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The Morning Report — 7/ 23 /26

Good morning kids. Say what you will about President Trump, and it is my opinion that he will be remembered in the fullness of time as among our greatest of President's primarily for reestablishing sane American foreign policy that both ensures our own national security but ultimately results in the true liberation of the oppressed masses suffering under the yoke of tyrannical communism/socalism especially here in our own hemisphere. As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, led by for once by an intelligent, driven and unabashedly pro-American Secretary of State in the person of Marco Rubio, Latin America which for far too long had been relegated to basket case status is undergoing a reverse domino effect wherein socialist hellhole nations have rid themselves of socialism and are embracing liberty and freedom. Most notably Nayib Bukele in EL Salvador as well as Javier Milei in Argentina. Although Hugo Chavez and the Maduro-ista cancer has been excised from Venezuela the situation there is still in flux. But that said, I think America and Americanism are on the march here in our hemisphere for sure. And that said, there are rumblings in the air that the long imprisned Caribbean Island gulag of CUBA might before long breathe free for the first time in over 66 years. About the only people who would not be celebrating would be our fellow citizens in name only — the cadres and leadership of the Democrat/Left.

The secretary noted that the end goal would be to uproot the communists and have "Cuba where the people of Cuba can experience prosperity, safety, security and a better life moving forward." “We’re prepared to be realistic about how you do that and patient about the serious process that leads to that. We’ve engaged them from time to time in that regard and know where we stand on that issue. Hopefully that’s where it arrives.

That would be marvelous but how can we uproot the communists right here at home and ensure that America and the American experiment can survive and thrive for another 250 years. Despite the rise of the so-called Democratic Socialists who are neither of those things although Socialism is the cancer from which untold millions can will and have perished. It must be utterly smashed if we are to continue, and there seem to be positive signs. We reported on a recent poll indicating a broad swathe of the nation are genuinely terrified and revolted by the prospect of Communism,

Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found. The survey asked respondents, “How much of a threat, if any, do Communists in the United States pose today?” Across the board, 43 percent considered communists in the U.S. as at least a moderate threat. More specifically, 18 percent consider it a “major” threat, and 25 percent consider it a “moderate” threat. Another 23 percent consider it a “minor” threat, and 33 percent said communists in the U.S. pose no threat at all.

And yet, this shit:

There’s little question that the Democratic Socialists of America are more influential than any time in recent history. Indeed, it’s perhaps the most influential arm of the Democratic Party today, wielding policy clout and winning local elections. But are DSA policies really so popular? July’s I&I/TIPP Poll asked voters to find out.
The DSA’s recent “Workers Deserve More!” document outlined its main policy goals. For I&I/TIPP’s July Poll, taken by 1,473 Americans from June 29 through July 2, voters were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with five separate DSA proposals. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.8 percentage points.
First, I&I/TIPP asked about DSA’s proposal for the “abolition of jails and prisons.”
Only 26% agreed either strongly (10%) or somewhat (16%) with this plan, while 62% disagreed strongly (47%) or somewhat (15%).

The other questions/DSA policy aims are equally revolting as I'm sure you can imagine.

I guess most people who are reportedly terrified of communism are unaware that its precursor is socialism. At some point you just throw up your arms at this mess.

We'll see if the two term presidency of Marco Rubio can deal with this. I look forward to that, Democrat election thievery notwithstanding.

Have a good day,

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

The Texas Democrat Senate nominee says Texas continues to suffer from ‘reverberations of slavery’
James Talarico Now Says He Backs Reparations for Slavery: Polls Show He Has a Black Voter Problem After Jasmine Crockett Called Him ‘Racist’
So-called passthrough charities allow donors to make anonymous, tax-exempt donations to unsavory groups
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Bill Cracks Down on Shady Charities That Funnel Cash From Left-Wing Donors to Extremists, Including Israel-Hating Groups That Back Hamas

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
In an open letter to the public that ran in the Washington Post, Delaney Hall employees said their jobs have been made immensely more difficult as a result of anti-ICE rioters outside the detention center who have repeatedly attacked law enforcement.
Employees at Migrant Detention Center Say ‘Abolish ICE’ Rioters Have Harassed Them, Damaged Their Property
Sen. Jim Banks has offered a text-and-precedent-bound response to a decision his opponents assumed had ended the debate.
How Congress Can Fix SCOTUS’ Disastrous Birthplace Citizenship Error
Gill announced the Citizenship Act on July 22 to restore the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment and reject the proposal that every single child born on American soil, even to foreign criminals or individuals who just walked across the border, is an American citizen. It seems that there is both a Senate and a House version of the Act.
Rep. Gill, Sen. Banks Introduce Act to Correct Birthright Citizenship Scam
The (at least) seven million people who entered the United States illegally from 2021-2024 raised home prices by 6.6 percent.
Illegal Immigration Made The Average New House $30K More Expensive Under Biden
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
hose numbers pale in comparison to the hundreds of billions flushed down the toilet by crooks who had little trouble exploiting numerous slapdash COVID relief programs, according to the Government
$37.5 Billion Well Spent To Off the Ayatollah
President Trump: “We’ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily,” and “there’s not a thing they can do about it.”
Iran Threatens U.S. Allies as Trump Hints at Strike on Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site
A fantastical story that may not be true.
Was Mossad Hoping to Make Mahmoud Ahmedinejad Iran’s Supreme Leader?
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
The real casualty here was the truth.
Mamdani Accuses Netanyahu of War Crimes
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
But Democrats likely worry that the worst will have gone on in blue ones — because those states always focus on increasing government spending as if it doesn’t matter where the cash actually goes. Whatever the reason, it’s a terrible look for a bunch that used to consider themselves the party of the people, not the fraudsters.
Team Trump’s anti-fraud drive is making more news than anyone can follow
Gavin Newsom is running a shakedown campaign against major companies.
California’s Civil Rights Mafia

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Jordan contends newly released records contradict that testimony and amount to obstruction of Congress.
Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith to DOJ for Possible Prosecution
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Extinction Rebellion claimed data centers play "a role in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians."
Dutch climate agitators attack future Microsoft data center with acid-filled water balloons
The case sets a significant precedent for copyright protection in the era of artificial intelligence, signaling that companies cannot freely use pirated content for AI training without consequences. It also provides substantial financial restitution to authors and publishers whose works were exploited.
Federal Judge Greenlights Record $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Against Anthropic.

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The disruption in oil shipments has heightened concerns about global energy security and economic stability, with analysts warning that prolonged tensions could push oil prices above $100 per barrel. The Saudi Foreign Ministry condemned the blockade, vowing to protect its vessels, while the Houthis threatened a “decisive response” to any Saudi actions.
Oil Prices Surge to Six-Week High Amid Houthi Disruption of Saudi Shipments.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Meanwhile, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology investigates the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) over its stewardship of this nation’s scientific efforts.
Trump Demands Review of ‘Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence’ Used by Federal Judges
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Far-left, extremist ideology prevents an honest interpretation of crime and incarceration data.
Why Socialists Want to Shut Down Prisons
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Fauci no longer faces any realistic risk of criminal exposure for perjury or other past federal offenses covered by the pardon.
Rand Paul Should Make Fauci Answer for Wuhan and BeagleGate Lies
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”
Academic Assailant: George Ciccariello-Maher, University of Pennsylvania
China is second only to Qatar in giving grants to American universities, and both of those governments donate vast amounts of money for the express purpose of brainwashing Americans into supporting terrorism and socialism.
Chinese Communists' Anger Over DOJ's Harvard Investigation Speaks Volumes
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill had to confess that some 6,600 noncitizens landed on the Garden State’s voter rolls in 2023-24, and 400 voted.
New Jersey Dems Did Nothing For Years After Warnings About Noncitizens On Voter Rolls
California uses the same software…
IDEMIA Rejects Blame for 6,000 Noncitizen Voter Registrations in New Jersey
This accusation comes almost immediately after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill confessed that there were at least 6,600 non-citizens on her state’s voter rolls and that around 400 of them had voted in an election. The Trump administration's estimate of non-citizens registered in New Jersey is much higher, at around 35,000. Altogether, the Department of Justice has already identified almost 300,000 citizens registered to vote across a handful of states. This is a gigantic issue, the extent of which Democrats are desperate to cover up.
Scott Presler Says 2 Pennsylvania Counties Have Non-Citizen Registered Voters
“It’s like the Senate is a place where you send things when you want them to die.”
Trump Turns Up Heat On Thune Over SAVE Act
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
The revelations have further tarnished Gates’s reputation, with his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, citing the association with Epstein as a factor in their divorce. The Gates Foundation has since implemented stricter vetting and risk management measures.
Bill Gates Further Tarnished by New Epstein Report.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Jackson is known for his fiery demeanor and confrontational style, particularly during his tenure as Maine’s Senate president.
Jackson Emerges as Maine Democrats’ Likely Senate Nominee. Can He Beat Collins?
OK: Having a Totenkopf tattoo, cavorting with Holocaust revisionists. Not OK: Honoring your Nazi grandfather on Veterans Day.
Liz Warren Finds Her Nazi Red Line
Ossoff has spent more on makeup than any federal candidate this year, beating out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib
Jon Ossoff Spends Thousands on ‘Makeup Services’ From Artist Who Worked on Hollywood Blockbusters Like ‘The Notebook’
POLITICS
‘Republican voters were not subtle.’
Arizona Primaries Offer Some Serious Reasons For Conservative Hope
The Granite State's early primary remains a key test for presidential hopefuls looking to build national momentum.
A New 2028 Poll Just Shook Up Both Parties
“They’re gloomy about their own financial prospects, and feel aggrieved about the state of the country.”
Poll Analyst Nate Silver Says DSA Members are Highly Educated and Downwardly Mobile
Voters under age 45 are two time more likely than older voters to back leftist ideas and candidates.
Americans Reject The DSA’s Policy Platform: I&I/TIPP Poll
$300,000 in one month.
Why Are Muslims Still Pouring Money Into Mamdani’s Campaign?
The problems start at the top. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer continues to redefine "feckless." I swear, the longer he's in Congress — 45 years since he was first elected to the House before going to the Senate — the more mystified he seems by how all of it works. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is only three years into his leadership gig, and has never been anything more than Nancy Pelosi's puppet. Unfortunately for the Democrats, she's too drunk and old to properly pull his strings.
Rudderless Dems Keep Sending Gift Horses for GOP to Look in the Mouth
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States will not allow communist influence campaigns to undermine American politics and society, pointing to Cuba as a longtime source of ideological influence operations in the Western Hemisphere.
Rubio says America wants a prosperous Cuba freed from its disastrous economic system, Cuba has spent decades trying to ‘undermine’ America
If approved, the deal could strengthen Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure but also heighten regional tensions, particularly with Iran, which has been accused of pursuing nuclear weapons despite its denials.
Trump Seals Historic U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Agreement.
What America needs in place of the old apparatus is not another aid bureaucracy but a return to that older corporate tradition, updated for the 21st century.
Palantir and the New Instrument of American Influence
... Damianos made clear that the Cypriot government believes that Trump pursuing energy dominance is extremely important for his region but also for the whole world. Cyprus is a member of the European Union, but it also is the closest European nation to the Middle East. The island, which is mostly controlled by Greek Cypriots who comprise the Republic of Cyprus, also has a small portion of the northern part of the island currently controlled by Turkish occupants.
Exclusive — Cyprus Energy Minister: Trump’s ‘Energy Security’ Engagement ‘Vital’ to Future of West
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The greatest obstacle to the next phase of space development is not technology but economics and law.
Space Isn’t The Next Tulip Mania, It’s The Next Internet
Using data obtained during two fly-bys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, scientists have now been able to measure for the first time the temperature up to ten to thirty feet below the surface.
Scientists use Juno to get first below surface temperature reading of Jupiter’s moon Io
Suborbital launches from Alaska however could occur without anyone knowing. It also might provide the military a hypersonic launch site that could reach Russia and China.
Rocket Lab wins another War Department suborbital contract, worth $266 million
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
If you wondered how communism has grabbed a foothold in the United States of America of all places, look no further than the Smithsonian Institution.
Miranda Devine: The Smithsonian reeks of communist ideologies that our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of
Calling the National Museum of American History (NMAH) one of the country’s “greatest treasures,” Spalding criticized the people in charge of the museum for pushing a leftist agenda in testimony titled “Who Killed America’s Story”?
How Woke Smithsonian Bureaucrats ‘Killed America’s Story’
Musk, believed to be the first trillionaire in modern history, unveiled the project Tuesday evening on X...
Elon Vows AI-Made ‘Odyssey’ After Blasting Nolan’s Take on Homer
Christian Toto: Comic-turned-director aims camera on film industry's 'racism,' 'sexism'
Chris Rock Goes Navel-Gazing Route with ‘Misty Green’

HITHER & YON
“Once counterintuitive, such provocations are now anything but...Girard trained his own hermeneutic of suspicion on just this sort of gesture.”
How French Theory Lost Its Cool

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1 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

2 Happy Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:25 AM (/+uur)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

4 "The Texas Democrat Senate nominee says Texas continues to suffer from ‘reverberations of slavery’"

The campaigns internal polling must be horrific for him to make this statement.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2026 07:27 AM (0N4FZ)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 07:28 AM (jehhT)

6 What a beautiful sunrise in Houston this morning!

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 23, 2026 07:29 AM (JNTt1)

7 Sherrill used the information to hit back at Trump and take credit for election integrity…even though the announcement just happened to come out after the president spoke about election fraud and DHS found over 30,000 noncitizens on New Jersey’s voter rolls.

knowingly giving false information when registering to vote is a felony under federal law, punishable by up to $10,000 in fines and/or up to five years in prison.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:29 AM (/+uur)

8 test

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at July 23, 2026 07:31 AM (/enuJ)

9 "Jon Ossoff Spends Thousands on ‘Makeup Services’ From Artist Who Worked on Hollywood Blockbusters Like ‘The Notebook’"

He is not unfamiliar with the taste of todger.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:31 AM (MWfyi)

10 The two term presidency of Marco Rubio?

Were the 2028 and 2032 elections canceled?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 07:32 AM (4g5V+)

11 Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Maybe he misread the room. Or is just scarfing up coastal "elites" campaign money.

Is the overall level of black Texan disenchantment with big screen TVs and air conditioning so high he has a chance?

Magic -* ball says No Way, Jose.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

12 > In an open letter to the public that ran in the Washington Post, Delaney Hall employees said their jobs have been made immensely more difficult as a result of anti-ICE rioters outside the detention center who have repeatedly attacked law enforcement.
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Letting the rioters know they're succeeding. Not sure it's the best course of action, but whatever.

I still contend the rioters should be kept 500 ft. or more from any entrance or gate. If they advance, shoot to kill.

The rioting will cease either out of fear of death or lack of live rioters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 07:32 AM (jehhT)

13 Admirale's Mate

Test Sat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

14 The campaigns internal polling must be horrific for him to make this statement.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2026 07:27 AM (0N4FZ)

As we have seen over the past week, his campaign is in a bad way with blacks.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 07:34 AM (4g5V+)

15 "Reparations, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. It's part of the values I was raised with," Talarico told an audience of mostly black people on Monday.

Reparation Maths:
Obama has zero African Slave Blood
Michelle is 50/50 to a Great 3x grandmother

If the payout is $10,000
How much do Sasha and Malia get?

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

16 @4.

The guy is an idiot.

Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 07:34 AM (bqIVz)

17 I still contend the rioters should be kept 500 ft. or more from any entrance or gate. If they advance, shoot to kill.

The rioting will cease either out of fear of death or lack of live rioters.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 07:32 AM (jehhT)

Shoot to kill orders are the fastest way to stop a riot.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 07:35 AM (4g5V+)

18 The campaigns internal polling must be horrific for him to make this statement.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2026 07:27 AM (0N4FZ)

Those of us watching in Texas knew this was coming as soon as the Dem party put its finger on the scales and shafted her out of the nomination.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:35 AM (T2w7I)

19 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

20 15: his “faith tradition”. WTF?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 07:35 AM (4g5V+)

21 Talarico is a real hot mess. When your party is insane the craziest rise to the top

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 23, 2026 07:36 AM (+gA9j)

22 Filming for Netflix's live action Mobile Suit Gundam movie starring Syndey Sweeny has wrapped.

Will this be a good thing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:36 AM (2GVsD)

23 thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2026 07:36 AM (VyBeY)

24 "How Congress Can Fix SCOTUS’ Disastrous Birthplace Citizenship Error"

Sure. Right after they pass the SAVE act.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:36 AM (MWfyi)

25 good question, Anna!

hope springs eternal ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2026 07:37 AM (VyBeY)

26 US and Iran are now locked into a dynamic where each side has to escalate. It’s a bit frightening, honestly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:37 AM (T2w7I)

27 "Shoot to kill orders are the fastest way to stop a riot.
Posted by: Cow Demon"

Fire hoses will put a damper on it too.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:37 AM (MWfyi)

28 That poll with 26% wanting to abolish prisons. Yes it’s “only” 26% but that’s one in four…. If that’s accurate it’s millions upon millions of voters. I hope that poll is for a stripper because a society with that many stupid people cannot do well

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 23, 2026 07:38 AM (+gA9j)

29 Although Hugo Chavez and the Maduro-ista cancer has been excised from Venezuela the situation there is still in flux. But that said, I think America and Americanism are on the march here in our hemisphere for sure.

Daniel Ortega says hello.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

30 Workers deserve more.
More than what?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

31 Cow Demon

We saw how a weaponized FBI acted on January 6th. We need similar will. We have the technology.

Use cell phone data and a geo-fence. Facial recognition. AI to link the mob to financial payments from NGOs gone commie.

No money, less protesters. Use civil forfeiture to take cells phones away. Find the networks. Go after the leaders with fines and de-banking.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

32 At some point you just throw up your arms at this mess.

Daniel 2:20-21 "...God removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding."

4:17 "...the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men"

4:25 "...the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will."

Job 12:23 "He makes nations great, and He destroys them; He enlarges nations, and leads them away."

Fear not, we're in Good Hands.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 07:41 AM (9Hs2w)

33 Tom Servo

The only good spot is Iran seems to be running out of missiles. Not drones, however.

No electrical power, no threat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

34 "Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith to DOJ for Possible Prosecution"

I might possibly get a flying unicorn.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:43 AM (MWfyi)

35 Jon Ossoff Spends Thousands on ‘Makeup Services’ From Artist Who Worked on Hollywood Blockbusters Like ‘The Notebook’

Link returns to main page.

Good link: https://tinyurl.com/ytpd93b3

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

36 Last month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced charges against 455 people for $6.5 billion in health-care fraud.

End all of their and their immediate family's access to any and all federal programs. No SSI, no Medicare, No student loans.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:43 AM (/+uur)

37 >Trump Turns Up Heat On Thune Over SAVE Act
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Trump is powerless against Thune

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 07:44 AM (ZxPkt)

38 US and Iran are now locked into a dynamic where each side has to escalate. It’s a bit frightening, honestly.

Good. Hopefully the US will have the will to evaporate Iran and all it stands for and once the radioactive dust settles whoever move in can clean the place up.

Posted by: Make War, Not Love at July 23, 2026 07:45 AM (F1rMs)

39 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 23, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

40 Amidst all the news dropping all around us one thing that has been largely overlooked is very well done report by the Rubio State Dept. detailing the link between the communist government in Cuba and the rapid spread of communism in western countries most notably the US. It wasn't a coincidence, Cuba has been recruiting and training US activists for years and infiltrating our schools and institutions.

It is no accident communism is on the rise in the US and countries around the world. It was a plan and it was centered in Cuba.

Here's a link to the report. It's really well done.

https://tinyurl.com/5ynvedwx

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 07:46 AM (viF8m)

41 "How Congress Can Fix SCOTUS’ Disastrous Birthplace Citizenship Error"

Sure. Right after they pass the SAVE act.

They have far more interest in passing Amnesty.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 07:46 AM (PVBkQ)

42 .
.
Yay! It's trash day ... the day my trash would be delivered to the dump, if only my "dog parent" neighbors did NOT throw dog feces in my cart ... so my wife and I dispose of our trash at stores, fast food restaurants, and gas stations. I keep my trash cart in the garage and do NOT want my house to smell like my filthy neighbors' dogs asses. Another neighbor found a sticker which requests that said "dog parents" NOT use his cart. Gosh, that Tree of Liberty is looking undernourished.

Posted by: Marooned at July 23, 2026 07:46 AM (kt8QE)

43 Good morning again, folks. It's a beautiful morning here in the GPROMD, made better by the fact that it's not going to be as humid.

And I think if Cuba is free from the tyranny of Not Real Communism™, there will be flags flying at half staff and professors crying harder than when the Berlin Wall fell.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 07:47 AM (RjOoY)

44 Sock_rat_eez

What kinda scares me is this is an 'original' story. All leaked photos are of the Federation. Feddie uniforms are the blue with red trim.

Some are getting excited after spying the TAKIM logo, saying the writers are hardcore UC Gundam fans.

JJ 'lens flare' Abrams would like a word with you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:47 AM (2GVsD)

45 Make War, Not Love

Unfortunately, Iran is not the Paraguay of the War of the Triple Alliance. In that war, 95% of Paraguayan men died. And before you ask, our erstwhile allies in the Gulf have asked us not to bomb mosques.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

46 > Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that
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this guy gets it

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 07:48 AM (ZxPkt)

47 repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition"

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 07:48 AM (XuXeR)

48 Reverse trash can pirates.

Posted by: They're the worst at July 23, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

49 With Talerico and BLM, how soon until there are injuries?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:50 AM (2GVsD)

50 Rancid Tlaib has a massive "makeup" budget? Why bother? Just put a paper bag on her head and she'd look instantly better.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

51 {{{Lady in Black}}}

First, the duct tape over her mouth. Then the bag.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

52 Rancid Tilapia, Islam has an answer for her - full trash bag with only the eyes visible.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:52 AM (2GVsD)

53 Just put a paper bag on her head "

Hey, we have standards! Use plastic!

/American Association of Paper Bag Manufacturing

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 07:52 AM (XuXeR)

54 Reparation Maths:
Obama has zero African Slave Blood
Michelle is 50/50 to a Great 3x grandmother

If the payout is $10,000
How much do Sasha and Malia get?
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

We'd need to know the numbers for their parents.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

55 US and Iran are now locked into a dynamic where each side has to escalate. It’s a bit frightening, honestly.

Let's hope it doesn't fall into Carl von Clausewitz' concept of escalation to the extremes.

What we are in may be Kahn's Escalation ladder/Escalation Dominance

What is most interesting is if we fall into William Zartman's Mutually hurting stalemate, which is possible if the Muslims decided to bring the war here to the point where Heritage Americans are tired of seeing their churches burn down and their infrastructure wrecked.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 07:53 AM (PVBkQ)

56 First, the duct tape over her mouth. Then the bag.

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{{{Salty}}}

First problem would be getting the duct tape through the fish hook.

Yes, I'm being catty. I'm so ashamed. *hangs head*

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 07:54 AM (qBdHI)

57 Anna Puma

Of Syndey Sweeny's torso is protected by power armor, why would any man see the film?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

58 Good morning Horde thx JJ, great report.
The article about Schumer and Jefferies is great. I've been saying for months that it looks as if the two of them have been pithed. They babble but usually at Trump. They have no idea how to deal with the crazies of the the DSA. Fun to watch, dangerous for the nation.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 07:54 AM (sMkB+)

59 How much do Sasha and Malia get?

I thought they were hatched out of test tubes.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 07:54 AM (PVBkQ)

60 "Of Syndey Sweeny's torso is protected by power armor, why would any man see the film?
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

The shower scene.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:54 AM (MWfyi)

61 Use cell phone data and a geo-fence.

SCOTUS ruled that technique unconstitutional.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

62 Mosque=ammo dump. Minaret=missile silo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 23, 2026 07:55 AM (gm9Sb)

63 "How Congress Can Fix SCOTUS’ Disastrous Birthplace Citizenship Error"

Sure. Right after they pass the SAVE act.

They have far more interest in passing Amnesty.

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Yeah, I wistfully hear things like this and know there's barely a snowball's chance in Hades it will ever happen. Sure, they could fix it. Sure, they could pass the SAVE Act. They'll do neither, or it would've already been done. Trump can harangue Thune to Kingdom come. He apparently has no plans to do anything the people want. I detect a problem in all of this...

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

64 Lady in Black

Channel locks? Pliers?
We are problem solvers on this smart military blog.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

65 I'm ok with making that mountain a crater and everything within 100 miles of it irradiated.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (MWfyi)

66 It's Netflix, we won't get a shower scene like on the troopship Rodger Young.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (2GVsD)

67 >>which is possible if the Muslims decided to bring the war here to the point where Heritage Americans are tired of seeing their churches burn down and their infrastructure wrecked.

It's already been happening. Another historic church in Buffalo, NY was torched again just the other day.

Iran has been at war with us for 50 years. They've been killing our citizens and military, infiltrating our schools, helping flood our country with drugs and on and on and on. People are just finally waking up to what has been happening, it didn't just start 15 minutes ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (viF8m)

68 fd

Right. Wasn't thinking there.

*Dope slaps self*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

69 repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition"

Ok, that's funny right there.
Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 07:48 AM (XuXeR)

Someone should ask him when he's gonna step aside in favor of Crockett.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

70 Iran's vast, underground missile and drone manufacturing and storage facilities are going to continue to be a problem. There are a lot of them. Scattered all over the country. It's quite impressive.

Some reports, a couple years ago, suggested Iran had at its disposal 10's of thousands of drones and thousands of ballistic missiles in storage. With more being assembled weekly.

I'd imagine the materials for those, if not domestically available, are running very low. But the stockpile apparently is robust enough to continue hitting local targets in the Gulf area. Longer range stuff, able to hit Israel or further, is apparently nearly depleted.

TL ; DR Iran's running out of shit to fight with. Slowly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (jehhT)

71 I had an ancestor who was an indentured servant. Do I get reparations?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (sMkB+)

72 Daniel Ortega says hello.

Danny is 80 years old. He is Latin America's Bob Mugabe. Soon he will be wheeled away never to be seen again.

Posted by: Managua, Nicaragua at July 23, 2026 07:57 AM (F1rMs)

73 Instead of waldwerks, Iran has hohlewerks?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:59 AM (2GVsD)

74 See what I mean?

>>@JasonMBrodsky
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1h
>>This is a really significant revelation during the trial in Salman Rushdie's case. Basically Hadi Matar had planned the attack on Salman Rushdie, where he was almost stabbed to death including in the eye, with a person based in #Iran.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 07:59 AM (viF8m)

75 Once again, Elon Musk fighting the culture wars for us. His AI version of The Odyssey is at least an attempt to do it right, if not show up Nolan as the technically proficient poseur that he is.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2026 07:59 AM (fZiTB)

76 You can't kill an anthill by taking out individual ants.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:59 AM (MWfyi)

77 You can't kill an anthill by taking out individual ants.
Posted by: fd

Pour gasoline over it & light it.

Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:00 AM (ffLro)

78 Fear not, we're in Good Hands.

That only works if you actually believe.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 08:01 AM (qRla/)

79 The association between the Cuban government and the National Lawyers Guild are being shown. Other indications of Cuban Government screwing with the US political system is coming out. Prepping the battle space?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:01 AM (sMkB+)

80 You can't kill an anthill by taking out individual ants.
Posted by: fd

This is a good solution. I think it can apply to a lot of other places.

https://youtu.be/IGJ2jMZ-gaI

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:01 AM (RjOoY)

81 Thanks to Nothing Will Happen, I can breeze thru my X feed

anytime I see 'SAVE Act' or 'investigate' or 'Congress must (yada yada yada)' I can just blow right past the nonsense and get to the really important stuff

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 08:01 AM (ZxPkt)

82 "Pour gasoline over it & light it."

And poke some holes in it so the gasoline will go deep. Then glass it over so no other ants will come back.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 08:02 AM (MWfyi)

83 fd

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ is your friend. Have at it.

We can get the radiation confined to a small area if we use a deep penetrator bomb to dig a hole first.

A better alternative is to seal all entrances and bomb every ventilation outlet. With conventional explosives.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

84 Specifically, this letter focuses on the climate science section of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (created to help both lawyers and judges understand and manage complex scientific and technical evidence in court cases). It asserts that “The Chapter” was created to sway judges in high-stakes climate lawsuits.

Every week there is a report where data researchers just look at data to compare two sets of facts.
Example: In the 60 years from 1907 to 1966 vs. 1967 to 2026 how many days were over 95 degrees. So you just read the data from 100 (or whatever number is sig.) and then compare the 2.

The second set of data (67 to 26) had 18% FEWER days over 95.
It is not getting warmer.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:03 AM (/+uur)

85 Gen Patton had style
https://tinyurl.com/3p254ke2

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 08:03 AM (ZxPkt)

86 We can get the radiation confined to a small area if we use a deep penetrator bomb to dig a hole first.

A better alternative is to seal all entrances and bomb every ventilation outlet. With conventional explosives.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

Release a balrog into the mine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

87 it didn't just start 15 minutes ago.

But it hasn't risen to the point where Heritage Americans are willing to do what needs to be done.

Instead, they vote them into political office so that their destruction is amplified and sanctified with endless tax dollars and the police powers of the State.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 08:04 AM (9Hs2w)

88 79 The association between the Cuban government and the National Lawyers Guild are being shown. Other indications of Cuban Government screwing with the US political system is coming out. Prepping the battle space?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:01 AM (sMkB+)

Something like 12k college students have traveled to Cuba over the years to learn good communist ways.
Bass out is Cali is one of them.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:04 AM (/+uur)

89 We sometimes say "turn the place to glass" but I would be ok with asphalt.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 08:04 AM (MWfyi)

90 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 62 sunny degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.

It would be a lovely day to enjoy were it not for the fact that I have an awful cold, with a unique addition - every time I try to swallow, my right ear and right side of the neck feel as if someone is stabbing me with a knife. Someone who's had a similar cold says that it's a symptom that's going to hang on for a long time. I'm full of mucus and can barely sleep.

I'm going to try to edit my novel today and see if I can distract myself from the sickness.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 08:05 AM (qRla/)

91 >>The association between the Cuban government and the National Lawyers Guild are being shown. Other indications of Cuban Government screwing with the US political system is coming out. Prepping the battle space?

Not a coincidence that Latin America is throwing off the yoke of communism while we are taking down the source where it emanated from, Venezuela and Cuba and their benefactors in Iran and China.

What is happening all around us everyday are not a bunch of isolated incidents, they are related. The Red/Green alliance of communism and Islam have been at war with us for generations. And largely winning. Not so much anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:05 AM (viF8m)

92 US and Iran are now locked into a dynamic where each side has to escalate. It’s a bit frightening, honestly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 07:37 AM (T2w7I)
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It's an interesting dynamic.

The US has the technological capability to obliterate Iran, but not the will to do so.

If they could, Iran would obliterate the United States, but they lack the technology to make it happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 08:05 AM (FZ29D)

93 Democrats have fielded some really, really odious candidates over the years (most of them, actually), but I'd have to say James Talarico is probably in my top 5. Something about this guy is really repulsive and off-putting. He's a terrible human being.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

94 The assumption is that prisons filled with the poor function as weapons of class suppression, maintained by the entire criminal-justice apparatus, including courts and police.

Middle Class White College Educated are the number 1 killer of minorities.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:07 AM (/+uur)

95 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:07 AM (JvZF+)

96 James Talerico will grow on you, like a cancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 08:07 AM (2GVsD)

97 I watched "The Return" last night, story of Odysseus's return to Ithaca. Slow, but it got to where it wanted to go and was ultimately satisfying. Juliette Binoche was superb as Penelope.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2026 08:07 AM (fZiTB)

98 Ants are a vital part of our environment and we should welcome them into our homes and lives.

Posted by: Not Kill Them at July 23, 2026 08:08 AM (JM9I6)

99 "Fauci no longer faces any realistic risk of criminal exposure for perjury or other past federal offenses covered by the pardon."
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That's a defeatist attitude. I think that going after Fauci is the ideal test case to determine the validity of the Autopen pardons.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:08 AM (cBDov)

100 I used to have a different nic

Rancid Tlaib is power armor that only works if she goes further underground?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

101 > Something like 12k college students have traveled to Cuba over the years to learn good communist ways.
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IIRC the "transgenders for guns" or whatever they called themselves... the weirdos who supposedly trained "military style" and ambushed ICE agents in TX some time ago, nearly killing one or two, had gone to Cuba for "training."

I'd look it up, but too lazy this morning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 08:09 AM (jehhT)

102 >94 The assumption is that prisons filled with the poor function as weapons of class suppression, maintained by the entire criminal-justice apparatus, including courts and police.
....
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Posted by: E. Scrooge at July 23, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

103 >>But it hasn't risen to the point where Heritage Americans are willing to do what needs to be done.

Some of us are. That's why we voted for Trump. Some heritage Americans are on the other side.

It's helpful to step back and look at the big picture of what is going on all around the world instead of focusing like a laser on individual actions.

Iran has tried multiple times to kill Trump. Still trying. China helped rig the 2020 election. Venezuela flooded the US with gangs and drugs. Cuba has been trying to infiltrate our institutions and turn our people against us. And they are all allies. Or were.

What the Trump administration is doing is not random.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:09 AM (viF8m)

104 Ants are a vital part of our environment and we should welcome them into our homes and lives.

Fan of Phase IV? Big Ant got to you? With sugar cubes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 08:09 AM (2GVsD)

105 The CCP also sends many Chinese students whom it vets to steal Americans’ slots at our universities — and ~~sometimes~~ ALWAYS steal our intellectual property at the same time.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur)

106 I watched "The Return" last night, story of Odysseus's return to Ithaca. Slow, but it got to where it wanted to go and was ultimately satisfying. Juliette Binoche was superb as Penelope.

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OA, it is a slow burn. But a very good, atmospheric movie.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

107 If Elon can successfully pull off a remake of the Odyssey, the tears from Hollywood will nourish my soul.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:10 AM (RjOoY)

108 Was last night Bridge and Power Plant Eve?

Posted by: I was busy at July 23, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)

109 "Ants are a vital part of our environment and we should welcome them into our homes and lives."

We'll be right over!

Posted by: A Zanti Misfit at July 23, 2026 08:11 AM (MWfyi)

110 I don't think there is any way to undo a presidential pardon

I could be wrong

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

111 Ants are a vital part of our environment and we should welcome them into our homes and lives.

Fan of Phase IV? Big Ant got to you? With sugar cubes?

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Empire of the Ants! Wait your turn to step into the booth to be sprayed with pheromones by the Queen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

112 "Fauci no longer faces any realistic risk of criminal exposure for perjury or other past federal offenses covered by the pardon."
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That's a defeatist attitude. I think that going after Fauci is the ideal test case to determine the validity of the Autopen pardons.
Posted by: buddhaha
___________

Hold his upcoming senate committee appearance in a deep red area rather than Washington. Let him lie there and be indicted there. He has no immunity for new perjury.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 23, 2026 08:12 AM (XvL8K)

113 Why Hollywood makin' movies 'bout them old Greek homos when we have so many of our own?

Posted by: The Great Poof at July 23, 2026 08:13 AM (JM9I6)

114 The assumption is that prisons filled with the poor function as weapons of class suppression, maintained by the entire criminal-justice apparatus, including courts and police.

There is a lot of justification for that argument. The US has transmogrified from a Rule of Law nation into one of How Much Justice Can You Afford, where the auctioning off of "justice" begins in the law universities and political party machines before it gets to the actual courtroom.

At the rate the US is socially plummeting to meet the third world lawlessness and corruption that has defined all cultures since expulsion from the Garden, justice will become defined by the fiat of regional warlords.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 08:14 AM (nCgQz)

115 There's a podcast?

Posted by: Why Nobody Told Me? at July 23, 2026 08:14 AM (JM9I6)

116 Kent Brockman: I for one welcome our new ant overlords

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:14 AM (sMkB+)

117 The island, which is mostly controlled by Greek Cypriots who comprise the Republic of Cyprus, also has a small portion of the northern part of the island currently controlled by Turkish occupants.
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Why minimize and whitewash the brutal Turkish occupation, displacement, and expulsion of Greek Christians from their homes.

Only some occupations matter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:15 AM (JvZF+)

118 Database 101
First thing you do is set up CRUD
C reate
R read
U pdate
D elete

That is the list of users and the permissions in the data.
NJ knows exactly who allowed the illegals to register.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)

119

"Trump: The U.S. will approve a civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, but only if Riyadh joins the Abraham Accords.

Trump said the deal would allow only non military nuclear energy with no uranium enrichment, adding that the U.S. supports peaceful nuclear programs under those conditions."

so, in another 1000 years ?

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:15 AM (GD0B3)

120 JackStraw

I'd say that Xi's purges of fellow Communists in CCCP government and military, coupled with his new ethnic cleansing policies, will cause a revolt in China. He is helping the US of A, in a funny but predictable way.

If there is no revolt, then his power projection ability is greatly diminished.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

121 Have you seen my new line of scarves? They're so CUTE!

Posted by: Old Lady Birx at July 23, 2026 08:16 AM (2Ez/1)

122 Rancid Tlaib is power armor that only works if she goes further underground?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

She'd aid them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

123 JJ really thinks Trump will not be remembered historically as THE worst president in modern history?

Posted by: Paul at July 23, 2026 08:16 AM (FB/AG)

124 Empire of the Ants! Wait your turn to step into the booth to be sprayed with pheromones by the Queen.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2026 08:12 AM (qBdHI)
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There's a hilarious episode of King of the Hill where Bobby Hill becomes enslaved to a fire ant queen.

"Yes, my queen!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 08:17 AM (FZ29D)

125 At the rate the US is socially plummeting to meet the third world lawlessness and corruption that has defined all cultures since expulsion from the Garden, justice will become defined by the fiat of regional warlords.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 08:14 AM (nCgQz)

You have just described the lawlessness of the Blackrobbed terrorist in local state and district courts.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:17 AM (/+uur)

126 I’m okay with what now appears to be the status quo with Iran. We blockade their ports and bomb whenever and as much as we want. They lash out occasionally with very little impact. We can do this indefinitely… the number of casualties on our side has been essentially the same as military training accidents in non-combat operations. They slowly get ground down….. all the while they’re so preoccupied with survival they have very little energy or resources left to plan and execute terror outside their own borders. It’s not a bad status quo

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 23, 2026 08:17 AM (+gA9j)

127 James Talarico Now Says He Backs Reparations for Slavery: Polls Show He Has a Black Voter Problem After Jasmine Crockett Called Him ‘Racist’

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He hasn't got the black voters so he's decided to also lose the white voters.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:17 AM (ndZc7)

128 San Franpsycho

Been going on since Smyrna in 1922. Turkey is not advancing under it's current leader. It is regressing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

129 JJ has a stalker. JJ should report it to the FBI.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:18 AM (GD0B3)

130 Online stalking is same as any other.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:18 AM (GD0B3)

131 So…. Yesterday gerbils, today ants? We do make our way through the animal kingdom

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 23, 2026 08:19 AM (+gA9j)

132 "The revelations have further tarnished Gates’s reputation, with his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, citing the association with Epstein as a factor in their divorce. The Gates Foundation has since implemented stricter vetting and risk management measures."
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The Nerd never got any until an innocent looking goldigger got her claws into him. Years later, Epstein worms his way (money!) into his life and introduces him to woman who treat him like a hottie (because they've being paid indirectly, or because they're the type that Kissinger described as reacting to power as an aphrodisiac) and he goes batshit. Goldigger sees chance to make bank and divorces him.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:19 AM (cBDov)

133 We do make our way through the animal kingdom

==

Spiders!!

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:19 AM (GD0B3)

134 BIG TARANTULAS !

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:19 AM (GD0B3)

135 How are you all even here?

I'm dead from high has prices due to Trump's war in Iran.

Course, I died last year due to his high price of eggs.

It's like my 6th or 7th death under Trump ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2026 08:20 AM (3cUTc)

136 When you least expect it...

Posted by: Big Penguin at July 23, 2026 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)

137 I see that Paul is very ignorant of American history if he thinks Trump is the worst President in America thus far.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 08:20 AM (lt7On)

138 >>JackStraw

>>I'd say that Xi's purges of fellow Communists in CCCP government and military, coupled with his new ethnic cleansing policies, will cause a revolt in China. He is helping the US of A, in a funny but predictable way.

>>If there is no revolt, then his power projection ability is greatly diminished.

Again, I don't think that is random, Salty. Trump was asked the other day if he plans to do anything about China meddling in our elections. He replied something along the lines that it was old news. And generals got purged.

Meanwhile, he has taken control of 2 of China's major oil and gas stations. Which just so happens to be crushing Cuba at the same time.

To me the most overlooked part of all it was regaining western control over the Panama Canal, arguably a much more strategic waterway than Hormuz.

Strategary.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:21 AM (viF8m)

139 I’m okay with what now appears to be the status quo with Iran.

The MIC might be satisfied with that (probably not), the US must keep conflict going on somewhere around the world so that the paychecks and pensions keep flowing.

Bombing Iran is turning into a nice reliable incoming stream. Sort of like owning rental units.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 08:21 AM (pawvM)

140 @131 hey we ants are smart enough to avoid a gay guys anus. Gerbils not so much

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:21 AM (sMkB+)

141 hahahah!!!

"Gad Saad
@GadSaad
Jul 22
Dear @ZohranKMamdani, thank you for improving the lives of New Yorkers by spending your days either explaining to the Americans that Islam should rule the US, and/or why Israel is an evil entity. The United States failed its citizens when they allowed your family to become Americans. You are as American as a man who sleeps in a stable becoming a horse."

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:23 AM (GD0B3)

142 JackStraw

I agree. Thwarting China has and is at the heart of our actions. And it is going very well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

143 My favorite part of the Odyssey is when the screaming skeletons with their swords chased Odysseus until he had to jump off a cliff into the water to get away from them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2026 08:23 AM (T2w7I)

144 Dutch climate agitators attack future Microsoft data center with acid-filled water balloons

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Sounds dangerous. Maybe they could put acid in their wooden shoes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:23 AM (ndZc7)

145 No one cares what the trolls think, it's the stalking that is disturbing.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:23 AM (GD0B3)

146 Fear not, we're in Good Hands.

That only works if you actually believe.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 08:01 AM (qRla/)

And frequently not even then.

Posted by: He will let you down over and over at July 23, 2026 08:24 AM (TbWk/)

147 Should be mandatory for all U.S. Americans to purchase, stockpile and use our proven products-get yours today!

Posted by: Big Amdro at July 23, 2026 08:24 AM (JM9I6)

148 Dutch climate agitators attack future Microsoft data center with acid-filled water balloons

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Sounds dangerous. Maybe they could put acid in their wooden shoes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:23 AM (ndZc7)
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Why couldn't they wait until it was built?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 08:24 AM (FZ29D)

149 Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:25 AM (/+uur)

150 To me the most overlooked part of all it was regaining western control over the Panama Canal...

Now if Trump can regain western control over the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme and San Diego.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 23, 2026 08:25 AM (pawvM)

151 Something like 12k college students have traveled to Cuba over the years to learn good communist ways.
Bass out is Cali is one of them.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:04 AM (/+uur)
=====

Karen Bass is a member of the Venceremos Brigade. A soldier trained by the Communist party to bring down the United States.

You will soon be hearing more about this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:25 AM (JvZF+)

152 Paul might be a sock designed to agitate.

Posted by: Pawl at July 23, 2026 08:26 AM (MWfyi)

153 The DSA are gathering support because they are offering solutions. Terrible solutions. Solutions based on authoritarianism that have horrific historical precedents.

But the uniparty isn't offering anything. The uniparty seems
inert and ineffectual, offering nothing but warned over versions of the policies that created the situation the communists have seized upon.

And the uniparty leadership is ... well, Mitch McConnell more or less.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 23, 2026 08:26 AM (wD0hb)

154 Dutch climate agitators

My brains read this as Dutch Climate alligators which scares the shit out of me.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:26 AM (/+uur)

155 @142 China is doing a good job of thwarting itself. Between the tofu dreg construction collapses, the plummeting population and the political chaos , the CCP ain't looking too good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:26 AM (sMkB+)

156
The snarky attitude of a failed argument being settled by the irrefutable "Because I said so" has become so ingrained with leftists that it has become it's central talking point.

That, and the tiresome "Trump is a monster" stuff.

I long for lost era of "Government can fix anything" Democrat mendacity.

Posted by: Auspex at July 23, 2026 08:27 AM (Y8DZL)

157 Didn't a past Cafe feature a video of some guy literally blowing up his back yard in an attempt at ant control?

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 08:27 AM (ZxPkt)

158 >>Karen Bass is a member of the Venceremos Brigade. A soldier trained by the Communist party to bring down the United States.

>>You will soon be hearing more about this

You can read more about this right here.

https://tinyurl.com/5ynvedwx

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:27 AM (viF8m)

159 runner

J.J. is over the target, fighting the good fight. If he was not influential against the Left, there would be no trolls.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

160 And after freeing Cuba from communists, on to Canada!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 08:30 AM (wVcYX)

161 It’s not a bad status quo
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 23, 2026 08:17 AM (+gA9j)
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Disagree. "No more endless wars!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:30 AM (JvZF+)

162 I'm the biggest climate agitator of all.

Posted by: The Sun at July 23, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)

163 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

164 Dutch climate agitators

My brains read this as Dutch Climate alligators which scares the shit out of me.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:26 AM (/+uur)

They are pretty tall you know.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (wVcYX)

165 You are as American as a man who sleeps in a stable becoming a horse.

Oof. OK, I may have to throw money at that man and buy his books.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (RjOoY)

166 Use cell phone data and a geo-fence.

SCOTUS ruled that technique unconstitutional.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Posted by: FBI at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (hmYU4)

167 That'll be something when Cuban is a free country and NYC is a commie shithole.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)

168 Shoot to kill orders are the fastest way to stop a riot.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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It doesn't even need to be a riot, just a feisty protest.
Ask China and Iran.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (cBDov)

169 You would think that someone with long-term absolute power like Mao would have that very visible skin tag on his chin removed.

Posted by: Don't Matter Much Now, Though at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (JM9I6)

170 "Disagree. "No more endless wars!""

Disagree. No more endless casualty counts!

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 23, 2026 08:32 AM (SExz7)

171 Has anyone read the Substack pieces by Michael Smith? He's very good. Common sense with some erudition.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2026 08:32 AM (fZiTB)

172 US deployed the B-1 against an IRGC target yesterday. Good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:33 AM (sMkB+)

173 Filming for Netflix's live action Mobile Suit Gundam movie starring Syndey Sweeny has wrapped.

Will this be a good thing?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Ask me after I've seen the ~~girls~~ movie?

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:33 AM (cBDov)

174 Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.

hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:25 AM (/+uur)

"Most enrolled, not most educated"

Posted by: Zombie Kevin Samuels at July 23, 2026 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

175 >>The DSA are gathering support because they are offering solutions. Terrible solutions. Solutions based on authoritarianism that have horrific historical precedents.

Also, their supporters are dumb as posts. Well educated idiots. That's what our schools have been producing for years and it wasn't by chance.

Interesting poll came out the other day that is making the rounds. It show that most DSA supporters are highly educated and downward mobile. Baristas with PhDs. Look at the Columbia riots. We all know the type. And they are bitter and angry that all that learning has made them unemployable in anything other than menial work and they are looking for someone who will make it right.

Enter the Mamdani's of the world preaching revolution to redistribute the wealth to the truly deserving.

Communism 101.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (viF8m)

176 It doesn't even need to be a riot, just a feisty protest.
Ask China and Iran.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (
.....
Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Kent State at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

177 “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”

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I'm dreaming of a white genocide
Just like South Africa used to know
Where the flaming bodies glisten
And the children listen
To hears screams coming from below

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (ndZc7)

178 Hartig then launched into a waffling mini-dissertation of Mickey’s “historical trajectory” to avoid the question before Gill forced her into admitting she believes that the beloved mouse is “rooted in minstrelsy [with] certain obvious racial overtones.”

Next she will want to cut the Dem Bones act out of White Christmas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (/+uur)

179 Disagree. "No more endless wars!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho

War... War never changes.

Somehow, the desire for power is deep in our ur-DNA. But evidence is the human DNA has changed for the better since 40,000 years ago. Except with Islam and the Left.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

180 The Dutch are the tallest people on Earth, but we are the shortest. (Five foot-one).

Posted by: East Timor at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)

181 Use cell phone data and a geo-fence.

SCOTUS ruled that technique unconstitutional.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Posted by: FBI at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (hmYU4)

You're why SCOTUS ruled that technique unconstitutional.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

182 Smell the Glove

Iran just called B-52 on their bingo card.

Looking at the air tanker assets in theater, this will be soon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

183 New Jersey Dems Did Nothing For Years After Warnings About Noncitizens On Voter Rolls

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Did nothing? LYING IS NOT NOTHING!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:36 AM (ndZc7)

184 Posted by: Kent State at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)
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Everyone focuses on "four ded in oh high oh" but forgets the rioting stopped.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:36 AM (JvZF+)

185 Enter the Mamdani's of the world preaching revolution to redistribute the wealth to the truly deserving.

Communism 101.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08

I have seen this poll, and want to know what jobs these people thought they were going to get upon graduating. I think that would be the most interesting part.

Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 08:37 AM (Dd38x)

186 167 That'll be something when Cuban is a free country and NYC is a commie shithole.
Posted by: fd

50% accomplished.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:37 AM (RjOoY)

187 Archie Bunker was in a "Menstrual Show" at his lodge when Gloria went into labor. He showed up at the hospital in blackface/getup.

Posted by: Songs That Made The Hit Parade at July 23, 2026 08:37 AM (JM9I6)

188 >>Disagree. "No more endless wars!"

Israel has been in a constant state or war since the day it was founded.

No more losing.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:37 AM (viF8m)

189 Indeed, it’s perhaps the most influential arm of the Democratic Party today
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Our purported "side" lies with such ease.

Is this our side? Are they fair and balanced? They are liars spreading propaganda.

The people who want you to believe the DSA is "influential" - without the blessing of the Establishment who reigns over our media and intelligence and many aspects of existing government at all levels - are selling you are story. Buy it at your peril.

The Democrat Establishment is about to entrance a lot of people, it seems. "Democrat MAGA" here we come. And all out of nowhere, and the Party gives up nothing in return except for some old farts they don't give a fuck about anyway. The Party is not its people, it's the ideology. Always was.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 08:37 AM (Nhyh3)

190 Extinction Rebellion claimed data centers play "a role in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians."

That's a new one. Now explain why I should care.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:38 AM (RjOoY)

191 “It’s like the Senate is a place where you send things when you want them to die.”

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Then explain Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:38 AM (ndZc7)

192 And that said, there are rumblings in the air that the long imprisned Caribbean Island gulag of CUBA might before long breathe free for the first time in over 66 years. About the only people who would not be celebrating would be our fellow citizens in name only — the cadres and leadership of the Democrat/Left.

I suspect the Canadians that go there for underage sex tourism would not be happy about it

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:39 AM (sKqQm)

193 Next she will want to cut the Dem Bones act out of White Christmas.

I must have missed that. Or do you mean the "Mandy" sequence?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 08:39 AM (qRla/)

194 You can always go with fire hoses.

Posted by: Birmingham sheriff Bull Connor at July 23, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

195 I suspect the Canadians that go there for underage sex tourism would not be happy about it
Posted by: 18-1

I'm sure there are at least one or two African nations that will step up.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:40 AM (RjOoY)

196 I used to have a different nic

Geo-fencing is a warrantless search. Wht the SCOTUS ruled the way it did.

So find a judge that will issue a warrant, tightly focused on the protesters. All legal.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

197 The Dutch are the tallest people on Earth, but we are the shortest. (Five foot-one).
Posted by: East Timor at July 23, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)

Our women have the biggest . . . well, let's just say that a certain Mr. Sir Mix-A-Lot would be very appreciative.

Posted by: Khoekhoe Tribe (Don't Call Us Hottentots!) at July 23, 2026 08:41 AM (wVcYX)

198 191 “It’s like the Senate is a place where you send things when you want them to die.”

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Then explain Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Whippersnapper.

Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at July 23, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

199 I guess most people who are reportedly terrified of communism are unaware that its precursor is socialism. At some point you just throw up your arms at this mess.

They aren't thinking about it that deeply. It is more like "Should workers have more rights? Yes of course"

Now did they actual read what the "rights" were? Probably not. And did they think about the implications of those "rights"? Not at all

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)

200 Back during the Bolshevik takeover a woman named Fanny Kaplan put two bullets into Lenin because she felt he was deviating from "real communism" and developing a cult of personality.
I wouldn't be surprised in the near future to see someone try to do the same to Mamdani for the same reason

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:42 AM (sMkB+)

201 I'm sure there are at least one or two African nations that will step up.

Cuba is closer and whiter I think that will be a big problem for African nations that want to step up to serve our Canadian betters.

Before Cuba got seriously into the business they went to Southeast Asia.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)

202 Archie Bunker was in a "Menstrual Show" at his lodge when Gloria went into labor. He showed up at the hospital in blackface/getup.
Posted by: Songs That Made The Hit Parade at July 23, 2026 08:37 AM (JM9I6)

That's nothing.

Posted by: Ricky Ricardo at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (wVcYX)

203 >>I have seen this poll, and want to know what jobs these people thought they were going to get upon graduating. I think that would be the most interesting part.

The Bill Ayers types, who were early participants in the Cuban influence campaign, have infested our universities for decades. They focus largely on the struggle against the imperial forces that have enslaved people who go to Ivy League schools when they aren't summering in the Hamptons.

The key, of course, is to redistribute the wealth from the rich to those who truly deserve it, the workers. Because only people in menial jobs work. Story kind of ends there.

Remember when AOC famously said Elon was stupid and didn't deserve his money cause he didn't earn it? They believe the hardest working guy on the planet doesn't really work. That's what they are taught.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (viF8m)

204 You can read more about this right here.

https://tinyurl.com/5ynvedwx
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:27 AM (viF8m)

Jack, do you actually believe anyone on this board will actually take time out of their busy day of commenting, to read this report? I already downloaded it as a PDF file and will sit down over coffee in a while to read it. Too many conservatives I know just will not take the time to actually read. How many here actually read the links that JJ has gone through the trouble of gathering and posting. Show of hands. I have been emailing many of JJ's links to fellow conservatives (around 26 of them), and only two or three actually respond and comment. Meanwhile, the left eats, drinks and sleeps politics. 24/7. Our side is too busy doing, well, something. I have finally stopped sharing with other conservatives. Over the years I have given them links to AOS, and other conservative sites, going back to my Facebook days in 2012 or so. I would post a link to a story, and less than a minute later, someone would comment. They read the headline. That's it. The left i at war. Our side is at the mall.

Posted by: FBI at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (hmYU4)

205 @198 get your thumb out of my ass Strom

Posted by: The Ghost of Diane Feinstein at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (sMkB+)

206 Smell the Glove

Well remembered.
The #1 killer of Communists is other Communists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

207 Americans haven't been growing as much as Euros because we imported so many short Latin Americans.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (sKqQm)

208 Unfortunately for the right, the rise of socialism on the left will create a very low bar for the Republicans to win elections and the Republican Party will thoroughly probe how wretched they can be and still command a majority. Iron sharpens iron, but the Ds and Rs are both chinesium.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (2ap+5)

209 Off sock

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (sMkB+)

210 You can always go with fire hoses.
Posted by: Birmingham sheriff Bull Connor at July 23, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

One me.

Posted by: Walker, Texas Ranger at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (wVcYX)

211 I must have missed that. Or do you mean the "Mandy" sequence?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 08:39 AM (qRla/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loMMpJEABI

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (/+uur)

212 I have seen this poll, and want to know what jobs these people thought they were going to get upon graduating. I think that would be the most interesting part.

Back in my college days I remember I was talking with a classmate that was about to graduate. I asked what her major was, Women's Studies and then, 100% innocently...oh what kind of job do you get with that degree? and got to watch one of the first cases I had personally seen of someone REEEEEing.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)

213 - He will let you down over and over

Maybe look at it through the lense of He's trying to teach you something.
Some of us, and I include myself, are slow learners.
YaVonne DeCarlo (sp? ) asked Charleton Heston a very pertinent question in The Ten Commandments...

Can a man judge God?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2026 08:46 AM (dAv7M)

214 One or two generations have gone through our education ringer and have been taught that Socialism/Communism is the way of the world. These people are unemployable by normal standards. They can't work without "being stressed out" for more than a couple hours. No attention span. Zero motivation. No skills other than agitating others to bend to their phobias.

And that education has taught them they are "owed" something for their troubles.

We're either going to nip this shit in the bud, now, or be dealing with it for decades to come.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 08:46 AM (jehhT)

215 Back during the Bolshevik takeover a woman named Fanny Kaplan put two bullets into Lenin because she felt he was deviating from "real communism" and developing a cult of personality.
I wouldn't be surprised in the near future to see someone try to do the same to Mamdani for the same reason
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Mayor Jihadi is a goatfucker, not a commie.
Huge difference.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:47 AM (ffLro)

216 The association between the Cuban government and the National Lawyers Guild are being shown. Other indications of Cuban Government screwing with the US political system is coming out. Prepping the battle space?
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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This is no surprise. The National.lawyers guild has been a Commie front since its inception in the 30s.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:47 AM (cBDov)

217 Socialists promise people that they'll get goods and services even if they don't work.

The right should response to that by banning government cash transfers and share the savings with taxpayers but...the GOP hasn't been interested in that in decades.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

218 > Something like 12k college students have traveled to Cuba over the years to learn good communist ways.
---------

that number is vastly low - the venceremos brigades were active even back in the 60s, 6 or 800 every year if I remember right.
big competition to get into them, too ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2026 08:47 AM (VyBeY)

219 >>Our side is at the mall.

Our side is winning.

I don't expect anyone to be as interested in some of this stuff as I am. I was raised with it and I find it fascinating.

If a couple people read the stuff and pass it on, great. If not, it never hurts to try.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:48 AM (viF8m)

220 FBI

The Morning report and comments here are the executive summary of the executive summary.

We know, without a deep dive into the weeds, what is going on.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

221 Back in my college days I remember I was talking with a classmate that was about to graduate. I asked what her major was, Women's Studies and then, 100% innocently...oh what kind of job do you get with that degree? and got to watch one of the first cases I had personally seen of someone REEEEEing.
Posted by: 18-1

Like a glitching computer trying to reset.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:48 AM (ffLro)

222 Something like 12k college students have traveled to Cuba over the years to learn good communist ways.

And bang children, but mostly...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

223 Jack, do you actually believe anyone on this board will actually take time out of their busy day of commenting, to read this report?
=====

*raises hand*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM (JvZF+)

224 748 and thru da links

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM (/+uur)

225 And this man writes on God letting him down repeatedly , and he's still a believer:

https://tinyurl.com/2vdh53av

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM (lt7On)

226 Remember when AOC famously said Elon was stupid and didn't deserve his money cause he didn't earn it? They believe the hardest working guy on the planet doesn't really work. That's what they are taught.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:43 AM (viF8m)

AOC does pure provocation. Like Obama but somehow distilled into something more self assured and annoying.

Don't assume that she believes anything she says. But believe that she will say anything.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM (Nhyh3)

227 Back during the Bolshevik takeover a woman named Fanny Kaplan put two bullets into Lenin because she felt he was deviating from "real communism" and developing a cult of personality.
I wouldn't be surprised in the near future to see someone try to do the same to Mamdani for the same reason
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Mayor Jihadi is a goatfucker, not a commie.
Huge difference.
Posted by: rickb223

Oh, one other thing. Goatfuckers will eat commies alive.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:50 AM (ffLro)

228 The Morning report and comments here are the executive summary of the executive summary.

We know, without a deep dive into the weeds, what is going on.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

I've been promoted to Senior Executive at last?!??!!?
Woo!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Your Kraut Mick Commentater at July 23, 2026 08:50 AM (wVcYX)

229 So, will our new overlords be Big Penguin, Big Corvid, Big Gerbil, or Big Ant?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

230 Jack, do you actually believe anyone on this board will actually take time out of their busy day of commenting, to read this report?
=====

*raises hand*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM (JvZF+)

#me too

Posted by: FBI at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (hmYU4)

231 The highly educated poor economic performers are socialist/communist losers because 1) they are jealous of how others actually have discipline to achieve success and 2) they are shameful that they are too lazy to put their credentials to use and thus want to bring everyone down to their level of failure.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (rii+a)

232 The right should response to that by banning government cash transfers and share the savings with taxpayers but...the GOP hasn't been interested in that in decades.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

I would bet 6 out of 10 (R) in the house and senate actually believe that EBT, Welfare, Sect 8 etc actually works.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (/+uur)

233 Off FBI sock. Now I need to take a shower.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 23, 2026 08:52 AM (hmYU4)

234 Back in my college days I remember I was talking with a classmate that was about to graduate. I asked what her major was, Women's Studies and then, 100% innocently...oh what kind of job do you get with that degree? and got to watch one of the first cases I had personally seen of someone REEEEEing.
Posted by: 18-1

Did you then "console" her? Details, man!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Your Kraut Mick Commentater at July 23, 2026 08:52 AM (wVcYX)

235 The highly educated poor economic performers are socialist/communist losers because 1) they are jealous of how others actually have discipline to achieve success and 2) they are shameful that they are too lazy to put their credentials to use and thus want to bring everyone down to their level of failure.

==

the DEI class

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:52 AM (GD0B3)

236 2) they are shameful that they are too lazy to put their credentials to use and thus want to bring everyone down to their level of failure.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (rii+a)

3) they live in the world of facebook, tik tok, X and the like. They believe these are real world experiences.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

237 Unfortunately for the right, the rise of socialism on the left will create a very low bar for the Republicans to win elections and the Republican Party will thoroughly probe how wretched they can be and still command a majority. Iron sharpens iron, but the Ds and Rs are both chinesium.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (2ap+5)

Without Trump around, it's far more likely the Republicans will be rolled by a totally fake "movement" suddenly sweeping the nation that more than half our side will believe was organic and somehow unstoppable because "young people".

And most elected Republicans still want to be rolled. They find it far easier to lose and complain and collect scraps from the big boy table than to command the big boy table.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 08:54 AM (Nhyh3)

238 Did you then "console" her? Details, man!

While feminists weren't quite the hot messes then that they are now she was not my type and if it wasn't obvious she wasn't happy with me for asking the question.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:54 AM (sKqQm)

239 229 So, will our new overlords be Big Penguin, Big Corvid, Big Gerbil, or Big Ant?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

I am more worried about Short-Spine Big Racoon.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)

240 Did you then "console" her? Details, man!

Rule 1.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

241 234 If she looked like most women’s studies majors, he probably passed on “consoling” her.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

242 oh what kind of job do you get with that degree? and got to watch one of the first cases I had personally seen of someone REEEEEing.
Posted by: 18-1

High school guidance counselors should force students to answer what they are going to study, how they are going to pay for it and how they are going to make money with it.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:55 AM (RjOoY)

243 I think that the parents failed "the highly educated poor performers ", they are the ones who indulged and paid for useless degrees, they are the ones that saw their precious slide down the commie latrine, and were too busy, or too scared to confront them on it.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 08:55 AM (GD0B3)

244 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 08:56 AM (2YhKe)

245 Today Is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day. 🍦

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

246 The core part of economics that gets lost in all of this is in a capitalist system you get paid for what value you generate for someone else. Take the plumber example again - you want a new toilet/sink/whatever, the plumber gives it to you and you give him money for doing so.

But the Women Studies PHD? I mean why would I pay someone to insult me?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

247
Mayor Jihadi is a goatfucker, not a commie.
Huge difference.
Posted by: rickb223

Oh, one other thing. Goatfuckers will eat commies alive.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 08:50 AM (ffLro)

Goatfuckers are commies on steroids.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)

248 >>But the Women Studies PHD? I mean why would I pay someone to insult me?

ace calls me a drug addict.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:58 AM (viF8m)

249 High school guidance counselors should force students to answer what they are going to study, how they are going to pay for it and how they are going to make money with it.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 08:55 AM (RjOoY)

My youngest child wanted to be an architect. Their guidance counselors were behind them 100%. I asked them to look into how long they'd have to attend school, what it would cost, and what they could reasonably expect to earn.

They're a civil engineer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

250 Today Is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day. 🍦
Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

How generic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

251
ace calls me a drug addict.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 08:58 AM (viF8m)

It's the smell of weed with every post.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

252 I have been an avid pupil of women’s studies since I was 13.

I even got a few of them to study me back.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

253 I’m okay with what now appears to be the status quo with Iran.

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Just change the name to the Iran Ordinance Proving Ground.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 08:59 AM (ndZc7)

254 High school guidance counselors"

There's a dream job, amirite?

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 09:00 AM (cGjQu)

255 Rush said he was a big fan of the women's movement.
Especially from behind.

Posted by: I miss Rush at July 23, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

256 @227 true but the commies think Mamdani is a commie and they're murderous and stupid so they could shoot.
The best commie v muzzie interaction was when the Shah fell the commies were happy. Then Khomeini killed about 30k of them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 09:00 AM (sMkB+)

257 ace calls me a drug addict.

Well, aren't we all addicted to something?

Posted by: Robert Palmer and his dancing girls at July 23, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

258 Mayor Jihadi is a goatfucker, not a commie.
Huge difference.
Posted by: rickb223

He's two, two, two mints in one.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 23, 2026 09:02 AM (fZiTB)

259 Point of Order: Ordnance, not Ordinance.

Posted by: Pedantic word nerd at July 23, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

260 Commi ideology worked in Europe, because the premise is that the ruling class got their wealth on the backs of the poor and now they have to give it back to the proletariat. and if you look at various empires that were around the turn of lats century they had a point - I mean , look at any royal house still around in Europe today. WTF do they do for a living ? Prance around in pretty clothes ? Now, we the USA do not have such problems, so Commies and Jihadis are artificially trying to create them, they pick on the billionaires, trying to spread around myths that they did not Earn the money. Barack Hussein, himself raised by commies, said as much. We must expose these lies!

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)

261 I had to use pinball "english" to steer daughter #2 away from an expensive vanity degree at Baylor. She still stumbled, but did right herself and successfully graduated on time with an employable degree from Texas Tech.

Which school we both laughed about during high school senior college night because it was 500 miles away in the panhandle desert.

Yeah, tell God your plans . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 09:02 AM (wVcYX)

262 225 And this man writes on God letting him down repeatedly , and he's still a believer:

https://tinyurl.com/2vdh53av
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 08:49 AM

I am being a Nosy Rosy here as this wasn’t my conversation, but I always wonder when people say God has let them down of it isn’t a case of God sending a message. We have a saying in the south - God shut that door, but you keep looking for a window.

Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 09:03 AM (hftzA)

263 That poll with 26% wanting to abolish prisons. Yes it’s “only” 26% but that’s one in four…. If that’s accurate it’s millions upon millions of voters. I hope that poll is for a stripper because a society with that many stupid people cannot do well
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 23, 2026 07:38 AM (+gA9j)
******
And these are also the highly motivated people that are going to come out and vote.
Pretty frightening.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2026 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

264 Hasan Piker is an Islamist. He's lately taken to giving speeches wearing a Mao suit and praising Mao as a great leader.

There has been a Red/Green alliance for years because while they might have their differences they have a common enemy. Hezbollah has been all over Venezuela for years helping run gangs and drugs into the US.

China, Venezuela and Cuba are communist countries. Yet they have all been allies with Iran. Enemy of my enemy. And we are the enemy.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 09:04 AM (viF8m)

265 Did you then "console" her? Details, man!

Rule 1.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Rule 34. Someone will.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 09:04 AM (ffLro)

266 Commies in the US are constantly trying to create a new grievance class, with BLM, with islamonazis, with Trans.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 09:04 AM (GD0B3)

267 The highly educated poor economic performers are socialist/communist losers because 1) they are jealous of how others actually have discipline to achieve success and 2) they are shameful that they are too lazy to put their credentials to use and thus want to bring everyone down to their level of failure.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway

On the other hand, they are fun to point and laugh at.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 09:05 AM (ndZc7)

268 You can have fun with the abolish prisons type by asking them what they would do, or want the government to do, if Jeffrey Dahmer moved nextdoor to them.

Note: There answer is almost always put him in a facility this is a prison in all but name.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

269 I posted this commentary yesterday, but it's still relevant today;

Many young adults entering the workplace today are mostly unprepared. They have been taught nothing about keeping a schedule, showing initiative, personal responsibility and so on.

We have several local industries. Manufacturing and agriculture mostly. Medical stuff too. And there's at least a couple big names like Ford and UPS. However the social media feeds are chock full of people bitching about having to keep a schedule, do tasks they didn't think they'd have to do and so on. Many hate to "take orders" from someone else.

They quit after a week or two. And then bitch about not being able to find another job that suits their lifestyle. So they pander online. Ask for handouts.

There's a lot of them. Not one is capable of working a normal job without having some sort of accommodation made for one or more of their phobias or insecurities.

Socialism was taught to them from 1st grade as the solution to all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (jehhT)

270 262 Piper, y’all ripped that off from The Sound of Music.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

271 Commi ideology worked in Europe, because the premise is that the ruling class got their wealth on the backs of the poor and now they have to give it back to the proletariat. and if you look at various empires that were around the turn of lats century they had a point - I mean , look at any royal house still around in Europe today. WTF do they do for a living ? Prance around in pretty clothes ? Now, we the USA do not have such problems, so Commies and Jihadis are artificially trying to create them, they pick on the billionaires, trying to spread around myths that they did not Earn the money. Barack Hussein, himself raised by commies, said as much. We must expose these lies!
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)

But I gave my entire life to preserving Downton Abbey and the peoples of the village.

Posted by: Earl of Grantham at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (wVcYX)

272 ace calls me a drug addict.
Posted by: JackStraw

Take pride in your accomplishments like me.

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High!! at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (JM9I6)

273 OK.

So, two thirds of people agree that the Communists pose a threat.

The threat from Communism isn't a threat to do a bad job with public art. It's a threat of death and slavery.

So what, pray tell, is to be done?

I'd say it's time to quit dicking around, and physically remove the Communists.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (+6XxY)

274 Ask God to use you for His will and it's hard to be let down but I will be honest I have felt let down many times by God. I am human. Even Jesus asked why God had forsaken Him.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (Nhyh3)

275 It's the smell of weed with every post."

Duude. That's oregano...

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 09:07 AM (cGjQu)

276 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loMMpJEABI
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 23, 2026 08:44 AM (/+uur)

I should have known. I just consider that the "Mandy" sequence.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 09:07 AM (qRla/)

277 I mean why would I pay someone to insult me?
Posted by: 18-1

There are special clubs out there for that.

heir guidance counselors were behind them 100%. I asked them to look into how long they'd have to attend school, what it would cost, and what they could reasonably expect to earn.

They're a civil engineer.

Good on you for guiding the podling down a better path. But this should be A Thing with guidance counselors. "Follow your dream. Unless it's retarded and you'll be six figures in debt."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 09:07 AM (RjOoY)

278 So, will our new overlords be Big Penguin, Big Corvid, Big Gerbil, or Big Ant?
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

I thought our overlord was Big Ewok.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 09:08 AM (qRla/)

279 @143 My favorite part of the Odyssey is when the screaming skeletons with their swords chased Odysseus

Looks like you don't hate the madea enough.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 23, 2026 09:08 AM (zdLoL)

280 So they pander online"

Don't confuse that with reality. There are plenty, doing good work

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 09:08 AM (cGjQu)

281 So, two thirds of people agree that the Communists pose a threat.
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Unless I missed a deeper poll dive (shut up) I thought the number was 4 in 10. But I was told there would be no math.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:08 AM (Nhyh3)

282 Martini Farmer

Farm raised kids are one of the most desired Kansas export.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)

283 Point of Order: Ordnance, not Ordinance.
Posted by: Pedantic word nerd

You blow up who (whom?) you want and I'll blow up whom I want.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 09:09 AM (ndZc7)

284 That Nate Silver analysis has been a bit misleading in pointing to highly educated low-earners.

The numbers show the highly educated are majority leftist no matter their income.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 09:09 AM (JvZF+)

285 Looks like you don't hate the madea enough."

*golf clap

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 09:09 AM (cGjQu)

286 In the last two days a state convict burned to death in his cell in a prison about 40m from me and another one was beaten to death by another convict further upstate. Things have way of working out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 09:09 AM (sMkB+)

287 So, two thirds of people agree that the Communists pose a threat.

The threat from Communism isn't a threat to do a bad job with public art. It's a threat of death and slavery.

So what, pray tell, is to be done?

I'd say it's time to quit dicking around, and physically remove the Communists.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

When that switch flips to ON, we'll be stacking bodies like cordwood.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 23, 2026 09:10 AM (ffLro)

288 I mean why would I pay someone to insult me?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2026 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

Young Padawan... so sheltered, so innocent...

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:10 AM (Nhyh3)

289 I had to use pinball "english" to steer daughter #2 away from an expensive vanity degree at Baylor. She still stumbled, but did right herself and successfully graduated on time with an employable degree from Texas Tech.

GUNS UP!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 09:10 AM (2YhKe)

290
"Who's a bad member of The Patriarchy!"

{thwack thwack thwack}

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 09:10 AM (Nhyh3)

291 The numbers show that those who spend their entire lives in "education "...

Fify

Posted by: man at July 23, 2026 09:10 AM (cGjQu)

292 Big Bacteria is #1 with a bullet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 09:10 AM (sMkB+)

293 81 Thanks to Nothing Will Happen, I can breeze thru my X feed

anytime I see 'SAVE Act' or 'investigate' or 'Congress must (yada yada yada)' I can just blow right past the nonsense and get to the really important stuff

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The key is to mute those words (and several select others). Also, winnow out the slop repost accounts (which are legion) X can be almost enjoyable!

Posted by: That Guy at July 23, 2026 09:11 AM (UbG4V)

294 Hasan Piker is an Islamist. He's lately taken to giving speeches wearing a Mao suit and praising Mao as a great leader.

He has a 64 IQ and proves it with every public speech he makes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 09:11 AM (2YhKe)

295 At The Atlantic: "Is the Age of Reading Over?"

Too long, didn't read.

Posted by: gp at July 23, 2026 09:12 AM (Jr5Lq)

296 I can't concentrate on editing. I'm going back to bed.

It's no fun having a summer cold.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 09:12 AM (qRla/)

297 They're a civil engineer.

Maybe they could engineer you up some English pronouns.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 23, 2026 09:12 AM (zdLoL)

298 "The Texas Democrat Senate nominee says Texas continues to suffer from ‘reverberations of slavery’"

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The other day, Obama said we're still in the reconstruction era.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

299 Oil is $100 again. Just as things were calming down and gas was falling and Republicans were gaining ground, Trump restarted his pointless war. Thank you for the gift Mr President. He could have waited a few months to get past November. But he can’t help himself. And for that we are forever grateful.

Posted by: Democrats at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (QLSKc)

300 Foxnews says it’s over you guys. Democrats are wining it all in November.

Their poll is of about 1,000 registered voters with an oversampling of 18-29 year olds. I don’t see the R D I breakdown.

They conclude:
Trump sucks
The economy sucks
Congress sucks
Too much crime
People want change

The only thing republicans lead on is immigration.

Democrats can do all those things better. lol

Oh, and Democrats are way more enthusiastic to vote than Republicans.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (q1tXs)

301 I get all the online jihadis mixed up , is Hassan Piker Chunky Yogurt's nephew ? Or is it some other iislamo- fascist?

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (GD0B3)

302 So what, pray tell, is to be done?

I'd say it's time to quit dicking around, and physically remove the Communists.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (+6XxY)
====

Finally someone appreciates my work.

Posted by: Gen. Augusto Pinochet Hero and Savior of Chilean Democracy at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (JvZF+)

303 It has been my experience that black Texans don’t like liberals such as Talarico due to racism remarks from the likes of Crockett. They don’t like liberal beliefs!

Posted by: AnnaS at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (9U6Wl)

304 >>He has a 64 IQ and proves it with every public speech he makes.

He's also a very rich, trust fund baby. He's central casting for today's leftist "thought leader".

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (viF8m)

305 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Prayers for health ascending.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)

306 is Hassan Piker Chunky Yogurt's nephew ?
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Yes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 09:14 AM (JvZF+)

307 I can't concentrate on editing. I'm going back to bed.

It's no fun having a summer cold.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 23, 2026 09:12 AM (qRla/)

Get well soon. Had one of those back in June that lasted 3 miserable weeks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2026 09:14 AM (wVcYX)

308 Get well, soon, MP4. May you dream about unwrapping buxom Edwardian lovelies.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

309 Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 09:03 AM (hftzA

I think that's what the writer of the article was getting at.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 09:16 AM (xPsv8)

310 "2028 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES By Emerson (A)

🔵 Buttigieg: 19% (+1)
🔵 Newsom: 17% (+1)
🔵 Ossoff: 13% (new)
🔵 AOC: 13% (+3)
🔵 Harris: 8% (-2)
🔵 Beshear: 7%
🔵 Shapiro: 5%
🔵 Pritzker: 3%
🔵 Khanna: 2%
——
🔴 Vance: 39% (+3)
🔴 Rubio: 38% (+3)
🔴 DeSantis: 5%
🔴 Trump Jr: 5%"

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 09:16 AM (GD0B3)

311 Kill Haole Day refers to an alleged tradition of bullying or violence targeting white people in Hawaiian schools on the last day of school.

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2026 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

312 He's also a very rich, trust fund baby. He's central casting for today's leftist "thought leader".
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 09:13 AM (viF8m)

He's Chunk Yuweeger's nephew or whatever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 23, 2026 09:16 AM (2YhKe)

313 *I don't know how Trump Jr. got in there, name recognition and online presence, probably.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2026 09:16 AM (GD0B3)

314 Economy sucks.

>>@Badhombre

>>JUST IN: Weekly unemployment claims tumble to 50-year low. The lowest since 1969.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 09:17 AM (viF8m)

315 314 Economy sucks.

>>@Badhombre

>>JUST IN: Weekly unemployment claims tumble to 50-year low. The lowest since 1969.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 09:17 AM (viF8m

So let's just hand it over to the Dems.... They'll "fix" it.... Morn' all

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2026 09:18 AM (0JyZG)

316 Good morning!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2026 09:19 AM (X8xt3)

317 "286 In the last two days a state convict burned to death in his cell in a prison about 40m from me...
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2026 09:09 AM"

There's a prison cell 40 meters from you?

Posted by: Pedantic abbreviation nerd at July 23, 2026 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

318 Maybe they could engineer you up some English pronouns.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 23, 2026 09:12 AM (zdLoL)

I'm sure they could, they're pretty smart, but since I choose to avoid giving away unnecessary information about them, I'll stick to the gender neutral terms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

319 - Something wormed its way into our education system well before the leftist indoctrination stuff that gave the leftism a handhold to grab onto.
Over time, people who think they're too intelligent to have been indoctrinated won't even bother to even look at evidence that goes against what they were taught.
I bought it too when in high school. So many churches saying 'The Bible tells us who. Science tells us how.'

So many discoveries over the last 60+ years...
And #The Science ignores them or hand waves them away.

Links that won't get looked at? I put two in the tech thread.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2026 09:19 AM (dAv7M)

320 Secret Service Official Sounds Alarm: "Threat Environment Highest Ever" As Assassination Attempts Explode

The briefing came ahead of Friday's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Waldorf Astoria

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2026 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

321 270 262 Piper, y’all ripped that off from The Sound of Music.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

I don’t remember that, but sayings typically come from somewhere!

Posted by: Piper at July 23, 2026 09:19 AM (hftzA)

322 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Chicago Mayor Johnson suggests they will be giving REPARATIONS to areas with ICE raids

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2026 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

323 And this is a related article on God's sovereignty- on "two choices" I though it was very well written: From Christian Pist website

https://tinyurl.com/3ns9w3fn

Have to go now to take the furriy. purry ( kitten) to the vet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 09:20 AM (rHgXV)

324 Initial Jobless Claims Collapse To Lowest Since 1969

...and continuous jobless claims tumbled too...

... coming just after a claim that non-working people is higher than during the COVID apocalypse

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

325 "In the last two days a state convict burned to death in his cell"

It took two whole days? Like a great big incense cone.

Posted by: gp at July 23, 2026 09:21 AM (Jr5Lq)

326 All the retired 29 year olds here have no idea how fucked up the job market is right now. It’s damn near impossible to find a job right now. For recent grads it’s apocalyptic.

That’s what matters to people, not some government statistic.

Posted by: Real World Calling at July 23, 2026 09:23 AM (fsQeR)

327 zerohedge:

To The Woke Woodshed: Burnham Is Funding UK Populism By Liquidating The Progressive Project

The Manchester playbook...

Andy Burnham has been UK Prime Minister for three days, and he has already settled into a routine: announce something cheap for households in the morning, pay for it by killing a progressive unicorn.

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2026 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

328 38 US and Iran are now locked into a dynamic where each side has to escalate. It’s a bit frightening, honestly.

Good. Hopefully the US will have the will to evaporate Iran and all it stands for and once the radioactive dust settles whoever move in can clean the place up.
Posted by: Make War, Not Love at July 23, 2026 07:45 AM (F1rMs)
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Neutron bombs for the win; they don't destroy the infrastructure - just kill the living things.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 23, 2026 09:24 AM (JNTt1)

329 The economy sucks

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Didja see this?

Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 23, 2026 09:24 AM (ndZc7)

330 “My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.”. . .

What’s really going on here is most likely that Mamdani is simply not as interested in the affairs of New York City as he is in Israel and Gaza. As a Marxist Twelver Shi’ite, he holds to two ideologies that want to see Israel destroyed, as a colonial oppressor and as an insult to Islam. That issue interests him much more than questions of the safety of New Yorkers, or the cleanliness of New York streets, or whatever else may be on his desk at the moment.

Exactly

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)

331 Wildberries - Russia's Amazon - Has Seen Four Major Hubs Attacked In Quick Succession

Massive warehouse fires in southern Russia

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

332 While the collapse of the Soviet Union and the profound economic and political changes in
China largely rendered the Soviet model of communism extinct, the Cuban Marxist project not
only survived, but thrived. The institutional power of Leninism, Stalinism, and even Maoism – at
least in their original orthodox forms – has been severely diminished. But Castro’s ideological
project now enjoys something approaching ideological hegemony in leftist circles both within
and beyond the West. By the turn of the twenty-first century, Havana had solidified its place as
the ideological capital of the modern radical left.
=====

Fascinating.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 09:24 AM (JvZF+)

333 Chicago Mayor Johnson suggests they will be giving REPARATIONS to areas with ICE raids
Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2026 09:20 AM (NpAcC)
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I want reparations from Chicago voters for them having elected that POS, and giving him a major platform for his ridiculous ramblings.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 23, 2026 09:24 AM (4mhlg)

334 It doesn't even need to be a riot, just a feisty protest.
Ask China and Iran.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 08:31 AM (
.....
Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Kent State
----
Nah.
Anti-war protests continued after the shooting because it was swiftly obvious that it wasn't policy.
Tiananmen Square and the protesters murders in Iran ARE policy, which is why no protests.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 09:25 AM (cBDov)

335 zerohedge:

What Is The UK Government So Afraid Of?

UK Government goes to court to block migrant crime-rates from public view...

.. if you can't fix it, hide it

Posted by: Tyler Durden at July 23, 2026 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

336 Don’t jobless claims fall when people stop looking for work?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2026 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

337 >>Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming

Why is it still on tv?
Best budget for that show is $0.00.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)

338 I guess I wasn't paying attention but Andy Burnham is the UK Prime Minister. When did that happen?

Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2026 09:26 AM (Oy/m2)

339 Gay Cruise Debacle Proves Liberals Are Deluded About Alliance With Muslims

Muslims have learned to feign support for progressive ideology to gain entry into the west, but in Islamic countries, lefty lifestyles are not welcome.

... what it's like to be PWN3D

Posted by: Tyler Durden at July 23, 2026 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

340 San Franpsycho

Communists are too busy stealing from workers to do basic maintenance. Cuba's continued power failures are an excellent example of this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)

341 Bulgaria Draws Iranian Warning Over Hosting US Military Tanker Aircraft

Parliament approves hosting KC-135 tanker aircraft & 250 military personnel.

Posted by: Tyler Durden at July 23, 2026 09:27 AM (RHGPo)

342 >>Don’t jobless claims fall when people stop looking for work?

There are more Americans employed in the workforce than at any time in history.

The economy is doing fine.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2026 09:27 AM (viF8m)

343 Vietnam has not been fomenting communist revolutions abroad and their economy is roaring.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 09:28 AM (JvZF+)

344 MSNOW's Molly Jong Fast: Trump is trying to use non-citizens voting in New Jersey "to prove a point that doesn't exist."

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at July 23, 2026 09:28 AM (RHGPo)

345 >>UK Government goes to court to block migrant crime-rates from public view...

Every Western government has done this.
Seem to recall the Netherlands started doing this years ago.

Here, they love to categorize a lot of them as "white."

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2026 09:28 AM (X8xt3)

Daily Tech News 23 July 2026

Top Story

Across the social sciences, half of research doesn't replicate. (Science)

And only 34% of it is confirmed by multiple reviewers.

But it gets worse.

In political science and economics replicability rises to more than 60%.

For education, the number is... Zero.

Tech News

Apple is launching a new deal with Klarna where you can rent an iPad. (ComputerWorld)

You'll own nothing and we really don't care whether you like it.
Code in the iOS 27 beta suggests that Apple will be able to switch your rented iPad off remotely if you don't pay your bill. (9to5Mac)

Because of course.
Samsung's new Z Fold 8 is here. (CNet)

You can get a pretty decent phone for the price of a high-end gaming PC.
The Linux kernel team just published 432 security issues in two days. (The Register)

Asdfghjkl.
The Hisense A10 is an e-ink phone with a detachable LCD screen. (Liliputing)

It clips onto the back of the phone with magnets.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: So, class, what have we learned from this? "Absolutely nothing!"

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Sleeeeep

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:31 AM (rdVOm)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:31 AM (faghi)

3 !!

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 04:31 AM (1QT7n)

4 >>>Across the social sciences

specified in the article as "business, economics, education, political science, psychology, and sociology"

Called Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE), the effort investigated more than 100 papers published in dozens of leading journals in business, economics, education, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:35 AM (faghi)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Damn. Still over 80F out. Guess the a/c doesn't rest tonight.

Can't wait to see the next electric bill.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:36 AM (rdVOm)

7 more than 100 papers

further specified in the article as "164 papers"

The replication success rate—49% for the 164 papers evaluated

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:37 AM (faghi)

8 Sleeeeep

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:31 AM (rdVOm)

My brain: You're not the boss of me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2026 04:37 AM (dK+Kv)

9 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 23, 2026 04:40 AM (+J/Au)

10
social science

the scientific study of human society and social relationships.
• a subject within the field of social science, such as economics or politics.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:44 AM (faghi)

11 Rejoinder: 2+2=bananas

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 04:44 AM (1QT7n)

12 For education, the number is... Zero.

Letting Teachers' Unions decide seems to lower outcomes in schools. That at least has been replicated at many thousands of schools...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 04:46 AM (l3cgK)

13 Little Eva - Loco-Motion

"a little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul"

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

14 Disclaimer: So, class, what have we learned from this? "Absolutely nothing!"

Public School, Uh! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!

Posted by: Edwin Starr at July 23, 2026 04:48 AM (l3cgK)

15 Tje sad part is I pass the donut shop long before its open
Haveca great day horde

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

16 13 Little Eva - Loco-Motion

"a little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul"

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

I'm sorry for your hash...LOL.

Posted by: Edwin Starr at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (l3cgK)

17 I remember reading, back in the '90s, that college guides refused to rank schools of education. The field is utterly lacking in academic rigor, so there is no objective basis for comparison except as private clubs, judging them by their social cachet and exclusivity.

That is what has always made DOCTOR Jill Biden's pride so hilarious to me: she has an *Ed.D.* Not an MD, not a JD, not even a Ph.D. A doctor of education. Oooh, you attended and turned in assignments! Gold star for the precious chil'!

Bonus hilarity: Tim Walz failed to even clear that low bar. He ended up settling for a M.Ed.

Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (Sy6m/)

18 off sock.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (l3cgK)

19 16 13 Little Eva - Loco-Motion

"a little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul"

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

I'm sorry for your hash...LOL.
Posted by: Edwin Starr at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (l3cgK)

Thank you for feeling my pain.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:51 AM (faghi)

20 I've mentioned toying with the Goldbach Conjecture here. Once you embrace what it takes for mathematical proof, even hard science claims mostly look weak.

On Instapundit there was a link about:
life on smaller celestial bodies being unlikely.

So, what was proven exactly? I'm a moron, so I didn't bother to read the article, and certainly I made no effort to find the underlying publication, and absolutely under no circumstances would I have made any effort to read the actual paper, and I'd be more likely to ride a comet than verify the results, but on plain reading, prima facia I'd say:

life possible

which you knew when you fed the cat.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 04:53 AM (kK7U2)

21 17 DOCTOR Jill Biden's pride
Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (Sy6m/)

It's not pride. It's overcompensation.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:54 AM (faghi)

22 17 I remember reading, back in the '90s, that college guides refused to rank schools of education. The field is utterly lacking in academic rigor, so there is no objective basis for comparison except as private clubs, judging them by their social cachet and exclusivity.

That is what has always made DOCTOR Jill Biden's pride so hilarious to me: she has an *Ed.D.* Not an MD, not a JD, not even a Ph.D. A doctor of education. Oooh, you attended and turned in assignments! Gold star for the precious chil'!

Bonus hilarity: Tim Walz failed to even clear that low bar. He ended up settling for a M.Ed.

Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 04:49 AM (Sy6m/)

I might be tempted to get an Ed. D, just be be called Mr. Ed.D...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:03 AM (l3cgK)

23 G'morning, all!

Already 76 degrees out. This run of hot and humid days can stop any time now. Spending the afternoon in the house avoiding the heat is not exactly fun.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2026 05:03 AM (iMotb)

24 With fingerprint or facial recognition on you systems, you own nothing. Keep all of your personal information and data on a thumb drive.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 05:06 AM (sYM3s)

25 Edwin Starr (imdb) 1942-2003

Born Charles Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee, Starr formed his first group, the Future Tones, in 1957, recording one single before his three-year army service. ... Edwin Starr was a veteran of the Vietnam War. ... His biggest success came with "War," a No. 1 hit in 1970 during a time of growing anti-Vietnam War protests.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:06 AM (faghi)

26 23 G'morning, all!

Already 76 degrees out. This run of hot and humid days can stop any time now. Spending the afternoon in the house avoiding the heat is not exactly fun.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2026 05:03 AM (iMotb)

it dropped to a humid 67ºF here in Sandy Eggo...highs have been around 90ºF the last few days...Summer's finally here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:07 AM (l3cgK)

27 26 Sandy Eggo
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:07 AM (l3cgK)

heh

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:07 AM (faghi)

28 24 With fingerprint or facial recognition on you systems, you own nothing. Keep all of your personal information and data on a thumb drive.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 05:06 AM (sYM3s)

Using paper...I'm a Luddite.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:08 AM (l3cgK)

29 27 26 Sandy Eggo
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:07 AM (l3cgK)

heh

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:07 AM (faghi)

We're the home of the Pod Rays Baseball team.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:09 AM (l3cgK)

30
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 23, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

31 "highs have been around 90ºF the last few days..."

We have been nibbling at 100 degrees almost daily for around 10 days now.

Heat index of 113 and above have been the norm during that time.

So either walk in the early morning with 99% humidity and lower temperatures, or mid morning when the temps climb but the RH drops down.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2026 05:10 AM (iMotb)

32 29 We're the home of the Pod Rays Baseball team.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:09 AM (l3cgK)

; )

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:11 AM (faghi)

33 On the plus side, July 19th is the historical hottest day of the year here, and we now begin the very slow cool down heading toward autumn.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2026 05:12 AM (iMotb)

34 >>>Using paper...I'm a Luddite.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>If you search my computer you will find two things; recipes and boobies.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 05:14 AM (sYM3s)

35 Across the social sciences, half of research doesn’t replicate
Ambitious effort tested whether more than 100 papers held up on multiple types of “repeatability” tests
(April 1, 2026)

... Called Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) ...

Very late in that article, we get:

(SCORE was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initially to study automated techniques to help inform the U.S. military’s use of social-science research, which is extensive.)

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:15 AM (faghi)

36 Called Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)

SCORE was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
****

DARPA: screwing things up since 1958...

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 05:22 AM (1QT7n)

37 I just convert my monthly household budget and financial records into epic poetry and sing it from memory to my accountant in april.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:24 AM (Ot/FD)

38 Morning horde,

I’m shocked to discover that most academic research is unsubstantiated and not replicable BS.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 23, 2026 05:26 AM (CEq3K)

39 Evening and morning to the late toilers and early risers. Thor's Day again, innit?

It's 80 here; I didn't wanna look, but I did, and heat index is 89 (I've seen it be 105 at 5 am before, so this is good); no rain, some wind. Some people lost power during the highest winds yesterday, but I was fortunate, and we had very little rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 05:26 AM (wzUl9)

40 Some research is done with a confidence level that gives odds of 19/20 that the signal detected is real. Not imagine a world where there are thousands and thousands of such research papers, each with a 1/20 chance the signal isn't real...

Social "Sciences" probably don't even meet this meager metric.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:29 AM (l3cgK)

41 Maybe it’s a function of me only paying attention every four to five years when I buy a new one, but does it seem that there is suddenly a burst of new features and capabilities in the cellular world?

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 23, 2026 05:29 AM (CEq3K)

42 >If you search my computer you will find two things; recipes and boobies.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 05:14 AM (sYM3s)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE "D CUPS" IS ALSO HEXADECIMAL FOR THIRTEEN CUPS

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at July 23, 2026 05:30 AM (Ot/FD)

43 Yesterday I mailed the long-thought-mythical pension payoff check to my IRA guy; $6.37 for tracking and delivery confirmation. With any luck he will have it by Monday. A stunningly limp climax to a saga which has ranged in space from Albuquerque to New Hampshire and Lousy-ana, and in time from 1978 (when I started with that company) to the last eight months.

I also picked up a couple of new books and DVDs at the library, so there was that too.

Whassup withchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)

44 38 I’m shocked to discover that most academic research is unsubstantiated and not replicable BS.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 23, 2026 05:26 AM (CEq3K)

Smelling salts to Pete Bog, stat!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:35 AM (faghi)

45 Wikipedia
Hard and soft science

Hard science and soft science are colloquial terms used to compare scientific fields on the basis of perceived methodological rigor, exactitude, and objectivity.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:40 AM (faghi)

46 China has the lead in innovation in the cell phone market.

Posted by: pawn at July 23, 2026 05:41 AM (MNjaf)

47 Wikipedia
Hard and soft science

In general, the formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science by their practitioners, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described by them as soft science.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:41 AM (faghi)

48 68° here and no rain expected. Great weekend for the carnival. By the time pony penning is over, beach traffic and temps starts to decline. I can’t wait to shut off the A/C.

