“Fentanyl deaths plunge 22% as Trump White House touts crackdown on deadly drug crisis” [Fox News – 8/21/2026]

My wife and I have had two different friends lose a child to a fentanyl overdose. In one of those cases, it was effectively the murder of a teenaged girl who did not know she was ingesting fentanyl. The fentanyl deaths in this country have been a form of asymmetric warfare waged by China in affiliation with Latin American crime syndicates. Democrats, open border advocates, and China-loving “free traders” all stand in solidarity with the murderous narcotics traffickers. Donald Trump doesn’t. Instead, he’s taking them out.

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“Foreign-born population dropped by roughly 3 million under Trump” [Just The News – 9/03/2026]

This includes 2.6 million illegal aliens, many of whom were the “worst of the worst” as far as criminal behavior.

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“Federal workforce shrank by 54,000 employees under Trump, watchdog group says” [WSBT – 7/31/20256]

Beyond the tens of thousands of federal employees that have been eliminated under Trump, their percentage of the American workforce is at an historic low. Meanwhile, the “true conservatives” in legacy right-of-center media are working to discourage MAGA conservatives from voting in November. The “true conservatives” pushed the issue of smaller government for decades. Trump actually delivered, and they’ll never forgive him for it. These are the same “conservative” frauds working to demoralize you and keep you from voting in November.

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We are winning, and we can keep on winning if we get out and vote to keep Democrats away from power – locally and nationally.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 07, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

2 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 07, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

3 I hope so

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 11:01 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Fighting off Mgid like they are Mosquitos and I am in a swamp

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 11:02 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Now it's time for our fake Fall Push Polls.

Posted by: Big Fake Polling, Inc. at September 07, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

6 If somehow universal voting ID was imposed I would feel much more confident.

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 11:03 AM (Ia/+0)

7 This post isn't going to sit well with the eeyores and black pill pushers among us.

Maybe a trigger warning?

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 07, 2026 11:03 AM (A3xvt)

8 I pay tribute to Rick Santelli, the bright shing light at CNBC who started the Tea Party movement with one of his rants and who has for years offset the nuttiness that is Andrew Ross Sorkin. Santelli is retiring next month but I am certain his last day report will be lit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 07, 2026 11:05 AM (gYIcH)

9 This post isn't going to sit well with the eeyores and black pill pushers among us."

NOOOOOO!

Success is not tolerated!

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:06 AM (cGjQu)

10 More good news: This Saturday just past I attended the wedding of a young woman, the daughter of a good friend murdered by al Qaeda on 9/11. She had a joyous day, filled with cigar smoke and dancing just as her father would wish. What a great weekend, and Mayor Madmani can go jump off the 59th street bridge.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 07, 2026 11:08 AM (gYIcH)

11 "My wife and I have had two different friends lose a child to a fentanyl overdose. In one of those cases, it was effectively the murder of a teenaged girl who did not know she was ingesting fentanyl." --Buck--

A good friend would offer to take out the killer.
I would.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 07, 2026 11:11 AM (zafwz)

12 Local Parents in Ceuta React With Horror as Migrant Camp Planned Next to Children’s Nursery

-
Islamophobia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)

13 My opinion on a certain breed of scumbag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6PY1BQLBE

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 07, 2026 11:14 AM (zafwz)

14 and Mayor Madmani can go jump off the 59th street bridge."

Feeling groovy...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:14 AM (cGjQu)

15 The political situation in 2016 looked more bleak at this point and it turned out Ok.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 11:15 AM (qwx/I)

16 and Mayor Madmani can go jump off the 59th street bridge.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 07, 2026 11:08 AM (gYIcH)
====================
That would be groovy!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 07, 2026 11:16 AM (IwlG/)

17 Horde mind!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 07, 2026 11:17 AM (IwlG/)

18 Love the optimism, Buck

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

19 How dare you give me reasons to be hopeful!

Posted by: Dr. T at September 07, 2026 11:18 AM (lHPJf)

20 High prices are a problem, and are very frustrating to Americans, because there is an unrealistic expectation that prices will come down from the crazy inflation of the Biden years.

Call me an eeyore or a black pill pusher. I don't care.

In my experience, the majority of voters, save for the hard core, vote by their pocketbooks. Gas prices have come down, but they are back up (over $4/gal here in MA). Food prices may have come down, but they are back up - not to mention the pernicious effect of 'shrinkflation.'

I'm on the Trump train, but the man's style handicaps him. As much fun as it is trolling the left about "Lake America" and "New Not Mexico," John Q Public's concern is his paycheck and his bills. Trump has less than two months to convince people that prices will drop. He isn't making the case.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 07, 2026 11:19 AM (qRla/)

21 18 Love the optimism, Buck
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 11:18 AM (xcxpd


Yes... I could use a little of that..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:19 AM (+gK6I)

22 Are you sure you didn't take a wrong turn at Albuquerque, Buck?! Positive news?!!

And thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 11:19 AM (wmzkx)

23 Hopefully the GOP brain trust taps into their inner Atwater and runs ads linking the Clancy trial (which will be resumed in Sep/October) to the Democrat party.

The media will call it the "most negative campaign ad" ever but it could help to get the young White male vote to the polls.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 11:20 AM (qwx/I)

24 Yes, surely Democrats will fix high prices....If the voters believe this they deserve what they get.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2026 11:21 AM (YwEeS)

25 Forgot to list MAJOR accomplishment: historic drop in violent crime rate. I rank that as second greatest thing, next to sealing the border.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 11:21 AM (Jr5Lq)

26 IIRC the midterms are also when KY votes for McConnell's replacement, as he's not running again (because he's probably dead.)

This might be his staff's ploy to remain on the payroll until then. The GOP approves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 11:21 AM (2Cry5)

27 That Buck sure do write good. Good rant. Imagine where we be if Kneepads won.

Posted by: Winning Streak, Par Excellence at September 07, 2026 11:22 AM (Fn+3X)

28 What matters is if the voters believe the dems "free" stuff or not... If so... We're screwed... If not, it will be a good election day/week/month....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:23 AM (+gK6I)

29 GOOD!

Good to all of it., but especially the self-deportation. It has always infuriated me that children illegally brought here can enroll in school, free lunch (sometimes breakfast!), and low-income programs.

On the other hand, thiese American boys who were dumped by their mother can't even enroll in school. https://tinyurl.com/3sw798ds

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 07, 2026 11:23 AM (fy544)

30 Gas prices have come down, but they are back up (over $4/gal here in MA"

Hey, let's shut down more pipelines!

Food prices are the best in quite some time. This summer saw huge travel/vacations as well...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:24 AM (cGjQu)

31 Gas prices have come down, but they are back up (over $4/gal here in MA"


$ 7.99 here for diesel.. $5.79 for regular...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:26 AM (+gK6I)

32 The news is good but evil never sleeps. However, I will celebrate what we can.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 11:26 AM (/k3in)

33 Even if we had universal voting ID imposed it would be dragged out in courts for twenty years before they would say if it was constitutional or not. Our system sucks for reasons.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 11:27 AM (noln+)

34 Not mentioned is that this is the most pro 2nd Amendment administration in history (at least in my opinion).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 07, 2026 11:27 AM (gm9Sb)

35 Look, Donny - I voted for triumphs, not triumphal arches, so keep your eye on the ball for another couple years, okay?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 11:27 AM (UWN7z)

36
Mayor Madmani can go jump off the 59th street bridge.
Posted by: Huck Follywood


That would be groovy!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (Cqx++)

37 On the other hand, these American boys who were dumped by their mother can't even enroll in school.

Just watched the video and it was more than irritating. I hope those boys are soon in school.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (/k3in)

38 Thx Buck.
The polls, yeah I know , are starting to become more favorable as well. The Dems are getting nervous about NH ( I'd love to see the DSA won the primary), Ohio and Michigan.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (TrqdA)

39 35 Look, Donny - I voted for triumphs, not triumphal arches, so keep your eye on the ball for another couple years, okay?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 11:27 AM (UWN7z)

Agreed... Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (+gK6I)

40 $ 7.99 here for diesel.. $5.79 for regular..."

Never paid over 3.5 for regular all summer here (Houston area).

The next challenge is fuel transmission.

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (cGjQu)

41
Never paid over 3.5 for regular all summer here (Houston area).

The next challenge is fuel transmission.
Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (cGjQu


Welcome to California...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:30 AM (+gK6I)

42 $ 7.99 here for diesel.. $5.79 for regular...
Posted by: It's me donna
________

3.59 (WaWa) to 3.89 (Speedway) here for regular.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM (XvL8K)

43 Buck, add fraud fighting to your list. The administration is hitting it on multiple fronts.

Posted by: George V at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM (g6ahB)

44 Seen on X: "Post partum hormones make me want to deport 100 million third worlders."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM (/k3in)

45 My company (small industrial manufacturer) has seen orders surge in 2025 and 2026, so I'm good until 27.

Speaking of job growth -- one of the observations on X is that more than 90% of jobs since Trump took over have gone to women, although I'm not sure how that's calculated. In my company, the new office positions and their hires have been women. I guess it's true Boomers like their office harems.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM (qwx/I)

46 Just watched the video and it was more than irritating. I hope those boys are soon in school."

It is quite amazing at the numbers of illegals consuming the school resources across the country....

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM (cGjQu)

47 one of the observations on X is that more than 90% of jobs since Trump took over have gone to women, although I'm not sure how that's calculated"

It's pulled from the arse...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:32 AM (cGjQu)

48 "Liberal woman, stay away from me hee..."

https://youtu.be/5DGtDT0gDxk

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 11:33 AM (2GVsD)

49 Agreed... Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (+gK6I)

No you are not.
We don't need it any more than we need a replica of the Brandenburg Gate or an Eiffel tower.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 07, 2026 11:34 AM (zafwz)

50 Look, Donny - I voted for triumphs, not triumphal arches, so keep your eye on the ball for another couple years, okay?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 11:27 AM (UWN7z)

Agreed... Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (+gK6I)


There are a lot of things Trump does that I think are dumb and a lot I support. What I am disappointed about are the things he hasn't done. I have my list and I am sure you have yours. But I still believe the midterms will come down to staple prices, which will drive enthusiasm.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 07, 2026 11:34 AM (qRla/)

51 It's pulled from the arse...

Fart facts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 11:34 AM (2GVsD)

52 "Agreed... Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?"

I agree. I want him to drain the swamp, not gild it.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 11:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

53 It's not even optimism, it's all objectively true.

Anyone still whining about what the Trump administration hasn't done instead of celebrating how much they have already done in less than 2 years just wants to be miserable.

Some of the stuff Trump is doing, like taking back the western hemisphere and kicking the commies out, won't even be noticed for years because the media is too busy obssessing over Trump's trolling but it is enormous.

Best administration in my lifetime.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

54 I'm just glad that Election Day isn't during August. Been a very hot one here this year.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew8)

55 The very best rendering of the 59th Street Bridge Song is by Liberace.

Posted by: Wisconsin's Finest at September 07, 2026 11:35 AM (Fn+3X)

56 I do think if the Marxists don't get their way with a majority in the mid terms they will get more crazy

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 11:35 AM (Ia/+0)

57 Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?"

Squirrel!

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:36 AM (cGjQu)

58 Republicans could ship in free gas to blue states and that still wouldn't change their vote.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:36 AM (E0Et6)

59 The very best rendering of the 59th Street Bridge Song is by Liberace"

This

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:36 AM (cGjQu)

60 58 Republicans could ship in free gas to blue states and that still wouldn't change their vote.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:36 AM (E0Et6)

Of course.... I'm more concerned with the "purple" States...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:37 AM (+gK6I)

61

but but but but......

Complaining about the arch or Lake America feels so good! It shows that bad orange man how mad (stamps foot on floor) I am!

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 07, 2026 11:39 AM (A3xvt)

62 $ 7.99 here for diesel.. $5.79 for regular...
Posted by: It's me donna
________

Damn! You must live in a high-tax shithole city or state. Prices are reasonable here.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

63 >>Agreed... Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?

Did you know that Congress approved a similar momument in Memorial Circle over 100 years ago? This is not a new thing, Trump is just the guy who actually does things.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:39 AM (viF8m)

64 Did you know that Congress approved a similar momument in Memorial Circle over 100 years ago? This is not a new thing, Trump is just the guy who actually does things.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:39 AM (viF8m)

Sure , but the timing for it is off...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:40 AM (+gK6I)

65 "Did you know that Congress approved a similar momument in Memorial Circle over 100 years ago?"

We didn't need it then, don't need it now. Govt spends too much. It would be nice if "our side" would act like it.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 11:41 AM (Jr5Lq)

66 If you can't trust "observations on X" what can you trust?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 07, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

67 I do think if the Marxists don't get their way with a majority in the mid terms they will get more crazy
Posted by: Skip
_________

The DSA wing will get more crazy no matter the result, but if they underperform in the midterms I think the Carville wing will prevail in picking their 28 nominee. That would be whoever they can sell as a normie like they did Biden in 20.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 11:42 AM (XvL8K)

68 Have you looked at what PDT has done to restore the monuments in DC ?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:42 AM (E0Et6)

69 It is quite amazing at the numbers of illegals consuming the school resources across the country....
Posted by: man


In an ideal world, the school administrators would be shamed into admitting those kids and a fundraiser for that man would get power and water restored. Those two kids are worth more than 100 illegals.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 11:44 AM (/k3in)

70 Again. The arch is a squirrel.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 07, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)

71 66 If you can't trust "observations on X" what can you trust?
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 07, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

You can trust me.

Posted by: Smilin' Freddy's Quality Used Cars at September 07, 2026 11:45 AM (R6aIA)

72 I do think if the Marxists don't get their way with a majority in the mid terms they will get more crazy

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 11:35 AM (Ia/+0)
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Even if they do get their way it is a 100% certainty the communist democrats will get more insane. It is in their nature.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 07, 2026 11:45 AM (xvV+O)

73 The arch is a squirrel, Yep and some on our side keep falling for it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:45 AM (E0Et6)

74 Have you looked at what PDT has done to restore the monuments in DC ?"

Was back there earlier this year, first time in nearly 5 years. The change was almost jarring. Clean, neat, freshly touched up... it was truly amazing.
Others we know have raved about how nice conditions are now...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:46 AM (cGjQu)

75 >>Sure , but the timing for it is off...

Why? Democrats have been tearing down statues and monuments, including just the other week in Virginia, celebrating our country for years.

Regardless of what the garbage media says, the country is flying right now and us ordinary people are getting the controls back. It's absolutely time to celebrate this country and be optimistic.

Plus it has the added benefit of pissing off the left to no end.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:46 AM (viF8m)

76 62 I finally did a painting with a dog in it so my first piece of art.
Posted by: polynikes

Me too.

Posted by: Quality Learing Center at September 07, 2026 11:46 AM (Fn+3X)

77 "underperform"

The Paolo, he does not know, how you say, what this word means.

Posted by: The Paolo at September 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

78 I've said for a long time that the Republicans will lose neither the Senate nor the House, but in fact will gain in both chambers. I'm with Ben Had on this one.

That said, the GOPe is doing their darndest to lose this election for Trump. If what I think won't happen does, it will be because of people like Thune who aren't - and won't - give the base a reason to turn out for them.

Trump's domestic accomplishments leave Reagan's in the dust. He's on his way towards fixing some of Reagan's most glaring mistakes on the international front as well - starting with Iran. I could care less about the trolling he does about Gulfs, Lakes, or Centers. What's a shame to me is that he's the only one doing this - we're supposed to have a Party whose job it is to do exactly what Trump's doing by himself.

Best administration in my lifetime - by far.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 07, 2026 11:47 AM (0CU3H)

79 Those two kids are worth more than 100 illegals."

Not in funding!

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:47 AM (cGjQu)

80 Copy/paste fail.

Posted by: Quality Learing Center at September 07, 2026 11:47 AM (Fn+3X)

81 Regardless of what the garbage media says, the country is flying right now and us ordinary people are getting the controls back. It's absolutely time to celebrate this country and be optimistic."

Absolutely.

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:48 AM (cGjQu)

82 The arch is a squirrel, Yep and some on our side keep falling for it.
Posted by: Ben Had

Eyes on the prize, folks. The distractions aren't meant for us.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 11:48 AM (ftFVW)

83 I must have hit a nerve with this Arch... It just seems silly to me, and yes I do appreciate all the work Trump has had done to restore Our DC monuments.. I also love the big beautiful Ballroom..

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:49 AM (+gK6I)

84 She Hobbit gets it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:49 AM (E0Et6)

85 And if they get totally schlonged in the midterms, I'd put good money on the party formally splitting.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 11:50 AM (XvL8K)

86 "The arch is a squirrel, Yep and some on our side keep falling for it."

What am I missing, then? It's scheduled to begin construction soon. Are you saying it won't be built, or if it is, it won't cost taxpayers anything? Please tell me what exactly makes it a squirrel?

We've got enough damn monuments in DC, along with their perpetual maintenance budgets. We don't need more. The ballroom was supposed to cost $200M of private money. Now it's projected to cost $300M private and another $300M public money.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 11:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

87 I voted for this. A lot of my relatives are just fixated on Trump and won't give credit for anything good. Sad!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 11:50 AM (llBIB)

88 39 35 Look, Donny - I voted for triumphs, not triumphal arches, so keep your eye on the ball for another couple years, okay?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 11:27 AM (UWN7z)

Agreed... Am I the only one who thinks the arch is dumb ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:28 AM (+gK6I)

No, you're not the only one. I would prefer that we wrapped up the Iran business and got past the midterms before we get started on the triumphal arch, if then. But what do I know - I'm just a mostly-lurking moron.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at September 07, 2026 11:50 AM (va0Yo)

89 I've been getting several ads for Tallerico since the month started. Fundraising, asking for five or even just one dollar. (once they have your name, they can hide the foreign money, I assume)

I don't want to cast aspersions, but, uuh... This fuggin' guy? He has the presence of sugar free pudding. This guy is no one's first choice for anything.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 07, 2026 11:53 AM (r7+Q7)

90 I remember going to DC with my grandfather when I was a kid. I was awestruck looking at things like the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument (that big tall pointy thing that seems to serve no purpose). It made me proud to be an American. Our capital city was beautiful.

You can look at any monument or statue and argue they aren't worth it but they are. There's a reason the left has been trying to tear them down for years. A country that forgets its history and doesn't celebrate it is doomed to fall.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:54 AM (viF8m)

91 Drove a bunch of assholes right out of their gourds.
Had fun doing it.

Posted by: DaveA at September 07, 2026 11:54 AM (FhXTo)

92 I don't want to cast aspersions, but, uuh... This fuggin' guy? He has the presence of sugar free pudding. This guy is no one's first choice for anything.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 07, 2026 11:53 AM (r7+Q7)

BUT HE'S LEADING THE POLLS! CALIFORNIANS, SEND US MONEY!!!! HONEST, WE CAN WIN THIS ONE! I HAVE MY EYE ON A BRAND NEW PORSCHE!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)

93 That said, the GOPe is doing their darndest to lose this election"

The CoC will never forget.

And a monument is the worst crisis? That's funny right there.

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:55 AM (cGjQu)

94 PDT is reshaping the world. I don't care if he wants an arch. Hell, I want him to have his own damn mountain.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:55 AM (E0Et6)

95 That is one thing that is hilarious about the Kamala candidacy. 2 BILLION dollars and it appears it was just a way for the consultancy class to soak the donor class.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)

96 I was thinking about these "conservatives" just this morning. Remember the National Review managing editor Francovitch wrote that the Covington High School kids "spit on the cross" in reaction to the picture of Nick Sandman smiling awkwardly when Nathan Phillips got up into his face with his pow wow drum? Somehow that came to mind and the NR reaction made me more angry than that of the waste-stream media, because they do what they're gonna do. But NR, if they are the conservative magazine they portend to be, needs to treat the truth as something that is dear.

These never-Trump shit heads are as useless as teats on a boar hog.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 07, 2026 11:56 AM (47/pr)

97 been getting several ads for Tallerico since the month started."

Yeah. Supposed to have blown thru all kinds of campaign cash, and is now begging for more.

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:57 AM (cGjQu)

98 The DNC is broke and the Democrats in general are on the verge intraparty of civil war. As inept as the GOP is, the dems are worse. Republicans hold both houses.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 11:57 AM (u73oe)

99 86 "The arch is a squirrel, Yep and some on our side keep falling for it."

What am I missing, then? It's scheduled to begin construction soon. Are you saying it won't be built, or if it is, it won't cost taxpayers anything? Please tell me what exactly makes it a squirrel?

We've got enough damn monuments in DC, along with their perpetual maintenance budgets. We don't need more. The ballroom was supposed to cost $200M of private money. Now it's projected to cost $300M private and another $300M public money.
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 11:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

The problem is that the ballroom is necessary for security. Not to mention the last ten presidents have wanted one. Build it, and it can be used from this point forward and it will be out of the way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 11:58 AM (WB/3O)

100 73 The arch is a squirrel, Yep and some on our side keep falling for it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:45 AM


I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The Ballroom at September 07, 2026 11:58 AM (2Ez/1)

101 97 been getting several ads for Tallerico since the month started."

Yeah. Supposed to have blown thru all kinds of campaign cash, and is now begging for more.
Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 11:57 AM (cGjQu)


Is it true he's actually doing a fundraiser in California ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:59 AM (+gK6I)

102 98 The DNC is broke and the Democrats in general are on the verge intraparty of civil war. As inept as the GOP is, the dems are worse. Republicans hold both houses.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 07, 2026 11:57 AM (u73oe)

If the Dems fail to win either House and/or have lackluster results on the state level, that civil war explodes.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 11:59 AM (WB/3O)

103 >>The problem is that the ballroom is necessary for security. Not to mention the last ten presidents have wanted one. Build it, and it can be used from this point forward and it will be out of the way.

Not to mention it is largely being paid for with private donations. Just like the arch.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)

104 It is what is under the ballroom that is important.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 11:59 AM (E0Et6)

105

Is it true he's actually doing a fundraiser in California ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 11:59 AM (+gK6I)

Would not surprise me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 12:00 PM (WB/3O)

106 Don't get me started.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at September 07, 2026 12:00 PM (r7+Q7)

107 Not to mention it is largely being paid for with private donations. Just like the arch.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)

Like I said, I love the Big beautiful Ballroom....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 12:00 PM (+gK6I)

108 The White House didn't come with a basketball court.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 12:01 PM (E0Et6)

109 Three black pill indicators:

"Nothing will happen."

"But Epstein's customers are still running around."

"Israel/THE JEWS/Zionists run everything."

Posted by: Minuteman at September 07, 2026 12:03 PM (47/pr)

110 wage growth is outpacing inflation...

====
This is how Trump addresses "affordability" but youngsters have been diseducated about economics so, say to them "lower prices!!1!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:03 PM (nbUa5)

111 The GOPe is trying their damnedest to lose the midterms. Fortunately, the Dems may be trying to just a bit harder!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 12:03 PM (UWN7z)

112 Or an indoor swimming pool.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 12:03 PM (viF8m)

113 Trump's domestic accomplishments leave Reagan's in the dust. He's on his way towards fixing some of Reagan's most glaring mistakes on the international front as well - starting with Iran. I could care less about the trolling he does about Gulfs, Lakes, or Centers. What's a shame to me is that he's the only one doing this - we're supposed to have a Party whose job it is to do exactly what Trump's doing by himself.

Best administration in my lifetime - by far.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 07, 2026 11:47 AM (0CU3H)

Call me when he changes the world map. I have been pleasantly surprised by Trump. Reagan is still #1. You could say ending the Cold War paved the way for someone like Trump.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 12:03 PM (WB/3O)

114 That is one thing that is hilarious about the Kamala candidacy. 2 BILLION dollars and it appears it was just a way for the consultancy class to soak the donor class.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)
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Yet they persist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:04 PM (nbUa5)

115 These never-Trump shit heads are as useless as teats on a boar hog.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 07, 2026 11:56 AM (47/pr)

This. The sense of betrayal is the thing. All of these asshats always had contempt for us- Trump just got them to show it.

And the thing is it is not just NRO- it was a host of commentators like Patterico, AP, etc etc.