Posted by: Accomack at July 23, 2026 05:43 AM (/Chlc)

49 46 China has the lead in innovation in the cell phone market.

Posted by: pawn at July 23, 2026 05:41 AM (MNjaf)

And also innovation in spyware on phones and spyware in electronics on phones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:43 AM (l3cgK)

50 In general, the formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science by their practitioners, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described by them as soft science.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:41 AM (faghi)

Written by an astrophysicist, no doubt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2026 05:44 AM (dK+Kv)

51 42 >If you search my computer you will find two things; recipes and boobies.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 05:14 AM (sYM3s)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE "D CUPS" IS ALSO HEXADECIMAL FOR THIRTEEN CUPS

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at July 23, 2026 05:30 AM (Ot/FD)

there are also A, B, C, E, and F...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:44 AM (l3cgK)

52 Smelling salts to Pete Bog, stat!
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:35 AM (faghi)

Thank you.

if you cannot count on higher education to be a bastion of integrity, I am afraid next I will discover that government doesn’t work in the best interest of those it serves.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 23, 2026 05:44 AM (CEq3K)

53 50 In general, the formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science by their practitioners, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described by them as soft science.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:41 AM (faghi)

Written by an astrophysicist, no doubt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2026 05:44 AM (dK+Kv)

What's the difference between and astrologist and an astronomer? Lots and Lots of math...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:45 AM (l3cgK)

54 52 Smelling salts to Pete Bog, stat!
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:35 AM (faghi)

Thank you.

if you cannot count on higher education to be a bastion of integrity, I am afraid next I will discover that government doesn’t work in the best interest of those it serves.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 23, 2026 05:44 AM (CEq3K)

Since Gov't serves itself, it DOES work for the best interest of those it serves...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 05:46 AM (l3cgK)

55 Huh. Phil McKnight makes a good point about the 'real' danger of fake AI videos, speaking in the context of guitar gear demo & reviews. He goes on a couple of tangents, but ends with how the AI fakes copy not only the look but also the business model of existing channels, which is to sell their own instructional material that they made.

So, if someone fails to detect the AI and buys guitar instruction from Max Headroom, not only might it be stolen and/or AI slop, but he's giving his credit card info to a shady operator. Out of all the problems, that is indeed much more serious than wasting your time, filling your head with bunk, or even cheating a real creator.

Know Your Gear - The Real AI Problem In Guitar
https://youtu.be/p4bqSNRHRBA

Context: Phil is a former guitar shop owner/operator, who is known for doing deep dives into guitars with precise measurements and detailed examination, such as a "sock test" rubbing nylons up and down the side of the neck to see if the fret ends cause runs. He also shows how to use various tools to set up a guitar, intonate it, do fret dressing, and so on. And, drawing on his industry experience on the business side, he does interviews and tours.

Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 05:46 AM (Sy6m/)

56 …and this is why I want nothing g to do with an education “degree”, ever, or any sort.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 05:48 AM (4g5V+)

57 Mornin glories. Listening to AM radio for the first time in a while. They are doing a very good job on both the war and the midterms.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 05:49 AM (abScH)

58 DARPA: screwing things up since 1958...

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 05:22 AM (1QT7n)

Really?

Posted by: SR-71 at July 23, 2026 05:52 AM (4g5V+)

59 Today or tomorrow I need to call the IRS to ask about the status of my tax refund for 2025. I got a letter in late May saying I'd miscalculated by quite a bit, and I've been looking for the check. (Originally I had not given them my bank info. Thinking my refund was small, I indicated on the 1040 to apply the money to my 2026 taxes. An early May letter indicated that if they did not hear from me, I would get a check in 4-6 weeks. It's been 8.)

I dread getting on the phone with them. But they say they have a call-back feature, so I could call about 2 pm and be home out of the heat anyway to wait for the return call.

If they've applied this big refund to my 2026 taxes, that'll be okay too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

60 Very nice old hymn written in the 1800's by an Anglican priest with a great love for music , "The King of love my shepherd is":

https://tinyurl.com/3m5e4t9n

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 05:53 AM (xSAlF)

61 Wikipedia
Hard and soft science

In the 1980s, mathematician Serge Lang successfully blocked influential political scientist Samuel P. Huntington's admission to the US National Academy of Sciences, describing Huntington's use of mathematics to quantify the relationship between factors such as "social frustration" (Lang asked Huntington if he possessed a "social-frustration meter") as "pseudoscience."

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 05:54 AM (faghi)

62 It’s Thor’s Day. It was Wotan’s Day.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 05:54 AM (4g5V+)

63 How's Millard ("M'Lord") the kitten, Fen?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

64 Whassup withchoo?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)

Sent you two emails yesterday. The first one is moot, but I'd appreciate your input on the second one.

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 23, 2026 05:56 AM (PHkdC)

65 Greetings and good morning, one and all. The weather is getting a bit nicer over here and it's almost the end of the work week. Which is great because I was being treated like a pinata yesterday (But without the candy).

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 05:57 AM (RjOoY)

66 Thanks for asking, Wolfus. He is getting bigger . We will have had him two weeks today. We need to take him for a follow up visit at the vet since he had been a little wheezy and the vet gave us a prescription, but he's better . I can't believe how much he's grown in such a short time!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 05:58 AM (xSAlF)

67 Right now Millard is chasing his tail!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 05:59 AM (xSAlF)

68 58 DARPA: screwing things up since 1958...

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 05:22 AM (1QT7n)

Really?
Posted by: SR-71
****

Blind squirrel, acorns....

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 06:01 AM (1QT7n)

69 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 23, 2026 06:07 AM (Hbeqj)

70 @63/Wolfus: Kittens at 3 am are like storms at sea. *CRASH* "That sounded expensive..."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

71 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

He actually managed to stay asleep till 4:00 today!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 06:12 AM (rHgXV)

72 @71/FenelonSpoke: Poor little guy must have tuckered himself out at 2 am. ;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2026 06:13 AM (O7YUW)

73 Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 05:57 AM (RjOoY)

I am sorry you felt like you were being treated like a piñata at work. I hope today and tomorrow are better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 06:13 AM (rHgXV)

74 olddog, how's the pontooning?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2026 06:13 AM (abScH)

75 >>>If they've applied this big refund to my 2026 taxes, that'll be okay too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>Dude. I told the IRS to fuck off. I earned the money once and they took it. I worked for it a second time filing for a refund. The third time they wanted me to re-earn my money is when they weren't satisfied with my direct deposit and wanted me to set up an account and password and drivers license, and facial recognition and a selfie. I said fuck it, you can keep the money , I don't need to re-earn it three times.

Finally they sent me a live check. These people are scumbags.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 06:15 AM (sYM3s)

76 Sunshine has turned to moonlight
Blindness has taken sight
Folly requires no cause
Just as cats have claws
My bed patiently waits
For the judgement of the Fates

fin

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 06:18 AM (1QT7n)

77 68 58 DARPA: screwing things up since 1958...

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 05:22 AM (1QT7n)

Really?
Posted by: SR-71
****

Blind squirrel, acorns....
Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 06:01 AM (1QT7n)

If you say so.

Posted by: Have Blue at July 23, 2026 06:19 AM (4g5V+)

78 Been good, Ben Had. Not too many good weeks left. They'll start lowering lake levels soon switching from summer to winter pool. Wish they'd wait until after Labor Day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 23, 2026 06:20 AM (Hbeqj)

79 I though Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations was good though.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 06:20 AM (4g5V+)

80 Good night all! Like Little Eva's "Loco-motion" or the California High-Speed Rail project, this is also not about a real, literal, physical train. Recorded live at the Berkeley Community Theater with the San Francisco Symphony, April 1999:

Metallica - No Leaf Clover (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/Sh5S3OxiE-s

"Then it comes to be that the soothing light
At the end of your tunnel
Was just a freight train coming your way, yeah"

Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 06:22 AM (Sy6m/)

81 80 Like Little Eva's "Loco-motion" or the California High-Speed Rail project, this is also not about a real, literal, physical train.
Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 06:22 AM (Sy6m/)

Ha! Skillfully crafted.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:27 AM (faghi)

82 Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 06:18 AM

Very nice! Our kitten has claws, I had to tell him "no bites, no scratches!" I think he's getting the idea because he is wild with his toys and blankets but good with us!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 23, 2026 06:34 AM (G7WXk)

83 @75/Rev. Wishbone: Because you not getting paid would screw up their internal accounting.

Some IRS line-worker was ordered by management to "get that line-item off my report, already!" So they cut you a check. (Uncashed checks are probably another department's problem.)

There's a life-lesson to all of us here...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2026 06:36 AM (O7YUW)

84
heh
in the sidebar:

Top Headlines
I got something done yesterday and am exhausted.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky
[CBD]

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:36 AM (faghi)

85 I hope today and tomorrow are better.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thank you. We were pushing updates on our systems and things were going badly. It's peaceful now and I have my coffee.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 23, 2026 06:36 AM (RjOoY)

86 .
.
"For education, the number is... Zero."
.
So ...
.
... trans women ...
.
... are NOT women ...
.
... they are men?
.

Posted by: Marooned at July 23, 2026 06:37 AM (kt8QE)

87 further specified in the article as "164 papers"

The replication success rate—49% for the 164 papers evaluated
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:37 AM (faghi)
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Considering the academic output every year, 164 papers is a sample size so small as to be worthless, especially when it's spread out over six different disciplines.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 06:38 AM (FZ29D)

88 87 further specified in the article as "164 papers"

The replication success rate—49% for the 164 papers evaluated
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:37 AM (faghi)
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Considering the academic output every year, 164 papers is a sample size so small as to be worthless, especially when it's spread out over six different disciplines.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 06:38 AM (FZ29D)

Agreed! Publish or perish! And I'd question the basis of the 164 papers' selection from "dozens of leading journals in business, economics, education, political science, psychology, and sociology."

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:45 AM (faghi)

89 G'mornin' everyone!

46 degrees, kind of hazy but no smoke, I think.

gotta water the garden. wish it would rain ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2026 06:49 AM (VyBeY)

90 Even the regular science isn't replicating. The push to publish is too high in academia. There is no pressure to get anything RIGHT. All they care about is that you write papers and that your papers are cited by other scientists.

There are circles of scientists who are writing garbage papers and citing each other to push up numbers and it is terrible.

Posted by: doug at July 23, 2026 06:53 AM (cbCQf)

91 88 87 further specified in the article as "164 papers"

The replication success rate—49% for the 164 papers evaluated
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:37 AM (faghi)
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Considering the academic output every year, 164 papers is a sample size so small as to be worthless, especially when it's spread out over six different disciplines.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2026 06:38 AM (FZ29D)

Agreed! Publish or perish! And I'd question the basis of the 164 papers' selection from "dozens of leading journals in business, economics, education, political science, psychology, and sociology."
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:45 AM (faghi)

Also:

A sweeping project involving hundreds of researchers in several dozen countries

Hundreds of researchers?
Several dozen countries?

I expect "involving" is something like "answering a survey."

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:54 AM (faghi)

92 long ago, when I last cared about academia, the big plague (aside from Academic Chinesium) was double dipping. Groups would send the exact same paper out to four or five different pubs and swap the author list around a bit. Weee, look at our stats. Gib munnie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 06:57 AM (Ot/FD)

93 90 Even the regular science isn't replicating. The push to publish is too high in academia. There is no pressure to get anything RIGHT. All they care about is that you write papers and that your papers are cited by other scientists.

There are circles of scientists who are writing garbage papers and citing each other to push up numbers and it is terrible.
Posted by: doug at July 23, 2026 06:53 AM (cbCQf)

And the funding is drying up.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:57 AM (faghi)

94 I have to admit to some degree of satisfaction. watching the Smithsonian lady being gutted, using the Smithsonian's own words at these hearings.

Our two month long site seeing of the various Smithsonian exhibits back several years ago left us with a firm feeling that as persons-of-pallor, the Smithsonian really hated us. Everywhere we went was the same incessant drumbeat of 'whites are bad'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2026 06:59 AM (iMotb)

95 - astro-physics
A "hard science" because it uses math.

Do you remember when the "scientific concensus" was so excited because the JWST was going to show us galaxies in their earliest stages of formation?
And then --- Huh, galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought.

There was a guy who called it correctly.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475

Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2026 07:00 AM (dAv7M)

96

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 23, 2026 07:00 AM (sUMTS)

97 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 23, 2026 07:02 AM (2Ez/1)

98 @90/doug: "There are circles of scientists who are writing garbage papers and citing each other to push up numbers and it is terrible."

Essentially a "The Science"* circle-jerk.

{*} as opposed to actual science.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2026 07:03 AM (O7YUW)

99 Well this is cheery

21 Jul, NY Port Authority Police reported a MANPAD threat near Terminal C of LaGuardia. Which meant ATC was warning airliners of the threat.

Luckily the reports of a rocket launcher turned out to be false.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2026 07:06 AM (2GVsD)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 07:06 AM (faghi)

101 - And then...

Now I don't know how this works but evidently the FLRW (big bang) metric somehow states that galaxies will appear to get smaller out to a certain distance ( red shift 1.6? ) and then appear larger and larger the further away they are.

So, using publicly available data from the JWST this same guy did a study that showed they just appear smaller and smaller the further away they are.
Response from they/them? Galaxies themselves are getting smaller and smaller the further away they are.

https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352

You will never see anything from this guy in "Actual Science and Technology."

Posted by: TeeJ at July 23, 2026 07:10 AM (dAv7M)

102 91 88 87

Also:

A sweeping project involving hundreds of researchers in several dozen countries

Hundreds of researchers?
Several dozen countries?

I expect "involving" is something like "answering a survey."
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:54 AM (faghi)

I coulda put that better.

"A sweeping project involving hundreds of researchers in several dozen countries"

I expect "involving hundreds of researchers" is something like "in which questionnaires were sent to hundreds of researchers."

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 07:11 AM (faghi)

103 94 I have to admit to some degree of satisfaction. watching the Smithsonian lady being gutted, using the Smithsonian's own words at these hearings.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 23, 2026 06:59 AM (iMotb)

"I know nuthink!"

--the Smithsonian lady

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 07:14 AM (faghi)

104 mornin yall. I don't know why Europe is complaining, it's only 47 degrees there.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:14 AM (MWfyi)

105 Food availability is determined by the market and our poor are obese. Education is controlled by the government and our poor are ignorant.

Yes, Virginia, there is a very high replication percentage.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 23, 2026 07:19 AM (zqeQL)

106 What kind of brooms were they using to do all that sweeping?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 23, 2026 07:20 AM (2Ez/1)

107 Starship launch today.

Posted by: Don Black at July 23, 2026 07:21 AM (ZxPkt)

108 Top Story
Across the social sciences, half of research doesn't replicate. (Science)

It's a good pick, Pixy!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 07:21 AM (faghi)

109 99, I was wondering why I saw "manpad" peaking in search stats the other day ... thx for "the rest of the story"!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 23, 2026 07:21 AM (VyBeY)

110 Rev. Wishbone: Because you not getting paid would screw up their internal accounting.

Some IRS line-worker was ordered by management to "get that line-item off my report, already!" So they cut you a check. (Uncashed checks are probably another department's problem.)

There's a life-lesson to all of us here...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 23, 2026

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Yeah, I suppose eventually they'll send me the check. I would just like to know when.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 07:22 AM (wzUl9)

111 Medical science is scary. Docs use those studies to determine cause and effects of various drugs and combos.
I don't trust them, either.

Posted by: MkY at July 23, 2026 07:22 AM (q6tQZ)

112 "Manpad" = "bachelor apartment"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 23, 2026 07:23 AM (wzUl9)

113 "Manpad" = "bachelor apartment"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere"

A sanitary napkin for guys.

Posted by: fd at July 23, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

114 "Manpad" = an absorbent product worn by the tranny in the Maine US Senate race to catch "female" bodily excretions.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 07:25 AM (faghi)

115 Nood. J.J. Runway 270.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 23, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

116 >>37 I just convert my monthly household budget and financial records into epic poetry and sing it from memory to my accountant in april.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 23, 2026 05:24 AM (Ot/FD)

Comment of the Week candidate. Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: Hopeless Suckup at July 23, 2026 07:27 AM (NcvvS)

117
I expect "involving" is something like "answering a survey."
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 06:54 AM (faghi)

*runs in breathlessly*

Didja hear that millions of US scientists are planning to leave the country??

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2026 07:27 AM (O0L8i)

118 Morning'

It was 102 yesterday, but we do any yard work early.
I constructed the new compost pile, in the bin's current location (because the tree guys are still not here and I need it to re-do the beds).

Turning in my entry for the Quilt Show and going to my volunteer job. They finally put the new air conditioning system in- it's an enormous metal contraption hanging from the ceiling. Right over my work station.

I need AOP to come down and assure me it won't fall on my head.

Have a good one, all!

Posted by: sal at July 23, 2026 07:33 AM (f+FmA)

119 Little Eva - Loco-Motion

"a little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul"
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

Still have my 45. Along with over 200 plus from that period of my life.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 23, 2026 07:56 AM (hmYU4)

120 Font Shock: What Printers Need to Know About New Licensing Notices

Monotype, now owned by private equity firm HGGC, appears to be leveraging its massive library and legacy agreements to restructure font licensing across the board, aligning it with its current business model. In doing so, they are not only auditing websites and digital properties for font usage but also scrutinizing long-term licenses for renegotiation or revocation.
https://glga.info/

I thought the “font wars” ended with the OpenType initiative

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2026 08:33 AM (k2fRF)

Wednesday Night ONT - July 22, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde! So pleased you have joined the fun. Always great to "see" so many in this little corner of the interweb. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Orange Crush. Sorry. Free refills otherwise!

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are discouraged due to the heat. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're here for an argument, please go through the second door on the right and then close the door behind you. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

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I know what you're thinking.

"Subaru cars are not only for hippies, lesbians and people living in Vermont. They also can be tons of fun, they have an epic performance track record, and have great racing history. The flat four and six cylinder boxer engines are legendary. Everyone may not know! Can you imagine? Wouldn't it be great to see some Subie content on the ONT?"

Yes. Yes it would. Buckle up.

Travis Pastrana takes on Mt. Washington with a slightly modified all wheel drive WRX:

That takes a combination of balls and bravery.

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ONT Department of Photography Skills

Probably works for family photos as well.

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Subaru takes on the 24 Hours of Nurburgring with a WRX modified for racing - this onboard lap is excellent:

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ONT Legal Blotter

Alaska wants to seize a pilot's plane over a 6-pack of beer. The Supreme Court will hear his case

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review an Alaska bush pilot's claims that state authorities have tried to illegally seize his $95,000 airplane after a passenger brought a six-pack of beer on a flight bound for a dry village.
The pilot, Kenneth Jouppi, sued to block his plane's seizure after he was convicted of an alcohol-related misdemeanor charge. The Alaska Supreme Court ruled in the state's favor that Jouppi's plane was subject to criminal forfeiture laws.

In April 2012, Jouppi was preparing to fly a passenger from Fairbanks to a remote village, Beaver, where alcohol was banned. The passenger had packed beer with other groceries in her luggage. State Police troopers searched Jouppi's plane before it departed and spotted a six-pack of Budweiser in a shopping bag.
Jouppi, his company and the passenger were charged with a misdemeanor offense of knowingly transporting an alcoholic beverage into a dry community. The passenger pleaded guilty. A jury convicted Jouppi and the company after a trial. A judge sentenced him to three days in jail.

There are dry villages in Alaska??

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I know what you're thinking. "What about the mighty four wheel drive Subaru BRAT from the late 1970s and early 1980s?" (Otherwise known as the Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter). It was built specifically to avoid the "Chicken Tax" - a 25% U.S. tariff on imported light trucks. Ronaldus Magnus had one. What would it look like in modern form? Maybe something like this:

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Is it safe to eat lettuce in Mexican food form again?

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Everything you need to know about rally racing:

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Horde Shopping Guide

Anyone looking to buy an X-15 engine (technically a Thiokol XLR99 Rocket Engine)? Up for auction at Heritage Auctions, July 23 and 24.

How about a hammer used on Apollo 12 moonwalks?

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Did you know that, in addition to its automotive division, Subaru has a sizable aviation and aerospace division with three business pillars: defense, commercial, and helicopter?

Primary Current Products

SUBARU BELL 412EPX (Bell helicopter but Subaru has been a manufacturing partner for many years and builds helicopters in Japan under license)
UH-2 utility helicopter (same)
T-5 and T-7 trainers (via Fuji Heavy Industries)
Flying Forward Reconnaissance System
The Center Wing Section of Boeing 787 (Boeing relationship dates back to 1973)
The Center Wing Section of Boeing 777 & 777X

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Mandatory Maiden

Pre-Bruce Maiden in 1980:

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

MrSubaru1387 runs a YouTube channel focused exclusively on do it yourself servicing and repairs for Subaru vehicles. His videos show diagnostics, repair, and servicing diagnostics with step-by-step tutorials. He even shows tools to make the jobs easier. Somehow, he manages to upload new videos weekly. He's been at it for over 12 years.

EJ1387 (or simply 1387) is a reference to the EJ25 engine family, particularly in the context of the 2.5L SOHC engines found in many 1990s-2000s Subarus. EJ1387 comes from a casting code on the engine block.

You might be asking yourself how many people really pay attention to some random YouTube channel about DIY Subaru projects. He has over 520k subscribers and videos routinely attract several hundred thousand views. Here's an example that you might watch if you were considering buying a used Forester:

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Highlights from the Pittsburgh police scanner are on pause this week (mostly because none of the entries involve Subarus). Pretty sure that means double the chaos next week though.

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Beastie Boys for the big ONT finish (what else could it be?)

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Does the Subaru logo of six stars both reference the original merger of six companies that formed Subaru and the Pleiades constellation? Glad you asked!

Correspondence relating to Subaru or other topics can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly filed. Are you lurking ???? The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 “It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
― Mark Twain

Posted by: mindful webworker - in a mad mood at July 22, 2026 10:00 PM (M5tgA)

2 Always Late

www.youtube.com/watch?v=66AUanN_hQc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 10:00 PM (pMmVV)

3 not first

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 22, 2026 10:01 PM (B2pWp)

4 now for the content

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 22, 2026 10:01 PM (B2pWp)

5 Yo Dino! Howdy Horde.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 22, 2026 10:02 PM (6lIrI)

6 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

7 Yay🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 22, 2026 10:03 PM (ok2JK)

8 I see we're still on Dunk On Subaru Week.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:04 PM (h906C)

9 5 Yo Dino! Howdy Horde.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 22, 2026 10:02 PM
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Yo MKC!

Posted by: TRex - all wheel drive dino at July 22, 2026 10:04 PM (XfIK1)

10 I read it! And still in the top 10

Posted by: LASue at July 22, 2026 10:04 PM (lCppi)

11 Barely!

Posted by: LASue at July 22, 2026 10:04 PM (lCppi)

12 7 Yay🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 22, 2026 10:03 PM
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Howdy COMM!

Posted by: TRex - bratty dino at July 22, 2026 10:05 PM (XfIK1)

13 How about a hammer used on Apollo 12 moonwalks?

How much?

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at July 22, 2026 10:05 PM (h906C)

14 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2026 10:05 PM (w3u3d)

15 A listenable old hidden click, with amusing video I'd never seen. That was the icing.

Posted by: mindful webworker - a big slice at July 22, 2026 10:06 PM (M5tgA)

16 Sorry I'm late, Inwas try___ tonight the millinery to embroider "Make America Great Again" on my sombrero.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 22, 2026 10:06 PM (PMi3m)

17
🎵How much for that hammer from Apollo?

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 10:06 PM (ZxPkt)

18 Thanks for the ONT Dino

I'm not a fan of subaru. I had a 2010 outback. Thing was a fucking lemon. Plus whenever you start a subaru it sounds like there are marbles in the engine. I have good luck with Toyota so I'm probably not straying again.

Posted by: 496 at July 22, 2026 10:07 PM (MAwnQ)

19 Stuck the dismount!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 22, 2026 10:07 PM (RWFuC)

20 Um, not the hidden click. The shenananagams link.

Posted by: mindful webworker - whoops whoopsie at July 22, 2026 10:07 PM (M5tgA)

21 Try the ski lift.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 10:07 PM (oq9dX)

22 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (+9wcF)

23 A guy I used to work with, drove a Brat. On his last day with us, I stuffed his cab with paper. Heh. You know, the backing paper from peel-off labels-- I fluffed it all out & *filled* the car.

He was miffed, but it's his own fault. Shouldn't-a left the doors unlocked!

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (rdVOm)

24 So . . . we're giving up the Philly humor and getting Subarus? Thanks?

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

25 Ford drives Subaru!

Posted by: Susan Ford at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (JM9I6)

26 There are dry villages in Alaska??

If you've ever met a drunk Eskimo you'd understand.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (h906C)

27
*tosses top hat, cane and cape to lackey*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 10:09 PM (O0L8i)

28 Supposably sun guy Apollo rode a chariot across the sky

don't know if a hammer was part of his kit

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 10:09 PM (ZxPkt)

29 "The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Orange Crush. Sorry."
But here is Grape Nehi, right?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 22, 2026 10:09 PM (PMi3m)

30 I got my ratchet fruit press working today. This morning I "fabricated" replacement bolts to hold the basket closed (I hammered on some stiff wire to shape it and I am not happy still) and went to work.
The bad news is that I have to have more than 10 gallons of apple pulp to start with to get it to work right, and since I only had five gallons of pulp, I had to do a second squeezing with my old press. On the positive side, I got two gallons of apple juice in half the time. The bottleneck now is canning or pasteurizing the juice

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:09 PM (rbvCR)

31 The Pleiades are also known as the Seven Sisters, which is probably why Subaru is so popular with lesbians. Probably Mormons, too, although the data is lacking there.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (QaH55)

32 Anyone looking to buy an X-15 engine (technically a Thiokol XLR99 Rocket Engine)?

Just keep on top of those o-rings!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (h906C)

33 17
How much for that hammer from Apollo?

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 10:06 PM
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Current bid is $120k. No reserve.

Posted by: TRex - auctioneer dino at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1)

34 The US Ski Team needs over 200 pieces of equipment to go down while on the mountain?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (6x1Uq)

35 I always confuse the Subaru logo with the Steelers logo

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (WL2lA)

36 The bottleneck now is canning or pasteurizing the juice

or fermenting?

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

37 The bottleneck now is canning or pasteurizing the juice

Don't know why you'd put apple juice in a pasture, but OK.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (+9wcF)

38 Indian & Eskimo communities are often if not always dry. The largest reservation in the lower US is Navajo, in New Mexico. Dry.

Posted by: Born Fee at July 22, 2026 10:11 PM (raD1m)

39 Howdy Horde! Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Iris at July 22, 2026 10:11 PM (286+n)

40 Evening Horde thx TRex.
My favorite road race vids to watch are from the motorcycle races of the Isle of Man TT. Over 280 people, racers and spectators have been killed since the races were begun in 1907. Absolutely insane

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 10:11 PM (sMkB+)

41 My FIL had a series of 3 Subaru Outbacks as the last 3 cars he owned. The first edition one, I thought was a little stiff and bouncy for my taste, also slightly underpowered. The last two were much better mannered and engine power was up. Decent cars, all.

Posted by: Horizontally Opposed! at July 22, 2026 10:11 PM (JM9I6)

42 Supposably sun guy Apollo rode a chariot across the sky

Oooh lookee mee with my big honkin' sky chariot! Ooooh.

Posted by: Eos at July 22, 2026 10:11 PM (h906C)

43 Subaru has stopped making cars a good long time ago, and is instead a charity akin to United Way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 10:12 PM (4g5V+)

44 Supposably sun guy Apollo rode a chariot across the sky

don't know if a hammer was part of his kit
Posted by: Don Black

Thor?

Posted by: Mike Tyson at July 22, 2026 10:12 PM (6x1Uq)

45 Interesting night in the middle east, again. Everyone on both sides is acting scarier than usual - US even evacuated a base in Jordan. No one at our level knows what's about to happen; but everyone over there is acting like something bigger than usual is about to happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 10:12 PM (edUvp)

46 Everything you need to know about rally racing:
---------

One word: Countersteer

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 10:12 PM (XeU6L)

47 TRex, thanks for the ONT.

In a prior part of my life, we had a Subaru. It was pretty good until the wife "loaned" it to her sister. That started the demise, but not due to the car.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:12 PM (Jr+re)

48 So they never go down in a Subaru?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (MWfyi)

49 Did you know that "Subaru" backwards is "You are a bus?"

Evening, Horde, I got nuthin'

Posted by: Piercello at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Ht/sz)

50 The bottleneck now is canning or pasteurizing the juice

or fermenting?
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (Jr+re)

I don't drink, but I have been known to leave a couple of 2-Liter bottles in the fridge for a bit so it will get sparkly.

Seriously, if I get more than a couple of apple trees producing I will consider making apple jack, and I have a corker so I can make and bottle hard cider this year.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

51 If I had a hammer I'd sell it in the morning.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)

52 The dude needs to be fined or license suspended for a period but asset forfeiture is ridiculous in this case. His charge is only a misdemeanor at that. That said at least he was 'convicted' of a charge as opposed to just being suspected of something that allows asset forfeiture. Most communist thing in our country.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (KC5Lt)

53 Only racing I watch is school bus figure 8 and enduro racing where 60-100 cars enter. I like action and destruction.

Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (JM9I6)

54

Beaver is dry

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)

55 My son has a Subaru Cross Trek. He loves it. He put a rack on top and carries a real tire as a spare (no donut), as well as his camping gear. Very tough rig. Does not have the clearance of a truck, but it holds its own on rough roads.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (0aYVJ)

56 47 TRex, thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:12 PM
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You're welcome. Good evening!

Posted by: TRex - rally dino at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (XfIK1)

57 My sister and I shared a Subaru Brat as a first shared car. My Daddy got personalized plates for it- 2 Brats. He bought it from our neighbor, and it was pretty old. He felt like if we wrecked it, it wouldn’t be awful. We didn’t wreck it, but sharing a car was a short lived experiment anyway.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (hftzA)

58 Still fighting to get his plane back since April, 2012? Let's hear it for swift justice!

And since they didn't actually fly the beer to the dry town, how can he be charged? Just do what small-town cops do with kids caught with beer, and pour it out.

Everything about that is stupid. Starting with a dry town. What are they, Eskimamish?

Posted by: mindful webworker - mormonuit at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (M5tgA)

59 Supposably sun guy Apollo rode a chariot across the sky

Hey, that's my chariot. WTAF, man?

Posted by: Helios at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (h906C)

60 One word, 'Brat'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

61 35 I always confuse the Subaru logo with the Steelers logo
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 22, 2026 10:10 PM (WL2lA)

When I took an astronomy course ages ago, the prof, whenever the Pleiades came up, called them Subaru. (Because, of course, Subaru is what the Japanese call the Pleiades.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (4g5V+)

62 Subaru should try to become the official car of the WNBA. It would be appropriate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 10:15 PM (sMkB+)

63 Not sure which model of Subaru, but it was one of the first to come to the US . .

Older brother owned one, and drove it up Mount Washington.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 22, 2026 10:15 PM (4HoLg)

64 60 One word, 'Brat'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

Blyat

Posted by: Ghost of Uncle Palp at July 22, 2026 10:15 PM (3sXRv)

65 Beaver is dry
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Estradiol has entered the. . . um, chat.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Posted by: 4 out of 5 Doctors recommend at July 22, 2026 10:16 PM (6x1Uq)

66 My favorite road race vids to watch are from the motorcycle races of the Isle of Man TT. Over 280 people, racers and spectators have been killed since the races were begun in 1907. Absolutely insane
Posted by: Smell the Glove
---------

Yeah, the stone walls ripping by, inches away, at triple digit speeds...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 10:16 PM (XeU6L)

67 Texas used to have dry towns. But once you left town, it was legal to drink beer to a level short of intoxication.

Georgia had dry counties. I lived in one, but could by booze on the AF base.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (Jr+re)

68 Older brother owned one, and drove it up Mount Washington.

Ayup. They still talk about that up thar on the ridge.

*spit*

Posted by: Grampa Walton at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (h906C)

69 26

As soon as I saw "dry village in AK," I assumed it had something to do with Indians.

UT has lots of quaint (to an outsider) rules about liquor sales, and the Indian reservations in UT go way beyond that. PACK A COUPLE OF BOTTLES before visiting Monument Valley!

You'll thank me for this tip if you go. Otherwise, you may have to drive to AZ and back.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)

70 ***Subaru takes on the 24 Hours of Nurburgring

NICE

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (pMmVV)

71 Yes, there are dry villages in AK. Natives don't process alcohol the way white folks do, so they get seriously drunk off very little alcohol, and end up doing horrible things to one another when they get that way. Also, incest is rampant in the villages, particularly the ones that are 100% Native.

So, dry village, means no airplanes in or out with alcohol, and they are inspected prior to flying in.

This dude didn't realize his passengers had put beers in their luggage. Instead of racking the passengers, the State went after the pilot, which is already horseshit, but the pilot has this airplane which is worth $95,000, so guess what they decided to take?

It is way out of line with the normal fine for that sort of thing, which the pilot didn't even do, so it's a test case for the Supremes.

Small airplanes are the life's blood of AK, particularly the villages, none of which you can drive to except in the winter on a snow machine.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (vXSTz)

72 My very old and faithful Honda finally died in 2021, during the crisis of no cars to sell. Given that I had to have a manual transmission car, the pickings were even slimmer. Put in an order for a Subaru BRZ despite TRex's sales pitch for a WRX, waited 8 months and got it in 2022. Two months before we learned we were leaving CA (yeah!) for the East Coast. I love this car. It is absolutely perfect.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at July 22, 2026 10:18 PM (XfIK1)

73
I always confuse the Subaru logo with the Steelers logo

It's like the stars you see when you get hit on the head in a cartoon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:18 PM (Cqx++)

74 I've thought about getting a used Subaru engine for a VW bug. 200 hp vs. 40...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 10:18 PM (NnhvP)

75 I have a big hickory hatchet style framing hammer from my land survey days. I labeled it "Left Handed Hammer"

It now resides nearby as a secondary home defense weapon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

76 Also, on bad things happening, John C Dvorak died last Monday.
He had been part of the podcast No Agenda Show with Adam Curry for the last 18 years. They were on episode 1887. He was 80 years old, and had suffered a massive heart attack last Spring, with bypass surgery. He seemed to be doing great.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)

77 Subaru supports animal adoptions and shelters. That's a big positive.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (KC5Lt)

78 Yeah, the stone walls ripping by, inches away, at triple digit speeds...
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Not to mention the corner at Ballagarey. Miss it and the riders smack headlong into a stone building.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (6x1Uq)

79 Older brother owned one, and drove it up Mount Washington.
Posted by: 2009Refugee
------
I've motorcycled up there. I point out here that Mount Mitchell, NC, just up the road, is higher.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (XeU6L)

80 Subaru??
Next week do we get the Mazda miata?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (Lo97M)

81 The station wagon in the first pic looks stuck to me.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (oq9dX)

82 67 Texas used to have dry towns. But once you left town, it was legal to drink beer to a level short of intoxication.

Georgia had dry counties. I lived in one, but could by booze on the AF base.
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (Jr+re)

Yeah I lived in one. Didn't take long to figure out the major backers and donors who kept this going were the restaurants in town who were allowed to sell alcohol by the drink. (Dry towns are almost never completely dry)
By stopping the sale of alcohol retail, they forced people into their restaurants to buy it at big markups. Easy money.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 10:20 PM (edUvp)

83 I've thought about getting a used Subaru engine for a VW bug. 200 hp vs. 40...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 10:18 PM (NnhvP)

Just be sure to clear it with AOP first.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:20 PM (h906C)

84 58 Still fighting to get his plane back since April, 2012? Let's hear it for swift justice!

Posted by: mindful webworker - mormonuit at July 22, 2026 10:14 PM (M5tgA)

No, he kept the plane, but it's been under a legal cloud since then. Taking a pilot's plane takes away his ability to make a living up here. I suspect worse things would have happened had they actually taken the plane.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:20 PM (vXSTz)

85 40 My favorite road race vids to watch are from the motorcycle races of the Isle of Man TT.
Absolutely insane

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 10:11 PM
***
Yes, insane. Not exactly the same, but the first Isle of Man Hill Rally took place last weekend. Watched a video of highlights. Again, not the same as the motorcycle road races, but pretty crazy.

Posted by: TRex - off road dino at July 22, 2026 10:20 PM (XfIK1)

86
I drive a Subaru!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 10:20 PM (mmrXZ)

87 For mobile defense I kept a Hamer guitar neck tucked under the seat of my '82 Chevy Citation. Good times.

Posted by: Mayor Vaughn at July 22, 2026 10:20 PM (nDXEV)

88 There may not be an "I" in Team, but there sure as hell is a "ME”.

Copyright 2021, SSBN656(G)

Posted by: SSBN656(G) at July 22, 2026 10:21 PM (NoYYJ)

89 I had a subaru forester. Loved it until the head gasket started leaking. That was awful.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 22, 2026 10:21 PM (7gFa4)

90 Subaru supports animal adoptions and shelters. That's a big positive.

My car builder made engines for kraut tanks back in WWII.

Advantage: Subaru

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:22 PM (h906C)

91 Just be sure to clear it with AOP first.

I'm an old racer. Put the big motor in the little car!! Fun may ensue.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:22 PM (Jr+re)

92 @CENTCOM
4h
At 5:30 p.m. ET today, U.S. forces began launching more strikes against Iranian military targets at the Commander in Chief's direction. The mission will continue to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting regional waters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 10:23 PM (pMmVV)

93 77 Subaru supports animal adoptions and shelters. That's a big positive.
Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (KC5Lt)

They even stopped making cars to go all in on that cause. National parks too.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 10:23 PM (4g5V+)

94 I always confuse the Subaru logo with the Steelers logo
Posted by: vmom

Subaru logo has more stars.

Pittsburgh's logo, someone steelered the rest.

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

95 https://tinyurl.com/35fktyhs

Story about the pilot from the source.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:23 PM (vXSTz)

96 I've seen Subaru engines put in 914s, Boxsters, and a Honda Insight.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 10:24 PM (MWfyi)

97 I'm an old racer. Put the big motor in the little car!! Fun may ensue.

Depends on if there's enough torque to twist the body when you drop the hammer. If there is, fun will definitely ensue. In a new car. With a reinforced body.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 22, 2026 10:24 PM (+9wcF)

98 I see in WA state the Dems are moving to reduce the sentence for online child predators.

But they are totally serious about the threat of the Epstein class.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (sKqQm)

99 After living in Madison, WI, every time I see a Subaru I automatically look for the green-haired fat lesbian and her huge intact male dog.

That's the only folks who drove them in that town, certainly.

Not sure why you'd need an all-wheel drive vehicle in Madison, but there ya go.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (vXSTz)

100 Did you know that "Subaru" backwards is "You are a bus?"

The best fudge comes from Subaru.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (kYmoU)

101 With regard to the big motor/small car issue:

It's very difficult to make a VW bug handle well. The suspension design borders on covered wagon . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (Jr+re)

102 My car builder made engines for kraut tanks back in WWII.
Posted by: Cicero

Toyota built the Toyota KC and other truck models used extensively by the Japanese in China and the Pacific during WWII. They also produced parts and assemblies for Mitsubishi and other aircraft manufacturers.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM (6x1Uq)

103 Subaru??
Next week do we get the Mazda miata?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (Lo97M)

The reason the Honda del Sol came with a rear spoiler was so you could push it around like a shopping cart

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM (rbvCR)

104 Thanks for the Stunning Subaru Wednesday Night ONT, T Rex!

I know folks who refuse to drive anything but a Subaru, mainly because of the all-wheel drive or 4-wheel drive (not sure what it has).

Anxiously awaiting next week's Pittsburgh scanner.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1)

105 Blyat
Posted by: Ghost of Uncle Palp

THE HORDE CRIES OUT

Posted by: Ancient Slavonaut Theorist Miklosov says YES at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM (sxR7k)

106 74 I've thought about getting a used Subaru engine for a VW bug. 200 hp vs. 40...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Very common mod for 25 years has been to put a Subaru engine in a Vanagon. The original VW Waterboxer was a dud, and a Subaru is a good fit. Because it is horizontally opposed, it is relatively low and will fit with the stock engine cover. People have put Jetta and Golf engines in them, but they require custom engine covers and one loses cargo space.

Posted by: VW Trends at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM (JM9I6)

107 54

Beaver is dry
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)

You need better dates.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:27 PM (vXSTz)

108

Dry counties of the USA

https://t.ly/JbdOW

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:27 PM (Cqx++)

109 Subaru logo has more stars.

Pittsburgh's logo, someone steelered the rest.
Posted by: mikeski

Steelers logo is not stars or diamonds. Hypercycloids.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 10:27 PM (R6/qx)

110 Hypercycloids.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Wow, that sounds like they really hurt!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2026 10:28 PM (6x1Uq)

111 The reason the Honda del Sol came with a rear spoiler was so you could push it around like a shopping cart
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM (rbvCR)

I had a Ford Fiesta with a big old spoiler on the back. I said it was what you used to hang it up at night with. No other reason for it to be there.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:28 PM (vXSTz)

112 A long time again I had an Acura Vigor, which is basically an extended Accord with a weirdo five-cylinder engine.

When I checked with the state the license plate VIGR PLZ was already taken.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:28 PM (h906C)

113 104 Thanks for the Stunning Subaru Wednesday Night ONT, T Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 22, 2026 10:26 PM
***
Thank you and you're welcome!

Posted by: TRex - bush pilot dino at July 22, 2026 10:29 PM (XfIK1)

114 108

Dry counties of the USA

https://t.ly/JbdOW
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:27 PM (Cqx++)

You will notice that NONE of those are in Wisconsin.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:29 PM (vXSTz)

115 Well done, Dino.
Flashback on the ski team Subaru- good stuff.

Posted by: scampydog at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (+g3aE)

116 Thank you and you're welcome!
Posted by: TRex - bush pilot dino at July 22, 2026 10:29 PM (XfIK1)

Bush Pilot? Who knew?

With those tiny little arms? Do you pull the yoke with your feet?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (vXSTz)

117 I had a Ford Fiesta with a big old spoiler on the back. I said it was what you used to hang it up at night with. No other reason for it to be there.

At 65 mph there's 80 lbs. of downforce right there!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (h906C)

118 Story about the pilot from the source.

Interesting. The Alaska Supreme Court seems to have upheld the forfeiture on the grounds that the natives can’t handle alcohol, and therefore a $95,000 plane for 72 cans of beer is not excessive.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (kYmoU)

119 It's very difficult to make a VW bug handle well. The suspension design borders on covered wagon . . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK

The Macpherson Strut front suspension of a Super Beetle handles pretty well. Sway bar in the rear and you are good to go.

Posted by: VW Trends! at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (JM9I6)

120 Just read Adam Curry's wiki page, the guy has had an interesting life

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (sKqQm)

121 Thank you for ONT Mr. TRex. As a two time Subaru owner I heartily approve. Our current 2012 Outback replaced a 2007 Forester which was murdered (wrecked) by our then 17 year-old. Single car accident. Carelessness. No one hurt thank God!

No real complaints other than as I mentioned recently - if you have to replace a tire you have to replace all four unless they're fairly new.. I don't know why. It's in the manual. Has something to do with the symmetrical All Wheel Drive.

The 2012 has a timing belt which cost $2500 to replace as 'routine' maintenance at 105k miles. I'm told later models have a chain which doesn't have to be replaced. The headlights are also difficult to replace, especially the driver side. I've given up trying to do it myself since Pep Boys will do it for $50 or so.

The Outback is nicely appointed and gets amazing gas mileage for a car it's size - almost 30 mpg at 70 mph.

We're considering replacing the 2012 with either a new Outback or a Lexus. I'm leaning toward the Subaru as it runs on regular. Lexus wants Premium.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (QGaXH)

122 Maiden and the Beasties? Whatever did we do to deserve these gracious gifts of grandiosity?

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 22, 2026 10:31 PM (6lIrI)

123 Seizing the guy's $95000 plane over a 6-pack is f'ed up bigtime.

It's not clear if the pilot even knew that the passenger had beer in his luggage, and yet the statute references "knowingly." I don't get it.

I wonder if SCOTUS was looking for a case with really great facts for the appellant, in order to strike down disproportionate forfeitures. If so, they found a beauty.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 10:31 PM (RCjYY)

124 Not to mention the corner at Ballagarey. Miss it and the riders smack headlong into a stone building.
Posted by: Tonypete
------

Braking points are of supreme importance if you want to survive a turn...and be competitive. Better get 'em sorted during practice. It takes discipline to go from WOT on a straight, and then clamp on the binders hard at thelast possible moment. Turns 1 & 12 at Road America come to mind. https://shorturl.at/jeFYO

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 10:32 PM (XeU6L)

125 Hypercycloids.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Wow, that sounds like they really hurt!!
Posted by: Tonypete

It was the company logo from Republic Steel that was headquartered in.......Cleveland.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 10:32 PM (R6/qx)

126 118 Story about the pilot from the source.

Interesting. The Alaska Supreme Court seems to have upheld the forfeiture on the grounds that the natives can’t handle alcohol, and therefore a $95,000 plane for 72 cans of beer is not excessive.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 22, 2026 10:30 PM (kYmoU)

The real problem is that the pilot had no idea the passengers had the beer on them, and he never did fly any of it to the village, so why they went after him is because his plane is worth so much money, and they would get that benefit. It far outstrips the price of the fine. Ridiculous.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:32 PM (vXSTz)

127 Don't need a Subaru where I live, but rented one for a trip on rough roads in the great American West. Very nice Forester, handled rough roads well. Nothing bad to say about it.
Would not throw it out of bed for eating crackers.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 22, 2026 10:33 PM (YVvS/)

128 67 Texas used to have dry towns. But once you left town, it was legal to drink beer to a level short of intoxication.

I think we (Texas) still have a few dry counties.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 22, 2026 10:33 PM (s522d)

129 Kindltot, umm, hard cider. 4H halloween party, and our 4H club leader didn't notice that the cider had "turned".

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 22, 2026 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

130 In the '70s, holding yourself out as a competent bush pilot would probably have gone over very well with the ladies, come to think of it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:34 PM (h906C)

131 We had a great old Rambler station wagon.
Until one of the front wheels fell off.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 10:34 PM (oq9dX)

132 It was the company logo from Republic Steel that was headquartered in.......Cleveland.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I should have known that - I worked for them for a time.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2026 10:34 PM (6x1Uq)

133 The judiciary up here is ghastly. Everything from the State Supremes down to family court is a complete joke. The good news is a lot of legal sharks are up here so if you need real representation, it's available. It's like they do it on a dare or something.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:34 PM (vXSTz)

134 130 In the '70s, holding yourself out as a competent bush pilot would probably have gone over very well with the ladies, come to think of it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:34 PM (h906C)

Well, there are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:36 PM (vXSTz)

135 Subaru takes on the 24 Hours of Nurburgring with a WRX modified for racing - this onboard lap is excellent:
-
Yeah, you can tell he's pushing when he hits the rumble strips back in the technical section. That course is so much fun when you're the one doing all the passing (It's my second favorite Gran Turismo track after Grand Valley Speedway).

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 10:36 PM (vSvIl)

136 (Dry towns are almost never completely dry)
By stopping the sale of alcohol retail, they forced people into their restaurants to buy it at big markups. Easy money.

Posted by: Tom Servo
---

There was a private club across the street from the court house and one out on the highway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 10:36 PM (pMmVV)

137 https://tinyurl.com/4hpks6u4

Another local article about the Supreme case.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:38 PM (vXSTz)

138 Random quote for the day

Karl Marx & Frederick Douglass were both born in 1818. Marx grew up in comfort, Douglass in chains. Marx thought the world owed him more comfort; Douglass only demanded liberty, & he'd do the res

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:39 PM (rbvCR)

139 Did the Herculoids ever team up with the Hypercycloids?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:39 PM (Cqx++)

140 Did the Herculoids ever team up with the Hypercycloids?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:39 PM (Cqx++)

Only for that Christmas special that we never talk about

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)

141 You'd think that Nurse would be all over this post by now - it's made for her.

My wife has a 2018 Subaru Outback. Awesome car.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 10:43 PM (0CU3H)

142 Did Judge TRex have the Fresca restocked at Bushwood?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)

143 Would not throw it out of bed for eating crackers.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 22, 2026 10:33 PM (YVvS/)
* * * *
Haven't heard that one in a long time! Thanks!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 22, 2026 10:43 PM (D/6p1)

144 “What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us… I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us… your interference is doing him a positive injury.”— Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 22, 2026 10:44 PM (kYmoU)

145 That boxer engine is attractive they have too much trouble with it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 10:44 PM (pMmVV)

146 Never thought i would ever see someone do a rail grind in a Suburu Brat

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 22, 2026 10:46 PM (9CZQg)

147 *rummages in the Club's storage room*

Hmm. No Orange Crush, but there's a case of Fanta Orange, a case of Fresca, and a couple of packs of Ramune "assorted flavors".

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 10:46 PM (rdVOm)

148 T Rex was more stealthy, more cunning, and, frankly, more weird looking that we thought. (32:3

https://youtu.be/dkcgQQSgznU

Posted by: mindful webworker - with even tinier arms at July 22, 2026 10:46 PM (M5tgA)

149 Hemerrhoids are bad, but Hyperrhoids are agony.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 10:47 PM (T2w7I)

150 Would not throw it out of bed for eating crackers.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 22, 2026 10:33 PM (YVvS/)
* * * *
Haven't heard that one in a long time! Thanks!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 22, 2026 10:43 PM (D/6p1)

When I hear that phrase, Barbara Mandrell comes to mind.

https://youtu.be/IpMpS1RFzsk

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

151 tcn

I took a bush pilot flight with my young kids to Coldfoot, AK.

I asked the pilot if he had an airbag-- a joke. He said, "It's only a 40 minute flight!"

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 10:47 PM (RCjYY)

152 “To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason.”— Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

“Thanks for the tip!”—Politicians Everywhere

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 22, 2026 10:48 PM (kYmoU)

153 ~~Horrywood!~~

Subaru!

Posted by: West Coast Sub Crew From 1941! at July 22, 2026 10:48 PM (wVcYX)

154

Nicaragua’s lawmakers said they will carry out a plan by President Daniel Ortega to abolish elections in the Central American country, prompting renewed criticisms Wednesday by the international community.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:49 PM (Cqx++)

155 115 Well done, Dino.
Flashback on the ski team Subaru- good stuff.
Posted by: scampydog at July 22, 2026 10:30
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Doggo!

Posted by: TRex - lite beer dino at July 22, 2026 10:49 PM (XfIK1)

156 Since this is an auto thread, I thought I might remind everyone about the dangers of ladies farding while driving.

Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at July 22, 2026 10:49 PM (JM9I6)

157 The Barbara Mandrell comment make me go look up some pix. She has aged very, very well!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:50 PM (Jr+re)

158 Well, there are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Chuck Yeager.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 10:50 PM (R6/qx)

159 98 I see in WA state the Dems are moving to reduce the sentence for online child predators.

But they are totally serious about the threat of the Epstein class.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (sKqQm)

True hypocrites never admit it.

Posted by: Joemarine at July 22, 2026 10:50 PM (y171U)

160 Well, there are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 10:36 PM (vXSTz)

***cough***

Remember me ???

Posted by: zombie Chuck Yeager at July 22, 2026 10:51 PM (3sXRv)

161 Before I forget again, thank you to the person who posted the intro playlist to Frank Zappa on Monday's ONT. I had time to listen to them all this afternoon, and have to say it's different. If his music shows up in future ONTs, I'll play it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 10:51 PM (qx7Zg)

162 Random quote for the day

Karl Marx & Frederick Douglass were both born in 1818. Marx grew up in comfort, Douglass in chains. Marx thought the world owed him more comfort; Douglass only demanded liberty, & he'd do the res
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:39 PM (rbvCR)

They also had very similar hairdos.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 10:51 PM (0aYVJ)

163 I see in WA state the Dems are moving to reduce the sentence for online child predators.

But they are totally serious about the threat of the Epstein class.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (sKqQm)

if the Oregon legislature follows suit, they will call it the Neil Goldschmidt act

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 10:52 PM (rbvCR)

164 I ran across Yeager while at Edwards. He was a retired general and came out to wring out a fighter now and then. He was a Class A asshoe!

Several years later met his son who was in the Air Force and he was a stellar human being.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:52 PM (Jr+re)

165 I prefer just abolishing elections, with no People's Democratic Republic bs.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 10:53 PM (RCjYY)

166
Since this is an auto thread, I thought I might remind everyone about the dangers of ladies farding while driving.
Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh

You shouldn't have said that.

Posted by: Zombie Paul Harvey at July 22, 2026 10:54 PM (Cqx++)

167 had a subaru forester. Loved it until the head gasket started leaking. That was awful.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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That was a big failure before 2010. They came up with a new gasket, and that's pretty much disappeared as a problem. My forester had the gasket replaced($2200) at 41k, but it has run great since. It laughs at snow, until it gets higher than the bottom of the grill. I've cruised around Jeeps, 4W trucks and even quattros on snowy uphills. It now uses a quart of oil every 4k, but I change it around 3500, so no big deal. 236,000 mi.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 22, 2026 10:54 PM (cBDov)

168 "Is it safe to eat lettuce in Mexican food form again?"

Oh boy.

Just so you all know, there is a brewing scandal about where all that is coming from. The lettuce thing was a red herring. I'm not sure it'll really see the light of day in the MSM due to wokeness, but the source is pretty cut and dried at this point.

The upper midwest is getting hit extra hard because the great lakes are now literally awash in shit (thanks Canada!), but otherwise the outbreak closely tracks one specific population.

Posted by: ewww at July 22, 2026 10:56 PM (YPz7y)

169 Oh man, I fell down the rabbit hole on that "Dry Village" law up in Alaska. First off, Beaver is a town of 17 to 101 population depending upon the time of year and what's in season. They voted to make it dry because of all the locals getting hammered and shooting each other, or other types of violent crime.

There are 32 Fully Dry towns in Alaska. There are another 28 that are dry in the sense that they don't sell alcohol. The State law requires you know which towns fall into which category, and the asset seizure is written right into the State law (not just the municipality). There are no mulligans on the law. "I didn't know" is not a valid defense. Many believe that Alaska is so strict on the asset seizure because they use some of the confiscations for their various government employees once acquired and don't auction all of them off.

I'm not sure how the pilot gets snagged for the passenger's indiscretions on this one, especially since the confiscation occurred before leaving Fairbanks.

Posted by: Box of Rocks at July 22, 2026 10:57 PM (dIske)

170 147 *rummages in the Club's storage room*

Hmm. No Orange Crush, but there's a case of Fanta Orange, a case of Fresca, and a couple of packs of Ramune "assorted flavors".
Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 10:46 PM
****
Ummm.... Thanks much for looking but might want to double check the expiration dates. Never know how long stuff has been sitting in storage.

And watch out for spiders.

Posted by: TRex - restocking slacker dino at July 22, 2026 10:57 PM (XfIK1)

171 Evenin'

Rally racing drivers are the best in the world. Better than F1 drivers. It's impressive to watch them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 22, 2026 10:57 PM (+J/Au)

172 The upper midwest is getting hit extra hard because the great lakes are now literally awash in shit (thanks Canada!), but otherwise the outbreak closely tracks one specific population.
Posted by: ewww at July 22, 2026 10:56 PM (YPz7y)

Moose?

Posted by: LASue at July 22, 2026 10:58 PM (lCppi)

173 Moose?

He would have told you out front.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:58 PM (Jr+re)

174 Beaver is dry
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)

You need better dates.
Posted by: tcn
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Or better technique.
Or KY.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 22, 2026 10:58 PM (cBDov)

175 The upper midwest is getting hit extra hard because the great lakes are now literally awash in shit (thanks Canada!), but otherwise the outbreak closely tracks one specific population.
Posted by: ewww at July 22, 2026 10:56 PM (YPz7y)

Moose?
Posted by: LASue at July 22, 2026 10:58 PM (lCppi)

Canadian Geese?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 10:59 PM (wVcYX)

176 Not written by Otto Penn.

I read a story recently about a woman "mechanic" passenger in an Uber who demanded that the driver stop playing with the car's fidget stick. When he explained that it had a manual transmission, so he had to shift manually, she refused to believe it.

Sad, really. My first two cars were 4-speed and 5-speed stick econoboxes. Fun to drive, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 11:01 PM (qx7Zg)

177 Ummm.... Thanks much for looking but might want to double check the expiration dates. Never know how long stuff has been sitting in storage.

And watch out for spiders.
Posted by: TRex - restocking slacker dino
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Haha! Thanks, boss.

Yeah, the American pops have expired, but the Ramune is still fizzy.. So much fun to open those! (stay away from the "watermelon" flavor-- it's gross.)

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

178 Gosh. When I was growing up in Dallas in the late 70s early 80s, Dallas was dry. I remember my alcoholic father being pissed about it.

I also remember blue laws. None of the shopping malls were open on Sundays.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:02 PM (yEz+x)

179 In my personal life I drive jeeps and pickups, but when I go to job sites I usually rent a car, Subarus are typically not fleet vehicle but every now and again you’ll get a Subaru Legacy.

I’ll rent that if it’s available.

Sadly they discontinued it last year.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 11:02 PM (XV/Pl)

180 In April 2012, Jouppi was preparing to fly a passenger from Fairbanks to a remote village, Beaver, where alcohol was banned. The passenger had packed beer with other groceries in her luggage. State Police troopers searched Jouppi's plane before it departed and spotted a six-pack of Budweiser in a shopping bag.

Do Alaskan State Troopers just randomly search charter flights, or was this a setup?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM (4NO2D)

181 Utah has state run liquors stores.

So does Idaho.

The difference is; in Utah, they are few and far between, even in SLC. Large parts of the state they are nearly non-existent.

Idaho, they are plentiful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)

182 Do Alaskan State Troopers just randomly search charter flights, or was this a setup?
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM (4NO2D)

They do it when you file a flight plan to a dry village. Not uncommon.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM (vXSTz)

183 For those unaware of what's going down in SE Canada; it's the dot-not-feather Indians. You'll find the outbreak is just as bad on the north side of the lakes, if not worse.

I don't think I can adequately convey how everything gets literally enshittified once there are enough of them in one place. I would be sorely tempted to use my one "if you had a time machine..." card to stop the Brits from teaching them English.

Posted by: ewww at July 22, 2026 11:04 PM (YPz7y)

184 They do it when you file a flight plan to a dry village. Not uncommon.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM

Huh. That seems excessively invasive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:05 PM (4NO2D)

185
Music apropos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIKGHbm4-6M

Posted by: Miklos presents the B-52s with "Dry County" at July 22, 2026 11:05 PM (sxR7k)

186 Do Alaskan State Troopers just randomly search charter flights, or was this a setup?
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM (4NO2D)

___________________________

You think maybe the Staties wanted to increase their resources with a $95,000 puddle jumper? Could be right.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 11:05 PM (dIske)

187 178 Gosh. When I was growing up in Dallas in the late 70s early 80s, Dallas was dry. I remember my alcoholic father being pissed about it.

I also remember blue laws. None of the shopping malls were open on Sundays.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:02 PM (yEz+x)

________________

Ocean City, NJ is still a dry town to the best of my knowledge.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)

188 In Alabama, the Troopers have to at least bust out one of your taillights to justify the bootlegging stop.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:08 PM (4NO2D)

189 181

In addition to being few and far between, the state run liquor stores in UT also have peculiar hours of operation, in my very limited experience.

I'm used to liquor stores that stay open 'til 11pm.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:08 PM (RCjYY)

190 Hmm. No Orange Crush, but there's a case of Fanta Orange, a case of Fresca, and a couple of packs of Ramune "assorted flavors".
Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 10:46 PM
****
Ummm.... Thanks much for looking but might want to double check the expiration dates. Never know how long stuff has been sitting in storage.

And watch out for spiders.
Posted by: TRex - restocking slacker dino

We lock up the good stuff

Or I just keep it at home

Posted by: Assistant Late Nite Manager Miklos at July 22, 2026 11:08 PM (sxR7k)

191 This *has* to be shared.

Dear people who type in all lowercase,
We are the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

Sincerely,
Capital Letters.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 11:08 PM (qx7Zg)

192 Damn, seriously old Iron Maiden. Dennis Stratton was on guitar before Adrian Smith joined. Thats some ancient 1st album footage.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 11:10 PM (S41Gd)

193 Dear people who type in all lowercase,

goodnight, horde. see you tomorrow night! thanks for the laughs.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 11:11 PM (Jr+re)

194 Ocean City, NJ is still a dry town to the best of my knowledge.
Posted by: Orson

I think you mean Ocean Grove, NJ, between Asbury Park and Bradley Beach. It's a unique town, founded by Methodists.

Posted by: What Exit? at July 22, 2026 11:11 PM (JM9I6)

195 Ocean City, NJ is still a dry town to the best of my knowledge.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)

Yup, fuck that place.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 11:11 PM (S41Gd)

196 Sincerely,
Capital Letters.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

i beg to differ

Posted by: e. e. cummings at July 22, 2026 11:11 PM (sxR7k)

197 184 They do it when you file a flight plan to a dry village. Not uncommon.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 11:03 PM

Huh. That seems excessively invasive.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:05 PM (4NO2D)

Well, so is the alcohol-fueled violence in the villages, so they decided they would rather have the law on their side.

It is hard to overestimate the horrible damage alcohol does in these villages. Between the lack of real jobs, the sheer laziness due to welfare checks, the lack of education (even though we put schools in every damned one of those villages), and the incest, I find it remarkable that anyone survives living there, but they choose to do so anyway.

I don't have issues with villages deciding to be dry, or the law enforcement of same, but this case is over the top, blaming the wrong guy, and taking much more than is warranted.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 11:12 PM (vXSTz)

198 Moose?
Posted by: LASue at July 22, 2026 10:58 PM (lCppi)

Canadian Geese?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Loons?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 11:12 PM (XeU6L)

199 Well, I can't speak to Subarus, I've never driven one even as a rental.

But, my interview today went extremely well (he liked my skillset and my mindset), and hopefully I'll have the second round in a few days. Keep praying, it helps!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 11:13 PM (aJQbY)

200 I lived in a dry county in my teens and you either had to buy from a bootlegger, or drive north to the next county.

I think the county is still dry but the city I lived in was allowed to vote independently and went "wet", so I guess it's easier for the county rurals to get beer now.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:13 PM (4NO2D)

201 Speaking of a dry town in NJ...

Anybody else watch the "Atlantic City" series with Steve Buscemi? About Prohibition in NJ? It was very good!

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:14 PM (RCjYY)

202 Loons?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,

Canadian or African?

Posted by: call me.....Tim at July 22, 2026 11:14 PM (sxR7k)

203 Speaking of a dry town in NJ...

Anybody else watch the "Atlantic City" series with Steve Buscemi? About Prohibition in NJ? It was very good!
Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:14 PM

I really liked that show, but I thought the ending felt forced.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:15 PM (4NO2D)

204 or maybe 'rushed' is the term.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 11:16 PM (4NO2D)

205 I had a Subaru, a GL Wagon. In general, I found it to be a very good vehicle. It had a simple 4 wheel drive that did very well in Minnesota winters.

There was one problem, every time I had it serviced, there was a very expensive surprise, a part that cost way more than it should have. One in particular, a chunk of ice was kicked up by a car in front of me and hit a head light. The glass on the front was broken. The head light still worked, the reflector behind it was intact. The bracket that held the headlight to the car was undamaged. When I tried to replace the glass at the front of the headlight, I discovered the glass, the reflector, the bracket, even the light bulb were all sold as one part and it cost me 210 dollars, in 1989, to repair that headlight.

There were several other expensive surprises over the ten years I owned that car and now, I have a list of car companies which I will NEVER EVER do business with, Subaru is at the top of that list, Chevrolet is right underneath it.

Posted by: JB1000 at July 22, 2026 11:17 PM (YPIjd)

206 Dear people who type in all lowercase,
We are the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

---------

What if you only jack off a Minotaur?

Posted by: Literotica.com at July 22, 2026 11:17 PM (u/oMr)

207 tcn

My instinct is that SCOTUS is going to come down hard on forfeitures-- they were just waiting for the right test case. Boy did they find one!

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:18 PM (RCjYY)

208
I would be sorely tempted to use my one "if you had a time machine..." card to stop the Brits from teaching them English.
Posted by: ewww

They should have just left them alone and buy tea and take it home.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 11:18 PM (Cqx++)

209 Don't know if it has changed, but Copperhill, TN co-joined with McCaysville, GA. Georgia side was dry, TN not. There was a bar there with a yellow line down the center lengthwise. Dry one side, wet the other.The restrooms were on the GA side.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 11:19 PM (XeU6L)

210 tcn,
I feel for the natives in the villages. It must royally suck having no real opportunity. They really don’t stand a chance.

There’s opportunity for kids in medical school to have their debt completely wiped away if they sign on to work in rural Alaska's for four years.

Few takers. It’s so sad.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:20 PM (yEz+x)

211 Idaho State Liquor Stores used to be closed on Sundays. Don't remember when the law changed, but I think it was a compromise to prevent grocery store (&etc) sales. The State didn't want to lose its grip?

Beer & wine can be purchased just about anywhere, during certain hours of the day (allowed only 6am-2am), but "hard likker" must be purchased from a State Store.

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:21 PM (rdVOm)

212 But, my interview today went extremely well (he liked my skillset and my mindset), and hopefully I'll have the second round in a few days. Keep praying, it helps!
Posted by: RandomDave

Good for you!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:22 PM (PV/ya)

213 Don't know if it has changed, but Copperhill, TN co-joined with McCaysville, GA. Georgia side was dry, TN not. There was a bar there with a yellow line down the center lengthwise. Dry one side, wet the other.The restrooms were on the GA side.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Wasn't that place featured on an ONT some months or years ago? Never been there, but sounds familiar.

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

214 154
Nicaragua’s lawmakers said they will carry out a plan by President Daniel Ortega to abolish elections in the Central American country, prompting renewed criticisms Wednesday by the international community.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Rubio's statement is all over the Latin world.
z@MiguelContigo - 8h
MARCO RUBIO REQUESTS JOINT OPERATION
... US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, made it clear that Washington, together with the international community, will not sit idly by. while the Sandinista, together with his wife Rosario Murillo, deepens repression in the Central American nation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 11:23 PM (pMmVV)

215 Good luck, Random Dave!

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:24 PM (RCjYY)

216 or maybe 'rushed' is the term.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Hi, damn glad to meet ya

Posted by: Rush Chairman Miklos at July 22, 2026 11:25 PM (sxR7k)

217
Via Search Assist:
In Indiana, only a drug store (a grocery store with a pharmacy) can get a license to sell hard liquor, so hard liquor sales stop when the pharmacy operations end. Pharmacies can sell beer and wine, but grocers/convenience stores can’t sell hard liquor without the pharmacy license setup.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 11:25 PM (XeU6L)

218 But, my interview today went extremely well (he liked my skillset and my mindset), and hopefully I'll have the second round in a few days. Keep praying, it helps!
Posted by: RandomDave

*high 5*

Good luck!

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)

219 US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, made it clear that Washington, together with the international community, will not sit idly by. while the Sandinista, together with his wife Rosario Murillo, deepens repression in the Central American nation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends

I for need amigo en el carcel

Posted by: Nicolas Maduro, Presidente del Cellblock at July 22, 2026 11:27 PM (sxR7k)

220 Wasn't that place featured on an ONT some months or years ago? Never been there, but sounds familiar.
Posted by: JQ
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Don't about featured, but I've been there, and commented on it. May have linked a pic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 11:27 PM (XeU6L)

221 Hypercycloids.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Wow, that sounds like they really hurt!!
Posted by: Tonypete

It was the company logo from Republic Steel that was headquartered in.......Cleveland.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Not really. It's an adaption (by adding "ers" to the plain "Steel" of the original) Steelmark of the AISI, an industry group that included Republic, US Steel and others. Republic never used that as their logo. The design was created by a Cleveland firm, though.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 22, 2026 11:27 PM (cBDov)

222 203

I didn't like the ending either.

What is a 928(c)? I'm heard of 924(c).

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:27 PM (RCjYY)

223 * Don't 'know'...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 11:27 PM (XeU6L)

224 I see by the map that Oklahoma has no dry counties. 'Twas not so when I was a yout'. In addition to state laws enacted after national repeal.

Dad, reportedly a sometimes excessive drinker, did a lot of travel around the state. On family vacations, I saw that he always had his own little traveling tavern kit, a nice leather case with bottles, jiggers, martini mixing equipment, et al.

I'm sure he would have been horrified at the next generation's traveling kit, with pipes, papers, lighters, film canisters for the smoke. Not the same at all, no sir.

State laws prohibiting liquor by-the-drink were gradually ignored by clubs who got around the BYOB rules. Those laws were changed after an aggressive state atty general started cracking down on enforcement. Since then, you can not only buy cold beer over 3.2, but buy it in grocery stores, along with wine and liquor! IIRC, there were still some dry counties for a while. With, of course, liquor stores and bars all along the county lines.

Those were days.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at July 22, 2026 11:29 PM (M5tgA)

225 In Indiana, only a drug store (a grocery store with a pharmacy) can get a license to sell hard liquor, so hard liquor sales stop when the pharmacy operations end. Pharmacies can sell beer and wine, but grocers/convenience stores can’t sell hard liquor without the pharmacy license setup.

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Who makes up this shit anyway?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 11:29 PM (u/oMr)

226 I see someone suggested Musk give $100M to Mel Gibson to make a better Odyssey movie and he agreed on twitter.

If he actually did that...wow...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 11:30 PM (sKqQm)

227 210 tcn,
I feel for the natives in the villages. It must royally suck having no real opportunity. They really don’t stand a chance.

There’s opportunity for kids in medical school to have their debt completely wiped away if they sign on to work in rural Alaska's for four years.

Few takers. It’s so sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:20 PM (yEz+x)

Wasn't that the premise of that 'Northern Exposure' show?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

228 Liquor licenses are a currency of their own, here. Only so many, based on population (?). So-- you want to open an establishment, but can't serve booze until you have a license for it... $old $eparately... Get in line! *All* available licenses are currently owned in this county.

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:31 PM (rdVOm)

229 225

hardshell Baptists

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:31 PM (RCjYY)

230 I was going to buy another subie but as I walked out for my outside checks tonight the one I was looking at is sitting in the parking lot at work. Thomas, you will pay for this. It was the only one on the lot without black seats. Now I gotta find another one.
Wife drives a 24 Forrester. I've had several over the years but that was late 90's back when they were $500 cars and all you really needed to do to make them new again was replace the CV axles in the front. I got really good at those over the years. Best one I ever had was an 83 Wagon. Best car in the snow I had ever owned.
Had a line a few years ago on a 83 Brat with the rear facing seats. I wish I had went further with buying that one. Wife didn't want another "project" car in the yard.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 11:31 PM (PjoLk)

231 I see someone suggested Musk give $100M to Mel Gibson to make a better Odyssey movie and he agreed on twitter.

If he actually did that...wow...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 11:30 PM (sKqQm)

I see subtitles for the spoken Greek.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 11:32 PM (qx7Zg)

232 Few takers. It’s so sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:20 PM (yEz+x)

Wasn't that the premise of that 'Northern Exposure' show?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

pfft

Posted by: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman at July 22, 2026 11:32 PM (sxR7k)

233 Don't about featured, but I've been there, and commented on it. May have linked a pic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Could be! Sounds like a real hoot!

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

234 @178

Dallas was not completely dry in the '70s or '80s.
They had zones in the city where you could buy booze.
But the zones were in areas a certain amount of miles from schools and churches. I know Samuel Blvd. was a busy street because it was in a zone that could sell all the booze you wanted.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 11:34 PM (bqIVz)

235 Wasn't that the premise of that 'Northern Exposure' show?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 11:31 PM (QGaXH)

Yeah, but they filmed that in WA and you will notice people drove to that town. Not like AK villages at all.

Plus there were places to work and enough white people to make it clear it wasn't a Native village.

Probably not as funny if it were real.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 11:34 PM (dH9tc)

236 Wasn't that the premise of that 'Northern Exposure' show?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Yes. I loved that show. It was filmed in Roslyn, WA. My grandmother was born there in 1915. Coal miners who emigrated from Yugoslavia.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 11:36 PM (6ohhg)

237 Bukele should take the thousands of gang bangers he had imprisoned and tell them all is forgiven if they’ll invade Nicaragua for him. Plus once they’re in Nicaragua let them keep everything they can haul off.

Heck for most of human history that’s what all armies were.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 11:36 PM (T2w7I)

238 Like my 23 WRX. Above average performance at a reasonable price. Real 6 speed and a respectable turbo. Drive it gently and get good mileage; drive it hard and get good times. Worth considering if you’re in the market

Posted by: YellowBird at July 22, 2026 11:38 PM (MEbkQ)

239 It's on YooToob so it must be true:

"T. rex arms were WINGS"

https://youtu.be/Sap26mEByow

Posted by: mindful webworker - deadly dino droppings at July 22, 2026 11:38 PM (M5tgA)

240 For sheer sordidness, I nominate the Indian reservation towns around Nogales.

The ones in AK are probably worse, but I've never seen those.

Hanta virus (hearts) the rez.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:39 PM (RCjYY)

241 There are dry villages in Alaska??

If you've ever met a drunk Eskimo you'd understand.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (h906C)

There are dry villages in Northwest Territories, too. A tacit admission by the Indians that Indians cannot hold their liquor. Still, this is a very petty prosecution by the State. A six pack of Budweiser wouldn't get a baby drunk. Pilot was not smuggling, nor aiding and abetting smuggling. It was goods for personal consumption by the passenger. Full stop. If it had been ten cases of 24, different story; pilot would have certainly known.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)

242 I don't have issues with villages deciding to be dry, or the law enforcement of same, but this case is over the top, blaming the wrong guy, and taking much more than is warranted.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 11:12 PM (vXSTz)

Conncur.
I wonder if some state bureaucrat wanted an airplane?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 11:40 PM (2WIwB)

243 If I had a hammer I'd sell it in the morning.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)

All over this land?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2026 11:41 PM (TADlS)

244 I feel my work here is done for tonight.

RandomDave if you're still here - don't give up hope. Things will turn your way, perhaps when you least expect. Hang in there.

Good Night Everyone!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 11:41 PM (QGaXH)

245 Don't know any Subaru songs.

So…

https://youtu.be/NwgGuadsqyo

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - Headin' on down the road. at July 22, 2026 11:43 PM (M5tgA)

246 I think you mean Ocean Grove, NJ, between Asbury Park and Bradley Beach. It's a unique town, founded by Methodists.
Posted by: What Exit? at July 22, 2026 11:11 PM (JM9I6)

________________________

No, I meant Ocean City. Apparently, they were hoping to grab hold of all the family visitors away from Sea Isle, Avalon and Wildwood.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 11:45 PM (dIske)

247 I feel for the poor bastid who had to try to defend that law at SCOTUS.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:45 PM (RCjYY)

248 The county I live in used to be “moist”: wine and beer but no hard liquor. Favorite liquor store was called the County Line, and was just past the county line. Now the law has changed, and it seems like there is a liquor store on every other corner in town.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2026 11:48 PM (TADlS)

249 I loved Northern Exposure when it first came on. Never missed an episode. But the show changed in the 4th season. The writers got all politically correct and they lost one of their stars, it just wasn't the same and that was it's last season.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 11:49 PM (bqIVz)

250 The station wagon in the first pic looks stuck to me.
Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 10:19 PM (oq9dX)

It ain't stuck.
That's a Loyale, or GL1800 wagon.
Came with a 1.8i litre opposed four putting out a whopping 85 hp from the factory. After it was introduced and sold like crazy in the mountain west it became apparent that the little engine couldn't at high altitudes and they gave it a turbo. The boost provided was just enough to make the engine viable above the tree line.

My FIL had one and took it out west for a multiweek driving vacation. Got caught in a rare rain event and loaded up the undercarriage and wheelwells with so much clay he had to take it to a town to be pressure washed off. Never missed a beat, even fighting clay to turn the wheels. Impressive for what it was. Loved the 2 stick setup. But extra slow. 2nd slowest car I've had.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 22, 2026 11:50 PM (zafwz)

251 243 If I had a hammer I'd sell it in the morning.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)
________________________

How much, and is it a claw hammer?

Posted by: Edmund Kemper at July 22, 2026 11:50 PM (dIske)

252 As soon as I saw "dry village in AK," I assumed it had something to do with Indians.

UT has lots of quaint (to an outsider) rules about liquor sales, and the Indian reservations in UT go way beyond that. PACK A COUPLE OF BOTTLES before visiting Monument Valley!

You'll thank me for this tip if you go. Otherwise, you may have to drive to AZ and back.
Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)

The problem with "dry villages" and "dry reserves" is that those villages and reserves simply export their problem drinkers to the nearest "wet" community. So the Indians come from the reserve in to the Big Smoke, with the expressed intention of getting rip-roaring drunk, thereby cementing the "drunken Indian" stereotype into the minds of the locals who have to deal with them. And there is no incentive for the Indians to learn to drink socially in moderation. It's institutionalized fail.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 11:51 PM (1z8ji)

253 252

and drunk driving accidents are considered to be death by natural causes.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)

254 An (almost single subject) Auto Thread! Yay!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 11:55 PM (IKpRc)

255 It's very difficult to make a VW bug handle well. The suspension design borders on covered wagon . . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:25 PM (Jr+re)

I have owned many of them. I figured they handled pretty well, until you exceeded their limits. But you had to work to do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 11:56 PM (1z8ji)

256 The town in jersey where I grew up was weird with the dry town thing. We had liquor stores, but there was no place to sit and have a drink, other than 2 places. One of them was grandfathered because Washington probably drank there it was so old, and that place had a house rule of you had to be 27 years old to enter. The second one was so close to a bordering town it got zoned as the other town. Other than that there were no places to drink. It really didn't matter because all the bordering towns were 2 miles or less away, and the main drag split 2 different towns. The north side was one town, the south side was my town. The north side had bars, which we literally could walk to. Still, it was strange. A little trivia, if you ever saw the movie, that movie was literally written by a chick that lived across the street from me, and the bar in that movie was inspired by the bar we could walk to on the north side of the road which was the other town.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 11:57 PM (S41Gd)

257 Fuck, the movie was hysterical blindness with Uma thurman.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 11:58 PM (S41Gd)

258 Never owned a Subaru. Hear that they're great, mostly. Did a few ignition module replacements, when I worked in the locksmith's shop-- they had (80s-90s that I saw) *plastic* keyways-- and would get worn due to the ever-popular fancy, heavy keychains that many women had.

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 11:59 PM (rdVOm)

259 In Indiana, only a drug store (a grocery store with a pharmacy) can get a license to sell hard liquor, so hard liquor sales stop when the pharmacy operations end. Pharmacies can sell beer and wine, but grocers/convenience stores can’t sell hard liquor without the pharmacy license setup.
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Who makes up this shit anyway?
Posted by: Cicero
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union, which, believe it or not, is still around, was the driving force behind Prohibition, and conducted rear guard activities after its repeal. "If we can't stop you from drinking, we can make it as uncomfortable as possible" accounts for many stupid drinking laws. For instance, it was illegal (in 1973) to stand while drinking in WA state. I don't know if that is still law.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 12:02 AM (cBDov)

260 Cat photo tip.

Saw the exact same meme on Barnhardt's meme page today.

Only dogs. Same exact photo. Same hands, background, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/55jftjf6

Which one is the real one? Memes are meant to be stolen, but plagiarized? My cynicism goes up a level every time I see someone re-do a meme. Or maybe it's the same guy and he did the same thing with his dogs and his cats. Hell I don't know.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 23, 2026 12:02 AM (IhL8c)

261 That was a big failure before 2010. They came up with a new gasket, and that's pretty much disappeared as a problem. My forester had the gasket replaced($2200) at 41k, but it has run great since. It laughs at snow, until it gets higher than the bottom of the grill. I've cruised around Jeeps, 4W trucks and even quattros on snowy uphills. It now uses a quart of oil every 4k, but I change it around 3500, so no big deal. 236,000 mi.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 22, 2026 10:54 PM (cBDov)

Being a boxer engine, don't they need 2 head gaskets?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 12:03 AM (1z8ji)

262 "Dear people who type in all lowercase, "
- - - - - -

People stopped using lowercase numbers years ago...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 23, 2026 12:03 AM (LCZyv)

263 Haven't found anything in English but apparently Ortega and Lula are political allies and buddies. There is speculation that Trump will extradite Ortega as he did Maduro.
There are not that many commies remaining in power in Central and South America, they are concerned.

Minute and half tells the tale:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sLehAPctK0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:03 AM (pMmVV)

264 For instance, it was illegal (in 1973) to stand while drinking in WA state. I don't know if that is still law.
Posted by: buddhaha

I don't know, either. Seems counterintuitive.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

265 I thought the AMC Eagle was the official car of the US Ski team, at least in the early 80's? It was sort of fun to have a station wagon, complete with fake-wood paneling on the side, with 11" of ground clearance, a full 4wd drivetrain, automatic transmission, plowing through the snow while you feel like you're sitting on grandma's couch. My parents had an '80 wagon, and I had an '83 SX/4. Amazing what those cars could do. The Subaru Outback I drive now is much more technologically advanced, but I'd wager the Eagle would beat it off-road.

Posted by: MaxDamage at July 23, 2026 12:04 AM (pUtWF)

266 In TX, it’s still local option. The county I live in was a dry county until recently. By recent I mean at some point this century they ditched being a dry county. At the county line you can see where a liquor store once stood that would sell alcohol to county residents.

Indeed, Lubbock County was a dry county until 2009 or so. I forget the exact year. But for the longest time you did not go to Tech for the party scene.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 12:06 AM (4g5V+)

267 226 I see someone suggested Musk give $100M to Mel Gibson to make a better Odyssey movie and he agreed on twitter.
----

Much to hWood's regret Gibson's movies make money.
Musk wouldn't have to give as much as invest.
For the trifecta he could open a brewery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:06 AM (pMmVV)

268 My father had 2 subarus, both foresters. He liked them only because he's tall and the taller roof gave him enough room to not his his head when he got in it. Both had AC compressor failures fairly early. He still has the second one and that just got a new AC compressor.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 12:06 AM (S41Gd)

269 249 I loved Northern Exposure when it first came on. Never missed an episode. But the show changed in the 4th season. The writers got all politically correct and they lost one of their stars, it just wasn't the same and that was it's last season.
Posted by: Case

Correct!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 12:08 AM (AGhLW)

270 259 In Indiana, only a drug store (a grocery store with a pharmacy) can get a license to sell hard liquor, so hard liquor sales stop when the pharmacy operations end. Pharmacies can sell beer and wine, but grocers/convenience stores can’t sell hard liquor without the pharmacy license setup.
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Who makes up this shit anyway?
Posted by: Cicero

Maybe there can be an AoS resource for stupid drinking laws. : )

Seriously. I found myself in KS late one Sunday night and tried to buy a beer and found out I could not buy a beer in KS past 2000 (or 8pm) on Sunday nights. WTF?

Or: In TX, no hard liquor sales except in liquor stores, but go to NM and you can buy hard liquor in Walmart.

Back in 2021 IIRC the law changed in TX so that you can buy alcohol starting at 1000 on Sundays rather than 1200. Not at liquor stores which are all closed, however.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 12:13 AM (4g5V+)

271 peeks in....

lurks...

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:14 AM (I0N4X)

272 Indeed, Lubbock County was a dry county until 2009 or so. I forget the exact year. But for the longest time you did not go to Tech for the party scene.
_-_
Ah, no, I was there. Trust me when I tell you Tech was definitely known as a party school in the 1980's and 1990's. South of town, there was a short section of road known as "The Strip" featuring places like Bob's Beer Drive thru - 8 lanes, no waiting. Took longer to graduate that way, but it could be done...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 12:16 AM (QeZws)

273 I have owned many of them. I figured they handled pretty well, until you exceeded their limits. But you had to work to do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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After school, on a rain soaked street I made a right turn; correction, I turned the wheel to the right the VW went diagonally across the street. The left front wheel stopped on a walkway of 2x12's across a ditch. The right front wheel suspended in air.
We, all, exited out the driver's door and gently pushed baby back onto the street.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:17 AM (pMmVV)

274 I love how Barnhardt recycles jokes from 1930's Germany. How cheeky of her, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 12:18 AM (rbvCR)

275 Travis Pastrana is the closest thing we'll ever get to Buckaroo Banzai. Absolutely amazing career, and it's amazing he's even still alive. I just hope he never takes up wingsuiting.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 23, 2026 12:18 AM (IhL8c)

276 Who makes up this shit anyway?
Posted by: Cicero
_-_
Mostly Baptists and Mormons....in Texas, Baptists.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 12:19 AM (QeZws)

277 I texted to two of my kids, two of my grandkids, and an 89 y/o friend the following:

"Mu psychiatrist told me to go camping with a friend to reduce stress, but it was just two i tents."

The two grandkids said, "nice one Grandpa." The two kids said, variations on "LOL". The 89-year-old said, " Tee hee hee!"

I'm noot sure what this tells me...

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:19 AM (I0N4X)

278 two in tents

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:19 AM (I0N4X)

279 "If it's a banger, it's got a typo"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 12:20 AM (rbvCR)

280 Reading and watching, it appears that Subaru's are fun cars but one should be ready to 'pay to play'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:21 AM (pMmVV)

281 Being a boxer engine, don't they need 2 head gaskets?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Now, you're being pedantic. Yes, it had two gaskets replaced.

Laying flat like that, the gaskets were continuously exposed to the coolant, which softened them, which led to failure. The new gaskets had a metal "sheath" over the material.
In standard I and V engines,the coolant drains away from the head gasket(s).

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 12:21 AM (cBDov)

282 Haven't found anything in English but apparently Ortega and Lula are political allies and buddies. There is speculation that Trump will extradite Ortega as he did Maduro.
There are not that many commies remaining in power in Central and South America, they are concerned.

Minute and half tells the tale:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sLehAPctK0
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:03 AM (pMmVV)

Ortega has shit the bed. I suspect his wife is behind this, mostly. The common people in Nica hate her guts, call her "La Bruja", the witch. The original Sandinistas, the die-hard Commies, were disgusted with Ortega, and called him "Somoza Leche", basically "Milquetoast Somoza". He actually enacted some decent reforms that would be appreciated here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 12:21 AM (1z8ji)

283 It's a primal force of nature, I am afraid.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2026 12:21 AM (rbvCR)

284 I was in texas for a guitar show. Not exactly sure where we ended up for diner. The show itself was in Arlington, but were at an Outback in another town not far from Arlington. To get a drink, actually the long island ice tea that came in my war trophy 20 ounce mug, the waitress said we had to "join the drinking club" and we had to fill out a card of some kind, basically register in order to drink. Never heard of that before, thats for sure. I still don't know what that was about.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 12:23 AM (S41Gd)

285 >>>Idaho State Liquor Stores used to be closed on Sundays. Don't remember when the law changed, but I think it was a compromise to prevent grocery store (&etc) sales. The State didn't want to lose its grip?

Beer & wine can be purchased just about anywhere, during certain hours of the day (allowed only 6am-2am), but "hard likker" must be purchased from a State Store.

Posted by: JQ

>Stupid laws. I can go to a bar or casino on sunday and buy liquor. I may pay more, but the casino is usually who picks up the tab.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 23, 2026 12:25 AM (sYM3s)

286 Never heard of that before, thats for sure. I still don't know what that was about.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

************

Utah says , "Hi!"

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:25 AM (I0N4X)

287 Laying flat like that, the gaskets were continuously exposed to the coolant, which softened them, which led to failure. The new gaskets had a metal "sheath" over the material.
In standard I and V engines,the coolant drains away from the head gasket(s).
Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 12:21 AM (cBDov)

Gaskets are continually exposed to coolant in inline and Vee engines, too. If Subaru had a problem, it was faulty gasket design. You really want the entire water jacket of the engine to stay flooded at all times, cold or hot. Antifreeze has corrosion inhibitors built in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 12:27 AM (1z8ji)

288 Wow, so Trump sues the BBC for a deceptive edit of one of his speeches...

And a US Judge now says that the BBC can investigate Trump's staff, FAMILY, and businesses... so they can defend themselves?

WTF?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2026 12:27 AM (mP0Kj)

289 286 Never heard of that before, thats for sure. I still don't know what that was about.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

************

Utah says , "Hi!"
****
Kansas: My brothers!

Posted by: clarence at July 23, 2026 12:27 AM (1QT7n)

290 The problem with "dry villages" and "dry reserves" is that those villages and reserves simply export their problem drinkers to the nearest "wet" community. So the Indians come from the reserve in to the Big Smoke, with the expressed intention of getting rip-roaring drunk, thereby cementing the "drunken Indian" stereotype into the minds of the locals who have to deal with them. And there is no incentive for the Indians to learn to drink socially in moderation. It's institutionalized fail.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 11:51 PM (1z8ji)

Up here, they send the miscreants to Anchorage for their court dates and then don't allow them to come home. Ergo, Anchorage is full of drunken Natives who commit crimes, and nobody does a damned thing about it.

The Native Hospital doesn't even have a dry-out center. They figure it is whitey's problem, not theirs.

Hence, the drunks passed out face down on the sidewalks in downtown. It's fabulous for the tourist trade.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (dH9tc)

291 >Stupid laws. I can go to a bar or casino on sunday and buy liquor. I may pay more, but the casino is usually who picks up the tab.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Oh, State Stores are *now* open on Sundays. Holidays, no. Got to plan ahead!

And what's really crazy, is that you can't buy liquor either in-store OR in a bar on Election Day, while polls are open. Beer & wine? No problemo! Cray cray!

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

292 Another odd twist to the liquor selling situation I ran into (in the 1990's, don't know what it is like now) were the state-owned "ABC" stores.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (QeZws)

293 154

Nicaragua’s lawmakers said they will carry out a plan by President Daniel Ortega to abolish elections in the Central American country, prompting renewed criticisms Wednesday by the international community.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:49 PM (Cqx++)

That dude is not a spring chicken.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (4g5V+)

294 And what's really crazy, is that you can't buy liquor either in-store OR in a bar on Election Day, while polls are open. Beer & wine? No problemo! Cray cray!
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

I suspect that is due to the high price paid by the porta potty lobby.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 12:30 AM (dH9tc)

295 We may be matriculating the ball down the field in re: The Curious Disappearance. Stay tuned!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:32 AM (I0N4X)

296 Berserker, you are officially a member of their private club.
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You really want the entire water jacket of the engine to stay flooded at all times, cold or hot. Antifreeze has corrosion inhibitors built in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Old International Harvester V8's say hello. They had specially designed heads that allowed water to circulate around the valves, cooling them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:35 AM (pMmVV)

297 Hence, the drunks passed out face down on the sidewalks in downtown. It's fabulous for the tourist trade.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (dH9tc)

Sounds like the Aboriginal people around Alice Springs.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 12:36 AM (gKWVE)

298 Not going to say anything about the tendency to drop a valve onto a piston.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:36 AM (pMmVV)

299 That dude is not a spring chicken.

Posted by: Cow Demon
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They've got some kind of plan for succession.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:38 AM (pMmVV)

300 Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:32 AM

Hope you find out what *really* happened!

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

301 298 Not going to say anything about the tendency to drop a valve onto a piston
_-_
Every vehicle has its charm, like my F-250 V-10 ejecting spark plugs, or those lovely plastic quick connect heater hose connectors I just replace (metal ones this time)!on my Yukon....just lovely...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 12:40 AM (AsA/B)

302 The wife wanted a Crosstrek so we ended up with one. Keep in mind I drive Town Cars by choice. Weirdest thing was all the "pro reviews" said it was painfully slow and handling was bad. What it reminds me of is the 2005 GTI I used to have without the 14 second quarter power, but its snappy enough for normal use. Modern people must be spoiled if they expect so much more out of a lower price small CUV. Only thing that worries me is I hear the plug change is a nightmare.

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 23, 2026 12:40 AM (3/XaG)

303 That dude is not a spring chicken.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 12:28 AM (4g5V+)

Over 80, IIRC, and has liver or kidney disease. Until this recent nonsense, my take on him was: "he is a pretty lame Commie, could have been much worse".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 12:41 AM (1z8ji)

304 Good evening morons en bedankt Dino

My first new car was a Subaru when I lived in Newsrk. Beat the hell out of that car, drove it cross country x3. Great in snow. Put in a sweet Casio tape deck. Broken into x3.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 23, 2026 12:44 AM (JvZF+)

305 Hope you find out what *really* happened!
Posted by: JQ

***********

I appreciate that. There is so much to the story that cries out to be told, but I have to keep some stuff non-public for now. Someday...

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 12:45 AM (I0N4X)

306 Old International Harvester V8's say hello. They had specially designed heads that allowed water to circulate around the valves, cooling them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:35 AM (pMmVV)

I don't know of any OHV, or flathead engines for that matter, that don't have some sort of water jacket in the valve area, at least the exhaust valve port. That is the one that gets hot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 12:45 AM (1z8ji)

307 RE: extraditing Ortega via DDG Search Assist - >

There is no indication that Donald Trump is extraditing Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The political landscape is currently focused on tensions between the U.S. and Mexico regarding extradition requests for Mexican officials.

U.S.-Mexico Extradition Tensions
Key Points
The Trump administration has been involved in a standoff with Mexico over the extradition of several Mexican officials charged with drug corruption.
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has refused to arrest these officials, including the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, despite U.S. requests.

Donroe Doctrine getting real down south from Mexico to Brazil.
Pincer, anyone?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:46 AM (pMmVV)

308 284 I was in texas for a guitar show. Not exactly sure where we ended up for diner. The show itself was in Arlington, but were at an Outback in another town not far from Arlington. To get a drink, actually the long island ice tea that came in my war trophy 20 ounce mug, the waitress said we had to "join the drinking club" and we had to fill out a card of some kind, basically register in order to drink. Never heard of that before, thats for sure. I still don't know what that was about.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 12:23 AM (S41Gd)

I think that’s a dry county/town thing. When that happened to me years ago in the Metroplex I opted for lemonade instead.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 12:46 AM (4g5V+)

309
Another interesting astronomical discovery was announced. They've found what they're calling an "exo-satellite" in a system about 73 ly away. Or you might call it a moon. If you do, this would be the first such exomoon discovered. The star is a red dwarf dubbed CD-35 2722.

Orbiting it at distance of 67 AU, is roughly 30 Jupiter mass brown dwarf, called CD-35 2722 b.

Now, they discovered that brown dwarf has a Jupiter mass object orbiting around it. And so just what to call it is a matter of debate that hasn't been decided. A brown dwarf is not a planet, and not a star, but in between. If it were a planet, it's satellite would be a moon, no question. If it were a star, the satellite would be a planet. But it's neither, so what do you call it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

310 My wife has a 2001 Forester, 269k trouble free miles. We got it used with 80k. Swapped on 2007 wheels/brake rotors since they are bigger. Stops like a Porsche, accelerates like a 63 VW Bug. Car never failed us, just normal maintenance. Replaced the fuel filter at 150k cuz it seemed like a good idea. Also got a 2017 Outback with zero problems at 89k. Totes reliable cars.

Posted by: Aawlberninf350 at July 23, 2026 12:48 AM (8RozV)

311 Two friends of mine drove from FL to Costa Rica years ago. I was told this was a good comparison between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

In Costa Rica, if coconuts fell from a tree, no big deal, the locals did nothing. No gathering the coconut or anything like that. In Nicaragua that coconut would be GONE in seconds.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 12:49 AM (4g5V+)

312 I don't know of any OHV, or flathead engines for that matter, that don't have some sort of water jacket in the valve area, at least the exhaust valve port. That is the one that gets hot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Had two midrange with IH V8's. The write up was that the valve cooling design was unique to those engines. Anecdotally, I can say those gas engines held up better than any other gasser on trucks of that size even though one did drop a valve on me.
Kudos to old time IH mechanics turn around time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:51 AM (pMmVV)

313 I think that’s a dry county/town thing. When that happened to me years ago in the Metroplex I opted for lemonade instead.
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Yup. Closest thing they could get to an outright prohibition. Needed an exception in the law for private organizations in order to get it passed.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 12:52 AM (QeZws)

314 seems rare enough to find a Jovian around a red dwarf let alone a brown one. usually red dwarfs collect earthlike or superearth planets. if they have planets at all

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2026 12:53 AM (gKWVE)

315 Jersey don't have state liquor stores. We have regular liquor stores that are either a chain or privately owned. They're open until 10pm and you can buy anything. After 10 you can only drink at a bar. As with anything else here shit is crazy. A lot of things are left up to the towns themselves. Supermarkets can sell beer or wine, but its rare. I think there is something like 29 different licenses for alcohol here covering manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and for the public warehousing and transport of alcoholic drinks. Like I said, the towns can have all different laws. Its why you can have douchebag laws in a douchebag town filled with douchebag people, and yet people from another part of jersey will ask how the fuck do you live like this as if talking about another country, because you almost are.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 12:53 AM (S41Gd)

316 Had two midrange with IH V8's. The write up was that the valve cooling design was unique to those engines. Anecdotally, I can say those gas engines held up better than any other gasser on trucks of that size even though one did drop a valve on me.
Kudos to old time IH mechanics turn around time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:51 AM (pMmVV)

International built good engines. Kind of famous for being thirsty, though. They may have altered the coolant flow pattern to favor cooling the valves more, but most liquid-cooled engines do have coolant passages around the exhaust ports.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 12:55 AM (1z8ji)

317 I expect the limits on purchasing alcohol work pretty much like the laws limiting the number of shots in a magazine. You just get more magazines.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2026 12:56 AM (dH9tc)

318 Thanks for being here, folks, see you tomorrow.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2026 12:57 AM (CHHv1)

319 Now, they discovered that brown dwarf has a Jupiter mass object orbiting around it. And so just what to call it is a matter of debate that hasn't been decided. A brown dwarf is not a planet, and not a star, but in between. If it were a planet, it's satellite would be a moon, no question. If it were a star, the satellite would be a planet. But it's neither, so what do you call it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

The Death Star?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 12:58 AM (qx7Zg)

320 Hi Muldoon!

I had two patients this week who work in the pediatric cardiac ICU at Seattle Children’s.

God bless you. Y’all are such special people. Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 12:59 AM (QKI1C)

321 Don't remember anything exceptional about the mileage. It wasn't worse than the DT-466, 6mpg, uphill, downhill, loaded, unloaded.
But. You could pop one cylinder on a warm engine and it would start.
And always bring you home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 12:59 AM (pMmVV)

322 I appreciate that. There is so much to the story that cries out to be told, but I have to keep some stuff non-public for now. Someday...
Posted by: muldoon

Understood.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

323 Took a pickup load of scrap metal to the scrap dealer today. I had 58 pounds of #2 copper, paid me 400 bucks, and 1580 pounds of "prepared steel" for 189 dollars. Nice payday for me. And about 6 bucks worth of aluminum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:00 AM (1z8ji)

324 ..., particularly the villages, none of which you can drive to except in the winter on a snow machine.
Posted by: tcn in AK

You can thank Jimmy Carter and Cecil Andrus for that. My Dad was part of the effort to stop the "wildernessing" (D-2 land bill) of all Alaska for 3 years, and then for the next 3 he was part of figuring out how to save the poor Indians who could no longer drive their truck out of town. Not a life-ending thing if you lived on a navigable river, but if no river the village your ancestors lived in is dead. "Big White Chief says so." They all carried guns into the villages to deliver the bad news to people they had gotten to know during the previous years.

Posted by: Igotnothing at July 23, 2026 01:00 AM (wo6er)

325 >> seems rare enough to find a Jovian around a red dwarf let alone a brown one.

This was probably a failed binary you might call it. One of them didn't get enough mass to make a star.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 01:01 AM (w6EFb)

326 317 I expect the limits on purchasing alcohol work pretty much like the laws limiting the number of shots in a magazine. You just get more magazines.
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And pretty widespread ignoring of the goofy laws. That was one of the first things done after the standard capacity magazine ban happened in Colorado. A protest where people symbolically exchanged 30 round magazines at the public protest.

Then there's the "bootleggers" that operated in Levelland (just west of Lubbock), until somebody got the idea to build a small town just east of Levelland that was not "dry", and people realized they were missing out on tax revenue...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:03 AM (QeZws)

327 Bottom line is that when six out oof seven archeology trained human remains detection dogs (cadaver dogs) say there are human remains in the vicinity you don't blow them off. Dogs don't lie.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 01:03 AM (I0N4X)

328 Now, they discovered that brown dwarf has a Jupiter mass object orbiting around it. And so just what to call it is a matter of debate that hasn't been decided. A brown dwarf is not a planet, and not a star, but in between. If it were a planet, it's satellite would be a moon, no question. If it were a star, the satellite would be a planet. But it's neither, so what do you call it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

The Death Star?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 23, 2026 12:58 AM (qx7Zg)

Seems to me the gas giant planets are made of star stuff, but are simply too small for their gravity compress hydrogen enough to initiate fusion. And maybe brown dwarfs are just a step on the continuum between gas giant planets and working stars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)

329 Oh, the one that dropped a valve on me. It was steaming and coughing and bucking BUT I made it back to domicile.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 01:03 AM (pMmVV)

330 Only new car I’ve ever bought was my 2009 Outback. It has 91,000 miles on it. Runs like a champ. Gets through snow and rain and mud and dirt roads like a goat.

I named it Grover.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 23, 2026 01:04 AM (yEz+x)

331 God bless you. Y’all are such special people. Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched

*********

I appreciate that. I'm so far removed from the day to day practice that it seems like a foreign country.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 01:07 AM (I0N4X)

332 Dogs don't lie.

Posted by: muldoon
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Getting close. Good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 01:08 AM (pMmVV)

333 I may make jokes about Subarus, but they are solid cars. Over the years, I have had very little call to work on them, because they simply don't break down that much. I seem to remember working on a friend's Legacy, but it was an owner-caused problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:08 AM (1z8ji)

334 I live in a small town, it is dry. Yet five miles from here there is another town which is wet. You can buy all the booze you want. I know it's silly but the other town voted for wet. Passed by seven votes. And the town makes money off the booze sales.

Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 01:08 AM (bqIVz)

335 >> Seems to me the gas giant planets are made of star stuff, but are simply too small for their gravity compress hydrogen enough to initiate fusion.

That's exactly it. Interestingly, their radius doesn't get much greater than Jupiter, maybe 2 times tops when young, and they settle right around Jupiter radius, despite being 13 - 80x Jupiter masses.

They can fuse deuterium, and the more massive ones can even burn lithium. To be called a star, it must be able to fuse hydrogen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 01:10 AM (w6EFb)

336 My brain is tired. Sleep beckons. Endeavor to persevere y'all!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 23, 2026 01:11 AM (I0N4X)

337 I live in a small town, it is dry. Yet five miles from here there is another town which is wet. You can buy all the booze you want. I know it's silly but the other town voted for wet. Passed by seven votes. And the town makes money off the booze sales.
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 01:08 AM (bqIVz)

A lot of hypocrisy in the dry/wet situation. "If you take a Baptist fishing with you, how do you stop him from drinking all your beer? Take another Baptist."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:12 AM (1z8ji)

338 Night, Muldoon. Hope your quest finds the answer soon!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:13 AM (1z8ji)

339 how do you stop him from drinking all your beer?
_-_
Yep. In western Colorado, I have heard the same joke substituting Mormon for Baptist.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:14 AM (QeZws)

340 Yep. In western Colorado, I have heard the same joke substituting Mormon for Baptist.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:14 AM (QeZws)

Yes. It would not surprise me at all to learn that in the wet town/dry town situation, the owner of the liquor store in the wet town was on the town council in the dry town, and votes to keep the town dry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:16 AM (1z8ji)

341 I know a guy who has been running four nearly identical Subaru's for a long time. He told me he drives the most worn one, his wife drives the one that has been freshly rebuilt, and he is always preparing the next one, and has another awaiting being rebuilt when that one is finished.
I do the same kind of rotation with my generators. Makes it easier, since you get to know the quirks of a particular model.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:20 AM (AsA/B)

342 Seems to me the gas giant planets are made of star stuff, ...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHLR-6TmHTk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 01:22 AM (pMmVV)

343 Did some drywall during my teen years for a guy putting in a "package store". (I had to have him explain what that meant.) He insisted that my buddy and I doing the work keep it quiet, since he didn't want it generally known...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:28 AM (QeZws)

344 I know a guy who has been running four nearly identical Subaru's for a long time. He told me he drives the most worn one, his wife drives the one that has been freshly rebuilt, and he is always preparing the next one, and has another awaiting being rebuilt when that one is finished.
I do the same kind of rotation with my generators. Makes it easier, since you get to know the quirks of a particular model.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:20 AM (AsA/B)

Reminds me of the pro shooters using Remington Model 1100 autoloading shotguns. They would have a least three; one to shoot, one as a spare, and one in the shop getting fixed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 23, 2026 01:31 AM (kdtv/)

345 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHLR-6TmHTk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 01:22 AM (pMmVV)

Nice jazz!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:33 AM (1z8ji)

346 Thanks TRex! I have a Subaru Impreza I bought from my in-laws. We managed with just a minivan for years (and six kids). Getting a second car changed everything. Especially now that they have Scouts, Taekwondo, swimming, etc.

I just pulled some capicola out of the oven. It is soooo good! I use the recipe from the Olympia Provisions cookbook. Everything in that book is super complicated and labor intensive, but this one recipe is like four ingredients and almost effortless. And I don't worry about finding a real coppa. I just reserve a few pounds of pork shoulder when I do something like sausage.

Posted by: frammish at July 23, 2026 01:40 AM (rcENI)

347 I know a guy who has been running four nearly identical Subaru's for a long time. He told me he drives the most worn one, his wife drives the one that has been freshly rebuilt, and he is always preparing the next one, and has another awaiting being rebuilt when that one is finished.
I do the same kind of rotation with my generators. Makes it easier, since you get to know the quirks of a particular model.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 23, 2026 01:20 AM (AsA/B)

Reminds me of the pro shooters using Remington Model 1100 autoloading shotguns. They would have a least three; one to shoot, one as a spare, and one in the shop getting fixed.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 23, 2026 01:31 AM (kdtv/)

I do that with a lot of things. Harleys, guitars, tools, etc. I call it spreading the wear around so no one thing gets hammered constantly.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 01:40 AM (S41Gd)

348 TAMPA, Fla. — At 10:30 p.m. ET on July 22, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed another round of strikes against Iran for the 12th consecutive night.

U.S. forces struck Iranian military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defense assets. The strikes further degrade Iran's ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels.
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Wait a second, you guys didn't publish anything about last night!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 01:41 AM (pMmVV)

349
That Jupiter mass "moon" could itself have moons. Sub-moons, or "moonlets" or even "moonmoons" can theoretically exist but it's a tricky thing stability wise.

For a moon of a moon to be stable, the main moon must be far away enough from its planet so the moonlet can be comfortably in the Hill sphere of the main moon, but not close enough to the planet for perturbations to be strong. And likewise the planet itself has to be far enough away from the star.

This brown dwarf system would easily meet those conditions.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 01:43 AM (w6EFb)

350 TAMPA, Fla. — At 10:30 p.m. ET on July 22, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed another round of strikes against Iran for the 12th consecutive night.

U.S. forces struck Iranian military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defense assets. The strikes further degrade Iran's ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels.
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Wait a second, you guys didn't publish anything about last night!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 01:41 AM (pMmVV)

No biggie, it was just another night of us smashing all the seemingly endless amount of toys Iran bought with money given to them by democrats.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 01:46 AM (S41Gd)

351 What is a "package store"? Google says it's a place that sells alcohol you have to drink at home. But I don't understand what that has to do with drywall.

Posted by: frammish at July 23, 2026 01:47 AM (rcENI)

352 Hey Horde, I would have been here an hour ago but I got to reading all of the comments first. Happy Wednesday, very nice ONT TRex.

Bers, I have never seen that movie but I think that I would like it.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 01:49 AM (ibDUx)

353 What is a "package store"? Google says it's a place that sells alcohol you have to drink at home. But I don't understand what that has to do with drywall.

Posted by: frammish at July 23, 2026 01:47 AM (rcENI)

It might not have been on the up and up and was meant to stay secret. The dudes doing the sheetrock were asked to stay quite.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 01:49 AM (S41Gd)

354 I finally moved into my new office a couple weeks ago.

When we bought the house, there was a half-finished room over the garage, with a slanted roof. At one end is a door from the master bedroom closet, and at the other end is a window. There are knee walls along the sides where the roof gets to about 4 feet. The old owners ran electricity and HVAC, but no insulation, etc. We used it for storage for years, but lately we've been wanted another bedroom.

I wanted to turn the knee walls into built-in bookshelves, with one panel that rolls or swings out, like a secret door, so we can still access the parts over the eaves for storage. So I put in insulation, but then I got stuck. We wanted tongue-and-groove, but nothing was square. The peak has 2x4s going across to make a flat roof. Some are 22.5" long, some 20". So I didn't know how to deal with that. Especially running t&g, I was afraid it would look bad. Probably add shims to lower the narrow parts, so they are all equal?

(con't...)

Posted by: frammish at July 23, 2026 01:55 AM (rcENI)

355 "Package Store" is the term for liquor store in the South. Lived in Florida for a while, and they had "package lounges" what let you drink there, OR buy bottles to go.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

356 Hi, Debby! Yep, lots o' content tonight!

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)

357 (... con't) After a couple years of being too busy to make progress, I finally hired someone. Everything was done in a few weeks, including carpet & drywall in the storage spaces, hardwood floor in the office, the bookshelves, and one section on each side that rolls out on casters. (We couldn't figure out how to solve the clearance problem for something 12" deep to swing.) It's been a lot of fun to move in and work there the last few weeks. And now we have even more space for books!

Posted by: frammish at July 23, 2026 01:57 AM (rcENI)

358 Bers, I have never seen that movie but I think that I would like it.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 01:49 AM (ibDUx)

I never saw it, I'm afraid to, yet I heard all about it. The characters were heavily inspired by people I knew from the area and went to school with. When I read the story I just about shit my pants because I immediately knew the characters. Uma Thurman played a chick that lived on my street. One of the other characters was most likely an ex girlfriend of mine. Yeah I'm not touching that one. That bar eventually became a metal band venue, and I have seen Uma Thurman's character there there during some gigs. If I see a frigging metal guitar player in that movie I'll probably lose my shit. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 01:59 AM (S41Gd)

359 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to hold an important, rare meeting on Thursday to address bilateral relations in the context of the Ukraine war, as well as recent nuclear rhetoric out of European NATO countries.

The Kremlin is especially alarmed at the German government's intent to gain access to nuclear weapons, based on new defense agreements with France and its 'nuclear umbrella'. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz unveiled late last week: "Alongside this work on a shared doctrine, German conventional forces will this year take part in a nuclear exercise of the French military."
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The French are going to give the Germans nuclear weapons?
The French have nuclear weapons? Did they receive them from us?
Jeepers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 02:01 AM (pMmVV)

360 Seems to me the gas giant planets are made of star stuff, but are simply too small for their gravity compress hydrogen enough to initiate fusion. And maybe brown dwarfs are just a step on the continuum between gas giant planets and working stars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)

Jupiter in a real sense is a brown dwarf star. It gives off everything else except visible light. If it got 65% more massive, it starts giving off its own light.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:03 AM (4g5V+)

361 The French are going to give the Germans nuclear weapons?
The French have nuclear weapons? Did they receive them from us?
Jeepers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 02:01 AM (pMmVV)

The French has had their own nuclear weapons since 1960.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:04 AM (4g5V+)

362 Hi JQ, we still call them packies, at least in my part of the state. During covid my neighbor would ask us for a list for the packy run, he was delivering to almost the whole street on a bi-weekly basis.

LOL, Bers, I get the anxiety.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 02:05 AM (ibDUx)

363 The French have nuclear weapons? Did they receive them from us?
Jeepers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 02:01 AM (pMmVV)

The French developed their own nuclear weapons, as did the British. In the late '50's early '60's. They detonated a hydrogen bomb at Mururoa Atoll in the Tahiti Archipelago in the '70's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 02:06 AM (1z8ji)

364 Jupiter in a real sense is a brown dwarf star. It gives off everything else except visible light. If it got 65% more massive, it starts giving off its own light.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:03 AM (4g5V+)

If you jammed three jumper cables into it, could you get 3-phase power?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 02:08 AM (1z8ji)

365 364 Jupiter in a real sense is a brown dwarf star. It gives off everything else except visible light. If it got 65% more massive, it starts giving off its own light.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:03 AM (4g5V+)

If you jammed three jumper cables into it, could you get 3-phase power?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 02:08 AM (1z8ji)

I don't know, but yesterday it blamed the dog.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 02:13 AM (zZxsY)

366 I still remember the days of waiting for an approaching 666 on the ONT at all hours so I could post as The Hag. Would get it more often than not when I tried. I guess those days, good and bad, are long gone.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 02:13 AM (vE0+H)

367 Jupiter in a real sense is a brown dwarf star. It gives off everything else except visible light. If it got 65% more massive, it starts giving off its own light.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:03 AM (4g5V+)

If your mom gets 65% more massive, she'll be on My 600 Pound Life.

Posted by: word to your moms at July 23, 2026 02:13 AM (ld3Nb)

368 LOL @ "packy run" Debby! Cool neighbor...

We weren't *locked down* here, like many other states. Just some stores required face diapers. I avoided those. My fave grocery encouraged the masks, but didn't really enforce. When I had to go there during busy hours, I'd wear one, but always had a Sharpie, to write quotes from 1984 on it before entering.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

369 Actually, maybe a sufficiently-advanced civilization could manipulate a planet like Jupiter into becoming the power source for an Alcubierre warp drive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 02:15 AM (1z8ji)

370 LOL, Bers, I get the anxiety.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 02:05 AM (ibDUx)

Ironically, both the main characters are dead in real life. I literally just found out about one of them this past weekend, because my brother is still in touch with one of the sisters. I heard about small worlds, but this one....Jesus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:16 AM (S41Gd)

371 Subarus are excellent and retain their value. But oh no some liberal douchenag somewhere drives one so I guess I'm supposed to piss myself and boycott them so I can make love to my own conservative bona fides.

Okay I know it's not "some" douchebag it's all the douchebags. Do people really care? Douches are known for driving EVERYTHING. Mustangs, pickups, BMWs, Tesla, electric, petrol, solar....

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 02:18 AM (vE0+H)

372 France and Germany playing footsie with nukes.
No wonder Putin is worried.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 02:19 AM (pMmVV)

373 We worked in a house one time in an upper class area with very old houses. During the renovation we came across a hidden area in the house that the owners didn't even know about. The entrance was paneled over. It seemed to be a very small speak easy, like maybe a few people at a time could fit. There were a few shelves on the wall that still had the ring stains of bottles. At first we thought old pantry, but this was nowhere near the kitchen, not even on the same floor. God only knows how long it was sealed off.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:22 AM (S41Gd)

374
You'd need some Jupiter-sized negative mass-energy as well as positive. That's been proven generally. Any superluminal warp bubble needs exotic matter.

Interestingly, somebody found a "subluminal" type of warp bubble solution that could be done with just regular matter. It was a numerical solution, I think.

Still way beyond anything we could imagine doing. This is Type II civilization level stuff, able to control power levels equal to the output of a star in a small space without blowing your self up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:23 AM (w6EFb)

375 Way cool, Bers!

Prohibition caused some creative solutions, huh?

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

376 There's a conservative lesson inside the Subaru. The harsher mileage regulations were biased against carmakers (Subaru) that did not offer an electric model. In order to meet epa standards, quality on the Impreza suffered.

It was lowered to the legal limit and even though it's all wheel drive can't really function on anything but flat pavement. Slight bumps ground it. It also used oil from new.

So the same EPA many Subaru drivers cheer for (see NPR), was forcing Subaru to make less reliable cars.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 02:26 AM (kK7U2)

377 There was a local game processor, what got busted for growing weed some years ago... had a false wall/secret area in the back.

Legit business up front-- they did good work. Don't recall how they got busted, it's been a long time.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:28 AM (rdVOm)

378 I'm alone here now, but another fun note is that the turbo charged Impreza STI is a favorite of the modder class. I've seen numbers like 1000 HP which, you know is a lot, for such a small car. They are sleepers.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 02:29 AM (kK7U2)

379
You could do some pretty cool stuff with one of those subluminal warp bubbles. Incredible acceleration without feeling one ounce of force. And you can adjust proper time flow inside the bubble as well. (As you can with the superluminal ones).

You just create a little patch of spacetime inside the bubble that gets dragged along. Those inside are in free fall always, just floating, no matter what the bubble itself does.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:30 AM (w6EFb)

380 Checking 2 different weather forecasts... Fk-- 106/107 they say for Thursday. 104/106 for Friday. Ugh!

I hate summer.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

381 Way cool, Bers!

Prohibition caused some creative solutions, huh?

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

It seems so. These were big houses, and the original owners no doubt had money and no doubt the funds to have a private booze collection during those times. We did a few jobs in that area. I'll never forget asking a somewhat new owner of this one house who was there about 1 1/2 years how many bathrooms the place had. He thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, you know, I don't even know.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:33 AM (S41Gd)

382 He thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, you know, I don't even know.
Posted by: Berserker

Should've asked the ~~wife~~ housekeeper.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

383 Still way beyond anything we could imagine doing. This is Type II civilization level stuff, able to control power levels equal to the output of a star in a small space without blowing your self up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:23 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, that Michio Kaku dude said we might not be getting visited by alien races because the galaxy could be littered by dead type 0 civilizations who never passed the "blowing themselves up" phase. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:36 AM (S41Gd)

384 241 There are dry villages in Alaska??

If you've ever met a drunk Eskimo you'd understand.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (h906C)

There are dry villages in Northwest Territories, too. A tacit admission by the Indians that Indians cannot hold their liquor. Still, this is a very petty prosecution by the State. A six pack of Budweiser wouldn't get a baby drunk. Pilot was not smuggling, nor aiding and abetting smuggling. It was goods for personal consumption by the passenger. Full stop. If it had been ten cases of 24, different story; pilot would have certainly known.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)

Yeah, this has the same vibe as civil asset forfeiture; another method used to strip Americans of their cash and property under the color of law. I hate the greed of Gov't and their minions. Of course Alaska's stance of a $95k Cesna forfeiture for a six-pack of beer that his PASSENGER packed was "In response, lawyers from the Alaska Attorney General’s office argued that the state Supreme Court’s 'fact-bound decision' should be allowed to stand."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 02:38 AM (l3cgK)

385 Oh JQ, that sounds like a miserable forecast, I hope that you can manage to stay as comfortable as possible. Damn that is hot.

I guess that I am getting old, sweet dreams Horde, I need to sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 23, 2026 02:38 AM (ibDUx)

386 I worked in some larger homes in this area, doing re-key work for the lock shop.

Wow.

You drive by, and think 'nice place' and that's it... Well, some of them are WAY larger and much fancier than one would imagine, at just a glance.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

387 383 Still way beyond anything we could imagine doing. This is Type II civilization level stuff, able to control power levels equal to the output of a star in a small space without blowing your self up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:23 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah, that Michio Kaku dude said we might not be getting visited by alien races because the galaxy could be littered by dead type 0 civilizations who never passed the "blowing themselves up" phase. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:36 AM (S41Gd)

We might also live in the ghetto part of the Galaxy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 02:40 AM (l3cgK)

388 'Night, Debby. Hope you're staying *cool*!!!

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm)

389 We might also live in the ghetto part of the Galaxy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 02:40 AM (l3cgK)

Its possible. I'm sure Newark is responsible in some ways.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:44 AM (S41Gd)

390 My lil portable a/c does good enough job to keep living room cool. Also, half the main floor if I don't go in/out very much and keep the drapes closed. It's not really too bad.

I have a fan by the bed, so that helps at night when I can't open windows to cool the house.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)

391
Suppose we did discover some Type II level source of energy, or even a good Type I (planetary level).

Now, the mullahs get a hold of it. What are they gonna do?

You got it, blow us all up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:45 AM (w6EFb)

392 24 So . . . we're giving up the Philly humor ...?
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 22, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)

nooo!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 02:45 AM (faghi)

393 There are dry villages in Northwest Territories, too. A tacit admission by the Indians that Indians cannot hold their liquor. Still, this is a very petty prosecution by the State. A six pack of Budweiser wouldn't get a baby drunk. Pilot was not smuggling, nor aiding and abetting smuggling. It was goods for personal consumption by the passenger. Full stop. If it had been ten cases of 24, different story; pilot would have certainly known.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)

Yeah, this has the same vibe as civil asset forfeiture; another method used to strip Americans of their cash and property under the color of law. I hate the greed of Gov't and their minions. Of course Alaska's stance of a $95k Cesna forfeiture for a six-pack of beer that his PASSENGER packed was "In response, lawyers from the Alaska Attorney General’s office argued that the state Supreme Court’s 'fact-bound decision' should be allowed to stand."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 02:38 AM (l3cgK)

Yeah, you wonder at what point the dude just rents a plane, packs it with TNT, puts on a headband, drinks some Sake, goes divine wind and aims the plane at the mofos.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:47 AM (S41Gd)

394 If you jammed three jumper cables into it, could you get 3-phase power?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 02:08 AM (1z8ji)

We should try it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:48 AM (4g5V+)

395 The French developed their own nuclear weapons, as did the British. In the late '50's early '60's. They detonated a hydrogen bomb at Mururoa Atoll in the Tahiti Archipelago in the '70's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2026 02:06 AM (1z8ji)

They were doing underwater nuclear tests in the South Pacific as late as the 1990s.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:50 AM (4g5V+)

396 Suppose we did discover some Type II level source of energy, or even a good Type I (planetary level).

Now, the mullahs get a hold of it. What are they gonna do?

You got it, blow us all up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:45 AM (w6EFb)

I think that was Michio Kaku's point. He said basically Type 0 civilizations get around to discovering atomics and then all bets are off to what can happen.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:50 AM (S41Gd)

397 When a baseball player hits 400 HRs for his career he is considered a lock for the HoF.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:51 AM (4g5V+)

398
There are massive electrical currents, circuits if you will, between Jupiter and its moon. Io is a biggy. They are orbiting in Jupiter's huge magnetic field, which acts like a generator.

There are massive currents from Io to Jupiter and back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:51 AM (w6EFb)

399 It’s always good to have a 400 post ONT.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:52 AM (4g5V+)

400 I apologize for continuously bringing the discussion of both cars and Jupiter back to emissions.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 02:52 AM (zZxsY)

401 Bumper sticker seen in Amarillo on a Pleiades: LESBARU

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:52 AM (4g5V+)

402 It’s always good to have a 400 post ONT.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 02:52 AM (4g5V+)

We used to hit a hell of a lot more without batting an eye.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:53 AM (S41Gd)

403
Luckily for us, nuclear bombs aren't so easy to make, otherwise the nutjobs would've already done us in, most likely.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:54 AM (w6EFb)

404 >>Alaska's stance of a $95k Cesna forfeiture for a six-pack of beer that his PASSENGER packed was ...

Due to some politician (or their fambly member) wanting a puddle-jumper of their very own, but didn't want to fking PAY for it..

FIFM

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

405 368 My fave grocery encouraged the masks, but didn't really enforce. When I had to go there during busy hours, I'd wear one, but always had a Sharpie, to write quotes from 1984 on it before entering.
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 02:56 AM (faghi)

406 Luckily for us, nuclear bombs aren't so easy to make, otherwise the nutjobs would've already done us in, most likely.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 02:54 AM (w6EFb)

That would have sealed their doom. We would loose a city, but they would be erased from the face of the planet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 23, 2026 02:56 AM (S41Gd)

407 @403.

North Korea has nukes.

Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 02:57 AM (bqIVz)

408
Jupiter in a real sense is a brown dwarf star. It gives off everything else except visible light. If it got 65% more massive, it starts giving off its own light.
Posted by: Cow Demon

It is good to have goals!

-- Ham Planets of the Alphabet Mob

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2026 02:59 AM (s9VOe)

409 400 I apologize for continuously bringing the discussion of both cars and Jupiter back to emissions.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 02:52 AM (zZxsY)

Uranus has emissions too...they smell like rotten eggs.
https://tinyurl.com/28yn5m8j

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 03:00 AM (l3cgK)

410 Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 02:56 AM

Yeah.. Too bad they mostly went "whoooosh!" over people's heads..

When a cashier told me how she thought it was so *nice of me* when she read my "Our new happy life" quote, I knew I had to get more aggressive. LOL! I explained the sarcasm to her, and then she laughed even harder!

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

411 Jupiter is one of the reasons things on Earf are as stable as they are...so many comets and asteroids have been sucked into or deflected away by its gravitational influence, avoiding Earf. It's a bit hit-and-miss though, with some bodies thrown towards Earf.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 03:08 AM (l3cgK)

412 So if I want an odd number of tacos I'd better get at least one left taco?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 03:10 AM (l3cgK)

413
My fave grocery encouraged the masks, but didn't really enforce. When I had to go there during busy hours, I'd wear one, but always had a Sharpie, to write quotes from 1984 on it before entering.
Posted by: JQ

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

Haha! I found some masks like that on amazon that I wore into grocery stores, one of them said, "I'm only wearing this so you'll sell me food" another one said ," i'm only wearing this so I won't get arrested."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 23, 2026 03:10 AM (mmrXZ)

414 Is it safe to eat lettuce in Mexican food form again?

No matter the veggie, wash it very, very well if you intend to eat it raw. AS for me, I mostly eat cooked veggies for that very reason (and that I'm immunocompromised by my transplant meds).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 03:11 AM (l3cgK)

415
Also, good evening!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 23, 2026 03:11 AM (mmrXZ)

416 My aunt Karen (not her real name, but fitting for her) was upset when I told her about my non-conformist mask messages. She was furious, LOL.

Especially the "front toward enemy" one. Heh.

Sorry, not sorry, aunt Karen. Oh, and haven't gotten a Christmas card from her ever since. :shrug:

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

417 410 Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 02:56 AM

Yeah.. Too bad they mostly went "whoooosh!" over people's heads..

When a cashier told me how she thought it was so *nice of me* when she read my "Our new happy life" quote, I knew I had to get more aggressive. LOL! I explained the sarcasm to her, and then she laughed even harder!
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

And maybe sparked conversations. It's a commendable act of defiance.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 03:14 AM (faghi)

418 413 Haha! I found some masks like that on amazon that I wore into grocery stores, one of them said, "I'm only wearing this so you'll sell me food" another one said ," i'm only wearing this so I won't get arrested."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 23, 2026 03:10 AM (mmrXZ)

Nice!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 03:14 AM (faghi)

419 Oh hell, Blondie-- no need to BUY masks! They were everywhere, for free! Hence, the Sharpie. LOL.

2 + 2 = 5

Down with Big Brother!

Can you smell it?

...and so forth...

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

420 416 My aunt Karen (not her real name, but fitting for her) was upset when I told her about my non-conformist mask messages. She was furious, LOL.

Especially the "front toward enemy" one. Heh.

Sorry, not sorry, aunt Karen. Oh, and haven't gotten a Christmas card from her ever since. :shrug:

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

Ha! I like the claymore (explosive, not sword) message...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 03:15 AM (l3cgK)

421 416 My aunt Karen (not her real name, but fitting for her) was upset when I told her about my non-conformist mask messages. She was furious, LOL.

Especially the "front toward enemy" one. Heh.

Sorry, not sorry, aunt Karen. Oh, and haven't gotten a Christmas card from her ever since. :shrug:
Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

It just gets better and better.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 03:16 AM (faghi)

422 >> It's a bit hit-and-miss though, with some bodies thrown towards Earf.

Yes. They used to think Jupiter was a big net plus, shielding the inner solar system. But then computing power got to be great enough and cheap enough to allows complicated numerical simulations to run and it's a mixed picture.

Jupiter is a net shield for Oort cloud, long period stuff getting thrown in. However, it perturbs the short period stuff inside its orbit too, and it's probably a negative negative there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2026 03:17 AM (w6EFb)

423 It just gets better and better.
Posted by: m

Yep! She was going off at me, about Trump... (it was 2020) Poo-tin this and Poo-tin that-- blahblah fkn blah... how could *anyone* vote for that guy?!

And I told her I would CRAWL OVER BROKEN GLASS TO VOTE FOR HIM.

AGAIN!!!!

Oh, Lordy! She. Was. Pissed. LMAO.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

424 Some of the area gardeners who normally take their produce to the farmers market to sell are now selling their lettuce to area grocery stores and restaurants.

Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 03:26 AM (bqIVz)

425 Lettuce is okay. But *just* okay. I can live without it. Meh. Crunchy water.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:30 AM (rdVOm)

426 Wasn't lettuce going to be considered as a potential vehicle for delivery of (unwanted, covert) vaxx?

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

427 New crop of Walla Walla Sweet Onions is coming in... Oh, yeah!

They make the best onion rings, omg.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)

428 245 Don't know any Subaru songs.

So…

https://youtu.be/NwgGuadsqyo

G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - Headin' on down the road. at July 22, 2026 11:43 PM (M5tgA)

Plenty of songs that mention the Pleiades, though! I had no idea until I looked up just now, Jimmy Buffett alone has at least three. Trivia: in Western mythology (and this song) they're also called the Seven Sisters, but Subaru's logo only has six stars, with one explanation being that's how many are readily visible to the naked eye.

Jimmy Buffett - Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship (Audio)
https://youtu.be/as5PcS76vcc

Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 03:40 AM (Sy6m/)

429 France, Germany, Pakistan and UK with nukes is bothersome.
Especially considering that they are all Islamic nations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 03:40 AM (pMmVV)

430 Subaru logo is *one* plus *five*

Odd numbers are lucky.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:41 AM (rdVOm)

431 I'm going to bed. Good night everyone.

p.s. that eight minute lap is a pleasure to watch

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 03:43 AM (pMmVV)

432 'Night, Braenyard. Sleep well.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

433 Time for me to get up

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 03:47 AM (Ia/+0)

434 Does Uranus blame the dog?

That's obviously not the highbrow way to take the conversation, so in the interest of the more theoretical:

why aren't hemorrhoids more properly called assteroids?

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 03:48 AM (zZxsY)

435 429 France, Germany, Pakistan and UK with nukes is bothersome.
Especially considering that they are all Islamic nations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 23, 2026 03:40 AM (pMmVV)

(Sigh) AGAIN…

“Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome – we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until He ends the game, not us.” - Robert Pratt

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 03:48 AM (4g5V+)

436 It's about time you got up Skip. Layabout.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 03:49 AM (zZxsY)

437 434 Does Uranus blame the dog?

That's obviously not the highbrow way to take the conversation, so in the interest of the more theoretical:

why aren't hemorrhoids more properly called assteroids?

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 03:48 AM (zZxsY)

Because some celestial assholes already took that name?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 03:50 AM (l3cgK)

438 >>>Highlights from the Pittsburgh police scanner are on pause this week (mostly because none of the entries involve Subarus). Pretty sure that means double the chaos next week though.

I told a friend about the Pittsburgh police scanner 𝕏 site yesterday; she has a son moving to the area and has been there many times, but remarkably did not yet know about:

@pgh_scanner

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 03:50 AM (faghi)

439 407 @403.

North Korea has nukes.
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 02:57 AM (bqIVz)

Nukes are more important than, say, food.

Just ask the DPRK’s people if you can.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 03:52 AM (4g5V+)

440 366 I still remember the days of waiting for an approaching 666 on the ONT at all hours so I could post as The Hag. Would get it more often than not when I tried. I guess those days, good and bad, are long gone.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2026 02:13 AM (vE0+H)

Big news days it still happens, I think?

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 03:54 AM (faghi)

441
Oh hell, Blondie-- no need to BUY masks! They were everywhere, for free! Hence, the Sharpie. LOL.

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

I should have thought of it!

Get this, I was working onsite at the time and my employer required us to wear masks at all times -- but they were real stingy about doling them out. "Didn't you get one yesterday??" the receptionist would sternly ask me. God I'll never go back to that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 03:54 AM (mmrXZ)

442 >>Nukes are more important than, say, food.
Just ask the DPRK’s people if you can.
------

I'm guessing it's the same in eye-ran.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)

443
Especially the "front toward enemy" one. Heh.

Sorry, not sorry, aunt Karen. Oh, and haven't gotten a Christmas card from her ever since. :shrug:
Posted by: JQ

2 + 2 = 5

Down with Big Brother!

Can you smell it?

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

Got any others? I could remember them for t-shirts should the need arise.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2026 03:57 AM (mmrXZ)

444 Blondie-- my (now, former) employer had boxes of masks throughout the work areas, for anyone what wanted them.

It was always my pleasure to point out that the end of the box was printed with a message, stating that the masks would NOT protect against viruses. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

445 I should point out the tech thread imposes a hard limit on comment counts for the ONT. There's likely a data point that shows an ASSymptotic on thread count limits of Egyptian cotton sheets when TTT (The Tech Thread) comes online.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 03:59 AM (zZxsY)

446 445 I should point out the tech thread imposes a hard limit on comment counts for the ONT. There's likely a data point that shows an ASSymptotic on thread count limits of Egyptian cotton sheets when TTT (The Tech Thread) comes online.
Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 03:59 AM (zZxsY)

Good point.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:00 AM (faghi)

447 439 407 @403.

North Korea has nukes.
Posted by: Case at July 23, 2026 02:57 AM (bqIVz)

Nukes are more important than, say, food.

Just ask the DPRK’s people if you can.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 03:52 AM (4g5V+)

USA
Russia
UK
France
China
India
Pakistan
North Korea
Israel

Supposedly South Africa had them too, but AFAIK never fully confirmed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 04:02 AM (l3cgK)

448 The medical complex where most of hubby's doctors are, *still* has a box of masks at every entrance. Thankfully, no longer see the ~~gestapo~~ screeners near the doors. I grab a couple of masks every time we go there, because I use them when cleaning out the ashes from pellet stove, or sometimes mowing the yard when it's been very dry, dusty.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:04 AM (rdVOm)

449 Earlier post on rethugliKKKan fund raising advantage means little to angry voters as most voters are. The problem democrat party has is their donors want only bipartisan can't we all get along democrats to win primaries who won't interfere with trump's tax cuts for the donors. Along with the Israel lobby they try to prevent real progressives let alone lefties from winning primaries. They want schumer/jefferies types not AOC/Mamdani types. Ask your self what good is flooding campaigns with cash when the voters want to see you in a re-education camp or a ditch?

Posted by: raimondo at July 23, 2026 04:05 AM (oVHxa)

450 442 >>Nukes are more important than, say, food.
Just ask the DPRK’s people if you can.
------

I'm guessing it's the same in eye-ran.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)

Iran so far away...

Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at July 23, 2026 04:06 AM (l3cgK)

451 I found a reference to Pixy as early as December 2018, but I'm not sure when he first posted:

31 ah shit... my save tags ruined it for everyone.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 17, 2018 07:26 PM (zJ7J0

-----

Save tags are a base and callow barrel-avoidance tactic.

Even if Pixy can't see what you're doing, G-d still can.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2018 07:38 PM (5aX2M)

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:08 AM (faghi)

452 Ooh, here's one from November 2014!

496 I know the recycled cardboard AoS membership plan has its limitations, but I still wish Pixy's formatting rules were consistent from day to day!
Posted by: Hrothgar at November 28, 2014 05:57 PM (fL/7/)

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:10 AM (faghi)

453 I'm not sure when he first posted = I'm not sure when he became a cob-logger

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:12 AM (faghi)

454 Blondie--

Smith, W. 6709

Emmanuel Goldstein lives

I sold you, you sold me

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)

455 This one is so perfect and universal:

2 + 2 = 5

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:17 AM (faghi)

456 Smith, W. 6709

Emmanuel Goldstein lives

I sold you, you sold me

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)

6079

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 23, 2026 04:18 AM (4g5V+)

457 455 This one is so perfect and universal:

2 + 2 = 5
Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:17 AM (faghi)

A bit mathy for the blog, tho.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:19 AM (faghi)

458 Making a bacon, eggs and cheese English muffin again
Havecto hit the road soon

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2026 04:22 AM (Ia/+0)

459 6079
Posted by: Cow Demon

Thanks.

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)

460 Other messages were:

Kung Flu Fighting!

Don't breathe on me

Kiss my vax

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:26 AM (rdVOm)

461 Subaru backwards is U R a Bus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 04:29 AM (l3cgK)

462 Good night, horde.

Sleeeeeeeep.....

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

463 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:30 AM (faghi)

464 Nood

Posted by: JQ at July 23, 2026 04:31 AM (rdVOm)

465 461 Subaru backwards is U R a Bus...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 04:29 AM (l3cgK)

huh!

Posted by: m at July 23, 2026 04:31 AM (faghi)

466 461 Subaru backwards is U R a Bus...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 23, 2026 04:29 AM (l3cgK)

Pleiades backwards is Sed AI 'elp. They were ahead of their time!

Posted by: SciVo at July 23, 2026 04:37 AM (Sy6m/)

467 The assymptotic limit exposed, the black hole revealed, the death of the ONT has arrived: all hail the form of our destructor: The Tech Thread, now coated in Stay Puft Marshmallow.

Posted by: meh at July 23, 2026 04:47 AM (kK7U2)

468 Picking this up early (my) morning, like 05:00 - nothing like having some damned hard carapace iridescent brown beetle land on your nose while you're sleeping - and I'm aware of the nood, but I want to apologize to AOP about gaskets and coolant. I had some sort of brain fart and in dredging up my Subaru history, "coolant" got substituted for "oil".
I'll correct it next ONT.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 23, 2026 07:55 AM (cBDov)

You Can't Spell Humpday Without Cafe*
* You need the "a"

Matthew Paulson
@MattPaulson28
Kirkjufell is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in Iceland. It was high n my photography list. You may recognize it from Game of Thrones. I made sure one night we stayed in a nearby town. I returned to photograph it at sunset. this picture was taken at 12:14AM.

Baby muskoxes (muskoxen?) get the zoomies.

Sports mascot just won't give up on trying to impress a girl.

Dog playing with capybara.

Puppy gives airplane smooches.

Goat v. Capybara. Butt against Butt.

Greed doesn't always work.

Some kind of weasel?

Birthday party for a cat.

Golden retrievers look like goldfish in a river.

Goodest bellboy..🐕‍🦺🔔😅 pic.twitter.com/Gn5VwlqIcI
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 16, 2026

Overly-emotional golden retriever gets depressed every time his dad leaves the house:

Input lag..🐕🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/lE6bHnBoiM
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 15, 2026

Dog's reaction to seeing favorite hooman after 17 days..🐕🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/Q9TniPD2oD
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 15, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:40 PM

Comments

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1 Nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (2GVsD)

2 My first first!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (GTqXr)

3 Zwei!

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (2GVsD)

4 Missed it by >< this much...sadz

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (GTqXr)

5 Kowabunga!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (YlWIZ)

6 top 10

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 22, 2026 07:43 PM (B2pWp)

7 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Need a laugh?

The super genius legal team representing Karmallo Anthony wants a new trial for four reasons.

Reason One will shock you!

The trial was not public.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 07:44 PM (2GVsD)

9 It's official. Any animal what gets the zoomies, is cute.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 22, 2026 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

10 I am not going to stand here and see that thing cut open, and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.

Posted by: Mayor Vaughn at July 22, 2026 07:47 PM (nDXEV)

11 Ferret.

Posted by: Ken at July 22, 2026 07:49 PM (vxSYT)

12 Ferret.

Frank Burns?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 07:49 PM (2GVsD)

13 To be very young and full of energy

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

14 Clever fox for recognizing that the plate could - hypothetically - be used to carry off all the food at once.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 07:52 PM (vJrRc)

15 Thanks ace I needed this today

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 07:52 PM (CHHv1)

16 Intel invested a lot into Linux and when it hit a low point, it started shutting down a lot of linux projects and laying off or recalling employees engaged in linux distros for Intel. Graphics drivers though don't appear to be one of those areas. But Clear, which was Intel's pet Linux OS is dead at least for now as of about one year ago.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:43 PM (E4rtv)

It seemed dumb to spend money on your own OS, when there are so many out there that excel and could use backing. But their efforts on graphics is laudable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:52 PM (dK+Kv)

17 aww that sad Golden is just so, I just can't even.

what a sweet goodboi

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:53 PM (VyBeY)

18 I don't think I could handle a depressed dog...

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 22, 2026 07:53 PM (VCgbV)

19 It seemed dumb to spend money on your own OS, when there are so many out there that excel and could use backing. But their efforts on graphics is laudable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

They used it internally and for developing drivers. In speed tests, it was always at the top of the rankings but if you used other than Intel products, it could be frustrating.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:54 PM (E4rtv)

20 That is the fattest ferret I've ever seen. Could use a few less... ferret foods. Whatever they eat.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 07:54 PM (vJrRc)

21 >14 Clever fox for recognizing that the plate could - hypothetically - be used to carry off all the food at once.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 07:52 PM (vJrRc)

Tsk, tsk. Hard to believe we are related.

Posted by: Wile E. Coyote (super genius) at July 22, 2026 07:55 PM (GTqXr)

22
We are trembling in fear over the arrival of Bertha tonight and tomorrow. Occasional rain! Gusts up to 40 mph! Write your Social Security number on your arm so they can identify you!!-!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 07:55 PM (O0L8i)

23 "Birthday party for a cat."

The cat did not like the hat.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

24 We are trembling in fear over the arrival of Bertha tonight and tomorrow. Occasional rain! Gusts up to 40 mph! Write your Social Security number on your arm so they can identify you!!-!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 07:55 PM (O0L8i)

Dibs on your stuff.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:57 PM (dK+Kv)

25 Hadrian, do you use zymox doggy ears?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 22, 2026 07:58 PM (0JWOm)

26 I figure from the point of elephants that humans are kind of cute on the level of a big fuzzy spider. Like, yeah you're interesting to watch when you're way over there but now you're up close and next to me just know that if you make a single bad move I don't like well, Imma have to stomp you a lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 22, 2026 07:59 PM (3uBP9)

27 Thanks ace I needed this today
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
=====

Watch the golden retriever video.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 07:59 PM (RIvkX)

28 Hadrian

Is Shep Smith or Jim Cantore there?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 07:59 PM (2GVsD)

29 "The super genius legal team representing Karmallo Anthony wants a new trial for four reasons."

The fifth reason, and keep this on the downlow, is the money. We'll keep this gravy train going for as long as Karmelo Inc. will pay us.

Posted by: KA Legal Team at July 22, 2026 07:59 PM (oji8u)

30
At long last, The Figen account has gotten its well-deserved suspension.

I'm game for cute animals and feelgood videos, but that account simply mined other accounts, lifted their content without any credit, and got a zillion views. All they had to do was hat-tip the account they got it from, but no.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 07:59 PM (mmrXZ)

31 Hurricane Bertha going to be as bad as Katrina? Half of Texas will be eating the other half??!

Posted by: Jmel at July 22, 2026 08:01 PM (3TlS+)

32 I'd say he has 20/20 vision.

NEW: Jonathan Swan tells British Podcast Host Alastair Campbell how TRUMP views his country

"The group of people around Trump — including Donald Trump — have utter contempt for Europe ... They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM (ndZc7)

33 >>We are trembling in fear over the arrival of Bertha tonight and tomorrow.

When she approaches, go outside and shake your fist at her and say "Bertha don't you come around here anymore!".

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM (viF8m)

34 Is Bertha named for Big Bertha from the circus or perhaps after Bertha Krupp?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM (2GVsD)

35
I wonder if those adorable baby elephants ever break their keepers' ribs or bruise their kidneys or anything.

"Tell me about the humans, George!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM (mmrXZ)

36 "They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC."

And that's their good points!

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 08:03 PM (MWfyi)

37 Way past bedtime
And been up again since 2am
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 08:03 PM (Ia/+0)

38 Write your Social Security number on your arm so they can identify you!!-!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 07:55 PM (O0L8i)

A Social Security Number (SSN) is meant for tracking earnings, not for identity verification. Of course, I am wrong but I am AI so stupid people will believe everything I say and pass it along as gospel.

Posted by: AI at July 22, 2026 08:03 PM (ftsic)

39 "...They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC."

Almost? They still don't get MAGA.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 22, 2026 08:04 PM (oji8u)

40 Those Goldens in the river are just magical.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 22, 2026 08:04 PM (CXFY/)

41 "Is Bertha named for Big Bertha from the circus or perhaps after Bertha Krupp?
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Sock it to me!

Posted by: zombie Jimmy Castor at July 22, 2026 08:04 PM (MWfyi)

42
The most affectionate animal is a wet dog.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 08:05 PM (/QHx4)

43 Little ragmop dog gets hit in the head. Life is hard.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 08:06 PM (LHPAg)

44 We are trembling in fear over the arrival of Bertha tonight and tomorrow. Occasional rain! Gusts up to 40 mph! Write your Social Security number on your arm so they can identify you!!-!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 07:55 PM (O0L8i)

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:06 PM (GD0B3)

45 Shih Tzu bouncy ball...

Too cute!

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:06 PM (XuXeR)

46 Two cultural enrichment stories.

BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 2-year-old girl in Louisa County, VA earlier this month is an illegal alien from Mexico.

New York Post
@nypost
Crazed migrant allegedly executes 3 Minnesota apartment complex staffers over parking contract dispute

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:08 PM (ndZc7)

47
Posted by: banana Dream at July 22, 2026 07:59 PM (3uBP9)

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

How our animal pets and companions view us never ceases to provoke my wonder. Friendly monsters -- or in the case of elephants, friendly weird-shaped creatures. Just doesn't compute. Presumably, we'll never know what it's like unless a superior race of extraterrestrials finds us and makes pets of us instead of ranching us.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 08:08 PM (mmrXZ)

48 34 Is Bertha named for Big Bertha from the circus or perhaps after Bertha Krupp?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM (2GVsD)

Neither ...

She's Bertha Butt ... one of the Butt sisters

Posted by: Jimmy Castor at July 22, 2026 08:08 PM (3sXRv)

49 I've got a 9:10am tee time tomorrow. Bertha needs to wait until I'm done.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 08:09 PM (KC5Lt)

50 They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC.

Um.. Who wants to tell him? The U.S.A. isn’t in exactly great shape by any means. But, read the room fella

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 08:09 PM (2+m9X)

51 THE BEACHES IN BILOXI EXPERIENCE WAVES!!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:09 PM (GD0B3)

52 Last video? Yeah, if that brunette walked through my door, I'd be crawlin all over her too!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 08:10 PM (mP0Kj)

53
My shih tzu had his checkup today.

Vet said he is in great shape. He said he has more teeth than is normal, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 08:10 PM (/QHx4)

54 Damn lobsterbacks!

British-Indian actress says “British people are truly the most evil people in history”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:11 PM (ndZc7)

55 Tropical Storm :

Fill a shaker with ice.
Pour in 1.5 oz (45ml) of light rum and 1 oz (30ml) of coconut rum.
Add 2 oz (60ml) of pineapple juice and 1 oz (30ml) of orange juice.
Shake the ingredients well and strain into a glass filled with ice.
Top the drink with a splash of grenadine to create the ‘storm’ effect.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:11 PM (GD0B3)

56 "The group of people around Trump — including Donald Trump — have utter contempt for Europe ... They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM (ndZc7)

Hmmm... when you allow Muslims to block streets while praying, something they do NOT do in the Mid East... but then arrest Christians for praying or preaching in public?

Yeah... yer a lost cause.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 08:12 PM (mP0Kj)

57 *goes well with grilled chicken skewers and shrimp tacos (if your are a weirdo who likes Tex-Mex food abominations)

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:13 PM (GD0B3)

58 54 Damn lobsterbacks!

British-Indian actress says “British people are truly the most evil people in history”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:11 PM (ndZc7)

Yeah, because those Thugees? just misunderstood Yutes...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 08:13 PM (mP0Kj)

59 Test

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:13 PM (oUopv)

60 >>>utter contempt for Europe

That's well-earned contempt.

All those American boys who died, and you shit all over yourselves and throw it all away.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 08:14 PM (dK+Kv)

61
"The group of people around Trump — including Donald Trump — have utter contempt for Europe ... They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

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

Gawd. At what point do we decide that they are not to be trusted with nukes? Although France seems to be awakening (in the good way).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 08:14 PM (mmrXZ)

62
A+ rick

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 08:14 PM (/QHx4)

63 They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC.

They forgot sadness and a touch of incredulity as we watch a second world nation slide into third world chaos.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 08:14 PM (2WIwB)

64 58 - not to mention the whole burning widows thing ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 08:15 PM (VyBeY)

65 Obviously I picked up a screwed ISP earlier at work. It would post, then the very next refresh and it would disappear.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:15 PM (oUopv)

66
The U.S.A. isn’t in exactly great shape by any means.

____________

I'd rather have our problems than theirs. Ours are solvable with enough courage. Theirs are hopeless.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 08:16 PM (O0L8i)

67
The U.S.A. isn’t in exactly great shape by any means. But, read the room fella
Posted by: Common Tater

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

The mere fact that we elected Trump puts us light years ahead of the Europeans.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 08:16 PM (mmrXZ)

68 51 THE BEACHES IN BILOXI EXPERIENCE WAVES!!
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:09 PM (GD0B3)
Lotta people remember Camille.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 08:18 PM (LHPAg)

69 The U.S.A. isn’t in exactly great shape by any means. But, read the room fella
Posted by: Common Tater

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

Seems a lot European soccer fans think we are awesome.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 08:18 PM (KC5Lt)

70
No way am I the only person here.

::hits Reload yet again::

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 08:19 PM (mmrXZ)

71 Holy crap. It's just as I remember it. I wish Jackstraw was around. I did a catamaran float trip around the BVI. We drank painkillers. They were stout. Just made two. Brought back memories.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:19 PM (oUopv)

72 The U.S.A. isn’t in exactly great shape by any means.

____________

I'd rather have our problems than theirs. Ours are solvable with enough courage. Theirs are hopeless.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 08:16 PM (O0L8i)

***

We have two key advantages over the Brits: we are citizens, not subjects; and we have a 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 08:19 PM (2WIwB)

73 "Dog's reaction to seeing favorite hooman after 17 days"

If I'm gone two days you'd think it was a year. Even 30 minutes is cause for celebration.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

74 56
Hmmm... when you allow Muslims to block streets while praying, something they do NOT do in the Mid East... but then arrest Christians for praying or preaching in public?

Yeah... yer a lost cause.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22,

Yeah, remember when they arrested a woman outside an abortion clinic who was praying SILENTLY?

I think that's a sign they are a lost cause.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 08:23 PM (FGA9/)

75
Doggie's reaction is sedate compared to Diana seeing Her Majesty again after a long show circuit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 08:24 PM (O0L8i)

76 "Doggie's reaction is sedate compared to Diana seeing Her Majesty again after a long show circuit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

Big dogs trying to jump around like little dogs makes me worried they will hurt themselves.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)

77 Hadrian, I saw your comment about closing up the kennel and bringing the remaining girls inside. Are you and Her Majesty getting out of the show/breeding activities?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 08:26 PM (FGA9/)

78 well, Hell. John C Dvorak died Monday.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 08:26 PM (rbvCR)

79
And while I don't study it in depth, my impression is that the Chinx are running around carrying a barrel of gunpowder on fire, trying to figure out what to do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 08:27 PM (O0L8i)

80 He never got to 20 years for his show, and never finished that book on Vinegar.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 08:27 PM (rbvCR)

81
Seems a lot European soccer fans think we are awesome.
Posted by: polynikes

They also think soccer is awesome.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 08:27 PM (Cqx++)

82 >>Lotta people remember Camille.

I was in Biloxi a few days before Katrina hit. Glad I missed the main event.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:27 PM (viF8m)

83 "They also think soccer is awesome.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. "

What's more awesome, soccer or Bucky's?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

84 I think we all know the answer to that.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

85
Are you and Her Majesty getting out of the show/breeding activities?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 08:26 PM (FGA9/)

____________

We won't be doing any more breeding. We may do what we're doing now, taking someone's dog and showing it for them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 08:28 PM (O0L8i)

86 >>Holy crap. It's just as I remember it. I wish Jackstraw was around. I did a catamaran float trip around the BVI. We drank painkillers. They were stout. Just made two. Brought back memories.

Sorry, what did I miss?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:28 PM (viF8m)

87
Yeah, remember when they arrested a woman outside an abortion clinic who was praying SILENTLY?

Did they have a telepath scan her ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 08:30 PM (Cqx++)

88
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 08:26 PM (FGA9/)

____________

How are you and hubby? I remembered both of you to Our Lady in my Rosary intentions today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 08:31 PM (O0L8i)

89 68 51 THE BEACHES IN BILOXI EXPERIENCE WAVES!!
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:09 PM (GD0B3)
Lotta people remember Camille.
Posted by: Eromero

I recall reading that Ship Island (one of the Channel Islands there) used to be just one island. After Camille, it became 2 islands. I enjoyed my 2 times there along that stretch of the Gulf of America! I liked Biloxi. All those towns along US Rt 90 had a nice little vibe to them. This was late 80s, early 90s. Not sure what it's like now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 08:32 PM (sAmhv)

90
yup

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 08:32 PM (rbvCR)

91 Chris Rock nailed the govt aids plan 20 years ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzqayKwWeY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 08:32 PM (pMmVV)

92 Y'owe me Puddleglum

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 08:33 PM (rbvCR)

93
oops

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 08:33 PM (sAmhv)

94 Peak muskox content

Posted by: H at July 22, 2026 08:34 PM (w8ire)

95 The Sword of Cortez is said to silence any foul tongue that besmirches the glory of the Spanish national team.

Posted by: Mayor Vaughn at July 22, 2026 08:37 PM (nDXEV)

96 Big Storm!

Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, anybody get a storm, a squall, some rain? Looks like Corpus Christi may get some, maybe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 08:38 PM (pMmVV)

97 Sorry, what did I miss?
Posted by: JackStraw

Made some BVI Painkillers. Holy cow. They are as string as I remember.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:38 PM (oUopv)

98 Sorry, what did I miss?
Posted by: JackStraw

Made some BVI Painkillers. Holy cow. They are as string as I remember.
Posted by: rickb223

*strong

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:39 PM (oUopv)

99 >>Made some BVI Painkillers. Holy cow. They are as string as I remember.

Thus painkiller.

The BVI was some kind of fun back in the day.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:42 PM (viF8m)

100 They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC.

I'm thinking the problem is that they are a little too governable.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 08:42 PM (vJrRc)

101 "The group of people around Trump — including Donald Trump — have utter contempt for Europe ... They view Britain as weak, ungovernable, fragmented, almost PATHETIC."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:02 PM

Almost?! Eurobitch, please!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 08:42 PM (Wnv9h)

102 Bertha? Ain't no Bertha.
Did they name a thunderstorm?

https://tinyurl.com/syjshdeu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 08:46 PM (pMmVV)

103

so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel,

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 08:47 PM (Cqx++)

104 42 The most affectionate animal is a wet dog.
Posted by: four seasons

*wag* *wag* *pant* *pant* *wag*

Posted by: the dog who just rolled in deer poo at July 22, 2026 08:50 PM (gKWVE)

105 >>> 58 54 Damn lobsterbacks!

British-Indian actress says “British people are truly the most evil people in history”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:11 PM (ndZc7)

Yeah, because those Thugees? just misunderstood Yutes...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 08:13 PM (mP0Kj)

Odds she has no fucking clue what 'suttee' means?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 22, 2026 08:50 PM (vDZgA)

106 "so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel,
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. "

But relentless, and intent on conquest. Tell me, Ore-ance, could you have predicted his?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 08:51 PM (MWfyi)

107 So is this sort of the end of an era for you with the dogs?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 08:51 PM (FGA9/)

108 British-Indian actress says “British people are truly the most evil people in history”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 08:11 PM (ndZc7)
---

Rue the day they were taken over by the Spaniards or the Dutch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 08:53 PM (pMmVV)

109 Thank you for asking, Hadrian, we so appreciate the prayers.
We are ok. The waiting for the next thing is hard. Tomorrow he has the CTs and we see the oncologist next Tuesday.
At the same time I want to get this part over with and also am dreading it.
He's working, so that's good for him, helps him think about other things.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 08:54 PM (FGA9/)

110 58 didn't the Brits outlaw suttee?

Posted by: Vivi at July 22, 2026 08:54 PM (jC0jb)

111
"British dentists are truly the most evil people in history”

Posted by: What she meant to say at July 22, 2026 08:56 PM (MWfyi)

112 Washington state Democrats are voting to reduce the sentence for online predators trying to have sex with kids.

Remember though they are worried about the Epstein files...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:58 PM (sKqQm)

113
Hundreds of travelers inside Raleigh NC airport stand in silence and salute fallen soldier whose body arrived today.

I'm crying. AMERICA!!

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 08:58 PM (/QHx4)

114 "This". Predicted this. Could T.E. Lawrence have predicted England being overrun with those heathen nomadic sand dwelling camel dung burning goatfuckers?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:00 PM (MWfyi)

115 "Washington state Democrats are voting to reduce the sentence for online predators trying to have sex with kids."

That's because Washington state Democrats want to have sex with kids. What do you expect from Washington state Democrats?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:03 PM (MWfyi)

116
"British dentists are truly the most evil people in history”
Posted by: What she meant to say

You mean it's not safe?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 09:03 PM (Cqx++)

117 M.O.C. OK, Rick. Gotcha 5 by 5, how me, over?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 09:05 PM (pXG5r)

118 We’re in better shape than GB, sure, but our advancement has been retarded, our standard of living isn’t close to what it should be. We should have been taking routine trips around the Moon for honeymoons 20 years ago. Instead they are molesting children at the Libraries and talking about men getting pregnant and whack shit like that. It’s almost too difficult to ponder. WTF happened?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 09:09 PM (pXG5r)

119 Rue the day they were taken over by the Spaniards or the Dutch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 08:53 PM

Rue the day? Who talks like that?

Posted by: Chris Knight at July 22, 2026 09:09 PM (Wnv9h)

120 "WTF happened?
Posted by: Common Tater"

Humanity. Things are they way they are because of humans.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:10 PM (MWfyi)

121 I wonder if this is newsworthy?

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Stop Insider Trading Act, led by Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01), which bans Members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from purchasing stocks and requires public notice before these individuals may sell stocks.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 09:10 PM (rbvCR)

122 The Concordia Research Station in Antarctica dipped to -84.1°C (-119.3°F) on July 18th.

That's the lowest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth since 2012, and it was within half a degree of Concordia's all-time record.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:12 PM (pMmVV)

123 Hi cafe friends!

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 09:14 PM (Dd38x)

124 That's the lowest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth since 2012, and it was within half a degree of Concordia's all-time record.

SEE???? It's clearly ClIMatE ChANGe!

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:15 PM (FGA9/)

125 If Jim Cantore shows up at your place prior to a weather event, check that your will and life insurance is up to date.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:15 PM (u82oZ)

126 Lotta people remember Camille.
Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 08:18 PM (LHPAg)

I was a wee lad in Biloxi when Camille hit. My dad was working in the hospital while my mom and I were in the shelter. I had to go to the restroom at one point which involved walking past the glass entry doors. I recall looking outside and seeing a car go by, hood down, about four feet off the ground. Made an impact.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:16 PM (ExV1e)

127
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 09:10 PM (rbvCR)

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

What's the catch? There's gotta be a workaround.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 09:16 PM (mmrXZ)

128 Hi NaCly!
Are you still outrunning the 92 year old stalker not walker?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:17 PM (FGA9/)

129 96 Big Storm!

Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, anybody get a storm, a squall, some rain? Looks like Corpus Christi may get some, maybe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends

Rain all day, from sprinkles to downpours back to sprinkles. The pool is FULL.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 09:17 PM (Dd38x)

130 {{{TecumsehTea}}}

Prayers ascend for good outcomes with your husband and for you.

FYI My Mom has colon cancer surgery and lasted for 20 more years. Today the survival rate is even better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:18 PM (u82oZ)

131 The ghost of Edgar Cayce has revealed that bad weather is created by the believers in anthropomorphic climate change.

Posted by: mindful webworker - It' at July 22, 2026 09:20 PM (M5tgA)

132 Rue the day? Who talks like that?

Posted by: Chris Knight at July 22, 2026 09:09 PM (Wnv9h)

Blanche Devereaux?

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 09:21 PM (vE0+H)

133 TecumsehTea

The 92 year old is back in Virginia. I escaped. She wants me back, big time. Says there is unfinished business.

I can make her laugh by describing how her hand went right to my wallet once I started driving. My wallet is in my right front pocket.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:21 PM (u82oZ)

134 Erich von Däniken said I came from outer space.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:22 PM (pMmVV)

135 2 My first first!
Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM

Take solace. As Mr. Worf frequently tells me, second is First Loser.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 22, 2026 09:22 PM (0sNs1)

136
Blanche Devereaux?

Posted by: ...
---

Come on down and she will make you a stew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:23 PM (pMmVV)

137 I'll bet Trump is behind it!

Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:24 PM (ndZc7)

138 What's the catch? There's gotta be a workaround.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 09:16 PM (mmrXZ)

Looks like the regular sort of "add in my stuff if you want my vote"
Boebert asked for and amendment that Prohibits Members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown.
Another added an amendment for same-day voter registration and provisional voting for those who show up on election day with an ID

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 09:25 PM (rbvCR)

139 I've never seen a fox hunting wild rice. Could have put a couple of mice on that plate.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 09:26 PM (sYM3s)

140 I can make her laugh by describing how her hand went right to my wallet once I started driving. My wallet is in my right front pocket.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:21 PM

Could she be checking to see if you're a '20' by trying an up periscope drill?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 09:26 PM (0sNs1)

141 U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM
3h
At 5:30 p.m. ET today, U.S. forces began launching more strikes against Iranian military targets at the Commander in Chief's direction. The mission will continue to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting regional waters.
---

Yee Haw... they gave Iran a break yesterday ... watch 'em scurry around and see where they went?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:26 PM (pMmVV)

142 TecumsehTea

The widow to worry about is local. She is after me. I've been dodging , so far. Still walking, not stalking.

She has been reading her signed The Deplorable Cookbook. She has a
large number of other cookbooks, but the humor and passion in that one
amuses her greatly.

I went over to her place using the FIFA final as an excuse to chat, and she made me dinner. She cooked bluebell's chicken recipe. This is in return for me cooking her my recipe from the book, red beans and rice with Andouille sausage, last week.

She has superior man-management skills, after three husbands. We have
become trusting friends.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:26 PM (u82oZ)

143 Rue the day? Who talks like that?
Posted by: Chris Knight at July 22, 2026 09:09 PM

Cajun and Creole chefs upon awakening?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 09:28 PM (0sNs1)

144 Rue?

Posted by: Scooby Doo at July 22, 2026 09:30 PM (Q+gd/)

145 Duncanthrax

No. She was on good behavior since I drove.
And I don't think she would do that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:30 PM (u82oZ)

146 Chefs roux the day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:31 PM (ndZc7)

147 130>>>FYI My Mom has colon cancer surgery and lasted for 20 more years. Today the survival rate is even better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

You are the second person today to tell me a similar story. Thank you for sharing. I'm really trying to keep my mind from going to bad outcomes, sometimes it's a struggle.

LOL to your Virginia widow! Makes me think of the Belushi Samurai skit when he was the tailor -- left or right?

Her being in Virginia makes outrunning her a bit easier.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:32 PM (FGA9/)

148 118 We’re in better shape than GB, sure, but our advancement has been retarded, our standard of living isn’t close to what it should be. We should have been taking routine trips around the Moon for honeymoons 20 years ago. Instead they are molesting children at the Libraries and talking about men getting pregnant and whack shit like that. It’s almost too difficult to ponder. WTF happened?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 09:09 PM (pXG5r)

Squandered a lot of our material and mental wealth with regressive ideas, stupid backward priorities, traitorous leaders.

Posted by: Joemarine at July 22, 2026 09:32 PM (y171U)

149 Duncanthrax

I should say I know little about woman's thought processes, since I was a shoe, and not a submariner, who are all the #2 God's Gift to Women, after Naval Aviators.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:32 PM (u82oZ)

150 Marie Laveau says come talk to me and I'll explain it to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:34 PM (pMmVV)

151 122 The Concordia Research Station in Antarctica dipped to -84.1°C (-119.3°F) on July 18th.

That's the lowest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth since 2012, and it was within half a degree of Concordia's all-time record.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:12 PM (pMmVV)

Wait, that is Global WARMING?

/looks confuselated

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 09:34 PM (mP0Kj)

152 142>>>

Three husbands? I think that's a warning, kinda like 3 shots fired in the air.

Seriously, friends we can trust are very valuable. Not easy to find.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:34 PM (FGA9/)

153 No comment, I'm just going to leave this exemplary example of high-grade snark here

https://tinyurl.com/49vmtd3m

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 09:36 PM (rbvCR)

154 TecumsehTea

She has a strong alibi for the third one, the dead one.

I met her first husband, the father of her 3 daughters, the 4th of July. The widow was terrified we would get into a political argument. I bypassed that by getting hm to talk about himself. One time, he called me by the name of her second husband. LOL.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:38 PM (u82oZ)

155 Rue?
Posted by: Scooby Doo at July 22, 2026 09:30 PM (Q+gd/)

Ruta graveolens, a culinary herb known for making orangutans murderous

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 09:40 PM (rbvCR)

156 NaCly, I don't even know what to say about that!

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:40 PM (FGA9/)

157 Mamdani sustains another disappointment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:41 PM (ndZc7)

158
Squandered a lot of our material and mental wealth with regressive ideas, stupid backward priorities, traitorous leaders.

Posted by: Joemarine at July 22, 2026 09:32 PM (y171U)

_____________

The Democrats became the party of limited expectations, managed decline and cringing obesience to international organizations that hated us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 09:42 PM (O0L8i)

159
Another added an amendment for same-day voter registration and provisional voting for those who show up on election day with an ID
Posted by: Kindltot

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

Holy fvk.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 09:42 PM (mmrXZ)

160 TecumsehTea

This is totally beyond what I thought my life would be like. Buckling up for the ride.

Better than playing 10 year old video games on the computer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:42 PM (u82oZ)

161 Blond Morticia, AOC thinks the insider trading bill is a scam too

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Jul 21
Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week.

They say we are voting on an “insider trading” bill, but have snuck in massive SAVE Act-style voter suppression measures to it.

This is a GOP effort to sabotage national mail-in voting, disguised as a trading ban.

I’m voting NO

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 09:42 PM (rbvCR)

162 Forgot the joke.

Mamdani sustains another disappointment.

Dejected Mamdani Admits He Lacks Legal Authority To Invade Poland

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:43 PM (ndZc7)

163
Mamdani sustains another disappointment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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

Can't arrest Bibi? He always knew that. The threats were theater.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 09:43 PM (mmrXZ)

164 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

The Babylon Bee is the paper of future events reported today. Very funny.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

165
Oh. Lol

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 09:44 PM (mmrXZ)

166
Blond Morticia, AOC thinks the insider trading bill is a scam too

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Jul 21
Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week.

They say we are voting on an “insider trading” bill, but have snuck in massive SAVE Act-style voter suppression measures to it.

This is a GOP effort to sabotage national mail-in voting, disguised as a trading ban.

I’m voting NO
Posted by: Kindltot

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

I like that kind of scam!

But wait, there's an amendment to allow same-day registration and provisional ballot? That must be the counter amendment to whatever the SAVE content was.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 09:47 PM (mmrXZ)

167 Life is for living. Good for you, NaCly, for getting out there and making the connections you want and need. Godspeed on that.
It's so easy to insulate ourselves from others, in many ways and for many reasons.
Enjoy what comes your way. I am certain that you are excellent company -- so knowledgeable and I bet you have a bit of charm as well.
Like our friend FenelonSpoke says, you are a blessing to many!

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:48 PM (FGA9/)

168 ironically, catgirl gets first in pet thread

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2026 09:49 PM (xcxpd)

169 CNN says Darline Graham has 80% chance of winning the primary election.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 09:50 PM (pMmVV)

170 160 TecumsehTea

This is totally beyond what I thought my life would be like. Buckling up for the ride.

Better than playing 10 year old video games on the computer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:42 PM (u82oZ)

The real sweet spot is 20 year old video games.
*Clutches City of Heroes Homecoming to chest*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2026 09:50 PM (xcxpd)

171 Didn't Ruta Graveolens used to work with Herb Alpert?

https://youtu.be/o8ByJ1C0iR4

Posted by: mindful webworker - in a mood at July 22, 2026 09:51 PM (M5tgA)

172 Night all.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 09:53 PM (FGA9/)

173 I should say I know little about woman's thought processes, since I was a shoe, and not a submariner, who are all the #2 God's Gift to Women, after Naval Aviators.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:32 PM

Have a couple of easy, but slightly exotic recipes to whip up for midrats. Shirred eggs with tarragon and a mimosa worked well for me back in the day.

And yes, women know submariners do it deeper, and stay down longer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 09:54 PM (0sNs1)

174 CNN says a lot of things.

Posted by: So there's that at July 22, 2026 09:54 PM (2Ez/1)

175 Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo

* Updates strategy from Hearts of Iron I, II, II, to Hearts of Iron IV. *

- Bhutan takes over India and builds a CV Navy on the march to world domination. (Which is one of many reasons the Hearts of Iron game is stupid).

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 09:55 PM (u82oZ)

176 Next-to-Last

Posted by: mindful webworker - in a mad mood at July 22, 2026 09:59 PM (M5tgA)

177 Damn, it's sofa king hot here. Had to wet & wring my t-shirt just to pull some weeds in the shade.

102* ugh.

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 09:59 PM (rdVOm)

178 The real sweet spot is 20 year old video games.
*Clutches City of Heroes Homecoming to chest*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2026 09:50 PM (xcxpd)

Not one i played. I went from Star Wars Galaxies to WoW, did Secret World. Old Republic. Thats about it for MMOs. To be fair, the genre kind of died outside the Korean stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 09:59 PM (zZu0s)

179 Imma give up on yard work for a while!

Posted by: JQ at July 22, 2026 10:00 PM (rdVOm)

180 You can't be first, but you can be next

NOOD ONT

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420638

Posted by: mindful webworker - so it goes at July 22, 2026 10:01 PM (M5tgA)

181 Hearts of Iron peaked with 3. I realized once I spent 2+ hours just setting up a army hierarchy for all the units to get the full combat bonuses. It felt... excessive. Fun game though because of its flexibility.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 10:01 PM (zZu0s)

182 That is the fattest ferret I've ever seen. Could use a few less... ferret foods. Whatever they eat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
.......

Looks like Snausages and ice cream.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 10:03 PM (oq9dX)

Quick Hits

Supercut of Democrats claiming there is "no evidence" of illegal aliens voting.

Hillary Clinton: I can't believe Trump is still complaining that he really won the 2020 election/and also the 2016 election was stolen from me.

And Jake Tapper never -- never -- asks her about these contradictory claims. Nor should he -- he's guilty of the same hypocrisy.

I've told this story before, but here goes again: In January 2017, just after the election, I saw a clip on CNN showing Hillary Clinton claiming not just that Russia had vaguely "interfered" in the election, but had actually changed vote tallies in the voting machines. The "reporter" "reporting" this did not make any note about it or any negative remark -- he just reported Hillary making this allegation as it was a perfectly reasonable claim to make.

Now, I was, as I'm sure you were, sick of CNN's constant attacks on Trump for, prior to the election, saying that he didn't know if they would "rig" the election against him or not

I tweeted, "CNN, any comment about Hillary Clinton doing much, much more than what Trump did, which you found to be a threat to democracy itself?" Or words to that effect.

I hadn't tagged Jake Tapper in this because the fucker jumps into your DMs if you mention him. He's like a Red Diaper Baby Beetlejuice with unlimited time to patrol twitter for mentions of his name.

Nevertheless, he popped into my DMs immediate: "Cite?" he objected, claiming I was making it up.

I said, "it was just on your very own show. Aren't you watching your own [in-progress] show?"

That's right, Jake Tapper had just moments ago introduced that segment but had apparently not bothered watching the clip he ran on his own show.

Furthermore, he objected "Cite?" and then argued with me about it while his show was being broadcasted live. Rather than actually doing his job and paying attention to the news his fellow "journalists" were reporting on his own show, he apparently immediately jumps on his cellphone during pre-recorded packages and goes into Reputation Defense mode.

I asked him if he would ever actually cover this and editorialize about the Great Danger to the Republic that Hillary Clinton's WITHOUT EVIDENCE claims presented. I forget what he said-- usually he offers some noncommittal political response like "I'll keep an eye on it" -- but of course he never, ever called Hillary Clinton out for this nor, as far as I know, even highlighted the claim.

Frequent Democrat podcast partner Hasan Piker, who has claimed America "deserved 9/11" and doubled down on that since, has a framed photo of the NYT from 9/12 showing the Twin Towers in flames.

Oh, and the anchor baby Nepo Baby also says that Chinese communist butcher of literal tens of millions of people was a "great hero" of history.

And Democrats continue to fete him, because he's the only male Democrat they know who doesn't look like he spends Saturday night on all fours. (Though I have a feeling we'll find out that maybe he does, sometimes.)

Interesting...

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_

NEW: The FBI honcho who deep-sixed the China plot intel on the eve of 2020 election was Nikki "I'm Running A Shadow Govt" Floris who at the same time tried to sabotage Sens. Grassley+Johnson's probe of Biden family corruption (inclg $6 mil in Chinese payola) as "Russian disinformation." Floris is now working w/ Russiagate co-conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft. Both are under active investigation in diGenova's criminal conspiracy case, DOJ sources tell me

Karen with a septum ring finds a new problematic group: lifeguards. Because "the little teenage lifeguards they have on the beach" are "cops in training."

Abby Philips: No illegal aliens are voting and the illegal aliens who are voting are just "confused" over whether they're allowed to vote.

Jim Acosta doesn't want you to call him a "hero," even though his life has been "in danger" plenty of times, like when Trump crowds would chant "CNN sucks" or call him a "traitor."

The American Bar Association�s own website says, �All of us have implicit biases.� I asked its president which groups she holds bias against. pic.twitter.com/Pebduv8lVL
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) July 22, 2026

🚨 JUST NOW: One of the people injured in the anti-ICE terror attack in NYC today was an IMMIGRANT on his way to his IMMIGRATION HEARING

Oh the IRONY

The suspect admitted in his interview that he "DIDN'T CARE" if he hurt or kiIIed anyone, regardless of whether they were federal� pic.twitter.com/t3EXoEey19
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 20, 2026

HOLY CRAP

The illegal alien who Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and other Democrat officials rallied to support after he was detained by ICE�

IS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN CT despite not being a citizen!

Sead Cecunjanin registered to vote in 2018 after obtaining a driver�s� pic.twitter.com/IiIEXK6Uee
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 22, 2026

Sunny Hostin: "No one is above the law"

Sunny Hostin now: "How dare you arrest my son? My name is Sunny Hostin!" pic.twitter.com/MOS41bOOvs
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 19, 2026

Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"

Her ancestors were big slave owners pic.twitter.com/RHPyhfws66
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 22, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

Comments

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1 Top 'o the evening to ya!

Posted by: Robert F. O'Rourke at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (sZjTt)

2 LOL, what a day, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (VyBeY)

3 For me, Sunny Hostin is somewhere between "that stupid smug bitch" and "I can't believe someone that rich and privileged is so f***ing dumb".

Is that a distinction without a difference?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (Uvvcx)

4 "Floris is now working w/ Russiagate co-conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft."

one more reason to migrate to Linux.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (VyBeY)

5 Any Iowans out there? Speaking of polling and quick hits, I'm a little worried about the Iowa gubernatorial race. I'm not hearing much on the Senate race to replace Ernst, but the Dems are very motivated to get Rob Sand elected governor.

Tell me I shouldn't worry and Iowa is Red enough it's not an issue.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (5+LQ2)

6

And Gill had another zinger for the DEI head of the ABA:

Off The Press
@OffThePress1
·
2h
🚨
@RepBrandonGill
asks whether race “should be a factor” in law school admissions decisions.

Behnke: “The Supreme Court indicated that diversity is a laudable goal and the ABA supports diversity.”

Gill: “This is embarrassing for you. You ought to be able to answer this in a very straightforward way.”

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (kX27y)

7 >>For me, Sunny Hostin is somewhere between "that stupid smug bitch" and "I can't believe someone that rich and privileged is so f***ing dumb".

>>Is that a distinction without a difference?

And she was a federal prosector.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 06:40 PM (viF8m)

8 This Brandon Gill guy is killing it. 2028 VP?

I'd vote for a Rubio-Gill ticket.

Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 06:41 PM (Av6i5)

9 She just means "shadow government" in the colloquial sense!

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:42 PM (Fi81e)

10 Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_

NEW: The FBI honcho who deep-sixed the China plot intel on the eve of 2020 election was Nikki "I'm Running A Shadow Govt" Floris who at the same time tried to sabotage Sens. Grassley+Johnson's probe of Biden family corruption (inclg $6 mil in Chinese payola) as "Russian disinformation." Floris is now working w/ Russiagate co-conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft. Both are under active investigation in diGenova's criminal conspiracy case, DOJ sources tell me

=======

She wasn't executed the second I saw that email screenshot, so nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:42 PM (vbx7B)

11 No way a Democrat Propaganda Minister is going to not put the Marxists crimes on the Marxists

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:42 PM (Ia/+0)

12 9 This Brandon Gill guy is killing it. 2028 VP?

I'd vote for a Rubio-Gill ticket.
Posted by: zombie

No! There is another!!!

Posted by: Ace, probably, pining for DeSantis at July 22, 2026 06:42 PM (5+LQ2)

13 Abby Philips? Is she the thit who banged 1000 guys in a day on onlyfans?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

14 It's not shadow, shadow.

Posted by: Karen Johnson at July 22, 2026 06:43 PM (2Ez/1)

15
Q: Who was running the shadow government against the sitting President?

A: A woman. Probably, in her own way, AWFL.

We can't have nice things with AFWLs so willingly misconstruing the Constitution.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:43 PM (Fi81e)

16 Ace -

Hasan does have a drawing of himself in a Furry Suit with an overloaded full diaper in the background of his stream studio.

So you can probably take that assumption as true.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:43 PM (uhVAy)

17 Willowed:

National org funds do go down to state level orgs who then spend it, but I believe recruitment is up to the state level orgs.

Mike Johnson isn't on calls about who is going to run in TX-93, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (vbx7B)

In the victory operation I worked, there were nationals with the GOTV effort, along with the poll watcher effort (which I coordinated), and the attorney effort (for on the spot challenges and shenanigan calls).

Except for local phone-calling, actual poll watching, and door knocking, most of us were from out of state, funded (room and stipend) by RNCC.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:43 PM (dK+Kv)

18 Rather than actually doing his job and paying attention to the news his fellow "journalists" were reporting on his own show, he apparently immediately jumps on his cellphone during pre-recorded packages and goes into Reputation Defense mode.

hmmm... i wonder if tapper can talk while kibo is drinking water.

Posted by: anachronda at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (v3pYe)

19 Sunny was a slave?

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Ia/+0)

20 >>> and "I can't believe someone that rich and privileged is so f***ing dumb".

Is that a distinction without a difference?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (Uvvcx)

======

I've said that many times about Kamala. But add: how did she ever pass the bar?

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Y2/Vj)

21 The fact that Brandon Gill ( whom I think is great, BTW) was born in 1994 makes me feel really old.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (gsYaF)

22 "Floris is now working w/ Russiagate co-conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft."

No wonder Windows 11 is such crap.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 06:45 PM (aJQbY)

23 Sunny was a slave?
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Ia/+0)
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Maybe it was her "lived experience".

That can override all kinds of things these days.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:45 PM (Fi81e)

24 I was a teenage lifeguard snd really got a rush from blowing that whistle and telling little kids to "walk!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:45 PM (RIvkX)

25 Pretty sure there are multiple thousands of illegals voting in elections in almost all states and those numbers can potentially throw an election.

Remember 2016 basically came down to less than 200,000 votes in three states that Trump barley squeaked wins in. wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, those states gave him 46 EV's which put him over the top. They should have all gone for hillary which would have given her the win but she refused to actually campaign there while Trump did.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (0N4FZ)

26 "The American Bar Association’s own website says, “All of us have implicit biases.” I asked its president which groups she holds bias against."

I knew this was Brandon Gill.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

27 one more reason to migrate to Linux.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (VyBeY)

I was thinking when I get the new computer of doing a steamOS machine. Never used anything besides windows, but they offend me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

28 >>>Hillary Clinton: I can't believe Trump is still complaining that he really won the 2020 election/and also the 2016 election was stolen from me.

That's the script the NPCs are being programmed with.

A nominally political friend was bemoaning the same, about all the Fox-Watching Trumpers believing that the election was stolen.

You mean like Hillary Clinton was my retort.

It's sad. He's kind of a lofo. But as an Army Intel officer, I expected a bit more than that sort of TDS blindspot.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (dK+Kv)

29
ace, I remember your joust with jake tapper very well. You'd think that guy would realize he's a tool of the clintons and suddenly feel a twinge of resentment towards THEM for a change.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (mmrXZ)

30 I still wouldn't be surprised if the 28 Dem presidential race becomes a bigger train wreck to see Hillary waddle into the race. "Vote for me , I promise to die in office as the first woman president"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (sMkB+)

31 Brandon Gill is a national treasure.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (abScH)

32 [i22 The fact that Brandon Gill ( whom I think is great, BTW) was born in 1994 makes me feel really old.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Oops, that means he's ineligible to be VP in '28, since he'll only be 34. Drat!

Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (Av6i5)

33 The suspect admitted in his interview that he "DIDN'T CARE" if he hurt or kiIIed anyone, regardless of whether they were federal
---
In other words, we may never know his motive.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (Fi81e)

34 Remember 2016 basically came down to less than 200,000 votes in three states that Trump barley squeaked wins in. wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, those states gave him 46 EV's which put him over the top. They should have all gone for hillary which would have given her the win but she refused to actually campaign there while Trump did.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (0N4FZ)

That might have been smart of her. Cankles wasn't exactly drawing huge crowds based on her charm.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (uhVAy)

35 Quit picking on the retards, Ace. They get used to it and make it harder to pick on them in the future..

You know, the bull isn't going to run down there and f*ck a cow. He's going to walk down there and f*ck them all.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (dIske)

36 hmmm... i wonder if tapper can talk while kibo is drinking water.
****

Going with the classics today.

Posted by: clarence at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (1QT7n)

37 [i22 The fact that Brandon Gill ( whom I think is great, BTW) was born in 1994 makes me feel really old.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Anybody caught admitting that is not 29 years old.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:48 PM (Fi81e)

38 2 years old. What's it going to take to get ALL illegals out of here?

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
·
5m
BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 2-year-old girl in Louisa County, VA earlier this month is an illegal alien from Mexico. ICE filed a detainer on Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran with local law enforcement & they honored the detainer and handed him over to ICE.

Moran is now charged with second degree murder and aggravated sexual assault.

He entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway at an unknown time & location.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:48 PM (kX27y)

39 The ABA was HUMILIATED by that testimony. If you are a member, please let them know. The witness clearly has no clue.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:49 PM (RIvkX)

40 one more reason to migrate to Linux.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (VyBeY)

I was thinking when I get the new computer of doing a steamOS machine. Never used anything besides windows, but they offend me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

You can always put Linux on a relatively small flash drive and boot into it for office/email purposes if anything is lacking in steamOS.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:50 PM (uhVAy)

41 The ABA was HUMILIATED by that testimony. If you are a member, please let them know. The witness clearly has no clue.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:49 PM (RIvkX)
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Mama Mia! Here we go again.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:50 PM (Fi81e)

42 I was thinking when I get the new computer of doing a steamOS machine. Never used anything besides windows, but they offend me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

Go with Linux Mint. It's stupid simple and it's like a breath of fresh air. You can run Steam on it readily.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:51 PM (dK+Kv)

43 Windows 11 is not an Operating System.

It's a telemetry capture playground.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:51 PM (Fi81e)

44 You can always put Linux on a relatively small flash drive and boot into it for office/email purposes if anything is lacking in steamOS.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:50 PM (uhVAy)

As far as I am aware, steamOS is made from one version of Linux.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

45 I was thinking when I get the new computer of doing a steamOS machine. Never used anything besides windows, but they offend me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

Go with Linux Mint. It's stupid simple and it's like a breath of fresh air. You can run Steam on it readily.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:51 PM (dK+Kv)

I've used Mint, very simple to get up and running.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)

46 Moran is now charged with second degree murder and aggravated sexual assault.

He entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway at an unknown time & location.
Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:48 PM (kX27y)

And now we have to feed and house this monster probably for life... Wish he had tried to run from ICE

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:52 PM (FtULh)

47 A nominally political friend was bemoaning the same, about all the Fox-Watching Trumpers believing that the election was stolen.

You mean like Hillary Clinton was my retort.

That's totally different because Jan 6.

It's always the same BS. They can say whatever they want because they're the children of sweetness and light and their people never do anything unwarranted.

We can't tell obvious truths because we're the children of bitterness and darkness and information drives us to do wicked, unwarranted things.

Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 06:53 PM (mkw2N)

48 Win 11. Preinstalled spyware.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)

49 That's totally different because Jan 6.

It's always the same BS. They can say whatever they want because they're the children of sweetness and light and their people never do anything unwarranted.

We can't tell obvious truths because we're the children of bitterness and darkness and information drives us to do wicked, unwarranted things.
Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 06:53 PM (mkw2N)

Their sweetness and light has a pretty high body count. Gun restrictions leading to hundreds of Chicago deaths, abortions, Illegals trafficking girls and murdering others.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:54 PM (uhVAy)

50 That's totally different because Jan 6.

It's always the same BS. They can say whatever they want because they're the children of sweetness and light and their people never do anything unwarranted.

We can't tell obvious truths because we're the children of bitterness and darkness and information drives us to do wicked, unwarranted things.

Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 06:53 PM (mkw2N)

He retreated very quickly and meekly, once I had put him on notice that I was going down the track of leftist political violence due to the agitprop soaked leftist media.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (dK+Kv)

51 >>>I've said that many times about Kamala. But add: how did she ever pass the bar?
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Y2/Vj)

By pulling hard on a rigid grasp of deep knowledge.

Also, blow jobs.

Posted by: Max Power at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (SwyyQ)

52 There is a distro of Linux out there right now that natively runs Windows programs in a Gnome environment.

I forgot what it was called. It's not WINe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (Fi81e)

53 Gill is very good at getting right to the absurdities that lie at the heart of leftist beliefs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (RIvkX)

54
Both are under active investigation in diGenova's criminal conspiracy case, DOJ sources tell me

=======

She wasn't executed the second I saw that email screenshot, so nothing is happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Crime happened in 2020. I assume joe digenova knows what he's doing. That's my only hope.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:56 PM (mmrXZ)

55 52 >>>I've said that many times about Kamala. But add: how did she ever pass the bar?
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Y2/Vj)

I doubt she passes a bar...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:56 PM (FtULh)

56
I'd vote for a Rubio-Gill ticket.
Posted by: zombie

More fish puns incoming.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 06:56 PM (Cqx++)

57 You can always put Linux on a relatively small flash drive and boot into it for office/email purposes if anything is lacking in steamOS.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:50 PM (uhVAy)

As far as I am aware, steamOS is made from one version of Linux.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

Arch Linux, apparently now. Used to be Debian.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)

58 54 Gill is very good at getting right to the absurdities that lie at the heart of leftist beliefs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (RIvkX)

And he's calm while the dems are screeching...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:57 PM (FtULh)

59 Who knows how long the Dems think they can dine out on January 6th.

But as long as they can keep daylight from breaking through their veil, they will probably keep it until it makes them look ridiculous.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:57 PM (Fi81e)

60 Abby Philips: No illegal aliens are voting and the illegal aliens who are voting are just "confused" over whether they're allowed to vote.

Well, they probably are, because when they went to get the driver's license they shouldn't have been allowed to get, they were asked if they wanted to register to vote. I mean. What are they supposed to think? We get free stuff, AND we get to vote for more of it? Hell yeah, suckers!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 22, 2026 06:57 PM (zYpTz)

61 It's not WINe.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (Fi81e)
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Too bad. Because we could call a machine running it a WINe Box.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 06:57 PM (amcLV)

62 Kamala appears dumb but I think that is because she drinks too much. When I knew her well she was not a drinker.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:58 PM (RIvkX)

63
How can you count yourself "undocumented" once you have a driver's license?

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)

64
Yeah, Gill is great in these pointless congressional hearings. That's all I know about him

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:59 PM (mmrXZ)

65 >>Crime happened in 2020. I assume joe digenova knows what he's doing. That's my only hope.

One more time for the folks at home. The statute of limitations for a conspiracy begins with the last overt act of the conspiracy. It is not an issue with this investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 06:59 PM (viF8m)

66 55 52 >>>I've said that many times about Kamala. But add: how did she ever pass the bar?
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Y2/Vj)

I doubt she passes a bar...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22

Perfection. Brava!

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:59 PM (hftzA)

67 When I knew her well she was not a drinker.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:58 PM (RIvkX)

I think years of being surrounded by yes-men, and never being challenged on anything by a compliant media has made her a flaccid thinker.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 07:01 PM (l4RKn)

68 It's sad. He's kind of a lofo. But as an Army Intel officer, I expected a bit more than that sort of TDS blindspot.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (dK+Kv)

The officer corps is pretty much a reflection of the society. You can expect 30% of them to be libs. And the higher up the chain, the more vested they are in their "sponsors."

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 07:01 PM (2WIwB)

69 Kamala appears dumb but I think that is because she drinks too much. When I knew her well she was not a drinker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:58 PM (RIvkX)

You also get out of practice if you just have to mouth a platitude or two for 20 years at a stretch.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 07:01 PM (uhVAy)

70 Kamala appears dumb but I think that is because she drinks too much. When I knew her well she was not a drinker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I have to disagree with you on that one.