Hell, I think a lot of ace's motivating animus the past 8 years has been that sense of betrayal.

How many cruises are you doing now, NRO?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Y/06r)

116 is under the ballroom that is important.
Posted by: Ben Had


Look up not down.

An actual roof stops drone swarms better than a tent.

Posted by: DaveA at September 07, 2026 12:05 PM (FhXTo)

117 Lots of recipes call for shredded Chicken. But they never really explain how to get there first.

I’m going to try a new technique I read about here, throwing caution to the wind here. It’s fry one side seasoned well in butter or your favorite till browned, maybe 5 minutes, flip and then add 3/4 cup Chicken bouillon or stock and cover with a lid and poach for another 7 to 10 minutes or so till done It’s supposed to shred easily with two forks this way.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 07, 2026 12:05 PM (lYAIJ)

118 I love the work being done by US Assistant.Attorney General Harmeet Dillon in the area of civil rights and religious freedom. The lawsuits take time, but i'm looking forward to success.

Yes, i'm thinking of you Don Lemon.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 07, 2026 12:05 PM (llBIB)

119 It's me donna, I can appreciate your scepticism having to live in California.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (E0Et6)

120 What? Nothing on the election in Sachsen-Anhalt? : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (WB/3O)

121 I was out of the loop yesterday and just saw video from a Miami news station showing the final approach and landing of the Amazon contractor B76.

Yikes, that was a significant float down the runway after the round out.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (J4Dwc)

122 Made the mistake of reading the Fox News story on SNAP. Oh those poor moochers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (bX16E)

123 Or an indoor swimming pool.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 12:03 PM (viF8m)

Or a bowling alley

Posted by: Boswell at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (j10i6)

124 Yet they persist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:04 PM (nbUa5)

Hell, it's a good gig if you can get it and you only need to get a small percentage of that 2 billion to be very well off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (Y/06r)

125 I never promised you a rose garden either

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 12:06 PM (Ia/+0)

126 My lifetime rankings
1. Trump
2. Reagan
Not ranked: Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:07 PM (nbUa5)

127 Yes, surely Democrats will fix high prices....If the voters believe this they deserve what they get.

--

Yeah, this kind of thinking from voters exasperates me. Costs for food/fuel were sky high under Biden and his explosion in gov't spending, and importation of who knows how many millions of illegals, sending inflation through the roof...

...and magically, inflation is still with us, but somehow, if we put Democrats back in office, costs will go down when they blew up under Democrats before?

How does that rationale work in one's brain apart from TDS?

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 07, 2026 12:07 PM (qBdHI)

128 Something that should have made the list: The Mad Mullahs won't have a nuke to blackmail the world with.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 07, 2026 12:08 PM (47/pr)

129 When the IRGC falls there will be one less muslim country in the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 12:09 PM (E0Et6)

130 I see that H1B applications have plummeted -- hopefully the GOP strategerists can play this up as well.

Nativism may well save the Republic.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 12:10 PM (qwx/I)

131 I still think an opportunity was lost when they put the press room over the old swimming pool, but never included a trap door and big red button.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 07, 2026 12:10 PM (r7+Q7)

132 Paxton was on Fox last night. President Trump put in $10 million and he feels more will be coming in. He's optimistic but should be shocked Talarico isn't being laughed out of Texas.

Price is Right. A lady was off on the final showcase by $411 dollars. That's an incredible bid. BUT the other lady was off by $408 and won.

News

CBC - We're in full retard mode with a Trade War mkst people on your street won't even notice. I'd love for President Trump to put in 6 months notice on the Free Trade deal and pump billions into industries like steel to completely destroy us. Just destroy us.

Fox - Outnumbered. Yeah, it must be a holiday. That's an unattractive cast. Flock cameras.

CNN - armed man arrested after lunging toward Gov Dem nominee. I'm guessing this'll disappear after facts emerge.

MSNow - same story. Taser and two pistols.

They're all wee weed up. I'm going to self ban myself for a few minutes.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 07, 2026 12:10 PM (Sco7b)

133 Not mentioned is that this is the most pro 2nd Amendment administration in history (at least in my opinion).

Yup. DOJ participating in pro-2A sue-and-settle on silencers is huge, and will end tyranny dating back to FDR.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 07, 2026 12:13 PM (QZThv)

134
What? Nothing on the election in Sachsen-Anhalt? : )
Posted by: Cow Demon


Did the Saxons begin to hate?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Cqx++)

135 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Ia/+0)

136 How does that rationale work in one's brain apart from TDS?

That is so weird me too. I guess that will be their only strategy- shout about How horrible Trump is and encourage people elect Democrats who will magically make prices come down!.

I did get an -unrelated- laugh today from hearing a clip of Hillary Clinton talking about the arch and the ballroom and saying what a terrible narcissist Trump is .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (y8wRt)

137 It's not unprecedented for a political party to come to an end.

Is it too bold to speak of such a possibility for the party of three letter political giants such as FDR, JFK and LBJ?

I will always tip my hat to Truman. He didn't just push the button once, he pushed it TWICE. Had he not done so, my dad would have likely bought it off the coast of the Japanese mainland and I wouldn't be here to type this. Clinton was a lying horndog, but a political genius. Then came the mirage of B.O. who will be remembered for nothing.

Ultimately they served up an empty husk octogenarian.
Has the party itself not become the same?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 07, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)

138 When the IRGC falls there will be one less muslim country in the world.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 12:09 PM (E0Et6)
=====

Love your optimism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (nbUa5)

139 The voting demographic I'm most concerned with are young women, daughters of the State. I hope there's a strategy to systematically dissuade them from voting.

We have to collectively break them so they be rebuilt into contented mothers and wives.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (qwx/I)

140 Every single thing Trump has done in the past 12 years has also been accomplished while he has battled for his life personally, professionally and politically.

He has not had a moments peace and yet still has succeeded rather than concede.
There will never be another man like him.

Posted by: old chick at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (F3Dlr)

141 The economy will not improve until the fuel prices settle down to something more reasonable. We need Trump to put the pressure on the oil companies. Iran's economy is dead. Oil is coming out of the middle east. Prices need to come down.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (noln+)

142 Buck....as you note, there is a ton of good news which the turncoats in politics and media deliberately ignore.

Thanks for pointing it out on this Labor Day!

Posted by: Joemarine at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (y171U)

143 I still think an opportunity was lost when they put the press room over the old swimming pool, but never included a trap door and big red button.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 07, 2026 12:10 PM (r7+Q7)

Trump could replace that pool with the WH woodchipper - then a trap door mechanism in the Press Room would pay for itself! Much hilarity would ensue.

Posted by: Boswell at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (j10i6)

144 Don't get the arch and ballroom hand wringing. Great civilizations build things. And we are one.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (bX16E)

145 President Fredric March used the swimming pool in Seven Days In May.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Cqx++)

146 For decades the conservative base has clamored for the above victories.

---------------

True.

Now if we can only haz serial Deep State convictions and executions for Treason with a capital "T" ... but, of course, nothing will happen.

[Not to mention that I'm old enough to remember Tom Homan on the 2024 campaign trail promising arrests of felon Sanctuary State & City Governors & Mayors for violating federal law by overtly harboring, aiding, & abetting -- cumulatively -- literally tens of millions of illegal aliens.]

Posted by: ShainS at September 07, 2026 12:16 PM (oDSG/)

147 Prices aren’t going to go down if the communists win. It will only get worse. I’m canceling my useless health insurance so that will be a nice raise. Hopefully the job comes through with more cash.
Still worried about Talarico the weirdo

Posted by: Billythesquid at September 07, 2026 12:16 PM (gN+5I)

148 Wages, industrial output, employment... I'm seeing it all over where I am. Lots of private enterprise building out physical infrastructure, old infrastructure being cleared away for it, State revenues healthy enough for public spending increases while also maintaining a balanced budget with tax holidays, and so forth. Finances here are in good shape.

But this is very dependent on State law. Federal enthusiasm for growth is great, but it's not too useful in an otherwise hostile environment.

If you're in a Garbage State, shit still sucks and it won't get better with Trump or any Congress, because your local leadership are still Commie thieves and tards.

This is a key strength, not weakness, for the Communists. They can use a Republican as a reason to go full tilt on all their society-destroying initiatives, with a built-in villain to blame for the destruction.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 07, 2026 12:19 PM (BI5O2)

149 "Great civilizations build things...
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM"


Why, yes. Yes they do.

Posted by: Stinky B.O. at September 07, 2026 12:20 PM (2Ez/1)

150 The economy will not improve until the fuel prices settle down to something more reasonable. We need Trump to put the pressure on the oil companies. Iran's economy is dead. Oil is coming out of the middle east. Prices need to come down.
Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 12:15 PM (noln+)

Exactly what a Bernie Bro would say. No mention of excessive State taxes at all, or mandates for ethanol and "oxygenated fuel".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2026 12:20 PM (1z8ji)

151 Speaking of job growth -- one of the observations on X is that more than 90% of jobs since Trump took over have gone to women

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM

Yes — recent BLS payroll data shows the large majority of net job gains since Trump took office in January 2025 have gone to women. Some analyses put it around 85–86% earlier in 2026; later tallies through August 2026 are closer to 90% or higher (in some windows, women’s employment rose while men’s was flat or slightly down).

The main reason is sector mix, not a sudden change in hiring preferences. Healthcare, education, and parts of leisure/hospitality (heavily female workforces) added jobs. Male-heavy sectors such as manufacturing and construction were weaker or lost jobs. Economist Justin Wolfers and others have documented this “pink-collar” pattern.

Women now hold a slight majority of nonfarm payroll jobs — only the third time that has happened. The overall job-growth numbers remain modest compared with prior recoveries.

https://bit.ly/4qY5Rad

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 07, 2026 12:26 PM (P5BPp)

152 Yes, surely Democrats will fix high prices....If the voters believe this they deserve what they get.
Posted by: steevy
---------

Wait...didn't Biden's 'Infaltion Reduction Act' do that?

/S

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

153 I see that H1B applications have plummeted -- hopefully the GOP strategerists can play this up as well.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 07, 2026 12:10 PM (qwx/I)

Yes, cap-subject H-1B registrations (the main measure of new applications competing for the annual 85,000-visa limit) have fallen sharply from their recent peaks. They have not collapsed below typical pre-2021 levels, and total H-1B activity including extensions remains high.

Labor Condition Applications (LCAs, required before most H-1B filings, including extensions and amendments) for FY 2026 through Q3 were down only about 9% year-over-year, with hundreds of thousands of positions still certified. H-1B renewals/extensions were on pace for a record in FY 2026. Cap-exempt filings (universities, nonprofits, etc.) and continuing employment are not limited by the 85,000 cap.

In short: new lottery-bound applications have plummeted from the 2023–2025 surge and are the lowest of the electronic-registration era, but they sit near mid-2010s petition volumes, while overall H-1B usage (especially extensions) has not collapsed.

https://bit.ly/4gEGdUv

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 07, 2026 12:44 PM (P5BPp)

154 Exactly what a Bernie Bro would say. No mention of excessive State taxes at all, or mandates for ethanol and "oxygenated fuel".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------

FWIW, fuel tax by state:
https://shorturl.at/zoTyQ

Note the section, ' These rates do not include certain local taxes, the effects of environmental programs and regulations like cap-and-trade carbon policies or low carbon fuel standards, or certain taxes levied on gross receipts.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2026 12:44 PM (XeU6L)

155 144 Don't get the arch and ballroom hand wringing. Great civilizations build things. And we are one.

Okay, start with building a new Navy, and an ICBM shield. That should keep us busy.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 01:20 PM (UWN7z)

156 Just the News says all job gains since Trump took office have gone to women while employment among men has declined 6,000.

So that's not great.