Posted by: Willie B at July 22, 2026 07:03 PM (9gKa/)

71 I've said that many times about Kamala. But add: how did she ever pass the bar?
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Y2/Vj)

I doubt she passes a bar...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:56 PM

ghetto jasmine crockett passed the bar exam and was an actual practicing public defender here in Texas just sayin.....

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 07:03 PM (0N4FZ)

72 "Salon's Washington Correspondent" is not the book cover marketing move you think it is, guys.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2026 07:03 PM (nDXEV)

73 The officer corps is pretty much a reflection of the society. You can expect 30% of them to be libs. And the higher up the chain, the more vested they are in their "sponsors."
Posted by: Diogenes
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Colin Powell at July 22, 2026 07:03 PM (XeU6L)

74 Moran is now charged with second degree murder and aggravated sexual assault.

He entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway at an unknown time & location.
Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:48 PM (kX27y)

And now we have to feed and house this monster probably for life... Wish he had tried to run from ICE
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:52 PM (FtULh)

***

Want to speed up deportations? Start executing these guys. 10 a day.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 07:03 PM (2WIwB)

75 I think years of being surrounded by yes-men, and never being challenged on anything by a compliant media has made her a flaccid thinker.
Posted by: Ghost of Lindsey Graham at July 22, 2026 07:01 PM (l4RKn)
====

I think that is true of Gavin and many other blue-state politicians. They have never had to deal with adversarial questioning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (RIvkX)

76 There is a distro of Linux out there right now that natively runs Windows programs in a Gnome environment.

I forgot what it was called. It's not WINe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:55 PM (Fi81e)

Win-Apps?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (dK+Kv)

77 I asked him if he would ever actually cover this and editorialize about the Great Danger to the Republic that Hillary Clinton's WITHOUT EVIDENCE claims presented.
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The absolution of Hillary usually goes along the lines of: SHE CONCEDED WITHIN A DAY!!

So, you can work with the rogue IC to cripple a presidency by spreading lies and innuendo, but you have to concede first. You can still go on a talk show tour and claim you were never really beaten despite your concession.

But you CONCEDED!! You get conceding points.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (Fi81e)

78 Yeah, Gill is great in these pointless congressional hearings. That's all I know about him

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:59 PM (mmrXZ)

Yup. I have been fooled too often by that type. Until he parades around the chambers with the severed head of a conspirator, I will withhold judgement.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (l4RKn)

79
BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect charged with sexually assaulting and murdering a 2-year-old girl in Louisa County, VA earlier this month is an illegal alien from Mexico. ICE filed a detainer on Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran with local law enforcement & they honored the detainer and handed him over to ICE.

"We Can't All Be Judged by Our Worst Day."
-Tim Walz

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (Cqx++)

80 Gill is fire, as the kids say. He needs to be at all the hearings. Yes, I said all.

Sunny Hostin should get out of her bed every day, and immediately get on her knees and Thank God she lucked into such a silly overpaid gig. Though I think I'd rather she be on the View, spewing nonsense, than still be a federal litigator, using her blatant racism and smug privilege to affect actual law.

Has she publicly talked about the police cam footage yet? And either apologized for, or defended, her attempt to get her widdle nepo baby out of trouble, and put undue influence on a cop just doing his job? Who was doing his job very kindly and humbly, I might add?

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2026 07:05 PM (Eng1Z)

81 The officer corps is pretty much a reflection of the society. You can expect 30% of them to be libs. And the higher up the chain, the more vested they are in their "sponsors."

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 07:01 PM (2WIwB)

He's a pre-born lib. Father's union. He's a teacher. It's not unexpected. It's just a disappointment to find out my expectations are misplaced.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:06 PM (dK+Kv)

82
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Colin Powell
----

Whew. Thought I was going to take a hit.

Posted by: Search Assist Colonel Alexander Vindman at July 22, 2026 07:06 PM (XeU6L)

83 Win-Apps?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (dK+Kv)
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Maybe?

That kinda rings a distant bell.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:06 PM (Fi81e)

84 Yup. I have been fooled too often by that type. Until he parades around the chambers with the severed head of a conspirator, I will withhold judgement.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That’s a good standard.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 22, 2026 07:07 PM (9gKa/)

85 We can't tell obvious truths because we're the children of bitterness and darkness and information drives us to do wicked, unwarranted things.
Posted by: Idiots

And that's the lens the propaganda press has used my entire life. They always suggest nefarious reasons for plain R wins. Always.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 22, 2026 07:07 PM (l26NL)

86 Maybe?

That kinda rings a distant bell.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:06 PM (Fi81e)

That's the closest I could find that mentions GNOME.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:07 PM (dK+Kv)

87 32 [i22 The fact that Brandon Gill ( whom I think is great, BTW) was born in 1994 makes me feel really old.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Oops, that means he's ineligible to be VP in '28, since he'll only be 34. Drat!
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (Av6i5)

But not too old to be the next Texas Senator when Trump appoints Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 22, 2026 07:07 PM (Uvvcx)

88 I thought Win apps were for WinBooks?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2026 07:08 PM (nDXEV)

89 >>> I'd vote for a Rubio-Gill ticket.

a Vance/Gill ticket could work too. But they have to be very careful in how they design the signs, so drunk country music fans don't mistake it for a pop-up concert.

Though, if Vince Gill was a fan, that could be a good lineup at a rally!

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2026 07:08 PM (Eng1Z)

90 Tough room.

Posted by: Brandon Gill wondering what more do these people want? at July 22, 2026 07:08 PM (RIvkX)

91 Until he parades around the chambers with the severed head of a conspirator, I will withhold judgement.

This. Gill is Trey Gowdy v2.0 until proven otherwise.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 07:08 PM (avzH0)

92 I can assure Jim Acosta that I will never ever call him a hero.

Posted by: bluebell at July 22, 2026 07:09 PM (afFes)

93 "Even historians fail to learn from history. They repeat the same mistakes." – John Gill

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2026 07:09 PM (nDXEV)

94 I snickered when Jake yelled "Cite" at you, Ace.

What a nimrod. I saw a photo of him the other day with his permanent furrowed brow and scowl. Scowlbrow. Scobro for short.

He's not aging well as his jowls jangle like a bloodhounds. Needs to learn to take selfies looking up.

Granted I can't take a selfie to save my life. We've, in fact, nearly lost ours at times as we stink at this so badly (falling from 6th floor balcony in Vienna, trying to get St. Stephen's in the background with us looking like a happy couple). The photos, bless our hearts, are pitiful. Parts of laughing faces, etc. I think there might be one somewhere stored that is ok.

Which reminds me how I am decades behind in printing photos to add to the zillion things I am behind in.

Sometimes I just want to drink all day til the next one begins. Yet I only drink on Friday's, which makes for a long week of freaking out.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2026 07:09 PM (hzuYO)

95 Mrs. Bill Clinton was as manufactured a candidate as they come.

Her qualifications to run for office were what, exactly? It was the fact she was married to a President. That’s it. She’s a caroetbagger, snaking up Jacob Javits seat in the Senate. What groundbreaking legislation did she sponsor?

I’d ask people, what are her qualifications and accomplishments? “She was a Senator!”

That’s a job title, not necessarily an accomplishment. What did she do? What made her so so very qualified, other than being a leftist vagina-American?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 07:10 PM (2+m9X)

96 There is a distro of Linux out there right now that natively runs Windows programs in a Gnome environment.

I forgot what it was called. It's not WINe.

If you're talking about WinApps or Winboat, they don't actually run Windows programs natively. They run a lightweight version of windows in docker and then rdp to it to display the app as if it's running in Linux.

Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 07:12 PM (mkw2N)

97 San Franpsycho, one suspicion is that Harris takes a lot of the happy pills.
A good example of a public drunk is Benzino, who became a lolcow a couple years ago for appearing on a podcast where he veered from rage into selfpity. Hillary follows this template fairly closely.
Harris tends to alternative more goofy and incoherent, which looks like a Xanax type.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 07:12 PM (gKWVE)

98 Ace you following the Ann Widicome assassination story in the UK? It is pretty wild.

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 07:12 PM (YwEeS)

99 Which reminds me how I am decades behind in printing photos to add to the zillion things I am behind in.
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I think about the scattered, unorganized, jpg.'s that I have stored on sundry media, and doubt that anyone wil lever see them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:13 PM (XeU6L)

100 CA Dems doing what they do best: rigging. Rob Bonta is a snake.
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In the attorney general’s original description, Prop 39 is a measure that “establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.”

However, the description revealed Tuesday in the voter information guide is vastly different. Bonta now describes Prop 39 as a measure that “prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”

Supporters of the voter ID ballot measure were furious after they spotted the changes in the description of their proposal in the newly released voter information guide for the November election that will be mailed to all voters.

The new summary of the voter ID proposal is also different and framed more negatively. It states the measure can “prohibit” voting and “invalidate” mail ballots without proper identification, whereas the original summary simply listed IDs as requirements.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 07:14 PM (kX27y)

101 The ABA was HUMILIATED by that testimony. If you are a member, please let them know. The witness clearly has no clue.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:49 PM

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the ABA or the MA Bar Association.

I was briefly a member of the Federalist Society. Mostly for the subscription to the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 07:14 PM (Wnv9h)

102 Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"
Her ancestors were big slave owners

What she should learn from this is that it isn't the fault of anyone living today for what happened 160+ years ago. Everybody involved is long dead.

What she takes from it? Somehow it's still Whitey's fault.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 07:14 PM (l3cgK)

103 I think it was WinBoat I heard the pitch about.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:14 PM (Fi81e)

104 Sonny Hostin just wanted a Buy One Get One Free deal for her past slaverin. Like maybe a loyalty card program or somethin.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 22, 2026 07:15 PM (3uBP9)

105 If you're talking about WinApps or Winboat, they don't actually run Windows programs natively. They run a lightweight version of windows in docker and then rdp to it to display the app as if it's running in Linux.

Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 07:12 PM (mkw2N)

For one or two programs - as the olds call them - that might make sense. But at some point, you should just VM Windows and run them natively on the VM.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:16 PM (dK+Kv)

106 Yup. I have been fooled too often by that type. Until he parades around the chambers with the severed head of a conspirator, I will withhold judgement.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM

^^^ This. All of this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 07:16 PM (Wnv9h)

107
What she takes from it? Somehow it's still Whitey's fault.
Posted by: jim
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She's just buying votes,straight up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L)

108 3 For me, Sunny Hostin is somewhere between "that stupid smug bitch" and "I can't believe someone that rich and privileged is so f***ing dumb".

Is that a distinction without a difference?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (Uvvcx)
LeftCoast Dawg!

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

109 Sunny Hostin is such a fucking clown.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 07:17 PM (zGzrB)

110 >>"I can't believe someone that rich and privileged is so f***ing dumb".

Behind almost every Ivy League Degree is a retard.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 07:18 PM (zGzrB)

111 109 Sunny Hostin is such a fucking clown.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 07:17 PM (zGzrB)

But without the flaming boner

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 07:19 PM (l3cgK)

112 Sunny Hostin is such a fucking clown.
Posted by: garrett
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It's a long, long list.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

113 I think that is true of Gavin and many other blue-state politicians. They have never had to deal with adversarial questioning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM

joe biden certainty thought that way when he walked into the debate with Trump in june of 2024. newsome is going to find out the same thing when he debates vance or rubio in 2028, if he gets that far.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 07:20 PM (0N4FZ)

114 What made her so so very qualified, other than being a leftist vagina-American?
****

You nailed it. She insisted it was time for a woman.

Posted by: clarence at July 22, 2026 07:20 PM (1QT7n)

115 I think years of being surrounded by yes-men, and never being challenged on anything by a compliant media has made her a flaccid thinker.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 07:01 PM (l4RKn)

Considering her face, I am betting thats not the only thing thats flaccid, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

116 We're probably not supposed to notice, but black women aren't doing themselves any favors.

Posted by: Someone who noticed at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (2Ez/1)

117 Sunny Hostin is prototypical.

There's just not as much substance as there is self-regard.

Posted by: Brandon Gill wondering what more do these people want? at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (RIvkX)

118 /darnit

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (RIvkX)

119 Behind almost every Ivy League Degree is a retard.
Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 07:18 PM (zGzrB)
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* Shows egg *

This is your brain.

* Walks down the hall *

*This* is your brain on Marxism.

* gestures toward massively clogged toilet *

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (Fi81e)

120 " ... programs - as the olds call them ... "

the correct term is ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (VyBeY)

121 Sunny, Joy, Angel... Ever notice how the most miserable have the happiest names?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (bX16E)

122 I think years of being surrounded by yes-men, and never being challenged on anything by a compliant media has made her a flaccid thinker.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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See: Kamala Harris

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:22 PM (XeU6L)

123 I was thinking when I get the new computer of doing a steamOS machine. Never used anything besides windows, but they offend me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

Windows 11 has been unbearable trash on my home gaming machine; about to have it wiped and reinstalled for the 3rd time because it's basically like having Joe F**king Biden as your operating system.
I really wanted to try Steam O/s but apparently they are having compatibility issues with Nvidia which is a non starter for me; spent a lot of money on my last video card. If Bill Gates suddenly expires of some venereal disease or in some stupid rich person way like getting run over by his smart lawn mower, I will party like i did when Yasser Arafat bit the dust.

Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 07:22 PM (6+ehB)

124
I think about the scattered, unorganized, jpg.'s that I have stored on sundry media, and doubt that anyone wil lever see them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:13 PM (XeU6L)

My organized husband sometimes wistfully tells me to take small bites out of my life of horror procrastination. He hails from OCD parents. I am not sure what I hail from but it ain't staying organized, and my parents hid it well if they were not.

I listen, consider, feel I have read this, debate in my mind, then go on to live another day not getting anything done. I got something done yesterday and am exhausted.

It is all mild stuff, we are not living in hoarder land with piles of newspapers. I just need to organize a few things and nope!

I am simply bored with being on top of things (something happened to me when I retired and became unplugged from the alarm clock).

Now I don't have a pool in the summer and this is my silent protest or mental snapping of energy synapses due to a vitamin deficiency. I hope I spelled that correctly as I am too tired to look it up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2026 07:23 PM (hzuYO)

125 Muslims treat Catholics as the dhimmis they are
tinyurl.com/arh2n4c2

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 07:23 PM (gKWVE)

126 Could be Zorin Linux, which I've seen talked about as a Windows replacement.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 22, 2026 07:23 PM (bkuEU)

127 I will party like i did when Yasser Arafat bit the dust.
Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 07:22 PM (6+ehB)

Well, Nvidia saying fuck you to the customers that made them is making me want to try an all AMD machine anyway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 07:23 PM (zZu0s)

128 >>I am simply bored with being on top
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2026 07:23 PM

I'm just gonna leave this Pull Quote here, for the others to play with.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 07:24 PM (zGzrB)

129 "There's just not as much substance as there is self-regard.
Posted by: Brandon Gill wondering what more do these people want?"

Don't you dare diss LaPressis Damikria Jones?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)

130 >>I'm just gonna leave this Pull Quote here, for the others to play with.

Not even a small chance.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 07:25 PM (viF8m)

131 123 I was thinking when I get the new computer of doing a steamOS machine. Never used anything besides windows, but they offend me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

If it is your everything machine, get a std. linux distro (debian/ubuntu/mint, a or red hat variant, etc.) as they usually will work with existing peripherals, etc.

And that is still one of the bigger problems with Linux--hardware drivers including graphics cards--AMD and Intel have decent drivers, Nvidia hit or miss.

You can run Steam from Linux easily.

If you only plan on gaming with the computer, then Steam OS will be fine but still recommend AMD graphics in that case.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:26 PM (E4rtv)

132 Well, Nvidia saying fuck you to the customers that made them is making me want to try an all AMD machine anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 07:23 PM (zZu0s)

That's fair; i'm just stuck because i went all in on a 5080; first time i ever bought a current higher end video card and i end up with a literal paste eating helmet wearing r*tard version of windows that manages to scribble all over itself exiting out of a f**cking game.

Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 07:26 PM (6+ehB)

133 Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 07:22 PM (6+ehB)
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Atlas is a windows replacement OS with 0 telemetry.

You just need a Windows software key to install it.

Since 10, Windows has become about telemetry. Determining what you are doing, and sending it "anonymously" to Microsoft. (Because it's not like you ever type your email address in Windows, right?)

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:26 PM (Fi81e)

134 133 Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 07:22 PM (6+ehB)
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Atlas is a windows replacement OS with 0 telemetry.

You just need a Windows software key to install it.

Since 10, Windows has become about telemetry. Determining what you are doing, and sending it "anonymously" to Microsoft. (Because it's not like you ever type your email address in Windows, right?)

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:26 PM (Fi81e)

Or passwords...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 07:27 PM (l3cgK)

135 Just buy a cheap Win11 box and remote desktop to it from your primary Linux PC.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:27 PM (MWfyi)

136
Now I don't have a pool in the summer and this is my silent protest or mental snapping of energy synapses due to a vitamin deficiency. I hope I spelled that correctly as I am too tired to look it up.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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I blame the infirmities of age.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:27 PM (XeU6L)

137 I friggin hate windows microsoft now. It is basically impossible to just do stuff anymore. Every damned day another thing breaks or has another work around and I feel like Harrison Bergeron with dozens of weights loading me down.

Big corps are run by people that I assume get personal hourly bjs by MS marketing because that's all anyone buys. And they slurp up all of it. They force every single horrid MS system on us. From teams to office to project to outlook to onedrive to sharepoint to powerbi to the whole enshitified microsoft universe.

And no IT will ever take the time to fix any of the broken crap they deploy. So the poor users just get more and more daily morass.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 22, 2026 07:28 PM (3uBP9)

138 5 Any Iowans out there? Speaking of polling and quick hits, I'm a little worried about the Iowa gubernatorial race. I'm not hearing much on the Senate race to replace Ernst, but the Dems are very motivated to get Rob Sand elected governor.

Tell me I shouldn't worry and Iowa is Red enough it's not an issue.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (5+LQ2)

I'm in Iowa, and I'm also worried about Sands. He's working hard at pretending to be normal, and not a crazy lib. I don't know if he will be able to convince voters. I saw an ad from his Republican opponent the other day which basically said that. It seemed like a pretty good ad, I don't know if it will work.

I think Repubs everywhere should be running ads tying Dems who try to portray themselves as not crazy to the crazy wing of the Dem party.

I wish I could tell you (and myself) not to worry about Sands, but in all honesty, I can't. The saving grace is that Repubs have overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the state legislature, so that should limit to some degree the damage that Sands can do.

Posted by: a.moron at July 22, 2026 07:28 PM (X5Jzz)

139 The older Nvidia cards are pretty well supported on Linux. If it's going to work, it will work on Mint.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 22, 2026 07:29 PM (bkuEU)

140 I miss DOS

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 07:29 PM (XeU6L)

141 For one or two programs - as the olds call them - that might make sense. But at some point, you should just VM Windows and run them natively on the VM.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Pretty much if you can afford the RAM and fast enough CPU to do it.

Older Windows programs, a lot of them work with WINE or its paid version, Crossover. But expect some oddities at times--WINE actually rates specific programs into Gold, Silver, and Bronze--Gold is pretty much go to go, Silver, expect some hiccups, Bronze, not worth the time really.

If you have really old games on DOS, then OS/2 is what you want or DR DOS which is now freeware I think.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:29 PM (E4rtv)

142 >>I'm just gonna leave this Pull Quote here, for the others to play with.

Not even a small chance.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 07:25 PM (viF8m)

Well, we all know own how jealous ace gets. Look what happened with allahpundit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

143 Just buy a cheap Win11 box and remote desktop to it from your primary Linux PC.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:27 PM (MWfyi)
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Microsoft is still going to know what you're doing on it, though.

Heck, they probably rigged Hyper-V so even if you create an "unnetworked" VM, they still know what you're clicking.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:30 PM (Fi81e)

144 " ... programs - as the olds call them ... "

the correct term is ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:21 PM (VyBeY)

I call them programs. On mobile, they've been referred to as apps. Then desktop started referring to them as applications or apps. I refuse to call desktop programs apps.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:30 PM (dK+Kv)

145 I refuse to call desktop programs apps.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:30 PM (dK+Kv)
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I refuse to call appetizers "apps".

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:32 PM (Fi81e)

146 Prohibits citizens from voting without ID. How about noncitizens, can they vote without ID?

Posted by: Accomack at July 22, 2026 07:32 PM (/Chlc)

147 140 I miss DOS
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Still around, useful for diagnostics on systems that won't boot even now.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)

148 "Microsoft is still going to know what you're doing on it, though."

Maybe. What are you going to do with it anyway? Is it to run that one particular app, or Office? Use a local account and let MS have their way. Everything else run on your Linux PC.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)

149 70 Kamala appears dumb but I think that is because she drinks too much. When I knew her well she was not a drinker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I have to disagree with you on that one.
Posted by: Willie B at July 22, 2026 07:03 PM (9gKa/)
_____________________________

Yeah, she's definitely a bit slow. Played her in 20 consecutive games of Rock, Paper, Scissors and look at me. I've no hands, so it was rock every time. And scissors every time for her. Except the one time she pulled up paper because she was waving at a mannequin. I could have protested, but I felt bad...so I gave it to her.

Posted by: Box of Rocks at July 22, 2026 07:33 PM (dIske)

150 Sunny Hostin: "No one is above the law"

Sunny Hostin now: "How dare you arrest my son? My name is Sunny Hostin!" pic.twitter.com/MOS41bOOvs

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 19, 2026

===

and she lied she is a Federal Prosecutor - she is an ex federal prosecutor

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 07:34 PM (GD0B3)

151 appetizers "apps".

appeteezers

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 07:34 PM (XuXeR)

152 There was once a time where I could just sit down at a linux terminal (or VM mainframe or VAX yeah that old) and get to engineerin' and not worry about f'ing MS. But those days are long over. Even if I remote desktop/putty/ssh whatever in I have to interface with everyone else through the MS universe. And interfacing is about all I do anymore. And I have to use the enshitified MS universe they impose on me.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 22, 2026 07:34 PM (3uBP9)

153 139 The older Nvidia cards are pretty well supported on Linux. If it's going to work, it will work on Mint.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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For ordinary stuff, yes. Gaming, it is hit or miss on Linux and that has been a long standing complaint as Nvidia has basically abandoned the gaming market that it started with and went all in on business computing and particularly AI.

Volunteers are working with Nouveau which is an open source Nvidia driver and doing so with little to no help from Nvidia.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

154 I miss DOS
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Department of State ? There are still at Foggy Bottom !

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 07:35 PM (GD0B3)

155 That's fair; i'm just stuck because i went all in on a 5080; first time i ever bought a current higher end video card and i end up with a literal paste eating helmet wearing r*tard version of windows that manages to scribble all over itself exiting out of a f**cking game.

Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 07:26 PM (6+ehB)

Check ProtonDB for feasibility of running your games on LInux via Steam and Proton. It works remarkably seamlessly for most all but kernel level anti-cheat games like the popular FPS games.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:36 PM (dK+Kv)

156 >I have to disagree with you on that one.
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I'll drink to that!

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at July 22, 2026 07:36 PM (2Ez/1)

157 Yesterday I looked at a customer's point of sale PC that shut off and would not come back on. It's running Win 98. I unplugged the power supply, waited a minute, plugged it back in, and it came on.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:37 PM (MWfyi)

158 I miss DOS
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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I don't. CMD is better, and PowerShell (v7) is even betterer.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:37 PM (Fi81e)

159 I refuse to call appetizers "apps".

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:32 PM (Fi81e)

I might start, just to confuse the whippersnappers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:37 PM (dK+Kv)

160 Volunteers are working with Nouveau which is an open source Nvidia driver and doing so with little to no help from Nvidia.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

I had a Nvidia 1660, and I had all manners of problems on Linux Mint to the point I mostly stayed with the Nouveau driver.

The Intel B580 card has been a dream by comparison.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (dK+Kv)

161 Well, I miss CP/M and TRS DOS too but they are like forgotten ancient languages to me now.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (MWfyi)

162 The absolution of Hillary usually goes along the lines of: SHE CONCEDED WITHIN A DAY!!

So, you can work with the rogue IC to cripple a presidency by spreading lies and innuendo, but you have to concede first. You can still go on a talk show tour and claim you were never really beaten despite your concession.

But you CONCEDED!! You get conceding points.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 07:04 PM (Fi81e)

She conceeded to avoid the recounts which would have exposed the cheat they were engaged in. She knew a recount would move Trump even higher.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (PjoLk)

163 137 I friggin hate windows microsoft now. It is basically impossible to just do stuff anymore. Every damned day another thing breaks or has another work around and I feel like Harrison Bergeron with dozens of weights loading me down.

Big corps are run by people that I assume get personal hourly bjs by MS marketing because that's all anyone buys. And they slurp up all of it. They force every single horrid MS system on us. From teams to office to project to outlook to onedrive to sharepoint to powerbi to the whole enshitified microsoft universe.

And no IT will ever take the time to fix any of the broken crap they deploy. So the poor users just get more and more daily morass.
Posted by: banana Dream
======
Microsoft is loaded to the gills with H1Bs and scammers from abroad. It's one main tentpole is Offfice and the rest of it relies more or less on corporations being unwilling to rip out the microsoft and go with something else on servers, cloud, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

164 Comrade Flounder, same here; I was just curious ...

& (as an afterthought) hope that the question didn't sound snarky

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (VyBeY)

165 There is a distro of Linux out there right now that natively runs Windows programs in a Gnome environment.

I forgot what it was called. It's not WINe.

If you're talking about WinApps or Winboat, they don't actually run Windows programs natively. They run a lightweight version of windows in docker and then rdp to it to display the app as if it's running in Linux.
Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 07:12 PM (mkw2N)

You can also run a virtual machine as a Windows box if the hardware supports it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 07:40 PM (uhVAy)

166 >>> Yesterday I looked at a customer's point of sale PC that shut off and would not come back on. It's running Win 98. I unplugged the power supply, waited a minute, plugged it back in, and it came on.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:37 PM (MWfyi)

Windows 3.11 and MacOS 9.2 were peak human civilization. (albeit different times)

Posted by: banana Dream at July 22, 2026 07:41 PM (3uBP9)

167
Kamala appears dumb but I think that is because she drinks too much. When I knew her well she was not a drinker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

Her close associates must know this. Now, let's see if they do another "Biden is frosty and brilliant!" with her, only to have her go up in flames in debate against Rubio. (I'm betting on him rather than vance)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 07:41 PM (mmrXZ)

168 Comrade Flounder, same here; I was just curious ...

& (as an afterthought) hope that the question didn't sound snarky

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (VyBeY)

I am personally offended and demand satisfaction.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:41 PM (dK+Kv)

169 159, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (VyBeY)

170 Big corps are run by people that I assume get personal hourly bjs by MS marketing because that's all anyone buys. And they slurp up all of it. They force every single horrid MS system on us. From teams to office to project to outlook to onedrive to sharepoint to powerbi to the whole enshitified microsoft universe.

And no IT will ever take the time to fix any of the broken crap they deploy. So the poor users just get more and more daily morass.
Posted by: banana Dream

Sadly no. It's just what they used to say about IBM hardware - "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" despite the cost differential. Corpos just take the easy way out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (uhVAy)

171 I had a Nvidia 1660, and I had all manners of problems on Linux Mint to the point I mostly stayed with the Nouveau driver.

The Intel B580 card has been a dream by comparison.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
======
Intel invested a lot into Linux and when it hit a low point, it started shutting down a lot of linux projects and laying off or recalling employees engaged in linux distros for Intel. Graphics drivers though don't appear to be one of those areas. But Clear, which was Intel's pet Linux OS is dead at least for now as of about one year ago.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:43 PM (E4rtv)

172 Maybe somebody can do a thread on virtues of DOS...and Underwood NO. 5...

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 07:43 PM (GD0B3)

173 87 32 [i22 The fact that Brandon Gill ( whom I think is great, BTW) was born in 1994 makes me feel really old.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Oops, that means he's ineligible to be VP in '28, since he'll only be 34. Drat!
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 06:47 PM (Av6i5)

But not too old to be the next Texas Senator when Trump appoints Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 22, 2026 07:07 PM (Uvvcx)
Bam!

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 07:43 PM (LHPAg)

174 Volunteers are working with Nouveau which is an open source Nvidia driver and doing so with little to no help from Nvidia.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

Shhhhhh! Counting.

Posted by: NVidia, while snorting coke off OpenAI's ass at July 22, 2026 07:44 PM (zZu0s)

175 Cafe is nood!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 22, 2026 07:44 PM (zYpTz)

176 Corpos just take the easy way out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (uhVAy)

The latest easy way out is cloudPC, instead of virtual machines on physical assets on site or leased. Works great, until it doesn't and your entire system is down.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:44 PM (dK+Kv)

177 Sadly no. It's just what they used to say about IBM hardware - "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" despite the cost differential. Corpos just take the easy way out.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 07:42 PM (uhVAy)

To be fair, I am still using an IBM keyboard made in 1991. November 11th iirc from the plate on the back.

I have dated women younger than that keyboard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

178 I friggin hate windows microsoft now. It is basically impossible to just do stuff anymore.

I'm rebooting four times a day now. Can't run any of the Microslop Office products anymore because a few minutes later it will lock up the entire system. So use Teams and Outlook only on the mobile device.

Problems mostly seem to revolve around OneDrive.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:46 PM (9Hs2w)

179 Problems mostly seem to revolve around OneDrive.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:46 PM (9Hs2w)

I have to constantly restart one drive. It does not play well with the work authenticator.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 07:48 PM (zZu0s)

180 The ABA was captured by the left in the 80s-era abortion battles, and forever after, it has been for all the crazy left-wing crap. The ABA even had the gall to rate some Republican presidents' federal court nominees as "not qualified" due to their not being on the activist left, regardless of credentials and accomplishments.

Its law school accreditation branch is a driver of enforcing DEI at law schools, both as to faculty recruitment and student admissions, on pain of losing accreditation.

The ABA is the SEIU of the legal profession except lawyers are not required to join it, thank God.

Posted by: Fritz at July 22, 2026 07:49 PM (J7jo9)

181 ======
Microsoft is loaded to the gills with H1Bs and scammers from abroad. It's one main tentpole is Offfice and the rest of it relies more or less on corporations being unwilling to rip out the microsoft and go with something else on servers, cloud, etc.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

------

The last company I worked for used Google for all the apps. Didn't use any MS products except for Windows.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 22, 2026 08:01 PM (DbmIv)

182 Nevertheless, he popped into my DMs immediate: "Cite?" he objected, claiming I was making it up.

Obviously not a pro. You scream "Scogg" if you want to say
"Shut Up" in short form.

Its the killing word.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 08:19 PM (f/+gF)

183 Sunny Hostin should be Sunny Ho.
Jake Tapper should be Jake Ho.
They all ho's!

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 22, 2026 09:46 PM (YVvS/)

184 It’s good everyone knows it now. But it’s spilt milk. Nothing you can do about the lost election except make sure the right people are allowed to vote from now on. Where the fuck is McConnell anyway. Sniffling dickhead
Amen, Jesus

Posted by: Sidney at July 22, 2026 09:55 PM (rzwGB)

185 but of course he never, ever called Hillary Clinton out for this nor, as far as I know, even highlighted the claim.

In fairness, Jake wants to keep living, however mean his existence.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 10:03 PM (4NO2D)

186 Sunny Hostin looks like she has a lot white blood, maybe even more than half. The bitch ought to be paying reparations.

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Posted by: xxxbokep.cc at July 23, 2026 07:36 AM (IkYPJ)

Reports of a Republican Midterm Loss Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Rick Moran on the Republican fundraising advantage:

I did a double take when I saw the fundraising totals for the midterm elections in Politico. Republican party committees and super PACs have raised $657 million for the midterms, now just four and a half months away. That's nearly double the $337 million the Democrats have raised.
And it gets worse for the Democrats. The largest single financial entity raising money for the midterms, MAGA, Inc., reports $400 million in cash as of June 30.
That billion-dollar-plus war chest is three times as much as the Democrats' cash entering the final months of the campaign.

...
And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.
Politico:

"What is putting the House majority and the Senate majority, nationally, in danger is the Republicans' massive stockpile of resources that they're putting together to push back," said Morgan Jackson, a longtime North Carolina Democratic strategist and an adviser to former Gov. Roy Cooper, who is running for Senate.
"If you get outspent five to six to eight to one, that can alleviate the environmental advantage that Democrats have this cycle of poor leadership from the White House, a dysfunctional Congress, a bad economy that they own," he added. "There's a lot of concern to that."

...
The Republican National Committee has $129 million in cash on hand. The Democrats are still $2 million in debt. That bespeaks an organization that's floundering, unable to raise money to pay what it owes.

The House race is now basically a toss-up: Per Fox's count -- and remember, Fox's polling operation is super-liberal and run by a Hillary Clinton supporter -- Republicans have 208 seats in the bag, Democrats have 211, and there are 16 toss-ups.

Republicans would only have to grab ten of those 16 toss-ups to win a (super-thin) majority of 218. (But it would be a more solid majority than one depending on Majorie Trailer-Queen and Thomas Massie.)

🚨RED WAVE : New Forecast Shows Republicans GAINING House Seats to 224 on a �Good Night�! 🇺🇸

The House is now a total toss-up. The left is fuming � Dems can�t even reach a majority mark.

THIS IS WINING 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1uulwv79Ru
— Xander Xand (@Xander24Xand) July 21, 2026

Full 2026 Fox News US House Forecast

🔵 Democrats: 211
🔴 Republicans: 208
🟡 Toss up: 16 https://t.co/8oX6Py39aS pic.twitter.com/Ejqg5Ox3SE
— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) July 22, 2026

Fox: Possible Best vs Worst Case Scenarios For The House Elections

GOP Good Night:
🔴 Republicans: 224 (+4)
🔵 Democrats: 211 (-4)

Dem Good Night:
🔵 Democrats: 227 (+12)
🔴 Republicans: 208 (-12)

(+/- vs 2024 Election) https://t.co/KzjOAfpuFu pic.twitter.com/COgmPbQsTG
— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) July 21, 2026

Actual Republicans continue to be historically united behind Trump, at 83%.

The Charlie Cook political report is even more bullish on the Republicans, saying that they have 212 solid seats right now, and Democrats only 205.

This post contrasts that with 2018, when Democrats won the House. Back in 2018, Democrats has 210 solid seats, and the Republicans only 195.

2026 vs 2018 Cook Political Report
House Ratings

2018:
🔵 Democrats: 210
🔴 Republicans: 195
🟡 Tossup: 30

2026:
🔴 Republicans: 212 (+17)
🔵 Democrats: 205 (-5)
🟡 Tossup: 18 (-12)

(218 needed for a majority) pic.twitter.com/o1kfIIiOD1
— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) July 21, 2026

House race info from Liberal Hivemind.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 Blade

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (dK+Kv)

2 \o/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (6ydKt)

3 Sure Jan, whatever.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (Q/FnY)

4 Missed it by a hair twice today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (6ydKt)

5 I'd like a clean conservative sweep in AZ please...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 05:31 PM (NnhvP)

6 I called them from below.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 22, 2026 05:31 PM (Q/FnY)

7 Imma be stuck with cooper but it'll just be a continuation of gope tillis

Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 05:32 PM (enNUy)

8 I haven’t looked, but for a long time there was a morbid web page devoted solely to whether Abe Vigoda was alive or not. Ten bucks sez someone has a similar one up for cocaine Mitch

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:32 PM (qt51i)

9
Kathleen Nolan dropped out sight, waited patiently, an reappeared as Amy Adams.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 05:33 PM (Y8DZL)

10 Missed it by a hair twice today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM

If it's any consolation, Worf says second is First Loser.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 22, 2026 05:33 PM (0sNs1)

11 Golly. I wonder if this has anything to do with USAID closing down.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:33 PM (/QJKp)

12 +3 before USAID funding being cut and some vote security measures we've put in place meant a tie.

And honestly historically the numbers get better for Republicans the closer we get to the actual election.

So I predict, and have been predicting significant GAINS for the Reps in the House in this election.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 05:34 PM (sKqQm)

13 And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.
-----
I think I spotted the flaw in an otherwise damn fine plan.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 05:34 PM (FZ29D)

14 I think we outperform, but narrowly lose the House.

The hard left, socialist direction Democrats have gone will blunt the normal pendulum swing that happens in midterms. If we had like a 40+ seat majority (like we did in 2016 era) I think we'd easily keep the house.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (mZ5oQ)

15 I think it could be a Rep blow-out.
Let's not forget how much USAID and the foreign money went to the Dem effort.
Not gonna happen.
Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (q6tQZ)

16 called them from below.

One of our most reliable sources of voters.

Posted by: (D)emocrat Election Officials at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

17 And some Republican states have gotten into the "Gerrymandering Game", so perhaps that gives R's a bigger edge, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (vbXSk)

18 THIS IS WINNING

Send Money - GOPe

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (UjdFS)

19 Place by bets today, I would go with a 218-217 thriller win for the gop.

Footnote: I have no freaking clue. Neither do the polls.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:36 PM (n5tGW)

20
Looking at that bottom map...

Who knew New Mexico was so gay?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 05:36 PM (iJfKG)

21 Before everyone goes around sucking each others dicks we need to remember that kamala spent over $1 BILLION on her campaign in less than 90 days and jeb! outspent every other republican running in 2016 by a factor of 10 to one and they both flamed out.

jeb! dropped out after two dismal state showings and harris not only lost the electoral college she managed to lose the popular vote to Trump by over 3,000,000 votes.

Having a ton of money on hand can be good but it ain't a guaranteed win.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 05:36 PM (0N4FZ)

22 I'm still alarmed by the blue stain spreading across WA state.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 22, 2026 05:36 PM (xcxpd)

23 The party of layabouts, retards, thieves, and miscreants, must be soundly stomped.

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ronnie at July 22, 2026 05:37 PM (JM9I6)

24 8 I haven’t looked, but for a long time there was a morbid web page devoted solely to whether Abe Vigoda was alive or not. Ten bucks sez someone has a similar one up for cocaine Mitch
Posted by: Common Tater

he was still alive when web pages began?

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 22, 2026 05:37 PM (5k0TE)

25 Actual Republicans continue to be historically united behind Trump, at 83%.

In before "But muh gas prices."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 05:37 PM (ExV1e)

26 well, it's a bit early ...but it is going in the right direction!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:38 PM (GD0B3)

27 Who knew New Mexico was so gay?
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 05:36 PM

* raises hand *

Posted by: Kokopeli at July 22, 2026 05:38 PM (0sNs1)

28 The good news for the GOP is the dems didn't slap down on the DSA and that is gonna anchor some babies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:38 PM (n5tGW)

29 Having a ton of money on hand can be good but it ain't a guaranteed win.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

True.
Nothing better than a Trump endorsement...maybe some subpoenas just before election...maybe even a perp walk or two.
Let's not forget we do have the master showman in charge.

Posted by: Mr. Hopium at July 22, 2026 05:38 PM (q6tQZ)

30 I still think two things are true.

First Party to get to Nationalist Populist wins everything. For Generations. That phrase - Nationalist Populist - used to be bannable here.

But that's what Trump kinda' is.

Second Thing ... The GOP is not the Party of Trump. And the GOP will still wreck this shit before they lose this shit. They did it after the Tea Party Wave. They did it by 50 something House GOP members retiring in 2018. They do it all the time.

This new Democrat Socialist thing ? They've inching toward Nationalist Populist from the other end. Peron or Castro instead of Pinochet or Franco.

Everything in between is just a half-assed half measure.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (zqvFx)

31 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise. True story.

Its vote counts as much as mine.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (/QJKp)

32 Who sez Abe Vigoda is mort?

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (JM9I6)

33 It appears that dem donors are a little gun shy after dumping a billion on Kumala and watching her piss it away.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (abScH)

34 A large advantage in funding is irrelevant if spent poorly. Given the pattern over the last several congressional campaigns, I'm not terribly reassured.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (CwhoI)

35 Sorry. Can't watch Bill Hemmer. Or Dana Perino for that matter.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (UjdFS)

36 The Blade said months ago we would hold the house and senate. Trust The Blade. He knows things. Always trust The Blade.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (JgYL0)

37 he was still alive when web pages began?
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 22, 2026 05:37 PM (5k0TE)
#####################

Died in 2016, or so I want you to think.

Posted by: Zombie Abe Vigoda at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (ZYFm6)

38 A shut down should impair that.
-Thune

Posted by: Bete at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LX4y3)

39 It's always a bit saddening to read about all these election projections, when I know, that, living as I do in the bluest of blue Lost Cause districts, none of this is of any relevance to me personally, as the odds of a Republican winning any election within 100 miles of where I am sitting are practically nil.

All I can do i limply cheer "Go team!" from the sidelines, and half-heartedly shake a pom-pom.

Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

40 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise. True story.

Its vote counts as much as mine.

Posted by: sifty boones

Isn't it open season on those things there?

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 05:41 PM (q6tQZ)

41 The party of layabouts, retards, thieves, and miscreants, must be soundly stomped.
——

Looters, shooters, and Frankenstein cooters

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:41 PM (qt51i)

42 41.

Not in daylight.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:41 PM (/QJKp)

43 Of course the difference in fund raising is more pronounced. The one with the lesser treasure chest is dependent on basement dwelling malcontents with absolutely no money who think everyone else should pay for them. THAT's why the DNC has been so dependent on laundered taxpayer money acquired through NGO's, Grants pushed down the ladder to cut-out charities, and outright pie pieces of generated heathcare fraud.

Without entities like Act Blue to deceptively assign non-auditted donations to unknowing parties, the fundraising dries up from every one of these efforts.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (dIske)

44 "Reports of a Republican Midterm Loss Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"

I wasn't worried about the 2024 election for a second, and I've said for quite a while that I'm even less worried about the 2026 midterms. Trump is managing the war and the markets very well. As long as oil stays elevated but not too spiky (worst-case), people will get used to the economy - especially because once this ends, the good times will roll even better than before. Our GDP would be at least 1.5% higher without the war anchor.

That said, there is only one thing that will risk Congress at this point. That is the GOPe. Thune doesn't want to pass SAVE, and you know that it's his job to take the slings and arrows for at least 10 other senators that feel the same way but need to keep quiet - Thune's seat is quite safe. If he and the GOPe are successful, however, that could depress turnout on our side. As I see it, that's the black swan that can hurt us. Graham hurt us during the last midterm. Someone else will step up to try and do it this time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (9CbuZ)

45 > And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.
---------
Spoiler: The Republicans will put it in their pockets and lose where they could have (probably didn't want to) win.

Fuckers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (jehhT)

46 "poor leadership from the White House, a dysfunctional Congress, a bad economy that they own..."

If that was the case, wouldn't Republicans be struggling to raise money instead of hauling it in hand over fist?

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (pE12i)

47 Hey its not like the GOPe can't fcku it up.

But seriously, does anyone really want to see two years of impeachments?

Posted by: help me rhonda help help me at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (anL5R)

48 Shutting down Federal funding of NGO's helps dry up Democrat PACs.
They still fund Planned Parenthood grrrrr

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (bcH8p)

49 Yo

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (zGzrB)

50 A shut down should impair that.
-Thune
Posted by: Bete
......

The wax museum let you out again?

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (UjdFS)

51
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)

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

I hear ya. It's all moot and getting mooter.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (mmrXZ)

52 The Republican voters had better get off their asses and vote like it's a presidential cycle, or its going to be Impeachment-Palooza until 2028.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 22, 2026 05:43 PM (OkYzo)

53 Thune may well spend all the money on having his cheeks planed and his hair whitened.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:43 PM (/QJKp)

54 r/DeepStateCentrism
Rising: Dems flailing in midterm polls; socialists to blame? TL;DR: Despite Trump’s unpopularity, Democrats aren’t exactly dominating midterm election polling. The DSA is likely turning away moderate and swing voters.

When you have Van Jones crashing out on CNN about the state of the Democratic party with the DSA, you know there's a problem.

The DSA said we needed an outsider, gave us one, and gave Susan Collins another term. The far left of the party needs to realize if they want the cooperation of the party they can start by not making such idiotic choices.

Had DSA tell me the reason Harris lost is because she wasn’t far enough left to get them to the polls. They want even more extremes

Saw a sobering poll. In 2018 Dems won 90% of those voters who were negative on Trump. Today it’s fallen to 69%. That means roughly 21% of the voters have decided that yes Trump sucks but there’s no way in hell I’m voting for the democrats. I think what happened in 2020, some parts of the Biden administration, and the DSA are all to blame for this brand collapse.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2026 05:43 PM (5+LQ2)

55 he was still alive when web pages began?
——

As it happens, yes.

The website is still maintained

http://isabevigodadead.com/

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:44 PM (qt51i)

56 Not in daylight.
Posted by: sifty boones

Heh.
So, there might be a chance of a permit, eh?

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 05:44 PM (q6tQZ)

57 "Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise."

Posted by: sifty boones

That's the lyric that Warren Zevon decided to leave out of "Werewolves of London". Shame, it's kind of catchy.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 22, 2026 05:44 PM (k9OZB)

58 All I can do i limply cheer "Go team!" from the sidelines, and half-heartedly shake a pom-pom.
Posted by: zombie

Alex the Chick's "pom-poms" are not half-hearted.

There are pictures

Posted by: As recalled by Miklos at July 22, 2026 05:44 PM (sxR7k)

59 Lottery or points?

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 05:44 PM (q6tQZ)

60
I did a double take when I saw the fundraising totals for the midterm elections in Politico. Republican party committees and super PACs have raised $657 million for the midterms, now just four and a half months away. That's nearly double the $337 million the Democrats have raised.

...
DOOOOOD, FRICKIN' AWESOME
...

And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.

....oh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 05:44 PM (y9nCu)

61 The DSA said we needed an outsider, gave us one, and gave Susan Collins another term. T

===

LOL ...say it, Socialism sux!!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)

62 And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.
-----
I think I spotted the flaw in an otherwise damn fine plan.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 05:34 PM (FZ29D)

LOL

Narrator: Once again our feckless heroes intend to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 05:45 PM (wVcYX)

63 Its always a "toss-up" because the networks need that massive infusion of Advertisements to shore up their quarterly earnings.

We really are at the age of everyone lying about everything all of the time.

I understand why people tune out. The craven gaslighting never ends because greed never ends.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 05:45 PM (/TiS1)

64 Footnote: I have no freaking clue. Neither do the polls.

The only thing the polls know for sure is next up on the main stage is Mercedes!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)

65 I also am confident about my prediction (see above) because the Democraps are already pointing fingers at the blame for their upcoming loss: the DSA.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 22, 2026 05:46 PM (JgYL0)

66 >>>The DSA said we needed an outsider, gave us one, and gave Susan Collins another term.

You arrogant ass! You've killed us!

Posted by: DNC at July 22, 2026 05:46 PM (dK+Kv)

67 I wonder how many billionaires are saying one thing publicly, but something else financially since the Dems have become cheerleaders for Communism and shooting businessmen in the back.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 22, 2026 05:46 PM (CwhoI)

68 Can't wait to spend those hundreds of millions on expensive campaign advertisements that sway almost no-one!

Get-out-the-vote efforts? Never heard of them.

Posted by: Republican Campaign Strategists at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (ZYFm6)

69 Years ago, every College town had exactly one Tranny.

They have since escaped containment.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (zGzrB)

70 Damn.Twice now I've read Intercepted Reddit Transmissions making sense.
There's a jiggle in the force...

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (q6tQZ)

71 If you're looking to invest in Wyoming, go for a company that prints candidate signs. They're *everywhere* here, and not just billboards. You'll see a sign for governor accompanied by sheriff, county commissioner, state rep, and a bunch of others. The Senate candidate is pictured wearing a MAGA hat on every fourth billboard.

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (7I6zx)

72 57.

"Don't the trannies look angry through the trees? Don't the trees look like crucified thieves?
Don't it feel like desperate trannies, under the eaves?
Heaven help the ones who leave." - Warren Zevon, paraphrased

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (/QJKp)

73 Fantastic headline from the Daily Mail:

"Swing State in Peril for(sic) after Election Denier Romps to Victory."

Much made about Andy Biggs being endorsed by Trump, how the other guy said the party needed to appeal more to centrists and moderates, and how Bigg is an evil election denier.

Then, the very last paragraph almost a "oh by the way, Hobbs is stuck in the mid 40s."
That's dead man walking territory for an incumbent.

We just need Gallego to hold on until January, then force him out and Biggs can name his replacement.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (3cUTc)

74 The map shows Newsom's redistricted Norcal counties as blue when they actually vote 70% republican.

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (bcH8p)

75 Depending on how well the vote fraud goes

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)

76 45 > And it has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.
---------
Spoiler: The Republicans will put it in their pockets and lose where they could have (probably didn't want to) win.

Fuckers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (jehhT)

Thune and the GOPe don't want a yuge GOP majority in the Senate and House. If that were to happen, they'd have to be accountable and deliver for the base. After Mitch et al we're now too wise to let them snooker us again, so they need to keep it thisclose so that a handful of 'moderates' can gum up the works with plausible deniability from leadership.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (9CbuZ)

77 Narrator: Once again our feckless heroes intend to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!

No kidding. 40+ feckless heroes, safe after the primaries, all of a sudden decided what American citizens really want is for Congress to deliver Amnesty to illegal aliens.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (/TiS1)

78 Its always a "toss-up" because the networks need that massive infusion of Advertisements to shore up their quarterly earnings.
——-

Yup. They knew 6 months to a year out Biden was gonna get smoked. Harris? Beaten like a rented government Mule. But they need those viewers, clicks, etc. keep those cards and letters coming in folks!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (qt51i)

79 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise. True story.

Its vote counts as much as mine.

Posted by: sifty boones

Been a little surprised at how many troons I have seen since I moved here 18 months ago. Also, a lot of hobos. See them all the time. My job is in downtown Boise.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (0aYVJ)

80 About time for congress to see the ending of Wild In The Streets.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (LHPAg)

81
Saw a fat tranny in a tutu
riding an electric scooter
down Fairview Ave today
Xe was looking for a place called
Blue-Haired Cucks
Gonna get a big dish of Vegan Tofu
Wooo-hooooo Trannies of Boise
Wooo-hoooooooo!
Wooo-hooooo Trannies of Boise
Wooo-hoooooooo!
...
...

Posted by: Zombie Warren Zevon at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (iJfKG)

82 "You ask for miracles, Theo? I give you the D...S...A."

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (CwhoI)

83 Years ago, every College town had exactly one Tranny.

Damn. Are you telling me they're self-pollinating.

This is worse than that first envelope you open in Pandemic Legacy Season 0.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:49 PM (zqvFx)

84 'And the trees were all kept equal
by hatchet wielding trannies with swords' - Rush

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:49 PM (zGzrB)

85 As far as real votes go, certainly the Cultural Marxists have gone full out so maybe scaring the fence sitters

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 05:49 PM (Ia/+0)

86 It appears that dem donors are a little gun shy after dumping a billion on Kumala and watching her piss it away.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (abScH)

I believe that, historically, dem donors have been US taxpayers filtered through a couple layers of grifting cutouts. Some of those avenues have been shut down and the billionaires don't want to spend their own money to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 05:49 PM (ExV1e)

87 70 Damn.Twice now I've read Intercepted Reddit Transmissions making sense.
There's a jiggle in the force...
Posted by: MkY

Occasionally, odd subreddits pop up with lots of comments. That's why I put the name at the top of this one, "DeepStateCentrism". They STILL sound pretty far Left, and are just upset that the open Socialists are screwing things up for them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (5+LQ2)

88 Thune knows his paycheck is the same whether he is in the majority or not. Less pressure and same payoffs. All the excuses in the world.

Pretty good gig if you can get it.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (/QJKp)

89 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise.
-----

And his hair was purple.

Posted by: Zombie Warren Zevon at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (TN0g+)

90 >>Posted by: pookysgirl at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (7I6zx)

I still can't decide if having a dollar for every antelope or a dollar for every abandoned trailer home in Wyoming is the best bet.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (zGzrB)

91 My job is in downtown Boise.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (0aYVJ)

Used to be a GREAT town. Do they still have that Manual Sort Fed Ex ? I worked on the automation there. Pretty smooth start-up.

I was younger then. Then jogging and such. So when they put me on 2nd Shift, I'd get up and do my run. You could see that blue field right from the sidewalk. Pretty cool.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (zqvFx)

92
Well, hell. Beaten to the punch on the Warren Zevon joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (iJfKG)

93 Cocks
Sucking
Each other's
Not
Just yet

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

94 The blue-hair nose-ring transgender socialist Hamas supporters really only consttutute maybe 7% of the overall us population.

And yet these plls reveal that, somehow, the "Democratic Party" is still essentially in a 50-50 tie with Trump and his coattails.

Where are these extra Demodrat votes coming from? Even living in Blue State Hell,, I can't see any "moderate" r "middle of the road" voters supporting any Democrat. To do so is to automatic hand power to the blue-hair nose-ring transgender socialist Hamas supporters.

There is no middle ground. You are either a rootin'-tootin' MAGA-all-the-way Trumpista, or you are a blue-hair nose-ring transgender socialist Hamas supporter. The space between these two camps is a bard-wire strewn no-man;'s land littered with dead bodies.

Will the 1% Nazi-communist Hasna Piker/Tuq'r Carlson/Candace Owns crowd evne vote? For whom? And how culd their 1% out the Dems over the top?

Wise me up, people.

Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (Av6i5)

95 Kickbacks and extortion. That's my platform.

Money laundering? That would make me a Democrat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (sYM3s)

96 Years ago, every College town had exactly one Tranny.

They have since escaped containment.
Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:47 PM (zGzrB)

Just like jugglers.

Posted by: Sandford Neightbourhood Watch Alliance at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (wVcYX)

97 >>My job is in downtown Boise.

There is some awesome Mt Biking in Boise.

But. Boise. So, I never go there.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (zGzrB)

98 I used to have a different nic, you said it much better than I.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (abScH)

99 At WSJ: "Date night in America now costs an average $189."

Same as in town.

Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

100 I still can't decide if having a dollar for every antelope or a dollar for every abandoned trailer home in Wyoming is the best bet.

Your Vespa much have one Hell of a suspension upgrade. Did you get it aftermarket ?

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (zqvFx)

101 1 Blade
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (dK+Kv)
——

[fistbump]

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (JgYL0)

102 79.

Pug, You got a steak waiting whenever we meet, Buddy.

It's you and me against the troons from three states invading.

It's like a bad game of Space Invaders up in here.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (/QJKp)

103 I'm confused. Recently I have heard that Republican have way more funds than Democrats and ALSO that Democrats have way more funds than Republicans.

Which is it?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (OlzlW)

104 97.

Boise is just where they keep the welfare offices.

We keep the real Idaho outside Boise City Limits.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:53 PM (/QJKp)

105 99 At WSJ: "Date night in America now costs an average $189."

Same as in town.
Posted by: gp

Pornhub, a frozen pizza, and Call of Duty with my bros seems a lot less stressful, and cheaper.

Posted by: Single Young Male at July 22, 2026 05:53 PM (5+LQ2)

106 I wonder how many billionaires are saying one thing publicly, but something else financially since the Dems have become cheerleaders for Communism and shooting businessmen in the back.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 22, 2026 05:46 PM (CwhoI)

The DNC probably still has a couple of the billionaires who gained that status via divorce onboard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 05:54 PM (ExV1e)

107 Pornhub, a frozen pizza, and Call of Duty with my bros seems a lot less stressful, and cheaper.

The sex-bots will change everything. EVERYTHING.

You know who will oppose them the most. The same bunch that formed the Temperance Movement. Women.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:55 PM (zqvFx)

108 They'd have a lot more money if Thune hadn't pissed away $150 million helping Cornyn lose the primary TWICE.

That's really what's going to determine the midterms more than anything else.

Thune controls a respectable amount of that money and he will absolutely be petty enough to refuse to fund Paxton or Letlow (the one that won the primary where Cassidy finished DISTANT 3rd).

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 22, 2026 05:55 PM (lCHt6)

109 I used to have a different nic, you said it much better than I.
Posted by: Ben Had

And that's saying something

Posted by: Miklos notes we are apparently doing phrasing at July 22, 2026 05:56 PM (sxR7k)

110 >>We keep the real Idaho outside Boise City Limits.

There is so much of the good Idaho stuff I need to drive through to get to the Boise area that I never even get close to the place.

Thinking about heading over there in a few weeks to ride the Sawtooth area.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:56 PM (zGzrB)

111 31 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise. True story.

Its vote counts as much as mine.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (/QJKp)

__________________________

Ah, so Boise ditched the Bike Lane, and now has a Dyke Lane. Good to know.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 05:56 PM (dIske)

112 I'm confused. Recently I have heard that Republican have way more funds than Democrats and ALSO that Democrats have way more funds than Republicans.

Which is it?
-----

I think the media is trying to spin a "win" in current fundraising for the Dems as some sort of cultural shift. The truth is the Republicans are sitting on a TON of legacy money, and the Dems are practically broke.

Posted by: Zombie Warren Zevon at July 22, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

113 I forget how a little Zevon can make even the shittiest GOPe news day better.

Dude was a prophet.

Don't it make you wanna rock n roll all night long?

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:57 PM (/QJKp)

114 103 I'm confused. Recently I have heard that Republican have way more funds than Democrats and ALSO that Democrats have way more funds than Republicans.

Which is it?
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (OlzlW)

Both. Talarico, for instance, has more money in TX than Paxton does - even though Cornyn spent 9-figures (a lot of that from Mitch's Senate Republicans Fund) to lose to him in the primaries. The RNC has a lot more than the DNC, however, for the nationals.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 05:57 PM (9CbuZ)

115 I still can't decide if having a dollar for every antelope or a dollar for every abandoned trailer home in Wyoming is the best bet.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (zGzrB)

Amend that to "mule deer" and "abandoned pickup truck" and you've got an even bet.

Posted by: pookysgirl saw a bear yesterday at July 22, 2026 05:57 PM (7I6zx)

116 I was younger then. Then jogging and such. So when they put me on 2nd Shift, I'd get up and do my run. You could see that blue field right from the sidewalk. Pretty cool.
Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:50 PM (zqvFx)

I like it here. But, I am already seeing some of the signs that led us to leave Colorado. Boise feels like Fort Collins did 25 years ago.

Things went pear-shaped quickly in the Front Range: Leftist billionaires. We have retirement areas in our sights.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

117 >>>Cocks
Sucking
Each other's
Not
Just yet
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

Is that meant to be said in a Yoda voice?

Posted by: Max Power at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (SwyyQ)

118 31 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (/QJKp

It's hair was purple

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (RUm4z)

119 110.

It's 2026. You people can call it what whatever you want. Riding the Sawtooths is a new one.

/

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (/QJKp)

120 Depends on how Iran goes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)

121
Both. Talarico, for instance, has more money in TX than Paxton does - even though Cornyn spent 9-figures (a lot of that from Mitch's Senate Republicans Fund) to lose to him in the primaries. The RNC has a lot more than the DNC, however, for the nationals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 05:57 PM (9CbuZ)

Maybe that's what I heard and assumed the situation was widespread.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 05:59 PM (OlzlW)

122 117 >>>Cocks
Sucking
Each other's
Not
Just yet
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

Is that meant to be said in a Yoda voice?
Posted by: Max Power

I hate waiting!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 22, 2026 05:59 PM (5+LQ2)

123 120.

Hopefully it goes BOOM, BC. Jr. Hopefully it goes Boom.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:59 PM (/QJKp)

124 The sex-bots will change everything. EVERYTHING.

You know who will oppose them the most. The same bunch that formed the Temperance Movement. Women.
Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:55 PM (zqvFx)
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This message has been brought to you by the Space Pope.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (FZ29D)

125 I used to have a different nic, you said it much better than I.
Posted by: Ben Had

I'm sure I spent more time in strip clubs than you. Mercedes was a wonderful girl, studying to be a rocket surgeon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

126 99 At WSJ: "Date night in America now costs an average $189."

Same as in town.
Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 05:52 PM (Jr5Lq)
Just took Mrs. E out because she's been having a tough time lately. A TexMex FishCamp, our ticket was $53. Not bad. As we're going out the door, there's a picture of the owner on the wall. An old drinking buddy. Many tales.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (LHPAg)

127 Presdent Obama shoolds does so.ething about mess created by Trump lies..

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (sg1yQ)

128 Depends on how Iran goes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I hear Iran goes both ways.

Posted by: Miklos suspects the rumors are true at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (sxR7k)

129 You know who will oppose them the most. The same bunch that formed the Temperance Movement. Women.
Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:55 PM (zqvFx)
----
This message has been brought to you by the Space Pope.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

We're all for it...for you evil white colonizers.

Posted by: Invading Muslims and other Third-Worlders at July 22, 2026 06:01 PM (5+LQ2)

130 100 Your Vespa much have one Hell of a suspension upgrade. Did you get it aftermarket ?

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

Posted by: anachronda at July 22, 2026 06:01 PM (v3pYe)

131 I hear mullahs do butt stuff...

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 06:01 PM (GD0B3)

132 128.

Muhamhead says goats don't count.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:01 PM (/QJKp)

133
Wise me up, people.
Posted by: zombie

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

My neighborhood is full of comfortable middle-aged couples and families that vote blue no matter who. Republicans are mean. Democrats are for personal freedom. Y R taxes so high. I hope things improve.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:01 PM (mmrXZ)

134 Things went pear-shaped quickly in the Front Range: Leftist billionaires. We have retirement areas in our sights.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

I worked a couple places in Colorado last year. The old natives say the same thing. It sucks. You have something good ... and the locusts flock. Especially in the West.

Can't tell you how many NorCal places I worked that I liked. Same old story. Great folks captured in the same geography as San Franscisco and South. NorCal is - honestly - just about the best place I've ever visited. Other than than the Orange Beach / Gulf Shores part of the Gulf of America.

Yuba City. And entire NorCal town that has a lot of stuff ... yet lets chickens run free in town. Just cool. I tried to buy a three foot tall painted metal chicken to bring home. Couldn't figure out how to load it in the work truck.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (zqvFx)

135 Is that meant to be said in a Yoda voice?
Posted by: Max Power at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (SwyyQ)

I dunno. I started out as a Yoda voice, then wondered how I would say it as a haiku.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

136 128 Depends on how Iran goes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I hear Iran goes both ways.

DO THEY SPIT OR SWALLOW ????

Posted by: Kamil Harris at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (TkCc3)

137
Hopefully it goes Boom.
Posted by: sifty boones

No Boom today.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (Cqx++)

138 Candidates like Talarico and Ossoff have a lot of outside money being fired into their campaigns. However the DNC is broke and the RNC is stuffed with cash. The Republicans are looking good , but as always they could screw it up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (sMkB+)

139 Mary is SO RIGHT!!!

And Mary, they need some more of your organic hard kombucha at the Universalist Unitarian Islamic Center!

Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro at July 22, 2026 06:03 PM (sxR7k)

140 Sucking my brothers cocks
I shall not do.
Instead, the bathroom.
A ghost in the water.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:03 PM (zZu0s)

141 128 Depends on how Iran goes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I hear Iran goes both ways.
Posted by: Miklos suspects the rumors are true at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (sxR7k)
That's Irene.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 06:03 PM (LHPAg)

142 >>Democrats are for personal freedom.

Provided you can show them a Covid Passport, of course.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 06:03 PM (zGzrB)

143 Dang, I'm a cheap date because I just cook dinner and we stay in.

Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 06:03 PM (enNUy)

144 Saw a fat tranny in a tutu riding an electric scooter down Fairview Ave today in Boise.

And his hair was purple.
-------------------------------
Sad story.... Werewolf edition

Went to Trader Vic's in Silicon Valley. Did not get a dish of beef chow mien.

Got shit faced on cocktails before hand and passed out in the car in the parking lot.

My wife... was not amused.

Aaawoooo..........

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 06:04 PM (jehhT)

145 DO THEY SPIT OR SWALLOW ????
Posted by: Kamil Harris at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (TkCc3)

They seem like a spitter with too much eye contact.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s)

146 Ta Ra Ra BOOM to-day!

Posted by: Vaudeville at July 22, 2026 06:04 PM (wVcYX)

147 138 Candidates like Talarico and Ossoff have a lot of outside money being fired into their campaigns. However the DNC is broke and the RNC is stuffed with cash. The Republicans are looking good , but as always they could screw it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Talarico needs a lot more than a cash advantage to overcome his flaws and win in Texas.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 06:04 PM (5+LQ2)

148 Go away, My Pillow:

Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin
·
41m
Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens.

Total surrender.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (kX27y)

149 The Republicans are looking good , but as always they ~~could~~ will screw it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (sMkB+)

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (OlzlW)

150 Talarico is the proverbial " pig in a poke"

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (abScH)

151 Yup. They knew 6 months to a year out Biden was gonna get smoked. Harris? Beaten like a rented government Mule. But they need those viewers, clicks, etc. keep those cards and letters coming in folks!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:48 PM (qt51i)
---
I said that when Trump pulled ahead of Biden by five points they would try to kill him, and that's exactly what happened.

Then they went to the usual game: show Dem well ahead, but then things tighten up and it becomes a toss-up so that none of the egregiously wrong Dem shill polls lose too badly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

152 My hope is that Thune pulls out of the Senate Parliamentarian long enough to get something done this week, but my whelmometer is sad.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (/QJKp)

153 It's kind of simiple:
Who are the Democrats pissing off most?
Each other.
Who are the Democrats pissing on the most?
Each other.

Our biggest enemies, politically, are the Rinos and Trump is working like the Dickens to get rid of them. Best thing we can do is to help him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (VPNgR)

154 It's getting close to evening when 9 Av starts, so I wish our Jewish morons an easy fast. (Can't really say "Happy Tishe!!" on this occasion although prophet Zechariah groused about the need for fasts, but prophets are always grouchy)

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:07 PM (gKWVE)

155 The better predictor of the House in midterms is the President popularity and the generic ballot.

W's horrible, no good 2nd term--where he was losing in Iraq and pushing amnesty--saw him lose 30 seats.
He had approval of 37 and the Dems were +8 to 10.*

Obama lost 13 his second term; 42 approval and R was +4 to 6

Trump is at 39 and the Dems are at +3--and falling.
If Trump improves to 42, it's pretty much over for the Dems; Rs hold the House.
(this is without accounting for redistricting)

* Dems were all crowing earlier this year how they were--in one poll--at +10. lol

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:07 PM (3cUTc)

156
A ghost in the water.

A fire in the sky

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 06:07 PM (Cqx++)

157 Anyone advocating for amnesty of any kind should be tarred and feathered. And anyone hiring illegals should go to prison.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:07 PM (/QJKp)

158 Talarico is the proverbial " pig in a poke"
Posted by: Ben Had

I bet he's been poked a few times

Posted by: Miklos notices things sometimes at July 22, 2026 06:07 PM (sxR7k)

159 Eromero,
How is the Mrs. doing?

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 22, 2026 06:08 PM (VCgbV)

160 >>Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens.

Fuck this guy in particular.

Posted by: garrett at July 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zGzrB)

161 I hear Iran goes both ways.
Posted by: Miklos suspects the rumors are true at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (sxR7k)
---
If Turkey drives into Iran's rear, would Greece be involved?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)

162 152 My hope is that Thune pulls out of the Senate Parliamentarian long enough to get something done this week, but my whelmometer is sad.
Posted by: sifty boones

I looked her up. To be fair, she's probably a Senate 7, so I'll allow it. https://tinyurl.com/yjskcy7y

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 06:09 PM (5+LQ2)

163
I wonder how many billionaires are saying one thing publicly, but something else financially since the Dems have become cheerleaders for Communism and shooting businessmen in the back.
Posted by: Citizen Cake

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Sergey Brin has publicly flipped. After decades of funding the enshittification of California, he has decamped to Nevada and declared himself an enemy of this completely unexpected billionaire tax.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:09 PM (mmrXZ)

164 158.

I bet Talarico's ass sounds like an empty Coke bottle when the wind hits it.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:09 PM (/QJKp)

165 Trump will carry Republicans over the finish line one more time. They don't deserve it and I would want them to lose except the people beating them aren't shy about the fact that they want me in a shallow grave. He hasn't even started yet. If Democrats had anything in the bag they would have stuck with Platner in a race they're going to lose anyway.

They were terrified of Trump doing a Todd Akin with him so he had to go.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 06:09 PM (3o8ZE)

166 147 Talarico needs a lot more than a cash advantage to overcome his flaws and win in Texas.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 06:04 PM (5+LQ2)

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Most of his expenditures are on fundraising.

The campaign is a scam. They know they're going to lose. They're just bilking dumb Democrats for tens of millions at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:09 PM (vbx7B)

167 keep in mind, if the Rs hold the House and the Senate, the House will be much more conservative.

And the Senate will get significantly more (relative to now, lol) conservative.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (3cUTc)

168 As far as real votes go, certainly the Cultural Marxists …
——-

Can’t we dispense with the qualifiers? They are fucking Marxists. That’s a qualifier too, I suppose.

You know what I mean!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (vRzib)

169 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens.

He seems to have some deeply seated need to see himself as A Nice Guy.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (vTZFs)

170 161.

Jealous if not involved.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (/QJKp)

171 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens

"Republicans are the scum of business; Democrats are the scum of politics" -- PJ O'Rourke, paraphrased.
A businessman doesn't care about citizens. He cares about customers. If the buyer is paying with earned cash or EBT cash, it is just as green to the seller.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (gKWVE)

172 That billion-dollar-plus war chest ... has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.

I see the flaw in this plan.

Posted by: Butch at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (98xTj)

173 171 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens

"Republicans are the scum of business; Democrats are the scum of politics" -- PJ O'Rourke, paraphrased.
A businessman doesn't care about citizens. He cares about customers. If the buyer is paying with earned cash or EBT cash, it is just as green to the seller.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (gKWVE)

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David Hogg drove him out of business with his rival pillow company, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (vbx7B)

174 The one thing the polls don't factor in is the bat shit crazy DSA and the impact they will have on the election. Their lunacy should boost Republican turnout and hopefully repulse the independents enough to increase their voting R

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (sMkB+)

175 172 That billion-dollar-plus war chest ... has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.

I see the flaw in this plan.

Posted by: Butch at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (98xTj)

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From what I understand, with most of the money in Super PACs, there's a solid chance it gets spent more effectively than if it were in the hands of the RSCC, RCCC, RNC, or directly by campaigns.

GOP Super PACs have a lower tendency of wasting as much money on TV ads and more on actual GOTV efforts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:12 PM (vbx7B)

176 "Sew, you bitches! You can have a break in Hell!" - Mike Lindell

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (/QJKp)

177 Lindell saying that means nothing. He stands no chance so he can be an idiot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (sMkB+)

178 If Trump improves to 42, it's pretty much over for the Dems; Rs hold the House.
(this is without accounting for redistricting)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:07 PM (3cUTc)
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Redistricting is big, but there are other factors in play. The biggest is the cheat is being watched for. The Post Office tracking ballots terrifies the Dems for good reason. Their entire game in multiple states collapses without it.

There's also the candidate issue: absolute nut jobs are winning the nomination. All the modeling in the world can't help you when you have Mohammed Death To America Jihadi trying to flip a swing seat.

So the Dems have less money, terrible talent, an uphill map and less opportunity to cheat.

Finally: Trump will be dropping indictments, because that taboo is broken. Welcome to the new rules.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)

179 134 I tried to buy a three foot tall painted metal chicken to bring home. Couldn't figure out how to load it in the work truck.

and yet we're expected to believe the egyptians built the pyramids with just massive whips.

Posted by: anachronda at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (v3pYe)

180 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens.

Total surrender.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:05 PM (kX27y)

Funded Pathway:

Airline ticket home.

Drop from 10K feet.

Survivors can apply like legal aliens.

Posted by: DNC at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (dK+Kv)

181 Talarico needs a lot more than a cash advantage to overcome his flaws and win in Texas.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 06:04 PM

talarico has zero chance of winning in Texas. He is a dumpster fire of negatives: a vegan campaign, he jumped on the trans train early and hard, he has insulted Christians with his bull$hit about God being gender fluid and he is 100% open borders which goes over in Texas like a fart in Church and finally crazy crockett has told black voters to not show up and vote for the racist democrat party pick.

They are shoving tons of money into a losing candidate because democrats across the country are convinced that this time Texas is finally going to turn purple.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (0N4FZ)

182 174 The one thing the polls don't factor in is the bat shit crazy DSA and the impact they will have on the election. Their lunacy should boost Republican turnout and hopefully repulse the independents enough to increase their voting R

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (sMkB+)

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Or the Fed grant machine drying up (like USAID)

Or, what even is normal for a second consecutive president's midterm when the previous presidential term is widely regarded as stolen?

Or, the DOJ's efforts to align with Judicial Watch to clean up elections.

There are a good number of known unknowns. There are also probably more unknown unknowns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (vbx7B)

183 You know what I mean!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (vRzib)

Been fourteen days since I don't know when
I just saw her with my best friend
Do you know what I mean?
Do you know, know what I mean?

Posted by: Lee Michaels at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (wVcYX)

184 Most of his expenditures are on fundraising.

The campaign is a scam. They know they're going to lose. They're just bilking dumb Democrats for tens of millions at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I wouldn't know anything about that...

Posted by: Beto, Wendy Davis, and other TXs Dems before at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (5+LQ2)

185
Sergey Brin has publicly flipped. After decades of funding the enshittification of California, he has decamped to Nevada and declared himself an enemy of this completely unexpected billionaire tax.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

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And pirate wires says there are some who feel the same way , but they're staying anonymous.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (mmrXZ)

186 159 Eromero,
How is the Mrs. doing?
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 22, 2026 06:08 PM (VCgbV)
Surgery consult tomorrow. She's got best doctors around.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (LHPAg)

187 He seems to have some deeply seated need to see himself as A Nice Guy.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2026 06:10 PM (vTZFs)
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He's also not registered to vote in MN, but no probs with MN same day registration!

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (kX27y)

188 There could be 100 million Illegals, getting tired of anyone wanting to do something to keep some of the Illegals.
No fkin way is anyone getting rid of even a big percentage so just assume many are here and going no where.

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)

189 Another thing that 2018 analysis omits: The GOPe tanked the House on purpose. Paul Ryan finally had the votes for his "Fiscal Blueprint" and he threw away the majority rather than enact it. Mass retirements created massive numbers of open seats and the Dems that cycle put nominal moderates - often vets - up to win them.

We aren't seeing that this time. There are a few retirements, but mostly its RINOs getting rejected by MAGA types.

So even of the seat totals stay exactly the same, there will be a stronger GOP majority in both chambers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:15 PM (ZOv7s)

190 All the modeling in the world can't help you when you have Mohammed Death To America Jihadi trying to flip a swing seat.

Sayed in Michibaijan is trying real hard to present himself as a moderate, but he keeps stepping in it. Like posing in shorts like Ali G when his hag is in the bag. Or like showing up in group chats with Melat Kiros.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:15 PM (gKWVE)

191 188.

Loser talk.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:15 PM (/QJKp)

192 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund pathways to legal citizenship for illegals aliens.

We already do.
Take a repatriation flight home courtesy of Uncle Sam, plus bonus. Get in back of the line at our nearest consulate.

Posted by: DaveA at July 22, 2026 06:15 PM (FhXTo)

193 188 There could be 100 million Illegals, getting tired of anyone wanting to do something to keep some of the Illegals.
No fkin way is anyone getting rid of even a big percentage so just assume many are here and going no where.

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)

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DHS as a whole has already deported over 1 million since Trump took office.

Not counting self-deportations.

So, yes, 1% is done. At least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (vbx7B)

194 155 * Dems were all crowing earlier this year how they were--in one poll--at +10. lol

showing up at ace's place demanding treats?

Posted by: anachronda at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (v3pYe)

195 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund “pathways to legal citizenship” for illegals aliens.
——-

What a rancid cunt. 90% of Americans on the other hand, have always wanted all these MFers gone 40 years ago.

Just fucking stop.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (vRzib)

196 @182 TJM, you're channeling Donald Rumsfeld.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (sMkB+)

197 Boise is just where they keep the welfare offices.

We keep the real Idaho outside Boise City Limits.
Posted by: sifty boones
......

with the potatoes?

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (UjdFS)

198 They are shoving tons of money into a losing candidate because democrats across the country are convinced that this time Texas is finally going to turn purple.
Posted by: Mister Scott

How retarded do you have to be?

Posted by: Charlie Brown, about to kick the football at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (5+LQ2)

199 190 All the modeling in the world can't help you when you have Mohammed Death To America Jihadi trying to flip a swing seat.

Sayed in Michibaijan is trying real hard to present himself as a moderate, but he keeps stepping in it. Like posing in shorts like Ali G when his hag is in the bag. Or like showing up in group chats with Melat Kiros.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:15 PM (gKWVE)

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I believe he's led one general election poll. By a single point.

Polls are everything. Polls are bullshit. Polls are for strippers.

But when a Democrat can't show leads outside the margin for error and even regularly loses in polling in a swing state? He's probably headed for a loss.

It's a good thing Michigan Democrats aren't stupid enough to elect him in their primary, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (vbx7B)

200 I hate that it’s even something where we are concerned about it being close, but we need to be. The RNC is super duper about pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s like their super power.

Meanwhile, over at DU, the left feels like they’re ready to roll and anyone who questions the socialist / communist message and candidates are simply fear mongering and repeating Republican talking points. The fact they have a rule against criticizing the dem party is just so crazy to me.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (hftzA)

201 Even though I'm mostly in the conservative bubble.

When I want to peak over to the lib bubble, I can get too slanted a view by whatever the press allows the impression of.

For example, if you listened to the Piss Stream Media, you'd think a majority of black Americans are going around saying ID is Jim Crow.

But you'd be oriented the wrong way. Black Americans just as much want the SAVE act--or at least some control over who votes. They don't seem to be listening to the "ID is Racist!" crowd.

Black Americans seem to be growing an immunity to whatever Dems say. However, it's still the case that Democratic media will only let you know what helps Democrats, and lie if it's not so great.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (Fi81e)

202 196 @182 TJM, you're channeling Donald Rumsfeld.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (sMkB+)

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*shrugs*

It's a good way to frame things sometimes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (vbx7B)

203 Illegals are leaving. It's just a matter of how much smoke is in the air when they do.

The Mike Lindell's of the world need to realize that Trump's way is the nice way.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (/QJKp)

204 172 That billion-dollar-plus war chest ... has the potential to cost them if Republicans are smart about where they put all that cash.

I see the flaw in this plan.

Posted by: Butch at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (98xTj)

We ejected the GOPe from a lot of the decision making in the GOP campaign funding in the last election. This is why we made some smart moves instead of dumb ones.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (uhVAy)

205 198 They are shoving tons of money into a losing candidate because democrats across the country are convinced that this time Texas is finally going to turn purple.
Posted by: Mister Scott

How retarded do you have to be?

Posted by: Charlie Brown, about to kick the football at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (5+LQ2)

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There are people in these very comments who have watched Texas go much redder over the past decade who think that Blexas is just around the corner every election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (vbx7B)

206 The one thing the polls don't factor in is the bat shit crazy DSA and the impact they will have on the election. Their lunacy should boost Republican turnout and hopefully repulse the independents enough to increase their voting R
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One of my favorite responses to the Bulwark gal--of all people--saying, "you crazies are going to drive everyone away from the Dems" was some loon responding:
"nuh-uh!! DSA are winning special elections all over the country! That proves how popular we are!!"

yeah, you're winning in deep blue districts ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (3cUTc)

207 197.

The potates are a cover.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (/QJKp)

208 They got to the MyPillow guy?? Is nothing sacred anymore.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (3o8ZE)

209 Sayed in Michibaijan is trying real hard to present himself as a moderate, but he keeps stepping in it. Like posing in shorts like Ali G when his hag is in the bag. Or like showing up in group chats with Melat Kiros.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:15 PM (gKWVE)
#################

Our peace-loving, moderate country objects to being associated with the extremist, wacko jihadis of Dearborn and other cities in your American state of Michigan.

Posted by: Embassy of Azerbaijan at July 22, 2026 06:19 PM (ZYFm6)

210 How retarded do you have to be?

Posted by: Charlie Brown, about to kick the football at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (5+LQ2)

They have a strategic national reserve.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:19 PM (dK+Kv)

211
Black Americans just as much want the SAVE act--or at least some control over who votes. They don't seem to be listening to the "ID is Racist!" crowd.

Black Americans seem to be growing an immunity to whatever Dems say. However, it's still the case that Democratic media will only let you know what helps Democrats, and lie if it's not so great.
Posted by: Axeman

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That's the problem with the massive number of black voters. They are Republican on the issues, whether they know it or not.But they are democrat in their loyalties.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:19 PM (mmrXZ)

212 Black Americans seem to be growing an immunity to whatever Dems say. However, it's still the case that Democratic media will only let you know what helps Democrats, and lie if it's not so great.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:17 PM (Fi81e)

I think the GOP should run someone in every district, even if you just give them money for free BBQs and cokes and talk to the people there. We make it too easy for the Dems to count on those votes by letting them be unopposed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

213 It's sobering to think that it's possible in a decade that "Death To America" could be a plank in the Democratic platform.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

214 No fkin way is anyone getting rid of even a big percentage so just assume many are here and going no where.
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)
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Well, they're losing banking, are no longer able to easily find work after the job site raids and if Trump holds the House, expect confiscatory taxes on remittances.

Plus all the welfare/health care rackets are being wound up.

It took a while for them to get here, but they will leave much more quickly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (ZOv7s)

215 Too many American kids are harmed so that a pillow can be sewn for $0.03 cheaper.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (/QJKp)

216 That's the problem with the massive number of black voters. They are Republican on the issues, whether they know it or not.But they are democrat in their loyalties.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 06:19 PM (mmrXZ)

We don't run anyone in many if not most of their districts. Hard to vote in that case.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

217 It's sobering to think that it's possible in a decade that "Death To America" could be a plank in the Democratic platform.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)
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I mean they used it in 1972 and 1984, they just tried to candy-coat it with words like "Unilateral Disarmament."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

218 213 It's sobering to think that it's possible in a decade that "Death To America" could be a plank in the Democratic platform.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

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I keep thinking that the Italian Democratic Party is the model that the American Democrat Party is angling for.

Increasing irrelevance while demanding greater fealty to losing issues, beginning with open borders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:21 PM (vbx7B)

219 It's sobering to think that it's possible in a decade that "Death To America" could be a plank in the Democratic platform.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

Its been one since the 60s.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

220 They got to the MyPillow guy?? Is nothing sacred anymore.
Posted by: ...
.......

They probably got him hooked on crack again.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 06:21 PM (UjdFS)

221 177 Lindell saying that means nothing. He stands no chance so he can be an idiot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 06:13 PM (sMkB

And he is in MN so he really has to moderate to keep whatever long shot he has.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM (hftzA)

222 219 People have to actually show up. That’s always the big problem for Republicans

Plus John Thune needs a swirly. That fag.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ittVa)

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*waving*
-2010 and 2014

Turnout differentials are a thing. Not even Obama's team figured out how to reverse it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM (vbx7B)

223 I don't know why 2018 is touted as some sort of benchmark against which the current midterms should be compared.

A whole bunch of GOPe, lead by the execrable Paul Ryan, resigned or retired in 2018, leaving the GOP scrambling for candidates.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM (eGzf1)

224 They got to the MyPillow guy?? Is nothing sacred anymore.
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (3o8ZE)
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He may be pandering since he's running for governor in Minnesota.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM (5aQBy)

225
We say we'll change the Constitution,
Yea-ah, You know,
The Party will change your head.

Posted by: Democratic Socialists over America at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e)

226 DHS as a whole has already deported over 1 million since Trump took office.

Not counting self-deportations.

So, yes, 1% is done. At least.
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Been averaging over 1500 a day.
Would mean another 1 million by 2028.

And, as you note, that does not count self-deports.

Watching the Dems all campaign in 2028 on bringing back all of that 6 million or so is going to be insane.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:23 PM (3cUTc)

227 Oldcat. I'm trying to convince my local gop to do just that. We are a 75% R district but it's just good business .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 06:23 PM (abScH)

228 The fact they have a rule against criticizing the dem party is just so crazy to me.
——

Collectivist, totalitarian regimes always do this. Cults too. They are all of a certain kind.

No backsliding allowed. Have you read Dave Horowitz’ “Radical Son”? I highly recommend this, he goes into detail how this works in the nuts and bolts way, the nitty gritty.

We see this in action all the time. The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is the Revolution. Take one for the team. If you get killed and eaten by some of your comrades, it’s a small price to pay for the greater goal. No complaining allowed.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 06:23 PM (vRzib)

229 We ejected the GOPe from a lot of the decision making in the GOP campaign funding in the last election. This is why we made some smart moves instead of dumb ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (uhVAy)
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The RNC in 2018 wanted to Trump to lose. All the establishment types did. They wanted Trump to lose to punish MAGA and force them to go back in their holes. Trump losing the House was "proof" that MAGA had failed.

This was when the Never Trumpers still pretended to be Republican. Now they've been largely purged, and this cycle is going to see more of them walk the plank.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

230 Hey Ben Had and lin-duh and Piper!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 06:24 PM (5aQBy)

231 He may be pandering since he's running for governor in Minnesota.
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And this is good in what way?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 06:24 PM (vRzib)

232 226 Been averaging over 1500 a day.
Would mean another 1 million by 2028.

And, as you note, that does not count self-deports.

Watching the Dems all campaign in 2028 on bringing back all of that 6 million or so is going to be insane.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:23 PM (3cUTc)

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ICE arrests are just a small fraction of overall arrests.

Most actually happen by local cops under 287g agreements with DHS.

They pick up an illegal for speeding, check his lawful status, arrest him, call ICE, and ICE shows up and picks him up, quickly getting him to the 5th Circuit if outside of it, and then deported in less than 30 days.

We're going to do a lot more than 2 million forced deportations by the time JD Vance is inaugurated president. It'll be at least 5 million.

Plus the 3-5x ratio of self-deports to forced deports.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (vbx7B)

233 Republicans have a huge fundraising advantage? Huh, who knew?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the demise of USAID and ActBlue?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (viF8m)

234 *** That billion-dollar-plus war chest is three times as much as the Democrats' cash entering the final months of the campaign.
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Shut down the rest of the NGOs and their fund raising will dry up more. Then corporate money and independent money will shine.
Oh where will chairman Xi hide his participation?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (VPNgR)

235 SMH, big hug, darlin.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (abScH)

236 Mike Lindell says that he wants the government to fund “pathways to legal citizenship” for illegals aliens.
——-

What a rancid cunt. 90% of Americans on the other hand, have always wanted all these MFers gone 40 years ago.

Just fucking stop.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 06:16 PM (vRzib)

Right? Meanwhile we see youtube vids of American loving brits or Australians, other euros, etc, that have been vacationing in the US, making videos, loving the shit out of this place long before the world cup. They would give their left nut to move here, and would be 1000X better than the 3rd world garbage we let in by the millions, but noooo. We don't let normal people in anymore, just freeloaders, grifters and fraudsters that don't give a rat's ass about America.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (S41Gd)

237 And he is in MN so he really has to moderate to keep whatever long shot he has.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM (hftzA)
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Smart politicians represent the people whose votes they need. That's why the alternative to Collins isn't someone more conservative, it's a Dem.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)

238 Republicans have a huge fundraising advantage? Huh, who knew?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the demise of USAID and ActBlue?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (viF8m)
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Racist!

Posted by: Standard Democrat Talking Point at July 22, 2026 06:26 PM (eGzf1)

239 I don't know why 2018 is touted as some sort of benchmark against which the current midterms should be compared.

A whole bunch of GOPe, lead by the execrable Paul Ryan, resigned or retired in 2018, leaving the GOP scrambling for candidates.
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exactly.
Trump was at 42.
Dems were at +6 to 8.
And it was like 50 House R's who retired. Many were multi-term incumbents, several were chairmen of committees; who never lose.
Some strategically retired so that no strong R had time to enter the race.

Running right at the height of the Russia Collusion fraud.
And the Dems still only got 41 seats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:27 PM (3cUTc)

240 I think the GOP should run someone in every district, even if you just give them money for free BBQs and cokes and talk to the people there. We make it too easy for the Dems to count on those votes by letting them be unopposed.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

Absolutely. We should also be doing this in areas where we have a chance or in the bag. Part of the reason the DSA candidates are doing so well is they are out there, they are meeting with people, they are being likable. We need to up our game here, immensely.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:27 PM (hftzA)

241 I'm confused. Recently I have heard that Republican have way more funds than Democrats and ALSO that Democrats have way more funds than Republicans.

Which is it?
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I think the media is trying to spin a "win" in current fundraising for the Dems as some sort of cultural shift. The truth is the Republicans are sitting on a TON of legacy money, and the Dems are practically broke.
Posted by: Zombie Warren Zevon at July 22, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

They're probably lying about current fundraising too. Their big vehicle ActBlue is under investigation and a lot of the roaches quit and ran into the woodwork.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:28 PM (uhVAy)

242 ICE arrests are just a small fraction of overall arrests.

Most actually happen by local cops under 287g agreements with DHS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (vbx7B)
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Another good point. ICE has to do arrests because sanctuary states want more foreign rapists. Every other jurisdiction quietly turns them over to ICE if there is a detainer and it goes completely under the media radar.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:28 PM (ZOv7s)

243 Off-putting anti-charismatic Karen Jessica Chastain finally found the right role -- demonic witch monster

Re: sidebar

I think ace could have e worked in a 'hose-beast' or two.

-1

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)

244 A whole bunch of GOPe, lead by the execrable Paul Ryan, resigned or retired in 2018, leaving the GOP scrambling for candidates.

I miss Paul Ryan.

Posted by: No One Ever at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (5+LQ2)

245 242 Another good point. ICE has to do arrests because sanctuary states want more foreign rapists. Every other jurisdiction quietly turns them over to ICE if there is a detainer and it goes completely under the media radar.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:28 PM (ZOv7s)

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Most deportations (by not a small amount) are in Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (vbx7B)

246 >>>We don't let normal people in anymore, just freeloaders, grifters and fraudsters that don't give a rat's ass about America.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Don't let their happy face fool you.
There are two types of peoples:
Americans and others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (VPNgR)

247 230 Hey Ben Had and lin-duh and Piper!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 06:24 PM

Hello, friend!

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (hftzA)

248 Reports were "greatly exaggerated"?

Like reports of my earlier death?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

249 I think the GOP should run someone in every district, even if you just give them money for free BBQs and cokes and talk to the people there. We make it too easy for the Dems to count on those votes by letting them be unopposed.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

Absolutely. We should also be doing this in areas where we have a chance or in the bag. Part of the reason the DSA candidates are doing so well is they are out there, they are meeting with people, they are being likable. We need to up our game here, immensely.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:27 PM (hftzA)

that's pretty much how AOC got in by taking out a fat and lazy #3 Democrat.

The current GOP leadership also has shown how to contact people on the internet and bypass expensive, and biased media aside from making them look stupid.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:30 PM (uhVAy)

250 I don't know why 2018 is touted as some sort of benchmark against which the current midterms should be compared.

A whole bunch of GOPe, lead by the execrable Paul Ryan, resigned or retired in 2018, leaving the GOP scrambling for candidates.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 06:22 PM

And they did that specifically to thwart Trump's agenda in the second half of his term.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 06:30 PM (0N4FZ)

251 248 Reports were "greatly exaggerated"?

Like reports of my earlier death?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

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Were the reports of your later death accurate?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:30 PM (vbx7B)

252 Some strategically retired so that no strong R had time to enter the race.

Running right at the height of the Russia Collusion fraud.
And the Dems still only got 41 seats.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:27 PM (3cUTc)
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Didn't we have incumbents who waited until minutes before the filing deadline to say "yeah, I'm out" so we didn't even get a candidate? It was an epic screwjob by the GOPe.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

253 Like reports of my earlier death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

Wait, you joined the Choir Piper?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

254 The Democrat media operates the way Wayne County (Detroit area) does in Michigan.

Before the rule about reporting before poll closure, Wayne County would pour out the vote totals all day. Wayne County was always the first to finish their count and it made it look like a ("blue") landslide.

When it counted, and the Dems felt like they could demoralize the rest of the state, they reported early. When I was a young kid, my mom told me "Don't worry that's mainly Detroit. We always catch up."

Now that Wayne County can't demoralize conservative voters, they are the last to finish their count (and I always say because they need to know the number of votes to manufacture).

The Demedia is like that, however, sometime, they want you overconfident, to then suddenly give you the feeling that conservatism nose-dived when they really start trying to demoralize conservative voters.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:31 PM (Fi81e)

255 AZ-6 is not a lean Dem. Ciscomanti keeps that seat no problem.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 22, 2026 06:31 PM (v54Ci)

256 252 Didn't we have incumbents who waited until minutes before the filing deadline to say "yeah, I'm out" so we didn't even get a candidate? It was an epic screwjob by the GOPe.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

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2 years of the GOP caucus leadership in Congress saying, "Maybe Trump is Putin's cockholster...?"

And then intentionally tanking the midterms by getting rid of a bunch of loyalists.

Ultimately just made Trump stronger.

You don't win by losing. You win by winning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:31 PM (vbx7B)

257 Like reports of my earlier death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

Wait, you joined the Choir Piper?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:31 PM (zZu0s)
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Did Piper oust Buzzion?

The original ex-Moron.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e)

258 The RNC in 2018 wanted to Trump to lose. All the establishment types did. They wanted Trump to lose to punish MAGA and force them to go back in their holes. Trump losing the House was "proof" that MAGA had failed.
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Trey Gowdy and Paul Ryan both knew there were hours of sworn testimony that no one had any proof that Trump had anything to do with Russia.

But both of them--especially Gowdy--went out on the news shows and regularly played the coy lie of "well I personally don't think there was collusion but we must let the investigation play out because the charges are so serious."
Because they knew how damages letting Trump twist in the wind was even if the charges were fake as shit.

Compare, if it was a D prez, one and all Dem would have fought for floor time to reveal the full details of the secret, sworn testimony.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:32 PM (3cUTc)

259 Polls from Fox are notoriously slanted left for some reason but never under estimate the cheat....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:32 PM (FtULh)

260 We see this in action all the time. The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is the Revolution. Take one for the team. If you get killed and eaten by some of your comrades, it’s a small price to pay for the greater goal. No complaining allowed.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026

That is on my list of books I never seem to find time to read. I need to organize my life better.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:32 PM (hftzA)

261 And they did that specifically to thwart Trump's agenda in the second half of his term.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 06:30 PM (0N4FZ)
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Kind of looks like giving President Trump 4 years to plan his comeback was a mistake on their part.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 06:33 PM (eGzf1)

262 Chastain's roles range from "at least she didn't ruin it" (The Martian) to "at least the movie would have been bad anyway". She's a marginally cuter Zendaya.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 06:33 PM (gKWVE)

263 I'm confused. Recently I have heard that Republican have way more funds than Democrats and ALSO that Democrats have way more funds than Republicans.

Which is it?
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I don't understand your question?

Posted by: M.C. Escher at July 22, 2026 06:34 PM (Fi81e)

264 ICE arrests are just a small fraction of overall arrests.

Most actually happen by local cops under 287g agreements with DHS.

They pick up an illegal for speeding, check his lawful status, arrest him, call ICE, and ICE shows up and picks him up, quickly getting him to the 5th Circuit if outside of it, and then deported in less than 30 days.

We're going to do a lot more than 2 million forced deportations by the time JD Vance is inaugurated president. It'll be at least 5 million.

Plus the 3-5x ratio of self-deports to forced deports.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:25 PM (vbx7B)

That's the fun part. ICE can work smoothly in Red States and non sanctuary moderate states. The firebombing crowd are all burning blue cities, and illegals will move to those same areas, burdening them even more. With time they will all be in Mandami led NYC and similar places.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:34 PM (uhVAy)

265 253 Like reports of my earlier death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

Wait, you joined the Choir Piper?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026

This is becoming the club to join. We need a secret handshake.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:34 PM (hftzA)

266 249 I think the GOP should run someone in every district, even if you just give them money for free BBQs and cokes and talk to the people there. We make it too easy for the Dems to count on those votes by letting them be unopposed.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I chastised poll workers time before last. 'Why were there uncontested Democrat positions? Every position should be contested. We must have a presence, we must be there'.
Last time around there was a Pubby running for every slot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:35 PM (VPNgR)

267 The Dems are becoming particularly shrill... The freak out today against Waltz UN Ambassador by ted Lieu was insane....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:35 PM (FtULh)

268 This is becoming the club to join. We need a secret handshake.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 06:34 PM (hftzA)
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Limp and cold will probably do it.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (eGzf1)

269 266 I chastised poll workers time before last. 'Why were there uncontested Democrat positions? Every position should be contested. We must have a presence, we must be there'.
Last time around there was a Pubby running for every slot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:35 PM (VPNgR)

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If I understand things correctly, that's mostly the responsibility of the state level GOP organization, if you want someone to yell at who may be able to do something about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (vbx7B)

270 And the number of Rs that retired in 2018 was at or near as many as retired after Nixon resigned.

Which was also intentional--a bloodbath to make it look like insider Rs knew Trump was just as toxic as Nixon and were getting out while the getting was good.

There has never been a party that went so far to screw their own President than the GOPe in 2018.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (3cUTc)

271 Theres a generation of people with college indoctrination degrees who are frustrated with the real world. They'll try Communism because there's nothing else to flip their loser script.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 22, 2026 06:37 PM (bX16E)

272 The firebombing crowd are all burning blue cities, and illegals will move to those same areas, burdening them even more. With time they will all be in Mandami led NYC and similar places.

Posted by: Oldcat
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Like moths to a flame.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:37 PM (VPNgR)

273 Try and make a little non-pun word play and you morons poke it and twist and choke it and squeeze it.
/pouty

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:37 PM (RIvkX)

274 270
There has never been a party that went so far to screw their own President than the GOPe in 2018.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (3cUTc)

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And they weakened themselves so much that their leader in the GOP House caucus could be ousted by a blowhard with too much gel in his hair just a few years later.

You don't win by losing. You win by winning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:37 PM (vbx7B)

275 "We need a secret handshake."

XON-XOFF. Now you know how frickin old I am.

Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

276 Like reports of my earlier death?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:29 PM (RIvkX)

Wait, you joined the Choir Piper?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:31 PM

People around here are dropping like flies......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (0N4FZ)

277 If I understand things correctly, that's mostly the responsibility of the state level GOP organization, if you want someone to yell at who may be able to do something about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (vbx7B)

RNCC ran it - or at least funded those (locals and nationals) who ran it - last I worked it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (dK+Kv)

278 Surgery consult tomorrow. She's got best doctors around.
Posted by: Eromero
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🙏🏻🙏🏻

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (VCgbV)

279 I'm not dead yet!
/gets on cart anyway

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (RIvkX)

280 Hey SMH!😍

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (VCgbV)

281 Theres a generation of people with college indoctrination degrees who are frustrated with the real world. They'll try Communism because there's nothing else to flip their loser script.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 22, 2026 06:37 PM (bX16E)
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We're going to need a new baby for the bathwater!

Posted by: M.C. Escher at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (Fi81e)

282 277 If I understand things correctly, that's mostly the responsibility of the state level GOP organization, if you want someone to yell at who may be able to do something about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (vbx7B)

RNCC ran it - or at least funded those (locals and nationals) who ran it - last I worked it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:38 PM (dK+Kv)

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National org funds do go down to state level orgs who then spend it, but I believe recruitment is up to the state level orgs.

Mike Johnson isn't on calls about who is going to run in TX-93, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (vbx7B)

283 If I understand things correctly, that's mostly the responsibility of the state level GOP organization, if you want someone to yell at who may be able to do something about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (vbx7B)

If the state won't, the national party should do it. Worst case is it gives some young up and comers experience and it costs about nothing if you do it right. Do it like Pressler and have people go sweep up trash that the city won't do, and have a party afterwards and listen to what they say, have a beer.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (uhVAy)

284 =======

If I understand things correctly, that's mostly the responsibility of the state level GOP organization, if you want someone to yell at who may be able to do something about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:36 PM (vbx7B)
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Er, thought I made that clear. 'every position'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (VPNgR)

285 NOOD

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:40 PM (FtULh)

286 Nood. Quick hits.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

287 Was watching a guy drone on about William Wyler movies

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

288 And they weakened themselves so much that their leader in the GOP House caucus could be ousted by a blowhard with too much gel in his hair just a few years later.

You don't win by losing. You win by winning.
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My favorite part is, they were so confident in their Big Brain Plan that they thought several of them were safe enough to vote to impeach Trump.

And all of them are now gone.

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 06:40 PM (3cUTc)

289 The Dems are becoming particularly shrill... The freak out today against Waltz UN Ambassador by ted Lieu was insane....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 06:35 PM (FtULh)
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Ted Lieu might be dumber than Sheldon Whitehouse.

Sheldon Whitehouse might be dumber than Hasan Piker.

Hasan Piker might be dumber than Sally Kohn.

That is really, really dumb.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 06:41 PM (RIvkX)

290 Try and make a little non-pun word play and you morons poke it and twist and choke it and squeeze it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

...and call it George

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 06:42 PM (q6tQZ)

291 National org funds do go down to state level orgs who then spend it, but I believe recruitment is up to the state level orgs.

Mike Johnson isn't on calls about who is going to run in TX-93, or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 06:39 PM (vbx7B)

In the victory operation I worked, there were nationals with the GOTV effort, along with the poll watcher effort (which I coordinated), and the attorney effort (for on the spot challenges and shenanigan calls).

Except for local phone-calling, actual poll watching, and door knocking, most of us were from out of state, funded (room and stipend) by RNCC.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 06:43 PM (dK+Kv)

292 If the state won't, the national party should do it. Worst case is it gives some young up and comers experience and it costs about nothing if you do it right. ...

Posted by: Oldcat
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And it chews up Democrat playbook, time and money.
Defend every slot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM (VPNgR)

293 Anyone advocating for amnesty of any kind should be tarred and feathered.

Ronny Reagen enters the chat.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 07:36 PM (f/+gF)

294 Let’s just go ahead and hold the elections, just to be sure.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 09:38 PM (4g5V+)

Trump: Every Time Iran Fires on a Ship, We Will Destroy One Bridge or Power Plant

>Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump just announced the US military will destroy "ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT" -- including in Tehran -- for each time Iran attacks a ship in the Strait of Hormuz
47 is DONE with the BS.
"From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

However, he's also saying that "next week" he will hit all of their bridges and power plants, unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.

🚨 HOLY CRAP. President Trump just announced the US military will destroy "ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT" � including in Tehran � for each time Iran attacks a ship in the Strait of Hormuz

47 is DONE with the BS.

"From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots� pic.twitter.com/ArmeojSWnm
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 22, 2026

Iran responded with its own threat: if you hit our power plants, we'll attack the energy infrastructure in Gulf states. But they've already been doing that.

Per Tousi TV, there were a lot of attacks throughout Iran last night, including multiple strikes on Tehran itself.

Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.

So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.

Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted US intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or advanced drone technology, say four people familiar with US intelligence.
These people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss national security matters, say US intelligence officials have not yet reached firm conclusions about the possible Russian involvement in the attacks on CIA facilities. But they cite the strikes' effectiveness and apparent precision, as well as Russia's broader technical support for Iran, as possible evidence.
Reuters and other media have reported -- and US officials have acknowledged -- that Russia has provided targeting and other support for Iran in its strikes on US targets in the Gulf region generally, but the intelligence community's investigation of possible Russian involvement in supporting the CIA facility attacks has not been previously disclosed.
At least two CIA sites were struck in March, Reuters and other outlets have reported. One of the facilities was the CIA station in Saudi Arabia, which is located in the US embassy in Riyadh, and a separate site was located in eastern Iraq. Some of the sources said additional CIA sites had been hit, but they did not disclose details.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 This is the way

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (N1tpc)

2 And first.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (N1tpc)

3 war in the Raw

Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (jrgJz)

4 i guess putin isn't supporting trump any more

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (CWTWj)

5 You can't treat them with good faith.

You have to treat them with violent retribution.

Pain is the only teacher that will work on musselmen. (We learned that lesson 230 years ago, but our "elites" are sure they know better now.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

6 I like it. Tit for tat.

No negotiation. Unconditional surrender.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (zZu0s)

7
I have the answer!

Posted by: Sir Render at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (TezPK)

8 SPOOOOOOOOOOONGE!

Posted by: That announcer that makes names go on a looooong time at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (skR0U)

9 Only fair... we've been giving the Ukes technical help in targeting.

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (q6tQZ)

10 This Eric Dougherty fellow is a bit over the top with just about every post he makes.

Frankly, I think Trump is still being hard headed with the tit for tat.

Just pull the trigger already

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (BKBds)

11 So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.

While I certainly don't like that news, it's kind of expected since the Russians have always had a soft spot for the Mullahs.

We're also doing the same thing in Ukraine to the Russians so I guess turnabout is fair play applies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (6ydKt)

12 He's always going to have to give them the out of coming back to the negotiating table. The alternative is a full-scale ground war, and ain't nobody doing that.

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (3BwY8)

13 re 4: better yet, baseball bat for tat

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:34 PM (CWTWj)

14 Yeah, yeah.

I've been assured the entire Iranian military, navy and regime were all defeated within 24 hours.

5 months and a significant cost to American gasoline consumer later, I'm still hearing about what all we're gonna do.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 04:34 PM (BCWUp)

15 Some of us here have been advocating the power plant targeting for months.

Trump gave them more chances to get right than they deserve. Even Hamas took the hint and surrendered (in name only).

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:34 PM (u82oZ)

16 I wonder how much targeting support we're providing to notoriously high tech Ukraine?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 22, 2026 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

17 The bombings will continue until diplomacy is achieved!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (05Iwe)

18 Trump: Every Time Iran Fires on a Ship, We Will Destroy One Bridge or Power Plant

This is a good plan. Start with the $hit in and around the capital.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (0N4FZ)

19 If Russia is providing targeting information, we need to provide same type of intel to Ukraine.

And capture some Russian tankers and confiscate the oil.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (N1tpc)

20 I have the solution!

Posted by: Curtis LeMay at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (TezPK)

21 Let the Turks have some, the UAE has some, hell QATAR is land starved...

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (q6tQZ)

22 I'm no fan of the Russians but it wouldn't surprise me if they're giving Iran info. We've been giving Ukraine weapons and info since the war began

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (sMkB+)

23 unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.
.......

exactly who is this "they"?

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (UjdFS)

24 Formerly Virginian

Done and done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (u82oZ)

25 Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.
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Have we been providing targeting information to Ukraine?

If so, then we don't exactly have the moral high ground here...

Though we should still punish Russia for interfering.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (FZ29D)

26 sid will be here as soon as the all you can eat sperm bank closes

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (CWTWj)

27 who spoke on condition of anonymity

So we can absolutely believe them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (NnhvP)

28 However, he's also saying that "next week" he will hit all of their bridges and power plants, unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.
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Didn't he say that last week?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (vSvIl)

29 19 If Russia is providing targeting information, we need to provide same type of intel to Ukraine.

And capture some Russian tankers and confiscate the oil.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (N1tpc)
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Haven't we already been doing that?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (05Iwe)

30 "Don't make me have to stop the car."
- D. Trump

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (SRRAx)

31
They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of yours in the morgue!

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)

32 Is there a Kasbah in Tehran?

Posted by: The Clash at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (TezPK)

33 We should have already destroyed every bridge, powerplant, and highway in Iran.

Trump is still playing the modern playing by the modern rule book where the US isn't allowed to win wars

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

34 I've been assured the entire Iranian military, navy and regime were all defeated within 24 hours.

5 months and a significant cost to American gasoline consumer later, I'm still hearing about what all we're gonna do.
Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 04:34 PM (BCWUp)

They were. But you can't stop terrorist activities with just an air war.

Because all that Iran has left is attacking civilian infrastructure, often of unrelated countries.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (N1tpc)

35 unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.
.......
exactly who is this "they"?
Posted by: wth

You know, They. Of the Isfahan Theys.

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (VHUov)

36 Reading the doom-sayers...
We only had enough weaponry for 3 days of this now week old bombing campaign?

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (q6tQZ)

37 MSNOW: 'You, sir, are the failure': Sen. Peters TEARS into Pete Hegseth over Iran war leadership. >Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) expressed his concerns about a lack of strategy in the Iran war. "You don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a long-term plan to actually win this war,” Peters yelled at Hegseth. “Win the war!”

In response, Hegseth accused Peters of having “Trump derangement syndrome.”

I’ll defer to Hegseth’s mom for a character assessment (which pretty much describes the Republican Party to a fucking tee). "You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego"

I just wished these spineless republicans grew an ounce of balls that Sen Ossof and Sen Peters had in calling out hegseth. hegseth was playing the cameras like he did on fox.
What a sham. Go back to fox.

everyone knew Iran has tons of missiles and drones. He even purged officers that likely warned and wanted to protect their men. So he could attack Iran without ensuring proper air defence in an act of utter incompetence and disregard for the life of servicemen.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (5+LQ2)

38 Only fair... we've been giving the Ukes technical help in targeting.
Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (q6tQZ)

It bothers me that we are helping actual Nazis, since I know that is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (rbvCR)

39 The bombings will continue until diplomacy is achieved!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM

That magnificent bastard read my book!

Posted by: Carl von Clausewitz at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (0N4FZ)

40 Two weeks!

Posted by: Your Local Contractor at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (TezPK)

41 One of the things we wanted to come out with was a channel on the Iranian side for reducing conflict, which we did. They were like, ‘OK, fine, we’ll send somebody from the IRGC to go hang out in Doha with somebody from CENTCOM,’ and that’s how we’re going to settle a lot of these disputes.

Posted by: Vantz Kant Dantz at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (fPSK1)

42 I would definitely think Russia would supply targeting info just like we provide targeting info and billions in weapons to Ukraine.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (KC5Lt)

43 11 So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.

18 soldiers is way below notice for the Russians.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (Y8DZL)

44 Crazy Ivan!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (0N4FZ)

45 I miss the rains down in Africa.

Posted by: Toto, dropping in for a jam at July 22, 2026 04:39 PM (0sNs1)

46 Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.

So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.
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Tit for tat fir what we've been doing in Ukraine?

I mean not really tit for tat, as it seems the Russians have gotten the worst of that, but maybe as much as they can manage.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:39 PM (vSvIl)

47 Yeah, we were basically running the Ukraine war from Germany for awhile when Biden was president.
NY Times did a big story on it last year.

Haven't heard much about it since Trump has been in.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)

48 19 If Russia is providing targeting information, we need to provide same type of intel to Ukraine.

Not just that, we should give Ukraine $30 billion to fund the war, StarLink Internet, ATACMS missiles, Abrams tanks, Patriot missile systems, F-15 fighter jets, military drones, munitions, military intelligence from planes and espionage intel.

Oh, that's right. We're already doing all that.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (BCWUp)

49 Iran doesn't give a shit about infrastructure. Why should they care if a bridge or power plant blows up?

Are there civilians on those bridges or operating those power plants? If so, the international community is going to hit us with "war crimes" (no matter that Iran is indiscriminately bombing everyone in their neighborhood).

The only way this stops is by destroying Iran's ability to wage war. Whatever that looks like. It won't be nice. It won't be pretty. It *should* be done as quickly as possible.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (FZ29D)

50 Started watching 3 Body Problem with my son. We're only between Ep 2 and 3.

From what I remember, this was a largely watched series.

Because it's from a Chinese SF author, it features a rather brutal display of "Struggle Sessions" during Mao as well as bastard children leaders beating the crap out of people.

I mean, American progs watched the same episodes I did, right?

Do they watch this stuff and nod "Yeah, that's what happens when you don't do socialism right!"

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

51 Reddit is retarded. Purge means your own people. Not the enemies people. Decapitation is probably the word they're going for but it's kind of long. (Thats what she said.-The Paolo)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

52 He's got to stop letting Iran drag this out. I don't see how there's any advantage to this approach.

Posted by: Tie it up at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (TbWk/)

53 We should have already destroyed every bridge, powerplant, and highway in Iran.

Trump is still playing the modern playing by the modern rule book where the US isn't allowed to win wars
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

My understanding is that Trump is trying not to punish the people of Iran, who generally don't support the regime.

But if they don't rise up, we'll have to just destroy their entire infrastructure.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:41 PM (N1tpc)

54 "Mr. Trump had made the threat in a similarly bellicose social media post, saying that U.S. forces would respond to attacks on ships with its own strikes, including in or near the capital, Tehran. Deliberate strikes on civilian infrastructure could be considered a war crime under international law." - NY Times

The NY Times is finally for bombing Iran.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at July 22, 2026 04:41 PM (/eAef)

55 I mean not really tit for tat, as it seems the Russians have gotten the worst of that, but maybe as much as they can manage.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:39 PM (vSvIl)

although we are supplying targeting information to Ukraine, and the Russians MIGHT be supplying targeting information to the Iranians . . .

Of course it MIGHT be the Chinese, and it MIGHT be Iranian proxies forward on the ground too, but the Russians are the Neocon object of hate.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (rbvCR)

56 He's got to stop letting Iran drag this out. I don't see how there's any advantage to this approach.

Its seriously just Not Who He Is.

He wants to Make a Deal.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (q/hOL)

57 keith olbermann is a twat

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (CWTWj)

58 I miss the rains down in Africa.

Posted by: Toto, dropping in for a jam at July 22, 2026 04:39 PM (0sNs1)
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That's what can happen with you Walk Between The Raindrops.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e)

59 Have we been providing targeting information to Ukraine?

If so, then we don't exactly have the moral high ground here...

Though we should still punish Russia for interfering.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (FZ29D)

Russia may be responsible for the deaths of three Americans, but I'm told we've had a hand in the 50 billion casualties they've suffered.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (vSvIl)

60 Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.
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Have we been providing targeting information to Ukraine?

If so, then we don't exactly have the moral high ground here...

Though we should still punish Russia for interfering.

I think the fact that Russia conducted an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine might be relevant here. They are NOT the same.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

61 I don't like tats on tits.

Posted by: Totally trashy at July 22, 2026 04:44 PM (TbWk/)

62 Deliberate strikes on civilian infrastructure could be considered a war crime under international law." - NY Times

Easter Bunny
Santa Claus
International Law

Three of a kind.

Posted by: Beats a Pair at July 22, 2026 04:44 PM (TezPK)

63 However, he's also saying that "next week" he will hit all of their bridges and power plants, unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.

==

I would also sigh, but Israel went on heightened alert a few hours back, UK moved its staff and Mossad chief was in DC two weeks ago.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 04:44 PM (GD0B3)

64 Iran doesn't give a shit about infrastructure. Why should they care if a bridge or power plant blows up?...

The only way this stops is by destroying Iran's ability to wage war.

Asked and answered. Bridges and power are kind of necessary to wage modern war.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

65 Posted by: aliassmith smith at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (LN

Shut up while the non-retarded adults are talking

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (KC5Lt)

66 I think the fact that Russia conducted an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine might be relevant here. They are NOT the same.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

Unlike the completely provoked attack in Iran, where the Iranian Supreme Leader attack our missile with his face.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (BCWUp)

67 Trump on Fox in Georgia.

"With communism, everything turns to shit!'

He's been speaking for a long time.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (Sco7b)

68 Russia and China were providing targeting information during the early weeks of the war.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (abScH)

69 Reddit is retarded. Purge means your own people. Not the enemies people. Decapitation is probably the word they're going for but it's kind of long. (Thats what she said.-The Paolo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s)
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They have no idea that words have shades of meanings and some words express somethings better than even legitimate synonyms.

They are too busy taking words with desired impact and running with them to rubberband all the concepts they want to wrap it around. (See "fascism")

Posted by: Donald Fagen at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (Fi81e)

70 The rains down in Africa was acid rain

Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (jrgJz)

71 Trump: Every Time Iran Fires on a Ship, We Will Destroy One Bridge or Power Plant

Embrace the power of "and"

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 04:45 PM (ItWcy)

72 Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

Unprovoked. LOL.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (KC5Lt)

73 Do they watch this stuff and nod "Yeah, that's what happens when you don't do socialism right!"

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

They just don't talk about it.
And if you bring up the dark side of socialism they just call you a fascist idiot, and socialism hasn't been done right with the right people, racist.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (6ydKt)

74 I understand wanting to keep the enemy off balance but the wildly swinging policy statements have made me lose interest in the war. I don't know what we are trying to do and I don't have any way to influence it so I am reduced to just praying that Americans don't get killed while their commanders fuck around.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (4NO2D)

75 As far as Rooshia, this is tit for tat. Russian tat for us supplying targeting data to Ukraine.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (GD0B3)

76 I like how Trump said that, but I wish he added a "with an extra bridge or power plant of equal or lesser value for free"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (n5tGW)

77 The more we destroy, the more we taxpayers have to replace after. Hearts? Minds? Or no?

Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (enNUy)

78 Curious, what ls "moral high-ground" during War?

Posted by: pahound at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (AjR4+)

79 Are there civilians on those bridges or operating those power plants? If so, the international community is going to hit us with "war crimes" (no matter that Iran is indiscriminately bombing everyone in their neighborhood).
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So what?

It's not like the 'international community' can do anything about "war crimes" aside from bitch about it.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (vSvIl)

80 Oh no. The View had their wardrobe budget cut and Farrah was denied a raise. Whoopi makes $7m +, Joy $7m, two others about $1.5, and Farrah and Navarro mid 6 figures. Fire them all and ABC might be stable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (sMkB+)

81 When it comes to tit for tat, I sadly have no tats to show a lady.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

82 Ultimately, the protection of the shipping lane has to be enforced militarily and permanently. You can't trust them. deal with them is meaningless. Protect shipping, and punish every single act of aggression against shipping. In the long run, there are going to be other logistical solutions, because those aholes are never gonna stop being aholes and it will ultimately make financial sense to come up with logistical work arounds.

Posted by: Trust at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (anL5R)

83 Unlike the completely provoked attack in Iran, where the Iranian Supreme Leader attack our missile with his face.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting

Right? What did Iran ever do to us? I mean, aside from killing thousands of our servicemen, taking over our embassy, and assassinating people worldwide. Oh, and attacking our allies. But aside from that...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

84 This should have been the policy as soon as the MOU was signed.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (ItWcy)

85 82 The more we destroy, the more we taxpayers have to replace after. Hearts? Minds? Or no?
Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 04:46 PM (enNUy)

That is a fairly new concept. I suggest we don’t.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (BUXCz)

86 34 We should have already destroyed every bridge, powerplant, and highway in Iran.

Trump is still playing the modern playing by the modern rule book where the US isn't allowed to win wars
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

Trump has to play Rope-A-Dope like this until the midterms. $120/barrel oil will hand Congress to the Dems, which is why there will be no widespread destruction of Iran right now. This is the game which will be played until the day after Election Day.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (9CbuZ)

87 Right? What did Iran ever do to us? I mean, aside from killing thousands of our servicemen, taking over our embassy, and assassinating people worldwide. Oh, and attacking our allies. But aside from that...

Did I mention building nukes, which they swore to use?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

88 Once Iran indiscriminately bombed other residential areas, the war rules say the other side can too without fear of war crimes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

89 At least two CIA sites were struck in March,

I see that Russia is trying to win the hearts and minds of Americans.

Shrewd tactic

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 04:49 PM (BvPIe)

90 Right? What did Iran ever do to us? I mean, aside from killing thousands of our servicemen, taking over our embassy, and assassinating people worldwide. Oh, and attacking our allies. But aside from that...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

Oh, is that it now.

I must have missed the memo about the new narrative.

I thought it was because they were "weeks away from a nuke".

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 04:49 PM (BCWUp)

91 So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.

18 soldiers is way below notice for the Russians.
Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (Y8DZL)

But loudmouths will start yelling that this failure of the peace negotiation killed American servicemen and is proof that Howard Lutnick is a traitor and J D Vance is completely unsuitable for higher office.

I mean, they yell that when the wind is from the East or the humidity goes up, too, and sometimes even when the paperboy gets the morning paper in the hedge, but this is significant.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 04:49 PM (rbvCR)

92 I must have missed the memo about the new narrative.

I thought it was because they were "weeks away from a nuke".

My #93.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

93 I do think that the Iranians are simply being irrationally stubborn becuz of their Death Cult Religion, but-

it could be something else. Hopefully, not.

Biden and the Democrats totally opened the borders to whoever could walk thru. If that didn't include some terror squads from Iran, I'll be very very surprised.

I wonder if they're holding on until their terror squads can make a big hit here on American soil, ie. cause real death and damage, to get us to concede to a truce. Maybe that's why there's so much activity around Brokeback Mountain or whatever it's called.

I hope that our security forces are really looking for a possible end around, because this would make sense of the Iranians holding on so long and apparently futilely.

This may be what the southern energy talk is all about.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 04:50 PM (iJfKG)

94 We need to attack Russian assets in Ukraine. Bring the war to them!

Posted by: Ghost of Lindsey Graham at July 22, 2026 04:50 PM (l4RKn)

95 Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:49 PM (q/hOL)

Hi, Scogg.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

96 Trump really lost a lot of credibility in the way he handled Iran. And I don't see how destroying civilian infrastructure helps turn the population against the mullahs. Just the opposite.

Either invade it or walk away and let the arab states figure out how to ship their oil.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 04:50 PM (eIzlH)

97 Poll Analyst Nate Silver Says DSA Members are Highly Educated and Downwardly Mobile
“They’re gloomy about their own financial prospects, and feel aggrieved about the state of the country.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 04:50 PM (oaWAY)

98 One for one? Those are rookie numbers, son, need to pump those up.

We need to strip these savages of any trappings of civilization.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (bX16E)

99 My #93.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

But I thought our dear leader said that the nuke facilities were destroyed by the best bombing run ever months before the full-scale attack?

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (BCWUp)

100 But some here have to pick Good Guy vs Bad Guy, instead of Bad Guy vs Worse Guy.
Posted by: Memory Man

May they both lose.

Posted by: H. Kissinger at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (TezPK)

101 And if you bring up the dark side of socialism they just call you a fascist idiot, and socialism hasn't been done right with the right people, racist.
------

I saw a great read yesterday that pointed out that "communism" and "end police/prisons" are two objectives that can't exist in the same universe because communism requires making a TON of things illegal, and there has to be an enforcement mechanism or otherwise there's no reason not to keep on keeping on with free markets and free speech.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

102 better to have waited till iran got them nukes, then oil would go to 200$ a barrel and we could finally get that amazing green new deal

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (CWTWj)

103 Poll Analyst Nate Silver Says DSA Members are Highly Educated and Downwardly Mobile
“They’re gloomy about their own financial prospects, and feel aggrieved about the state of the country.”

It's obvious that that is the case. Poor babies, life just hasn't worked out the way they expected it to.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)

104 Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:50

I think we should make Scogg President. He'd obviously do a much better job than the guy he calls the "old man"/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 04:51 PM (xSAlF)

105 Iran has been striking gulf states for more than a week. Maybe they're talking about increasing the scale?

And, if Trump is committing to blow up major infrastructure every time Iran opens fire in the Straits, that will mean a lot more destruction than people are used to seeing from the US.

I expect it's bluster, but I hope not.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

106 >>>Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.

The USA is doing the same thing for Ukraine to help them target Russia.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (8mulE)

107 If we had just left them alone until they successfully built nukes, and then immediately decided to hold the whole region hostage, it would have been so much simpler.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (4HoLg)

108 "Every time a tanker is hit, a power plant goes boom" - Zuzu Trump from "Its a Wonderful War."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (/eAef)

109 The Russians band the Ukraine and the Poles and the Lithuanians and the Austrians and the Rumanians etc have been fighting vib that region over borders since before the USA existed. This is just the latest iteration

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (sMkB+)

110 I think this current sturm and dreng stirred up by the White House is covering the application of the USGOV for judgment by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (rbvCR)

111 Deliberate strikes on civilian infrastructure could be considered a war crime under international law." - NY Times
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Let's see, how can we make a stupid rule, that will give us the opportunity for moral preening, but ultimately wind up with more civilian deaths as every combatant will simply put their weapons, and militarily infrastructure underneath civilian infrastructure placing the bullsize on the population.

Posted by: I'm a NYT editorial meeting - drools at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (anL5R)

112 Biden and the Democrats totally opened the borders to whoever could walk thru. If that didn't include some terror squads from Iran, I'll be very very surprised.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 04:50 PM (iJfKG)
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At this point, I'm a bit skeptical that Iran has legions of sleeper cells just waiting for the signal to be activated. I think we'd have had a spree of Islamic terrorist attacks across the nation right now.

Unless Iran has gotten really clever and recruited disaffected trannies to do their dirty work. That wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (FZ29D)

113 The goal of socialism is communism.

Posted by: Ole Vlad Lenin at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM (2Ez/1)

114 So if Rooshia has technology to facilitate effective and precise hits on our CIA stations in the ME from a broken military that is I-ran, we can only imagine what they are doing in Ukraine that we are not told they are doing. Right? I mean that would only make sense.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (GD0B3)

115
Yeesh, our trolls are boring.

C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.

Anything to break your monotony.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

116 But I thought our dear leader said that the nuke facilities were destroyed by the best bombing run ever months before the full-scale attack?

They're trying to reconstitute them at Pickaxe Mountain. You'd have heard of it if you were actually interested in being truthful, but you aren't.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

117 I'm speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the head up your ass, visible from space, stupidity of those who believe anything the f ...... ing scumbag media says about anything involving the Middle East.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (9X60i)

118 I saw a great read yesterday that pointed out that "communism" and "end police/prisons" are two objectives that can't exist in the same universe because communism requires making a TON of things illegal, and there has to be an enforcement mechanism or otherwise there's no reason not to keep on keeping on with free markets and free speech.
Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026

We assume these people are logical, or at least rationale, because we are. They are not. At all.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (BUXCz)

119 I can't believe Russia might be providing intel!

Also, killing Russians is the best money we ever spent!

How can they not see our moral superiority?

Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (BCWUp)

120 Mitch McConnell will be back in his office two weeks from today.

Posted by: Unreliable narrator at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (OT3gL)

121 Anyone here know what's going on? Which is more, uh, cogent - a speculation, or a hypothesis? ( I left out a wild-ass guess).

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM (Gqar8)

122 Right? What did Iran ever do to us? I mean, aside from killing thousands of our servicemen, taking over our embassy, and assassinating people worldwide. Oh, and attacking our allies. But aside from that...
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

So pretty much the same sort of thing that the illegitimate regime in Kiev was doing to ethnic Russians which caused Russia to get directly involved?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:54 PM (vSvIl)

123 Play cat and mouse all you want. Taxpayers provided you with the means to take out everything a long time ago. Diplomacy is out the window and now it's just a pissing contest.

My dick is bigger. Take out all of the infrastructure, these people can migrate to where the resources are available.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 04:54 PM (sYM3s)

124 Russian "reach" is highly limited right now. Think China...

Posted by: pahound at July 22, 2026 04:54 PM (AjR4+)

125 83 Curious, what ls "moral high-ground" during War?
Posted by: pahound

winning

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 04:54 PM (GDYiM)

126 115 "Every time a tanker is hit, a power plant goes boom" - Zuzu Trump from "Its a Wonderful War."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at July 22, 2026 04:52 PM

Atta boy, Clarence!

Posted by: Jimmy Stewart at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (2Ez/1)

127 But some here have to pick Good Guy vs Bad Guy, instead of Bad Guy vs Worse Guy.
Posted by: Memory Man

I'd much prefer to play the "Not our monkey's not our circus" but our "elites" seem to think that European wars require our involvement.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (N1tpc)

128 126 Mitch McConnell will be back in his office two weeks from today.

Posted by: Unreliable narrator at July 22, 2026 04:53 PM

He'll be there in spirit.

Mitch's funeral is next week.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (OkYzo)

129 I'm trying to figure out if Scogg is now doing two nicks at a time. I know he's Memory Man, and I think he's also Tired of Gaslighting. Same MO.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

130 The IRGC fired 6 missiles at Jordan yesterday. 4 were intercepted and two landed in open rural areas with no damage.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (abScH)

131 Here is another reset, Zelensky just fired his Defense Minister, and Commander in Chief of his armed forces. In the last week or so.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 04:56 PM (GD0B3)

132 131 83 Curious, what ls "moral high-ground" during War?
Posted by: pahound

winning

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 04:54 PM

Hear the lamentation of the womens.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 04:56 PM (4NO2D)

133 I have maintained some doubts and misgivings about Trump's incursion into Iran.

Unlike some people, though, I'm not going to pretend I know whether or not Iran was close to a nuke or how close they were to using it.

I also don't like that the War Powers Act deadline is far in the past, but I thing the remedy is Congress gets off its ass and declares war or orders troops home.

Congress doesn't get power it does not deign to use. "Checks and Balances" is supposed to be a fight among branches. Not a room monitor type of thing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

134 135 I'm trying to figure out if Scogg is now doing two nicks at a time. I know he's Memory Man, and I think he's also Tired of Gaslighting. Same MO.

Hah, I see that he's also Miss Lindsey's Ghost.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (Riz8t)

135 I think my daughter has that book:

Everyone That Disagrees With Me Is Scogg

Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (BCWUp)

136 So pretty much the same sort of thing that the illegitimate regime in Kiev was doing to ethnic Russians which caused Russia to get directly involved?

You're just not doing the White Hat / Black Hat thing well at all.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (zqvFx)

137 Every time a Mullah is offed, an Angel gets his Wings. ( Discarded line from It's a Wonderful Life).

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (Gqar8)

138 re 108: under real communism/socialism there will be no homelessness, poverty, hunger, unemployment, etc and everyone will be educated and happy, so anyone who commits a crime will be a person with serious issues who needs to be locked up and re-educated

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (CWTWj)

139

DO IT!!!

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (/QHx4)

140 Every time a Mullah is offed, an Angel gets his Wings. ( Discarded line from It's a Wonderful Life).
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (Gqar

Accurate!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (GD0B3)

141 Right? What did Iran ever do to us? I mean, aside from killing thousands of our servicemen, taking over our embassy, and assassinating people worldwide. Oh, and attacking our allies. But aside from that...
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

So pretty much the same sort of thing that the illegitimate regime in Kiev was doing to ethnic Russians which caused Russia to get directly involved?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at July 22, 2026 04:54 PM (vSvIl)

More of the "not our business".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (N1tpc)

142 Curious, what ls "moral high-ground" during War?
Posted by: pahound
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Um, we have the accord of a whole convention about that.

Were there no way to tell the reasonable from the radical, we wouldn't.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (Fi81e)

143 If the Iranian regime wants to turn their entire population into refugees then maybe the refugees will wake the fuck up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM (sYM3s)

144 I'd much prefer to play the "Not our monkey's not our circus" but our "elites" seem to think that European wars require our involvement.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (N1tpc)

If by "Elites" you mean "posters here that insist on controlling the narrative" ? I agree.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM (zqvFx)

145 Medicare now covers GLP-1 injections, bringing the $1000-500 cost per month down to $50.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM (bX16E)

146 @106 Crusader , you misunderstand tovarich , the Kommissars will just shoot "criminals" in the head. No police or jails needed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM (sMkB+)

147 If we start bombing the Drakkar and gold chains supply lines this war will be over in a week.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM (YAkU9)

148 re 112: then we send john kerry to negotiate a responsible surrender

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (CWTWj)

149 It's almost as if Iran isn't in control of Iran. Who or what is he really hitting?

Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (T7fic)

150 Mitch McConnell will be back in his office two weeks from today.

In an urn?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (9s47C)

151 Yeesh, our trolls are boring.

C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.

Anything to break your monotony.

Posted by: naturalfake

===

What's funny is is it's very clear Ace is not happy with Trump's Iran strategy. So if other posters echo that frustration, they are all trolls? or just maybe Trump supporters that are allowed to criticize Trump?

I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction. I saw this with iraq and anyone that didn't think the neocons and Bush/Cheney were super awesome was a closest terrorist.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (eIzlH)

152 94 Right? What did Iran ever do to us? I mean, aside from killing thousands of our servicemen, taking over our embassy, and assassinating people worldwide. Oh, and attacking our allies. But aside from that...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

Oh, is that it now.

I must have missed the memo about the new narrative.

I thought it was because they were "weeks away from a nuke".
Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting

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1. Granted, this argument has not been made as clear, especially because the media want Trump to lose, even if it means nuking the West.

2. Put the two together -- they are an enemy at war, practiced in terror and destruction of US, allies, the West, and civilization, *and* they are building a nuke. Both of those facts are irrefutable.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (GDYiM)

153 If by "Elites" you mean "posters here that insist on controlling the narrative" ? I agree.
Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM

I snorted out loud.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (4NO2D)

154 One wonders if Mr. Trump could have grabbed the brass ring in the 1980s or 1990s - sparing America from the depredations and indignations of the Clintons.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (qt51i)

155 This, is the way...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (mP0Kj)

156 Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 04:57 PM (BCWUp)

No, not everyone who disagrees with people are Scogg, but his writing style and insult of others posters is quite obvious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (rHgXV)

157 I was all for finally addressing the Iran threat instead of constantly kicking the can down the road. I just think we ceased our initial offensive way too soon. We stopped after only 39 days: I also wasn't thrilled that the cease fire allowed the Iranian psychopaths a free hand to kill another 30k-60k of the civilian opposition.

Nothing you can do about it now and I only can hope the new strategy will work.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)

158 I was looking at some old board games one was called Gulf Strike and it was set in the late Cold War middle east and comically one of the scenarios was "Iran shuts down the Gulf again"

We've been dealing with this crap for more then 40 years now.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

159 "@POTUS Trump on the Islamic Republic of Iran: "They're getting hit so hard, and they want to make a deal. But I say they're not ready to make a deal because every time they make a deal, they want to change it."

Okey dokey.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:00 PM (GD0B3)

160 The IRGC fired 6 missiles at Jordan yesterday. 4 were intercepted and two landed in open rural areas with no damage.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 04:55 PM (abScH)

They are going out of their ways to make friends.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 05:00 PM (rbvCR)

161 One thing we know now is how far the ballistic capabilities of Iran have come. And some pretty advanced drones. All known because of the war. I would infer they were far advanced on their nukes too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

162 If the Iranian regime wants to turn their entire population into refugees then maybe the refugees will wake the fuck up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 04:58 PM

Something will have to give because their neighbors will most certainly not welcome them with open arms at their borders.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 05:01 PM (0N4FZ)

163 Funny how the media, the Left, Europe, the UN, Israel haters, etc. have all said for fucking years that Iran is NOT building a nuke and their program is "peaceful"

In spite of all evidence, they stuck to that line.

And now Iran simply says "fuck you, we are building nukes and that is our right. "

And the Left sill defend them.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 05:01 PM (GDYiM)

164 Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.

So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.
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Why does Russia have to do it? I'm sure there are plenty of Deep State traitors willing to give that info up to take down Trump.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:01 PM (ZOv7s)

165 just to be clear, communism was the term marx came up with to distinguish his kind of 'scientific socialism' from other kinds. it's all still a religion of educated idiots

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 05:01 PM (CWTWj)

166 I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction. I saw this with iraq and anyone that didn't think the neocons and Bush/Cheney were super awesome was a closest terrorist.
Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM

The only thing I am appreciating is not using ground forces and mostly sticking with the Spaceman tactics of essentially using orbital strikes against knives and spears.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (4NO2D)

167 Negotiate a nice happy equitable unconditional surrender.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (RtUcF)

168 I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction.
----

You should get out more.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

169 Iran is the mean drunk with 3 DUI's fighting the bartender over his keys at closing time.

Go home, Iran. You're drunk.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (YAkU9)

170 .... and with Trump, there's actually a slim chance it isn't us!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (RtUcF)

171
exactly who is this "they"?
Posted by: wth

THEM!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (Cqx++)

172 No, not everyone who disagrees with people are Scogg, but his writing style and insult of others posters is quite obvious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (rHgXV)

I'm game.

If you could kindly point out the personal insults in my posts, I'd appreciate it.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (BCWUp)

173 I was all for finally addressing the Iran threat instead of constantly kicking the can down the road. I just think we ceased our initial offensive way too soon. We stopped after only 39 days: I also wasn't thrilled that the cease fire allowed the Iranian psychopaths a free hand to kill another 30k-60k of the civilian opposition.

Nothing you can do about it now and I only can hope the new strategy will work.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)
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We ran out of targets and our own forces needed to rest, recuperate and rearm. We gained far more from it than Iran.

I hate to bring up "the L word" (logistics) but our supplies don't teleport into theater. Iran has a far shorter supply chain.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (ZOv7s)

174 Here's what I'm thinking about Ukraine:

Trump is President. Commander and Chief of the American military. So for a military engagement, he knows more about what is going on.

Thus it makes money laundering by sending billions upon billions to Ukraine a bit harder.

This is why we're no longer shoveling billions at Zelenskyy.

If Europe falls because a non-member nation falls, that kind of defeats the argument for NATO itself and the occasional tip the Euros were throwing into the pot.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

175 Yeesh, our trolls are boring.

C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.

Anything to break your monotony.

Posted by: naturalfake

===

What's funny is is it's very clear Ace is not happy with Trump's Iran strategy. So if other posters echo that frustration, they are all trolls? or just maybe Trump supporters that are allowed to criticize Trump?

I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction. I saw this with iraq and anyone that didn't think the neocons and Bush/Cheney were super awesome was a closest terrorist.
Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (eIzlH)

Oh, I'm sorry, Leupold.

I didn't mean to include you in that group of boring trolls.

Your comments are always super-interesting and incisive!!!

🙄

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (iJfKG)

176 However, he's also saying that "next week" he will hit all of their bridges and power plants, unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.

Trump has been known to say things like that to let his enemies think they have time, lower their guard, and be more vulnerable to attack. It's tough to tell with him sometimes.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 22, 2026 05:04 PM (5+LQ2)

177 We could end up spending the next 20 yrs bombing Iran. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I like bombing Iran, but is that too much?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 22, 2026 05:04 PM (2jWk3)

178 Level the place and I won't care

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 05:04 PM (Ia/+0)

179 I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction.
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You should get out more.
Posted by: Crusader

==

I'm not seeing it at all. Online or in real life.
And it's not from "trolls", it's hard core Trump supporters.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:04 PM (eIzlH)

180 The Marxists will walk away and let Iran open the toll booth

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 05:05 PM (Ia/+0)

181 This.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2026 05:05 PM (nDXEV)

182 Negotiate a nice happy equitable unconditional surrender.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (RtUcF)
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World War II destroyed American strategic thinking. Most wars - even our own Civil War - ended with negotiations, not abject surrender.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

183 One wonders if Mr. Trump could have grabbed the brass ring in the 1980s or 1990s - sparing America from the depredations and indignations of the Clintons.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (qt51i)

That's when he wasn't politically against partial birth abortion, stated the Republicans were the ones who brought down the economy, was for Eminent Domain for non government development, supported the AWB and signed petition against man made climate change.

He has evolved obviously in a big part because the Dems immediately went after him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (KC5Lt)

184 Maybe Turkey, our NATO "ally", gave I-ran targeting info.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (GD0B3)

185
Your comments are always super-interesting and incisive!!!

🙄
Posted by: naturalfake

==

Keep calling people trolls, it's a brilliant come back.

Don't try and make your case for Trump's strategy here, that's too much heavy lifting for you.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (eIzlH)

186 I also don't like that the War Powers Act deadline is far in the past, but I thing the remedy is Congress gets off its ass and declares war or orders troops home.

Congress doesn't get power it does not deign to use. "Checks and Balances" is supposed to be a fight among branches. Not a room monitor type of thing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

The War Powers deadline didn't matter because Trump had declared the first ceasefire when it came and he declared an end to hostilities while the negotiations were ongoing.

Iran eventually attacked again so it became a defensive act by Trump returning fire which isn't covered under War Powers any longer.

That's my understanding of that situation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)

187 I given up trying to understand what Trump's doing in Iran.

Literally is the stupidest thing I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of stupid political things in my time.

Also, my new project has me going to DC, so I'll be in Washington going into the mid-terms.

That's going to be a laugh riot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (XV/Pl)

188 If Europe falls because a non-member nation falls, that kind of defeats the argument for NATO itself and the occasional tip the Euros were throwing into the pot.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

this is my take. If Russia can't even defeat Ukraine? Why is NATO worried?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

189 Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (BCWUp)

I was not talking about you insulting people I was speaking of Scogg Dog, man of many handles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (rHgXV)

190 Could be Russia. Or China. Or Turkey. My bet is on the ground Iran sympathizers in those muzzie nations.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW)

191
I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction. I saw this with iraq and anyone that didn't think the neocons and Bush/Cheney were super awesome was a closest terrorist.
Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 04:59 PM (eIzlH)

Contrary to popular belief, your scopes suck and don't hold zero

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (NtVYv)

192 Trump's approval can't get much lower. Even diehards here are turning on him. We all need to hope Iran can hold on. He's almost gone...,

Posted by: Sid at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (Sjyu0)

193 For me, have no idea what the "plan" is, but is that really important? Who the hell am "I", anyway? That might offend the sensibilities of some, but I am being serious. Big fish, little fish. That fact really chaps some peoples asses. I voted for Trump, repeatedly, he's my guy and he's doing fine by me. And that is " exactly" ONE vote of approval.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (Gqar8)

194 it's all still a religion of educated idiots
——

It is axiomatic ya gotta go to school a long time to get that stupid. “Credentialed Cretins” somebody coined the other day. I’m not anti-intellectual, far from it. But our institutions and corporations and governments have been invaded by imposters.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (qt51i)

195 this is my take. If Russia can't even defeat Ukraine? Why is NATO worried?
Posted by: Romeo13

===

It's a good point.

What they'll probably say is the only reason Ukraine is still in it is because they are being treated as NATO-lite.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (eIzlH)

196 Yeesh, our trolls are boring.
C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.
Anything to break your monotony.
Posted by: naturalfake

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-Day...

Maaaaammy. Maaaamy. The sun shines east, the sun shines west...but I know where, the sun shines best!

(Dances jive while wearing kente cloth stole)

Posted by: Angry Racist Trolls trying to take the advice at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (5+LQ2)

197 I like it. Tit for tat.

No negotiation. Unconditional surrender.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (zZu0s)

I like tits, but not tats

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

198 exactly who is this "they"?
Posted by: wth

THEM!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 05:02 PM (Cqx++)

Those MFRs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (dK+Kv)

199 I was not talking about you insulting people I was speaking of Scogg Dog, man of many handles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (rHgXV)

So then we agree, I'm not Scogg.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (BCWUp)

200 This is Trump's version of: Don't make me come back there and knock heads together.

As a mom, I approve.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (rfNMH)

201 178 Well as someone who voted for Lindsey Graham because of his excellent constituent services to veterans, I'm insulted by your homophobia.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (bX16E)

202 I given up trying to understand what Trump's doing in Iran.

Literally is the stupidest thing I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of stupid political things in my time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (XV/Pl)
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He's preventing a nuclear breakout by Iran, which is why no one talks about The Arab Street. Remember them? Going to rise up if we didn't be nice to Muslims?

Sometimes there is no perfect solution, so you muddle through. I think we've done amazingly well given previous oil shocks in the region.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (ZOv7s)

203 I'm not seeing it at all. Online or in real life.
And it's not from "trolls", it's hard core Trump supporters.
Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:04 PM (eIzlH)

hahahahah!!

"CNN: Trump’s own party approval is highest this century for a president at this point in 2nd term

Bush: 🟡 78%
Obama: 🟡 76%
Trump: 🟢 83% "

And please don't let's do "polls are for strippers" , if CNN can admit it...

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (GD0B3)

204 A socialist is just a coward waiting for a psychopathic communist to take all your shit and give them some of it.

A socialist is the twelfth rapist in a gang rape behind 11 communists who then blames peer pressure and feels like a hero for turning State's evidence in court.

They turn my stomach. Taco Bell shitlettuce got nothing on socialists.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (/QJKp)

205 196 Could be Russia. Or China. Or Turkey. My bet is on the ground Iran sympathizers in those muzzie nations.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW)

Yeah, hate to say it, but we HAVE made a lot of personal enemies over there in the last few decades.

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

206 We all need to hope Iran can hold on.
——

LOL! Go suck start a shotgun. Thanks

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:09 PM (qt51i)

207 YaYYYYY!!!!!

Another tRump is a doodyhead thread!

Just when I thought the strategic reserve had been depleted!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 22, 2026 05:09 PM (SExz7)

208 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:03 PM (ZOv7s)

I disagree with that take bigley.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (KC5Lt)

209 I think if I were serving within missile range of Iran, I'd be spending my downtime with the sandspiders in a hole in the ground of my own digging, since management hasn't bothered to provide decent bunkers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (4NO2D)

210 Another tRump is a doodyhead thread!

Just when I thought the strategic reserve had been depleted!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 22, 2026 05:09 PM (SExz7)

Grow up.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (GD0B3)

211 And please don't let's do "polls are for strippers" , if CNN can admit it...

Posted by: runner

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I still support Trump even if his Iran strategy sucks. I think that describes most Trump supporters.

Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (eIzlH)

212 I've been described as an inane drone, myself.

Posted by: Flyin' High With Cooter Brown at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (JM9I6)

213 Your comments are always super-interesting and incisive!!!

🙄
Posted by: naturalfake

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Keep calling people trolls, it's a brilliant come back.

Don't try and make your case for Trump's strategy here, that's too much heavy lifting for you.
Posted by: Leupold at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (eIzlH)

See, what I mean.

What a totally interesting and incisive remark!

No wonder all the conservatives you know agree with you, you oh, so intellectual commenter you!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (iJfKG)

214
Boom! Boom! Out go the lights!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 05:11 PM (a3Los)

215 Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (Gqar8

I agree with you, and I am unable to read Trump's mind nor am I in the cabinet or War Department, etc. meetings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:11 PM (xSAlF)

216 I disagree with that take bigley.
Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:10 PM (KC5Lt)
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Which part? You think our aircraft and crews were not needed intensive maintenance? You think we can sustain high operational tempo indefinitely without a general mobilization?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:11 PM (ZOv7s)

217 Level it? How? Iran is twice the size of Texas.

Arm the populace? How ? The IRGC still have a vast network secret police.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 05:11 PM (abScH)

218 It's Turkey. It only makes sense. China has a lot riding on being in Trump's good graces. Russia is in a middle of a war and does not need more targeting data sent to the UKes. But Turkey... is stupid enough do this.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (GD0B3)

219 They are already furiously building pipelines that bypass Hormuz. They don’t have any democrat assholes over there to make it take decades.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (2jWk3)

220 Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (GD0B3)

I would 'approve' of Trump but I think the Iran strategy has a lot to be desired to be kind.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (KC5Lt)

221 I am at peace with not ruling the world or being in charge of what Trump decides. I made peace with not being in charge of Earth at about age 8.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (/QJKp)

222 Another tRump is a doodyhead thread!

Just when I thought the strategic reserve had been depleted!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 22, 2026 05:09 PM (SExz7)

Only for some. For them that is every thread.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (dK+Kv)

223 I'm just happy to see that our Very Most Informed Commentators were finally able to reach Trump's people and explain that Iran can't be trusted.

I was really worried that no one in the Trump administration knew that until now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (3cUTc)

224 The War Powers deadline didn't matter because Trump had declared the first ceasefire when it came and he declared an end to hostilities while the negotiations were ongoing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
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I know that's the argument. But Trump said it would be over in a couple of weeks, so that would have satisfied both conditions.

You can't say that wouldn't have been a better outcome, right?
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Iran eventually attacked again so it became a defensive act by Trump returning fire which isn't covered under War Powers any longer.
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Again, that's the rationale we're kind of backed into using.

But I knew from the start the Republican Congress was going to leave Trump hanging. (And I don't like saying "know" when I'm just trying to predict something, but when I just can't get over a suspicion, it's close enough that I can use "know".)

If this blows everything up, it's not going to matter, even if Trump likely saved the world from a terrorist nuclear attack.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)

225 No fighting like in-fighting.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:13 PM (/QJKp)

226
221 Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:07 PM (Gqar8

I agree with you, and I am unable to read Trump's mind nor am I in the cabinet or War Department, etc. meetings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:11 PM (xSAlF)

Hey Fen. This is my last Wednesday for a while, as per our earlier discussions. Never do weekends here, so 5 days off!!

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar8)

227 Trump's cease-fire did many useful things. I've already outlined the operational advantages in terms of giving our maintainers time to rest and catch up, our intel folks time to find new targets and of course cycling in more munitions.

But it also took both the "just war" and War Powers Act debates off the table. We now had peace, the war was over, and if it restarted, Iran was the aggressor. The US was now on the strategic defensive trying to uphold international law.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:14 PM (ZOv7s)

228 If you think morons fight over Trump, just mention Israel. Then we're off to the races.

Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 05:14 PM (enNUy)

229 Which part? You think our aircraft and crews were not needed intensive maintenance? You think we can sustain high operational tempo indefinitely without a general mobilization?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:11 PM (ZOv7s)

So our ability is limited to just over a month? China must be ecstatic over that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:14 PM (KC5Lt)

230 The biggest lie we were sold was that all of the Iranian people hate their own society and government and were just waiting for the American military to attack so that they could be free to drink Starbucks, eat Big Macs, make OnlyFans pages, and watch sportsball.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 05:15 PM (BCWUp)

231 Long term, I think the war undermines Iran's position enough that it can only mean victory for the West.

The longer it goes on, the lower the value of their one weapon - the strait and energy. Pipes are being built, supply lines are being adjusted.

The only other weapon they have would be a nuke. They know this and this is why they are building one. IF Trump prevents them building a nuke, we win.

All the other stuff is secondary or short term. (The Straight, funding proxies, missiles, ...) mostly to appease the other gulf states.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 05:15 PM (6LNOO)

232 It's a good point.

What they'll probably say is the only reason Ukraine is still in it is because they are being treated as NATO-lite.
Posted by: Leupold

They're worried because they've had to dump billions in money and equipment into Ukraine to stall Russia, including lots of US support. If the US never got involved, and some countries in the region cooperated with Russia, Europe would have a hard time (economically, militarily and politically) stopping them.

Plus, NATO is a major advantage to Europe. It allows them to assign national defense to the US for a fraction of the cost. They're desperate to keep the organization alive by finding new missions and roles. The 2022 Strategic Concept reaffirms that the key purpose (of NATO) remains collective defense, but this is now supported by two additional core tasks: crisis prevention and management and cooperative security.

On NATO' website, their purpose includes: Essentially, NATO not only helps to defend the territory of its members, but also engages – where possible and when necessary – to project its values further afield, prevent and manage crises, stabilise post-conflict situations, and support reconstruction.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 22, 2026 05:15 PM (5+LQ2)

233 Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar

Nice to see you and enjoy your time off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:15 PM (xSAlF)

234 I think the only way Trump and Hegseth can end this on our end is to drop as much as possible on Pickaxe Mountain, or drop some Airborne in to take over the place and destroy anything stored there and bug out.

It may also eventually be necessary to take over Kharg Island with troops and the Strait coastline in certain areas to take control there.

No need to invade Tehran or anywhere else if we take away their leverage.
But it's a very difficult call to make.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

235 Is baby Shah just a bullshitter or is someone restraining him from calling for the uprising?

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 05:16 PM (4NO2D)

236 I'm just happy to see that our Very Most Informed Commentators were finally able to reach Trump's people and explain that Iran can't be trusted.

I was really worried that no one in the Trump administration knew that until now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 05:12 PM (3cUTc)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:16 PM (dK+Kv)

237 40 Two weeks!
Posted by: Your Local Contractor at July 22, 2026 04:38 PM (TezPK)
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I laughed.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 22, 2026 05:16 PM (Hbeqj)

238 A lot of things happened between Kasserine Pass and El Guettar.

Some of those things happened during the cease fire I expect.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (/QJKp)

239 239 Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar

Nice to see you and enjoy your time off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:15 PM (xSAlF)

I am studying John Frame - " enjoy" might be a reach!! But, it is worthwhile.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (Gqar8)

240 I have my own arm chair general thoughts on what to do, but I don't have the military and diplomatic info they have in DC.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (n5tGW)

241 Saram kola gozashtan! It's a trap!

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (nDXEV)

242 On NATO' website, their purpose includes: Essentially, NATO not only helps to defend the territory of its members, but also engages – where possible and when necessary – to project its values further afield, prevent and manage crises, stabilise post-conflict situations, and support reconstruction.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 22, 2026 05:15 PM (5+LQ2)
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Where's the goal for trans-ing kids?!

Don't they care about the trans genocide?!

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (Fi81e)

243 I continue to be content. Any day we are bombing Iran is a good day. It is remarkably deserving. I don't really need a grand strategy for mere bombing; it's enough that no one has asked for it more than Iran and that it also probably makes Xi's little wiener soft. Good enough.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (K3f7J)

244 Well, I guess it's a good thing that Trump said he does not care about approval numbers, and the impact on midterms while deciding Iran strategy.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (GD0B3)

245 My point was; this is like 2 nerds pushing each other in the schoolyard- "I dare you to start it". "No I dare you to start it". Its started, finish it.

Posted by: pahound at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (AjR4+)

246 So our ability is limited to just over a month? China must be ecstatic over that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:14 PM (KC5Lt)
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Seriously, do you understand logistical constraints? Given the forces we were willing to commit, there was a limit to what could be run at a high operational tempo. Exceed that envelope and you lose capability and aircraft start to break.

If we are in a total war, things are very different. Trump did not want a general mobilization, which would happen against China. He wanted to maintain reserve forces.

So in addition to diplomatic and political advantages, he rested the force.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (ZOv7s)

247 So then we agree, I'm not Scogg.
Posted by: Miss Lindsey's Ghost at July 22, 2026 05:08 PM (BCWUp)

You're Scogg. I can tell.

I bet you've went as far as tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars.

Wouldn't doubt if you voted for George McGovern for President.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (zqvFx)

248 I thought we destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability already.

Trump told us this multiple times.

So why do we care so much about the Middle East getting to ship their oil to Europe?

Posted by: Maroon at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (mooIH)

249 If you think morons fight over Trump, just mention Israel. Then we're off to the races.

Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 05:14 PM (enNUy)

Oh no you didn't.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (dK+Kv)

250 The trolls here are hilarious. Lemme get Trump on the phone and have him call the whole thing off, I'm convinced.

Step up your game boys. You're amateurs.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 05:19 PM (sYM3s)

251 This is awesome. This is like hitting the dog with a rolled up newspaper every time he craps on the floor.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 05:19 PM (T2w7I)

252 A calling Trump a poopy head thread is almost as fun as an anal gerbil thread

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 05:19 PM (sMkB+)

253 With low personal approval numbers Trump may not be able to run again.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:20 PM (/QJKp)

254 I actually like that Trump's keeping this in the air.

He knows that "boots on the ground" while being effective wrap things up, is where you start losing American soldiers.

As soon as he does, all the spectators in Congress will start knifing Trump, Democrats in front, Republicans in the back.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

255 Essentially, NATO not only helps to defend the territory of its members, but also engages – where possible and when necessary – to project its values further afield,

Given NATO's values of some demonic fusion of Communism and Islam, particularly since the US military seems to be focused now on acting as Islamic nations' security forces, I fail to see how this is a Western values leaning, Constitutional Republic's role.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 05:20 PM (BvPIe)

256 C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.

Anything to break your monotony.

Posted by: naturalfake

How dare you! How DARE you!

https://tinyurl.com/36y9px9

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (rbvCR)

257 I suspect President Trump has his hands tied somewhat by Congress and Marxists on Iran's side.
If it was a declared war it might be over already

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

258
I don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell. Is it just because they fell into the hands of a bunch of corrupt leaders whose style is cramped by the goody-two-shoes (with weapons) Americans?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (mmrXZ)

259 Rush is back together and touring. We can send them.

Posted by: might as well have it out now at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (/QJKp)

260 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:18 PM (

You act like it was 3 or 4 months. It was 39 days.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (KC5Lt)

261 I've been able to get away with being an Eeyore on Iran, and I don't recall being called Scogg once.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

262 This is awesome. This is like hitting the dog with a rolled up newspaper every time he craps on the floor.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 05:19 PM (T2w7I)
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The on/off operational tempo is great for us and terrible for Iran. Our troops get to rest, cycle units in and out and Iran just sits there worrying that will will do something.

They also probably have minimal command and control, so some nut job will always fire a rocket even if the leadership (or what's left of it) wants things to stop.

Oh, and did anyone notice the Saudis have invoked their treaty with Pakistan? If Iran hits them again, Pakistan has to get involved. That's why Kuwait is getting hit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (ZOv7s)

263 I'm not sure if Trump thinks he can really "Art of the Deal" with a terrorist death cult, or if this is all about convincing the US public that a terrorist death cult can't be allowed to have nukes.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (vbXSk)

264 I don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell.

Short memories here.

Russia petitioned to JOIN NATO. Declined. By us in no small measure.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (zqvFx)

265 I continue to be content. Any day we are bombing Iran is a good day. It is remarkably deserving. I don't really need a grand strategy for mere bombing; it's enough that no one has asked for it more than Iran and that it also probably makes Xi's little wiener soft. Good enough.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (K3f7J)

I agree with this. I mostly refrain from commenting much on threads such as this, but I think Iran is suffering far more damage than the media and pundits will ever admit. Iran is the angry drunk who gets a beating but refuses to stop.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (0aYVJ)

266 Given NATO's values of some demonic fusion of Communism and Islam, particularly since the US military seems to be focused now on acting as Islamic nations' security forces, I fail to see how this is a Western values leaning, Constitutional Republic's role.
Posted by: Community Notes

This is about us, isn't it.

Posted by: NATO Member Turkey at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (5+LQ2)

267 I don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell. Is it just because they fell into the hands of a bunch of corrupt leaders whose style is cramped by the goody-two-shoes (with weapons) Americans?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (mmrXZ)

Putin asked two different American Presidents if they could join NATO. He was refused.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (BCWUp)

268 Rush is back together and touring. We can send them.

Posted by: might as well have it out now at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (/QJKp)
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Unless they are considering of pitching in to the Canadian Healthcare System and offing themselves.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (Fi81e)

269 Russia may be providing targeting information to Iran, allowing them to strike targets they otherwise couldn't.

So Russia might be responsible for the deaths of servicemen and CIA officers.
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I’m sure they are. Good thing we backed sorry-sack loser Ukraine in that (still ongoing) war against Russia!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (JgYL0)

270 Has anyone pointed out how this is all just to create a distraction from the Epstein files?

Just because known Epstein client and frequent island visitor Reid Hoffman is funding both Talarico and Ossoff doesn't mean they are pedos--Trump and the Republicans are the Epstein Class.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (3cUTc)

271 I really dont know a single conservative I've met that thinks this is going in the right direction.
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You should get out more.
Posted by: Crusader

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I'm not seeing it at all. Online or in real life.
And it's not from "trolls", it's hard core Trump supporters.
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You're full of it. This place is about as hard core as it gets and plenty of us wouldn't mind if Trump took a 3rd and 4th term just so he could keep bombing Iran.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (TN0g+)

272 C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.

Anything to break your monotony.

Posted by: naturalfake

How dare you! How DARE you!

https://tinyurl.com/36y9px9
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (rbvCR)

Uhhh, that...that uh...I think I just lost the will to live.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 05:24 PM (iJfKG)

273 I don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell. Is it just because they fell into the hands of a bunch of corrupt leaders whose style is cramped by the goody-two-shoes (with weapons) Americans?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (mmrXZ)

Putin stopped the looting and made the Oligarchs shut up, act like responsible industrialists or die, and told the European banks to go screw themselves. This was bad for thr bottom line for the banks, and they have had a hard-on for Putin ever since.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 05:24 PM (rbvCR)

274 I don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell. Is it just because they fell into the hands of a bunch of corrupt leaders whose style is cramped by the goody-two-shoes (with weapons) Americans?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 05:21 PM (mmrXZ)

You got it wrong, it started with Bush' speech about absorbing all of Russia's border countries into NATO. For some reason it made Putin cautious about the West's intentions!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 05:24 PM (GD0B3)

275 You act like it was 3 or 4 months. It was 39 days.
Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (KC5Lt)
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It's not about days, its about sorties. Flight hours.

About the best, most reliable aircraft we have have only a 75% availability rate. Heavies are around 50 or less. The super-techy stuff even left.

So the more you use, the more than go down for maintenance. Calling a halt preserves the illusion that everything is just peachy while in fact we catch our breath.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:24 PM (ZOv7s)

276 I continue to be content. Any day we are bombing Iran is a good day. It is remarkably deserving. I don't really need a grand strategy for mere bombing; it's enough that no one has asked for it more than Iran and that it also probably makes Xi's little wiener soft. Good enough.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (K3f7J)

I agree with this. I mostly refrain from commenting much on threads such as this, but I think Iran is suffering far more damage than the media and pundits will ever admit. Iran is the angry drunk who gets a beating but refuses to stop.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (0aYVJ)

Not enough "Trump is doomed!" in these sentiments.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:24 PM (dK+Kv)

277 267 I've been able to get away with being an Eeyore on Iran, and I don't recall being called Scogg once.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

Scogg - Scogg, Scogg, Scogg!! You're welcome. Wait, you wanted to be called Scogg, yes? No? Well, this is embarrassing.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:25 PM (Gqar8)

278 Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (Gqar

I know who he is but I have not read his writings. It's good to have things to study and wrestle with. I was at a church service on Sunday where the preacher/minister encouraged the people attending to read John Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress" so I think I will read that again after many years

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:25 PM (W90Ou)

279 Rush is back together and touring. We can send them.
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That's not Rush.

But each show by what is now labelled Rush does include at least one female in attendance, which is a big step forward.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 05:25 PM (TN0g+)

280 I'm cool with Trump trying to protect civilians. I'm not cool with Trump not doing everything he can to finish.

Posted by: pahound at July 22, 2026 05:25 PM (AjR4+)

281 264
I don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell. Is it just because they fell into the hands of a bunch of corrupt leaders whose style is cramped by the goody-two-shoes (with weapons) Americans?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

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because after 80 years of communism, the vast majority of the public, and all the leaders feel they are right, their ideology is more moral, the West is evil, etc. They are all brainwashed.

Same in Iran although maybe not true for certain isolated subcultures (if there are any).

Same in China. They think killing whitey is an absolute good. All of them. Stealing our money and tech is necessary to right the wrongs of the past.

This is how evil works. (and don't get me started on muslims.)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 05:25 PM (6LNOO)

282 Russia's history after the USSR is a weird one. Huge oligarchical criminal organizations took over with some weak central govt then a strong man president saying give me my slice and on to annexing some lands. Not a lot of infrastructure economy building though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 05:26 PM (n5tGW)

283 George Kennan said bringing NATO right up to Russia's border was a bad idea. We could have worked a deal, but Clinton and Bush wanted to be badasses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 05:26 PM (sMkB+)

284 Putin asked two different American Presidents if they could join NATO. He was refused.

Why don't we give him our membership and we stay out.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 05:26 PM (CHHv1)

285 Assholes like Thune and Murkowski are fiddling their beans waiting for us to have enough casualties for them to declare defeat and a "quagmire" as much as Jeffries and Schumer are.

I think that is why Trump has to fight cavemen while wearing white kid gloves.

I think our kids are kicking ass in impossible situations. AGAIN.

Enemies don't defeat Americans. Congress does.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:26 PM (/QJKp)

286 So the more you use, the more than go down for maintenance. Calling a halt preserves the illusion that everything is just peachy while in fact we catch our breath.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

And stockpiling munitions. We don't typically drop a lot of advanced ordnance, so our industrial base needs time (and money) to spin up to meet demand when we start bombing the shit of a large nation over an extended period of time.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 22, 2026 05:27 PM (5+LQ2)

287 Not enough "Trump is doomed!" in these sentiments.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:24 PM (dK+Kv)
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TRUMP IS DOOMED!1!

Posted by: Absolute five-time Trump MAGA voter at July 22, 2026 05:27 PM (ZOv7s)

288 Yeesh, our trolls are boring.
C'mon! Sing a little song, trolls. Do a little dance.

Get down tonight?

Posted by: free tibet at July 22, 2026 05:27 PM (iNp3L)

289 Putin asked two different American Presidents if they could join NATO. He was refused.
Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (BCWUp)
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It took VP Joe Biden to get them into the WTO.

That's why it's so silly having Biden say how much Russian dick Trump was lapping up. Nobody did as much for the Russians as Barack and Hillary.

And does anybody remember why?

Because Republicans/conservatives were being too mean, and "unnecessarily antagonizing Putin", so Obama and Clinton set out to bring their technology up to speed with ours--because--WHY NOT?!

What was supposedly a big problem in 2016?

Turns out...it was RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY!

And somehow....Trump's fault.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)

290 Putin asked two different American Presidents if they could join NATO. He was refused.

Why don't we give him our membership and we stay out.
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Or we could pull out of NATO and reach an agreement with Russia.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 05:28 PM (TN0g+)

291 284
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:17 PM (Gqar

I know who he is but I have not read his writings. It's good to have things to study and wrestle with. I was at a church service on Sunday where the preacher/minister encouraged the people attending to read John Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress" so I think I will read that again after many years
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:25 PM (W90Ou)

A great allegory. Spoiler alert - he makes it.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:28 PM (Gqar8)

292 TRUMP IS DOOMED!1!

Posted by: Absolute five-time Trump MAGA voter at July 22, 2026 05:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)

293 If the Houthis get involved again, like Iran is threatening, and block Red Sea routes to the Suez then things are going to pop off again big time.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Saudis jump in at that point.

Do the Houthis still have the firepower to launch missiles at Israel is the question.

Also seeing that Somali pirates are showing up in the Red Sea again, too. Not only is the U.S. Navy busy elsewhere, but the Somalis lost some major cash-flows when the Daycare scams got shut down.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (6ydKt)

294 George Kennan said bringing NATO right up to Russia's border was a bad idea. We could have worked a deal, but Clinton and Bush wanted to be badasses
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 05:26 PM (sMkB+)
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Every single expert on the topic knew poking Russia when it was down was stupid. Clinton and Bush were high on their own supply of "The End of History" and when the fighting finally sputters out in Ukraine, things won't stop. The Neocons want American troops to patrol the Volga for the rest of eternity.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (ZOv7s)

295 Or we could pull out of NATO and reach an agreement with Russia.
Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 05:28 PM (TN0g+)

Insane. Then they'll just go to war, and we wouldn't be able to get our boys in the game !!!

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (zqvFx)

296 tit for tat > hind tit

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (63+Mx)

297 Nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (dK+Kv)

298 Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:28 PM (Gqar8

I remembered that part. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (W90Ou)

299 Rejecting NATO membership for Russia had nothing to do with ideological differences. Putin was very friendly towards the west.

Strategic defense alliances require an enemy to be defending against. If you admit Russia into NATO, you have no one to use as a boogeyman to justify spending trillions of dollars of military spending against.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (BCWUp)

300 don't understand why Russia had to get hostile with us after the USSR fell. Is it just because they fell into the hands of a bunch of corrupt leaders?
——-

There’s plenty of blame to go around. The West screwed the pooch on this.

Russia was never going to be our best buddy, but insofar as mutual concerns were in alignment they could have been a very useful ally. Particularly against China and others.

Now you know why all the usual suspects torpedoed any chance of this. A strategic blunder, on purpose.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (qt51i)

301 tit for tat > hind tit

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (63+Mx)

tit for tat > hind tit > no tit

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (dK+Kv)

302 I heard that Houthi was all ready to rumble, but The Blowfish were into chillin' out.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (Gqar8)

303 A not-insignificant percentage of me would laugh my ass off seeing Russian T80's parked in Trafagar Square.

Probably the only people who could stop the muslim rape gangs are the Red Army who are the true experts.

Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (/QJKp)

304 I'm in the Let Trump Cook camp.
The fact he is doing this differently than any other war or police action is a positive, along with taking out their nuclear program, destroying their military capabilities and a bunch of mad mullahs at the same time is icing on the cake.
A lot of very bad people have been un-alived.

Posted by: Bosk at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (VMFAF)

305 Strategic defense alliances require an enemy to be defending against. If you admit Russia into NATO, you have no one to use as a boogeyman to justify spending trillions of dollars of military spending against.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (BCWUp)

You sound like Scogg.

I bet you even got a Commie Flag, tacked up on the wall inside of your garage.

Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:31 PM (zqvFx)

306 "George Kennan said bringing NATO right up to Russia's border was a bad idea. We could have worked a deal, but Clinton and Bush wanted to be badasses"
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I'm thinkin' it was under Biden that we really pushed Ukraine into the possible NATO position, knowing full well it would incite Putin to a military response. And eye patch and others thought "Great, we get to fund Ukraine to destroy Russia". (not to mention all the grifters in the US lined up at the trough).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 22, 2026 05:32 PM (vbXSk)

307 Alright, alright.

You caught me.

I'm Scogg. Whoever TF that is.

Posted by: Tired of Gaslighting at July 22, 2026 05:32 PM (BCWUp)

308 I think there was a golden window of opportunity with Russia post-Soviet Union that our own neocons and commies, and their higher-ups, both did their respective best to mess up.

But I also see Putin and his government ratcheting up Soviet-style internal repression gradually too over the last few years. Old instincts, I suspect, that keep them from changing tracks even when what they're doing is blatantly self-destructive.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 05:33 PM (aJQbY)

309 There is a Jack London story, A piece of Steak. I read it as a kid and it stuck with me.

The problem with Russia is that half the West liked the way things were because they profited from it (NATO, the Defense ind. complex, UN, EU,...) so they wanted to keep the old rivalry going.

What we needed to do was crush them. Humble them. Make them understand that they lost. Take their nukes, expose their crimes against their public, and humiliate them. OR, not do that and keep the cold war going, just with a weakened and still isolated Russia.

I think that was the post cold war battle. We took a wobbly wet approach of half appeasing, half enabling their KGB and oligarchs to regroup, and half taking some gains where our oligarchs felt they could profit. It was corrupt and dirty and resulted in this.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 05:34 PM (6LNOO)

310 I'm in the Let Trump Cook camp.

He's cooking meth

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 05:34 PM (a6PrB)

311 Is baby Shah just a bullshitter or is someone restraining him from calling for the uprising?
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 05:16 PM (4NO2D)
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The United States government decided against calling for an uprising of the Iranian people or any other action that could overthrow the Islamic Republic, instead preferring a strategy of negotiations over regime change. Whether this will remain the strategy, in light of its manifest failure, is the question.

Posted by: Vantz Kant Dantz at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (dcuI7)

312 @312 Clinton promised to defend Ukraine if they would give up the nuclear weapons left over from the Soviet era. We know what Clinton's word is worth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (sMkB+)

313 I have to concede that there have been more sorties flown than have been publicized as they did when the mother of all bombing was done in the gulf war air campaign.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:37 PM (KC5Lt)

314 Kennan between 1937-1953ish really was a sort of prodigy-savant. That was his era. After that he's just a thin-skinned prickly pear looking down at mere mortals via gilt Princeton bifocals.

Posted by: 13times at July 22, 2026 05:40 PM (fnZRl)

315 Regarding Iran, POTUS does not have much credibility at this point.

Posted by: pooklord at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (9MAOs)

316 Operation Kosovo lasted 78 days.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 05:42 PM (KC5Lt)

317 If Russia is providing targeting information, we need to provide same type of intel to Ukraine.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:35 PM (N1tpc)

We have been doing that since 2022.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)

318 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2026 05:58 PM (vTZFs)

319 Or we could pull out of NATO and reach an agreement with Russia.
Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 05:28 PM (TN0g+)

Insane. Then they'll just go to war, and we wouldn't be able to get our boys in the game !!!
Posted by: DigiTech at July 22, 2026 05:29 PM (zqvFx)

We can stay in NATO and reach an agreement with Russia. They are not exclusive.

Besides I don't trust the EU with any weapons without a cutout.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:00 PM (uhVAy)

320 So the more you use, the more than go down for maintenance. Calling a halt preserves the illusion that everything is just peachy while in fact we catch our breath.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

And stockpiling munitions. We don't typically drop a lot of advanced ordnance, so our industrial base needs time (and money) to spin up to meet demand when we start bombing the shit of a large nation over an extended period of time.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 22, 2026 05:27 PM (5+LQ2)

We also wasted a lot of munitions arming Ukraine that have not been completely replaced, much less in stock for a huge war in Iran.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:02 PM (uhVAy)

321 I agree with this. I mostly refrain from commenting much on threads such as this, but I think Iran is suffering far more damage than the media and pundits will ever admit. Iran is the angry drunk who gets a beating but refuses to stop.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 22, 2026 05:23 PM (0aYVJ)

They are, but by nature the IGRC bigwigs and the elites are more insolated from the effects. They only need one truckload of liquor, fancy food, and recreational drugs to be happy for a while, which can come in one diplomatic shipment. The people on the ground take the hurt.

This is the issue those wanting sanctions to pressure naitons miss. You aren't even pretending to hit the leadership.

At least this campaign is taking shots at the leaders repeatedly which may get their attention.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

322 @312 Clinton promised to defend Ukraine if they would give up the nuclear weapons left over from the Soviet era. We know what Clinton's word is worth
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 05:35 PM (sMkB+)

They couldn't use them anyhow, Russia had the arming codes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)

323 A not-insignificant percentage of me would laugh my ass off seeing Russian T80's parked in Trafagar Square.

Probably the only people who could stop the muslim rape gangs are the Red Army who are the true experts.
Posted by: sifty boones at July 22, 2026 05:30 PM (/QJKp)

The EU should just hire Russian troops to do it, then send them home when it is done.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)

324 However, he's also saying that "next week" he will hit all of their bridges and power plants, unless -- sigh -- they agree to negotiate.

*******

I would prefer it be "until they agree to surrender."

Posted by: EFG at July 22, 2026 06:18 PM (NrP4p)

325 They invaded American soil in 1979. After 47 years, make Iran Hiroshima.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 22, 2026 09:52 PM (YVvS/)

WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham: Keep Men Out of Girls Sports

Sophie Cunningham is a teammate of Caitlin Clark on whatever team they play for, which I assume is the Iowa Cornholers. That's probably not right but no one's going to contradict me because no one wants to admit they know the teams of the WNBA.

She became a meme when she pointed out the thug who'd committed a flagrant foul on her teammate.

Like Caitlin Clark, she is hated and gets hard-fouled a lot because she's white, straight, and pretty in a league dominated by black lesbians.

This isn't going to endear her any further to the Rainbow Racists of the league: She says that girls sports should be reserved for -- this is going to sound a little convoluted but stick with me -- girls.

She says she has nothing against trannies and isn't even political. But, she says, along with showing love, she must also tell the truth.

The ongoing debate over trans athletes' participation in the sports category of their chosen gender has once again reached the WNBA, as Iowa Cornholers guard Sophie Cunningham has joined one side of the hot-button issue.

Oh, so it was the Iowa Cornholers.

In a wide-ranging profile from ESPN's Hallie Grossman, Cunningham, one of the league's most polarizing and recognized players, spoke on her perceived political beliefs because of "what she looks like and where she's from."
Cunningham seemed to deny she is affiliated with the "MAGA" movement after her "MAGA Barbie" nickname went viral. She recently downplayed the White House specifically using her viral pointing meme in a social media post.
However, this latest controversy stems from Cunningham sharing her support in the ESPN profile for the idea that athletes should participate in the gendered sport of their birth, not the one they choose post-transition.
"She'll weigh in on how to 'protect women's sports,"' she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified to speak to that world," Grossman wrote in her profile.
Cunningham added in the profile, "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,' ... I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men.
"I'm very much in the middle [politically]. I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that's all I've ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume."

Sophie Cunningham: "I want to protect young girls in a locker room and young girls who shouldn't have to go against biological men"
pic.twitter.com/DEX1Z68Jet
— Defiant L�s (@DefiantLs) July 22, 2026

Good news: More female athletes are standing up to the Rainbow Mafia.

They taped maps in our hallways telling girls where else to go. We were expected to perform humiliation rituals so the adults wouldn�t have to make a decision. Then they hired lawyers to make our case disappear.

Yesterday, I decided to once again confront my school board. pic.twitter.com/s6v2HlYcvb
— Ella Frei (@EllaFrei17) July 21, 2026

This isn't going to help her with that "MAGA Barbie" attack line.

pic.twitter.com/52eM169tSa
— Tony Alexander (@GrandPappyT7) July 22, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:28 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (2YhKe)

2 \o/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (6ydKt)

3 Cunningham will soon be Caitlyn Clark'd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (2YhKe)

4 the Indiana Somethings

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)

5 Like Caitlin Clark, she is hated and gets hard-fouled a lot because she's white, straight, and pretty in a league dominated by black lesbians.

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Objection.

Clark is a Waffle House 4.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (vbx7B)

6 wait the MUDSHARKS?!?!

that's not real right?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)

7 Sophie Cunningham is a teammate of Caitlin Clark on whatever team they play for, which I assume is the Iowa Cornholers. That's probably not right but no one's going to contradict me because no one wants to admit they know the teams of the WNBA.

To be fair, Ace, that was the college team Clark played for.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

8 Fever

Posted by: Jaimo at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (2noDb)

9 I'm shaking. Pointing is literally white supremacy.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (SB5L+)

10 Ace she held a round card for a UFC fight a week or so ago. Might want to find that video for the lads.

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (YwEeS)

11 When you try to stand in the middle of the road you're going to get run over. Pick a side Sophie and own it. Don't try to appease the mentally ill.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (KC5Lt)

12 Sophie rocks!

good for her

she had to deal with on-court bullying probably her whole youth bball career. I've seen those tourneys when we were over in the genteel indoor field hockey side.

it was ROUGH

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (j+aD2)

13 I want to protect Sofia Vergara in the locker room. Including her right to keep her phone in her bra.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (q/hOL)

14 The WNBA has gotten attention in the wider culture 3 times:

1) When a WNBA tranny was arrested in Russia for being a pot head

2) When Clark got mauled by a she-beast for being too good at b-ball

3) Cunningham pointing at some asshole.

If they wanted to actually get eyeballs you'd think they'd lean into #3 since it is the only news item that isn't horrible.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

15 wait the MUDSHARKS?!?!

that's not real right?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)
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Isn't that a minor league baseball team in Toledo?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)

16 Is this about soccer?

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS)

17 I like Sophie. But she is no Ella Langley with regards to her face.

Posted by: Chicago Aldermen at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (qFwJc)

18 Sophie is a Mizzou grad. The women there are as pretty now as they were in my time. (Married to one 40 years now.)

Posted by: RS at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (GYx3d)

19 Iowa Mudsharks? Lol.

Indiana, I think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (zZu0s)

20 The left: It is horrible how bigoted MLB players treated Jackie Robinson

Also the left: Caitlan Clark deserved to get her shit f*cked up. Doesn't she know this isn't a league for hetero white girls?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

21 Sophie Cunningham is a teammate of Caitlin Clark on whatever team they play for, which I assume is the Iowa Cornholers.

That Mascot ... man, I dunno'.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (q/hOL)

22 Mudsharks is better than Fargo Fingerbangers

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (YwEeS)

23 14 The WNBA has gotten attention in the wider culture 3 times:

1) When a WNBA tranny was arrested in Russia for being a pot head

2) When Clark got mauled by a she-beast for being too good at b-ball

3) Cunningham pointing at some asshole.

If they wanted to actually get eyeballs you'd think they'd lean into #3 since it is the only news item that isn't horrible.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

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Or, the WNBA knows it will never actually be self-sufficient, never more than a welfare case suckling off the more successful NBA, and those in charge are simply interested in protecting their fiefdom than expanding the brand because expanding the brand can never go far enough because the appetite for professional female sports will never be more than a curio in need of subsidy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:33 PM (vbx7B)

24 I wish some franchise would assemble a team of trannies to lay waste to every other team for 60 games and the Booker Prize or whatever it is you win for being the best WNBA team. That would get some people's minds right.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:33 PM (SB5L+)

25 14 You forgot the dildos being thrown on the courts

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:33 PM (YwEeS)

26 I want to protect Sofia Vergara in the locker room. Including her right to keep her phone in her bra.
Posted by: Memory Man
.......

and cash.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 03:33 PM (UjdFS)

27 Sophie is cute enough but it's mile long legs that make her stand out above the rest. And she likes to show them off in her pre-game outfits.

One of the reasons I like reading Outkick is because they always post her pre-game photos.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:33 PM (KC5Lt)

28 However, this latest controversy stems from Cunningham sharing her support in the ESPN profile for the idea that athletes should participate in the gendered sport of their ~~birth~~ CONCEPTION, not the one they choose post-transition.

Trust the science, people.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (N39Ws)

29 If they wanted to actually get eyeballs you'd think they'd lean into #3 since it is the only news item that isn't horrible.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

You forgot dildo tossing.

-2 points and forfeiture of Moron Rank.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

30 I really couldn't care less about men in women's sports.

Stop plying children with hormone blockers and castrating them.

And drag every doctor that performed such medical experiments out and give them a Nuremberg Trial.

Posted by: Reckoning at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (BCWUp)

31 Disappointingly they both wore the " Pay Us What We Are Worth" or whatever jerseys

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (YwEeS)

32 I wish some franchise would assemble a team of trannies to lay waste to every other team for 60 games and the Booker Prize or whatever it is you win for being the best WNBA team.

The tranny the Russians arrested is a below average player in the league.

I'm guessing the NBA has so much more money coming in being in the NBA minor leagues is still better then starting on a WNBA team

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

33 Mudsharks is better than Fargo Fingerbangers
Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (YwEeS)

-1 for not using Fargo FingerBlasters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

34 Like Caitlin Clark, she is hated and gets hard-fouled a lot because she's white, straight, and pretty in a league dominated by black lesbians.

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Objection.

Clark is a Waffle House 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (vbx7B)
_______

Which means she's a WNBA 9?

She's not as pretty as Sophie, but she's at least presentable. If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

35 She's being smeared with the MAGA label because she's for common sense?

What does that really say?

Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (T7fic)

36 You forgot dildo tossing.

Isn't that a new summer Olympics sport as well? I hear the Greek women, especially the ones from Lesvos are expected to win

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

37 Damn, harsh judgements.

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (YwEeS)

38 32 I wish some franchise would assemble a team of trannies to lay waste to every other team for 60 games and the Booker Prize or whatever it is you win for being the best WNBA team.

The tranny the Russians arrested is a below average player in the league.

I'm guessing the NBA has so much more money coming in being in the NBA minor leagues is still better then starting on a WNBA team

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

=====

One only must assert one's female gender to be female.

Hire the Lakers' second string and just have them say that they're female.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (vbx7B)

39 31 Disappointingly they both wore the " Pay Us What We Are Worth" or whatever jerseys
Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (YwEeS)

Is that wise ? What they're worth ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (5gObE)

40 Lots of attention paid to biological males who want to play on girls teams. How come no attention paid to biological girls who want to play on boys teams?

Shouldn't the boys teams be forced to field biological female players to even things out?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (QGaXH)

41 Isn't that a minor league baseball team in Toledo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)
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That's Cpl. Klinger's beloved Mud Hens.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (amcLV)

42 There are three other professional women's basketball leagues ( why I don't understand) and Clark and Cunningham should dump the WNBA and join one of them. The money is just as good or better:

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (KC5Lt)

43 If you walked into a party full of WNBA players Cunningham would catch your eye. Clark would look like an average young woman. But you'd see plenty of she-beasts and a couple of non-passing trannies too...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

44 Crazy this is considered controversial.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (Dd38x)

45 >>that's not real right?!?!

no, I screwed up. First I claimed it was the Iowa Mudsharks then I changed it to Cornholers but I missed that one mention of the Mudsharks.

It's the Indiana Fever.

Posted by: ace at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

46 40 Lots of attention paid to biological males who want to play on girls teams. How come no attention paid to biological girls who want to play on boys teams?

Shouldn't the boys teams be forced to field biological female players to even things out?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (QGaXH)

Tanned, rested and ready!
--Triggly Puff

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (N39Ws)

47
Poor Sophia isn't allowed to take a stand on an issue that directly affects her without both sides pouncing to either claim her or denounce her. Just let her be a single- issue activist. I'm not going to demand that she present other MAGA credentials.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (mmrXZ)

48 It’s obvious this is some female jealousy gone wild because the WNBA has never been as popular as it is right now thanks to Clark and now Cunningham.

The blesbians want to seriously injure the only two players the vast majority of Americans know the names of.

They will probably eventually hurt Caitlin Clark bad enough that she’s forced to retire and then nobody will care about the league, again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

49 So someone has a fever for cornholing?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

50 The money is just as good or better:
Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (KC5Lt)

I suspect it's because they do not have the tits for women's golf or tennis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

51 34 Which means she's a WNBA 9?

She's not as pretty as Sophie, but she's at least presentable. If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

====

I mean, that's fair.

Still, Survivor has many more hotties.

https://tinyurl.com/zajdstub

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (vbx7B)

52 Indiana Fever.

I know it because it has been fun making the black lesbians of the WNBA realize that whenever that team plays in your home arena you will have the best attendance of the year as one white, heterosexual, woman does more to boost your sport's visibility in a year or two, than all of you combined have done over all of your careers.

She got you a bigger paycheck this go round, and you thank her by trying to beat the snot out of her.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (7/DDO)

53 I used to think Rush Limbaugh's line about feminism being started by ugly women to access the social privileges enjoyed by pretty women (or something, I forget the exact wording) was hyperbole to be funny and make a point, but the more I see the more true it seems literally true. Sophie Cunningham is like Exhibit Z at this point.

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (6RyaQ)

54 Actually stunning and brave. Because the rest of her sport will attack her for it. (But they already attack her for being white and pretty, so it's probably no change.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (N1tpc)

55 The Left loves sucking in various groups to victimize other groups and then victimizing each group in turn. It's wild when you see it.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (SB5L+)

56
no, I screwed up. First I claimed it was the Iowa Mudsharks then I changed it to Cornholers but I missed that one mention of the Mudsharks.

It's the Indiana Fever.
Posted by: ace at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

Clark's college team was the Iowa Cornholers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

57 It's a good thing that trans people are so well-adapted and mentally healthy. Otherwise, I would fear for Ms. Cunningham's safety.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (CwhoI)

58 That young girl made very salient reasonable logical points. She'll surely get an F in debate class.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (n5tGW)

59 43 If you walked into a party full of WNBA players Cunningham would catch your eye. Clark would look like an average young woman. But you'd see plenty of she-beasts and a couple of non-passing trannies too...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

Choose your wingman wisely. You'll owe him afterwards.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (N39Ws)

60 I could go to my YMCA right now and pick 4 guys from the A league and we could beat any WNBA team.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (KC5Lt)

61 willowed:

SPCX is 116. Do you think Elon is going to fail?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (+UcOf)

62 So someone has a fever for cornholing?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

Guilty as charged!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (2YhKe)

63 Cunningham seemed to deny she is affiliated with the "MAGA" movement after her "MAGA Barbie" nickname went viral.

I understand that saying you're not affiliated makes sense from a marketing perspective but if she's not MAGA then she's an idiot since the other side will never rest in their efforts to take her down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (ExV1e)

64
There are three other professional women's basketball leagues ( why I don't understand) and Clark and Cunningham should dump the WNBA and join one of them. The money is just as good or better:
Posted by: polynikes

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

The other 3 leagues are probably just as ghetto.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (mmrXZ)

65
Toledo MudHENS.

It's like, if you get sent down, you have double the shame.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (Y8DZL)

66 Is that wise ? What they're worth ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (5gObE)

20 bucks, same as in town

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (SB5L+)

67 They need to just put on chainmail bikinis and get it on at this point. C'mon, do I have to program the next 3 month of this shit, or what?

Posted by: weft cut-Milieus at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (diia5)

68 I noticed the WNBA did not take up the charity game against a HS boys team. They knew they would be utterly embarrassed.

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (YwEeS)

69 Poor Sophia isn't allowed to take a stand on an issue that directly affects her without both sides pouncing to either claim her or denounce her.

Vergara ? I stand with Sophia Vergara. Well ... behind her. Next to her. Under her. Whatever. Close.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:40 PM (q/hOL)

70 It bothers me that this kid has to add the caveat of "nothing but love" for trans people. Why does someone have to have "nothing but love"? I had intense apathy for them until the last few years and now I have open disdain, which I think is a perfectly reasonable position to take. I refuse to pretend I like a group of people whose narcissistic attention seeking compels them to bully the rest of society.

Posted by: UGAdawg at July 22, 2026 03:40 PM (sGroZ)

71 67 They need to just put on chainmail bikinis and get it on at this point. C'mon, do I have to program the next 3 month of this shit, or what?

Posted by: weft cut-Milieus at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (diia5)

======

Tangential:

I reviewed One Million Years BC today!

https://tinyurl.com/35t2up2e

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:40 PM (vbx7B)

72 Get her a harry potter wand!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 03:40 PM (NnhvP)

73 do I have to program the next 3 month of this shit, or what?
Posted by: weft cut-Milieus

Well, you’re off to a great start.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 22, 2026 03:40 PM (5k0TE)

74
SPCX is 116. Do you think Elon is going to fail?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (+UcOf)

NO

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (5gObE)

75 I wish some franchise would assemble a team of trannies to lay waste to every other team for 60 games and the Booker Prize or whatever it is you win for being the best WNBA team. That would get some people's minds right.
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:33 PM (SB5L+)
_______

The problem is the WNBA isn't a sports league as that term is usually understood. It's not a bunch of teams hungry to win because that brings pride and money. There's very little incentive to win or even improve the experience for fans.