Posted by: callister raine at September 07, 2026 01:42 PM (Do9VO)

157 Noted, URL logged (for Pres. Trump's accomplishments to date.)

Posted by: _Jim at September 07, 2026 08:08 PM (L5Um5)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Renoir motherhood.jpg

Motherhood
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 This was mailed in

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 09:31 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Aw, that’s sweet.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

3 The baby was well fed that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 07, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

4 The cat is the best thing in the painting!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

5 Paint by numbers, but Cat so Art I guess

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 09:32 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Fat

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 07, 2026 09:33 AM (hIWPn)

7 Wonderful. Watercolor or pastels?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 09:33 AM (nbUa5)

8 Would not hang

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

9 See? Wide birthing hips.

Posted by: The kid's dad at September 07, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

10 She's got little feet compared to the rest of her body.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

11 Look Who's Talking: The Prequel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 09:36 AM (2GVsD)

12 The tortoiseshell cat is so not into posing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 09:36 AM (2GVsD)

13 Cat's wondering where it can get some milk around here.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 07, 2026 09:37 AM (ftFVW)

14 Baby been partaking of the bewb milk too often, methinks.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 07, 2026 09:37 AM (U/j9n)

15 That baby is well fed. You can tell by those very chubby legs.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 09:37 AM (lJ0H4)

16 "We'll start that mother/son exercise plan tomorrow. Or the day after. No later than next week . . . "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 07, 2026 09:38 AM (4HoLg)

17 That's not a baby! That's a fidget!

Posted by: Stymie Beard, Our Gang at September 07, 2026 09:38 AM (Fn+3X)

18 Tortoise Shell=Calico?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 09:38 AM (lWlz/)

19 That baby sure hasn't missed a meal.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

20 Better get a diaper on that kid.

Posted by: The voice of experience at September 07, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

21 The guns of Auguste

Posted by: Oglebay at September 07, 2026 09:39 AM (2ap+5)

22 I expect that "baby" to light up a cigar after feeding.

Posted by: El Producto at September 07, 2026 09:40 AM (Fn+3X)

23 Uh-oh. Kid's wearing white after Labor Day.

Posted by: Fashion Police at September 07, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

24 Hey, there's our cat!

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 09:41 AM (MWfyi)

25 Mom's a Mets fan. Blue and Orange!

Posted by: Mr. Met at September 07, 2026 09:42 AM (Fn+3X)

26 This is the most disgusting pornographic content posted to this family weblog since the demise of the chess/dress thread and its harlots. It saddens me greatly. I'll be in touch with the proprietor.

Posted by: Constance Goodheart-Smythe at September 07, 2026 09:42 AM (jPWY0)

27 There's no dog or demons with fishheads. Not art.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 09:42 AM (MWfyi)

28 Not the best nudity but...boobs.

Put some underwear on that kid. Gonna attract the wrong crowd there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 09:42 AM (xcxpd)

29
Boob. Cat. Therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 09:43 AM (eRlcH)

30 Thighs seem massively out of proportion.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 09:43 AM (lWlz/)

31 I expect that "baby" to light up a cigar after feeding.
Posted by: El Producto at September 07, 2026 09:40 AM (Fn+3X)

Verne Troyer?

Posted by: Count de Monet at a remote location at September 07, 2026 09:43 AM (6Ga6M)

32 You can't just put a pussy in a painting and call it art.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 07, 2026 09:44 AM (MWfyi)

33 Posted by: Constance Goodheart-Smythe at September 07, 2026 09:42 AM (jPWY0)


(Betting she's a rocket in the sack.)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 07, 2026 09:44 AM (xcxpd)

34 Rubenesque.

Posted by: Unwillin' Barkis at September 07, 2026 09:44 AM (SAkd8)

35 Why is the background so blurry?

Posted by: Warby Parker at September 07, 2026 09:44 AM (Fn+3X)

36 Here I go cooking second breakfast without turning on the burner.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 09:45 AM (lWlz/)

37 Renoir's follow-up, Mother Strangles Fat Child and Escapes Conviction, was less acclaimed.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 07, 2026 09:45 AM (Fp2PT)

38

Heave a Thigh of Relief - a limerick

There was a young mother named Miss Sue
Whose overweight child was an issue
The doctor was astonished
and gently admonished

"That's a truly remarkable and spectacular overabundance of adipose subcutaneous tissue!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 09:45 AM (qgHp7)

39 6 Fat

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 07, 2026 09:33 AM (hIWPn)

it used to be the ideal at some point in history (see Venus of Wilendorf)...then again women with facial hair and effeminate men were the ideal in Persia at one time too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 09:45 AM (l3cgK)

40 30 Thighs seem massively out of proportion.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 09:43 AM

See comment #9.

Posted by: The self-satisfied dad at September 07, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Impressionist therefore blurry. All nearsighted.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 09:46 AM (lWlz/)

42 Why is the background so blurry?"

Splash on the lens?

*ducks

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 09:46 AM (cGjQu)

43
Impressionist therefore blurry. All nearsighted.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 09:46 AM (lWlz/)


Too much absinthe for breakfast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 09:47 AM (eRlcH)

44 32 You can't just put a pussy in a painting and call it art.
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 07, 2026 09:44 AM

How 'bout a muffin?

Posted by: Betty White at September 07, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

45 "Why is the background so blurry?
Posted by: Warby Parker"

Matriarchy Degeneration

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 07, 2026 09:47 AM (MWfyi)

46 You can't just put a pussy in a painting and call it art.
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 07, 2026 09:44 AM (MWfyi)

Au contraire!

Posted by: Georgia O'Keeffe at September 07, 2026 09:48 AM (6Ga6M)

47 I will assume this is watercolor.

Watercolor always looks washed out to me.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (KC5Lt)

48 I can't get over the yellow hat. Looks like the Groton Fisherman's hat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (2Cry5)

49 Background is blurry because the 'artist' didn't want to put any effort into this paint job

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (Ia/+0)

50 47 I will assume this is watercolor.

Watercolor always looks washed out to me.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (KC5Lt)

Well it has been watered down...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (l3cgK)

51 45 "Why is the background so blurry?
Posted by: Warby Parker"

Matriarchy Degeneration
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at September 07, 2026 09:47 AM (MWfyi)
---
or Matriarchal Degeneration.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (U/j9n)

52 49 Background is blurry because the 'artist' didn't want to put any effort into this paint job

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (Ia/+0)

Is a paint job $20, same as in town?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 09:50 AM (l3cgK)

53 48 I can't get over the yellow hat. Looks like the Groton Fisherman's hat.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (2Cry5)

Weirdest sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer yet.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 07, 2026 09:50 AM (Fp2PT)

54 48 I can't get over the yellow hat. Looks like the Groton Fisherman's hat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (2Cry5)

Does that make her a fishwife?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 09:51 AM (l3cgK)

55 We sponsored this painting.

Posted by: Diaperene Ointment at September 07, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)

56 I can't get over the yellow hat. Looks like the Groton Fisherman's hat.

Roly-poly fishheads?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 09:52 AM (2GVsD)

57 When in doubt
I whip 'em out
I got me a hungry baby to feed
It's a feeding for all.

Posted by: Grandmother Nugent at September 07, 2026 09:52 AM (6Ga6M)

58 All of Renoir's sons became famous in their own right. One son was a famous academy award winning movie director.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:53 AM (KC5Lt)

59
Background is blurry because the 'artist' didn't want to put any effort into this paint job
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (Ia/+0)


No ups, no extras

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 09:53 AM (eRlcH)

60 Baby's giving the side-eye.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 09:53 AM (NpAcC)

61 I think she already knows about the cup sizes.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 07, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

62 I finally did a painting with a dog in it so my first piece of art.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:54 AM (KC5Lt)

63 60 Baby's giving the side-eye.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 09:53 AM (NpAcC)


"Go get your own teat! And I don't mean the second one on this birthing person!"

Posted by: Gref at September 07, 2026 09:57 AM (5rh/l)

64 She can stop. The kid's full.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 09:57 AM (wpRMV)

65 I expect that "baby" to light up a cigar

A young mother, Eleanor Herschel
Was chatting with a fellow named Virgil
The gentleman smiled,
"What a beautiful child
She looks remarkably like Sir Winston Churchill!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 09:57 AM (qgHp7)

66 62 I finally did a painting with a dog in it so my first piece of art.
Posted by: polynikes

Very nice, polynikes, an idyllic scene, but I detect a lack of children of coler.

Posted by: NAACP at September 07, 2026 09:58 AM (Fn+3X)

67 Plump Mama , plump baby...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2026 09:58 AM (+gK6I)

68 I can already hear some of the comments but I will persevere.

This is a lovely and loving painting of Renoir's wife and first born. Every part of the painting is soft, feminine, and peaceful. The colors are muted, nothing harsh. The background is clear enough to be understood but sufficiently indistinct enough to make the woman and baby stand out as the true focus. Her expression is contented and satisfied, doing something completely natural to her. Nothing sexual about any of it. Renoir captures a timeless human activity expressed gently and with affection.

I really like this painting. I can't paint but started to imagine trying to photograph the same scene: film qualities, lens, depth of field, lighting, etc.

Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2026 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

69 Alt Title-

DCI Vera Stanhope: The Wet Nursing Years

Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 09:59 AM (qgHp7)

70 Left one is whole milk right one is strawberry-flavored.

Posted by: Duct Tape Union at September 07, 2026 09:59 AM (wHb3B)

71 Gotta say, that baby is certainly getting enough to eat!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 10:01 AM (WXg6e)

72 LGA

Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 10:02 AM (qgHp7)

73 Boob. Cat. Therefore art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Do I even need to comment?!
-- Zombie Mrs. Slocombe

Posted by: Tonypete at September 07, 2026 10:03 AM (WXg6e)

74 That baby looks like a tick that hit an artery. De-clamp from that boob before you explode!

Posted by: PabloD at September 07, 2026 10:03 AM (zIBZT)

75 62 ... "I finally did a painting with a dog in it so my first piece of art."

polynikes,
I like the painting. It's a bit different from your more realistic style. Made me think of a cover of New Yorker magazine (if that is still in print) titled "Central Park as it should be".

Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2026 10:05 AM (yTvNw)

76 I've said it before but my favorite Renoir painting is Nude in Sunlight. I really like the French Academy's critique of it too.

'Looks like Renoir painted a decomposing body'

Could have been a comment on the art thread.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 10:05 AM (KC5Lt)

77 "She looks remarkably like Sir Winston Churchill!"

Breathtaking.

Posted by: Elaine Benes at September 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

78 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Chubby kid.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 10:07 AM (2WIwB)

79 Her expression is contented and satisfied, doing something completely natural to her.

Reads like a review to a 1970s porno.

Posted by: Au Naturel at September 07, 2026 10:07 AM (3B7FC)

80 Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2026 10:05 AM (yTvNw)

I intentionally made it more animated as I wanted to make the colors bold and bright. I had also had the intention of making it Hopperesque but then I started to put in more details with the characters which made it completely different. Oh well.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)

81 She's got little feet compared to the rest of her body.
Posted by: redridinghood
_________

The Sopranos had something to say about that:

https://tinyurl.com/ukv8vb4b

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 07, 2026 10:09 AM (XvL8K)

82 Nice sturdy chair. That's all I got.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 10:10 AM (noln+)

83 I was surprised to learn this is an oil painting. I assumed it was a watercolor or pastel.

Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2026 10:10 AM (yTvNw)

84 62 I finally did a painting with a dog in it so my first piece of art.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 09:54 AM (KC5Lt)
******
I really like this!!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 10:10 AM (NpAcC)

85 80 Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2026 10:05 AM (yTvNw)

I intentionally made it more animated as I wanted to make the colors bold and bright. I had also had the intention of making it Hopperesque but then I started to put in more details with the characters which made it completely different. Oh well.
Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)

I like the old couple making out on the bench.

Posted by: The Villages at September 07, 2026 10:11 AM (AFs5j)

86 I can't get over the yellow hat. Looks like the Groton Fisherman's hat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 09:49 AM (2Cry5)

Does that make her a fishwife?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 09:51 AM


Groton's? Dorm matron

Gorton's? Gloucester fishwife

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 10:11 AM (9Q+nP)

87 I like the old couple making out on the bench.
Posted by: The Villages at September 07, 2026 10:11 AM (AFs5j)

Got to enjoy the final stages of life the best you can also.

Posted by: polynikes at September 07, 2026 10:13 AM (KC5Lt)

88 LGA

*********

There IS a code for that!

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code P08.1
Large for gestational age newborn;


(Pro Tip: There is a code for EVERYTHING!)

Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)

89 My guesses on the points of this:

1) Boobs. Always chum for the horde.

2) A commentary about 'Post Partum Depression.' I need to look this up, but I wonder if this is a modern problem hardly ever spoken of pre 1980 or so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 10:14 AM (Y/06r)

90 I thought it was Gordon's Fisherman?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 10:15 AM (Y/06r)

91 I have big problems pronouncing Gloucester. And Worsteshireashear.

Posted by: Nice Hat, Though at September 07, 2026 10:18 AM (Fn+3X)

92 Ok, they were good points, but I did not want to end all debate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 10:19 AM (Y/06r)

93 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code P08.1
Large for gestational age newborn;


(Pro Tip: There is a code for EVERYTHING!)
Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)

lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 10:19 AM (Y/06r)

94 Two generations of Da Beatis.

Posted by: Archer at September 07, 2026 10:20 AM (wvc0i)

95 thought it was Gordon's Fisherman?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I thought for a while, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 07, 2026 10:20 AM (mqudn)

96 Really wasn't nice to paint Mrs. Renoir before her visit to the beauty parlor.

Posted by: Vidal Sassoon at September 07, 2026 10:22 AM (Fn+3X)

97 Gorton's? Gloucester fishwife
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2026 10:11 AM


Including tilapia and salmon.

https://youtu.be/MVn7IquqFtw

Posted by: Gorton's Marketing Department at September 07, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)

98 91 I have big problems pronouncing Gloucester. And Worsteshireashear.
Posted by: Nice Hat, Though


Glou....Gloucester Island

--Captain, Soviet Submarine Boat

Posted by: Archer at September 07, 2026 10:23 AM (wvc0i)

99 Her look says, "No, you caNOT have the other one. I'm saving it for the cat."

Posted by: GWB at September 07, 2026 10:25 AM (kU0PQ)

100 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 10:26 AM (ndZc7)

101 Fat
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 07, 2026 09:33 AM (hIWPn)

The baby is "chubby." She is ... maybe a slight bit beyond "zaftig."

Posted by: GWB at September 07, 2026 10:26 AM (kU0PQ)

102 The baby is "chubby." She is ... maybe a slight bit beyond "zaftig."
Posted by: GWB at September 07, 2026 10:26 AM (kU0PQ)

She's tickling 'Rubenesque.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 07, 2026 10:29 AM (Y/06r)

103 It's actually the Berenstain Fisherman.

Posted by: Akshe Wally at September 07, 2026 10:32 AM (wHb3B)

104 Ummmm … I'ma pass, 'kay …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 07, 2026 10:33 AM (ayRl+)

105 Gimme that old time religion.

St Paul’s Cathedral to Host DJ Music Raves – Inside the Church!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 10:34 AM (ndZc7)

106 1WP -Fixed my plumbing leak all in 1/2 hour, hard hard time getting lid off the solder paste. Straight piece of pipe was all that was needed, 2 connections to get apart and reconnected.
Easiest one had in a long time

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 10:34 AM (Ia/+0)

107 Past 100, so. . .

Morning, all. It's a lovely 70 degree day here at Stately Poppins Manor. I'm doing final edits on my book and then I have a column to write which I've been putting off all last week.

It would be a beautiful day for a drive, but too many people are out today, so I guess I'll be home. Perhaps a quiet pipe in the garden later on.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 07, 2026 10:34 AM (qRla/)

108 Polynikes, the dog looks like he's giving the tree serious consideration. "Is this really the right tree for me? Will I be getting value for lifting my leg on this tree? Will it properly promote my reputation in the park?"

Posted by: GWB at September 07, 2026 10:34 AM (kU0PQ)

109 This, btw, is NOT the legendary 'Jolene' Dolly worries about …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 07, 2026 10:35 AM (ayRl+)

110 He's checking his pee mail.

Posted by: Just the punchline at September 07, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)

111 I just noticed that little boy baby doesn't have a diaper on. WTH?

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2026 10:40 AM (lJ0H4)

112 There IS a code for that!

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code P08.1
Large for gestational age newborn;


(Pro Tip: There is a code for EVERYTHING!)
Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 10:13 AM
***

Something Mrs D has been grumbling about for some time.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 10:45 AM (2WIwB)

113 Diapers are a more modern invention.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 07, 2026 10:45 AM (VCgbV)

114 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayed
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)

115 111 I just noticed that little boy baby doesn't have a diaper on. WTH?

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Maybe it's after Labor Day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2026 10:46 AM (wpRMV)

116 We're off to the nearer Cracker Barrel in a few minutes. I hope there aren't too many people on the highway, and that we don't get caught in heavy rain. I hear thunder.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)

117 "Gays for Gaza" activist killed by Muslim immigrant in Arizona

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
The Gays for Gaza activist Cameron Capara has been shot dead in a random attack in front a gay bar in Tucson by an Islamist migrant from Gambia.

The gay pro-Palestine activist was killed on August 31st along with a gay friend he had just left the bar with.

-
Suicidal empathy strikes again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 10:49 AM (ndZc7)

118 If that truly is the artist's wife and child, he was doing quite well, financially.
They are... substantial.
Gotta go peel potatoes. Kid and wife are coming over this afternoon and bringing ribs and dessert, we're making the potato salad and corn. If it stays clouded over but doesn't rain, we may eat outside - the sun at 34° lat and 6000' is a killer. I'd like to put up.some sort of sunshade, but the not-unusual 40-80 mph breezes requires something more sturdy than I have space.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 07, 2026 10:50 AM (nll5z)

119 The plane carrying the pampers she ordered had some problems in Miami.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 10:53 AM (noln+)

120 So I'm dog sitting and she just yakked all over the place.
Crap.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)

121 Diogenes at least you could clean it up. If dog had died that would be a bigger mess to cover

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 10:57 AM (Ia/+0)

122 "The Gays for Gaza activist Cameron Capara has been shot dead in a random attack in front a gay bar in Tucson by an Islamist migrant..."


Somber narrator voice: It wasn't random.

Posted by: And we all know it at September 07, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)

123 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 07, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

124 @ 117 "Gays for Gaza" activist killed by Muslim immigrant in Arizona Visegrád 24 @visegrad24
The Gays for Gaza activist Cameron Capara has been shot dead in a random attack in front a gay bar in Tucson by an Islamist migrant from Gambia. The gay pro-Palestine activist was killed on August 31st along with a gay friend he had just left the bar with. - Suicidal empathy strikes again. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 10:49 AM (ndZc7)

________________________________

Isn't this more properly filed under 'Who Fuckin' Cares!?' …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 07, 2026 11:31 AM (ayRl+)

125 Jesus, I hate this fucking MGID ad you have here! Don’t you give a rat’s ass about your audience of many years?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 11:50 AM (UWN7z)

The Morning Report — 9/ 7 /26

JJLaborDay.jpg

Good morning kids. And so today (a week late by my estimation) it is per the calendar actually Labor Day. I hope your holiday weekend so far has been enjoyable and relaxing. That said, there's lots of things going on so let's dive right in. The big news was that an Amazon jet overshot the runway in Miami yesterday and crashed.

Miami firefighters were seen climbing into the cockpit of the Amazon cargo jet that crashed, killing five – moments after being heard on dispatch shouting “The plane is on fire” as they raced to the scene. The jumbo Boeing 767 freighter, which left Puerto Rico just before 11:45 a.m. local time Sunday, eventually came to a stop after overshooting the runway at Miami International Airport, striking several cars and killing five people.  Miami Dade Fire and Rescue crews raced to the scene – with the first units arriving within 30 seconds of the call being placed.

Prayers for the victims, their loved ones and all those who are negatively and seriously impacted by this tragedy. Moving on from the serious we go to the truly ridiculous and idiotic. In the immediate aftermath of President Trump wasting time and political capital by renaming, or attempting to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America he's made this his next big gambit:

President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that New Mexico could be next on his list of geographic rebrands, sharing a state map on Truth Social with “Mexico” struck through in red and “America” written beneath it — an unofficial stab at “New America.”

Call me stupid or clueless (as many have for most of my life!) but given everything going on in the world and right here at home, what is the purpose of all of this? Is it merely his way of tweaking his political opponents because as much as I am a huge fan of this President and his real achievements since descending the golden Trump Tower escalator eleven years ago all this does is provide fodder for his enemies. Now, if he really intends geographic name changes to highlight serious issues, changing Michigan to Michganistan or warning that that is what can and will happen unless and until we get a handle on the metastasis of Islam here in North America as clearly is in evidence across much of Europe, now that would be something I would cheer.

And here we are scant days away from the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and even Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez's constituents (not sure if this is part of her district) or fellow Latinos are up in arms,

Muslim settler colonialism has spun out of control in the Bronx borough of New York City. The scandal went national when the Mamdani regime decided to list ‘immigrant neighborhoods’ heavily slanted towards Muslims while ignoring Little Italy and Irish and Jewish areas in the city. Basically a few Muslims open some bodegas in a neighborhood, a mosque pops up to service them and suddenly a community with a lot of history gets dubbed ‘Little Yemen’ whether or not its residents agree. And the residents, in this case, are Latino, and they’re outraged at being colonized and replaced by Mamdani’s boys. . . Mamdani’s ‘endorsements’ has meant Muslim politicians displacing black and Latino ones and people are starting to notice what’s going on.

Elsewhere the saga of this Lindsay Clancy fiend continues

Right-leaning commentators—men and women—reacted in turn to the fervency of Clancy’s supporters. Murder is murder, they insisted. Moreover, the evidence suggested premeditation, not a psychotic break. Of course, what really bothered those on the right, Clancy’s detractors, was the very existence of those on the left, Clancy’s supporters. The fact that there exists an organized, animated, and sizable contingent of people who would consciously choose to lionize a child-murderer and to lend her their political, spiritual, and financial support served as proof that there is something profoundly wrong in our society, something ugly, something monstrous.

Part of this, of course, is the familiar story of the politicization of everything, the incidental but defining characteristic of classical, post-Enlightenment liberalism that turns every issue or disagreement into a competition between factions. A bigger part of it, though, is the direct, intentional politicization of everything having to do with women, which started as a cultural movement in the 1960s and morphed into the creation of an entirely new constitutional order.

It is fitting, in a way, that the conclusion of the Clancy trial took place during the same week in which Gloria Steinem died. Steinem was the most prominent and publicly important figure in the second wave of feminism. Others—like Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, and Germaine Greer—were more important to the movement intellectually. But Steinem was its public face, the engaging, attractive face of a movement that often embraced unattractive ideas.

To date I've given this story short shrift mostly because what really is there to say, what new angle on this could I possible add about the trial of a woman who butchered her children.

Tragically, but given the nature of everything Leftist, this was almost predictable or inevitable...


Illinois Mother Charged With Hanging Toddler Was ‘Very Invested’ in Clancy Trial — According to court documents, Walsh reportedly told authorities “she believed her son was the ‘anti-Christ’ and the ‘devil.'”

. . . I am not a lawyer and make no claim to understand the intricacies of Illinois law, but a defense based on mental illness may be a considerably heavier lift for Walsh than it was for Clancy. In Massachusetts, prosecutors faced a higher burden than they would in most other states: They had to prove Clancy’s criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. To do so, they had to establish either that she did not suffer from a qualifying mental disease or defect or that, despite such an illness, she retained the substantial capacity both to understand that her conduct was wrong and to control her actions.At any rate, after watching Massachusetts women gleefully celebrate the governor’s signing of a law permitting abortion up to the point of birth—and then learning that the Clancy trial had ended in a mistrial, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) asked an appropriate question: Is Massachusetts a safe place for children?

The Leftists and their home base in and of the Democrat Party is truly the epicenter of evil incarnate in this nation and society.

The upside is that this very un-American malice scares normal voters outside the DSA bastion of New York City, where the “Lulu Lenins,” as Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) describes Mamdani and his trust-fund comrades, have given Democrats a terrible name. The Democratic Party’s frantic efforts to rebrand itself as “normal” for the midterms are hilariously doomed, considering the reality of its policy priorities. Beyond impeaching Trump, Democrats have no agenda to create prosperity and ensure happiness for Americans. It’s all about entrenching their power and making life miserable, whether it’s stacking the Supreme Court, creating two new Democrat states, abolishing the Electoral College, “Medicare for all” illegal migrants, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, and on and on.