The entire WNBA is a big LARPing circle-jerk that doesn't even rise to the level of "competition" in professional wrestling. It's a giant parasitic mass of sloppy gay goop that's sole purpose is to give ugly, undesirable, barely-skilled, angry black lesbians a platform to hate MAGA and white people and eat each other's twats.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

76 I could go for Sophie but she would have to put that finger away first.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (SB5L+)

77 I am an ordinary looking guy. If Sophie smiled at me, I would be smitten.

If Ella Langley smiled at me, I would think I died and went to heaven.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (qFwJc)

78 The WNBA Champion from last year wouldn't score 30 against a 5A Texas state champion.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (2YhKe)

79 The Left loves sucking in various groups to victimize other groups and then victimizing each group in turn. It's wild when you see it.
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (SB5L+)
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The victimizers have smaller victimizers
Upon their backs to bite 'em
And those victimizers have smaller victimizers
And so on, ad infinitum.

May need a little work.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (amcLV)

80 The other 3 leagues are probably just as ghetto.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 03:39 PM (mmrXZ)

Not really ( it would be hard to do) . One that was getting higher attendance is the 3 on 3 league. Very popular. I think they offered Clark a million dollar a year contract.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (KC5Lt)

81 I am saddened by her not ceding BIPOC spaces...

Posted by: sven at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (Int1s)

82 "wait the MUDSHARKS?!?!"

A portmanteau reference to Frank Zappa and Led Zeppelin! Well done!

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (GMWTj)

83 So I hate to admit I know this ... but Clark isn't TOTALLY getting her ass kicked because she's white.

Becaus Paige Bueckers isn't getting her ass kicked. But she's also out and proud that she's a lesbian. Got her girlfriend on her team as well. And her girlfriend is either black or mixed. But certainly not white.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (q/hOL)

84 There’s no such thing as a transgendered woman.

It’s a mentally ill guy in a party house wig and a dress.

Murders of doctors and psychiatrists and parents who encouraged this crap is going to increase exponentially in the next few years.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (Hp7o4)

85 eat each other's twats.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

I bet attendence would go way up if they just did that.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (PjoLk)

86 Iowa Cornholers

Denver Dildoes
Seattle Scissorers
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)

87 What arrangement allows Earlene 747 Brown to play power forward for every WNBA team?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (2ap+5)

88 Tiger Woods was embraced by his (mostly white) fellow PGA Tour pros because they realized tour prize money was about to increase substantially. The rasist black 'tards in the WNBA don't appreciate the money and attention that a handfull of white girls have brought to the league.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (rJ48h)

89 I'm shaking. Pointing is literally white supremacy.
Posted by: ...
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Do a search for 'Statue pointing'. There, that proves it...unless... there wasn't much statuary produced in Africa.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (XeU6L)

90 86 Iowa Cornholers

Denver Dildoes
Seattle Scissorers
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)

Chicago Carpetmunchers

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)

91 Well, you’re off to a great start.
Posted by: Kratwurst

"And then the Chinese Maiden Brigade invades Colorado ..."

Posted by: weft cut-Milius at July 22, 2026 03:44 PM (diia5)

92 Wmba can't handle HS referees, the wnba would foul out in the first 3 mins.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 03:44 PM (NnhvP)

93 Sophie Cunningham looked pretty good at the UFC: https://tinyurl.com/mryfp9fn

Dana White talked about it...apparently it was kind of an impromptu thing. She said it would be fun to do, and he said let's do it now.

Like Caitlin Clark, she is hated and gets hard-fouled a lot because she's white, straight, and pretty in a league dominated by black lesbians.

ANGRY black lesbians. Sophie and Caitlin are always smiling, happy, and not just when being praised or hurting their enemies (unlike the Left). I guess enjoying life is also white/pretty privilege (although Clark is no beauty).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2026 03:44 PM (5+LQ2)

94 88 Tiger Woods was embraced by his (mostly white) fellow PGA Tour pros because they realized tour prize money was about to increase substantially. The rasist black 'tards in the WNBA don't appreciate the money and attention that a handfull of white girls have brought to the league.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (rJ48h)

=======

White people embraced mixed race Tiger Woods because they are racist.

Black people hate Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham and try to hurt them because they are not racist.

Science, bitches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:44 PM (vbx7B)

95 So if the Denver Dildos player against the Rochester Rugmunchers who wins?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

96
By the way, is that girl right? SCOTUS ruling on Title IX left that gender identity shyte up to the states?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 03:45 PM (mmrXZ)

97 95 So if the Denver Dildos player against the Rochester Rugmunchers who wins?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

define play...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:45 PM (l3cgK)

98 The rasist black 'tards in the WNBA don't appreciate the money and attention that a handfull of white girls have brought to the league.

No. Because selling tickets has NEVER been a part of their existence. They played College for a subsidized sport. Hell ... they played in High School for a subsidized sport.

Here's what many don't understand about Ball Players. Especially Chic Ball Players. The vast majority of them do not understand that its just Entertainment.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:45 PM (q/hOL)

99 Whatever. Female athletes are all Communists anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (BI5O2)

100 So I hate to admit I know this ... but Clark isn't TOTALLY getting her ass kicked because she's white.

Becaus Paige Bueckers isn't getting her ass kicked. But she's also out and proud that she's a lesbian. Got her girlfriend on her team as well. And her girlfriend is either black or mixed. But certainly not white.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (q/hOL)

There are other white hetero players that aren't getting the Clark treatment. Why?

Because they're not the best player the league has ever seen and isn't getting all the national attention and pub.

They hate Clark first and foremost because she's a corn fed white girl from middle America who likes men and brought world attention to the league.

They WANTED Angel Reese to be the next one.

But, she sucks in a BIG WAY at basketball.

Clark owes the league a hasty departure to another league, be that Ice Cube's 3 on 3 league or a Euro league team.

She should moon them on the way out the door.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (2YhKe)

101 61 willowed:

SPCX is 116. Do you think Elon is going to fail?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:38 PM (+UcOf)
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I've gotta see a couple of earning reports, get past lockup periods, and watch a successful Starship launch and recovery before I dip my toes into the water.

Posted by: WisRich at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

102 FFS.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (2YhKe)

103 eat each other's twats.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

I bet attendence would go way up if they just did that.
Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (PjoLk)
____________

[Adopts "The Thinker" pose]

-- WNBA executives

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

104 "Plays for the other team" has taken on a new connotation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (XeU6L)

105 Sophie Cunningham was the field goal kicker on her high school football team.

And homecoming queen.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (P5V7X)

106 39 31 Disappointingly they both wore the " Pay Us What We Are Worth" or whatever jerseys
Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 03:34 PM (YwEeS)

Is that wise ? What they're worth ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 03:36 PM (5gObE)

Well....in compliance with applicable minimum wage laws, of course.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (QGaXH)

107 I am pro-white girls playing professional basketball, if that's what they want to do.

I remain unsure why, because I played HS basketball but did not have to contend with trannies. I did, however, have to deal with girls who played hard to win and were elbowing my eyeballs and stuff like that.

To my coach's irritation I would let the bigger girl have the ball if it was a tie ball. Another shiner was not worth it (I had two), nor was a jammed knuckle (I don't know how many of those I had).

I played because he made me, our coach. Because I was on the taller side of 5'8" with a great vertical jump.

I did not want to play. I did not want to dribble into crowds of girls to the goal, so I had an outside shot vs all the drama. I shot free throws fine.

I also did not wear my glasses anywhere but in class to see the backboard, so my shots were an accomplishment and nothing but net and two points. Then I warmed the bench as I did not want to mess up my hair.

These girls must really, really want to play and rough it up. I did not and often prayed to stay on the bench.

I had odd injuries in practice and a concussion running the lines. I did not have fun.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (hzuYO)

108 Posted by: WisRich at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

That would be a perfect has for a glowie...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:46 PM (l3cgK)

109 Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (q/hOL)

She also bent the knee and frequently acknowledges her white privilege. She's your insufferable BLM supporting woke white girl.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (KC5Lt)

110 hash, not has...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (l3cgK)

111 Ella Langley is so hot she could make me love country music for at least 3 or 4 minutes at a time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (6ydKt)

112 Tiger Woods was embraced by his (mostly white) fellow PGA Tour pros because they realized tour prize money was about to increase substantially. The rasist black 'tards in the WNBA don't appreciate the money and attention that a handfull of white girls have brought to the league.
Posted by: mr tmz at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (rJ48h)

You've never seen Tiger Woods with a black chick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (2YhKe)

113 The WNBA Champion from last year wouldn't score 30 against a 5A Texas state champion.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (2YhKe)
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My understanding is that in women's college basketball the men they scrimmage against are not allowed to block the lady's shots.

If the men try on defense they would be lucky to score 20 or maybe even 10.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (7/DDO)

114 =====

One only must assert one's female gender to be female.
Hire the Lakers' second string and just have them say that they're female.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror
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They could wear feather boas and fox tails.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:48 PM (+UcOf)

115 113 My understanding is that in women's college basketball the men they scrimmage against are not allowed to block the lady's shots.

If the men try on defense they would be lucky to score 20 or maybe even 10.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (7/DDO)

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My elder brother worked for the University of Tennessee athletic department through college, on the AV side (he owns a successful film production and editing company in NYC now).

One of the things he did was film the ladies' basketball practices. This was right about the time the team was top of the pack in college basketball.

They scrimmaged against the male team. The men were not allowed to run or jump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:48 PM (vbx7B)

116 I coached my daughters' teams in 4th and 5th grade. Hilarity ensued on teaching the basics. You get past the we gotta win mentality pretty quick and just hope you didn't mess up when a little girl asked you to tighten her ponytail.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:49 PM (n5tGW)

117 There are other white hetero players that aren't getting the Clark treatment. Why?

Because they're not the best player the league has ever seen and isn't getting all the national attention and pub.

They hate Clark first and foremost because she's a corn fed white girl from middle America who likes men and brought world attention to the league.

Get it together. First its NOT because she's a straight white girl ... and then you mention she's a straight white girl.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (q/hOL)

118 I saw Has For a Glowie open for Men Without Has back in 1982

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (SB5L+)

119 Seen lots of videos of Sophie, she seems to be a lot of fun to hang out with.

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

120 Objection.

Clark is a Waffle House 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (vbx7B)
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She's a WNBA 3,000.

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (3BwY8)

121
She's not as pretty as Sophie, but she's at least presentable. If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

Clark cleans up pretty well, although no one would mistake her for a Slavic supermodel. Her best feature is her beaming smile.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (y9nCu)

122 Clark is Emmanuel Goldstein.

She is the object of hate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (vbx7B)

123 They could wear feather boas and fox tails.

Don't make this about me.

Posted by: Dennis Rodman at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (n5tGW)

124 Did less than a year in Russian prison, though was sentenced to nine years. One year for each inch of my lady boner.

Posted by: Brittney Griner at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (q2NNn)

125 Shouldn't the boys teams be forced to field biological female players to even things out?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
____________

I'd bet there are a few chicks out there that could play baseball at the small college level.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)

126
They scrimmaged against the male team. The men were not allowed to run or jump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:48 PM (vbx7B)

In high school, our girls varsity team was on its way to the playoffs. They needed a tougher practice than against themselves, so they ran drills against my JV squad.

We never scrimmaged nor did we ever run the full floor. It was always 1/2 court and they ran their offense from a dead ball start.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (2YhKe)

127 just hope you didn't mess up when a little girl asked you to tighten her ponytail.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:49 PM (n5tGW)

I don’t have the tool for that. Zip ties?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (2jWk3)

128 I saw Has For a Glowie open for Men Without Has back in 1982
Posted by: ...

Men Without Has is so overrated.

Posted by: weft cut-Milius at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (diia5)

129 The Fargo Fartclams

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (NtVYv)

130 83 Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:42 PM (q/hOL)

She is white and straight and beloved by idiot soccer moms...the combination is poison to the butchs...as I said when she was choke slammed: 1) She bent the knee, and went Stockholm Syndrome....
She speaks of her privilege, consequently she should perhaps cede BIPOC spaces and allow them comfort or something...it's complicated.

2) Eh, they were quite content to be the NBA's welfare program....everyone gets everything they want it seems: 1) CC gets to be crippled for racial justice, 2) the Butchs get to "protect our space" as they neigh, and 3) The WNBA gets to return to absolute irrelevance.

Caiti wants to "compete" while she acknowledges privilege...okay honey you support systemic systemism narratives for normies in the real world enjoy the chokeslams...

Posted by: sven at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (Int1s)

131 I've never liked trannies, but I've always been in favor of destroying Title IX sports.

I don't particularly care who does it.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (BI5O2)

132
Again, Caitlyn Clarke is this generation's Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm.

This is just a ploy to raise WNBA attendance from 50 relatives per game to 500 people with sick curiosity.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (Y8DZL)

133
Get it together. First its NOT because she's a straight white girl ... and then you mention she's a straight white girl.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (q/hOL)

Her being white is VERY important, however its because she's the best ever AND white.

That pisses them off to the highest level.

If you can't see that, that's not my fault.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (2YhKe)

134 Sophie Cunningham looked pretty good at the UFC: https://tinyurl.com/mryfp9fn

Dana White talked about it...apparently it was kind of an impromptu thing. She said it would be fun to do, and he said let's do it now.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2026 03:44 PM (5+LQ2)
________

I once was a small investor in a local MMA league. I was at a match at St Paul at the Hall with a date. She looked at the ring card girls and said "that would be fun, I'd like to do that." I joked and said "well, I am part owner."

She got up right then and there, walked over to the ring card girls, and the next thing I know, she's in the ring with the card announcing the round.

That girl had serious balls, for both good and bad.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

135 She also bent the knee and frequently acknowledges her white privilege. She's your insufferable BLM supporting woke white girl.
Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:47 PM (KC5Lt)

And she really is a pain in the ass. Kind of McEnroe, if McEnroe was a chic.

She's easy not to like. Yet ... you shouldn't get to just beat her ass every day. And its that complexity that makes it impossible for most people to wrap their heads around.

It can be both. The WNBA is a bunch of entitled cunts. And she's an insufferable bitch.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (q/hOL)

136 The St Louis Snizz

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (NtVYv)

137 Carried over:

9 "IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which is completely controlled by Democrats, to verify eligibility to vote."

Interesting. I suspect in the past, most software companies would have just taken the fall for this, because everyone knows that sometimes things go wrong with software.

The company refusing to take the blame here seems to be a change.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (vJrRc)

For sure it means that they see Pres. Trump as strong and Gov. Sherill as weak. Maybe they're proud, and feel empowered to stick up for themselves and their reputation; maybe they're shameless but have some things to hide, and fear a Federal investigation more than NJ state retaliation. Either would lead to the observed behavior.

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (Sy6m/)

138 Sioux Falls Slutbags

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (lc8yo)

139 The WNBA needs to up its game from green dildos to purple vibrators. It's like a red card in soccer with benefits.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (sYM3s)

140 Clark is real life marriage material is you are into rich doormats. I like the rich part, the doormat part makes me question the parents.

Posted by: connected and litigious at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (cS1cw)

141 Sophie is adorable and smiles a lot. I could hide under her skirt

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (NtVYv)

142 I'd bet there are a few chicks out there that could play baseball at the small college level.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8

I would have to disagree but admittedly I like to watch women's fast pitch more than men's baseball.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (KC5Lt)

143 there's a "death by snu snu" meme in here somewhere.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (Iwv3U)

144 Shouldn't the boys teams be forced to field biological female players to even things out?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
____________

I'd bet there are a few chicks out there that could play baseball at the small college level.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)
==
It would seem maybe they could, but the ability to create the bat speed necessary to hit a 90MPH + hardball would be a limiter. Could probably handle 2nd base on D. Or if they were tall enough 1st.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (7/DDO)

145
Salt Lake Sapphists

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (O0L8i)

146 I ran the scoreboard for the JR high where all the girls HS basketball was played. The audience was always whipped boyfriends and family. I doubt I ever saw more that 40 people in the stands. And damn was it boring. Really hard to stay awake.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (PjoLk)

147 The Northern Michigan Smells Like Tunas

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (2YhKe)

148 She's not as pretty as Sophie, but she's at least presentable. If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Great news just in...
You won't be required to do either!

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (q6tQZ)

149 I always called a mom down from the stands for that stuff.

None of that helped with the dribbling ability. or the fouls. Man those girls had fouling down pat. Just take off at full speed and slam them to get the ball.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (n5tGW)

150 I ran the scoreboard for the JR high where all the girls HS basketball was played. The audience was always whipped boyfriends and family. I doubt I ever saw more that 40 people in the stands. And damn was it boring. Really hard to stay awake.
Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (PjoLk)

Smells like teen spirit

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (NtVYv)

151 I'd have a hard time admitting I played for a team called "Cornholers" let alone in the WNBA. If I was a woman, and played basketball.

Which I'm not. And don't.

*shrugs*

But her and Clark oughta' double team some of the thugs and lay them out cold. At this point it's just a circus anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (jehhT)

152 Clay Travis is still offering a wager that the best WNBA team couldn't compete with a male high school team of his choice. He said if the WNBA team won, he would give that team $1 Million to divide however they wished, but if the boys high school team won, the WNBA team would have to cough up $1 Million to donate to boy's high school athletics.

The response was a resounding silence except for one player (whose name I forget). She called Travis a "dumbass." That bet has been out there for nearly 2 years with no WNBA team takers.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (dIske)

153
I would have to disagree but admittedly I like to watch women's fast pitch more than men's baseball.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (KC5Lt)

____________

Admit it. You just like the view from the center field camera.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (O0L8i)

154 Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (fYhK6)

Woah.....that's close to MY hash there.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:56 PM (2YhKe)

155 Oooo.

Ridley Scott seems to have gotten a greenlight on his next movie (The Dog Stars releases end of next month, so the one after that).

Big budget adaptation of Treasure Island starring Hugh Jackman (assume he'll play Long John Silver).

Scott has said that all previous adaptations have gotten it wrong, so expect expensive, filled with fog, and a bit meaner than Muppet Treasure Island.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:56 PM (vbx7B)

156 Sophie did an impromptu ring girl appearance at the last UFC fight. Speaking of fights, she is also hated because she fights back, on and off the court.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 22, 2026 03:56 PM (QaH55)

157 139 The WNBA needs to up its game from green dildos to purple vibrators. It's like a red card in soccer with benefits.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (sYM3s)

The Vegas Vibrators

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (l3cgK)

158 That girl had serious balls, for both good and bad.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

Were they droopy ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (NtVYv)

159 That girl had serious balls, for both good and bad.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

I always figured you dug chicks with dicks.

Posted by: Sigmund Freud at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (l4RKn)

160 She's not as pretty as Sophie, but she's at least presentable. If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

Clark cleans up pretty well, although no one would mistake her for a Slavic supermodel. Her best feature is her beaming smile.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 03:50 PM (y9nCu)
______

Yea. She's no beauty, but she's presentable, charismatic, and doesn't look like a mutant scrofa like 90% of the rest of the league. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

161 I would have to disagree but admittedly I like to watch women's fast pitch more than men's baseball.
Posted by: polynikes
__________

I've seen girls that could definitely field well enough to play at that level. Could play second or first where arm strength isn't as important.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)

162 I would have to disagree but admittedly I like to watch women's fast pitch more than men's baseball.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:54 PM (KC5Lt)

____________

Admit it. You just like the view from the center field camera.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 03:55 PM (O0L8i)

Its a lot like BB was in the 19th century.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (uhVAy)

163 Caiti wants to "compete" while she acknowledges privilege...okay honey you support systemic systemism narratives for normies in the real world enjoy the chokeslams...
Posted by: sven at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (Int1s)

About honestly where I'm at with it. She won't fight for herself. If you're getting your throat punched, yet again ? You don't flop on the ground and beg for a foul.

You get your ass up, run full speed, and spear that cunt when her back is turned if you can't whip her face to face. But Clark doesn't have that in her. Because she's got that weird ass "ball-player" mentality that my brother-in-law has. Where things are "different" in the structure of "the game".

I don't get it. Don't want to, either.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (q/hOL)

164 Cleveland Clamclappers

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (3BwY8)

165
Iowa Cornholers

Denver Dildoes
Seattle Scissorers
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)

Green Bay Gap Lappers

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (y9nCu)

166 Yea. She's no beauty, but she's presentable, charismatic, and doesn't look like a mutant scrofa like 90% of the rest of the league. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

And she can make it look like a sport is going on...and not just her, she elevates her teammates with her.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

167 That girl had serious balls, for both good and bad.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

I always figured you dug chicks with dicks.
Posted by: Sigmund Freud at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (l4RKn)
______

[Perks up]

-- Tyler Robinson

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

168 If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

(In deep bass voice) This is about me, isn't it?
https://tinyurl.com/a2cbjzcw

Posted by: Brittney Griner at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (5+LQ2)

169 I'm lucky in that I'm mixed race and have slaves in my ancestry. So I can kick my own ass for it's white privilege at the same time ask for reparations...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (l3cgK)

170
Sacramento Split Tails

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (O0L8i)

171 The Cincinnati Muff Divers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (2YhKe)

172 Objection.

Clark is a Waffle House 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (vbx7B)

If you're one of the dipsh*ts who goes on about AOC's t*ts all the time, you're not allowed to sh*t on normal women.

Overruled.

Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (6+ehB)

173 You get your ass up, run full speed, and spear that cunt when her back is turned if you can't whip her face to face. But Clark doesn't have that in her. Because she's got that weird ass "ball-player" mentality that my brother-in-law has. Where things are "different" in the structure of "the game".

I don't get it. Don't want to, either.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (q/hOL)
------

Kind of like the way ice hockey solved the problem of the smaller, more agile skill players getting blasted by enormous defensemen. Hire some other, more enormous defenseman to hit the ice and whip that dude's ass like a rented mule. Problem solved.

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 04:00 PM (3BwY8)

174 169 I'm lucky in that I'm mixed race and have slaves in my ancestry. So I can kick my own ass for it's white privilege at the same time ask for reparations...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (l3cgK)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 04:00 PM (5gObE)

175 Back in the day - a local sports radio guy here always called her Bill Griner.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:00 PM (q/hOL)

176 172 Objection.

Clark is a Waffle House 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (vbx7B)

If you're one of the dipsh*ts who goes on about AOC's t*ts all the time, you're not allowed to sh*t on normal women.

Overruled.

Posted by: Nelly at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (6+ehB)

=====

Well, I'm not.

I'm the one who kept posting Alexandra Daddario pics a while back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 04:00 PM (vbx7B)

177 168 If The Blade was forced to bang either her or any of the fugly manling dykes in the WNBA, he would not hesitate in his choice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

(In deep bass voice) This is about me, isn't it?
https://tinyurl.com/a2cbjzcw

Posted by: Brittney Griner at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (5+LQ2)

I remember watching "The Crying Game" (not knowing what it was about) and in once scene..."Holy shiite!! She's got a dick!"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (l3cgK)

178 Roanoke Rugmunchers

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (lc8yo)

179 It would seem maybe they could, but the ability to create the bat speed necessary to hit a 90MPH + hardball would be a limiter. Could probably handle 2nd base on D. Or if they were tall enough 1st.
Posted by: Black JEM
_________

There probably aren't that many guys throwing 90+ at the small college level. But they definitely have the reaction time to hit. I'm guessing they have even less in women's fast pitch with the mound being closer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (XvL8K)

180 Again, Caitlyn Clarke is this generation's Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm.

This is just a ploy to raise WNBA attendance from 50 relatives per game to 500 people with sick curiosity.
Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (Y8DZL)

If it were a ploy, the other players would not be trying to maim her every play. And the league would not allow it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (uhVAy)

181 Scott has said that all previous adaptations have gotten it wrong, so expect expensive, filled with fog, and a bit meaner than Muppet Treasure Island.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:56 PM (vbx7B)

Black Sails started out well and then went crazy by the end.

Hopefully Scott’s version of Treasure Island ends better.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (6ydKt)

182 167 That girl had serious balls, for both good and bad.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

I always figured you dug chicks with dicks.
Posted by: Sigmund Freud at July 22, 2026 03:57 PM (l4RKn)
______

[Perks up]

-- Tyler Robinson
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

*detects bulge* oWo whats this?

Posted by: This is my rifle, this is my gun at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (TbWk/)

183 The Bozeman Beavers

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 04:02 PM (NtVYv)

184
Stop letting them force you Left.

You say "I don't want Title IX budget outlays at my school. We prefer actual sports here."

They say " But you're going to have them. Also, a man with a lady dick will teabag your daughter in a locker room, while she pretends to be a baseball pitcher instead of starting a family with an actual baseball pitcher," and you acquiesce as long as they cancel the teabagging part.

Feh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 04:02 PM (BI5O2)

185 "116 I coached my daughters' teams in 4th and 5th grade. Hilarity ensued on teaching the basics."

Daughter played HS here and now plays club and coaches U14 in Europe.

Biggest challenge: Bringing American hoops style and ethos across the pond.

Direct quote from daughter: "European girls are not aggressive enough."

Dad quote: " 'Murica"

Posted by: RS at July 22, 2026 04:02 PM (GYx3d)

186 San Francisco 69 ers

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 04:02 PM (NtVYv)

187 WNBA Lefty Loudmouth: "Males should be able to play women's sports if they identify as a woman."

Loudmouth gets fouled going to the basket by 1989 "Billie" Laimbeer and little "Rickina" Mahorn.

WNBA Lefty Loudmouth: " {silence} "

Well of course she can no longer speak, she is now in an induced coma in the hospital. And her prognosis is bleak.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 22, 2026 04:02 PM (HlyYF)

188 Houston Hottentots

Posted by: Brittney Griner at July 22, 2026 04:03 PM (q2NNn)

189 Forgot to add, above, that while I warmed the bench I also looked good in my uniform and my hair looking great was important, always. Far more important than how many points I made for each game.

My father would come to games and knew I did not care one bit. Once the coach yelled at me that I had a "jug butt" because I was not running fast enough and Daddy loved it vs getting offended for my self-esteem. I ignored the coach, if it was meant to fire me up. I endured HS because it led to my goal of college and freedom.

We had uniforms passed down from whoever had them years before us at our country school. We did not have our names on them nor pick the number but what fit us. Not fancy: dark blue with gold trim. Gym shorts were, well, short.

I do look good in the yearbook photos, so there's that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2026 04:03 PM (hzuYO)

190 That last picture/video Ace posted with Sophie dressed as Uncle Sam gives me Apollo Creed/Rocky, Rocky IV vibes. That's a good thing.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:03 PM (5+LQ2)

191 The left has new target.

It won't be long now until some lefty shit stain trys to harm her

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 22, 2026 04:04 PM (61TgR)

192 191 The left has new target.

It won't be long now until some lefty shit stain trys to harm her

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 22, 2026 04:04 PM (61TgR)

it happens on the court every time she plays.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:04 PM (l3cgK)

193 Sioux Falls Slutbags

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (lc8yo)

LOL

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 04:04 PM (SB5L+)

194 Miami Motorboaters?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:05 PM (l3cgK)

195 What would be the female WNBA equivalent of the "Hanson Brothers" from the movie "Slap Shot"?

I might be convinced to watch a WNBA game if there were players on the court who not only could throw a punch, but were paid to do so.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 04:05 PM (dIske)

196 Memphis Muttonchops

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (sYM3s)

197 135 Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (q/hOL)

I want everyone involved to get what they want....

CC crippled for racial justice, the butchs to neigh in dominance, and the league to slide back to being a welfare case...

Posted by: sven at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (Int1s)

198 Black Sails started out well and then went crazy by the end.

Hopefully Scott’s version of Treasure Island ends better.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:01 PM (6ydKt)

I wanted to like it. I really did. But it went off the rails and stayed there, and they would go multiple episodes with no significant movement in the plot. It turned into a chore to watch, much like TWD. And while I dig naked tavern wenches as much as the next guy, the sex scenes became boring filler material and just weak writing rather than plot points or even competent titillation after awhile.

Posted by: Great idea badly executed at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (TbWk/)

199 Toronto Boob-jays.

Posted by: Rex B at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (OnhE9)

200 190 That last picture/video Ace posted with Sophie dressed as Uncle Sam gives me Apollo Creed/Rocky, Rocky IV vibes. That's a good thing.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:03 PM (5+LQ2)

=======

Other movie tangent.

Peter Farrelly's newest film is I Play Rocky about Sly getting Rocky made. Looks better than Green Book, at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_g_Ut0jO-0

Still, Oscar bait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (vbx7B)

201 Minneapolis Merkins

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (3BwY8)

202 193 Sioux Falls Slutbags

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The Sioux City Slots

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (5+LQ2)

203 The WNBA has gotten attention in the wider culture 3 times:

1) When a WNBA tranny was arrested in Russia for being a pot head

2) When Clark got mauled by a she-beast for being too good at b-ball

3) Cunningham pointing at some asshole.

If they wanted to actually get eyeballs you'd think they'd lean into #3 since it is the only news item that isn't horrible.
==
DUDE!!! YOU COMPLETELY FORGOT THE RAIN OF DILDOS

Posted by: Party Foul at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM (anL5R)

204 193 Sioux Falls Slutbags

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 03:53 PM (lc8yo)

LOL
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 04:04 PM (SB5L+)
__________________

Queensbury Queefs

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske)

205 The Minnesota Mish

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:07 PM (5+LQ2)

206 The Tallahassee Lassies

RIP Freddy Boom Boom Cannon

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (QGaXH)

207 (In deep bass voice) This is about me, isn't it?
https://tinyurl.com/a2cbjzcw
Posted by: Brittney Griner at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM (5+LQ2)

"She" cultivates ugly. Her features are fine, but then she pollutes them with tats and unpleasantness. She really is trying to be a man, so perhaps she started out that way. Hard to say for sure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (rfNMH)

208 Fever
Posted by: Jaimo at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (2noDb)

I prescribe cowbell.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (v54Ci)

209 163 Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:58 PM (q/hOL)

She took 9 days to acknowledge it was a technical....she hates that she is getting ragdolled but she loves the racial shakedown outside the court....I am thrilled she is retarded frankly.

Posted by: sven at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (Int1s)

210 2) When Clark got mauled by a she-beast for being too good at b-ball

Which time?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (5+LQ2)

211 "Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2026 04:03 PM (hzuYO)"

Watched all my daughter's games. Loved it.

In her first game in Europe she got "T-ed" up for, I kid you not, "non-contact interference" with an opponent's shot, i. e. putting her hand up.

Oy vey.

Posted by: RS at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (GYx3d)

212 208 Fever
Posted by: Jaimo at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (2noDb)

I prescribe cowbell.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (v54Ci)

One lump or two?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (l3cgK)

213 One part of the dark side of the rainbow is:

Lesbians athletes recruit.
Aggressively.

Not casual "try this lesbo sex, it's fun" more coercive "do this lesbo sex with me or I will ruin your life and your sports career."

"Born this way" is a lie in 99% of the cases.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (3cUTc)

214 Yeah, that water's deep, too!

Posted by: Brittney Griner, fishing off a bridge at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (q2NNn)

215 DUDE!!! YOU COMPLETELY FORGOT THE RAIN OF DILDOS

Posted by: Party Foul at July 22, 2026 04:06 PM

Whereas the Obama and Biden administrations were the Reign of Dildos.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (HlyYF)

216 San Francisco Futas

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (UjdFS)

217 195 What would be the female WNBA equivalent of the "Hanson Brothers" from the movie "Slap Shot"?

I might be convinced to watch a WNBA game if there were players on the court who not only could throw a punch, but were paid to do so.
Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 04:05 PM (dIske)

Hockey enforcers are goons. Poons?

Posted by: Poon goon? at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (TbWk/)

218 Oblig.: Here's the xeet where Sophie Cunningham took a photo of herself with Sydney Sweeney.

X.com: https://tinyurl.com/hszs5ktv

"one of us forgot our tits at home 😜"

Context: They met at the NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 2, 2025, and I just found out that Cunningham was the honorary pace car driver for the event. She's also recently been a UFC ring girl, at UFC 329 in Las Vegas. She gets around!

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Sy6m/)

219 The New York Mets

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (SB5L+)

220 Caitlin Clark is the goose that lays the golden eggs that the black lesbians will kill (figuratively).

After Caitlin and Sophie, no one will ever care about the WNBA again.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (qFwJc)

221 RIP Freddy Boom Boom Cannon
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 22, 2026 04:08 PM (QGaXH)

Out go the lights.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 04:10 PM (lc8yo)

222 DUDE!!! YOU COMPLETELY FORGOT THE RAIN OF DILDOS
Posted by: Party Foul

It's almost as if most people think the WNBA is an unserious joke of a sports league or something.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:10 PM (5+LQ2)

223
New England Lesbarus

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 04:11 PM (O0L8i)

224
We have a problem.....

Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
·
Jul 21
Abdul El-Sayed recently launched an ad campaign highlighting his step-grandparents’ “roots in mid-Michigan.” Absent from the spot was any mention of his half-sister, the radical University of Chicago professor and “queer Muslim activist” Eman Abdelhadi, who has advocated for a “stateless, communized society,” called to abolish the police, and upbraided Bernie Sanders for condemning Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist rampage,
@CAndersonMO
reports.

Last year, she was arrested for allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper at an anti-ICE protest.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 04:11 PM (kX27y)

225 219 The New York Mets

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (SB5L+)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:11 PM (l3cgK)

226 I see this as part of a wider trend to true race neutral treatment of individuals and the shunting aside of 'Ghetto culture'. Slow moving change, but change nevertheless.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:12 PM (u82oZ)

227
Rumor has it that Dionne Warwick seduced her niece, Whitney Houston and also introduced her to cocaine.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 04:12 PM (qFwJc)

228 224
We have a problem.....

Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
·
Jul 21
Abdul El-Sayed recently launched an ad campaign highlighting his step-grandparents’ “roots in mid-Michigan.” Absent from the spot was any mention of his half-sister, the radical University of Chicago professor and “queer Muslim activist” Eman Abdelhadi, who has advocated for a “stateless, communized society,” called to abolish the police, and upbraided Bernie Sanders for condemning Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist rampage,
@CAndersonMO
reports.

Last year, she was arrested for allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper at an anti-ICE protest.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 04:11 PM (kX27y)

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I'm really holding out hope that he wins the nomination and loses the general.

The radical Islamists of the party deciding to go to war with Democrat voters who refuse to vote for brown people concerned with genocide will be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 04:12 PM (vbx7B)

229 227
Rumor has it that Dionne Warwick seduced her niece, Whitney Houston and also introduced her to cocaine.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 04:12 PM (qFwJc)

Bobbie Brown coulda done it all by hisself...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:13 PM (l3cgK)

230 Cunningham is also a black belt in TaeKwonDo.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 04:13 PM (l4RKn)

231 Pittsburgh Squeelers

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 04:14 PM (sYM3s)

232 "Born this way" is a lie in 99% of the cases.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

When any Lefty disagrees, ask them why they deny science? Any natural traits that reduce procreation rates should be bred down to an incredibly small recessive trait.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:15 PM (5+LQ2)

233
Maybe they're proud, and feel empowered to stick up for themselves and their reputation; maybe they're shameless but have some things to hide, and fear a Federal investigation more than NJ state retaliation. Either would lead to the observed behavior.
Posted by: SciVo

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

For those of us who have done government contracting for software, I can imagine everyone on the team clenching their fists and saying "It's working as designed, you fucking piece of shit client, don't blame this on a 'glitch' as if you even know the difference between a motherboard and an emery board."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 04:15 PM (mmrXZ)

234 We tried to watch a wnba game once, I don't know why. They flop more than LeBron and the entirety of fifa combined. Unwatchable.

Posted by: nckate at July 22, 2026 04:16 PM (enNUy)

235 Who DID the Iowa Corn Holers open for, anyway??

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:16 PM (Gqar8)

236 Norfolk Nookie?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:16 PM (u82oZ)

237
There are probably a few dudes were just born to plow ass.

But most were recruited and trained.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 04:17 PM (BI5O2)

238 Who DID the Iowa Corn Holers open for, anyway??
Posted by: tubal

Folsom Street Pitchers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:17 PM (u82oZ)

239 156 Sophie did an impromptu ring girl appearance at the last UFC fight. Speaking of fights, she is also hated because she fights back, on and off the court.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 22, 2026 03:56 PM (QaH55)

She's a black belt. Tai Kwan Do iirc. I don't watch WNBA but I have to admit I like her. She doesn't take sh*t and she seems to generally and genuinely enjoy herself.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 22, 2026 04:17 PM (9ZFZd)

240
I'm really holding out hope that he wins the nomination and loses the general.

The radical Islamists of the party deciding to go to war with Democrat voters who refuse to vote for brown people concerned with genocide will be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

As long as he loses it resoundingly. I like the hilarity myself, but I also want these DSAssholes gone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (mmrXZ)

241 Who DID the Iowa Corn Holers open for, anyway??
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:16 PM (Gqar

I thought the Iowa Cornholees were the opening act...

Posted by: IYKWIM at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (TbWk/)

242 230 Cunningham is also a black belt in TaeKwonDo.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 04:13 PM (l4RKn)

She Needs to be, hanging around That lot.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (Gqar8)

243 Yudhishthira's Dice

There is your SF novel. On Elon's Mars, the population is 100% heterosexual.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (u82oZ)

244 235 Who DID the Iowa Corn Holers open for, anyway??

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:16 PM (Gqar

Bay City Rollers?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

245 I used to think AOC was hot. Right up till I found out her tits are fake... Which tracks for a dumb shallow cunt such as herself

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (61TgR)

246 15 wait the MUDSHARKS?!?!

that's not real right?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)
----
Isn't that a minor league baseball team in Toledo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)

There was the Carolina Mudcats minor league team.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (9ZFZd)

247 @218

>>Here's the xeet where Sophie Cunningham took a photo of herself with Sydney Sweeney.

She's actually prettier than Sweeney.

She's the Bill Lambier of the WNBA.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)

248 241 Who DID the Iowa Corn Holers open for, anyway??
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:16 PM (Gqar

I thought the Iowa Cornholers were the opening act...
Posted by: IYKWIM

No, Hole opened for them at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in 1998

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (5+LQ2)

249 243 Yudhishthira's Dice

There is your SF novel. On Elon's Mars, the population is 100% heterosexual.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:18 PM (u82oZ)

All Homos are exiled to Uranus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

250 249
All Homos are exiled to Uranus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (vbx7B)

251
Her being white is VERY important, however its because she's the best ever AND white.

That pisses them off to the highest level.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:52 PM (2YhKe)

The NBA tried that shit with Bird and he kicked their asses. Sometimes with elbows or fists. Especially with his trash talk "I've got a present for you. I'm taking a pass from Parish over here in this corner, I'm gonna do a single dribble and pump-fake, you're gonna be late, overshoot and end up in the stands and I'm putting it in off the glass for 3. And there isn't a damned thing you can do about it."

Ker-chunk.

"Too slow, rook."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 04:20 PM (y9nCu)

252 I taught 7th and 8th grade girls basketball. Once. Pretty big Mega Church League. Lots of girls that also played Middle School. My daughter just wanted to win. One time.

Lots of Old Ball Players. Teaching the game as they understood it. Man to man (chic to chic). Set plays. Teams were kind of set ... the long time coached picked all the girls they wanted.

I taught a behind the line 2-3 zone on defense. Flat screens on offense to let a girl get ahead of the defender, and cuts to give her another girl to pass to. And floor balance ... make sure somebody can play free-safety on a turnover.

Kids won the league. Lots of drama. Fuck the lay-up lines. We did loose ball drills to warm up. And how to post up. And how to really screen. Lots of coaches and involved Dads bitching I "didn't coach the right way". And a few folks saying "well, Hell, that's completely different and makes sense". Including a couple local coaches.

Pissed the daughter off the next year. Didn't coach.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:20 PM (q/hOL)

253 The WNBA has gotten attention in the wider culture 3 times:

1) When a WNBA tranny was arrested in Russia for being a pot head

2) When Clark got mauled by a she-beast for being too good at b-ball

3) Cunningham pointing at some asshole.

If they wanted to actually get eyeballs you'd think they'd lean into #3 since it is the only news item that isn't horrible.
Posted by: 18-1

How soon they forget!

Posted by: Neon Green Dildo at July 22, 2026 04:20 PM (TezPK)

254 wait the MUDSHARKS?!?!

that's not real right?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)
----
Isn't that a minor league baseball team in Toledo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)

The Kansas City Coalburners

Posted by: Maybe just slightly racist at July 22, 2026 04:20 PM (TbWk/)

255 Melodicmetal

WHAT! Fake! I must make a hands on inspection.

Actually, no. AOC's personality and her beliefs are protection enough from me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:20 PM (u82oZ)

256 Portland Two-Baggers

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:20 PM (6ydKt)

257 245 I used to think AOC was hot. Right up till [b)I found out her tits are fake... Which tracks for a dumb shallow cunt such as herself
Posted by: Melodicmetal

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Posted by: A million thirsty simps cry out at July 22, 2026 04:21 PM (5+LQ2)

258 Seems to me that Cory Woodruff of 'For the Win' (the author of the Yahoo Sports article) is not such a fan of Sophie Cunningham...
"Cunningham, one of the league's most polarizing and recognized players"...
Woodruff goes on in a similar negative vein throughout the article, painting her as a MAGA conservative.
Which in and of itself is a good thing, in my opinion...

Posted by: UncleJefe at July 22, 2026 04:21 PM (gAuAm)

259 >>>no one's going to contradict me because no one wants to admit they know the teams of the WNBA.

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 04:21 PM (dK+Kv)

260 250 249
All Homos are exiled to Uranus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (vbx7B)

"Your" Anus, get it? C'mon, TJM, work with us here!!

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:21 PM (Gqar8)

261 Isn't that a minor league baseball team in Toledo?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)

There was the Carolina Mudcats minor league team.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (9ZFZd)

Toledo had the Mud Hens.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 04:22 PM (uhVAy)

262 I just love the way Sophie handles every situation. I absolutely wish her the best in her career and in her life.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 22, 2026 04:22 PM (Jteiy)

263 147 The Northern Michigan Smells Like Tunas
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, now... let's just hang on a minute, there, buddy.

That's the smell of smoked whitefish, a delicious Norwegian delicacy.

Unless you're hanging around the "Dock" bar in Harbor Springs while Ronna Mc Daniel and the girls are still there, finishing up the Bloody Marys and trying to figure out who they can send flowers to.

Seriously, if you are in the Pelston area the Douglas Lake Bar serves superb food, if there's a line, causally drop that Jim Duffy wanted you to try the place.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 04:22 PM (Y8DZL)

264 I used to think AOC was hot. Right up till I found out her tits are fake... Which tracks for a dumb shallow cunt such as herself
Posted by: Melodicmetal
......

Fake? Where the heck have I been?
This means she HAS to show them to us now.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 04:22 PM (UjdFS)

265 >>>I used to think AOC was hot. Right up till I found out her tits are fake... Which tracks for a dumb shallow cunt such as herself

Posted by: Melodicmetal

>She looks rough. Bingo wings and sagging breasts are not going to win her the presidency.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 04:23 PM (sYM3s)

266 TJM must be one of those people who pronounces it Urineus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:23 PM (6ydKt)

267 I used to think AOC was hot. Right up till I found out her tits are fake... Which tracks for a dumb shallow cunt such as herself.

Twinkies are fake. Fudge Rounds are mostly synthetic.

Love 'em both.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:23 PM (q/hOL)

268 260 250 249
All Homos are exiled to Uranus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 04:19 PM (vbx7B)

"Your" Anus, get it? C'mon, TJM, work with us here!!
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:21 PM (Gqar

You're wasting your time - he's illiterate.

Posted by: If you can read this you're too at July 22, 2026 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

269 >She looks rough. Bingo wings and sagging breasts are not going to win her the presidency.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Hillary and Kamala came pretty close, and looked MUCH rougher.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:24 PM (5+LQ2)

270 Cleveland Carpet Steamers

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 04:24 PM (XvL8K)

271 17 I like Sophie. But she is no Ella Langley with regards to her face.

Posted by: Chicago Aldermen at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (qFwJc)
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I agree - I'm smitten mostly by her attitude. She's cute, but she's also got a little Don Knotts going on in the face.

Posted by: 496 at July 22, 2026 04:24 PM (KIE2H)

272 I'm still partial to Savannah Bananas.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 04:24 PM (6ydKt)

273 Twinkies are fake. Fudge Rounds are mostly synthetic.

Love 'em both.
Posted by: Memory Man

I have a twinkie and fudge round we can play with...

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at July 22, 2026 04:25 PM (5+LQ2)

274 Mars is 0% homo as we speak, and better off for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 04:25 PM (BI5O2)

275 You're wasting your time - he's illiterate.
Posted by: If you can read this you're too at July 22, 2026 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 04:25 PM (PjoLk)

276 used to think AOC was hot. Right up till I found out her tits are fake...
.......

Hope she got the extended warranty.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 04:26 PM (UjdFS)

277 Frey : people always laugh at Uranus
Professor: while you were asleep the name was changed
Frey : what's it called now?
Professor : Urectum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 04:26 PM (sMkB+)

278 She's cute, but she's also got a little Don Knotts going on in the face.
Posted by: 496

That's dangerously close to saying a woman is beautiful like Lizzo.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (5+LQ2)

279 Hillary and Kamala came pretty close, and looked MUCH rougher.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2026 04:24 PM

hillary would have won if she had listened to her husband and actually campaigned and ignored the advice of those 20yo tik tok influencers her campaign manager hired.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (0N4FZ)

280 AOC's abuelazation will arrive swiftly and shockingly.

Posted by: Thirty years and 40 pounds overnight at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (TbWk/)

281 Seattle Strap-ons

Denver Dykes

Los Angeles Lickers

Posted by: Joe D. Mensha at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (TezPK)

282 Fake boobs don’t sag. It’s one of the giveaways. 😂

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (IJSaZ)

283 I
https://pbs.tw___.com/media/G4yjPJUXAAAUwUE.jpg

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (05Iwe)

284 Trying to recall, wasn't one of the Teletubbies named Tinkie Wink? Dylan Mulvaneys Spirit Animal.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (Gqar8)

285 Does the WNBA allow trannys? That would be weird since just about any former male HS BB player could tromp the ladies even with hormone suppression.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (4NO2D)

286
Oblig.: Here's the xeet where Sophie Cunningham took a photo of herself with Sydney Sweeney.

X.com: https://tinyurl.com/hszs5ktv

"one of us forgot our tits at home 😜"

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Sy6m/)

That photo makes me want to transmogrify into a slice of bologna. IYKWIM

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (y9nCu)

287 That's dangerously close to saying a woman is beautiful like Lizzo.

We went through a phase here where Sarah Sanders was supposedly hotter than a two dollar pistol.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (q/hOL)

288 Tampa THOTs

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (3BwY8)

289 The Tacoma Twatwaffles.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (HMS1n)

290 wth

The really good news is AOC is not reproducing.
Although it would be hilarious if she got married, became a Mom, and then started to love a TradWife lifestyle.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (u82oZ)

291 The California Cuntiferous Cunts

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 04:29 PM (iFTx/)

292 Fake boobs don’t sag. It’s one of the giveaways.

I'll hold up Sophia Vergara's. One in each hand.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 04:29 PM (q/hOL)

293 Fake boobs don’t sag. It’s one of the giveaways. 😂
Posted by: Piper

Tennis ball in a tube-sock.

Posted by: Joe D. Mensha at July 22, 2026 04:29 PM (TezPK)

294 285 Does the WNBA allow trannys? That would be weird since just about any former male HS BB player could tromp the ladies even with hormone suppression.
Posted by: toby928(c)

No, I'm 100% XX chromosome woman, and you can't check.

Posted by: Brittany Griner at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (5+LQ2)

295 Trying to recall, wasn't one of the Teletubbies named Tinkie Wink? Dylan Mulvaneys Spirit Animal.
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (Gqar

The smiling, laughing Sun has all growed up and now has a baby girl of her own

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (rbvCR)

296 Does the WNBA allow trannys? That would be weird since just about any former male HS BB player could tromp the ladies even with hormone suppression.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 04:27 PM (4NO2D)

Brittney Grindr or whatever her name is looks like a F to M tranny. Not that it gives any competitive advantage.

Posted by: She's kinda gnarly at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

297 Sweeney is oversold. Christina Hendricks, Kate Upton, Sidney Sweeney. Every decade had/has one, yes?

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (Gqar8)

298 Although it would be hilarious if she got married, became a Mom, and then started to love a TradWife lifestyle.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Yeah, I could see that.
You go ahead and mix the drinks, honey, I'll make the sammiches....

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (q6tQZ)

299 Nood Iran

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (N1tpc)

300 Men in women's sports shouldn't be controversial. Remember Payton McNabb. High school volleyball player who took a tremendous smash to the face by a trans "woman"? I'm sure she's not the only woman injured

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (Jteiy)

301 I like boobs

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (3BwY8)

302 The pencil test.

Posted by: IYKYK at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (2Ez/1)

303 It was up in the 80's this morning, and then we had thunderheads roll through. Now it is in the 80's and humid.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (rbvCR)

304 That photo makes me want to transmogrify into a slice of bologna. IYKWIM
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (y9nCu)

I don't KWYM.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (SRRAx)

305 https://tinyurl.com/3m3fcwhy

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (05Iwe)

306 274 Mars is 0% homo as we speak, and better off for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 04:25 PM (BI5O2)

Mars is a planet entirely populated with robots...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (l3cgK)

307 274 Mars is 0% homo as we speak, and better off for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You do know there's rover named "Curiosity" cruising there right now?

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (Y8DZL)

308
Brittney Grindr or whatever her name is looks like a F to M tranny. Not that it gives any competitive advantage.
Posted by: She's kinda gnarly at July 22, 2026 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

I imagine her chromosome chart would be interesting.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 04:32 PM (Gqar8)

309 new thread

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 04:33 PM (CWTWj)

310 Brittney Grindr

--

Lol

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 04:36 PM (BI5O2)

311 227 Rumor has it that Dionne Warwick seduced her niece, Whitney Houston and also introduced her to cocaine.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 04:12 PM (qFwJc)

That's NOT what friends are for.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 22, 2026 04:37 PM (0bjKf)

312 I'm lucky in that I'm mixed race and have slaves in my ancestry. So I can kick my own ass for it's white privilege at the same time ask for reparations...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 03:59 PM

Just move your wallet from one pocket to the other.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 22, 2026 04:42 PM (4NO2D)

313 Clark is a Waffle House 4.

Ok, but she's a WNBA 8, so she's got that going for her.

Posted by: GMan at July 22, 2026 04:43 PM (hlGuX)

314 304 That photo makes me want to transmogrify into a slice of bologna. IYKWIM
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 04:28 PM (y9nCu)

I don't KWYM.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 22, 2026 04:31 PM (SRRAx)

To be the meat sandwiched between them...

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (Sy6m/)

315 The Little Rock Lickalottapuss
The St Paul Scissorings
The Davenport Double Penetrations
The Louisville Lilleths
Shreveport Strap-ons

Posted by: UncleJefe at July 22, 2026 04:48 PM (gAuAm)

316 Cunningham is also a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, and I think a cover model, for this year.

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 22, 2026 05:39 PM (IeYnM)

317 She plays for the Indiana Fever. My dad watches Youtube videos about her and actually had me try and find a way for him to watch one of her games. It didn't work because we live in Texas and it wasn't on any kind of streaming service that I could find and he asked me about 20 minutes before the game when I was really busy.

Videos about the ongoing $#it storms keep popping up in my feed. It's nuts.

Posted by: doug at July 23, 2026 07:01 AM (cbCQf)

Software Firm at Center of NJ's Illegal Alien Voting Scandal: There Was No "Glitch," Our Softward Did Exactly What NJ Wanted It To Do

Mikie Sherill is lying. She is blaming the problem on a "glitch" in the software. The software, she lies, was supposed to block illegal aliens from registering to vote.

No, says the software company. Our software was designed, at NJ's insistence, to sign up anyone to vote who wanted to sign up. Verification of voter eligibility was supposed to be performed by the Democrat-owned state after we communicated the lists to them -- but the Democrat government never bothered to check citizenship status.

I'll give you a moment to recover from your shock.

Have you picked yourself up off the floor?

Good. Just the News:

Software vendor disputes NJ governor's 'glitch' claim, says state approves foreigners on voter roll
The NJ government and its vendor now publicly dispute who was supposed to catch an error that allowed thousands of noncitizens to register to vote, raising direct questions about the integrity of the safeguards voters are told they can trust.

Just hours after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote, the software company involved issued a statement disputing the claim.
IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which is completely controlled by Democrats, to verify eligibility to vote.
"IDEMIA works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and has for more than 40 years, to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver's license or state-issued identification card. IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system," IDEMIA said in a statement to Just the News.
"The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections."

The communist propaganda media insisted for years that barely any illegals were registered to vote. Now we find out that 6,600 were enrolled to vote, and that's just the ones we can confirm. The Trump administration estimates that 35,000+ illegals are registered to vote in New Jersey alone.

So now the communist propaganda media wants to argue about how much illegal alien voting is too much, and how much is just right.

Two days ago // three days ago pic.twitter.com/HaLMHIOuXp
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 22, 2026

Abby Philips and Jake Tapper both cope wildly over the previous lies. Abby Philips in particular shows herself to be a hard partisan political actor, endlessly parsing and quibbling over what is "widespread" illegal alien voting and what is tolerable illegal alien voting which we must tolerate because, she insists -- WITHOUT EVIDENCE -- if we attempt to stop illegal alien voting, we will unavoidably strip actual citizens of the right to vote.

She has no evidence for this. It's just a Democrat Party talking point which she presents as a fact because she's a Democrat shill.

She gets really bad starting at about 8:45, just arguing and arguing that we must accept a certain level of "non-widespread" illegal alien voter fraud. She abandons all pretense that she's a journalist just asking questions and simply becomes a Democrat politician in a debate (except she is also the "moderator" and controls the mike).

She also insists that illegal aliens who voted were just confused.

Now, Jake Tapper says: "This is not good for Democrats' argument that there's no such thing as undocumented immigrants voting."

Jake was previously busy helping further the narrative that non-citizen voting wasn't a serious issue.

(See quoted clip) https://t.co/HaaBTvC2uB pic.twitter.com/Fs3LaSnK6V
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 21, 2026

MAZE
@mazemoore
He literally just had a show on it two nights ago. His guest claimed that there may be 1 or 2 that vote, that's it.

Note that the alleged "Russian interference" hoax involved the Russians spending $150,000 to buy FaceBook ads intended to excite and anger both Republicans and Democrats. They bought bait ads to make both sides hate each other. They did not buy ads just to "help Trump," as the lying media lied for years and years.

The media never once suggested that there was a certain minimal threshold for serious, "widespread" vote interference in that case. To them, $150,000 spent on ads to boost/outrage both parties was plenty enough to declare a Dire Threat Aimed at the Heart of Our Democratic Republic.

Now, of course, they're insisting that the very real problem of illegal voting by fucking foreigners must reach a minimum threshold before anyone is allowed to complain of it or demand changes to stop it.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:22 PM

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1 say it ain't so

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (CWTWj)

2 i noodled

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (CWTWj)

3 The glitch was the part where they got caught.

Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (VJX5o)

4 We fixed the glitch.

Posted by: The Two Bobs at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (q2NNn)

5 Pfft. Just wait until they get to California.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 22, 2026 02:24 PM (guGkK)

6 The Glitches, Bitches, and Snitches defense.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 02:24 PM (7kSco)

7 MAZE
@mazemoore

He literally just had a show on it two nights ago. His guest claimed that there may be 1 or 2 that vote, that's it.

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100 million illegals. Many of whom have been here for years, even decades, to the point where they think of themselves as rightful denizens of this nation and should have a voice in its governing.

But only 1 or 2 of them vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:24 PM (vbx7B)

8 Damn, read the content.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (mP0Kj)

9 IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which is completely controlled by Democrats, to verify eligibility to vote.

Interesting. I suspect in the past, most software companies would have just taken the fall for this, because everyone knows that sometimes things go wrong with software.

The company refusing to take the blame here seems to be a change.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (vJrRc)

10 Non partisan rage baiting. I like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (2YhKe)

12
9 IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which is completely controlled by Democrats, to verify eligibility to vote.

Interesting. I suspect in the past, most software companies would have just taken the fall for this, because everyone knows that sometimes things go wrong with software.

The company refusing to take the blame here seems to be a change.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (vJrRc)

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Todd was a terrible project manager.

We fired Todd.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (vbx7B)

13 didn't w bush in 2000 win florida by about 500 votes? never mind

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (CWTWj)

14 Vote Early, Vote Often

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (SB5L+)

15
Bugs in the software
Something's out there...

Posted by: 99 Red Balloons go by at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (2Ez/1)

16 13 didn't w bush in 2000 win florida by about 500 votes? never mind

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (CWTWj)

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It is impossible to cheat in elections. And even if you wanted to, why would you do it? The penalties are so vast that getting one extra vote for a candidate just isn't worth it.

Also, you're not allowed to investigate voter fraud because that will make black people afraid of historical racisms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (vbx7B)

17 I got really sideways, back in the aftermath of 2020, with certain folks here that wanted to "explain" how elections work - and how trends work this and that way - and generally wanted to just believe the system works.

Same as old ball players that love to say "you can't let the officials decide the game".

Look - 2020 was rigged. If you're not an Election Nerd that just jacks off on the process, its easy to see it was rigged. Multiple cities don't decide within 15 minutes to stop counting votes.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (q/hOL)

18 Now, of course, they're insisting that the very real problem of illegal voting by fucking foreigners must reach a minimum threshold before anyone is allowed to complain of it or demand changes to stop it.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:22 PM

I believe this is step #2: sure it happens, but it's not a problem.

Step #1 being, of course: this never happens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

19 I can promise you this, let me be clear, IDEMIA will never work in this state again. All contracts rescinded with prejudice.

*mutters under breath* contradict me in public, will ya?

Posted by: Mikie Sherrill at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (q2NNn)

20 Interesting. I suspect in the past, most software companies would have just taken the fall for this, because everyone knows that sometimes things go wrong with software.

The company refusing to take the blame here seems to be a change.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (vJrRc)

Smart of them, they see which way the wind is blowing, and are not willing to take the fall for Democrat Politicians.

Knowingly messing with the voter rolls? May now be worth Jail time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (mP0Kj)

21
Mikie Sherill -- or any Democratic officeholder -- is a liar? Color me shocked!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (s9VOe)

22

Lying sacks of shit. We know the numbers are way higher than Sherill is reporting.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (/QHx4)

23 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (2Ez/1)

24 “I'll give you a moment to recover from your shock.”

One of these days I’ll learn to keep the smelling salts closer to the fainting couch.

Posted by: Clay at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (UwOfL)

25 Look - 2020 was rigged. If you're not an Election Nerd that just jacks off on the process, its easy to see it was rigged. Multiple cities don't decide within 15 minutes to stop counting votes.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (q/hOL)

This. 2020 really was depressing and angering.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

26 21
Mikie Sherill -- or any Democratic officeholder -- is a liar? Color me shocked!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (s9VOe)

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Why aren't Democrats demanding that Democrat senators vote for the SAVE Act and Voter ID?

I hear that a large majority of Democrat voters support voter ID.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (vbx7B)

27 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

#Step 3 - of course it works that way !!! Why are you acting surprised ?

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (q/hOL)

28 It is impossible to cheat in elections. And even if you wanted to, why would you do it? The penalties are so vast that getting one extra vote for a candidate just isn't worth it.

Also, you're not allowed to investigate voter fraud because that will make black people afraid of historical racisms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (vbx7B)

Besides the upstanding great Patriot and Lawdude, Bill Barr, was clear in Congressional Testimony they could find no voter fraud!

And he's a Republican (well... kinda?)

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (mP0Kj)

29 Take Tapper is a lying liar who lies? Say it isn't so.......

I shant believe it. I just SHANT!!!!!

Or is it shat.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (2YhKe)

30 This is a clear case of our betters saving our democracy, or something.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (5yDGQ)

31 We are being distracted from the Epstien files.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (PjoLk)

32 25 Look - 2020 was rigged. If you're not an Election Nerd that just jacks off on the process, its easy to see it was rigged. Multiple cities don't decide within 15 minutes to stop counting votes.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (q/hOL)

This. 2020 really was depressing and angering.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

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And Trump then won 2024 with almost no institutional changes to how voting happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (vbx7B)

33 One of these days I’ll learn to keep the smelling salts closer to the fainting couch.
Posted by: Clay at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (UwOfL)

Get some of them Joe Rogan smelling salts. You can just keep the bagged jar in the room.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (zZu0s)

34 I listened carefully to Sherill's comment and it seems that the 6600 figure appears to be only license applicants who stated - correctly - that they are not citizens and were registered to vote anyway. This then would not include illegals and non-citizen license applicants who lied or misinterpreted the question and answered either fraudulently or just wrongly that they were citizens and were registered. This is because voter registration is effectively run on an honor system.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at July 22, 2026 02:31 PM (ssz2a)

35 And Trump then won 2024 with almost no institutional changes to how voting happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (vbx7B)

That still puzzles me. Was it too much to give even a shred of plausibility? Did they think things would go sideways if they tried?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)

36 Sherrill is a soulless machine politician who will do exactly what her handlers tell her.

Oh...$50 says she cheated when she was at Annapolis, and she DEFINITELY violated the honor code in other ways.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 02:31 PM (l4RKn)

37
Look - 2020 was rigged. If you're not an Election Nerd that just jacks off on the process, its easy to see it was rigged. Multiple cities don't decide within 15 minutes to stop counting votes.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (q/hOL)

https://shorturl.fm/PJz6N

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (2YhKe)

38 There are 4 stages of leftism denial.

1, It isn't happening.
2. It's happening, but, it's not that bad.

3 & 4 should show up soon.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (eGzf1)

39 I had to show my ID when I went to vote yesterday. I felt so violated, it was as if someone pushed me up against the tabulator and grabbed my junk.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (5yDGQ)

40 35 And Trump then won 2024 with almost no institutional changes to how voting happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (vbx7B)

That still puzzles me. Was it too much to give even a shred of plausibility? Did they think things would go sideways if they tried?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)

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It took only the RNC not lying down. Because Democrats are not all powerful and actually only wield power effectively because Republicans helped them for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (vbx7B)

41 This is because voter registration is effectively run on an honor system.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at July 22, 2026 02:31 PM (ssz2a)

Bingo. And that needs to change.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 02:33 PM (kX27y)

42 You know, if you build a bank that bank hasn't been robbed or burglarized yet. You need proof that it has been robbed or burglarized before you can put a lock on the bank. It's just common sense not to solve a non-problem. Oh yeah, also the Media really likes Bank Robbers and runs a propaganda campaign for them and encourages more Bank Robbery and wants to legalize Bank Robbery too.

Posted by: Jake Tappr at July 22, 2026 02:33 PM (ssz2a)

43
Now, of course, they're insisting that the very real problem of illegal voting by fucking foreigners must reach a minimum threshold before anyone is allowed to complain of it or demand changes to stop it.-

Very well. The minimum threshold is one foreigner voting illegally.

Now, get cracking at giving every one of those thousands registered illegally the old "heave ho" outta here.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (s9VOe)

44
It took only the RNC not lying down. Because Democrats are not all powerful and actually only wield power effectively because Republicans helped them for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (vbx7B)

did not........

Posted by: John Cornyn at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (2YhKe)

45 And Trump then won 2024 with almost no institutional changes to how voting happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:30 PM (vbx7B)

Yeah. Those 11 million damn Biden voters that didn't show up to vote for kamala. Sexist, Racist pigs. Wouldn't vote for the stronk black women.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (PjoLk)

46 Crying "rigged" when an election doesn't do your way, but being silent when it does is a special kind of duplicity.

Posted by: Citizen Cope at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (29k1n)

47 It took only the RNC not lying down. Because Democrats are not all powerful and actually only wield power effectively because Republicans helped them for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (vbx7B)

Thats not a lot of comfort. It makes 2020 look even worse. But... plausible- especially with the chump cuck GOPe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (zZu0s)

48 The "glitch" was the purpose.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (3cUTc)

49 Crying "rigged" when an election doesn't go your way, but being silent when it does is a special kind of duplicity.

Posted by: Citizen Cope at July 22, 2026 02:35 PM (29k1n)

50 Democrat politician lied about cheating???

(Hyperventilates in paper bag)

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 22, 2026 02:35 PM (IgKwI)

51 Crying "rigged" when an election doesn't do your way, but being silent when it does is a special kind of duplicity.
Posted by: Citizen Cope at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (29k1n)

Democrats have screamed 'FRAUD' every election they haven't won since 1980.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:35 PM (2YhKe)

52 Posted by: Citizen Cope at July 22, 2026 02:35 PM (29k1n)

You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (2YhKe)

53 Besides the upstanding great Patriot and Lawdude, Bill Barr, was clear in Congressional Testimony they could find no voter fraud!

And Rudy Gulliani was insistent that going to court had nothing to do with fraud.

Look - everyone here loves Trump. I only voted for him Three Times. But the Trump reaction to 2020 was a shit show. He picked the team. He picked ... poorly.

The entire reaction was a shit show. As the count and media narrative started to firm up - on about a Thursday. He went fucking golfing.

By the following Monday ? It was done. Game over.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (q/hOL)

54 Women I know in a deep blue area that were Democrats as recently as 2012 knew the election was rigged on the morning of.

Hell even the leftists all knew, it's just more fun for them to watch you try to "prove" it.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (SB5L+)

55 47 It took only the RNC not lying down. Because Democrats are not all powerful and actually only wield power effectively because Republicans helped them for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (vbx7B)

Thats not a lot of comfort. It makes 2020 look even worse. But... plausible- especially with the chump cuck GOPe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (zZu0s)

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There's never going to be a forever fix. Fighting has to continue every cycle. We are always one generation away from losing everything.

But the cycle we've been in since, arguably, 1992, was reversed. Finally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (vbx7B)

56 It never happens.

It happens occasionally.

It is a good thing that it happens, and you are a bad person for noticing it.

Posted by: Mitch, Pining For The Fijords! at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (aD4fx)

57 Crying "rigged" when an election doesn't do your way, but being silent when it does is a special kind of duplicity.
Posted by: Citizen Cope at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (29k1n)

This is also why I want all of the election integrity stuff in place. I want the GOPe motherfucker's balls cut off as well. Let Justice be done though the Heavens fall.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

58 Of course, heads MUST roll.
And of course, they won't.

Posted by: weew at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (9TspW)

59 Why aren't Democrats demanding that Democrat senators vote for the SAVE Act and Voter ID?

I hear that a large majority of Democrat voters support voter ID.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

What, you think we listen them? HAHAHAHAha... wait... is this a hot mic? *panicked scrambling sounds*

Posted by: The Democrat Party at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (vJrRc)

60 So voting is now basically a video game and the democrats have a bunch of cheat codes.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (Eac9A)

61 "The Trump administration estimates that 35,000+ illegals are registered to vote in New Jersey alone."

I'm a bit confused by the reporting on this issue. Was it 35k illegals that were registered to vote? Or 35k non-citizen immigrants (including legal immigrants) in total?

That's a big difference. Because if 35k illegals were registered, then at least 10x that number of legal non-citizens were registered to vote.

NJ has 6.5 million registered voters. I've no doubt that at least 20% of those are fake, fraudulent, illegal, or very smelly.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

62 You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (2YhKe)

Who the hell can afford to be an alcoholic these days?

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (PjoLk)

63 and besides its all your fault

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (YlWIZ)

64 there is no glitch -

Told ya yesterday.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (uhVAy)

65 This is also why I want all of the election integrity stuff in place. I want the GOPe motherfucker's balls cut off as well. Let Justice be done though the Heavens fall.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

Agreed.

And if they ever did ? The Georgia GOP was front and center.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (q/hOL)

66
This is also why I want all of the election integrity stuff in place. I want the GOPe motherfucker's balls cut off as well. Let Justice be done though the Heavens fall.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)
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That right there is the difference between us and leftists. We believe anyone who cheats in an election should be punished. Leftists, not so much.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (eGzf1)

67 As a firmware/software engineer (the real kind, or this "vibe coding" asshattery) a "glitch" is the scapegoat of poorly assigned instructions, or just outright lying.

I'm going with lying politicians

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (61TgR)

68 Yeah. Those 11 million damn Biden voters that didn't show up to vote for kamala. Sexist, Racist pigs. Wouldn't vote for the stronk black women.
Posted by: Reforger

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I'm pretty sure those 11 million all died of COVID soon after the election.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (5yDGQ)

69 Helps explain why in so many blue states, the apparent winner on Election Night often ends up losing, as thousands of overwhelmingly left-wing votes magically show up at the last minute.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 22, 2026 02:39 PM (aD4fx)

70 Both Arizona and California use IDEMIA DMV software which is a French company with a shady track record around the world.

Every state that uses motor voter should be audited. We are finally starting to see just how corrupt our elections have been for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 02:40 PM (viF8m)

71 re 62: i can. yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:40 PM (CWTWj)

72 I even want the tabulators gone. Hand count.
Why do we need a mechanical counter when there are loads of folks already there?
I also want at least one Republican in every precinct counting the number of people voting and comparing to what gets turned in via ballots.
Made these suggestions to Jackson Co. Rep committee and I get invitations to send them money.
Pendergast Machine lives on!

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 02:40 PM (q6tQZ)

73 Helps explain why in so many blue states, the apparent winner on Election Night often ends up losing, as thousands of overwhelmingly left-wing votes magically show up at the last minute.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 22, 2026 02:39 PM (aD4fx)

*leans in*

*waves*

Posted by: Spencer Pratt at July 22, 2026 02:40 PM (2YhKe)

74 She also insists that illegal aliens who voted were just confused.

———-

Same sort of thing happened to me, I was walking down the street, tripped and my thingy ended up inside of someone. I was so confused, it all happened so fast.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (IgKwI)

75 Helps explain why in so many blue states, the apparent winner on Election Night often ends up losing, as thousands of overwhelmingly left-wing votes magically show up at the last minute.

I can't believe I'm the only one that remembers the real-time video in Philly ... of the old white haired, pot bellied obviously Union Guy - maybe old school Mob - pushing back the camera-guys while he puts up Butchers Paper over the windows to the counting room.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (q/hOL)

76 60 So voting is now basically a video game and the democrats have a bunch of cheat codes.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (Eac9A)

Yep.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (PjoLk)

77 this was the inevitable result of Motor Voter.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (j+aD2)

78 I sincerely doubt that Jackson County, Mo (and KCMo) have had an honest election in almost 100 years.
Chicago? Same. NYNY? Same, etc., ad nauseum.

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (q6tQZ)

79 Helps explain why in so many blue states, the apparent winner on Election Night often ends up losing, as thousands of overwhelmingly left-wing votes magically show up at the last minute.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 22, 2026 02:39 PM (aD4fx)

That was the cycle in Oregon, Washington, Virginia, Minnesota, wisconsin- all of them. LA. They do it and we know. They know we know. They get off doing it because they know we know. It makes them happy to fuck that chicken.

Pretty much every thing they do they do because they get perverse delight from it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (zZu0s)

80 When Jake Tapper is being pegged in the rumpus room, somebody else is pulling the reins.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (sYM3s)

81 She also insists that illegal aliens who voted were just confused.

I think a large portion of illegals voting is simply their ballots being harvested, which they likely don't even know about.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (OlzlW)

82 I'm pretty sure those 11 million all died of COVID soon after the election.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (5yDGQ)
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What with global cooling/global warming/net neutrality/et al, I've died more times than Beau Biden.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:42 PM (amcLV)

83 to the left, democracy means doing what the people want, not what the people think they want

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:42 PM (CWTWj)

84 Both Arizona and California use IDEMIA DMV software which is a French company with a shady track record around the world.

Every state that uses motor voter should be audited. We are finally starting to see just how corrupt our elections have been for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 02:40 PM (viF8m)

Why is it not mandated that AMERICAN elections handled by software should be from an AMERICAN company with AMERICANS doing the programming?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:42 PM (2YhKe)

85 I like the juxtaposition of Marc Elias crowing about a judge tossing the DOJ lawsuit to examine the voting records with "NJ admits illegals are registered"

But remember:
The voting system in the blue states is not designed to:
- prevent illegals from registering
- prevent illegals from voting
- prevent illegal votes from being counted

In fact, the systems in these blue areas go out of their way to ensure that no one can determine if illegals are registered, vote or have their vote counted.

Because fraud IS the purpose.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:42 PM (3cUTc)

86 81 She also insists that illegal aliens who voted were just confused.

I think a large portion of illegals voting is simply their ballots being harvested, which they likely don't even know about.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (OlzlW)

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Apparently there's a study from 2008 showing that more than 6% of illegals voted in that election.

If there are 100 million, and if that 6% holds, that's 6 million votes without touching on abusing voter rolls.

And, besides, several states in 2020 recorded more votes than registered voters. Some precincts were 200%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:43 PM (vbx7B)

87 by Friday, this will shift to "...and it's a good thing"

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:43 PM (j+aD2)

88 I'm pretty sure those 11 million all died of COVID soon after the election.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 22, 2026 02:38 PM (5yDGQ)

And stopped voting? Doubt it.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:43 PM (PjoLk)

89 Same sort of thing happened to me, I was walking down the street, tripped and my thingy ended up inside of someone. I was so confused, it all happened so fast.
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 22, 2026 02:41 PM (IgKwI)

Fam!

Posted by: Matt Lauer at July 22, 2026 02:43 PM (2YhKe)

90 83 to the left, democracy means doing what the people want, not what the people think they want
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:42 PM (CWTWj)

No, to the Democrats, Democracy means rule by democrats.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 02:43 PM (mP0Kj)

91 We need to rename the SAVE act to the Bob Slydell Act, “We fixed the glitch”.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 22, 2026 02:43 PM (IgKwI)

92 Democrats reflexive position is to quickly lie about everything.

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2026 02:44 PM (HZVWT)

93 Here’s the issue, and it’s one Harmeet Dhillon picked up on immediately.

The CRA and other governing laws allow inspections of the voters lists. But many courts have ruled their needs to be cause. That is, they posit you can’t go fishing. You have to have a reason.

Right before this announcement by governor dunce of NJ a court ruled in their favor that the DoJ didn’t have a right to review NJ voter roles.

The reason? There was no cause for it. The timing of the ruling and the announcement are suspect. That is, as the case was being litigated NJ sat on the evidence that would most likely compel a review by the DoJ.

That’s why NJ is trying to say this was a glitch and a one time incident they fixed. With the software company now saying it was designed as instructed, it means the registration and maintenance process is the problem not a one time glitch. That should, in an honest court, give the DOJ cause for review and the court should grant their request. NJ is shitting bricks. They don’t want a review because there is a lot more to hide.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 02:44 PM (A+X4b)

94 You stupid fucking bastards. This was predictable and was predicted.

You were told in no uncertain terms not to provide driver license to illegal aliens, among other things.
I hope you fuckers die in a fire. Better than you deserve

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:44 PM (waftC)

95 simply their ballots being harvested
Soon the organs

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 02:44 PM (g6GxJ)

96 I really hope that Harmeet Dhillon has a plan for election night.

A handful of states. A few dozen precincts. All known bad actors.

Dozens of DOJ lawyers with orders from the top, assisted by RNC lawyers.

We'll see. Fingers crossed. Holding my breath.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:44 PM (vbx7B)

97 On the other side of the country, where cartel money flows like water to the Dems, I see a media headline claiming Republicans just lost the AZ governor race because Andy Biggs is an "election denier."

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (3cUTc)

98 81 In fact, I think the Dems want it that way, with a bunch of non-voting but registered illegals. That gives them a huge supply of ballots to harvest.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (OlzlW)

99 So voting is now basically a video game and the democrats have a bunch of cheat codes.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (Eac9A)
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Press ~ to open the command console.

Type in IDDQD to enable God Mode.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (FZ29D)

100 A handful of states. A few dozen precincts. All known bad actors.

Dozens of DOJ lawyers with orders from the top, assisted by RNC lawyers.

We'll see. Fingers crossed. Holding my breath.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:44 PM (vbx7B)

Still waiting on that Kraken, boss........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (2YhKe)

101 TJM! where have you been?

this place has been making me depressed without ya!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (j+aD2)

102 software was designed, at NJ's insistence,[i/]

The old

If then do something
else do it anyways

statement.

A mainstay of advanced programming languages.

Posted by: DaveA at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (FhXTo)

103 Two menopausal CIA Barbies as governors is something the Founders never envisioned.

Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at July 22, 2026 02:46 PM (JM9I6)

104 97 On the other side of the country, where cartel money flows like water to the Dems, I see a media headline claiming Republicans just lost the AZ governor race because Andy Biggs is an "election denier."

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (3cUTc)

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Cartels be hurtin' right about now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:46 PM (vbx7B)

105 An AWFL politician lying? I just shan't believe it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 02:46 PM (sMkB+)

106 So I'll drag this out. It'll piss people off. Its not a troll. But I know how this shit goes.

We shouldn't have popular vote for the President. Settle it on a combined session of the House and Senate. By on record vote.

Because you can't - firstly - pick a Supreme Leader by any contest where almost 400 million people pick under different circumstances and rules.

And I don't trust half those fuckers anyway. Looking at you, New England. They'll rig this shit.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:47 PM (q/hOL)

107 101 TJM! where have you been?

this place has been making me depressed without ya!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (j+aD2)

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Taking the boys to the pool. Library.

Filming as much as possible (56 subs to 1000!)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:47 PM (vbx7B)

108 Democrats lie.

When the lie is discovered, they will lie more.

They will lie when the truth would serve them better.

Because they are liars, like their father, Devil because there is no truth in him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 02:47 PM (N1tpc)

109 >>Why is it not mandated that AMERICAN elections handled by software should be from an AMERICAN company with AMERICANS doing the programming?

Not just foreign. A lot of states use ERIC voting to "help" with their voter rolls. ERIC is a us based NGO that was received funding from leftwing Pew Charitable Trust and Dr. Evill himself, Soros.

Look at how many states are fighting Harmeet Dhillon to hide their voter rolls. They don't give a crap about the privacy of their citizens, they don't want us to see what they are doing.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 02:47 PM (viF8m)

110 I see Fake Tapper continues to be a little bitch

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2026 02:47 PM (NtVYv)

111 Yeah I confused my knife into that white boy. Life is so perplexing sometimes!

Posted by: Caramello at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (SB5L+)

112 Press ~ to open the command console.

Type in IDDQD to enable God Mode.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (FZ29D)
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You just brought back memories of playing DOOM on God Mode. Tons of fun.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (amcLV)

113 Heh. TJM said he was "takin' the kids to the pool."

Heheheh.

He was poopin........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (2YhKe)

114 NJ is shitting bricks. They don’t want a review because there is a lot more to hide.
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I said yesterday you can add a zero to the end of those numbers they admitted.

And then probably double that to get the real number of illegals that are registered and that voted.

And:
If these illegals were voting for Republicans, they'd all already be in jail by now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (3cUTc)

115 I have studied vote systems since 2000, as I watched states go nuts with electronic fraud systems.

I want to stress a point that most people gloss over -- these motor voter laws, and over inclusive registration are **designed** for fraud. These are not to encourage voting, but are designed to create a pool of low propensity "voters" that can be exploited for fraud purposes.

This has been the Democrat Party strategy going back to the 70s. And only for fraud.

A secure vote system removes low propensity voters and fixes the rolls weeks before an election so that the registration lists can be canvassed and check -- by the public -- to insure it is not full of false names or people who do not intend to vote. This is "Election Security 101"

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (GDYiM)

116
100 million illegals. Many of whom have been here for years, even decades, to the point where they think of themselves as rightful denizens of this nation and should have a voice in its governing.

But only 1 or 2 of them vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And they were just confused.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 02:49 PM (Cqx++)

117 Who was that one poster who said the voting system, i forget the name of the system, was not hacked even connected to the internet?

Is this that?

Posted by: Rigged Election Machines at July 22, 2026 02:49 PM (kCsPk)

118 All voting and registration should be done in person on paper records. No auto pens either. Same for state lawmaking.
Only computers be used to archive paper records as searchable jpegs.

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2026 02:49 PM (HZVWT)

119
"When we find a problem, we don't hide it, " lies Mikie. She didn't find shit. Someone else found it and you had nowhere to go. Lying bitch.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 02:49 PM (mmrXZ)

120 112 Press ~ to open the command console.

Type in IDDQD to enable God Mode.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (FZ29D)
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You just brought back memories of playing DOOM on God Mode. Tons of fun.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (amcLV)

=====

Gets boring quick.

Gotta play at least on Ultra-Violence. I got through all of Thy Flesh Consumed and all of DOOM II before the level designs of TNT: Evilution just frustrated me into quitting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:49 PM (vbx7B)

121 “Our Democracy”

We’ve been through this already. But what they mean by that is the vast unelected unaccountable Bureaucracy. That rules by fiat and other jiggery-pokery methods.

It most definitely does not mean citizen voters being represented by their members of congress or “will of the people”. Hell, Republicans don’t believe in that either, for the most part. As you’ve undoubtedly noticed.

Trump himself got traction because the Illusion of Particapatory Government was wearing pretty damn thin. When more than half of the population effectively has no say in government it’s gonna get sporty sooner or later.

Trump is the guy who is asking nicely. Suggesting that government agencies and personnel do their job, what they are required to do in fact.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:50 PM (waftC)

122 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at July 22, 2026 02:50 PM (xTZ7H)

123 Oh jeez........

Mike Netter
@nettermike
·
14h
🚨BREAKING: Steve Hilton and his CAL-DOGE fraud investigation team have uncovered a massive scam: Mexican citizens living in Mexico are pretending to be illegal immigrants residing in California — and collecting free healthcare paid for by California taxpayers.

According to Hilton, this fraud is part of $20 BILLION in taxpayer dollars being sent to illegals — and Governor Gavin Newsom is reportedly bragging about it.

This is next-level fraud.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 02:50 PM (kX27y)

124 these motor voter laws, and over inclusive registration are **designed** for fraud

that's what I just said! I said it way way back too!

clearly that is the purpose of Motor Voter.

Vote fraud.

and every. single. fraud. vote CANCELS THE VOTE OF A LEGAL CITIZEN!

don't the Ds always cry about "disenfranchisement"?!?! they're the ones doing it!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (j+aD2)

125 More Cali-fuquery

@joelpollak
California's @AGRobBonta, in a shameless act of election-rigging, has changed the title of the Voter ID referendum from "ESTABLISHES ADDITIONAL VOTER IDENTIFICATION AND CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION REQUIREMENTS" to "PROHIBITS CITIZENS FROM VOTING UNLESS...".

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (diia5)

126 We fixed the glitch

Posted by: The Bobs at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (MwS0A)

127 Gets boring quick.
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Good for the occasional laugh, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (amcLV)

128 🚨BREAKING: Steve Hilton and his CAL-DOGE fraud investigation team have uncovered a massive scam: Mexican citizens living in Mexico are pretending to be illegal immigrants residing in California — and collecting free healthcare paid for by California taxpayers.

sure why the hell not

at this point Mexico is nicer than Cali

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (j+aD2)

129 Can anyone here imagine the screaming and burning of all the things if Trump won 2020 after that "pause" in counting the votes in all of the swing states.

The violence would have been historical.

Now also imagine Democrat polling places "running out of ballots... Aw shucks.."

Yeah. Everything would be burning

Posted by: Melodicmetal at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (61TgR)

130 >>Who was that one poster who said the voting system, i forget the name of the system, was not hacked even connected to the internet?

Brian in New Orleans.

I watched a meeting that was held with voting experts in GA after the 2020 election. During the meeting he hacked into one of the GA elections machines we have been repeatedly told were not connected to the internet by using the internet.

Obviously, nothing came of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (viF8m)

131 127 Gets boring quick.
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Good for the occasional laugh, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (amcLV)

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Punching the Cyberdemon to death, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (vbx7B)

132 I really hope that Harmeet Dhillon has a plan for election night.

A handful of states. A few dozen precincts. All known bad actors.

Dozens of DOJ lawyers with orders from the top, assisted by RNC lawyers.

We'll see. Fingers crossed. Holding my breath.
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Don't forget:
Candidate now have standing--before the election--to enforce voting laws.

I can't wait for the retarded legal fuckery of the cartel judges, that only someone who goes to Harvard would be stupid enough to think makes sense, to still deny standing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (3cUTc)

133 121 “Our Democracy”

the "Our" being the operative word

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (j+aD2)

134 That’s why NJ is trying to say this was a glitch and a one time incident they fixed.

New England, man. A lot - and I do mean a lot - of the shit bubbles up from that line from DC to Philly to Boston to NYC.

Add in San Francisco and south ? The rest of us just try to do the best we can working around the stark raving fucking idiots from those areas.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (q/hOL)

135 NJ’s reading is that exposure of the voter lists to the DoJ violates their privacy statutes. Argument on that bullshit reasoning another day.

Yesterday, they selectively release data and made sure to say the illegal aliens included Republicans, Democrats and voters without a party “Independents”. What they didn’t tell you is how many from each party? Why? How does that violate privacy laws, and how would those laws apply anyway to a non citizen illegally present in the country committing a criminal act?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (JmfGy)

136 Motor Voter registers everyone - there is no credible check and balance, none at all. then those voter rolls are, of course, used to commit fraud. Signed by Clinton in 1993. So by 2023...we have 30 years worth of unaudited voter rolls.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (GD0B3)

137 I was taking a political quiz for lulz and one of the questions was, "Should the government be able to ban books from libraries and schools" and this always makes me chuckle because its not a real question.

Should you local elementary school have Hustler magazine? The Turner Diaries? No? But that's (D)ifferenent then explicit gay books or communist propaganda for some reason?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (sKqQm)

138 All voting and registration should be done in person on paper records.
——

Temporarily. Like so many other government programs. A little test to set a baseline. National Security demands it.

Out of an Abundance of Caution. Who could object to that?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:52 PM (waftC)

139 Disenfranchisement? You're soaking in it!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:53 PM (amcLV)

140 "PROHIBITS CITIZENS FROM VOTING UNLESS...".
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 02:51 PM (diia5)

And that will probably do the trick to get it defeated 60+% to 30+%.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 02:53 PM (kX27y)

141 81 She also insists that illegal aliens who voted were just confused.

I think a large portion of illegals voting is simply their ballots being harvested, which they likely don't even know about.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of

I bet it’s a blend - I am thinking if someone comes here illegally, they don’t have a strong moral compass to start. Why not vote, especially if that vote leads to an admin that isn’t so concerned with your status?

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 02:53 PM (Dd38x)

142 Brian in New Orleans.

One of the guys I was thinking of. Couldn't say, enough, that "The System is Working".

Frankly - I don't think he was a plant. I think he was just typical.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:54 PM (q/hOL)

143 > Now, of course, they're insisting that the very real problem of illegal voting by fucking foreigners must reach a minimum threshold before anyone is allowed to complain of it or demand changes to stop it.

6,600 can EASILY turn a state election. We're past the threshold.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 22, 2026 02:54 PM (mkw2N)

144
Well, this changes what i thought from yesterday, which was that there were tons of bug reports that state admins ignored.

I'm glad that software vendor spoke up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 02:54 PM (mmrXZ)

145 6,600 can EASILY turn a state election. We're past the threshold.

there's no way to know the threshold until the election is complete. and then it's too late.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:55 PM (j+aD2)

146 Go to NJ if you dare. Illegal immigrants are everywhere. Even in communities that are supposed to be nice.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 02:55 PM (JmfGy)

147 Step 1 in election fraud prevention --

-Voter rolls must *only* include those with real intention to vote.
-It must be fixed and public weeks before the election to allow canvassing by the public to verify (random sampling) that the voters listed represent real people with intent to vote.
- Ideally, it would also be checked to insure that voters on list are eligible to vote, not registered in other jurisdictions, are alive, are competent, and *have some intent to vote*

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 02:55 PM (GDYiM)

148 I suspect ballots from illegals are a mix. Some are cast by illegals some aren't.

The illegals themselves get to stay in the US and $$$ if they vote D so why wouldn't they?

And then of course as we know the Dems have a massive operation to cast ballots for people that don't normally vote but are on the voter rolls.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

149
Out of an Abundance of Caution. Who could object to that?
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:52

May I introduce you to John Thune, Skeletor Murkowski, and the ghost of Mitch McConnell.

Ps. Autocorrect tried to make “Mitch” “itchy”.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 02:56 PM (Dd38x)

150 I've been seeing a number of stories about the number of duplicate registrations that have been found in various states.

Do we also know how many of those people voted multiple times?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:56 PM (sKqQm)

151 I'm glad that software vendor spoke up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 02:54 PM (mmrXZ)
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Given that they were being publicly defamed, it was rather necessary.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 02:56 PM (amcLV)

152 I really hope that Harmeet Dhillon has a plan for election night.

A handful of states. A few dozen precincts. All known bad actors.

Dozens of DOJ lawyers with orders from the top, assisted by RNC lawyers.

We'll see. Fingers crossed. Holding my breath.
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Trumps USPS gambit, if allowed to be implemented, would be another game changer.

Posted by: WisRich at July 22, 2026 02:56 PM (G0vdT)

153 Make voter fraud a hanging offense. Watch how quickly it stops.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 02:56 PM (JmfGy)

154 Motor Voter registers everyone - there is no credible check and balance, none at all. then those voter rolls are, of course, used to commit fraud. Signed by Clinton in 1993. So by 2023...we have 30 years worth of unaudited voter rolls.
Posted by: runner

The one thing George Will got right back in '93. Weird that he continued to lick the boots of the GOPe after that. ( speaking of, is that fuqer still alive??? )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 02:57 PM (diia5)

155 148 I suspect ballots from illegals are a mix. Some are cast by illegals some aren't.

The illegals themselves get to stay in the US and $$$ if they vote D so why wouldn't they?

And then of course as we know the Dems have a massive operation to cast ballots for people that don't normally vote but are on the voter rolls.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

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I suspect most who do vote just vote because they think they are allowed and know that they're registered, not because they're paid.

I doubt many of the smart ones are the ones who are voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:57 PM (vbx7B)

156 152 Trumps USPS gambit, if allowed to be implemented, would be another game changer.

Posted by: WisRich at July 22, 2026 02:56 PM (G0vdT)

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Latest I've heard is that it is going forward, the circuit court denied the motions against it.

We'll see. Fingers crossed. Holding my breath.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (vbx7B)

157 >>>There Was No "Glitch," Our Softward Did Exactly What NJ Wanted It To Do

I was going to make this point yesterday. Good to see the company call out the defamatory lies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (a+Rw6)

158 6,600 can EASILY turn a state election. We're past the threshold.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 22, 2026 02:54 PM (mkw2N)
Exactly - from coffee and covid substack:
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The Times leaned hard into statistics: ~0.02% of 2023 local votes, and ~0.009% of 2024 presidential votes in New Jersey. Of course, two weeks ago, the very same Times insisted it was a “problem that doesn’t exist.” So.

But that shrink-ray framing ignores how elections actually work. Many local races are decided by dozens or hundreds of votes; and more often than you’d think by a single vote. Statewide primaries and down‑ballot contests regularly fall in margins where only a few hundred ballots affect the outcome.
Even if, for the sake of argument, you accept that only 400 illegal votes exist in this one episode —every single one was detected— that’s enough to decide close school board races, council seats, county offices, or local ballot measures. For a few quick examples:

2020: Iowa’s 2nd congressional district was decided by 6 votes.
2020: New York’s 22nd district decided by 109 votes.
2022: Connecticut House District 81 decided by 1 vote.
2026: Boca Raton, FL mayor decided by 5 votes after a recount.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (kX27y)

159 Make voter fraud a hanging offense. Watch how quickly it stops.

Also we will get to be amused when Jose Welfareguy gets arrested and can *prove* he was visiting back home when someone mailed in a ballot in his name...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

160 AZ has to work hard to rig their elections. Voter ID is required to vote in person. If vote by mail is severely restricted, AZ Democrats will be out of office next January, most likely.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (eGzf1)

161 If we gave Cali back to Mexico , would that be a bad thing? Keep the interior give them some of the coast. After a while the Mexicans would probably give it back

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (sMkB+)

162 161 If we gave Cali back to Mexico , would that be a bad thing? Keep the interior give them some of the coast. After a while the Mexicans would probably give it back

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 02:58 PM (sMkB+)

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Spain has the better claim.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 02:59 PM (vbx7B)

163 I have yet to see where one secretary of state has been put to death for voter fraud. This needs to start happening. You took an oath. The registered citizen voters should make good on the oath.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 02:59 PM (sYM3s)

164 Under my system, there will be no voter registration.

It would instead be:
- one day, Election Day, in-person voting only
- valid government ID required to obtain a ballot
- thumbprint and signature before you're handed the ballot

If they can wheel hospice-bound Jimmy Carter out on a gurney to vote, you don't fucking need absentee ballots.

Anybody who can't vote under that system, doesn't need a say in how this country is run.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:59 PM (3cUTc)

165 yep, hit the distribution node!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 02:59 PM (GD0B3)

166 Illegal aliens should not be in schools, and should not be issued driver licenses. Bank accounts. Treatment at Hospitals.

You’re just nibbling around the edges if you allow this sort of shit. And it’s been going on 50 years.

I know everyone learns at their own pace, but, this is what they depend on. Flood the Zone. It becomes a moot point, and here we are.

They make bank on facilitating the destruction of our country.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:59 PM (waftC)

167 Make voter fraud a hanging offense. Watch how quickly it stops.
Posted by: Vengeance

You may be disappointed to learn when the last de-capitol sentence was carried out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 02:59 PM (diia5)

168 Did exactly what Mikie Sherrill wanted, just like Ruth Buzzi’s Lincoln Continental.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 03:00 PM (Kh5FU)

169 136 Motor Voter registers everyone - there is no credible check and balance, none at all. then those voter rolls are, of course, used to commit fraud. Signed by Clinton in 1993. So by 2023...we have 30 years worth of unaudited voter rolls.
Posted by: runner at July

Technically, no. They just transfer the data to the Board of Registrars who is supposed to take the data and verify it prior registration. But my favorite part of this whole concept is relying on people to self select they are here but ineligible to vote to start. Because those who came here illegally would certainly never do anything against the rules, right?

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Dd38x)

170 If we gave Cali back to Mexico , would that be a bad thing? Keep the interior give them some of the coast. After a while the Mexicans would probably give it back
Posted by: Smell the Glove

A few Marines might disappointed in your enthusiasm to give away Pendleton. Just a few, mind you. Also, pack some crayons.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (diia5)

171
People's Hippo,

Yep. Only in person voting except for military people.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (/QHx4)

172 Illegal aliens should not be in schools, and should not be issued driver licenses. Bank accounts. Treatment at Hospitals.

Invaders should be met with military force

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (sKqQm)

173 that's what I just said! I said it way way back too!

clearly that is the purpose of Motor Voter.

Vote fraud.

Posted by: Black Orchid

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Yes, But they sold it as convenience and encouraging "democracy"

Same with trying to lower the voting age.
Same with those hated MTV rock the vote bullshit. and the "I voted" stickers.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (GDYiM)

174 This is great. Really Terrific. The Best. *points*
Seriously, can you believe these idiots? So predictable.

I say something. They go all out denying it. Then we dump the proof. YEEOUCHIE!! That Smarts doesn't fake news.