While we're on the subject of the "anti-Christ"

From the moment a child is conceived, Democrats and their leftist allies have declared open season . . .This is not hyperbole. This is the documented record. Robby Starbuck’s documentary The War on Children lays it bare: whistleblowers, survivors of childhood medical mutilation, trafficking victims, corporate executives, and figures like Sen. Rand Paul, Riley Gaines, and the creator of Libs of TikTok expose the coordinated campaign to seize control of the next generation’s minds and bodies. Elon Musk called it “worth watching, especially for parents.” Donald Trump Jr. said every parent needs to see it. The film was initially banned from platforms for the crime of telling the truth; Amazon later quietly restored it as the cultural tide turned.
. . .from the womb to adulthood, the left’s war is comprehensive, evil, and existential.

Bingo. Maybe the President should spend some time pondering a name for that? Just a thought.

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1
ESPONJA!!11!!1!

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 07, 2026 07:00 AM (AMvSw)

2
ESPONJA!1!!1!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 07, 2026 07:01 AM (AMvSw)

3
ESPONJA!1!!1!!
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 07, 2026 07:01 AM (AMvSw)


*tired voice*

We heard you the first time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 07:04 AM (eRlcH)

4 Your package will be delayed.

Posted by: Ironwood at September 07, 2026 07:05 AM (ob2d4)

5
Your package will be delayed.
Posted by: Ironwood at September 07, 2026 07:05 AM (ob2d4)


The plane was carrying 3 million tons of stuff, the entire backlog of delayed items.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 07:07 AM (eRlcH)

6 Mornin’ Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 07, 2026 07:09 AM (g9+4z)

7 Hunter Biden Says He ‘May Have To’ Run For President In 2028

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Translation: "I'm out of money."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2026 07:09 AM (FZ29D)

8 Is it my imagination or is the unhingement of the Left accelerating?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2026 07:10 AM (iMotb)

9 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 07:11 AM (Ia/+0)

10 The trouble with Theory and Practice is that, in theory, they’re the same thing. In practice, they’re not. - Yogi Berra

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 07:12 AM (o+l2a)

11 Good morning all. Links above the fold should all be working now!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2026 07:12 AM (x0n13)

12 AFD.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:15 AM (lWlz/)

13 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

14
Just one more thing, Mr. Mercury...

Posted by: Lt. Bepi Colombo at September 07, 2026 07:16 AM (w6EFb)

15 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

The Left feels so close to grasping Power. They are in the short strokes now.

Not your imagination.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

16 Good morning! What's going on in Indonesia? Looks like Krakatoa's kid is getting active.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 07, 2026 07:19 AM (3Ope8)

17
AfD Wins Historic Victory in State Election, But German Establishment May Hold Onto Power

I wish nothing but the worst for the passel of Merkeloids currently running the Fatherland (are we allowed to use that term any more?) but I don't want to mistake the AfD for American-style conservatism.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 07:21 AM (eRlcH)

18 Last Monday was August 31, not Sept. 1.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 07, 2026 07:21 AM (36x1j)

19 I haven't heard anything yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:22 AM (lWlz/)

20 >Bingo. Maybe the President should spend some time pondering a name for that? Just a thought.
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When Trump does this New Mexico > New America shit, it makes me wonder if he's getting to be a little milky in the filberts

and IMO the proposed 'arch' is an eyesore and must not happen

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 07:23 AM (A+btk)

21
Ben Had was kind enough to recommend the Comfort Inn in Mexia for the TXMoMe. I tried making a reservation: sold out on those dates. Booked myself instead in Fairfield, home of Cooper Farms.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 07:24 AM (eRlcH)

22 “šxʷməθkʷ əy̓əmasəm Street”.

That’s what the Canadians renamed a street last year which had previously been named after British Colombia’s first lieutenant governor.

While Trump seems petty and silly with these name changes, there is a method to his madness.

He is, as he so often does, trolling the sanctimonious left while simultaneously revealing their hypocrisy at the same time.

He renames something, and they all freak out like he just insulted billions of people, all the while totally ignoring their own role in the escalation with their own erasure of history and tradition, like renaming a street to something the current crop of Indians can’t even pronounce.

Trump isn’t going to rename New Mexico, but he is going to have fun over a holiday weekend tweaking the left with just the idea of it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

23 Two of the Great Lakes are the same lake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:24 AM (lWlz/)

24 >BepiColombo successfully completes first phase to insert two spacecraft into Mercury orbit
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Science may be close to answering the question of 'how hot is it, really?'

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 07:27 AM (A+btk)

25 " ... the engaging, attractive face ... "

lol, o rly?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 07, 2026 07:28 AM (VyBeY)

26 He renames something, and they all freak out like he just insulted billions of people, all the while totally ignoring their own role in the escalation with their own erasure of history and tradition, like renaming a street to something the current crop of Indians can’t even pronounce."

This.

*oh... squirrellllll*

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 07:29 AM (XuXeR)

27 18 Last Monday was August 31, not Sept. 1.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 07, 2026 07:21 AM (36x1j)


True but being one day off is closer than an entire week!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2026 07:29 AM (x0n13)

28 44%. If only they had gotten the other 7% in a final putsch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:30 AM (lWlz/)

29 Trump isn’t just renaming places, he’s redrawing maps. He posted a picture this weekend of Iran looking like a silhouette of his profile.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 07:30 AM (o+l2a)

30 I renamed the West Philippines Sea to the South China Sea. That gave us 3 billion barrels of oil and a Godzillion cubic tons of natural gas.

Just saying, I get it.

Posted by: Xi at September 07, 2026 07:30 AM (zZxsY)

31
I had wrongly assumed last week that it was Labor Day due to our proclivity to force three day weekends willy nilly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

32 the Comfort Inn in Mexia"

FWIW, there's no "x" in "Mexia"...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 07:32 AM (XuXeR)

33 Our local state guys were given Friday as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:32 AM (lWlz/)

34 "what is a week end?"

/that strange Brit TV show

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 07:35 AM (XuXeR)

35 Xi

How does it feel to be the Rubio of China? Doing everyone's job because you purged most of your helpers?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

36 Happy Labor Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 07:37 AM (/+uur)

37 PDT loves pushing the button on the left's outrage meter. It costs him nothing to have them frothing at the mouth over stupid shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 07:38 AM (E0Et6)

38 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

And if they complain, there is a long list of Dem name changes to mention. Not that symmetry is an argument to the left.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

39 @32 man

There's no x in Mexia.

Sure there is. There is also a speed trap there, so you had better watch your ass.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 07:39 AM (noln+)

40 I still haven't got over Constantinople.

Posted by: fd at September 07, 2026 07:39 AM (MWfyi)

41 ...the Comfort Inn in Mexia for the TXMoMe.

I wonder if hotel rooms will free up when Trump renames the town?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 07:40 AM (NzX/y)

42 Aelia Capitolina.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:40 AM (lWlz/)

43 Yonder Horde

Trump renames a lake. Dozens of cities renamed streets for Obama.

I don't see much difference. Other than the expected outrage from the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 07:40 AM (2Cry5)

44
I wonder if hotel rooms will free up when Trump renames the town?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 07:40 AM (NzX/y)


Anna Nicole Smith grew up there, so maybe Twin Peaks, TX.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 07, 2026 07:42 AM (eRlcH)

45 fd

Older than Vic? Constantinople was hundreds of years in the past.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

46 How to differentiate the West American Ocean from the East American Ocean?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:43 AM (lWlz/)

47 The Mexia Gazette. Horde takes over small town.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 07:44 AM (E0Et6)

48 Boss Moss

Easy. Hold the Planet America with North and South America visible.

West American Ocean goes to Asia.
East American Ocean goes to Africa and Europe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

49 Interesting things going on in Houthi land. They launched a large ground attack against official government forces. However this attack bogged down, and now this army is caught out in the open and is being bombed relentlessly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 07, 2026 07:45 AM (o+l2a)

50 PDT loves pushing the button on the left's outrage meter. It costs him nothing to have them frothing at the mouth over stupid shit.

It was like the beginning of Trump 2.0 when massive changes were happening on an almost daily basis and the Enemedia couldn't keep up and decide what issue they were able to organize around for the purposes of fund raising and burning down cities.

While the Enemedia has the NPC cultists frothing about something trivial and stupid, what is it that they aren't covering?

Dealing with low-IQ retards requires finding purely emotional things to trigger them. I think that this is part of the reason why the Clancy trial is so huge among retards because all of the foreign, economic, health, environment, tariff, immigration policy has already been harvested for donations and emotional energy, or the topics are too complex to turn into something a broken child can pretend to understand.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 07:46 AM (U4c/V)

51 Tom Servo

This is a good start. But why are there still functioning water systems in North Yemen? Are we out of MK 84s?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

52 No word on the Blowfish?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2026 07:47 AM (lWlz/)

53 Illegal Alien Charged in $1.3B Medicare Fraud Scheme


--

And the money was then transferred to other places in Russia. I'm assuming our taxpayer $$$, and the much smaller amount bilked out of private insurers, is gone. His sentence could be up to 20 years. He deserves much more than that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 07, 2026 07:48 AM (qBdHI)

54 No word on the Blowfish?"

Don't give a hoot?

*ducks

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 07:49 AM (XuXeR)

55 California Gets 2 Muslim Congresswomen


--

What an atrocity. And one of them is calling for 9/11 reparations to muslims. There's gall...and then there's gall.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 07, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

56 I still haven't got over Constantinople"

Or Macho Grande?


/cmon, people

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 07:51 AM (XuXeR)

57 Good morning, everyone! Just got back from the gym, coffee is brewing and I'm about to make breakfast. Things are looking up.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 07:51 AM (/k3in)

58 {{{Lady in Black}}}

If that alien was broken up for parts, the biochemicals and organs can keep taxpayers alive. Like what is happening in Canada and China, but for everyone that needs one.

Larry Niven wrote stories on this in his Organlegger tales like the Long Arm of Gil Hamilton. in the 1970s.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

59 Why didn't anyone tell me there's a new Barbarella movie in the works, starring Sydney Sweeny, who also executive produces?

Posted by: davidt at September 07, 2026 07:52 AM (Q+gd/)

60 > No word on the Blowfish?"
----
actually, turns out they suck

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 07:52 AM (A+btk)

61 davidt

Are two prominent parts filled by Sydney Sweeny?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

62 alright lemme see if my correct hash is back

Posted by: Don Black at September 07, 2026 07:56 AM (ZxPkt)

63 there's a new Barbarella movie in the works"

Great. This means we'll get a Duran Duran reunion...

Posted by: man at September 07, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)

64 Good morning again Horde thx JJ for all your efforts. Happy Labor Day.
Reading about Hunter's comments about the PodBros , I wanted to yell "why limit your contempt to the PodBros all of Obama's minions were arrogant, overeducated nitwits. Sullivan and Blinken the idiot for policy twins of the Biden administration were Obamanauts. The rest were just as useless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 07:57 AM (M9Oed)

65 A story of survival and friendship after 9/11. From
"the Guardian":

https://tinyurl.com/ur5xfdrn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 08:00 AM (wmzkx)

66 Trump's milky filberts. Now that's an image I did not need this early in the morning.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:01 AM (2Drhq)

67 Morning, all! Happy Labor Day. I made the same mistake as JJ until the 30th when someone corrected me so I've been looking forward to today for exactly a week .

Heading back home from my trip today.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 08:01 AM (mEWWq)

68 "the Comfort Inn in Mexia"

But isn't The Bliss Hotel in Sexia?