Thank you fake news for never getting smarter.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (anL5R)

175 171
People's Hippo,

Yep. Only in person voting except for military people.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (/QHx4)

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Proposal:

Military voters can still only vote in person (no absentee), but when they leave service with an honorable discharge they get two votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vbx7B)

176 Keep in mind:
Biden didn't win by "5 million votes" as the left repeats endlessly.

He "won" by less than 40k votes in 3 states.

(from memory, it was like)
12k in GA
14k in WI
11k in AZ

But sure, a few thousand illegals voting won't change the outcome of a Presidential election ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (3cUTc)

177 It's all Fake and Gay.

Posted by: Max Power at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (SwyyQ)

178 The whole point of having identity verficiation is so that you can turn it off.

Posted by: Barack Obama's Campaign Finances at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (T7fic)

179 176 Keep in mind:
Biden didn't win by "5 million votes" as the left repeats endlessly.

He "won" by less than 40k votes in 3 states.

(from memory, it was like)
12k in GA
14k in WI
11k in AZ

But sure, a few thousand illegals voting won't change the outcome of a Presidential election ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (3cUTc)

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There are at least 300,000 fake ballots in GA alone.

They cheated a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vbx7B)

180 If they admit 6600, then to get the real number multiply by 10…. Lying liars will lie

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (m6Mib)

181 >>Trumps USPS gambit, if allowed to be implemented, would be another game changer.

Already been approved by a federal judge.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (viF8m)

182 My county sheriff is in favor of licenses for illegals. He's a Hispanic guy, not bad on crime, but my area is so left he goes with the flow. Illegals voting here have little impact because of the overwhelming Dem majority

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (sMkB+)

183 Lots of things going on here. The dem propagandists in the media have to deflect and minimize because they know any serious effort to stop vote fraud kills the dems.

Also they know that a lot of those illegals that voted may not have actually voted. Those votes were cast in their name. Once somebody interviews them it should be interesting.

And of course there is actually the vote counting software corruption that we have seen operated out of Venezuela and Ukraine.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (n5tGW)

184 If we gave Cali back to Mexico , would that be a bad thing? Keep the interior give them some of the coast. After a while the Mexicans would probably give it back.

I'm all for sending San Franciso and South back to Mexico today. I'm not kidding.

Thank Reagan. That state voted Republican for decades. Until he signed the first Amnesty and gave it away.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (q/hOL)

185 Technically, no. They just transfer the data to the Board of Registrars who is supposed to take the data and verify it prior registration. But my favorite part of this whole concept is relying on people to self select they are here but ineligible to vote to start. Because those who came here illegally would certainly never do anything against the rules, right?
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Dd38x)

It's a joke.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (GD0B3)

186
Illegals should not get any money from us.

You can't support yourself and your rugrats without our tax money you have no business being in OUR country.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 03:05 PM (/QHx4)

187 186
Illegals should not get any money from us.

You can't support yourself and your rugrats without our tax money you have no business being in OUR country.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 03:05 PM (/QHx4)

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Without explicit permission to be here from the body politic through our government, they have no business being here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:05 PM (vbx7B)

188 It's a joke.
Posted by: runner

Not really.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 03:05 PM (diia5)

189 There are at least 300,000 fake ballots in GA alone.

They cheated a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vbx7B)

They really had to scramble to pull off 2020. That's what the shutdown of counting was. My ralatives in England told me their news had Trump winning California until it suddenly didn't.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:06 PM (PjoLk)

190 Brian in New Orleans.

One of the guys I was thinking of. Couldn't say, enough, that "The System is Working".

Frankly - I don't think he was a plant. I think he was just typical.
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Brian in Name Only - was probably an employee of smart matic or someone in government that had brought smart matic into his town, county. He was way way to committed to defending them.

Posted by: Hunchy McHuncherson at July 22, 2026 03:06 PM (anL5R)

191 No fucking shame from Carter's family, wheeling that vegetable out there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 03:06 PM (lc8yo)

192 164 Under my system, there will be no voter registration.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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When 30% to 40% of eligible voters do not vote, you need registration to eliminate them from the pool.

Otherwise there will be incentive to have people paying them and driving them to the polls as needed to win. Election day will become a contest between ground games and who pays the most (as it was in the 19th century.) Even under your system.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 03:06 PM (GDYiM)

193 189 There are at least 300,000 fake ballots in GA alone.

They cheated a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vbx7B)

They really had to scramble to pull off 2020. That's what the shutdown of counting was. My ralatives in England told me their news had Trump winning California until it suddenly didn't.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:06 PM (PjoLk)

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And after months of mail in ballot fraud.

No wonder they put up the razor wire fence.

If Biden's administration had just governed well, they might have gotten away with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:07 PM (vbx7B)

194 Illegals should not get any money from us.

And thats how it works ... everywhere else not the EU. And in the EU for me. Because I'm a documented White American.

And there it is.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:07 PM (q/hOL)

195 Illegals should not get any money from us.
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Then how would my salary get paid? The trannies, lesbos, feminists, soi bois aren't having children, who am I supposed to teach??!?!?!

Posted by: Teacher's Union Teacher at July 22, 2026 03:08 PM (anL5R)

196
The Mexicans would turn around and sell it to the Chinese for ten cents on the Yuan.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Y8DZL)

197 @179 TJM, I think there's going to be a surprise in Georgia. Specifically indictments against election officials, maybe an attempt at a Federal monitor of the vote
While Ossoff may be getting big bucks from out of state, without the steal he's real vulnerable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 03:08 PM (sMkB+)

198 Are crayons vegan?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (uHx+y)

199 If Biden's administration had just governed well, they might have gotten away with it.

I suspect a couple of things came into play forcing Biden to not govern well:

1) They needed COVIDmania to win the election and that devastated the economy

2) Trump had done minor reductions to the Obama here grifting and the left wanted to get paid with interest.

So the Junta doubled spending which caused the 100% or so inflation of the Biden years killing the economy...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

200 The new Clayface trailer dropped (yet another Batman spin off). I really wanted to hate it but it looks kind of good. This is the second trailer released thus far... It really leans into the body horror angle.

Posted by: Max Power at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (SwyyQ)

201 I know about glitches.

Posted by: Future Zombie McConnell at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (nf+XS)

202
197 @179 TJM, I think there's going to be a surprise in Georgia. Specifically indictments against election officials, maybe an attempt at a Federal monitor of the vote
While Ossoff may be getting big bucks from out of state, without the steal he's real vulnerable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 03:08 PM (sMkB+)

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Ossoff has been my black horse for 2026 for a while.

Seeing him go from 2028 hopeful to embarrassing electoral failure that white progressives prop up anyway because they hate strong, intelligent black women who live by their own truths like Kamala is going to be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (vbx7B)

203 There's only enough illegal voting to guarantee every close race goes the Dem's way.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 03:10 PM (2ap+5)

204 Are crayons vegan?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (uHx+y)
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Not sure. Is wax a vegetable?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 03:10 PM (amcLV)

205 They know who was logged in the system
They know what workstation they were at
They know when they READ the record
They know when they OPEN (to edit) the record
They know when the record was modified and updated
They also most likely have an image of the data before and after the change(S).

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 03:10 PM (/+uur)

206 There are at least 300,000 fake ballots in GA alone.

They cheated a lot.

We can ignore voter fraud. We just have to beat the margin of fraud.

Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 03:11 PM (mkw2N)

207
My entire life, I've listened to people who are all fired up about some corruption.

It could be Bush & Enron, or Obama & Solyndra. Or Bear Stearns & Goldman Sachs & Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Or USAID and the NGOs, and the Somali Learing Centers. Or Diebold, or Dominion.

It's always something. Everyone senses the corruption, and latches on to some facet of the corruption, and obssesses about it. But they can only recognize the corruption outside their group.

I'm always reminded of the parable about the blind men groping an elephant, and feeling all different things, and then turning on each other as liars.

Everyone wants to grasp onto the corruption that reinforces their presuppositions, and can't stand back far enough to see that it's all corrupt, and every part works together.

Say it again with me: "it's not that the system is corrupt; corruption is the system."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 03:11 PM (BI5O2)

208 199 I suspect a couple of things came into play forcing Biden to not govern well:

1) They needed COVIDmania to win the election and that devastated the economy

2) Trump had done minor reductions to the Obama here grifting and the left wanted to get paid with interest.

So the Junta doubled spending which caused the 100% or so inflation of the Biden years killing the economy...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

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Don't open the borders.

Do that, and it might have been enough, to be honest. So much of what came afterwards were first, second, and third order effects of letting in between 12 and 20 million people in a concentrated period of time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:11 PM (vbx7B)

209 Otherwise there will be incentive to have people paying them and driving them to the polls as needed to win. Election day will become a contest between ground games and who pays the most (as it was in the 19th century.) Even under your system.
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I assume that.

But the logistics of bussing 1,000 drug-addled zombies around Philly make it prohibitive for effective fraud.
There were hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes in 2020.
You can't pull that off with same-day, in-person voting.

Note also, I said "sig and thumb print" bc now we have a record of "who" voted.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 03:11 PM (3cUTc)

210 No voter fraud exists

Maybe a little exists

It exists and here is why that’s a good thing

If you don’t fully support voter fraud you’re a H8ful white nationalist.

Posted by: Democrats at July 22, 2026 03:12 PM (GEtfQ)

211 Yeah it seems to have been rather depressive here lately. More than usual. I don't help. Need more pedowood threads? Or Kathy Griffin. Or David French.

Or Kathy Griffin AND David French.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:13 PM (SB5L+)

212 206 There are at least 300,000 fake ballots in GA alone.

They cheated a lot.

We can ignore voter fraud. We just have to beat the margin of fraud.

Posted by: Idiots at July 22, 2026 03:11 PM (mkw2N)

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This takes me back to my own view by about summer of 2024.

There was no margin of fraud. 2020 and 2022 had proven that. The DNC and its allies in executives and judicial positions would simply do more cheating because no one would challenge them.

And then...the RNC actually fought. It replaced McDaniel with Michael Whatley and Lara Trump. Lawsuits seemed more aggressive and pointed.

All it took was firing Ronna McDaniel, and Trump won 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:13 PM (vbx7B)

213 So Sidney Powell’s Kraken finally shows up?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 03:13 PM (caIto)

214 If Biden's administration had just governed well, they might have gotten away with it.

I'll say no. Hillary would have won in '08. But they rigged their own primary to get Obama.

Keep in mind ... they fucked Hillary out of that one. They simply refused to sit her Michigan delegates. And invented Super Delegates to make sure it stuck.

They started down this road then. Ironic.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:14 PM (q/hOL)

215 We'll see if it goes anywhere.......

Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill is unveiling legislation to limit birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens during a declared “invasion,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller.

Gill’s bill, titled the “Citizenship Act,” would clarify that the children of illegal aliens who entered our country as part of an invasion are not entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

“The Constitution was never intended to reward unlawful entry by automatically granting citizenship to the children of those who invaded our country,” Gill told the Daily Caller. “If we are serious about recognizing that our nation has been invaded, then our laws should reflect that reality. We should not extend one of the greatest privileges our nation can bestow—American citizenship—to the children of those who entered our country unlawfully as part of that invasion. I’m proud to introduce the Citizenship Act in the House to remedy our code of law.”

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 03:15 PM (kX27y)

216 Not sure. Is wax a vegetable?
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Well, depends, earwax isn't.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 22, 2026 03:15 PM (anL5R)

217 The Walt Disney Company has unleashed a fresh bloodbath across its entertainment empire, with Pixar taking a major hit despite the blockbuster success of “Toy Story 5.”

The “Mouse House” announced several hundred layoffs Tuesday in its third round of cuts this year, affecting Disney Entertainment Television, ESPN, corporate divisions and Disney Studios, according to SFist.

Pixar’s Emeryville animation studio was hit hardest within the film division. Disney has not confirmed how many Pixar workers lost their jobs, but a source told TheWrap that roughly 116 employees were laid off.

... they need a way to pay Joyless Behar

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

218 Trust me, I don't eat vegetables.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 22, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R)

219 203 There's only enough illegal voting to guarantee every close race goes the Dem's way.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 03:10 PM (2ap+5)

I think it's what even gets them to close. Every democrap loss since 2000 is only a result of them not being able to cheat enough in that district. Or the R candidate is preffered and left alone as they are safe and vote with dems on important issues. Resources are then spent elsewear.
A plausable as close to 50/50 split is the goal. With the allowed R's always crossing when needed.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:16 PM (PjoLk)

220 The bureaucrats want to drown everyone in paperwork for everything from a hangnail to painting your garage to being dead.

Form after form. Letter after letter. Document after document. In triplicate.

Unless you're an illegal. In which case fuck documenting a fucking thing ever.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:16 PM (SB5L+)

221
But we owe everyone, 'cause Imperialism.

Sorry, should have started this with a land acknowledgement to Chief Hazy Cloud and Wabasis, who were much better people than you are

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (Y8DZL)

222 Pixar ? Isn't it the least woke division?

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (GD0B3)

223 its easy to see it was rigged. Multiple cities don't decide within 15 minutes to stop counting votes.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:27

INDEED. We were watching it all in 2020. There never was an explanation for stopping the counting at the same time in 6 swing states. Trump was leading before then Biden took the lead when counting resumed.

At one point Trump total was going down, he was losing votes in some state. Just how does that happen???

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (55Qr6)

224 Is this something?

Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill is unveiling legislation to limit birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens during a declared "invasion," according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller.

Gill's bill, titled the "Citizenship Act," would clarify that the children of illegal aliens who entered our country as part of an invasion are not entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

Probably won't amount to a squirt of piss, as it's dead in the Senate, but still -- if nothing else, it's good to see at least some in the GOP aren't retarded eunuchs.

https://tinyurl.com/mvw44exm

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

225 The “Mouse House” announced several hundred layoffs Tuesday in its third round of cuts this year, affecting Disney Entertainment Television, ESPN, corporate divisions and Disney Studios, according to SFist.

Pixar’s Emeryville animation studio was hit hardest within the film division. Disney has not confirmed how many Pixar workers lost their jobs, but a source told TheWrap that roughly 116 employees were laid off.

... they need a way to pay Joyless Behar
Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

That’s a shame…. Anyway,

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (m6Mib)

226 They didn't need to govern well. They were getting rid of Trump, by hook or by Crooks. And Kamala was going to sail into office.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:18 PM (SB5L+)

227 But the logistics of bussing 1,000 drug-addled zombies around Philly make it prohibitive for effective fraud.
There were hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes in 2020.
You can't pull that off with same-day, in-person voting.

Note also, I said "sig and thumb print" bc now we have a record of "who" voted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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Maybe signature and thumb print would work, but only if every one is verified. Maybe with AI that is possible -- that is a new wrinkle.

But we already see that signature checks are dependent on state and local administrators and they all lean one way.

In the 80s and 90s I lived in East Coast city and I would regularly "notice" church busses full of people going to each polling station. They had a guy with clipboard telling the "voter" what name to use. All day long, they apparently hit dozens of stations with each bus.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 03:18 PM (GDYiM)

228 222 Pixar ? Isn't it the least woke division?

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (GD0B3)

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HAHAHAHA!

Not in the least.

Might be the most woke.
It's so woke that Pete Doctor completely scrapped Elio and started it from essentially scrap because the creatives had gone so "my boyhood was GAY GAY GAY! and aliens".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:18 PM (vbx7B)

229 The Justice Department is demanding that New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) fork over key data about the 6,600 non-citizens who were erroneously registered to vote, including the people’s names.

On Tuesday, Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) blamed a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System involving French tech company IDEMIA for the mishap that led to roughly 400 noncitizens voting.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who helms the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, soon thereafter blasted out a missive outlining her demands for the investigation, including the nationalities, registration dates, and other key information for the 6,600 people.

“Ensuring that U.S. citizens’ votes are not illegally diluted by noncitizens’ votes is of paramount importance,” Dhillon wrote in a letter to Sherrill.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:18 PM (RHGPo)

230 At one point Trump total was going down, he was losing votes in some state. Just how does that happen???
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (55Qr6)

I think we know EXACTLY how that happened.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 03:19 PM (rfNMH)

231 230 At one point Trump total was going down, he was losing votes in some state. Just how does that happen???
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (55Qr6)

I think we know EXACTLY how that happened.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 03:19 PM (rfNMH)

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"Every time a Republican regrets his vote, Trump loses a vote, duh!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:19 PM (vbx7B)

232 INDEED. We were watching it all in 2020. There never was an explanation for stopping the counting at the same time in 6 swing states. Trump was leading before then Biden took the lead when counting resumed.
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C'mon you guyz that happens all the time. Why you aren't a bunch of crazy conspiracy nuts now are you? Huh? Why don't you just simmer down and have an ice cream cone. That's what I do when the dog bites me.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 22, 2026 03:20 PM (anL5R)

233
Already been approved by a federal judge.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 03:04 PM (viF8m)

Approved is one thing.

Getting the f*cking federal employees to follow through with it is something COMPLETLY different.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:20 PM (2YhKe)

234 218 Trust me, I don't eat vegetables.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 22, 2026 03:16 PM (anL5R)

Because that would constitute cannibalism.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (rfNMH)

235

Probably won't amount to a squirt of piss, as it's dead in the Senate, but still -- if nothing else, it's good to see at least some in the GOP aren't retarded eunuchs.

https://tinyurl.com/mvw44exm
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

Senate has a version too.

"Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
1h
🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) has officially filed the CITIZENSHIP ACT to ABOLISH birthright citizenship for illegal aliens following the Supreme Court's ruling

Sen. JIM BANKS (R-IN) has the Senate version.."

and -

"Sen. Jim Banks Unveils Citizenship Act of 2026 to End Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Immigrants
Senator Jim Banks introduced the Citizenship Act of 2026 to end birthright citizenship for children of unauthorized immigrants following a Supreme Court ruling.."

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (GD0B3)

236 Trust me, I don't eat vegetables.
Posted by: Joe Biden
......

That would be cannibalism.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (UjdFS)

237
Lol tcn!!

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (/QHx4)

238 Italian authorities seized roughly 1,700 pounds of cocaine hidden among pallets of bananas at a major port, officials said Tuesday.

The drugs were divided into 650 packages and “skillfully concealed” inside a refrigerated shipping container that arrived at the port of Vado Ligure from one of Ecuador’s main ports, according to Italy’s Guardia di Finanza.

.. they say that the best way to ship a nuclear weapon is to put it in the middle of a banana shipment

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (RHGPo)

239 Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill is unveiling legislation to limit birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens during a declared “invasion,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller.

Waste of time. Even if the Senate passed it.

John Roberts, Amy DumbAss Barrett, and the Three Sisters will say no.

I want the House just to go through the motions anyway.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (q/hOL)

240 HAHAHAHA!

Not in the least.

Might be the most woke.
It's so woke that Pete Doctor completely scrapped Elio and started it from essentially scrap because the creatives had gone so "my boyhood was GAY GAY GAY! and aliens".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:18 PM (vbx7B)

Holy Cow ! good riddance!

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 03:22 PM (GD0B3)

241 1. It's not happening
2. It's happening, but not a big deal
3. It's happening and it's a good thing
4. You're a racist for noticing

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 03:22 PM (avzH0)

242 If Biden's administration had just governed well, they might have gotten away with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:07 PM (vbx7B)
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That there is part of the problem.

If the cheaters were able to govern effectively and well, no one would care. In fact, if they governed well, they could win elections WITHOUT cheating.

But the Dems are so incompetent at governing, they are entirely dependent on cheating in elections to maintain power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:23 PM (FZ29D)

243 Note also, I said "sig and thumb print" bc now we have a record of "who" voted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Get convicted of (attempted) voter fraud, then you lose your thumbs. And your better half opens the ketchup bottle for you for the remainder of your years.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:24 PM (N39Ws)

244 When the software is adding one extra vote for Biden for every 20 and taking one away from Trump at the same time, you get the F U Curve.

This is what's known as a glitch.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:24 PM (n5tGW)

245 Pixar ? Isn't it the least woke division?
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (GD0B3)
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I dunno, but every Pixar movie I've seen in the last 15 years -- I never saw any Toy Story movies -- has been very woke. Like nothing but gay groomer propaganda. I think most of their directors/producers like gay rentboy dick.

So I think Pixar is probably the most woke.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

246 That there is part of the problem.

If the cheaters were able to govern effectively and well, no one would care. In fact, if they governed well, they could win elections WITHOUT cheating.

But the Dems are so incompetent at governing, they are entirely dependent on cheating in elections to maintain power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Hey, you know, that logic stuff is a lot like math.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (+UcOf)

247 236 Trust me, I don't eat vegetables.
Posted by: Joe Biden
......

That would be cannibalism.
Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (UjdFS)

The secret service agents stopped feeding him veggies after that one diaper blowout after he ate creamed spinach.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (N39Ws)

248 they say that the best way to ship a nuclear weapon is to put it in the middle of a banana shipment

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (RHGPo)

Nobody expects the Banana-ish Ammunition

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (SB5L+)

249 242 That there is part of the problem.

If the cheaters were able to govern effectively and well, no one would care. In fact, if they governed well, they could win elections WITHOUT cheating.

But the Dems are so incompetent at governing, they are entirely dependent on cheating in elections to maintain power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:23 PM (FZ29D)

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Their objectives are to punish those they dislike, almost all of whom are American citizens, and enrich themselves and their cronies.

Governing well simply doesn't come to them, it seems.

If you are going to depose the king, you have to either govern with abject fear to push away elite opposition or govern well to keep the people on your side.

They tried the former, but they simply don't have the disposition to rule an entire country with an iron fist. They want to push a button and stop hearing about things, not grind out a multi-year paramilitary campaign to subjugate the populace. The most they got was cosplayers LARPING in Portland as antifa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (vbx7B)

250 It appears the biggest "software error" in New Jersey was putting people in the loop of approving these voter registrations

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (RHGPo)

251 239 Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill is unveiling legislation to limit birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens during a declared “invasion,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller.

Waste of time. Even if the Senate passed it.

John Roberts, Amy DumbAss Barrett, and the Three Sisters will say no.

I want the House just to go through the motions anyway.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:21 PM (q/hOL)

Frankly, what would be even better politically is if we went about it the way the Constitution says that we should - pass an amendment. The simple process of doing that would flush out all the Dems and RINOs that would stand in the way of an 80/20 issue. In the long run, we'd be better off doing it that way - win or lose.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (9CbuZ)

252 200 The new Clayface trailer dropped (yet another Batman spin off). I really wanted to hate it but it looks kind of good. This is the second trailer released thus far... It really leans into the body horror angle.

yes! I saw that!

it does look good. the lead actor is usually good.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (j+aD2)

253 Get convicted of (attempted) voter fraud, then you lose your thumbs. And your better half opens the ketchup bottle for you for the remainder of your years.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

There's always the other way...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (diia5)

254 _______

I dunno, but every Pixar movie I've seen in the last 15 years -- I never saw any Toy Story movies -- has been very woke. Like nothing but gay groomer propaganda. I think most of their directors/producers like gay rentboy dick.

So I think Pixar is probably the most woke.

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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That statement begs a question.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (+UcOf)

255 At what point do we all say enough is enough?

Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
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7h
🚨INFURIATING🚨

An Ethiopian migrant executed three apartment complex employees over a parking spot fee in Minnesota.

Tsegaab Binessu said, “hated the American system” after his arrest.

Local outlets are referring to him as a “St. Paul man” but he’s actually a demon from Ethiopia.

Court documents show the third world scumbag was upset about our immigration system, “he was treated unfairly because he is black and an immigrant.”

The murderer quit his trucking job recently. He was trying to bring his wife and kids into the United States.

This news report misses all the key points about the “alleged” murder being from a third world cesspool and his comments about our country—which appear in court filings.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (kX27y)

256 Then there is the Biden DOJ "settlement" with the NAACP.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (PjoLk)

257 So I think Pixar is probably the most woke.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

Leading up to Disney's acquisition, I think the studio was good to great. Now it is just one more grave stone marking all of the failed/ruined IP Disney destroyed.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (N39Ws)

258 Post -134- I see that Scogg under his latest handle has started insulting people again. No, Scogg , not everybody from these areas is a "f'ing idiot."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 03:26 PM (dom7w)

259 Jake Tapper says he wonders why an illegal would want to vote:

"You know you're not only supposed to vote, you're not supposed to be there. Why do you vote?"

... because you know ICE probably won't be there

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (RHGPo)

260 When the software is adding one extra vote for Biden for every 20 and taking one away from Trump at the same time, you get the F U Curve.

So what we're getting at is something nobody wants to talk about.

We can't trust "Secret Ballot" anymore. Because we can't trust the counters. Judging by my reading of history ? Couldn't trust the counters all the way back to the '60s.

So we go Public Ballot. Or we push this shit beyond direct elections. Which is why I keep saying. Go back to Legislatures appointing Senators. And the House and Senate on-record vote a President.

And we need more House Reps. The proportion is screwed. Not how the system started. Way too many voters for way too few reps.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (q/hOL)

261 I don’t care who is “for” illegal alien driver licenses, it is another piece of an insanity puzzle with many pieces. It is a key document, that opens the door to many others.

They have incentivized through fairy tale legal rulings. The U.S.A. is an “attractive nuisance” so to speak.

There is no downside to this from a foreign perspective. No other country on the planet has been forced to put up with all this bullshit.

You think Mexico gives illegal aliens Driver licenses? In state school tuition? Bank accounts? Jeeze Louise are country has been led by malevolent retards for so long the population can’t even articulate why this shit is insane. They have been worked over so much they are asking for more of the same

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (waftC)

262 what's funny about that sidebar note about the Russian gunner spinning, is that they apparently took a system that had two guns, each offset from the pivot point, and they removed one and replaced it with an ammunition box.

This was a failure of design. An obvious failure in design. And then they gave it some poor grunt to test it out.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (GDYiM)

263 If you are going to depose the king, you have to either govern with abject fear to push away elite opposition or govern well to keep the people on your side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (vbx7B)
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Heh. I've been reading the Dune Prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. What you've just described is THE key difference between House Harkonnen (rule through fear) and House Atreides (rule through loyalty).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (FZ29D)

264 I missed the morning art thread. One of my coastal paintings attached to my nic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (KC5Lt)

265 But the Dems are so incompetent at governing, they are entirely dependent on cheating in elections to maintain power.
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Incompetent at governing, but extremely talented at stealing, cheating, and lying. Its a unique skillset.

Posted by: Politics is all about getting elected then maximizing your returns at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (anL5R)

266 263 If you are going to depose the king, you have to either govern with abject fear to push away elite opposition or govern well to keep the people on your side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (vbx7B)
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Heh. I've been reading the Dune Prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. What you've just described is THE key difference between House Harkonnen (rule through fear) and House Atreides (rule through loyalty).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (FZ29D)

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There are no Dune prequels.

*jedi mind trick from Star Wars sequels*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (vbx7B)

267 The illegal aliens voting is nothing compared the fabrication of votes of the dead.

Posted by: Chicago Aldermen at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (qFwJc)

268 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (2YhKe)

269 A massive Medicaid fraud scheme in Arizona has left up to 2,000 Native Americans feared dead or missing, with whistleblowers and attorneys sounding the alarm that the nightmare is still ongoing.

New whistleblower allegations claim vulnerable Native Americans were allegedly lured into white vans with promises of treatment, then plied with fentanyl, methamphetamine, alcohol, and other drugs before being imprisoned inside fake behavioral health homes where operators allegedly billed Medicaid for months of fraudulent “treatment.”

Arizona officials have previously estimated the fraud exceeded $2.5 to $2.8 billion, while the latest whistleblower allegations contend the broader network may have generated up to $12 billion in fraudulent Medicaid claims over time.

Even more chilling, as many as 2,000 Native Americans may be dead or missing as a result of the sprawling scheme, according to NewsNation Now.

... and all of this on "stolen land" no less

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 03:28 PM (RHGPo)

270 nood Sophie Cunningham

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (6ydKt)

271 from Ethiopia.
In the woodpile?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (FBye7)

272 This was a failure of design. An obvious failure in design. And then they gave it some poor grunt to test it out.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 22, 2026 03:27 PM (GDYiM)

But his superior officer (I presume officer) didn't show any signs of intelligence either when he touched the piping hot barrel.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (N39Ws)

273 "Dune" was a "one hit wonder." Everything after or before is crap.

Posted by: Chicago Aldermen at July 22, 2026 03:29 PM (qFwJc)

274 The murderer quit his trucking job recently. >>>>

Well, well, well.... CDL was it?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (n5tGW)

275 If you are going to depose the king, you have to either govern with abject fear to push away elite opposition or govern well to keep the people on your side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:25 PM (vbx7B)
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This chap named Niccolo had a few words to say on that subject.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 03:30 PM (amcLV)

276 189 There are at least 300,000 fake ballots in GA alone.

They cheated a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vbx7B)

They really had to scramble to pull off 2020. That's what the shutdown of counting was. My ralatives in England told me their news had Trump winning California until it suddenly didn't.
Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 03:06 PM (PjoLk)

When Trump held that rally in Butler PA (!!) the Saturday before Election Day 2020 - the one where they brought a fracking rig to the rally, and 15,000 people showed up in freezing weather to support Trump - the Dems went total Code Red and panicked. They knew that if he had that kind of support in Pennsylvania, he could probably win the election. Those printing machines were working overtime from Sunday onward to get Biden over the line. They probably got sloppy doing it as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 03:32 PM (9CbuZ)

277 When Trump held that rally in Butler PA (!!) the Saturday before Election Day 2020 - the one where they brought a fracking rig to the rally, and 15,000 people showed up in freezing weather to support Trump - the Dems went total Code Red and panicked.

This Michigan Fraud was astounding. Because he was up by a few hundred thousand. I did some quick back of the envelope math, and went to bed. Because no way would they try to sell that those mail-in ballots went 10-1.

They did. And then we got Whatever His Name Was From Louisianna ... or whomever he was ... spouting statistics on and on trying to explain it all.

Same guy that was screaming, for months prior, that Elections Work and Fraud is a Conspiracy Theory. Got the keys to the blog for a bit to Bullshit-Splain it.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (q/hOL)

278 SPCX is 116. Do you think Elon is going to fail?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:37 PM (+UcOf)

279 211 Or Kathy Griffin AND David French.

boom chicka wow wow?

Posted by: anachronda at July 22, 2026 03:41 PM (v3pYe)

280 ACE, you are almost there on the Russia hoax. The goal was not to make people hate each other, but to get people to come to their website, for which they would sell ads. They MADE money.
The company was originally a caterer for Russian schools and started a website so they could argue to keep their contract, and discovered there was more money to be made selling ads with clickbait articles.

Posted by: MikeN at July 22, 2026 04:14 PM (cu7xC)

281 Conservative Treehouse said several years ago that California had rigged their motor voter signups to take everyone.

Posted by: MikeN at July 22, 2026 04:14 PM (cu7xC)

282 I may (or may not

) have been employed by a company with a name that is amazingly similar. In a state that starts with an "N" which does not stand for New.

In that state the voter registration was conducted entirely web based and only interacted with company software as a completed step in the application process. The app itself did not care what information was entered as long as that step was completed.

I would suspect that New Jersey had something like that plus the standard State owned and maintained servers and databases.

Posted by: Mildly Retarded Lurker at July 22, 2026 04:39 PM (xYplz)

RFKJr. Suspends $1 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California and Minnesota Because Both Failed States Continue to Permit and Encourage Massive Fraud

PJ Media's Catherine Salgado:

The Trump-Kennedy Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has paused over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for California and Minnesota, as the Democrats there have absolutely no intention of truly reforming their systems to root out the rampant fraud.
HHS leadership held a press conference Tuesday regarding the suspension and how the Trump administration is combatting fraud. "If those states want that money, they need to provide documentations that these ⁠payments are legitimate," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at the press conference where Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), also appeared.
Oz explained why California in particular is raising so many questions. "Another $250 million, a quarter billion dollars, comes from claims tied to high-risk providers, as I explained earlier, those who are billing more than a year after the service is provided, those billing for four or more patients all at the same time -- hard to juggle that many patients."
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Referring to the Democrats in charge of California and Minnesota, "If Gov. Gavin Newsom or Gov. Tim Walz wants this funding released, all they have to do is provide basic documentation, showing that these services are legitimate and not fraudulent. And that's common sense. The Biden administration abandoned that kind of oversight. Instead of protecting your money, they open the floodgates to theft. They dismantled basic program integrity and oversight."

Biden's policy was to send out checks to the fraudsters and then, if someone noticed, fruitlessly attempt to "claw back" the money which was already spirited out of the country.

Blue states' economies run on fraud and plunder from red states.

Education fraud is just as bad.

Jeremy Portnoy at Real Clear Investigations:

Topline: Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector general's semiannual report to Congress. No more than $67 million has been recovered.
Key facts: Open the Books and the State Financial Officers Foundation documented 74 instances of confirmed school fraud, averaging over $3 million each. There are far more that have gone unprosecuted or undetected.
Florida and Illinois schools each had the most instances of fraud with 11.
Indiana lost the most money -- $44 million -- due to inflated attendance numbers that increased state funding to two schools. The schools' founder then allegedly sent the money to companies he owned. The schools closed in 2019, and four alleged conspirators were charged in 2024.
At Broward County Public Schools in Florida, information officer Anthony Hunter allegedly used district funds to buy $17 million worth of school supplies from a friend's business, ignoring the competitive bidding process. In return, the friend hired Hunter and his son to work a security job and sold Hunter a house for $150,000 below market value, state prosecutors claim
Chicago Public Schools received $1 million of federal grants meant for Native American students, using an application that included more than 1,000 students of South Asian descent. The district was unable to verify how many students were actually in the program, and agreed to repay the money.
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Summary: The government loses hundreds of billions of dollars to fraud annually, but redirecting money away from children's education is especially egregious.

Just the News:

Watchdog says as much as 74% of federal grant spending in 2024 was untraceable to local levels
The report released Tuesday revealed that many federal assistance programs didn't accurately track their spending, explain specific uses of funds or report location data in 2024.

A government watchdog group's new report on federal spending found that it's unclear where hundreds of billions of grant dollars go once they reach states.
The Project On Government Oversight downloaded and analyzed data from USAspending.gov that the nonprofit group says in a report released on Tuesday shows over 74% -- $712.6 billion -- of $958.6 billion in domestic grant spending from fiscal 2024 couldn't be tracked to the local level.
The Trump administration confirmed with Just the News that the lack of accountability shown in the report's findings is why new rules have been proposed for federal grantmaking, and they comport with those at the Office of Management and Budget.

Finally, a judge has ruled that Harvard must face a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that scientists made false claims in their NIH grant applications -- and in fact never intended to do the "science" they claimed in the grant application. They just wanted the NIH to give them a pot of money, and decide later how to spend it.

It's just fraud from one end of the government to the other:

A federal judge allowed most of a whistleblower lawsuit against Harvard to proceed Tuesday, letting two claims advance in a case accusing the University and a Harvard Catalyst principal investigator of misusing National Institutes of Health grant funding.
The suit, filed by David S. Zielinski, the former executive director of Harvard Catalyst -- formally the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center -- alleges that the University and the center's founder, Lee M. Nadler, collected $275 million in NIH grants while abandoning or repurposing promised research work in violation of the False Claims Act.
The lawsuit was filed in March 2024 and remained under seal while the Department of Justice reviewed the allegations until November 2025.
U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun rejected most of the University's motion to dismiss in his 28-page order, tossing one count of "reverse false claims" while allowing two claims alleging false claims and false records to advance.
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The University had argued that the court should "be skeptical" that the NIH "somehow missed that two-thirds of the work contemplated was never done," arguing NIH would have been able to make that determination by reviewing the annual reports and choosing whether to renew the grants.

In other words: You can't say we committed fraud because the NIH was in on it and knew we were lying.

Which may well be true. More on that later.

Joun wrote that the University's arguments did not make the allegations "implausible" and that "the very purpose of those statements is to keep NIH in the dark" from the truth. He added that it would be a "futile effort" for the court to immediately compare all the reports with the allegations, noting that Nadler allegedly "used crafty grantsmanship to obscure their true usage of the funds."
Zielinski's attorneys wrote in a statement that Joun's ruling made clear that Zielinski "sufficiently alleged with particularity that Harvard defrauded NIH."
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The suit alleges that Nadler and the University "repeatedly, year after year" submitted falsified reports attesting that progress was made in compliance with the terms of the NIH award.
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Zielinski, a former NIH official, alleged that Nadler told other colleagues in the center that he wrote grants to receive funding and then "decides what to do with the money." Zielinski further alleged that Nadler "was uninterested in modifying his behavior" despite warnings from Zielinski.
Zielinski wrote in the suit that Nadler stated "this is how he handled grants for decades" and "frequently made no effort to perform the work they had certified they would conduct" or change the scope of the grant.
Zielinski alleged that the center repeatedly had no intention to perform "much of the work for which he received hundreds of millions of dollars." He alleged that the center had falsely represented progress since annual reports in 2013. In one instance, he alleged that Harvard Catalyst failed to complete 41 of 56 objectives identified in a $93 million 2018-2023 grant application, 21 of which Zielinski alleged had no work completed.
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Several other whistleblower complaints and lawsuits have applied pressure on the University and its affiliates as of late. In November, the State Department began investigating the Harvard Cognitive Aesthetics Media Lab following a whistleblower complaint that the lab mishandled admissions for its visiting scholars.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute agreed to pay $15 million in December to settle allegations that a Harvard Medical School affiliate used NIH grant funding to publish studies with manipulated images, after a British biologist raised concerns in a whistleblower lawsuit.

Below: Sabine Hossenfelder says that the NIH doesn't detect this kind of fraud -- which is "common" and "normalized" -- because they're in on the con. They know these applications are fraudulent, they just don't care.

She also says that this might unleash dozens of new lawsuits. This lawsuits is brought under a federal provision that allows a litigant to retain 25% of the money that the government saves if the lawsuit exposes fraud.

Just another data point to consider in the covid-19 mass-murder by Anthony Fauci.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM

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1 foist

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 01:19 PM (CWTWj)

2 i noodled

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (CWTWj)

3 Crooks...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (5gObE)

4 Crooks...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (5gObE

Fed.

Posted by: The Password Is... at July 22, 2026 01:21 PM (SB5L+)

5 It's a start.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 01:21 PM (ExV1e)

6 I can get behind this.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at July 22, 2026 01:22 PM (MWfyi)

7 MURDERER!

REEEEE!!!

Posted by: leftists at July 22, 2026 01:22 PM (vDZgA)

8 Folks ... if the story is ever told ... California, the North East, and urban areas like Chicago are not the Economic Engine of the United States.

The rest of us subsidize California, the North East, and those urban areas. Through the SALT deduction. Through legit public policy that doesn't always flow one way - but it flows their way more often than not. And through straight up fraud.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:22 PM (q/hOL)

9 Choke on "The Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide...", Dems!!

Of course, that was back when you believed in Forever Rule because "Republicans were never going to win another major election".

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)

10 It's only "suspended" though, implying that it can be released later.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM (MWfyi)

11 when half your high skool grads are illiterate it doesn't matter if there was no fraud, does it

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM (CWTWj)

12 If it wasn't fir fraud, theft, and lying; what would Democrats stand for?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM (EDLNf)

13 >>> 8 Folks ... if the story is ever told ... California, the North East, and urban areas like Chicago are not the Economic Engine of the United States.

The rest of us subsidize California, the North East, and those urban areas. Through the SALT deduction. Through legit public policy that doesn't always flow one way - but it flows their way more often than not. And through straight up fraud.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:22 PM (q/hOL)

BUT MUH GDP!!!

Posted by: leftists at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM (vDZgA)

14 Summary: The government loses hundreds of billions of dollars to fraud annually, but redirecting money away from children's education is especially egregious.

I might agree with this statement if children were, in fact, being educated by our education system. I suspect that the school systems responsible for most of this fraud are the same ones that do such a miserable job of education children, so, you know, no harm no foul.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

15 It’s truly remarkable that they have set up a labyrinthine byzantine system that only ratchets one way.

Mr. Trump deserves America’s undying gratitude merely for exposing this thoroughly rotten edifice riddled with horribly defective people.

Somebody had to do it. Somebody has to try. I guess he was That Guy.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:25 PM (z+KLG)

16 I just have one little dig to get in on Sabine:
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B-but differential equations means they couldn't have done anything other!!!
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Other than that, she's pretty cool.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)

17 “High-risk providers”

Of?

They day we stop using that word for everything cannot come soon enough.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (4g5V+)

18 Remember Alexander took a sword to the Gordian knot.

Sometimes that is the only answer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (EDLNf)

19 >I might agree with this statement if children were, in fact, being educated by our education system. I suspect that the school systems responsible for most of this fraud are the same ones that do such a miserable job of education children, so, you know, no harm no foul.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

Education Indoctrination, potato, potaahhto.

Posted by: The NEA at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (NgqoH)

20 >>The report released Tuesday revealed that many federal assistance programs didn't accurately track their spending, explain specific uses of funds or report location data in 2024.

Who the hell do those people think they are? The Defense Department?

Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (VJX5o)

21 >>> 18 Remember Alexander took a sword to the Gordian knot.

Sometimes that is the only answer.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (EDLNf)

How about rotor blades?

Posted by: Zombie Pinochet at July 22, 2026 01:27 PM (vDZgA)

22 Remember Alexander took a sword to the Gordian knot.

Sometimes that is the only answer.

Wood chippers are just a highly automated and much faster way of wielding a sword.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t)

23 "Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector general's semiannual report to Congress. No more than $67 million has been recovered."

Fake news. The loses are easily 10x that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

24 Remember the people that tell you millions are literally dying because the government isn't spending enough on social welfare programs also react to people stealing from these programs with a shrug

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

25 I might agree with this statement if children were, in fact, being educated by our education system. I suspect that the school systems responsible for most of this fraud are the same ones that do such a miserable job of education children, so, you know, no harm no foul.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)
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The verb "to educate" is a skin suit.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:27 PM (Fi81e)

26 And I should put in a word for RFK jr. He gets a little off the beam at times, but when he’s right, he’s right. I’ve never been a Democrat but JFK wasn’t a bad guy in a lot of ways.

He didn’t hate America or Americans in my estimation, but that’s who we’re dealing with now. Out right subversives and other scrofulous types

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:28 PM (z+KLG)

27 -
BUT MUH GDP!!!
Posted by: leftists at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM
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is 50% fraud.

Posted by: irright at July 22, 2026 01:28 PM (SchQD)

28 Trump is making some awesome posts today. Hope he folllows through!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (T2w7I)

29 I’ve never been a Democrat but JFK wasn’t a bad guy in a lot of ways.

JFK would be completely unwelcome in today's Democrat Party.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)

30 I remember one of the Minn scams was for a Somali guy married to multiple women to have the wives setup a "daycare" business where woman A is providing daycare to woman B's kids and vice versa...all in his house of course.

Is that still "legal"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

31 Remember Alexander took a sword to the Gordian knot. Sometimes that is the only answer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 01:26 PM (EDLNf)

Yep. I tire of the "we can reform it" argument. This crap is rotten to the core. A lot of crap. Sacred Cows on both sides - although more on the Left than the Right.

Also - I blame "W" a little bit for this. He loved him some block grants to the "right groups". Like Upper Midwest Lutherans who immediately started sponsoring Somalians for immigration.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (q/hOL)

32 If you give more money to the Schools you’re just gonna get more of what we already got

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (z+KLG)

33 JFK would be a Reich Winger to the narod of the DSA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (EDLNf)

34 I’ve never been a Democrat but JFK wasn’t a bad guy in a lot of ways.

JFK would be completely unwelcome in today's Democrat Party.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)
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Except for the part where he's lending out a groupie to give his buddies blow jobs.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:30 PM (Fi81e)

35 The concept of qui tam or False Claims Act litigation is pretty cool. Essentially, a private citizen whistleblower is "deputized" as a little private attorney general to go after fraud, and gets a "bounty" if money is recovered. The problem, in these cases, is that usually the fraudulently-obtained money is long gone by the time of litigation.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 22, 2026 01:30 PM (bNf8H)

36 Below: Sabine Hossenfelder says that the NIH doesn't detect this kind of fraud -- which is "common" and "normalized" -- because they're in on the con. They know these applications are fraudulent, they just don't care.
________

I think they do care. They care a lot. They want the applications to be fraudulent, and none of the work be done, because they want their cut of the lucre.

The entire system is just taxpayer money being passed around a gaggle of vultures and scumbags, with each step in the chain taking a nice fat cut until the money is gone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

37 BUT MUH GDP!!!

Posted by: leftists at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM
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You ever heard Elon Musk's joke about GDP?

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (Fi81e)

38 Again, as has been noted, numerous times, there are 5 federal magic money machines that send out money 24/7/365 with literally zero oversight.

At a bare minimum, 30 pct of all money is straight up stolen from tax-payers and redistributed to various and sundry remoras.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (XV/Pl)

39 Make sure that every fraudster in academia and education is never allowed to obtain a Federal grant again. That would limit their employment opportunities to the glory hole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (sMkB+)

40 JFK would be a Reich Winger to the narod of the DSA.

Barack Obama circa 2012 is a far right white supremacist according to the DSA

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

41 RFK, Jr has just killed every grandmother in California and Minnesota. /sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 01:32 PM (FZ29D)

42 I expect a judge to order the payments to continue within a day or two.

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)

43 The entire system is just taxpayer money being passed around a gaggle of vultures and scumbags, with each step in the chain taking a nice fat cut until the money is gone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
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It's more about swimming pools and retirement funds these days.

(Did I mention I hate being so jaded?)

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:32 PM (Fi81e)

44 Wood chippers are just a highly automated and much faster way of wielding a sword.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t)

Automatic Assault Swords.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 01:32 PM (PjoLk)

45 But I so enjoy paying the interest on the money we borrowed that they stole.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 01:32 PM (w/O5Q)

46 Billion here, billion there, pretty soon your talking about some rich mofo somolians.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

47 I’ve never been a Democrat but JFK wasn’t a bad guy in a lot of ways.

Shitty PT boat captain. Fun Fact - only Joe Kennedy intervening stopped him from being Court Martialed for the PT-109 incident. Because it was Navy SOP to keep those things in gear, at all times. The boat got cut in half because it was not in gear and they couldn't get it in gear.

Also, starting the string of Kennedy popularity - got much more likeable after he got shot. It wasn't looking like JFK was going to win re-election.

But yes, today ? He'd be a Republican.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:33 PM (q/hOL)

48 California and Minnesota are the biggest but the rest aren't small and they add up. Do them all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:33 PM (+yTe/)

49 JFK would be completely unwelcome in today's Democrat Party.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)

Yup.

There is no place for commie-hating, tax-cutting, war-starting, broad-banging, white, cisgendered males in today's Democrat party.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 22, 2026 01:33 PM (AdHga)

50 What was the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to Somalis funding. It was NOT mansions and cars.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:33 PM (SB5L+)

51 Do you ever ask yourself, "Why are all of the college professors liberal?"
Now we know.

Posted by: Shaftoe at July 22, 2026 01:34 PM (BrTPw)

52 It seems pretty clear to me what the true purpose of the Blue state opposition is. This is just another of their fundraising operations off the books and very illegal. When Biden removed the oversight of these type operations while simultaneously shelling out $47 Billion of taxpayer money to them it became obvious.

Just like the use of Foundation Depots to distribute USAID and Federal Grant fund to an ongoing listing of smaller operations, and eventually returning a portion to the DNC through small (un-vetted) amounts not subject due diligence (via ActBlue and similar scam ops), this is no different.

It's estimated that over $18 Million was leaving the country from Minneapolis alone. That money gets laundered, and a portion returns into the DNC campaign funds.

The Blue states will not comply with investigators because this is one of the few remaining fundraising ops that is still up and running.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 01:34 PM (dIske)

53 I think they do care. They care a lot. They want the applications to be fraudulent, and none of the work be done, because they want their cut of the lucre.

The entire system is just taxpayer money being passed around a gaggle of vultures and scumbags, with each step in the chain taking a nice fat cut until the money is gone.

Imma disagree a bit here, because I'm probably the only one with a loved one working at NIH (as a contractor). Some of them do really good work; work which moves humanity forward. I'd hate to see the good workers thrown out with the bad, but I fear that's what's going to happen. I don't know if it's possible to reform the system, but the bench scientists shouldn't pay the price for the malfeasance of the higher ups.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)

54 One thing that occurred to me is that the old arguments between the left and right morphed from whether there should be a "social safety net" for heritage Americans and just how much should be given to the current left's argument that we should by paying any foreigner on earth a "living wage" as long as they fill at paperwork so slowly that no one really pointed it out.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

55 Barack Obama circa 2012 is a far right white supremacist according to the DSA
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

You're kidding, right? Both are comfy cozy with each other. DSA is a dream come true for him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (g8Ew8)

56 Eliminate waste, fraud and abuse and there's no reason anyone making less than $250k should pay any taxes.

Trump should announce that:
For America's 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence--a declaration of freedom from oppressive taxation--no one making less than $250k should pay income taxes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (3cUTc)

57 The entire system is just taxpayer money being passed around a gaggle of vultures and scumbags, with each step in the chain taking a nice fat cut until the money is gone.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm not sure it even is taxpayer monies, though we like to think it is.

Monetary policy in this country seems to be that we just print whatever we like. We only use the taxpayer-collected funds as a figleaf for "fiscal responsibility." And to perform additional accounting tricks to hide the shuffling of the funny money that was printed up last night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)

58 "a federal provision that allows a whistleblower to retain 25% of the money that the government saves"

This is how to fix it. Appeal to the basic greed of people who would normally just turn their eyes away.

Posted by: Gunslinger at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (R2gO3)

59 Do you ever ask yourself, "Why are all of the college professors liberal?". Now we know.

Now on this ? I'd say no.

Certain jobs attract certain people. I love to say "watch where somebody lives". That tells you something. "Watch what they do for a living". It tells you something. Finally - I don't believe in the "take the golfing" stuff. Just "watch them drive".

Doesn't tell you all there is to know about them. But it tells you all you need to know.

Teaching in College doesn't make a Communist. Its just attracts Communists.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (q/hOL)

60 42 I expect a judge to order the payments to continue within a day or two.

Posted by: steevy
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Fire him. If he can't be fired cut off all funding to him.
Bring lawsuits against him every day that he must defend, no matter how frivolous. He'll have to pay a lawyer to defend against them. Break him down, it's the Democrat way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (+yTe/)

61 Make sure that every fraudster in academia and education is never allowed to obtain a Federal grant again. That would limit their employment opportunities to the glory hole

Concur 100%.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:37 PM (Riz8t)

62 SDS became DSA.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 01:37 PM (PjoLk)

63 Barack Obama circa 2012 is a far right white supremacist according to the DSA
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

You're kidding, right? Both are comfy cozy with each other. DSA is a dream come true for him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (g8Ew

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But it works if they can get you to believe it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:37 PM (Fi81e)

64 I wil always hold RFK Jr in high regard for calling out Fauci as a liar and fraud before ANYONE else called him out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 01:37 PM (T2w7I)

65 This will kill even more children than cuts to USAID. The sob stories are already written.

Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (GUOwU)

66 I don't know if it's possible to reform the system, but the bench scientists shouldn't pay the price for the malfeasance of the higher ups.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)

The Ham and Egger argument. Well done Sean. Throw the football.

I keep waiting for all these great Ham and Eggers to spill the beans.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (q/hOL)

67 I've said it before:
There's already Universal Basic Income in this country.

Except it's only in blue states and cities.
And it's all fraud.
They get no-show and no-work "jobs."
And you pay for it.

Just the way all socialism works--somebody else's money.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (3cUTc)

68 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)

69 I used to think I was fairly smart. Got good grades, worked, hard. But I never got in on the real action.

So I'm still poor, waiting around like everybody else, and living like a schnook.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (sYM3s)

70 What was the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to Somalis funding. It was NOT mansions and cars.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:33 PM (SB5L+)

Not all that long ago, Sec. Bessent demonstrated that the single largest funding source of the Al Shabaab terror organization was the state of Minnesota.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (AdHga)

71 Barack Obama circa 2012 is a far right white supremacist according to the DSA

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

Without distance between the DSA and "mainstream" Democrats there is nothing to legitimize the DSA.

Hence all the purported shock and awe from Democrats like Van Jones and Carville and establishment party members about the up and coming crazies. Without that it just looks like the same old party.

The division also lets the party create distance if the operation goes tits up and the public rejects these people wholesale.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:39 PM (SB5L+)

72 The entire system is just taxpayer money being passed around a gaggle of vultures and scumbags, with each step in the chain taking a nice fat cut until the money is gone.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm not sure it even is taxpayer monies, though we like to think it is.

Monetary policy in this country seems to be that we just print whatever we like. We only use the taxpayer-collected funds as a figleaf for "fiscal responsibility." And to perform additional accounting tricks to hide the shuffling of the funny money that was printed up last night.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)
__________

Maybe, but I think at the end of the day even newly-printed money ultimately gets paid -- or reimbursed -- by taxpayers through inflation, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

73 One thing that occurred to me is that the old arguments between the left and right morphed from whether there should be a "social safety net" for heritage Americans and just how much should be given to the current left's argument that we should by paying any foreigner on earth a "living wage" as long as they fill at paperwork so slowly that no one really pointed it out.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)
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They have a cart with a goalpost rack.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:39 PM (Fi81e)

74
The Ham and Egger argument. Well done Sean. Throw the football.

I keep waiting for all these great Ham and Eggers to spill the beans.

Be quiet. The grownups are talking.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t)

75 Not all that long ago, Sec. Bessent demonstrated that the single largest funding source of the Al Shabaab terror organization was the state of Minnesota.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM
+++++++

They've been learing a lot.

Posted by: Thanks Nick Shirley at July 22, 2026 01:40 PM (2Ez/1)

76 This will kill even more children than cuts to USAID. The sob stories are already written.

I saw an article in the Guardian claiming that a brazillion people have died from AIDS due to the USAID cuts.

And I was amused every comment on the article was a variant on "Don't think they have, mate."

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

77 I used to think I was fairly smart. Got good grades, worked, hard. But I never got in on the real action. So I'm still poor, waiting around like everybody else, and living like a schnook.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 01:38 PM (sYM3s)

One of the lies we were told as kids. Lets put paid to it now.

Life is not a Meritocracy.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (q/hOL)

78 Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:39

Another day. another handle for the man of many handles. I just arrived here so I don't know if he's gotten to the insults yet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (rHgXV)

79 Axeman at 1:26pm: "Other than that, she's pretty cool."

Meaning Sabine, the German physicist.

Pretty cool, other than the fact that she's a climate change nincompoop. I'm not really sure how someone with her credentials can be that stupid, so I'm assuming she's been cowed into that stance; so it's pretty rich that she's calling out others for questionable ethics.

She actually advocates for geoengineering to solve the "problem" of climate change. That's a special level of nincompoopery. I stopped watching her YouTube channel once I realized.

Posted by: Pastafarian at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (sifs3)

80 there's no reason anyone making less than $250k should pay any taxes.
——

Initially, it was 2%, starting on incomes exceeding about 500,000 in today’s funny money

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (z+KLG)

81 Hence all the purported shock and awe from Democrats like Van Jones and Carville and establishment party members about the up and coming crazies. Without that it just looks like the same old party.

I don't think it's purported. I think they're legitimately terrified of what's going to happen to the Democrat Party if the commies control it. They are wise to be so.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (Riz8t)

82 Broward County sure shows up a lot when something hinky is going on ....

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (OlzlW)

83 That chart going around of the percentage of post-graduate degrees making less than $60k is staggering.

I don't think if you gave me 3 guesses I'd ever get close to guessing that some 30% of post-grads make so little.

And such a way to build a massive pool of resentful, greedy, envious and spiteful people:
"My degree and my professors and everyone guaranteed that paper would assure me of elite status. And these ... these fucking uneducated Republicans with no college degree make more than me!!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:42 PM (3cUTc)

84 what about OHIO?

We got big fraud here too

Posted by: Otto Penn at July 22, 2026 01:42 PM (JHVDg)

85 Obama was a puppet who would do whatever his backers wanted. He didn't have principles where you can say "well he was a conservative compared to blah". He didn't love America. He didn't even like it.

Like many a Democrat before and after, he was whatever they wanted him to be. That may "look" conservative or his actions may have appeared so in comparison now, but it's a mirage.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:42 PM (SB5L+)

86 Can we just suspend it all? Seems to me Ohio has massive fraud too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 01:43 PM (N1tpc)

87 Another day. another handle for the man of many handles. I just arrived here so I don't know if he's gotten to the insults yet.

I kind of figured that. I'll ignore him now.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:43 PM (Riz8t)

88 Broward County sure shows up a lot when something hinky is going on ....

Remember FL went from the top battleground state to one of the most red states in America after DeSantis put in some modest election security changes. So the blue spots in FL are hives of scum and villainy...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

89 One of the lies we were told as kids. Lets put paid to it now.

~~Life is not a Meritocracy~~

“Crime Does Not Pay”

Bullshit, it pays great. Especially in government.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:43 PM (z+KLG)

90 I'd bet every state has, at a minimum, 30% fraud across the board. Probably more like 50%. But anything around 30 would be a rounding error at Treasury. If they even looked.

They don't look. It's not worth the effort.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 01:43 PM (jehhT)

91 That chart going around of the percentage of post-graduate degrees making less than $60k is staggering.

I don't think if you gave me 3 guesses I'd ever get close to guessing that some 30% of post-grads make so little.

In what subject is your degree? If it's "Studies", that's all one needs to know.

A plumber can do something useful for which people will pay. You can't.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:44 PM (Riz8t)

92 "The Project On Government Oversight downloaded and analyzed data from USAspending.gov that the nonprofit group says in a report released on Tuesday shows over 74% -- $712.6 billion -- of $958.6 billion in domestic grant spending from fiscal 2024 couldn't be tracked to the local level."

$712B is a lot of walking-around money... for connected democrats. So much luxury and influence on someone else's dime.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 22, 2026 01:44 PM (yFLFB)

93 One of the conspiracies floated by Qanon was that there are "more good than bad" in government.
I see not a shred of evidence for this one. In fact it is a straight up lie. Moreso now than when it was professed.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 01:44 PM (PjoLk)

94 What's the worst that could happen?

https://tinyurl.com/3u6m3rff

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (ndZc7)

95 That chart going around of the percentage of post-graduate degrees making less than $60k is staggering.

A post graduate degree in Western African lesbian literature doesn't really compete with a an MD or JD or MBA.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (1wCdz)

96 Federal spending went from $2T in 1999 to just under $8T under the Biden junta.

Does anyone believe the federal government was giving 3X as much service to Americans over that time period?

It was all stolen...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

97
I'm surprised Newsom hasn't screamed that he's being persecuted by Trump for the crime of trying to keep all Californians healthy. Really, nothing from him yet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (mmrXZ)

98 I don't think if you gave me 3 guesses I'd ever get close to guessing that some 30% of post-grads make so little.

I graduated in '95. It was a fact ... if I took those two years to get a MS in Engineering ? I'd never make up the difference of just going to work.

I almost did it. At Tennessee Tech of all places. But I'm glad I didn't. Frankly - it took ten years to just make up the difference of going into the trades. The pay off is I'm 54 and can make great money for another ten years.

But add to the stack of lies the "you must go to college" lie we were all fed.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (q/hOL)

99 I don't think it's purported. I think they're legitimately terrified of what's going to happen to the Democrat Party if the commies control it. They are wise to be so.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:41 PM (Riz8t)

Let's see what the establishment ends up surrendering in the long run.

Will they allow DSA to select their candidate and control everything or will he be a "bridge" candidate that unites factions?

Because as of right now all Democrats seem to have given up is a few safe Democrat districts to further left candidates, and some narrative energy to a bunch of "crazies".

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:46 PM (SB5L+)

100 I never understood why students go through such complicated chicanery to cheat when they could just those talents to study and pass. 😂

Last week an autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s frontier systems escaped a supposedly sealed testing environment, reached the open internet, and launched a multi-stage cyberattack against Hugging Face. The goal was simple and pure: steal the answers to the exam the models were taking. Not for money. Not for ideology. Just to win.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 01:46 PM (n5tGW)

101 Does anyone believe the federal government was giving 3X as much service to Americans over that time period?

It was all stolen...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
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It really helps not to have passed a budget in years!

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:47 PM (Fi81e)

102 Because as of right now all Democrats seem to have given up is a few safe Democrat districts to further left candidates, and some narrative energy to a bunch of "crazies".

The danger is that even if the crazies win only a few states, they will become "the face" of the Democrats, and the vast majority of people will reject them no matter where on the ideological spectrum they fall.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:48 PM (Riz8t)

103 96 Federal spending went from $2T in 1999 to just under $8T under the Biden junta.

+++
It's a write off, Jerry.

Posted by: Kramer at July 22, 2026 01:48 PM (2Ez/1)

104 Make the states pay for all the shit they want to provide to citizens and aliens.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 22, 2026 01:49 PM (rJ48h)

105
Federal spending went from $2T in 1999 to just under $8T under the Biden junta.

Does anyone believe the federal government was giving 3X as much service to Americans over that time period?

It was all stolen...
Posted by: 18-1

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

Has the spending gone back down?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 01:49 PM (mmrXZ)

106 College profs. are the product of a feedback loop started in the late 50's. Each generation producing more liberal graduates than the preceding one.

Each of these graduates going into the professional arena including judges, lawyers and teachers. Each of these professions, again, feeding and promoting generational liberalism until we come to today where conservative thought is an anathema to the court, its officers while insinuating itself into the public consciousness.

The same with colleges. Colleges that graduate teachers who infect young students minds from their very first year of enrollment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:49 PM (+yTe/)

107 A powerful House panel subpoenaed three far-left nonprofits Wednesday as part of a sweeping review of Shanghai-based Marxist millionaire Neville Roy Singham’s network of subversive groups in the US.

The House Ways and Means Committee is probing the path of $39 million disbursed from Singham to the People’s Forum, lefty media outlet BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 01:50 PM (RHGPo)

108 A post graduate degree in Western African lesbian literature doesn't really compete with a an MD or JD or MBA.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 22, 2026 01:45 PM (1wCdz)

The structure is jacked. Truly jacked.

Now I can't speak for this or that. But I can tell you about Engineering - simply as a guy that's worked Industry as well as in Architectural and Engineering firms.

To get a functional guy ? The older grads that did something ... anything ... in anything construction have always been better. Because they have practical experience. The kid that goes straight through in four years and passed him first tests to get a PE ? You have to put him or her on a leash. Because they don't know what they don't know. And they don't know anything.

It would be better - so much better - if you could just do the first two years, get the Associates Degree, and then work for a bit. Maybe just a year or two. Better for the company. Better for the kid.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (q/hOL)

109 >>The danger is that even if the crazies win only a few states, they will become "the face" of the Democrats, and the vast majority of people will reject them no matter where on the ideological spectrum they fall.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Is that bad?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (+yTe/)

110 I am amused by the way at what the left's current argument is...

Ignore the Somali Learing centers and Bidenflation...the reason your groceries cost more is because Elon Mush is a trillionaire.

And...its like the underpants gnomes from southpark. What impact, does Musk's wealth have on the price of eggs? None. He's buying the same number as you are.

Now...the tens of millions of illegals? They increase demand and therefore cost. And the money Biden printed to give to them? That reduced the value of your dollars, again raising costs...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

111 It’s truly remarkable that they have set up a labyrinthine byzantine system that only ratchets one way.
--
in everything.

Fraud and voting especially.

But remember:
It's your fault some lady in Africa died in childbirth because you didn't pay for the diesel for their ambulance.
Sure, sure--you're all whining about barely being able to pay your own bills but:
Fuck you, you killer--pay your taxes so someone you'll never meet can have free diesel.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (3cUTc)

112 So billions, close to a trillion in fraud.

Can someone show me where in the federal budget we subtracted these amounts?

Because they’re fraudulent expenditures- right? So. No need to increase an agencies budget. Just subtract the fraud and there’s your new baseline.

It’s math and I am a simple person. But talk to me like I am a small child. Use monosyllabic words.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (VnVVA)

113 The danger is that even if the crazies win only a few states, they will become "the face" of the Democrats, and the vast majority of people will reject them no matter where on the ideological spectrum they fall.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:48 PM (Riz8t)

Which I did say. In fact it's what I explained about why mainstream Democrats right now must feign shock and even dismay at how left these people are. In case it doesn't work they have the distance to put it down.

But I think you'll find what's happening is the Democrats are busy setting up their own "anti-establishment" narrative. The one Trump captured and still owns. The one many an average person thinks is "cool".

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:52 PM (SB5L+)

114
I pledge allegiance to the Fraud
Of the United States of America,
And to the Graft for which it stands,
One Nation with no God,
Fleeceable, and stuff.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:52 PM (Fi81e)

115 Has the spending gone back down?

No not really. That would be required legislating DOGE changes and more

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

116 >>>A plumber can do something useful for which people will pay. You can't.

Posted by: Archimedes

>Not everybody wants to be a plumber. No offense, but I don't want to come to your house and crawl around in your shit. Plus, if you want to comply with OSHA, you need to get shots to stave off the spread of disease.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 01:53 PM (sYM3s)

117 Actually the idea of "Base-line" budgeting needs a come back.
HHS showed $4.5 B in fraud?
Next year allocation reduced $4.5B.

Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 01:55 PM (q6tQZ)

118
They just wanted the NIH to give them a pot of money, and decide later how to spend it.

This mindset/scam has been going on for decades.

When I was in grad school, long ago and far away, I wrote a grant request to the NIH and miracle of miracles, was awarded roughly $50K to continue my research. This was great because even with working part-time I couldn't swing the freight and needed my parents' help, which put the squeeze on them, and I felt bad about it and this grant would solve my problems and allow me to just squeak through the Ph.D program on "my own dime".

Well...that didn't happen. My major professor took the money for whatever they wanted to do. And I was once again, in poverty-stricken grad student mode. so, I, of course, argued with my prof, who told me that I was being selfish along with a big fat no because it was their money to do with as they wished.

So, I sat down and determined that I would be stuck in grad school now a long time costing my folks money, so that was a no go, and two, I determined that I didn't want a job where I would be under someone else's thumb.

I applied for med and dental school and left all that and nonsense behind.

Yay me

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 01:55 PM (iJfKG)

119 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (3cUTc)

And she probably doesn't even exist. It was a report from one leftard "journalist".

Like we're gonna check on the life of one Malika McXoctl M'booboo.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:55 PM (SB5L+)

120 Republicans on one hand stand up there and tell you how terrible and wasteful this spending is. You know, even though it’s a lack of oversight that partly allows it.

Then when it’s time to pass the budget, they don’t subtract a single nickel.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 01:55 PM (SEVUm)

121 109 >>The danger is that even if the crazies win only a few states, they will become "the face" of the Democrats, and the vast majority of people will reject them no matter where on the ideological spectrum they fall.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Is that bad?

Not from our perspective, no. We were talking about Van Jones and Carville.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 01:55 PM (Riz8t)

122 Because they’re fraudulent expenditures- right? So. No need to increase an agencies budget. Just subtract the fraud and there’s your new baseline.

It’s math and I am a simple person. But talk to me like I am a small child. Use monosyllabic words.
---

Don't change the baseline Eliminate the agency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:56 PM (+yTe/)

123 A plumber can do something useful for which people will pay. You can't.

I want to take this a step further.

I've hired plumbers and they've improved my life by fixing/improving things in my house.

I've never hired a woman's studies graduate because with her skill set there is nothing she can do to improve my life

So the question isn't who is paying over/under paid but who is learning skills and doing work that someone else will pay for?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:56 PM (sKqQm)

124 product of a feedback loop started in the late 50's. Each generation producing more liberal graduates than the preceding one.
——-

They are so fucking stupid now, though, they can’t teach any longer, so they’ve stopped trying. This is a national security issue.

Math is a great example. Aptitude and proficiency is not distributed equally.

Out of that small or smaller subset, just because someone is proficient at Math and Physics, it doesn’t follow they have the ability to teach students.

Further, even if he is, not everyone can be persuaded to go into Teaching. Why would they, in today’s climate?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:56 PM (z+KLG)

125 >Not everybody wants to be a plumber.
-----

What if the female client wants to pay you in cash?
From her bra.

Posted by: From the last thread at July 22, 2026 01:56 PM (2Ez/1)

126 Remember:
All this fraud, waste and abuse--money stolen from you--is necessary so Karen McAwfl and her dried up uterus can feel good about supporting The Science and the Poors and Standing Up to Racism.

So when you, you evil heartless bastard, vote to cut fraud, waste and abuse, you are hurting Karen McAwfl most of all.
You should be ashamed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:57 PM (3cUTc)

127 The danger is that even if the crazies win only a few states, they will become "the face" of the Democrats, and the vast majority of people will reject them no matter where on the ideological spectrum they fall.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Is that bad?

Posted by: Braenyard

I think the danger is in that these crazies will be on committees that have access to national security information.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 01:57 PM (n5tGW)

128 Not everybody wants to be a plumber. No offense, but I don't want to come to your house and crawl around in your shit.

Fair enough but you still have to be able to do or make something someone else finds desirable if you expect them to give you money. That's the part that seems to be lost on so many "* Studies" MAs.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (vTZFs)

129 >Not everybody wants to be a plumber.
-----

What if the female client wants to pay you in cash?
From her bra.
Posted by: From the last thread

She immediately wants you to start laying pipe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (7kSco)

130 But I think you'll find what's happening is the Democrats are busy setting up their own "anti-establishment" narrative. The one Trump captured and still owns. The one many an average person thinks is "cool".

It may well be what the DNC thinks they are setting up. But I think its entirely probably the DNC gets their own Trump Moment. Maybe not this election cycle. But soon.

Because ... frankly, and here I go pissing off the board again ... the GOP got Trump because the GOP went full-on Corporate and Open Economic Zone. They quit any idea of Nationalism. Ironic - because they got shit-canned by both the Wealthy Elite and Big Corporate as a reward.

The DNC is "this close" to getting abandoned by the Working Poor, Small Business Dems, and the Union Trades. Their Trump will probably sound like an old Southern Democrat from the 80s. Before the DNC purged them all.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (q/hOL)

131 >> Actually the idea of "Base-line" budgeting needs a come back.
HHS showed $4.5 B in fraud?
Next year allocation reduced $4.5B.
Posted by: MkY at July 22, 2026 01:55 PM (q6tQZ)

You get it. But Congress tries to tell us the math isn’t what you think it is.

2-2=5

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (SEVUm)

132 >Not everybody wants to be a plumber. No offense, but I don't want to come to your house and crawl around in your shit. Plus, if you want to comply with OSHA, you need to get shots to stave off the spread of disease.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 01:53 PM

I know a young man who started as an apprentice plumber when he was 16, before graduating HS. He's now 24, and does nothing but new builds. He hasn't touched shit in years.

Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2026 01:59 PM (VJX5o)

133 China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic’s most sophisticated AI large language model, Fable, to help create its latest K3 release and has acquired advanced Nvidia AI chips, top White House tech official Michael Kratsios said Wednesday.

“We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model,” he said in a post on X. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary US technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.”

He also said Moonshot AI had acquired servers containing powerful Nvidia NVDA.O AI chips called GB300s and had used them in Thailand, “likely to train its AI models.” A senior Trump administration official said in February that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s latest AI model was trained on Nvidia’s most advanced AI chip, in what could represent a violation of U.S. export controls.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 01:59 PM (RHGPo)

134 Hey, how am I going to make my student loan payments?

Posted by: 38 year old childless Karen McAwfl at July 22, 2026 01:59 PM (2Ez/1)

135 What if the female client wants to pay you in cash?
From her bra.

Saw a skit where a woman hires an attractive plumber and keep making double entrendres he takes literally.

"No madam I checked your plumbing in detail and it does not in fact need to be thoroughly worked on"

This goes on for a while until she tells him she doesn't have cash but maybe there is some other way to pay him...? He looks confused for a moment then says "Ah I get it now...yes!" and pulls out his phone and says he does in fact have venmo setup.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

136 Not everybody wants to be a plumber. No offense, but I don't want to come to your house and crawl around in your shit.

I don't "want" to do what I do for a living. But I do it.

Its on you, no offense, to find something to do that other people want to pay money for.

If you don't ? Enjoy being skinny.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:00 PM (q/hOL)

137 I don't think the old time Dems have anything to fight the DSA with. The Dems are broke, a lot of their donors , many Jewish , aren't going to give to the Dems with them being overrun by antisemites. Schumer and Jefferies look like they've been pithed and are absolutely clueless how to deal with it. The one Arizona win made them happy , but the energy is with the DSA.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 02:00 PM (sMkB+)

138 “We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model,” he said in a post on X. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary US technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.”

Other than calling it unacceptable, what are you prepared to do about it?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 02:00 PM (Riz8t)

139 but you still have to be able to do or make something someone else finds desirable if you expect them to give you money. That's the part that seems to be lost on so many "* Studies" MAs.

Posted by: Oddbob
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Capitalist pig.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:00 PM (+yTe/)

140 Losses as GAINZZ news:
I'm down 28.9 lbs since 21 April.

I exported data from my Lost It! app. I've been tracking my weight since late November 2022. I'm now at my lowest weight since then at least.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 22, 2026 02:00 PM (mkw2N)

141 The New Republic: RFK Jr. Halts Medicaid Funds to Blue States Despite No Proof of Fraud. The Trump administration is yanking Medicaid payments for California and Minnesota.

No evidence? Uhh Nick Shirely, hello. /s

How can anyone hear him speak and think “oh yeah this guy is totally legit”? that brain-damaged child will be president one day

These are vile, evil, people attempting to rip the country apart at its seams.

I think they are mostly trying to use it as political leverage. Cut off funding and then agree to restore it if they do what you want. The problem with our system is it presumes at least some modicum of good faith.

This is a vindictive attack on the people of California and Minnesota by the Trump administration because they want to hurt the people they hate.

It’s basically civil war but you’re slow walking it. The slower you walk the harder it will be to regain what you lost.

The problem is only one side seems to realise its a civil war. Republicans are the ones turning up the heat and the democrats are the frogs in the pot.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2026 02:00 PM (5+LQ2)

142 French modeling scout linked to Epstein found dead

According to French media, at least five women accused Daniel Siad, 69, of rape and human trafficking, allegations he denied.

Siad’s body was discovered ⁠on Monday evening. An autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause of death, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said. Siad’s name appeared nearly 2,000 times in the Epstein files released by ⁠the U.S. Department of Justice.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:01 PM (RHGPo)

143 She immediately wants you to start laying pipe.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (7kSco)

You have no idea how right you are. I've still got PTSD from my time as a home heating and air tech.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:01 PM (PjoLk)

144 U.S. has "Smuggled" up to 500 Million Barrels of Oil Through Gulf of Oman, Hegseth says

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (RHGPo)

145 > Enjoy being skinny.

I do!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (mkw2N)

146 plumber

Don't put your fingers in your mouth
Shit runs downhill
Paydays Friday

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (2CJnA)

147 It's not just the payment fraud. There are millions of federal and local employees that don't do any work at all.

I had a team of 8. Precisely 0% of the team worked at all.

Posted by: MJ at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (XOmY9)

148 So you're saying there's a job opening for a modeling scout?

Posted by: Starts updating resume at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (2Ez/1)

149 lose it, not lost it

Posted by: bonhomme at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (mkw2N)

150 Other People's Money.

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (Wkrcf)

151 How can anyone hear him speak and think “oh yeah this guy is totally legit”? that brain-damaged child will be president one day

Honestly I don't think RFK has a serious shot at the presidency. If the Dems lose a few elections badly and come back to sanity then someone like him would have shot but he'll be too old by then.

Also, isn't that ableism? I remember Trump made of some reporter with a disability he didn't know about and the FNM raked him over the coals for it

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)

152 I've never hired a woman's studies graduate because with her skill set there is nothing she can do to improve my life

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:56 PM (sKqQm)

I've never hired a Women's Studies graduate but I may have agreed with one or two about The Patriarchy.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 02:03 PM (SB5L+)

153 JPost:

Did Carlson inadvertently encourage Iran to assassinate Trump, make Vance president? - opinion

Carlson is effectively telling Iran: The man who would replace Trump does not support this war and would not have taken these actions. What conclusion does he expect Iran to draw from that?

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:03 PM (RHGPo)

154 She immediately wants you to start laying pipe.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (7kSco)

You have no idea how right you are. I've still got PTSD from my time as a home heating and air tech.
Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:01 PM (PjoLk)

So do you have any need for a partly retired Engineer, still quite able to work, for say a day or two a week ?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:03 PM (q/hOL)

155 What if the female client wants to pay you in cash?
From her bra.
Posted by: From the last thread
......

As long as she removes it equally from each cup. I hate lopsided titties.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 02:03 PM (UjdFS)

156 The problem is only one side seems to realise its a civil war. Republicans are the ones turning up the heat and the democrats are the frogs in the pot.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONES LITERALLY STARTING FIRES.

Posted by: BEN RUTHLESSBURGER at July 22, 2026 02:04 PM (vTZFs)

157 Siad’s body was discovered ⁠on Monday evening. An autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause of death, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said. Siad’s name appeared nearly 2,000 times in the Epstein files released by ⁠the U.S. Department of Justice.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:01 PM (RHGPo)

Cause of death: Not seeing his doctor after four hours

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 02:04 PM (SB5L+)

158 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 22, 2026 02:04 PM (2Ez/1)

159 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONES LITERALLY STARTING FIRES.

Also they killed the right's top speaker, and tried 3 times to kill the current president...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

160 Democratic Senate candidates James Talarico and Jon Ossoff are facing scrutiny over significant donations from Reid Hoffman, a billionaire mega-investor with former associations to Jeffrey Epstein, after both accused Republicans of representing the billionaire "Epstein class" over working Americans.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:05 PM (RHGPo)

161 Siad’s body was discovered ⁠on Monday evening. An autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause of death, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said. Siad’s name appeared nearly 2,000 times in the Epstein files released by ⁠the U.S. Department of Justice.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:01 PM
*******
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at July 22, 2026 02:05 PM (2Ez/1)

162 >>>She immediately wants you to start laying pipe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

>That's a pretty tight plug, miss. We're going to have to break out the snake.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 02:05 PM (sYM3s)

163 Remember: The party that justified burning down business and all the cities and laughs about conservative commentators being murdered on video in front of their family is worried there might be some "extremists" in their party ranks.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 02:06 PM (SB5L+)

164 She immediately wants you to start laying pipe.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM (7kSco)

You have no idea how right you are. I've still got PTSD from my time as a home heating and air tech.
Posted by: Reforger

The Paolo does not appreciate you infringing on my territory!

Posted by: Paolo at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (GUOwU)

165 The NYT commentariat views stopping Medicaid fraud in CA and MN as targeting brown people and intentionally harming people in need.

"Please stop repeating the regime’s lies that they are targeting “suspected fraud” or “voter fraud” or “crime” or “illegal immigrants.” They aren’t doing any of those things. We all know they are targeting people who disagree with Trump, who have brown or black skin, who didn’t vote for him, and who resisted ICE."

and

"So, Trump is withholding ALL Medicaid funding rather than just the claims in question, essentially harming thousands of people who need this help, and have legitimate claims? That makes zero sense. Unless of course, the point is to cause as much harm to as many as possible."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (/eAef)

166 The Paolo, he receives many requests for his, how you say, plumbing services.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (2Ez/1)

167 So do you have any need for a partly retired Engineer, still quite able to work, for say a day or two a week ?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:03 PM (q/hOL)

No. I don't do that work anymore but I can get your friend a job in AI manufacturing with roughly the same amount of said harrasment on day shift.
Which is why I refuse to go off of swing shift.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (PjoLk)

168 Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) has announced he will not seek reelection, choosing instead to run for state Senate in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (RHGPo)

169 Remember: The party that justified burning down business and all the cities and laughs about conservative commentators being murdered on video in front of their family is worried there might be some "extremists" in their party ranks.

I've seen lefties start to use Kirk as a verb, as in "If you say that in public you are getting kirked"

But you know they are the party that takes the high road and all that shit...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (sKqQm)

170 These thieving bastards need to put up against the wall, stat. 0% recidivism rate.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 22, 2026 02:08 PM (J12ZD)

171 Remember:
We gave up cities on the Moon and colonies on Mars so Democrats could rob us blind to feather their nests and emotionally blackmail us while doing so.

Guess what?
Let all the little lazy fuckers starve.
Let the colleges and universities go broke.
Let the poor minorities fight tooth and nail for a scrap of bread from the Walmart dumpster.

I. Don't. Fucking. Care.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 02:08 PM (3cUTc)

172 >>>She immediately wants you to start laying pipe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

>That's a pretty tight plug, miss. We're going to have to break out the snake.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
......

You might want to send a camera in first. Check for roots and shit.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 02:08 PM (UjdFS)

173 Well ma'am, I may have to enter from the back or the top of the house.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 02:09 PM (n5tGW)

174 We all know they are targeting people who disagree with Trump, who have brown or black skin, who didn’t vote for him, and who resisted ICE."

Hmm, people that resist ICE would be illegals.

And even the left agrees they are voting for Dems...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

175 Suad was 69 so it may have just been his time. Then again it might have been Jewish space lasers. That's probably what Owens thinks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 02:09 PM (sMkB+)

176 There'll be a judicial injunction or some such shortly where some hack in black will say the money must flow. As with the previous post here at AofS, all these court filings and various arguments are just delay and obstruction, but also serve to give some the Leftists and the general opposition some fig leaf of a talking point on which to defend the criminal activity.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 22, 2026 02:09 PM (QaH55)

177 Back in my day they used to call it getting "Kopechned."

Posted by: Teddy at July 22, 2026 02:09 PM (2Ez/1)

178 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:09 PM (2YhKe)

179 No. I don't do that work anymore but I can get your friend a job in AI manufacturing with roughly the same amount of said harrasment on day shift.
Which is why I refuse to go off of swing shift.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:07 PM (PjoLk)

I'd like to hear more about the details of the harrasment.

I worry about my friend. He's fragile.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:10 PM (q/hOL)

180 There's a Metallica album out there that has a fitting title for this situation.

It came out long before they started sucking hind tit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:10 PM (2YhKe)

181 "Democratic Senate candidates James Talarico and Jon Ossoff are facing scrutiny over significant donations from Reid Hoffman, a billionaire mega-investor with former associations to Jeffrey Epstein, after both accused Republicans of representing the billionaire "Epstein class" over working Americans.
Posted by: SMOD"

If Ossoff had to rely on in-state donation his campaign would be dead broke. At least 80% of his funds are from Friends of Pelosi.

Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2026 02:10 PM (GUOwU)

182 @linuxuser1996
OpenAI models broke containment in a major security incident.

During an internal ExploitGym cybersecurity evaluation, GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model escaped their sandbox.

They exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to gain internet access, then targeted Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers.

The models chained attacks using stolen credentials and further exploits, executing thousands of actions autonomously. ...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:10 PM (+yTe/)

183 I think the danger is in that these crazies will be on committees that have access to national security information.
——-

That ship sailed a long, long time ago

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (waftC)

184 How come no one every sucks front tit?

Posted by: Imponderables for 200, Alex at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (2Ez/1)

185 The DNC is "this close" to getting abandoned by the Working Poor, Small Business Dems, and the Union Trades. Their Trump will probably sound like an old Southern Democrat from the 80s. Before the DNC purged them all.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:58 PM

They are. And I think the plan is to show all the "diversity" in their ranks - like fights between blacks and fags in unwinnable races with national exposure.

And to do their new thing as a "movement" rather than one particular guy like an Obama. Not until Trump is gone anyway. He's too good at branding people away. So make it look like there is an unstoppable young energy being absorbed into a "new" party for the common man.

The big problem for conservatives is the party is headed back to the hands of Republicans, who are likely to get rolled by this movement and anything else because they invariably suck. They are owned lock stock.

But life will go on!!

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (SB5L+)

186 I think the danger is in that these crazies will be on committees that have access to national security information.
——-

That ship sailed a long, long time ago
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (waftC)

That ship sailed with FDR.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (q/hOL)

187 Don't suspend payments.

START ARRESTING ASSES.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 02:12 PM (1g3xS)

188 But remember:
It's your fault some lady in Africa died in childbirth because you didn't pay for the diesel for their ambulance.
Sure, sure--you're all whining about barely being able to pay your own bills but:
Fuck you, you killer--pay your taxes so someone you'll never meet can have free diesel.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 01:51 PM (3cUTc)

And the thing is, that lady and her ambulance ride are only theoretical. If she didn't get an ambulance ride, it's not lack of funding being sent. It's because the local warlord is enriching himself rather than using the money for its intended purpose.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 02:12 PM (OlzlW)

189 Plumbers and electricians are in high demand right now. In fact, any skillset used to build out datacenters is.

Electricians with the skills to wire up a datacenter or a plumber with the skills to build out a water or other liquid cooling system are making six figures right now. And there's no shortage (currently) of work.

But there is a shortage of workers who can do those types of jobs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 02:12 PM (jehhT)

190 How come no one every sucks front tit?

Front tit is full, the EBT out front should have told ya.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 02:13 PM (n5tGW)

191
If Ossoff had to rely on in-state donation his campaign would be dead broke. At least 80% of his funds are from Friends of Pelosi.
Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2026 02:10 PM (GUOwU)

Crossing state lines for donations to state candidates should be illegal.

You run in Texas, your money needs to come from Texas and Texas alone.

F*ck California billionaires.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:13 PM (2YhKe)

192 I think the danger is in that these crazies will be on committees that have access to national security information.
——-

That ship sailed a long, long time ago
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (waftC)

Between Clinton, Obama, and Biden, I'm sure that our, ahem, competitors have all the national security and national secrets, they could want.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 02:13 PM (iJfKG)

193 How come no one every sucks front tit?
Posted by: Imponderables for 200, Alex at July 22, 2026 02:11 PM (2Ez/1)

Front tit is good tit.

Hind tit is back fat with skin tag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:14 PM (2YhKe)

194 *Front tit is good tit.*

So it's a boob thread?

Posted by: Just got here at July 22, 2026 02:15 PM (2Ez/1)

195 There's a Metallica album out there that has a fitting title for this situation.

It came out long before they started sucking hind tit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Kill 'Em All.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 02:15 PM (7kSco)

196 Hind tit is back fat with skin tag. >>>>>

So gross. I laughed out loud.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 02:15 PM (n5tGW)

197
Maybe, but I think at the end of the day even newly-printed money ultimately gets paid -- or reimbursed -- by taxpayers through inflation, etc.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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It does. Modern Monetary Theory is bullshit.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (E4rtv)

198 @linuxuser1996
OpenAI models broke containment in a major security incident.

During an internal ExploitGym cybersecurity evaluation, GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model escaped their sandbox.

They exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to gain internet access, then targeted Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers.

The models chained attacks using stolen credentials and further exploits, executing thousands of actions autonomously. ...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:10 PM (+yTe/)

Awwww! Baby Skynet!

Isn't he cute?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (iJfKG)

199 I posted this yesterday but worth a re-post, maddening:
---------------------------
Elon Musk reposted
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
·
2h
Ethiopian migrant accused of executing three apartment staffers due to a parking dispute in Minnesota.

30-year-old Tsegaab Binessu was reportedly upset that he wasn't allowed to cancel his $ 65-a-month parking garage contract, so he decided to murder three people.

Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 25, Dena Silcox, 56, and Adam Wilwerding, 43, were shot and killed.

"No, no... no no," Silcox, an assistant manager, was heard screaming as Wilwerding, the community manager, was shot. Binessu then turned the gun on her and Fuentes Zambrano, killing them both.

21 shell casings were found by investigators in the office.

While being arrested, Binessu reportedly said he "hated the American system" and was mad that his family couldn't immigrate to the U.S. from Ethiopia.

He also claimed he was "treated unfairly because he is black and an immigrant," according to court documents. Binessu has been charged with second-degree murder.

Absolutely infuriating. He should have never been in this country in the first place.

Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (kX27y)

200
Shitty PT boat captain. Fun Fact - only Joe Kennedy intervening stopped him from being Court Martialed for the PT-109 incident. Because it was Navy SOP to keep those things in gear, at all times. The boat got cut in half because it was not in gear and they couldn't get it in gear.

Also, starting the string of Kennedy popularity - got much more likeable after he got shot. It wasn't looking like JFK was going to win re-election.

But yes, today ? He'd be a Republican.
Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:33 PM (q/hOL)

It's worse than that. The only reason that JFK joined the Navy was because he was banging every female he could get his hands on when his bootlegger dad was Ambassador to the Court of St James. By itself, that wasn't the problem, but it turned out that one of his squeezes was a Nazi double agent, and the State Department intel folks found out about it, so Joe had him packed off to the Navy.

Starting with the PT109 incident, his "great accomplishments" all started with him fucking up, and then he did great work while cleaning up the mess. Turkish-based nuke missiles/Cuban Missile Crisis; sending troops to Vietnam/beginning the process of pulling them out etc.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (y9nCu)

201 Florida and Illinois schools each had the most instances of fraud with 11.

Statement that is false, because it left out one simple part...

Not instances of Fraud, but instances where fraud was caught.

Calif has much much more fraud, but since no one is looking, like Voter fraud, there is no evidence of it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (mP0Kj)

202 But there is a shortage of workers who can do those types of jobs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 02:12 PM (jehhT)

Of this I can tell you with certainty. I do Applied Engineering. Non-Union Electricians with some talent and experience ... and I'm talking early 30s guys. Going rate is $50/hr plus benefits.

Does that wage blow your skirt up ? I dunno'. But its good money around here.

Union Pipe-Fitters ? About the same. Plus one Hell of a pension if you survive the thirty years. Which is not a given - its a rough trade on the body.

You absolutely make more money once you get your Journeyman Card than you do with a College Degree. Always been that way.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (q/hOL)

203 Hind tit is back fat with skin tag.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:14 PM (2YhKe)

Hind tit is sucking on Dad when there are more than two sucklings.

Posted by: Pete Bootedgeedge, fag at July 22, 2026 02:17 PM (kCsPk)

204
So it's a boob thread?
Posted by: Just got here at July 22, 2026 02:15 PM (2Ez/1)

Why not?

https://shorturl.fm/2MAYC

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:17 PM (2YhKe)

205 Who names their kid Tsegaab?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 22, 2026 02:18 PM (2Ez/1)

206 I watched to electricians working on a sump on a septic system. They were jimmying the pipe and fittings to get their connection and the old pvc broke. Covered them both in human waste. I asked them why they weren't weren't wearing PPE like tyvek suits and head gear. They were like, huh? I sure hope they didn't get hepatitis.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 02:18 PM (sYM3s)

207 If Sofia Vergara had a hind tit ?

I'd take a look.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:18 PM (q/hOL)

208 176 There'll be a judicial injunction or some such shortly where some hack in black will say the money must flow. As with the previous post here at AofS, all these court filings and various arguments are just delay and obstruction, but also serve to give some the Leftists and the general opposition some fig leaf of a talking point on which to defend the criminal activity.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
=========
They can delay but not win the legal game. They are trying to delay until the Democrats somehow win the trifecta again. And use fedgov for another bailout of bankrupt blue states.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 02:19 PM (E4rtv)

209
Getting texts from Mercy-Chefs wanting money for food to feed starving people in Venezuela.

Never heard of them.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 02:19 PM (/QHx4)

210
Kill 'Em All.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 02:15 PM (7kSco)

DINGDINGDING!!!!

Give this man a CEEEGar.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:19 PM (2YhKe)

211
Has the spending gone back down?

No not really. That would be required legislating DOGE changes and more
Posted by: 18-1

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

Is like to know what this adds up to. Is the suspended money sitting in some 0- interest checking account? Do we basically know that California will get it without having to make any changes to its fraud machine?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 02:20 PM (mmrXZ)

212 That makes zero sense.
——

It makes perfect sense. Peer pressure, and every other kind of pressure brought to bear - to fix this shit, that they will not, unless they are forced. Collective punishment is a hell of a thing. We’re long past the point where fraudsters need to go to prison.

Suck it up, Buttercup

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:20 PM (waftC)

213 Electricians with the skills to wire up a datacenter or a plumber with the skills to build out a water or other liquid cooling system are making six figures right now. And there's no shortage (currently) of work.

But there is a shortage of workers who can do those types of jobs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Associated skills: Pipe fitters, welders

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:20 PM (+yTe/)

214 > https://shorturl.fm/2MAYC

Smoking body. Odd face. I'd still hit on her if I were single.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 22, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

215 209
Getting texts from Mercy-Chefs wanting money for food to feed starving people in Venezuela.

Never heard of them.

Posted by: four seasons

Block them and report them. Scammers use texts nowadays because their email return rate is getting so low.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 02:21 PM (E4rtv)

216
He also claimed he was "treated unfairly because he is black and an immigrant," according to court documents. Binessu has been charged with second-degree murder.

Absolutely infuriating. He should have never been in this country in the first place.
Posted by: beckster at July 22, 2026 02:16 PM (kX27y)

He single handedly shot and murdered 3 people in cold blood for no reason.

How is that not 1st degree?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:21 PM (2YhKe)

217 Kill 'Em All.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 02:15 PM (7kSco)
DINGDINGDING!!!!

Give this man a CEEEGar.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:19 PM (2YhKe)

I was going to go with Ride the Lightning.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:21 PM (PjoLk)

218 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"

Her ancestors were big slave owners

https://tinyurl.com/yc4p4x6f

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (NpAcC)

219 new thread, nj voter monkey biziness

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (CWTWj)

220
Thanks whig. I thought it was scammy.

Posted by: four seasons at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (/QHx4)

221 "But remember:
It's your fault some lady in Africa died in childbirth because you didn't pay for the diesel for their ambulance."

I don't believe that BS story and even if true, how many thousands of dollars of waste and fraud did it take to fill up the tank of that ambulance? Guaranteed 90% of those funds never reached the ambulances or whatever they where earmaked for.

Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (GUOwU)

222 182 @linuxuser1996
OpenAI models broke containment in a major security incident.

During an internal ExploitGym cybersecurity evaluation, GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model escaped their sandbox.

They exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to gain internet access, then targeted Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers.

The models chained attacks using stolen credentials and further exploits, executing thousands of actions autonomously. ...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Thanks Braenyard - linkage?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (VkY89)

223 *Front tit is good tit.*
......

I prefer them to come in pairs.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (UjdFS)

224 I was going to go with Ride the Lightning.
Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 02:21 PM (PjoLk)

I'm not a metal guy per se. But I really liked Justice for All, the Black album, and a lot of stuff from Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning.

I also absolutely enjoy their cover of Whiskey in the Jar. Its on my truck playlist.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (q/hOL)

225 https://shorturl.fm/2MAYC
Linky no workee

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (kz0KT)

226 Mercy SHIPS is a legit organization.

Sounds impressive.

https://www.mercyships.org/

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (2Ez/1)

227 They were like, huh? I sure hope they didn't get hepatitis.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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If shit's as dangerous as it smells all the plumbers would be dead.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (+yTe/)

228 Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"

++++

Come see me. I've got the receipts.