Posted by: Boswell at September 07, 2026 08:02 AM (j10i6)

69 Hasan Piker leads a mocking cheer over the murder of Charlie Kirk.

https://tinyurl.com/3p6mkbte

This underscores the importance they place on his killing and more broadly serves as implicit affirmation of their view of assassination in the war of cultural and political supremacy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 07, 2026 08:02 AM (7s9Qe)

70 Obama and his ilk were and are "An assegai has been thrust into the belly of the nation."
- King Cetshwayo

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

71 Labor is beneath me.

Posted by: Lenny Layabout at September 07, 2026 08:05 AM (Fn+3X)

72 Lenny Layabout

Must be unionized, then.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

73 I still think the Data Center Propaganda is Chinese in origin.

The book often quoted on water usage go ccs and gallons mixed, about a 100,000% error.
A 5 year review of Data Centers and electricity for ZERO statical significance to the cost of consumer electricity and the deployment of Data Centers.
Note: The biggest driver of consumer electricity cost is regulations and then so-called renewables.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 08:07 AM (/+uur)

74 NaCly, dearest, Thank You. You know what you did.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 08:08 AM (E0Et6)

75 And while we're at it...shouldn't it be called "Laborless Day?"

Just saying...

Posted by: Boswell at September 07, 2026 08:09 AM (j10i6)

76 Has anyone heard as bout the political beliefs of the guy who ran at candidate Acton in Ohio. Hope he was a socialist/anarchist, not some nut alleging he's MAGA

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2026 08:10 AM (M9Oed)

77 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

78 Glad you finally posted a selfie, Mr Sefton.

Posted by: My Name is Legion at September 07, 2026 08:11 AM (eDEHs)

79 Fen. If you're still around thanks for the link to the alcoholic who meets the boy with cancer. Currently watching the video on Ethan Hallmark's struggle with cancer.
https://tinyurl.com/2wr4wb96

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2NHgQ)

80 Bronx Latino Residents Protest Muslim Takeover

I've just met a girl named Mahnoor,
*ululates for several seconds*
And suddenly that name
*ululates for several seconds*
Will never be the same
*ululates and fires off AK rounds*

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 08:12 AM (/+uur)

81 "Call me stupid or clueless (as many have for most of my life!) but given everything going on in the world and right here at home, what is the purpose of all of this? Is it merely his way of tweaking his political opponents because as much as I am a huge fan of this President and his real achievements since descending the golden Trump Tower escalator eleven years ago all this does is provide fodder for his enemies."
- - - - - - - - - -
There's a political term called "stray voltage". The idea being that your enemies don't need fodder. They're going to be biting, snapping chihuahuas that keep targeting your ankles. So you give them a decoy for them to be angry at, because they'll always be angry. Have them spend time crying about what you've named something, while you're busy getting actual work done that could use less interruption.

Whether that's the actual purpose of what Trump does or if he's just having stress relief from a rough job, without involving an intern and a cigar, is an open question. But it is a possible explanation.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 07, 2026 08:12 AM (4h45B)

82 Enjoying a nice cup of coffee, waiting for actual fall to arrive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 07, 2026 08:16 AM (0U5gm)

83 Joke for ace:

The wife and I were sitting around the breakfast table one lazy Sunday morning. I said to her, "Debbie, if I were to die suddenly, I want you to immediately sell all my stuff."
"Now why would you want me to do something like that?" she asked.

"I figure that you would eventually remarry, and I don't want some asshole using my stuff."

She looked at me and said, "What makes you think I'd marry another asshole?" 


Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

84 At last, the EU is pulling on its big-boy pants to take up sanctions against the mullahs.

A sure sign that we've won. They want some of the spoils of victory, even if it's just good relations with the new government, without actually putting in any effort. Very European.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

85 or if he's just having stress relief from a rough job, without involving an intern and a cigar, is an open question. But it is a possible explanation.
Posted by: Another Anon at September 07, 2026 08:12 AM (4h45B)

I like this explanation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 07, 2026 08:17 AM (7s9Qe)

86 With AfD getting about 44% of the vote in Saxony, it would take every other party coordinating to keep them out of power, from the middle of the road party to the Greens and Communists. I think they will try.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 07, 2026 08:19 AM (0U5gm)

87 Rumors going around the interwebs that the timekeeper for Michigan games is also the head of vote counting in the state - makes sense...

Posted by: Boswell at September 07, 2026 08:19 AM (j10i6)

88 I think there are probably legitimate concerns about datacenters, but they're probably adversary-amplified? Maybe? Lots of FUD, but also probably some fudging the numbers of studies in the directions the authors want?

"Statistical zero" is, after all, a smoothing of exceptions, and the question is did they do their math right and only discard actual exceptions, and were there outliers on both sides or just the side of 'increased water usage/power costs'?

I just don't trust 'studies say' any more than I trust 'suddenly everyone is concerned about'.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 08:19 AM (mEWWq)

89 I suspect all looting of the country is really gone as soon as it happens. Barely pennies on the dollar are ever recovered.

What would be the real cost of a Medicare account if all the looting could be removed? Maybe 1/2?

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 08:19 AM (Ia/+0)

90 AfD Wins Historic Victory in State Election, But German Establishment May Hold Onto Power

If they can hold on to power then the German people haven't suffered enough. Of course, by the time elections roll around again, Germans will be a minority in Germany and it will no longer matter what they think.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

91 What would be the real cost of a Medicare account if all the looting could be removed? Maybe 1/2?

Or less...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 07, 2026 08:21 AM (mEWWq)

92 Looking up something on IMDb, I see that Netflix has chosen "East of Eden" as its' next victim.

From the trailers, it looks like it's going to be all about Cathy, the monster mother of the Trask twins. This will give them the chance to film many scenes in a brothel.

Posted by: sal at September 07, 2026 08:22 AM (f+FmA)

93 Happy Labor Day, y'all!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

94 Labor Day, Shmabor Day
What a Dumb Day
To hire some jerk and send him away
To celebrate work by playing all day.

-Garfield. 9/4 probably around 1980

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (/k3in)

95 I used to have a different nic

The more the German / EU Establishment tightens it's grip on power, the stronger AfD gets. The trend line is obvious.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

96 87 Rumors going around the interwebs that the timekeeper for Michigan games is also the head of vote counting in the state - makes sense...

The "don't trust your lying eyes" explanation reminds me of the 2020 steal.

Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (2Drhq)

97 Women were promised liberation. Corporate America gave them a cubicle and pocketed the difference.
--------------------------

I've been saying this for years.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (7IQ64)

98 I do firmly believe every Democrat/ Marxist program has fraud built in, Hell maybe every government program does.

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (Ia/+0)

99 It's also,
National Salami Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

100 All the giddiness over elections and electoral prospects for the "Far Right!!" in Europe is overlooking one ineluctable reality: The Empire always strikes back.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 07, 2026 08:24 AM (7s9Qe)

101 While Trump seems petty and silly with these name changes, there is a method to his madness.

It should also be pointed out that folks are posting images of old French maps of the area which name it Lake America. Apparently it was changed to Ontario later.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

102 Skip

Looking at the discovered fraud, all the extra debt is money stolen. Our budgets would be in balance if we can stop that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

103 The "don't trust your lying eyes" explanation reminds me of the 2020 steal.
Posted by: Delurker at September 07, 2026 08:23 AM (2Drhq)

Michigan to Mississippi speed traps: "Lame O!"

Posted by: Boswell at September 07, 2026 08:26 AM (j10i6)

104 Last time I was duct-taped to an Airline seat it took a long time to get the glue residue off. Finally had to do an acetone scrub down.

Posted by: Not Complyin' No How at September 07, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)

105 The man who knocked over a couple of elderly people never charged at Amy Acton. He wanted to ask questions and bullied his way to the front, knocking over a couple of people. He has been charged with disorderly conduct, and two misdemeanor counts towards the people he knocked over and released without bail. It amazes me how not just the Democrat Media is running with this but so is the major right. Fox and Newsmax both have the same headline that he lunged at her.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 07, 2026 08:27 AM (EiUt/)

106 The IRGC is doubling the price of the ever dwindling gas supply. They are telling the people that accepting the price hike shows national unity.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 08:28 AM (E0Et6)

107 Being duct-taped to an airline seat must be the ultimate public humiliation for any adult. As bad or worse perhaps than being put in stockade in the town square.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 07, 2026 08:29 AM (7s9Qe)

108 99 It's also,
National Salami Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Our day will come!

Posted by: Pepperoni Production Board at September 07, 2026 08:29 AM (Fn+3X)

109 EiUt/

The Left lies all the time.

We know it was not someone based, because then it would have worked.

Still hoping voting like our lives depend on it can overcome fraud.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

110 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2NHgQ)

You are most welcome. I hope you have a good day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 08:30 AM (JrHfD)

111 We can hobble an unruly passenger with only 1/3 as much tape!

Posted by: Phil Swift For Flextape! at September 07, 2026 08:32 AM (Fn+3X)

112 98 I do firmly believe every Democrat/ Marxist program has fraud built in, Hell maybe every government program does.
Posted by: Skip

And no one is laughin' anymore at Hunter Biden's, the literal epitome of Damien Thorne, and his b'wannabe Goal of *HAVING* to run for President?

Yes, the power of LIBs compell him.

Given their choices, LIBs continue to to advocate for the Greater Evil: It always destroys its maker.

WHY SETTLE FOR THE LESSER EVIL?
LET'S GO BRANDON.

I Believe in Harvey Dent.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 07, 2026 08:33 AM (Syx6Q)

113 Ordinary American

Maybe he thought this would get a flight attendant's hands all over him. Glad he is fired.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)

114 I suspect all looting of the country is really gone as soon as it happens. Barely pennies on the dollar are ever recovered.

I'm waiting for a flood of late model, low mileage Mercedes G Wagons and BMW Competitions to flood the market.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 08:34 AM (nAS9C)

115 Jen the original

The identical coverage is a tell of lack of intellectual prowess. Media be stupid.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

116 The Handmaids of Lindsay Clancy are quite terrifying.

"I did it for you Lindsay!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:35 AM (2GVsD)

117 I do firmly believe every Democrat/ Marxist program has fraud built in, Hell maybe every government program does.

Its in the Bible...

"Where two or more are gathered... at least one is stealing from the till."

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 08:35 AM (nAS9C)

118 Good morning dear morons from Half Moon Bay and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 08:36 AM (nbUa5)

119 Accused serial squatter takes over $1M home in tree-lined NYC neighborhood:

It's not the first time he's done this. He's lived there for over 2 1/2 years and he's calling the neighbors racist for trying to get him out.

https://tinyurl.com/4xvntdrf

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

120 Does Dr Acton still wear a lab coat 24/7, like she did when she was telling us we were all gonna die?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 07, 2026 08:37 AM (4HoLg)

121 I refuse to observe Labor Day because I reject the Labor Theory of Value as Marxist nonsense.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 08:37 AM (nbUa5)

122 Anna Puma

The survivors in the next generation will not have genes from Lindsay Clancy or her impassioned supporters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

123 From the moment a child is conceived, Democrats and their leftist allies have declared open season.

Uh... before that even. RU386 hits the conceived, but birth control pills get ahead of that.

And we are finding that Covid-1984 Clot Shots have rendered a generation of women barren.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 08:38 AM (nAS9C)

124 The AA passenger was probably suffering from sleep deprivation and postpartum depression.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 07, 2026 08:38 AM (2ZFhf)

125 Victor Tango Kilo

Wait. I though the pilots in Miami were suffering from sleep deprivation and postpartum depression. And not going around.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

126 what is the purpose of all of this?

He has to keep the title of "Greatest Troll of all Time."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 07, 2026 08:41 AM (JI10i)

127 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday and Happy Labor Day.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 08:41 AM (77rzZ)

128 At NYT: "Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie"

Welp, that's it then. Erosion of Trust is complete.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2026 08:42 AM (Jr5Lq)

129 And we are finding that Covid-1984 Clot Shots have rendered a generation of women barren.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 07, 2026 08:38 AM (nAS9C)


I know that it, reportedly, caused miscarriages when taken but I haven't seen anything about ongoing issues. Where are you getting that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

130 Accused serial squatter takes over $1M home in tree-lined NYC neighborhood

1. Rope
2. Tree
3. Law Abiding Citizens

Some assembly required.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 08:43 AM (/k3in)

131 I'm doing the frozen egg thing, but where do you buy the little egg cartons?

Posted by: Swiftly Aging-Out AOC at September 07, 2026 08:44 AM (Fn+3X)

132
Michigan Sec State has mailed out 8200 drivers' licenses with a stock photo and information; will replace.

Benson can't even cheat right.

Posted by: Auspex at September 07, 2026 08:44 AM (Y8DZL)

133 I pray that Reddington is professionally destroyed for his actions in the Lindsay Clancy matter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:46 AM (2GVsD)

134 42

Huh...sounds about right and that's what I figured, and I still have no plans to watch any of that character's awfulness, ever.

Posted by: Second Annual Report at September 07, 2026 08:46 AM (N+zuZ)

135 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 07, 2026 08:47 AM (e1ceA)

136 This Mercury Orbiter thing is old hat. I owned both a Mercury Comet and a Meteor.

Posted by: Spaced Out at September 07, 2026 08:47 AM (Fn+3X)

137 Texas solved a serial squatter by sending her to prison for 20 years for committing fraud in getting the rentals.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:47 AM (2GVsD)

138 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 07, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

139 Anna Puma

Would a UPS delivery of tannerite and C4 be legal in the case of that squatter? Be a real shame if a porch pirate got it first.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

140 I'm seeing reports that Germany has taken to allowing mail-in ballots and AfD is the only party which didn't receive more mail-in ballots than in-person ones. Don't know if that's accurate or not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

141 137 Texas solved a serial squatter by sending her to prison for 20 years for committing fraud in getting the rentals.
Posted by: Anna Puma


That's a good start. We keep hearing about squatter's rights. I'd like to open a dialogue about squatter's wrongs.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 08:51 AM (/k3in)

142 Maybe the President should spend some time pondering a name for that? Just a thought.
=====

Agreed.

Maybe he can announce yet again victory over Iran. Wait, wut?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 08:51 AM (nbUa5)

143 I used to have a different nic

Let's line up votes counted with exit polls.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

144 I've got a theory about those Amazon pilots...

Posted by: Guy Duct-taped To Seat at September 07, 2026 08:53 AM (wHb3B)

145 >> Being duct-taped to an airline seat must be the ultimate public humiliation for any adult.

Not as humiliating as wearing white after Labor Day.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 08:54 AM (viF8m)

146 The absolute worst speed traps in Texas that I know of are, I-30 South of Texarkana, I-20 anywhere around Tyler, Tx. And the worst of the worst I-35 Selma, Tx right north of San Antonio, it is legendary. They will write you a ticket for 1 mph over the speed limit, and they love to pull over cars with out of state tags.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 08:55 AM (noln+)

147 JackStraw

Piper's Fashion notes demolished that myth. On last night's ONT.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

148 They raised the goal of Lindsay Clancy's GoFundme to $3 million??

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)

149 I witnessed the horror first hand, Salty.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2026 08:57 AM (viF8m)

150 Hunter Biden Says He ‘May Have To’ Run For President In 2028

-
A gram in every pot!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 08:57 AM (ndZc7)

151 Anna Puma

I thought crime-based GFM were against policy?

A list of donators would be very interesting.

The lawyers will get all of it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 08:58 AM (u82oZ)

152 They raised the goal of Lindsay Clancy's GoFundme to $3 million??
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)


Why not? The internet is full of proof that Patrick murdered the children AND pushed her out of the window - days before - AND rigged the election to get Trump in office. The defense attorney just didn't use ANY of that because he knew that his cause was righteous and no jury could possibly convict.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

153 The Handmaids of Lindsay Clancy are quite terrifying.

"I did it for you Lindsay!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:35 AM (2GVsD)
*******
it'll be interesting to see what comes of all this. I've noticed that the comments on all the Lindsey Clancy videos on YouTube seem to be supporting the real victims... the children that she strangled one by one.

If the women on the jury read those comments, on pretty much every YouTube video they should feel embarrassment and ridicule.
Probably not what they were expecting.

TikTok is a whole different animal. That's where a lot of the woke crazies live to post another idiotic video accusing the ex-husband.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 07, 2026 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

154 I thought crime-based GFM were against policy?

Technically they are but if the person they are fundraising for is a democrat darling, it's fine.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 09:00 AM (/k3in)

155 When is it safe to wear my white sport coat and a pink crustacean again?

Posted by: Zombie Martin Mull at September 07, 2026 09:00 AM (Fn+3X)

156 They raised the goal of Lindsay Clancy's GoFundme to $3 million??
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)
-----
This is going to lead to some truly diabolical incentives for other women.

They will think they can get a massive payday for murdering their own children.

Evil taken to a new level of extreme.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2026 09:02 AM (FZ29D)

157 We will return, bigger and better!

Posted by: Straw Hat Riots Of 1922 at September 07, 2026 09:04 AM (Fn+3X)

158 89 I suspect all looting of the country is really gone as soon as it happens. Barely pennies on the dollar are ever recovered.

What would be the real cost of a Medicare account if all the looting could be removed? Maybe 1/2?
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 08:19 AM (Ia/+0)

And much of the children mutilation was billed thru false Medicaid codes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)

159 Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is a demon.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 07, 2026 09:06 AM (0dOzp)

160 Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is a demon.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 07, 2026 09:06 AM (0dOzp)


A complaint has been made to the bar. I doubt anything will come of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 07, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

161 I read one news report that the GoFundMe is actually in the name of Lindsay's parents.

So ban circumvented.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 09:07 AM (2GVsD)

162 I think the Clancy trial/ordeal has devolved into parody. The media's milking it big time. Her "supporters" are fanning the flames.

Who, exactly, will reap $3M if it's "donated" to her cause?

The lawyer(s) probably?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 09:08 AM (2Cry5)

163 I can't promise I'll like a Barbarella remake with Sidney Swinney.

But if they make a frame for remake, I can promise you I will thoroughly enjoy the opening title sequence.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 07, 2026 09:09 AM (6ydKt)

164 Oh Paul. I see the meds still aren't having the desired effect.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 07, 2026 09:10 AM (/k3in)

165 We are so blessed here. JJS slaving away on Labor Day for our education and amusement. Links out the wazoo!

Posted by: Laurel And Hearty Handshake at September 07, 2026 09:10 AM (Fn+3X)

166 What about tan shoes with pink shoelaces?

Posted by: Dodie Stevens at September 07, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

167 Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is a demon.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 07, 2026 09:06 AM (0dOzp)

Nah. A lawyer.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 07, 2026 09:11 AM (hmYU4)

168 Laurel And Hearty Handshake

Good nic. Punny.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 09:11 AM (u82oZ)

169 What about tan shoes with pink shoelaces?
Posted by: Dodie Stevens at September 07, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

Needs a Panama hat.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 07, 2026 09:11 AM (hmYU4)

170 “While Patrick Havas forced his way through the crowd while carrying weapons, police state he did not brandish them or lunge at Acton. He approached holding a cellphone to record.”

the attack on the candidate is fake fake fake

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 07, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)

171 "Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is a demon.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo "

Sorry, we don't take lawyers.

Posted by: a demon at September 07, 2026 09:13 AM (MWfyi)

172 r hennigantx

Meanwhile Trump has had seven assassination attempts on him. One more that on Queen Victoria.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 07, 2026 09:15 AM (u82oZ)

173 @145.-JackStraw

Don't worry about Piper,JackStraw. You can still wear your hot pink speedo's after labor day.

Posted by: Case at September 07, 2026 09:16 AM (noln+)

174 Religious humor.

https://tinyurl.com/27r6ws2j

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)

175 156 They raised the goal of Lindsay Clancy's GoFundme to $3 million??
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)

*chuckles in Latin*

Posted by: Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer at September 07, 2026 09:18 AM (+SiK9)

176 Future Babylon Bee Headline (possibly):

Latest TikTok Challenge: Transgenderism Rates Plummet As Teens Rush to Have Babies So That They Can Later Strangle Them

Posted by: muldoon at September 07, 2026 09:19 AM (qgHp7)

177 Sure, it's a problem that the devil's whore has millions of admirers. But that's predictable enough. The thing that had (and has) me perturbed is the mistrial, and inevitable sweetheart plea bargain the prosecution will offer up.

Not because she is getting with it, though that sucks really bad. But because if the signal it sends to those supporters.

I grew up with the millennial AWFLs who form the Sisterhood. These bitches are bent, they view their children as fashion items, they're on drugs, and they're full of rage, and they're all convinced they can do no wrong.

Now they've bullied society into accepting their right to murder children, and believe me, they'll exercise it. The Clancy Signal is lighting the skies of every upper middle class suburb in the country, and a lot of kids will pay the ultimate price to this American Moloch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 07, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)

178 The best thing about having TV cameras in the courtroom is that now people can see in real time what a joke our justice system is.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2026 09:22 AM (Lo97M)

179 Moloch.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 07, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
=====

Exactly who we are dealing with here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2026 09:24 AM (nbUa5)

180 The MSM bears a responsibility for the Clancy trial and all that follows too. They've sensationalized it.

Like it or not, the media still drives culture.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2026 09:27 AM (2Cry5)

181 But of course.

Portland: Women’s sports bar kicks out women for wearing shirts that support women

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at September 07, 2026 09:29 AM (ndZc7)

182 Nood.

Posted by: Bulg at September 07, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

183 ART CRITICS UPSTAIRS WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2026 09:32 AM (Ia/+0)

184 President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that New Mexico could be next on his list of geographic rebrands, sharing a state map on Truth Social with “Mexico” struck through in red and “America” written beneath it — an unofficial stab at “New America.”

Maybe he should try renaming Kalifornia first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 07, 2026 09:39 AM (l3cgK)

185 Has it occurred to Trump that by making everything about his renaming shit, he makes it impossible to have a serious discussion with the Democrat idiots in my family?

Of course, it would be impossible anyway…

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 07, 2026 10:14 AM (UWN7z)

186 'Morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

Hospitals screen new mothers. Routine screening is recommended during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Clancy is/was an RN and worked in labor and delivery. They're trained to spot distress, provide comfort and may help connect at risk (not sure if that's proper terminology) patients with social workers &/or mental experts before discharge.

The classic timeline of postpartum psychosis, which often strikes ruthlessly, is around the two-week mark after giving birth. (I had a dear friend who suffered this and the onset sudden, severe, and completely unexpected - other than she had had a great burden - a lot of involvement in caring for her mother in hospice - immediately prior to the baby's birth. She called police to come for the baby before really trying to kill herself. She spent a year in a psychiatric facility, never completely stopped therapy in her lifetime, and went on to raise the child with her husband in a solid family. Yes, they were lucky.)

But the point is Clancy knew the signs and types of distress a woman might experience pre & post birth. Also, it's well documented actual psychosis is very rare and tends to early onset.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

187 While her team of attorneys may be excellent, neither they or Clancy serve as advocates for the larger community of mothers who have experienced depression, mood swings and would benefit from treatment and follow-up, and certainly not for the rare birth mothers who may experience psychosis after childbirth.

Did Clancy know right and wrong? Period. She had the capacity to plan in and around family for a long time - not just following the birth of her youngest child who was well beyond infancy - and also routinely manipulate those commonly with & around her. (Again not for months but years.) Marriage and motherhood her stage.

Social justice. Intersectionality. Close private prisons. Dump some of the worst criminals out of jail early & with limited monitoring so they can live their lives and go onto social security, SSI and/or other benefits for a lifetime. And the victims?

Kill the lawsuits both Clancy and her ex have going, and treat Clancy exactly as if she and her husband were reversed in deed and action & he murdered the children after much manipulation and scheming.

Women's Health. Equality. Better advocacy for both women and children.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

188 PS - The Tim Tebow Foundation works to protect vulnerable children worldwide by focusing on anti-human trafficking, orphan care, and life-changing medical treatments.

The statistics the program cites are incredible and disturbing.

So often hedonism over conscience, over G-d.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 11:25 AM (NFX2v)

189 119 Accused serial squatter takes over ...

Getting squatters out of private homes they've taken over is now a popular TV show.

BTW home healthcare is often in play.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 07, 2026 11:29 AM (NFX2v)

190 It's also,
National Salami Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd".
--T. Lehrer

Posted by: buddhaha at September 07, 2026 11:41 AM (nll5z)

191 Let's see some polling on how many women in Marxachusetts support Lindsay Clancy style, post-birth abortion. It's the new frontier of feminism, and the state is full of hipster wannabes.

Posted by: Wofus at September 07, 2026 11:48 AM (CNa+A)

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