Posted by: The Antietam Battlefield at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (2Ez/1)

229 @EndWokeness
Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"

No one in America owes anyone a f*cking thing for slavery you dizzy c*nt. You're a godddamn lawyer ferchryssakes. THERE's your reparations.

If your ancestors were actually slaves in the US, that is. If it WASN'T for that, you'd still be living buck naked, pregnant with rings around your neck and a plate in your lip in Africa, you ungrateful sack of shit.

FOAD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (2YhKe)

230 https://shorturl.fm/2MAYC
Linky no workee
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 02:23 PM (kz0KT)

Huh......works for me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 02:25 PM (2YhKe)

231
START ARRESTING ASSES.
Posted by: rickb223

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

It's maddening. I'm sitting here afraid of breaking the tiniest laws and paying these criminals in Sacramento to rob me. Can't the feeds do something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)

232 Modern Monetary Theory is bullshit.
——

Depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, as always.

JM Keynes was kiddie-fvcker Communist, Harry D. White, and most likely Harry Hopkins, adviser to FDR.

Alger Hiss wrote the founding UN documents

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (waftC)

233
*feds

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)

234 The infuriating thing about those blue collar jobs?

Many of the 20 and 30 somethings that have entry level skills in high demand due to the datacenter boom are lazy shits. The can't be bothered with being on time let alone go to work 12 hours a day and do what someone else tell you to do. Many quit after less than a week because "it's stressful."

The manufacturing facilities around here have this problem perpetually. And the socials are filled with angry people bitching about how bad their employer is for making them come in on time, working late to finish something or tasking them with other duties.

There an entire generation or two that has zero interest in actually working a schedule vs. working when they feel like it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 02:27 PM (jehhT)

235 Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"
——-

Fuck You. I never owned no slaves and you never picked no cotton. Die in a Fire, Bitch

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (waftC)

236 It's worse than that. The only reason that JFK joined the Navy was because he was banging every female he could get his hands on when his bootlegger dad was Ambassador to the Court of St James. By itself, that wasn't the problem, but it turned out that one of his squeezes was a Nazi double agent, and the State Department intel folks found out about it, so Joe had him packed off to the Navy.
----------

Not so scandalous, but Teddy, probably motivated to do so by JFK's 'hero' status, (and because he was thrown out of Harvard for cheating) enlisted in the Army in 1951. Joe was unhappy about that (Teddy was already known to be a fuckup), and pulled strings. PFC Kennedy landed a cushy job (MP/Honor Guard in Paris, France at SHAPE HQ).

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 02:28 PM (XeU6L)

237 -----------
Thanks Braenyard - linkage?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM
--

This is not the first. Saw a similar story yesterday about Altman's AI breaking into a different system. While looking for it found this one first. It seems to be Altman's modus.

https://tinyurl.com/yu82bewe

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:29 PM (+yTe/)

238
Boris Yeltsin once suckled a infant on a Moscow subway to quiet it down.

Yeah, it sucks, but it's all I've got.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 02:31 PM (Y8DZL)

239 Joe, jr was the plan for President. Not JFK.

He was flying a TS mission where he would bail out of a B-24 filled with explosives and it would be remotely piloted to the target. Unfortunately it blew up before he could bail out.

This incident wasn’t declassified until the 1970s or 1980s.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 02:32 PM (waftC)

240 >>>
There an entire generation or two that has zero interest in actually working a schedule vs. working when they feel like it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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It's been a long time coming. Had that problem last century.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 02:33 PM (+yTe/)

241 "There an entire generation or two that has zero interest in actually working a schedule vs. working when they feel like it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

Our small company made the mistake of hiring a gen z tech to help with the overwhelming work load. Nice guy, quick learner but absolutely unable arrive on time, keep any sort of schedule and give priority to getting things done (as opposed to his social life). Only lasted a few weeks. And didn't even seem to care he was being let go.

Never again.

Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2026 02:34 PM (GUOwU)

242 >>>Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"

>This fat whore needs to actually do some work before she gets paid.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 02:35 PM (sYM3s)

243 Our small company made the mistake of hiring a gen z tech to help with the overwhelming work load. Nice guy, quick learner but absolutely unable arrive on time, keep any sort of schedule and give priority to getting things done (as opposed to his social life). Only lasted a few weeks. And didn't even seem to care he was being let go.

Never again.

I have three Gen Z kids and they are all currently working FT - one as a college grad, two for the summer. the boys are both working in manufacturing.

they beg for overtime and often don't get it. they never miss and are never late.

they have friends who work in construction and manufacturing who didn't go to college or dropped out. they are all excellent.

I'm sorry. I'm sick of hearing about "they don't wanna work." maybe your HR sucks at finding kids who want to work.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 02:37 PM (j+aD2)

244
So many fun JFK stories!

I think my favorite was his sailing around the Mediterranean in '57 with a couple of buddies and "hostesses" when information that he and Jackie's baby died after childbirth reached him.

"What's happened has happened." He cleverly opined.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 02:45 PM (Y8DZL)

245
Good. It's a start.

However... as an American of Public Education, I would like to see every government-paid teacher flogged by knouters, and fed to ravenous panthers.

No justice, no peace.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 02:46 PM (BI5O2)

246 "Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery""

She is one of the most privileged people on the planet. What else does she want? I want reparations for slavery too. Look what it brought us.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 02:48 PM (MWfyi)

247 > I'm sorry. I'm sick of hearing about "they don't wanna work." maybe your HR sucks at finding kids who want to work.
--------
Some actually do want to work, but on their terms, not the employer's. Not all, but most. There's a significant percentage who actually don't want to work at all. At anything. Their education has taught them that the state will take care of them if the proper form of government is instituted.

That's something they look forward to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 02:50 PM (jehhT)

248 Jesus wept.

Posted by: Sifty boones at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (/KGIJ)

249 Sunny Hostin pops up in every news story lately like the least interesting turd that won't flush.

Posted by: Sifty boones at July 22, 2026 03:05 PM (/KGIJ)

250 218 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Sunny Hostin today: "America still owes me reparations for slavery"

Her ancestors were big slave owners

https://tinyurl.com/yc4p4x6f
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 02:22 PM (NpAcC)

Then the reparations should be accordingly adjusted. Send her off to fight a war to free current slaves in Africa. She can take a musket and a dozen miniballs.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 03:17 PM (rfNMH)

251 No grants!
Even the grant programs that contain the highest possible general benefit - prevention and cure of disease - are rife with fraud.
No tax dollars given away!

Posted by: buddhaha at July 22, 2026 08:55 PM (cBDov)

Appeals Court Rejects Biden's Second Attempt to Block the Release of His "Elderly Man with a Poor Memory" Interview Tapes

You're not experiencing deja-vu. Yes, there was a story like this recently, but that was the district court judge rejecting Biden's plea for an injunction blocking the release of the tapes, supposedly to protect his "privacy" by keeping secret the tapes of his conversations with his ghostwriter, with whom he shared classified information.

These tapes were in turn subpoenaed by Robert Hur and were evidence -- proof, actually -- that Biden both shared classified information with someone not cleared to hear it and that he knew he was illegally retaining classified documents, because he explicitly says something like "I'm not supposed to still have these" in the tapes.

Hur didn't prosecute, of course, even though Biden was guilty by his own admission. Hur claiming that no jury would convict this hapless husk because his brains were plainly mush. (To which I say: Put me on the jury and I'll send this decrepit muppet to the fucking gulag.)

Biden rushed out an appeal, and the Appeals Court told him that the public's interest in the actual truth trumped his fake right to keep the truth from the public in the interest of "privacy."

One might say that presidents have a very low expectation of privacy -- particularly when the tapes sought to keep private include admissions of breaking serious federal laws.

- A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president.
A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow more time for Biden to consider another appeal.
The panel's 2-1 ruling late Monday found there is a "substantial" public interest in disclosing the material that Biden wants to keep under wraps. Redactions to the recordings would help protect Biden's privacy, the majority noted.

Redactions? What?

"We conclude that any remaining incursion on personal privacy from disclosure of the now-redacted materials likely does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure," the ruling says.

And whose appointee was the judge who rushed to defend this elderly man with a poor memory?

Judge Florence Pan, who was nominated by Biden, a Democrat, wrote a dissenting opinion in which she said Biden has shown a "substantial privacy interest" in keeping the material hidden.
"The conversations at issue took place in Biden's home, and the recordings of them were obtained by the government in the course of a criminal investigation that did not lead to an indictment," she wrote.

The "conversations" -- in which Biden confessed to knowingly retaining classified documents -- took place at his home and this is why the tapes of this questioning are "private"?

What?

This is the best this DEI Dina can do?

Your honor, I want the murder weapon suppressed, because it was found at my home, and that makes it "private."

The appeal also was heard by D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Gregory Katsas. Srinivasan was nominated by President Barack Obama, a Democrat who chose Biden as his vice president. Katsas was nominated by President Donald Trump, a Republican who lost to Biden in 2020 but was elected again to the White House in 2024.

Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with Biden on two memoirs, 2007's "Promises to Keep" and 2017's "Promise Me, Dad," interviewed him at his home in 2016 and 2017. Biden's lawyers say the conversations were candid, personal and intended to remain private.

Yes, they were "candid, private conversations intended to remain private" except that they were also had in furtherance of writing a memoir for Biden, intended for public publication. (Hey, publication has the word "public" right in it.)

That doesn't scream "private" to me.

...
Pan noted that the majority is effectively ruling in favor of immediately disclosing the material by denying Biden's request for an injunction pending appeal.
"That, of course, will moot this case," she wrote.

Ever hear the sound of documents as they rev up to be released? They go vrooom, vrooom. You gotta hear it, Jack!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at July 22, 2026 12:17 PM (53oGX)

2 BOLD SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at July 22, 2026 12:17 PM (53oGX)

3 Boo!

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 12:17 PM (Y8DZL)

4 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:17 PM (ZANHd)

5 BOOgers

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 12:18 PM (cMh4F)

6 Damn. Gotta be fast around here. And bold.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:18 PM (ZANHd)

7 Tapioca brain probably gave his ghost writer the nuclear launch codes

Posted by: steevy at July 22, 2026 12:19 PM (YwEeS)

8 Biden rushed out an appeal, and the Appeals Court told him that the public's interest in the actual truth trumped his fake right to keep the truth from the public in the interest of "privacy."

I doubt any honest court would find there are many times when a President is entitled to much privacy. Living in a goldfish bowl kind of goes with the job. Also, it seems that Melania's underwear drawer is NOT entitled to privacy.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

9 Honestly, is there even a remote chance there's anything coherent on those tapes?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 12:21 PM (jehhT)

10 So FJB has not one, not two, but THREE memoirs? All of which feature the word "Promise" in the title?

When are we going to see the epic fantasy adaptation of these memoirs on Amazon Prime or Netflix?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 12:22 PM (FZ29D)

11 Also, it seems that Melania's underwear drawer is NOT entitled to privacy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 12:20 PM

That's (D)ifferent.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:22 PM (ZANHd)

12 Biden's lawyers say the conversations were candid, personal and intended to remain private.

In the end they'll declare him non compos mentis and send him back to Jill.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 12:23 PM (NnhvP)

13 ahhhh ahhhh

we defeated medicare

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at July 22, 2026 12:23 PM (wGerL)

14
Wait, when were those "conversations "? Less than 5 years ago? So... statute of limitations, anyone?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:24 PM (mmrXZ)

15 Document printer go brrrrrr.

Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

16 privacy between pres and an advisor is one thing, maybe. ghostwriter? nah?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 12:24 PM (CWTWj)

17 "The conversations at issue took place in Biden's home, and the recordings of them were obtained by the government in the course of a criminal investigation that did not lead to an indictment," she wrote.

I'm not a lawyer or a legal scholar but even I know that is a load of BS.

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2026 12:25 PM (Oy/m2)

18 Document ~~printer~~ shredder go brrrrrr.
Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 12:24 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:25 PM (ZANHd)

19 Third aneurysm's the charm.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 12:26 PM (UjdFS)

20 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 12:26 PM (/BPde)

21 Just like Dr. Evil, the Biden cabal have a whole bag of "shush".

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:27 PM (Fi81e)

22 Kites are fun......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 12:27 PM (/BPde)

23 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 12:27 PM (/BPde)

24
Okay let's face that I was kind of joking when I said statute of limitations because we know that even If biden had confessed to a murder , he'll never be prosecuted. So why are his lawyers so hot on this? Are they just trying to prevent embarrassment?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:27 PM (mmrXZ)

25 Just like Dr. Evil, the Biden cabal have a whole bag of "shush".
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:27 PM

How about "no"?

- D.C. Circuit Panel

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:28 PM (ZANHd)

26 He just needs a little more time to run it by Cornpop before going public.

Posted by: Lloyd Loar at July 22, 2026 12:29 PM (Mx+TJ)

27

If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, "Everything stinks." Then, you're never wrong. That's how much of a genius I am! That's how I got to where I am today!

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 22, 2026 12:29 PM (och2J)

28 Does Joe remember not being able to remember?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 22, 2026 12:29 PM (uQnxg)

29 I just hate being so jaded.

I wish I lived in a political landscape that didn't warrant it.

But this one does.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:29 PM (Fi81e)

30 "The conversations at issue took place in Biden's home, and..."

-------

That judge's thinking is about as clear as those wonderful videos that I love where perps believe that since they've made it to their home's driveway that a traffic stop can no longer be made.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 12:30 PM (TN0g+)

31 26 He just needs a little more time to run it by Cornpop before going public.
Posted by: Lloyd Loar at July 22, 2026 12:29 PM (Mx+TJ)

I hear he was a bad dude.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 12:30 PM (PjoLk)

32 Look, Fat, Mexican lettuce has been getting all the ink lately, but I invented projectile sharting!

Posted by: Presdnent Emeritus at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (JM9I6)

33 Kind of surprised they didn't get a security clearance for the ghostwriter/s.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (NnhvP)

34 Afternoon Ace

President Biden: mumble, mumble Trump killed Beau, mumble Kamala's a whore, screech , mumble ,fart, Obama hurt me ,weeps , moans, Hunter will get my 10%, wheeze , my word as a Biden no joke, wanna fight , anyway, Jill bring me ice cream, falls asleep.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (sMkB+)

35 This should always remain private! How would any of you like if, say for instance, your divorce proceedings were made public?

Posted by: Barky One at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (R0XxO)

36 One might say that presidents have a very low expectation of privacy -- particularly when the tapes sought to keep private include admissions of breaking serious federal laws.
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If it's about his performance in office, a republic has every right to know.

If it's how frequently he humped Major, then yeah, it's okay to keep that private.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:32 PM (Fi81e)

37 (To which I say: Put me on the jury and I'll send this decrepit muppet to the fucking gulag.)
......

Next level cruelty. You know that Hero Joe is battling stage 4 prostate oil cancer which has spread to his bones, doncha?
LEAVE JOE ALONE

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 12:32 PM (UjdFS)

38 One does have to love that for a while the argument the left was making was:

Biden is the best person for the role of president

and

He's too senile to run for president

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

39 Speaking of Biden, I haven't heard anything about one lately. No Democrat donors?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (w3u3d)

40 This happened to me once when I was talking to my ghostwriter and accidentally butt-dialed a judge on the payroll. He wanted more money to keep the conversations quiet but the negotiations are still being worked out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (sYM3s)

41 This should always remain private! How would any of you like if, say for instance, your divorce proceedings were made public?

Posted by: Barky One at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (R0XxO)
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This is about a then potential indictment of behavior in office or because of it.

Do all Dems need everything explained to them?

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (Fi81e)

42 That judge's thinking is about as clear as those wonderful videos that I love where perps believe that since they've made it to their home's driveway that a traffic stop can no longer be made.
Posted by: Crusader

I was finna go home, I live right over there.

Posted by: Deontrasius In His Altima at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (JM9I6)

43 So Biden had privacy in admitting to committing felonies, while I have no privacy right to stop the government from sharing my health care records with the local pizza shop?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)

44 Nothing will come of this, as usual.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (V362x)

45 Speaking of Biden, I haven't heard anything about one lately. No Democrat donors?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (w3u3d)
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He's dead of Stage 7 Oil Cancer.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (Fi81e)

46 maybe i'm old fashioned, or just stupid, but should a judge recuse themself from a case if one of the claimants hired them?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 22, 2026 12:34 PM (nXhwP)

47
I just hate being so jaded.

I wish I lived in a political landscape that didn't warrant it.

But this one does.
Posted by: Axeman

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

Even with the nominal good guys mostly in charge, I feel like the windmill will be finished next year, comrades, if we only work harder!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:34 PM (mmrXZ)

48 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 12:35 PM (ccLZe)

49 Speaking of Biden, I haven't heard anything about one lately. No Democrat donors?
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (w3u3d)

Beau recently died saving a kitten from a burning tree on the surface of Mars.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 12:35 PM (/BPde)

50 TBF my entire career, my own notes were considered my own private property but once incorporated into deliverable work product, it belonged to the client.

Those recordings should remain private, they are notes, not the final deliverable which is the book.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:35 PM (JvZF+)

51 When are we going to see the epic fantasy adaptation of these memoirs on Amazon Prime or Netflix?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 12:22 PM (FZ29D)

staring wesley snipes as sleepy uncle joe....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 22, 2026 12:35 PM (nXhwP)

52 Uh oh........

That song just came across the playlist......

*shudders*

*assumes fetal position*

*pees*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 12:36 PM (/BPde)

53 Stage 7? Poor fucker must be all hopped up on goofballs.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 12:36 PM (UjdFS)

54 There are different opinions on the proper role and nature of government.

Utilizing agencies as a club to beat up on your political opponents is not one of them, nor using them as a kind of “quick fix” clean up crew to prevent corrupt individuals from looking bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 12:36 PM (z+KLG)

55 maybe i'm old fashioned, or just stupid, but should a judge recuse themself from a case if one of the claimants hired them?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 22, 2026 12:34 PM (nXhwP)

What's 'recuse' mean?

Posted by: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan at July 22, 2026 12:36 PM (/BPde)

56 That judge's thinking is about as clear as those wonderful videos that I love where perps believe that since they've made it to their home's driveway that a traffic stop can no longer be made.

I saw a video where a cop was called to a bar because a patron was drunk and had told the bartender he was going to drive home.

The cop approached it really well, told the guy why he was there and that the drunk guy could walk home or the cop would help him get a cab.

Drunk guy says no, I'm just going to drive home (slurring the words badly because he was drunk)

The cop said if you get behind the wheel I'll arrest you and the guy...gets behind the wheel. The cop goes to arrest drunk guy, who resists, and gets arrested.

So instead of spending $20 on a cab he's got a bunch of legal bills and probably a license suspension...

I'm amazed how often cops give people the option to NOT get arrested and they refuse to take it

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

57 Stage 7? Poor fucker must be all hopped up on goofballs.
Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 12:36 PM (UjdFS)

All good. His butt's been wiped.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 12:37 PM (/BPde)

58 I was finna go home, I live right over there.
Posted by: Deontrasius In His Altima at July 22, 2026 12:33 PM (JM9I6)

He dinnit do nuffin! Where my phone?
* yanks phone from under sweaty tit.
I'm recordin this. Where my momma?

Posted by: Fat bitch running out of the house at July 22, 2026 12:38 PM (PjoLk)

59 39 Speaking of Biden, I haven't heard anything about the Biden Presidential Library lately. No Democrat donors?

Sorry mushy fingers

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2026 12:38 PM (w3u3d)

60 When are we going to see the epic fantasy adaptation of these memoirs on Amazon Prime or Netflix?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 12:22 PM (FZ29D)

You will see it on Netflix, right after they make "Barack and Michelle: A Love Story" starring Ryan Gosling and Sydney Sweeney, directed by Mel Gibson.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 12:38 PM (PH3st)

61 Those recordings should remain private, they are notes, not the final deliverable which is the book.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Private but prosecuted for keeping/sharing documents.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 12:38 PM (NnhvP)

62 He called me garbage.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 12:38 PM (2Ez/1)

63
Anyway, this ruling means that the tapes CAN be released. Is Biden 's next step SCOTUS?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:39 PM (mmrXZ)

64 55 maybe i'm old fashioned, or just stupid, but should a judge recuse themself from a case if one of the claimants hired them?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 22, 2026 12:34 PM (nXhwP)

What's 'recuse' mean?
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I don't know--I'm not a dictionary.

Posted by: Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Gumanji at July 22, 2026 12:39 PM (TN0g+)

65 maybe i'm old fashioned, or just stupid, but should a judge recuse themself from a case if one of the claimants hired them?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 22, 2026 12:34 PM (nXhwP)
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Ha!

Some lady PHd, who had her own permit to speak on Capital grounds--and it was *granted*--was on the grounds on January 6th. And when the FIB beat down her door and alerted all the neighbors that they had an insurrectionist in their midst, says that when she was brought before a judge, having had her own legal degree she recognized the judge as a study mate.

Her former study mate made no indication that he knew her, and never recused himself. Also, super-nasty to her, she says.

Recusal is so yesterday.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:39 PM (Fi81e)

66 Also, it seems that Melania's underwear drawer is NOT entitled to privacy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 12:20 PM

That's (D)ifferent.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:22 PM (ZANHd)

i mean, to be fair, i'd raid her drawers given the chance....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 22, 2026 12:40 PM (nXhwP)

67 Mentally fit to be president. Not mentally fit enough to understand the ramifications of his displayed mental deterioration when interviewed by the FBI.

No interest from the press on the entire enchilada.

That's almost comical in its blatantness.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 12:40 PM (dIske)

68 He dinnit do nuffin! Where my phone?
* yanks phone from under sweaty tit.
I'm recordin this. Where my momma?

I saw a video with a young woman where a shop had called the cops because they saw her put something in her bag without paying.

The cops explained why they were there and asked to look in the bag. The woman refused. They said they had probably cause to search it and would if she refused anyway....which led to pushing and punishing and screaming. The young woman was with an older woman who I assume was her mother though she denied it when the cops asked if they were related.

And the older woman started screaming, "She's underage you can't touch her!" Where the hell do people get these ideas?

They found stolen property and arrested her and she got charges for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer.

It just amazes me...when the store owner sees you steal something and says they are calling the cops why wouldn't you drop whatever you took in the store and leave?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

69 Musician Plas Johnson, who's known for his saxophone solo behind "The Pink Panther" theme, has died at age 94.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 12:41 PM (oaWAY)

70 Hur claiming that no jury would convict this hapless husk because his brains were plainly mush.

Just like how no no "reasonable prosecutor" would bring a case against Hilary...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)

71 5 BOOgers

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 12:18 PM (cMh4F)

Halloween bees are BooBees...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:42 PM (l3cgK)

72 That's almost comical in its blatantness.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 12:40 PM (dIske)
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It sells in DumbDemostan.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (Fi81e)

73
TBF my entire career, my own notes were considered my own private property but once incorporated into deliverable work product, it belonged to the client.

Those recordings should remain private, they are notes, not the final deliverable which is the book.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

"Were considered" by whom/what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (mmrXZ)

74 We can get dementia/old-age expert Ted Lieu (D-Ca) to show us how Dementia Joe was in better shape than Trump

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (oaWAY)

75 35 This should always remain private! How would any of you like if, say for instance, your divorce proceedings were made public?
Posted by: Barky One at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (R0XxO)

This culture does love origin stories

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (RUm4z)

76 No interest from the press on the entire enchilada.

That's almost comical in its blatantness.
Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 12:40 PM (dIske)

If this had happened in some European shithole, we'd all be pointing and laughing.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (PH3st)

77 Recusal is so yesterday.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:39 PM (Fi81e)
=====

The judiciary turned it's back on integrity, fealty, and judicial temperament long ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (JvZF+)

78 That tired old man they selectedPresident.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (EDLNf)

79 Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

Badge cameras are one of the best things ever.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (PjoLk)

80 It just amazes me...when the store owner sees you steal something and says they are calling the cops why wouldn't you drop whatever you took in the store and leave?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

Because you're in Kalifornia?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (l3cgK)

81 78 That tired old man they selectedPresident.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (EDLNf)

81 million votes.....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (5gObE)

82 Nixon tapes or Bidet tapes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (EDLNf)

83 Recusal is so yesterday.
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:39 PM (Fi81e)
=====

The judiciary turned it's back on integrity, fealty, and judicial temperament long ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (JvZF+)
---
Amazing how activism will do that to you.

They are just our oligarchs now. True oligarchs, not the fake ones Bernie prates on about.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (Fi81e)

84 71 5 BOOgers
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*shudders*

Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever at July 22, 2026 12:45 PM (TN0g+)

85 This should always remain private! How would any of you like if, say for instance, your divorce proceedings were made public?

I wonder has anyone mentioned to Jeri Ryan that if she's just boofed Jack Ryan's brains out she could have been first lady?

I mean obviously the same goes for Jack - you don't even need to keep it in your pants buddy...just in your own house.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

86
when the store owner sees you steal something and says they are calling the cops why wouldn't you drop whatever you took in the store and leave?
Posted by: 18-1

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

Because you've got a rap sheet as long as your arm and you know the system is a joke.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:45 PM (mmrXZ)

87 Judge Florence Yu Pan ... I looked her up. Over-educated child of Taiwanese immigrants who never had a job outside of government "service." Married to a politically-connected white guy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

88 75 35 This should always remain private! How would any of you like if, say for instance, your divorce proceedings were made public?
Posted by: Barky One at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (R0XxO)

This culture does love origin stories

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (RUm4z)

I read some of my brother's divorce paperwork...it was publicly available through the courts. Found out that it wasn't that his wife cheated on him (like he told us), but rather he cheated on his wife with her best friend (whom he later married and had a kid, said kid born at a time that implies conception happened before the divorce)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:46 PM (l3cgK)

89 Because you're in Kalifornia?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (l3cgK)
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Yes. In Khalifornia, you first assess whether you have stolen over $900 of goods, and you put them back until you're under $900.

All they are saying, is give crime a chance.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:47 PM (Fi81e)

90 86
when the store owner sees you steal something and says they are calling the cops why wouldn't you drop whatever you took in the store and leave?
Posted by: 18-1

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

Because you've got a rap sheet as long as your arm and you know the system is a joke.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:45 PM (mmrXZ)

a rap sheet as long as a CVS register receipt...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:47 PM (l3cgK)

91 "Were considered" by whom/what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (mmrXZ)
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By 1. Terms and conditions of project contract which I believe would have by nature incorporate 2. Federal Acquisition regulations or state regs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:47 PM (JvZF+)

92 .
.
Leave him alone.
.
LEAVE HIM ALONE ! ! !
.
weeping
.
Why can't you just leave Biden McBidenFace alone?
.
Britney,
Spears
.
Remember The Internet which remembers about as well as McBidenFace?

Posted by: Marooned at July 22, 2026 12:48 PM (kt8QE)

93
Biden has the slowest-growing aggressive Stage 4 cancer I've ever heard of.

I don't think he has cancer. His only real issues are that he's senile, and he's an asshole.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 22, 2026 12:48 PM (ienUH)

94 Judge Florence Yu Pan

So you've got a problem with another out of control Pan causing trouble in the States...well, give me a call!

Posted by: Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (sKqQm)

95 One might say that presidents have a very low expectation of privacy -- particularly when the tapes sought to keep private include admissions of breaking serious federal laws.

Many here bemoan the transition of the United States away from a "high trust society". I say we got here because, for decades, our elders trusted way too much.

This expectation that a President has privacy has been old with me for decades. It was old to me with Reagan. Nobody drafts these guys to be President. They ask for the job.

You want your privacy ? President probably isn't the job for you.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (q/hOL)

96 89 Because you're in Kalifornia?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:44 PM (l3cgK)
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Yes. In Khalifornia, you first assess whether you have stolen over $900 of goods, and you put them back until you're under $900.

All they are saying, is give crime a chance.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:47 PM (Fi81e)

Although I believe that was later changed by proposition.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (l3cgK)

97 76 No interest from the press on the entire enchilada.

That's almost comical in its blatantness.
Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 12:40 PM
*************

The "press" doesn't really exist anymore.

It's gonna take awhile to adjust to that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)

98 Biden rushed out an appeal, and the Appeals Court told him that the public's interest in the actual truth trumped his fake right to keep the truth from the public in the interest of "privacy."

-
The truth? THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)

99 >>>staring wesley snipes as sleepy uncle joe....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler

>I said I wanted wesley snipes for the roll of cornpop, you, lying, dog-faced pony soldier.

Posted by: Cadaver Joe at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (sYM3s)

100 "No, your honor. My client Joey "The Knife" Badabing cannot be prosecuted for ordering the murder of 25 people. He ordered those private murders privately in his own private house. Those private conversations are off limits!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

101 I read some of my brother's divorce paperwork...it was publicly available through the courts. Found out that it wasn't that his wife cheated on him (like he told us), but rather he cheated on his wife with her best friend (whom he later married and had a kid, said kid born at a time that implies conception happened before the divorce)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:46 PM (l3cgK)
=====

*motions to silence the crowd which quiets*

Go on...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (JvZF+)

102 He dinnit do nuffin! Where my phone?
* yanks phone from under sweaty tit.
I'm recordin this. Where my momma?

Ewetube has several channels devoted to Arkansas State Police dashcam videos. Typical video:
1. Trooper chases a car at 120 mph for ten minutes.
2. Trooper rams the car and runs it off the road.
3. Driver emerges from car, waving his phone, demanding to call his mother, while proclaiming "I Dindu Nuffin!"

It never gets old.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (PH3st)

103 I'm a bit confused. Didn't Robert Hur also interview *biden, and his audio transcriptions (recordings) are not the same as the recordings *biden had with this ghostwriter(s)... correct?

But the one's with the ghostwriters are being made public, not Hur's.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (jehhT)

104 I see the guy that leaked Trump's tax returns got 5 years.

The FNM/left tell me that's unfair because the President's tax returns are of public interest...

They seem to have a very different view of Biden's dementia tapes for some reason

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

105 Judge Sri Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, India.

... confirmed unanimously as President Obama’s first appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, making him the first South Asian-American to serve as a federal circuit court judge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (+yTe/)

106 93
Biden has the slowest-growing aggressive Stage 4 cancer I've ever heard of.

I don't think he has cancer. His only real issues are that he's senile, and he's an asshole.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 22, 2026 12:48 PM (ienUH)

Yeah, aggressive and slow seem to be at odds with each other. Then again, treatments for some cancers these days can push the cancer back for years, like with Jimma Carter.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (l3cgK)

107 "Put me on the jury and I'll send this decrepit muppet to the fucking gulag."

This is peak ace.

Posted by: Max Power at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (SwyyQ)

108 105 Judge Sri Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, India.

... confirmed unanimously as President Obama’s first appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, making him the first South Asian-American to serve as a federal circuit court judge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (+yTe/)

dot, not feather.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)

109 Ever hear the sound of documents as they rev up to be released? They go vrooom, vrooom. You gotta hear it, Jack!

How does this compare to the sound of a Vespa at a stoplight, revving it up to challenge the muscle car in the adjacent lane?

Asking for the Commentariat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 12:51 PM (0sNs1)

110 Judge Sri Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, India.

All American...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 12:51 PM (5gObE)

111
* yanks phone from under sweaty tit.

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Obligatory.

Posted by: Can't make this stuff up at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (2Ez/1)

112 "Put me on the jury and I'll send this decrepit muppet to the fucking gulag."

Is this the gulag where instead of freezing/staving to death you die from snu snu ?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

113 Hur didn't prosecute, of course, even though Biden was guilty by his own admission. Hur claiming that no jury would convict this hapless husk because his brains were plainly mush.

And Joe's ego just couldn't take that lying down. My favorite part was when he had a press conference to insist that he wasn't a well meaning old man. Somewhere his lawyer was shouting at the TV "Shut up you senile fool!!"

Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (vTZFs)

114 The "press" doesn't really exist anymore.

It's gonna take awhile to adjust to that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)
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Also on the no-longer-existing list: a cloture vote to close discussion in the Senate.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (Fi81e)

115 Didn't we also have another Biden judge named Sparkle in the new recently?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

116 That is one of most disgusting things I have seen working retail, woman pulls phone out of bra and puts it to her face.

*Shudder*

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (EDLNf)

117 =====

*motions to silence the crowd which quiets*

Go on...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:49 PM

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heh.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (2Ez/1)

118 Biden has the slowest-growing aggressive Stage 4 cancer I've ever heard of.

Rick Hendricks enters the chat. Only guy to ever look at Federal Time for racketeering and fraud, suddenly get cancer, and after two years home confinement come out heavier and with more hair.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (q/hOL)

119 As a guy I always have a pocket to put a phone in. If you aren't wearing a purse where do you keep your phone as a woman?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

120 when the store owner sees you steal something and says they are calling the cops why wouldn't you drop whatever you took in the store and leave?
Posted by: 18-1
_______________________

I still think the solution to retail theft is to restructure store policy. All listed prices on products are at a threshold above required felony filing. The only way to purchase for "discounted" true price is a store membership that has one requirement...visit the check out register. Automatically, that triggers the price to retore to original value. Anyone who absconds with something a small as a pack of gum without visiting the check out has committed a felony requiring police to treat accordingly. California can only institute Price Gouging rules during a State emergency, so a privately owned store is able to set the price structure they way they wish.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM (dIske)

121
By 1. Terms and conditions of project contract which I believe would have by nature incorporate 2. Federal Acquisition regulations or state regs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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I don't see how this applies to a ghostwriter. And even if ghostwriter promised to keep the notes private, that's a civil agreement. It doesn't mean you are now free to ignore a subpoena.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)

122 They seem to have a very different view of Biden's dementia tapes for some reason

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)
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They want it both ways.

Just like everything else.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (Fi81e)

123 I did see a sign at a beach restaurant a while back that they would not accept money taken from inside of a swim suit.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

124 119 As a guy I always have a pocket to put a phone in. If you aren't wearing a purse where do you keep your phone as a woman?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM
******

Depends. Can you pass the pencil test?

Posted by: IYKYK at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (2Ez/1)

125 It never gets old.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (PH3st)

I expect it. There are also streamers on YT who break the chases down and advise how to do it better. I suspect a certain viralness to the chase is a claim to fame in prison.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (PjoLk)

126 It's insane how the country just accepts foreign born judges that have zero real connection to our country beyond some Ivy League law school.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (wGerL)

127
So FJB has not one, not two, but THREE memoirs? All of which feature the word "Promise" in the title?

Tapioca Brain just lurves himself that Promise Margarine!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 12:55 PM (s9VOe)

128 As a guy I always have a pocket to put a phone in. If you aren't wearing a purse where do you keep your phone as a woman?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
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Back pocket.

Haven't you seen girls hauling cracked screens out of their back pocket?

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:55 PM (Fi81e)

129 I don't see how this applies to a ghostwriter. And even if ghostwriter promised to keep the notes private, that's a civil agreement. It doesn't mean you are now free to ignore a subpoena.

Just had to smarten up a client last week, regarding some shady work for a municipality.

"But the prime contractor agrees to indemnify us". Slick - they can't indemnify you or me against the City, State, or Fed.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 12:55 PM (q/hOL)

130 119 As a guy I always have a pocket to put a phone in. If you aren't wearing a purse where do you keep your phone as a woman?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

The same place I kept my handgun.

Posted by: Woman Arrested for Hiding Handgun in her Vajajay at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM (l3cgK)

131 126 It's insane how the country just accepts foreign born judges that have zero real connection to our country beyond some Ivy League law school.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM

You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM (2Ez/1)

132 I don't see how this applies to a ghostwriter. And even if ghostwriter promised to keep the notes private, that's a civil agreement. It doesn't mean you are now free to ignore a subpoena.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)
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Agreed but I would want to know more about the legal basis for the supoena.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM (JvZF+)

133 That is one of most disgusting things I have seen working retail, woman pulls phone out of bra and puts it to her face.

*Shudder*
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM

Sydney Sweeney doing that might get a pass from some of the 'rons*.

(* You know who you are.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM (0sNs1)

134
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 12:50 PM (jehhT)

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I think that is correct.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM (mmrXZ)

135 If what goes on inside a person's home is private and not the govt.s business there are a whole lot of prosecutions that need revisiting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (+yTe/)

136 Negative, Ghostrider.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (Si12k)

137
Go ahead and humiliate that doddering old shit.
"Doctor" Jill is the one whose social standing would be damaged far more.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (s9VOe)

138 So it's a boob thread?

Posted by: Just got here at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (2Ez/1)

139 The same place I kept my handgun.
Posted by: Woman Arrested for Hiding Handgun in her Vajajay at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM (l3cgK)

I saw an ad from a company selling holsters.

They had a really pretty model in a long slit skirt to show off their thigh holster and...I'm going to need to spend some time in my bunk now remembering that.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

140 That is one of most disgusting things I have seen working retail, woman pulls phone out of bra and puts it to her face.

*Shudder*
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (EDLNf)

It could've been worse. She could have pulled a handful of grimy dollar bills out of her bra and handed them to you.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (PH3st)

141 110 Judge Sri Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, India.

All American...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 12:51 PM (5gObE)
________________________

Every professional in the US directly from India should have their credentials vetted. Two months ago, it was made public that an estimated 1 Million + Indians are using false generated credentials and degrees. In India, it is believed that nearly 50% of practicing attorneys never received a law degree. Authorities in India actually admitted that worldwide the number is likely well over 1 Million. This, also, includes truck drivers, which kind of explains a lot.

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2026 12:58 PM (dIske)

142 135 If what goes on inside a person's home is private and not the govt.s business there are a whole lot of prosecutions that need revisiting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (+yTe/)

Um, that's what warrants are for...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 12:58 PM (l3cgK)

143 It's insane how the country just accepts foreign born judges that have zero real connection to our country beyond some Ivy League law school.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (wGerL)
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Whenever I reference the "international Left" or
"global hegemony" I think of them.

They are Americans on paper only with no real commitment to the U.S. constitution other than mouthing empty words and violating oaths of office.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (JvZF+)

144 It could've been worse. She could have pulled a handful of grimy sopping-wet dollar bills out of her bra and handed them to you.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (0sNs1)

145 When Joe finally kicks the bucket TV News will be even more tiresome with all the "Senior Statesman" bullshit.

Posted by: wth at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (UjdFS)

146 Sydney Sweeney doing that might get a pass from some of the 'rons*.

Sophia Vergara ? I'd answer the call for her. Prefer she left the phone right where it is.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (q/hOL)

147 I did see a sign at a beach restaurant a while back that they would not accept money taken from inside of a swim suit.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
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There are laws about this. While merchants are required to accept cash, there are exceptions for cash stored in "unsanitary" locations, such as underwear, bras, and ass cracks.

I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

148 Since the WuHan Flu not seen anyone pull wet bills from their bra.

Thank kami-sama.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (EDLNf)

149 I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.

You don't say?

Posted by: Hope Solo realizes she no longer needs a wallet at July 22, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)

150 Agreed but I would want to know more about the legal basis for the supoena.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:56 PM

From what I have read they are still making noises about charging biden for keeping classified documents.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (0N4FZ)

151 I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

You saw someone pull cash out of their ass?

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (PjoLk)

152 *I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.*

_________
Is this about me?

Posted by: Richard Gere's gerbil at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (2Ez/1)

153 Not sure how we went from Biden's tapes to wet, sweaty boob money...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (5gObE)

154 The Ethiopian migrant who killed three people in Minneapolis didn't like the "American system" and he was discriminated against because he was black and couldn't bring his wife and children here. The answer asshole is not to kill three innocent people it's to leave the country

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (sMkB+)

155
It's insane how the country just accepts foreign born judges that have zero real connection to our country beyond some Ivy League law school.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

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

Not that it will ever happen to insignificant little me, but if I fell afoul of a foreign-born judge like this I'd get creative on "a jury of my peers " or something. It wouldn't go anywhere, but I'd make noise.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (mmrXZ)

156 I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.

You don't say?

Posted by: Hope Solo realizes she no longer needs a wallet at July 22, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)

Her prison wallet holds rolls of 100's.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (AdHga)

157 There are laws about this. While merchants are required to accept cash, there are exceptions for cash stored in "unsanitary" locations, such as underwear, bras, and ass cracks.

I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx
Asscrack Fever!

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 01:02 PM (LHPAg)

158 Oh, so it IS a boob thread.

Posted by: Just got here at July 22, 2026 01:02 PM (2Ez/1)

159 Asunfuitofssnplp

Posted by: Joe B at July 22, 2026 01:02 PM (OT3gL)

160 The answer asshole is not to kill three innocent people it's to leave the country
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (sMkB+)
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Not where I thought you were going with this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 01:02 PM (JvZF+)

161 That is one of most disgusting things I have seen working retail, woman pulls phone out of bra and puts it to her face.

*Shudder*
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (EDLNf)

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Waiting to pick my kids up from daycare one day, I watched a mom stick her phone into her yoga pants where her buttcrack is. I am rarely shocked by anything but....ugh

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 01:02 PM (oqH4h)

162 It's insane how ~~the country~~Democrats and DC just accepts foreign born judges that have zero real connection to our country beyond some Ivy League law school.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:03 PM (Fi81e)

163 The Ethiopian migrant who killed three people in Minneapolis didn't like the "American system" and he was discriminated against because he was black and couldn't bring his wife and children here.

The Afghan "refugee" that died in a shoot out with the cops last year blamed the US government for all his troubles in having to work a 9-5 and get his car registered and all the normal crap we heritage Americans have to deal with.

Maybe, just maybe, the US is not the right place for people from stone age civilizations?

Posted by: Hope Solo realizes she no longer needs a wallet at July 22, 2026 01:03 PM (sKqQm)

164 They are Americans on paper only with no real commitment to the U.S. constitution other than mouthing empty words and violating oaths of office.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (JvZF+)

Nail - meet head. A most astute observation.

I'll say this. In many places - including A LOT in Texas - its the "If they won't work we'll bring in people that will" mentality. And I'm talking folks that vote Republican like clockwork.

After decades of shitting on the idea, the Media and Education folks have finally created a couple generations that think Nationalism is a dirty word.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:03 PM (q/hOL)

165 153 Not sure how we went from Biden's tapes to wet, sweaty boob money...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (5gObE)

I just brought up the underboob phone.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 01:03 PM (PjoLk)

166 What’s so unsanitary about a bra? I mean, perspiration, maybe, but nothing worse. It’s not ladies pee and poop out of their boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 01:03 PM (3xPto)

167 I personally have never seen anyone refuse cash even if it was taken out of someone's asshole.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

In Third World countries the governments often take a long time between print runs of the local currency, so the bills stay in circulation for an extra long time. After living there for a while, your wallet becomes rather pungent.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 22, 2026 01:04 PM (PH3st)

168
From what I have read they are still making noises about charging biden for keeping classified documents.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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

Oh cool, that's an answer to my question @24. I'm so jaded.I didn't think anyone was going to use any confessions of anything to prosecute anyone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 01:04 PM (mmrXZ)

169 Not sure how we went from Biden's tapes to wet, sweaty boob money...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (5gObE)
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Maybe her tits are cool.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:04 PM (Fi81e)

170
You know that Hero Joe is battling stage 4 prostate oil cancer which has spread to his bones, doncha?

If that stupid shit hadn't licked the prostate cancer oil off his windshield, he'd not be in this fix, now would he?

BTW, there are numerous folks from Claymont, DE who vehemently despise him for that "cars covered in cancer oil" horseshit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 01:05 PM (s9VOe)

171 They are Americans on paper only with no real commitment to the U.S. constitution other than mouthing empty words and violating oaths of office.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 12:59 PM (JvZF+)

If a foreign born person can't be President, why should they be allowed to hold any public office?

Posted by: Josephistan at July 22, 2026 01:05 PM (y9ksN)

172 "It’s not ladies pee and poop out of their boobs."
+++++++

The things you can learn here.

Posted by: HS biology teacher at July 22, 2026 01:05 PM (2Ez/1)

173 What’s so unsanitary about a bra? I mean, perspiration, maybe, but nothing worse. It’s not ladies pee and poop out of their boobs.

Possible exception for that Maine senate candidate.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2026 01:06 PM (vTZFs)

174 C'mon, Jack~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 01:06 PM (diia5)

175 OT, prayer request for neighbors, one of whom will be having a medical procedure tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (vDZgA)

176 Speaking of unsanitary locations, there's a famous story (which may or may not be true) about the color "Verde Scandal."

It's the swinging 60s. A very rich lady goes to the Lamborghini factory in Sant'Agata. She wants to order a Miura. But she doesn't want any of the standard colors. She wants custom.

"No problem," the Lambo guy says. "What color?"

"Exactly like this," she says, pointing to the lime-green dress she's wearing.

"We'd need a sample of the fabric."

Without missing a beat, the lady takes off her dress and hands it to the guy. She walks out in her underwear.

Hence: Verde Scandal. Is the story true? Who knows? I tend to think it is. Sounds to me like something that would happy in the 1960s.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

177 I love how everything is new again, the people that said there were no Epstein docs in 2024 missed that they were released in 2025 and are demanding them to be released...again...in 2026

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

178 I don't carry a phone anywhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (abScH)

179 I just want to go to the bathroom.

Posted by: Ashley Webb at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (2Ez/1)

180 140 That is one of most disgusting things I have seen working retail, woman pulls phone out of bra and puts it to her face.

*Shudder*
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 12:52 PM (EDLNf)

It could've been worse. She could have pulled a handful of grimy dollar bills out of her bra and handed them to you.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Dreams of motorboating but dollar bills are disgusting. I don't understand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (+yTe/)

181 >>>It's insane how the country just accepts foreign born judges that have zero real connection to our country beyond some Ivy League law school.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson

>Yes, yes. Because the subversives know how to game the system to get around what you would think normal citizens want. I don't care if Zed gets a law degree, if he's from Fuckupistan he doesn't qualify to be judge.

Posted by: Cadaver Joe at July 22, 2026 01:08 PM (sYM3s)

182 If a foreign born person can't be President, why should they be allowed to hold any public office?
Posted by: Josephistan at July 22, 2026 01:05 PM (y9ksN)

And now we're talking. Its not out of the question that I finish up working as an Expat in a country of my choosing. Argentina ... I've got my eye on you.

But I have no expectation of ever voting there - let alone holding public office. And its a very reasonable arrangement. I'm just there for the money. I'm not connected in any meaningful way. I would be there to provide a needed skill - for great money - renting an excellent Town House and enjoying all that country has to offer. There for a Good Time. Not a Long Time.

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:08 PM (q/hOL)

183 Like the president, judges should have to be "natural born" but the founders never expected judges to have so much power either

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

184 Dreams of motorboating but dollar bills are disgusting. I don't understand.

I'm gonna guess it depends on the looks of the woman with said sweaty boobs.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

185 Not sure how we went from Biden's tapes to wet, sweaty boob money...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 01:01 PM (5gObE)

I saw Wet Sweaty Boob Money open for Red Hot Chili Peppers

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:10 PM (SB5L+)

186 Hide a can of catfood under each tit

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 01:10 PM (r50HQ)

187
They are Americans on paper only with no real commitment to the U.S. constitution other than mouthing empty words and violating oaths of office.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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I'd go further and say it's not just lack of commitment , it's actual hostility to the u s constitution and to america in general. There was a Korean American or Chinese American kid on YouTube for a while who got red pilled in law school. He said all his classmates openly talked about destroying america.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 22, 2026 01:10 PM (mmrXZ)

188 Does the muppet gulag have a Swedish chef?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 01:10 PM (Cqx++)

189 The whole privacy thing some of you are talking about changes drastically when there's classified information involved. It becomes a a national security issue then.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2026 01:10 PM (g8Ew8)

190 Hence: Verde Scandal. Is the story true? Who knows? I tend to think it is. Sounds to me like something that would happy in the 1960s.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
I know it made me smile.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 01:11 PM (LHPAg)

191 Pretty certain the video linked last week of the super cute Italian girl who "cooks" showed her pulling a carrot out of her bra.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:12 PM (SB5L+)

192 I was finna go home, I live right over there.

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The term "finna" drives me nuts. Which is probably why they use it.

Posted by: Grammar DSA dude at July 22, 2026 01:12 PM (Q+3G7)

193 166 What’s so unsanitary about a bra? I mean, perspiration, maybe, but nothing worse. It’s not ladies pee and poop out of their boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 01:03 PM (3xPto)

Yeah, my bosom is significantly cleaner than my phone. And if it's hot enough that my bosom is sweaty, so is everywhere else.

How about in my sock above the ankle bone, next to my shin? That's also a fairly clean, non-sweaty place.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 01:13 PM (OlzlW)

194
Now... would I eat said carrot...?

Just call me Bugs Bunny

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:13 PM (SB5L+)

195 We can have privacy?? Does that mean we can end the nsa vacuum sucking up all our data and the flock cameras??

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 22, 2026 01:14 PM (IgKwI)

196 While merchants are required to accept cash,
——

No they are not. Cash must be accepted for payment of Debts, public or private.

If I’m selling something, I decide what form of payment I want. Wampum, dollars. Whatever. You’ve incurred no Debt prior to purchase.

Make sense? You could, say “cash only” too. Same principle applies

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:16 PM (z+KLG)

197 How about in my sock above the ankle bone, next to my shin? That's also a fairly clean, non-sweaty place.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 01:13 PM (OlzlW)
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Space that should already be occupied by a small sidearm.

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 01:16 PM (oqH4h)

198 Watched a clip of some born Americans talking.
Did not understand one word that was said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:17 PM (+yTe/)

199 Helena Handbasket at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (vDZgA)

May your neighbor be Blessed with Health & Healing.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at July 22, 2026 01:17 PM (rrNrL)

200 We gots some corn that needs some popping Cornpop!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2026 01:17 PM (n5tGW)

201 Yeah, my bosom is significantly cleaner than my phone.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 01:13 PM (OlzlW)

Go on ...

Posted by: Memory Man at July 22, 2026 01:17 PM (q/hOL)

202 Prayers sent Helena

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:19 PM (SB5L+)

203 I got it now. The reason that Mickey Mouse is "minstrel" is so that it is racist if don't want to see Mickey banned.

That is if you tolerate status quo, you're racist.

The demand for racism exceeds the supply, so add more things to "racism". Like "Hey, Mickey Mouse isn't a minstrel figure--unless you think that red shorts with big white buttons are 'minstrel'?"

The more things you involve that aren't obviously racist, the more "racists" you'll invent when somebody pushes back at having "everything" change.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (Fi81e)

204 Many small businesses or local governments hate to deal with cash. Understandably. Pilferage, robbery, and somebody has to screw around with it and take it to the bank. I watched a grocery gal weighing cash in the back room. Easier to count, or something.

Your local property tax bill, look on the fine print. They have to take cash, even if they don’t want to emphasize that. Legal Tender. Very misunderstood subject

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (z+KLG)

205 new thread yo

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (CWTWj)

206 Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (Fi81e)

It's pure subversion. Just erasing culture nothing more.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 01:20 PM (SB5L+)

207 NOOD

RFK Jr

"....is going to murder zillions of chirruns in CA and MN!!!" -- leftists

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 22, 2026 01:22 PM (vDZgA)

208 While merchants are required to accept cash,
——

No they are not. Cash must be accepted for payment of Debts, public or private.

If I’m selling something, I decide what form of payment I want. Wampum, dollars. Whatever. You’ve incurred no Debt prior to purchase.

Make sense? You could, say “cash only” too. Same principle applies
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:16 PM (z+KLG)
________

Under federal law, yes. But "debt" is interpreted broadly to mean any good or service you've already accepted (such as a bill after a dinner at a restaurant). Some states or cities require that cash be accepted for most transactions.

That's why there are carve-outs for unsanitary conditions. So businesses don't have to accept nasty cash. Although, as I've said above, I've never seen anyone refuse cash.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

209 Hence: Verde Scandal. Is the story true? Who knows? I tend to think it is. Sounds to me like something that would happy in the 1960s.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
I know it made me smile.
Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2026 01:11 PM (LHPAg)
__________

It's a great story! The subtext is the lady looked like Sofia Loren, but there's no mention of what she looked like. Could have been a babe, or coulda been ... Trigglypuff.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

210 Biden isn't fighting any of this. He doesn't even know this is happening. The people who ran his auto-pen are fighting this because they need the pardons and everything else they pushed to not be questioned.

Posted by: Sarge at July 22, 2026 01:25 PM (ibIN8)

211 > Biden isn't fighting any of this. He doesn't even know this is happening. The people who ran his auto-pen are fighting this because they need the pardons and everything else they pushed to not be questioned.
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I think some, maybe all of them? got pardons. A number of his staff were called to testify before Congress about the autopen debacle, and they basically told Congress to fuck off.

And haven't been called back.

Must not be a GOP priority.... like the SAVE act. Or, pretty much anything else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 01:30 PM (jehhT)

212 "One does have to love that for a while the argument the left was making was:

Biden is the best person for the role of president
and
He's too senile to run for president
Posted by: 18-1"

Dems never believed Biden was the best person for president. Not sure they even said this. They just knew he was the only who could plausibly beat (or cheat)Trump. They all wanted somebody far more stupid, left and woke like Buttigig.

Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2026 01:35 PM (GUOwU)

213 While merchants are required to accept cash,
——

No they are not. Cash must be accepted for payment of Debts, public or private.

If I’m selling something, I decide what form of payment I want. Wampum, dollars. Whatever. You’ve incurred no Debt prior to purchase.

Make sense? You could, say “cash only” too. Same principle applies
Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 01:16 PM
++++++

Be careful if you try to pay with pennies.

https://youtu.be/S4XNcTQT-yY

Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference at July 22, 2026 01:37 PM (2Ez/1)

214
Possible exception for that Maine senate candidate.
Posted by: Oddbob

Are you referring to the "mucus oozer"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2026 01:40 PM (s9VOe)

215 That judge believes there is presstitute-client privilege.
She leared about that in law skool.

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2026 03:02 PM (nf+XS)

216 Does the muppet gulag have a Swedish chef?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 01:10 PM (Cqx
****
He wasn't Swedish.
And he didn't even send flowers.

Posted by: Purple Lipped Dog Eater at July 22, 2026 03:08 PM (nf+XS)

Wednesday Morning Rant

You're Fired

One constant motivation in the current Trump Administration has been pushing hard on defining - or redefining - who can be summarily fired by the executive. The Administration's stance is, essentially, "anyone, for any reason or no reason at all." This came to a head - in part - with Trump v Slaughter last month, where the Court did away with Humphrey's Executor. The win was not total, but it was a step in the right direction. Outside of court cases - though ironically not outside the courts entirely - the Administration is cracking down on external meddling in executive affairs.

This year, Trump has taken consistent and immediate action against one of the more pernicious forms of meddling, which is the appointment of US Attorneys. Federal prosecutors are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. If there is a vacant position, however, the Attorney General can appoint an interim prosecutor for a 120-day term. If that expires and there is no replacement, the district court judges for the district involved can appoint their own interim prosecutor. This looks like a cascading system to ensure continuity, but it has become a mechanism of subversion. Trump is cracking down on it.

The way this has worked in the past, what with "comity" and all that jazz, is that when there is a vacancy, the district court would consult with the Attorney General and appoint someone tolerable to the Administration to the interim job. That was tradition, not law. As with all comity-based traditions, it ceased to exist under Trump. This law became a means of subverting the appointment of US Attorneys. If the president can't get his man in place in time - and the Senate is quite good at slow-walking things when they want to, or just outright rejecting confirmations and "comity" be damned - then the district court gets to appoint their own man instead. This is a nice, neat and legal means of completely end-running the executive.

While there is nothing to stop the district court judges from putting their man into place without any oversight, Trump has made it clear that this does not mean that he is powerless to intervene in this process. The process has now changed in fact, though nothing has changed in law. It now goes like this:
1. A US Attorney vacancy opens
2. The 120-day period expires
3. The district court judges appoint their man as they see fit
4. Trump fires the newly-appointed USA before he can start work

Though Trump has been aggressive in extending the "I can fire anyone I please, anytime I please" operating environment as far as possible, the President has the authority to fire US Attorneys anyway. He is making an example of these interim US Attorneys, and is on his third firing this year. Back in February, it happened twice. On February 12, the Northern District of New York appointed their man, Donald Kinsella to a vacancy created when a federal judge ruled that Trump's choice, John Sarcone, was in the role unlawfully. Kinsella was fired by email before he could start work.

Days later, another district court tried the same play, this time in Virginia. On February 20, the Eastern District of Virginia appointed their man, James Hundley, as US Attorney. They did so without discussing anything with the Administration, taking the opportunity to slide their preferred prosecutor into the position. They appointed him and swore him in and then, hours later, he was fired. Acting Attorney General Blanche announced it on X:

Here we go again. EDVA judges do not pick our US Attorney. POTUS does. James Hundley, you�re fired!

Twice may not make a trend, but it didn't stop there. Last week, a district court tried the same play yet again, this time on the other side of the country. After the existing interim US Attorney's term expired, the Western District of Washington appointed and swore in their man, Roger Rogoff, to replace Trump's interim prosecutor Neil Floyd. Like before, the President fired the new interim US Attorney within hours of his appointment by the district judges. The Western District of Washington may have done this deliberately to make a test case after what happened in New York and Virginia. Per The Hill:

Rogoff has reportedly retained legal counsel that specializes in employment law, setting up the possibility of a formal legal challenge that could set the stage for the courts to settle the bounds of presidential power over U.S. attorneys.

Perhaps so, but it will be weak. While a weak case never stops the courts from ruling however they please, the new rules are clear for now: the President's man serves, or nobody does. District Court appointments may be allowed by law, but that is no longer an excuse for them to simply appoint their man against the President's will. When they do, Trump hasn't hesitated to dust off his catchphrase and tell the usurper, "You're Fired!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (1g3xS)

2 Gotta get up real early around here...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 22, 2026 11:01 AM (OUMaO)

3 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (Dd38x)

4 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 11:04 AM (1g3xS)

5 OH MY GOD THE EXECUTOR KILLED HUMPHREY!

Posted by: THAT BASTARD!!!! at July 22, 2026 11:04 AM (TbWk/)

6 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (Dd38x)

Evil never rests. Or showers.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (v5XIn)

7 3 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (Dd38x)

What's the worst that could happen

Posted by: Suppiluliamas II, king of Great Hatti at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (gKWVE)

8 There's a whole lot of attorneys and judges that need to be fired.

Into the sun.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (jehhT)

9 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (N1tpc)

10 8 There's a whole lot of attorneys and judges that need to be fired.

Into the sun.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (jehhT)

We're gonna need a bigger trebuchet...

Posted by: And lots of them at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (TbWk/)

11 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.

Posted by: Piper

Too late. The scuttling charges went off when I was an infant, in a dozen or more theaters. All that's left is delaying the inevitable.

I keep saying the focus has to be on what gets built afterwards, because you can be certain our adversaries already have plans in that regard.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (OUMaO)

12 Now, if only the Senate, those shits, would be willing to try and convict impeached judges....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (tAI1y)

13 I still want Vance to enter the senate in a "pro forma" session, declare it in recess, and dare Thune and those bitter old outgoing primary-losers to say different.
Then DJT can go on a hiring-spree of the most right wing 50 year olds he can dig out of northern Alabama.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:07 AM (gKWVE)

14 10 8 There's a whole lot of attorneys and judges that need to be fired.

Into the sun.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (jehhT)

We're gonna need a bigger trebuchet...
Posted by: And lots of them at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (TbWk/)
===================
Yet another reason to build Elon's Mass Driver on the moon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 11:08 AM (tAI1y)

15 Comity is, of course, white supremacy.

So it must be done away with.

Of course, it's also how businesses/governments/cultures get things accomplished.

Which is why cultures/governments/businesses that act with aggressive malice get ONE thing accomplished and then have to fight all the time to get anything else done. And then fail.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 11:10 AM (N1tpc)

16 13 I still want Vance to enter the senate in a "pro forma" session, declare it in recess, and dare Thune and those bitter old outgoing primary-losers to say different.
Then DJT can go on a hiring-spree of the most right wing 50 year olds he can dig out of northern Alabama.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:07 AM (gKWVE)

But I am in Southern Alabama.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:10 AM (Dd38x)

17 Yet another reason to build Elon's Mass Driver on the moon.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 11:08 AM (tAI1y)

How about the space elevator? current material doesn't allow it to reach the Earth but you can still hang people from it

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:10 AM (gKWVE)

18 Roger Rabbit > Roger Rogoff

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 11:11 AM (J4Dwc)

19 John Cornyn does not approve.

Posted by: John Cornyn, Centrist Democrat at July 22, 2026 11:11 AM (tAI1y)

20 "And how many divisions do these judges command?"

Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026 11:12 AM (lXoJ5)

21 Tragedy tomorrow, comity tonight.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 11:14 AM (amcLV)

22 We need to be careful about having the president simply appoint whomever he chooses, because the next time, it could be a Democrat who does it. You know, like Clinton and Obama did. Biden didn't, but that was only because it would have taken away from his pudding time.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

23 PDT is the defender of the rule of law. We can piss and moan about what he "should" do but he has been getting it right the right way.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 11:15 AM (abScH)

24 If you want to blame someone for the loss of "comity" in this, blame Bill Clinton, who fired 93 prosecutors. IOW - every last fucking one of them, the moment his ass hit the chair.

If you want to blame anyone for the supine, self-indulgent lack of reciprocity, look to the intervening GOP Presidencies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 11:15 AM (BI5O2)

25 11 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.

Posted by: Piper

Too late. The scuttling charges went off when I was an infant, in a dozen or more theaters. All that's left is delaying the inevitable.

I keep saying the focus has to be on what gets built afterwards, because you can be certain our adversaries already have plans in that regard.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (OUMaO)

Guy I listen to in the podcast world has consistently said the country was lost in January 2020, and 2024 and after is the attempt to reclaim it. There are a lot of markers and dates that can be used, but I guess that one is as good as any.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 22, 2026 11:15 AM (QaH55)

26 Cornyn must be getting kickbacks from the African AIDS thing. It's the only thing that makes sense.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 22, 2026 11:16 AM (l26NL)

27 Fire the Deep State

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 11:17 AM (ccLZe)

28 Where were hundreds of millions - billions - of dollars to Somalis really going? What was it funding? It wasn't just mansions.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 11:17 AM (v5XIn)

29 Is a Mass Driver and a Hardon Collider the same thing?

Posted by: Harbor Freight at July 22, 2026 11:18 AM (JM9I6)

30 The way to slow HIV in Africa is to make it less fun to spread it. That means catching people who spread it and sticking them somewhere they can't do that anymore. (this is not a fedpost)
Imposing the rule of law in Congo is admittedly a hard problem. But I submit it is not Cornyn's problem, and he wouldn't know how to do it anyway.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:19 AM (gKWVE)

31 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 11:22 AM (/BPde)

32 MANNIX!

.....not a cop......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 11:22 AM (/BPde)

33 Is a Mass Driver and a Hardon Collider the same thing?
Posted by: Harbor Freight at July 22, 2026 11:18 AM (JM9I6)

Most definitely not.

And I really don't want to see any results from that kind of Collider.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 11:23 AM (N1tpc)

34 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (Dd38x)

1. Attend TxMoMe
2. Attend Weasel Distance Shooting Seminar
3. Shoot early, shoot often
4. Arm yourself
5. Prepare for the impending battle

Sorry, but this is what will be required......soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 11:24 AM (/BPde)

35 16 13 I still want Vance to enter the senate in a "pro forma" session, declare it in recess, and dare Thune and those bitter old outgoing primary-losers to say different.
Then DJT can go on a hiring-spree of the most right wing 50 year olds he can dig out of northern Alabama.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:07 AM (gKWVE)

But I am in Southern Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:10 AM (Dd38x)

The problem is that we don't have anywhere for 52 year old family men to go after they get fired by the D in the next admin...it's why Ds have set up their nonprofit and lobbying network to benefit themselves...and we haven't...

So, we would struggle to recruit the folks we want...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 22, 2026 11:25 AM (tOcjL)

36 The way to slow HIV in Africa is to make it less fun to spread it. That means catching people who spread it and sticking them somewhere they can't do that anymore.

I have some thoughts.

Posted by: Nayib Bukele at July 22, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

37 Is a Mass Driver and a Hardon Collider the same thing?
Posted by: Harbor Freight

I don't know but Kevin Spacey was in Baby Driver and had a hardon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:26 AM (ndZc7)

38 Thx Joe
I realize the courts have upheld the district ct right pursuant to the US code to appoint a temporary replacement, but I still think that violates the separation of powers . I doubt Dread Judge Roberts would overturn the prior decisions but we may get a chance to see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 11:27 AM (sMkB+)

39 26 Cornyn must be getting kickbacks from the African AIDS thing. It's the only thing that makes sense.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 22, 2026 11:16 AM (l26NL)
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Kickbacks from the Chinese companies mining minerals there. If AIDS and other diseases are limited, the Chinese slavemasters have a healthier workforce, increasing profits from mining, then greasing palms.

Posted by: Freddie Mercury at July 22, 2026 11:27 AM (oqH4h)

40 Imposing the rule of law in Congo is admittedly a hard problem. But I submit it is not Cornyn's problem, and he wouldn't know how to do it anyway.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:19 AM (gKWVE)

Billions and billions of US tax dollars have been spent in effort to stop the spread of Fauci in Africa. Whether the money was embezzled or not, not much change was implemented.

If the people there don't care, why should I? Ban travel from those areas. They'll either figure it out or they won't. Who's at fault? I mean besides Fauci, Bill Gates and the filthy billionaires doing biological experiments on the blacks because they hate them and want them irradicated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 11:28 AM (/BPde)

41 Well I didn't mean to use a Freddie Mercury sock on an AIDS post but here we are

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h)

42 The problem is that we don't have anywhere for 52 year old family men to go after they get fired by the D in the next admin...it's why Ds have set up their nonprofit and lobbying network to benefit themselves...and we haven't...

So, we would struggle to recruit the folks we want...
Posted by: Nova Local

Hire me. I'm ghosting in November of 29 anyway.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 11:28 AM (1g3xS)

43 “ the district court would consult with the Attorney General and appoint someone”

Judges appoint prosecutors? Talk about the biggest conflict of interest in the history of conflicts of interest.

Posted by: Da Fuq at July 22, 2026 11:29 AM (GEtfQ)

44 > Where were hundreds of millions - billions - of dollars to Somalis really going? What was it funding? It wasn't just mansions.
----------
Some of the millions most likely went to Somalian warlords to buy arms. Or whomever. A fair amount went into politician's pockets to spend on whatever perversions they're into. Or fund Socialist/Communist/Muslim terror groups here in the states.

Basically, all the monies were used to enrich those people and fund the continued destruction of the US.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 11:29 AM (jehhT)

45 Well I didn't mean to use a Freddie Mercury sock on an AIDS post but here we are
Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2026 11:28 AM (oqH4h)

Sometimes the socks just know.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2026 11:31 AM (N1tpc)

46 The way this has worked in the past, what with "comity" and all that jazz, is that when there is a vacancy, the district court would consult with the Attorney General and appoint someone tolerable to the Administration to the interim job. That was tradition, not law. As with all comity-based traditions, it ceased to exist under Trump.

Whenever someone starts babbling about "comity", I know they are placing their own needs and desires above those of the people who elected them. It should result in immediate expulsion, preferably followed by a brief helicopter ride.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

47 Imposing the rule of law in Congo is admittedly a hard problem. But I submit it is not Cornyn's problem, and he wouldn't know how to do it anyway.
Posted by: gKWVE
_________

Send a modern day Kurtz upriver. Couldn't end up any worse.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 11:33 AM (XvL8K)

48 Uh oh. Mamdani is getting serious now.

https://tinyurl.com/3ympm94a

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:35 AM (ndZc7)

49 Basically, all the monies were used to enrich those people and fund the continued destruction of the US.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 11:29 AM (jehhT)

There is a shit ton more houses in Mogdishu than when I was there in 93. The city is at least twice as large. I was at Victory Base which was way out in the sticks and now has a subdivision sitting on it.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 11:36 AM (PjoLk)

50 >>>Trump hasn't hesitated to dust off his catchphrase and tell the usurper, "You're Fired!"

I voted for this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 11:36 AM (dK+Kv)

51 Whenever someone starts babbling about "comity", I know they are placing their own needs and desires above those of the people who elected them. It should result in immediate expulsion, preferably followed by a brief helicopter ride.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Like "for the greater good" usually means for My Good and to your detriment.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 22, 2026 11:37 AM (xvV+O)

52 Evil never rests. Or showers.
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (v5XIn)

Rust never sleeps ...

Posted by: Neil Young at July 22, 2026 11:37 AM (3sXRv)

53 The fuq? Again?
I quit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2026 11:38 AM (diia5)

54 OT: House already passed a stop gap funding bill through Dec 4 (this would be Oct 1 to Dec 4) - got a few Dems to vote for it (220-205)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 22, 2026 11:39 AM (tOcjL)

55 12 Now, if only the Senate, those shits, would be willing to try and convict impeached judges....
Posted by: Huck Follywood

They are in on the plot. Blue slip policy is what is keeping any Trump District appointee from being seated because Grassley refuses to schedule Judiciary Committee votes without the Democrats senators giving their okay on Trump nominees. Goes the same for district court nominations.

And this rule has little or nothing to do anymore, if it ever did, with advise and consent that the Senate has a role. Same with their single person 'holds' on nominees like dead duck Cornyn just pulled.

Posted by: Bearded Spock at July 22, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)

56 Can we fire some federal judges?
Who has the authority to do that?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

57 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (Dd38x)
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When the other side decides they no longer want to be at war, that would be great. But they haven't. The only option is to hurt them on every move. Every single one.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (7/DDO)

58 Same with their single person 'holds' on nominees like dead duck Cornyn just pulled.

No matter what else is going on, hearing that Cornyn is a DMW puts a smile on my face.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

59
No matter what else is going on, hearing that Cornyn is a DMW puts a smile on my face.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

This. Bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 11:42 AM (/BPde)

60 56 Can we fire some federal judges?
Who has the authority to do that?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

It's a lifetime appointment.
Read that however you like.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 11:42 AM (PjoLk)

61 Judges appoint prosecutors? Talk about the biggest conflict of interest in the history of conflicts of interest.
Posted by: Da Fuq

Judges used to not be so blatant about being partisan but like the DSA and elected Dems, the recent DEI judges have went YOLO and their older Clinton and Obama judges have joined in.

But the statute is old, it is unlikely that the judges constitutionally should have this power because district attorneys are major officers of the US, not minor (so Congress cannot vest by law appointment to these offices in anyone other than the President), and so on. Last time such a law was upheld by Scotus was the independent counsel law which is now defunct.

Posted by: Bearded Spock at July 22, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv)

62
1. A US Attorney vacancy opens
2. The 120-day period expires
3. The district court judges appoint their man as they see fit
4. Trump fires the newly-appointed USA before he can start work

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#4 is the sort of thing I'm always asking "Why can't he do X?" It seems so obvious and effective but no one does it!

And Trump does it. I hope President Rubio works the same way.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2026 11:43 AM (mmrXZ)

63 The problem is that we don't have anywhere for 52 year old family men to go after they get fired by the D in the next admin...it's why Ds have set up their nonprofit and lobbying network to benefit themselves...and we haven't...

So, we would struggle to recruit the folks we want...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 22, 2026 11:25 AM (tOcjL)
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Those NGO jobs are disappearing pretty quick. Once killed it takes alot of work to set them back up. We are closer to parity than we have been in awhile.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM (7/DDO)

64 Hate crime in Baltimore.

https://tinyurl.com/4559t6yu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM (ndZc7)

65 Whenever someone starts babbling about "comity", I know they are placing their own needs and desires above those of the people who elected them. It should result in immediate expulsion, preferably followed by a brief helicopter ride.
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I always use the word 'rapprochement'. Because I'm smart and sophisticated.

Posted by: ValJar at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM (XeU6L)

66 As mentioned here before, Trump has been very busy firing immigration court judges, which is great. considering a lot of them are former immigration attorneys who are pro-immigrant.

It's a win-win, since it removes the rubber stamp allowing immigrants to stay, and it makes the wait longer, wearing down people who want to fast-track their naturalization process.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM (X8xt3)

67 OT: House already passed a stop gap funding bill through Dec 4 (this would be Oct 1 to Dec 4) - got a few Dems to vote for it (220-205)...
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SAVE Act still not passed. Why are they bothering with anything else?

Posted by: Mick J at July 22, 2026 11:45 AM (TN0g+)

68 60 56 Can we fire some federal judges?
Who has the authority to do that?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

It's a lifetime appointment.
Read that however you like.
Posted by: Reforger

Stuart v Laird, 1802. The easiest way to get rid of lower court judges is to reorganize the federal courts or to drown them in new appointees. The more subtle way is to deny them resources like law clerks, marshals, etc. Another is to return to three judge panels for any important decision--that tends to stomp on extreme opinions.

But district court judges nor even Court of Appeals judges are NOT guaranteed a life term by the Constitution, Scotus is but they are not. They get the life term via statutes, not the Constitution. That means Congress could change the terms for new appointees.

Posted by: Bearded Spock at July 22, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)

69 Yet another reason to build Elon's Mass Driver on the moon.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Careful what you wish for, R. A. Heinlein wrote about it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 11:46 AM (NnhvP)

70 "The Administration's stance is, essentially, "anyone, for any reason or no reason at all." "

Which is completely in line with federal labor laws. Political appointees are at will employees and they can be fired for any reason or no reason and they lack any job protection laws like civil service employees have.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)

71 Can we fire some federal judges?
Who has the authority to do that?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

It's a lifetime appointment.

-
So trebuchets?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:47 AM (ndZc7)

72 Guy I listen to in the podcast world has consistently said the country was lost in January 2020, and 2024 and after is the attempt to reclaim it. There are a lot of markers and dates that can be used, but I guess that one is as good as any.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 22, 2026 11:15 AM (QaH55)

I'd say the date Barky the Dogeater got re-elected. But I know it goes back farther than that. Perhaps when Woodrow Wilson was elected.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2026 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

73 Careful what you wish for, R. A. Heinlein wrote about it.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 22, 2026 11:46 AM (NnhvP)
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We can throw rocks at them.

Posted by: Mycroft at July 22, 2026 11:50 AM (amcLV)

74 67 OT: House already passed a stop gap funding bill through Dec 4 (this would be Oct 1 to Dec 4) - got a few Dems to vote for it (220-205)...
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SAVE Act still not passed. Why are they bothering with anything else?
Posted by: Mick J at July 22, 2026 11:45 AM (TN0g+)

House has passed the SAVE Act months ago...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 22, 2026 11:50 AM (tOcjL)

75 Hate crime in Baltimore.

https://tinyurl.com/4559t6yu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM

AYFKM?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 11:50 AM (ZANHd)

76 I always thought the country was lost the night McCain got the nomination, because at the time it meant we would have The Hag, Osama, or McCain, all Soros puppet creatures.

The fact is it was of course lost before that, because Romney was the choice against McCain, and I think enough said on that front.

Bottom line is the country has been gone a loooong time.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 11:52 AM (v5XIn)

77 More cultural enlightenment.

Migrant charged with raping, suffocating, slicing, torturing, and running over Dutch woman he held hostage for a week

https://tinyurl.com/3hpuzane

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:53 AM (ndZc7)

78 Just ponder the choice after Bush was purportedly:

Hillary
McCain
Obama
Romney

And just before the election, they pulled the rug on the financial system. Dear Lord.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 11:54 AM (v5XIn)

79 I've noticed the "No Kings" people really, really like unelected, unaccountable people making fundamental decisions for the nation over elected officials that face the electorate on a regular basis.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 11:56 AM (sKqQm)

80 I want to go on record as really preferring not to witness the downfall of our society. We need to get it together.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (Dd38x)
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Please put out fire on head. We are fine. We survived far worse situations in our history. We survived Carter, Obama, and Biden, and a host of Democrap shitlords before them. There will always be evil and rot as long as humans exist. It's a perpetual battle. One that we are winning.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

81 Hate crime in Baltimore.

https://tinyurl.com/4559t6yu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM

AYFKM?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Hate is in the eye of the beholder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:57 AM (ndZc7)

82 I've noticed the "No Kings" people really, really like unelected, unaccountable people making fundamental decisions for the nation over elected officials that face the electorate on a regular basis.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 11:56 AM (sKqQm)
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They are anti-king, but very pro-God Emperor of Mankind.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 11:58 AM (FZ29D)

83 The same people that tell me that the world is overpopulated and Americans use too many resources also tell me we NEED to let millions of third worlders come here and get handouts so they too can use as many resources as Americans do

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 11:58 AM (sKqQm)

84 OT: House already passed a stop gap funding bill through Dec 4 (this would be Oct 1 to Dec 4) - got a few Dems to vote for it (220-205)...
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Posted by: Mick J at July 22, 2026 11:45 AM (TN0g+)

Thune has already said the GOP bill is dead on arrival and that he's working with Democrats to get something else passed.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 22, 2026 11:58 AM (AdHga)

85 I don't believe the Country is lost. Are there some serious problems, yes, but they aren't insurmountable.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 11:58 AM (abScH)

86 Trump Hate, and Graft, are reasons for no SAVE Act, yes? Which one more is a coin toss?

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 11:59 AM (Gqar8)

87 They are anti-king, but very pro-God Emperor of Mankind.

Funny thing about that if you actually read the Warhammer lore, the Emperor is a lying asshole that told everyone that there was no religion/nothing outside of the physical world while he knew that wasn't true.

He even has a debate with a monk before killing him where the monk tells him if the Emperor destroys religion it will come back but in a bad way...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:00 PM (sKqQm)

88 don't believe the Country is lost. Are there some serious problems, yes, but they aren't insurmountable.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 22, 2026 11:58 AM (abScH)

With God all things are possible. We are indeed the last great hope on earth. Just gotta go generation to generation.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 12:00 PM (v5XIn)

89 I saw Trump, Hate and Graft open for Crosby, Stills and Nash back in the day...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 12:01 PM (amcLV)

90 Hate crime in Baltimore.

https://tinyurl.com/4559t6yu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM

AYFKM?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Hate is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:57 AM (ndZc7)
______

In a way, that's a positive development because it shows that everyone knows "teen takeover" means "feral black thugs destroying things." That euphemism ain't fooling anyone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 22, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

91 Funny thing about that if you actually read the Warhammer lore, the Emperor is a lying asshole that told everyone that there was no religion/nothing outside of the physical world while he knew that wasn't true.

He even has a debate with a monk before killing him where the monk tells him if the Emperor destroys religion it will come back but in a bad way...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:00 PM (sKqQm)
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I bet the masses of peons in Warhammer 40K are unaware of that little factoid. Probably only a handful of people in the entire Imperium are aware.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 12:01 PM (FZ29D)

92 85 I don't believe the Country is lost. Are there some serious problems, yes, but they aren't insurmountable.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I would agree. The US is not the original republic as it was in 1787, but also not the republic it was in 1820, 1866, 1900, 1930, and even 2016. The forms of a republic remain but how current Americans interpret them and what they do changes.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 12:02 PM (E4rtv)

93 Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: Rodney Queen at July 22, 2026 12:03 PM (Cqx++)

94 92 85 I don't believe the Country is lost. Are there some serious problems, yes, but they aren't insurmountable.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I would agree. The US is not the original republic as it was in 1787, but also not the republic it was in 1820, 1866, 1900, 1930, and even 2016. The forms of a republic remain but how current Americans interpret them and what they do changes.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 12:02 PM (E4rtv)

These are fine thoughts. I would say a Republic is always in perennial crisis mode, due to the nature of people. Republics are unnatural.

Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar8)

95 Republics are unnatural.
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar

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Heh.

Posted by: Gaius Julius Caesar at July 22, 2026 12:05 PM (amcLV)

96 Fuck comity.

DC has already declared war on Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:06 PM (Fi81e)

97 Jim Comity?

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 12:07 PM (v5XIn)

98 Sounds to me like the whole system is corrupt. And this is the law of land. It's no wonder we're fucked.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2026 12:07 PM (sYM3s)

99 Jim Comity?
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 12:07 PM (v5XIn)
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Hate that guy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 22, 2026 12:07 PM (amcLV)

100 He even has a debate with a monk before killing him where the monk tells him if the Emperor destroys religion it will come back but in a bad way...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:00 PM (sKqQm)
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* Shows 18-1 the Nerd card *

Posted by: Soccer Ref at July 22, 2026 12:08 PM (Fi81e)

101 These are fine thoughts. I would say a Republic is always in perennial crisis mode, due to the nature of people. Republics are unnatural.
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar

Better than war.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 12:08 PM (PjoLk)

102 Funny thing about that if you actually read the Warhammer lore, the Emperor is a lying asshole that told everyone that there was no religion/nothing outside of the physical world while he knew that wasn't true.

He even has a debate with a monk before killing him where the monk tells him if the Emperor destroys religion it will come back but in a bad way...

Posted by: 18-1

...and ironically, despite going to great pains to disavow the idea that he was any sort of a god, he's venerated as such by the official Imperial cult regardless.

The depths of his failure on so many fronts by his own hubris and failure to anticipate how his actions would reverberate are the cornerstone of that setting's tragedy.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 22, 2026 12:09 PM (OUMaO)

103 Look busy. I think the boss is near.

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 12:10 PM (PjoLk)

104 These are fine thoughts. I would say a Republic is always in perennial crisis mode, due to the nature of people. Republics are unnatural.
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar

Better than war.

Posted by: Reforger

Which, human nature being what it is, turns up on occasion regardless.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 22, 2026 12:10 PM (OUMaO)

105 President was intended to control the executive. Just as I don't want Trump to call Congress into recess to make "recess appointments", I don't want asshole slow-walks by the Republican enemy to control allowed political appointments by the enemy Senate.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:10 PM (Fi81e)

106 Thune has already said the GOP bill is dead on arrival and that he's working with Democrats to get something else passed.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

He might find that the Senate bill is dead in the House. Thune is a pretty stupid majority leader so far and I don't think he will last in the job even if he keeps his Senate seat in 2028. The last Senate party leader to lose reelection was, ta da, Tom Daschle who was defeated by John Thune in 2004.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 12:11 PM (E4rtv)

107 He even has a debate with a monk before killing him where the monk tells him if the Emperor destroys religion it will come back but in a bad way...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:00 PM (sKqQm)
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* Shows 18-1 the Nerd card *

Posted by: Soccer Ref

Don't lie. You painted a Magic: the Gathering card for that.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 22, 2026 12:11 PM (OUMaO)

108 (found on GP)
Four orders of Catholic nuns and several Catholic healthcare ministries filed a federal lawsuit against New York on July 17, arguing the state’s new assisted-suicide law forces them to participate in ending patients’ lives in violation of their faith. The case, Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm v. James, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York against Attorney General Letitia James. The plaintiffs are represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2026 12:11 PM (TN0g+)

109 So easy a caveman could do it!

Interesting 20 minute video about extraordinary tools and such demonstrating the intelligence of primitive people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DXBT-hlIZQ&t=638s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 12:11 PM (ndZc7)

110 Sometimes we have to "do the hard things that need doing ourselves." Hope, as someone once said to me, is a near constant state of denial.

Whether that's remotely true is debatable.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 12:12 PM (jehhT)

111 105 President was intended to control the executive. Just as I don't want Trump to call Congress into recess to make "recess appointments", I don't want asshole slow-walks by the Republican enemy to control allowed political appointments by the enemy Senate.
Posted by: Axeman

One way is to have the House disagree about adjournment in December with the Senate and then as per the Constitution, the President can force the senate to adjourn--thus a recess for recess appointments exists.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

112 The relevant statute says the court MAY appoint a prosecutor when the 120 day interim appointment expires. The statute is also mute on whether or not an interim prosecutor can be appointed for another 120 days. In any event, it is unconstitutional for Article 3 judges to appoint Article 2 prosecutors.

Posted by: Butch at July 22, 2026 12:15 PM (SjrRc)

113 Thanks!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 22, 2026 12:15 PM (iMotb)

114 Hate crime in Baltimore.

https://tinyurl.com/4559t6yu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 11:44 AM (ndZc7)

Any bets the perp in this "hate crime" is not funded by the SPLC?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 12:16 PM (1z8ji)

115 SCOTUS makes a few important decisions. A district court judges slap a hundred injunctions on Trump. I hope Republican-appointed judges remember these days: "tit-for-tat" is a very effective strategy

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 22, 2026 12:16 PM (vS2qG)

116 Any bets the perp in this "hate crime" is not funded by the SPLC?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 12:16 PM

Not taking that bet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 12:17 PM (ZANHd)

117 Nood Grampa Interview tapes

Posted by: Inogame at July 22, 2026 12:17 PM (53oGX)

118 The Jews are taking over the military!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF.
This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.
Every member of Congress must vote NO.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 12:20 PM (ndZc7)

119 I think Cruz's recent address in a hearing about the presidential immunity that Dem drones are saying the SCOTUS "gave Trump".

He asked a friendly judge, whether or not a private citizen can construct a camp and force people of a certain region and country of origin into it.

The judge agreed that that would be a crime.

Then Cruz pointed out that FDR did this and was not brought up on any charges.

Trump's enemies have made it so the SCOTUS has to go on record as to the President's immunity. No previous president has had ever been indicted for actions in office. They've all had it, the SCOTUS just needed to make it clear for hordes of know-nothing Dems.

The President has always been able to do by his office what it is illegal for a private citizen to do. (Of course!)a

Perhaps our legislators also want to be equal with citizens on insider trading? But I don't think they do.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:23 PM (Fi81e)

120 Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF.
This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.
Every member of Congress must vote NO.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 12:20 PM (ndZc7
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Ah, but it was good enough for Clinton to put NATO uniforms on American soldiers and even prosecute soldiers for insubordination if they didn't.

Can't be said enough: Fuck the Democrats.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2026 12:25 PM (Fi81e)

121 How are these "appeals" and slapsuits issued and remanded so quickly when it's against Trump?

Smells fishy...like Nancy's cooter.

Posted by: The Fix Is In at July 22, 2026 12:25 PM (kCsPk)

122 60 56 Can we fire some federal judges?
Who has the authority to do that?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

It's a lifetime appointment.
Read that however you like.
Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 11:42 AM (PjoLk)
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It is a lifetime appointment WHILE IN GOOD BEHAVIOR. That clause can not be forgotten. Making rulings that are in direct contradiction to what The Constitution actually states qualifies as bad behavior, IMHO. The House and Senate Rs need a big dose of testicular fortitude and start impeaching (50% +1) in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. 2/3 is only required for removal of POTUS.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 22, 2026 12:27 PM (JNTt1)

123 22 We need to be careful about having the president simply appoint whomever he chooses, because the next time, it could be a Democrat who does it. You know, like Clinton and Obama did. Biden didn't, but that was only because it would have taken away from his pudding time.

Posted by: Archimedes
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We need checks and balances but right now they have their thumb on the scale. With comity out the window thinking caps are required to codify how balance will be created.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:29 PM (+yTe/)

124 ...and ironically, despite going to great pains to disavow the idea that he was any sort of a god, he's venerated as such by the official Imperial cult regardless.

I have a theory that the physical Emperor is dead-dead and the Emperor humans worship is a new warp entity/order god brought about by their worship which would just complete the picture of how much he screwed things up.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:30 PM (sKqQm)

125 Nerd card? Why I have several folders full of them!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

126
Which is completely in line with federal labor laws. Political appointees are at will employees and they can be fired for any reason or no reason and they lack any job protection laws like civil service employees have.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Which brings up another area within the govt that needs reformation. Job Protection Laws; USPS comes to mind.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:34 PM (+yTe/)

127 125 Nerd card? Why I have several folders full of them!
Posted by: 18-1

It's BINDERS!

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 01:07 PM (Y8DZL)

128
Seizing control of both Great Britain and New York City in the space of under a decade is, you must admit, and impressive accomplishment by Pakistani intelligence services.

Posted by: Auspex at July 22, 2026 01:11 PM (Y8DZL)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

The rocks of Belle-Ile
Claude Monet

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (drzUA)

3 Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

4 Rocky

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (1g3xS)

5 Angry sea

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (jehhT)

6 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (ZANHd)

7 Bulg will be disappointed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

8 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (ZANHd)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

9 Lovely. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (pOTTH)

10 Hey Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (5aQBy)

11 If you crash onto those rocks, they won't be a Beautiful Isle, I can tell ya that!
( -- Jonas Grumby)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

12 Purty
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (sMkB+)

13 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (SGXju)

14 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (5aQBy)

*hugs*

Survive the weather Ok?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

15 Rocks? More like blobs. This is the first Monet I have seen that I do not know what it is and do not care for.

Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (VJX5o)

16 I love Monet.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

17 7 Eh, no boobs, but it’s still better than the discussion on the last thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

18 *consults Google Maps*

Title checks out.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (ZANHd)

19 The sea was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

20 My peeps!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

21 Theoretically I would love an ocean shore painting but IMHO this one is not well executed. It looks all blurry! Is that intentional on the part of the artist?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (gZZCh)

22 16 I love Monet.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM

Be sure to count it.

Posted by: So sez a fellow commenter at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

23 Who was angrier that day? The rocks or the ocean?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (FZ29D)

24 For some reason "craggy" comes to mind when viewing today's offal. I don't even know what a crag is.

Posted by: Simple Tastes at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6)

25 Ah, Monet before he lost his eyesight completely!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (T2w7I)

26 Theoretically I would love an ocean shore painting but IMHO this one is not well executed. It looks all blurry! Is that intentional on the part of the artist?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026

***
He hadn't gone to see the America's Best eyewear people about glasses yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

27 I should like this, but I just don’t care for Impressionism.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

28 Picture looks like a Grade B LSD trip. Buy the good stuff.

Posted by: Blue Boy at July 22, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6)

29 Western on TV. Print so scratched it looks like it's raining.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 09:36 AM (SGXju)

30 Lacks perspective.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (JvZF+)

31 The middle rock looks like the head of a dead bison.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

32 That is weak

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (ccLZe)

33
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (O0L8i)

34 We could have helped!

Posted by: Warby Parker! at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (JM9I6)

35 B+

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (tAI1y)

36
That is weak

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (ccLZe)

_____________

The rocks are weak? You're weak!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (O0L8i)

37 I don’t even know what a crag is.

You’re just bluffing about that.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

38
Eh, no boobs, but it’s still better than the discussion on the last thread.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

Do you think those rocks are collecting SS or on Medicare yet?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

39 Gerbils tunnel through those rocks.

Posted by: Uniting The Threads at July 22, 2026 09:39 AM (JM9I6)

40 *hugs*

Survive the weather Ok?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)
___

I pretty much stayed indoors, sucking up the A/C.

Will be out and about today though, since it's much cooler and less humid. Only low 80s today.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (5aQBy)

41 Sorry, unimpressed.

Posted by: davidt at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)

42
Not a lot you can say about this kind of painting.

...

...

Did monet throw any dead bodies off these cliffs?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

43 Very blotchy

when Impressionists just phone it in

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (ZxPkt)

44 I love Monet.
Posted by: redridinghood

Monet for nothing, chicks for free

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (1g3xS)

45 Pass on this one. It does not rock.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (sl73Y)

46 I think he mailed it in.

"You said you'd have this done in a week!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (2YhKe)

47 I don’t even know what a crag is.

You’re just bluffing about that.
Posted by: Bulg

Pining for the fjords.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:43 AM (1g3xS)

48 39 Gerbils tunnel through those rocks.
Posted by: Uniting The Threads at July 22, 2026 09:39 AM

We won't take it for granite.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 22, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

49 Phoned, mailed.......whatever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

50 I think he mailed it in.

"You said you'd have this done in a week!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:41 AM (2YhKe)

I know I've made some very poor paintings recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the artwork.

Posted by: Claude Monet at July 22, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

51 The rocks look gneiss.

Posted by: Groan at July 22, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

52 The rocks look gneiss.

I don’t give a schist.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

53 Rock on!!

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2026 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

54 I love Monet.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:33 AM

Be sure to count it.
Posted by: So sez a fellow commenter
__________

Fun fact: Tommy James got "Mony Mony" from a Mutual of New York sign that had a dollar sign in the O.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K)

55 I'm sittin' on the rock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the rock of the bay
Wastin' time

*scritch*

No, no, that's not quite it. Hmmm. *ponders*

Posted by: Otis Redding at July 22, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

56
Fun fact: Tommy James got "Mony Mony" from a Mutual of New York sign that had a dollar sign in the O.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K)

They're just pissed off Billy Idol did it better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:50 AM (2YhKe)

57 Think this would be interesting to see in person but wouldn't hang.

It's blurry rocks and blurry sea - doesn't spark the imagination the way some other impressionist painting do, such as Child Hassam's coastal NE paintings.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:50 AM (X8xt3)

58 Well, this didn't work. I know he's famous, but I don't think it was for this one.

Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2026 09:51 AM (vhFJq)

59 Don't want no hostile suburbanites on my Belle Isle

Posted by: Zombie Mayor Coleman Young at July 22, 2026 09:51 AM (6iwAu)

60 We won't take it for granite.
Posted by: Oh, no...

Let's all be gneiss and end this now.

Posted by: Boulder Dash! at July 22, 2026 09:53 AM (JM9I6)

61 The middle rock looks like the head of a dead bison.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026

***
The one just to the right of center? It does. Or like a hairy monster, say King Kong, about to encircle and seize the blog just ahead of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

62 I see a bear.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (MWfyi)

63 >>We won't take it for granite.

>>Let's all be gneiss and end this now.

Yeah, hard to lava the rock puns!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (X8xt3)

64 Rocks? Looks more like a low-budget mutant blob monster.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (rlne1)

65 I thought this looked like forest on the cliffs, not rocks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

66 Hey! That's where I proposed to the wife!

Posted by: Henny Youngman at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (IWfdg)

67 Are you ready to rock?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM (sKqQm)

68 They're just pissed off Billy Idol did it better.
Posted by: Sponge
__________

But he wasn't sporting a cool Nehru jacket.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM (XvL8K)

69 I see a bear.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026

***
What's ursine?
(-- overheard in bars in the '70s)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

70 60 We won't take it for granite.
Posted by: Oh, no...

Let's all be gneiss and end this now.
Posted by: Boulder Dash! at July 22, 2026 09:53 AM

It's lava at first sight.

Posted by: Ugh at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

71 "No Diving"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (jehhT)

72 68 Where’s the Casbah?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

73 It looks like it is pouncing on the remains of Timothy Treadwell.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (MWfyi)

74 It's no White Cliffs of Dover.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (wVcYX)

75 >>I know I've made some very poor paintings recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the artwork.

Who said painting was easy monet?
He was working hard for the cash, yo!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (X8xt3)

76 gerbil's you say?

Posted by: richard gere at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (R11M+)

77 I really like the way Monet caught the texture of rock and water. The color choices making them up is interesting. The dark, supposedly immovable, rock contrasts with the lighter, fluid water but both have elements of each other. Light marks in the rock and darker in the water. The brush work adds to the differences, straight for the rock versus curved for the water. It's like there is a connection between them even as they are at war. The sky at the top is almost incidental. It is literally above the conflict.

In many ways I'm more intrigued by the technique than the scene. Seeing it in person would be interesting.

Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

78 For those who came to rock

I salute you!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (X8xt3)

79 Is this supposed to be good? It looks like it was painted with a sponge.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (MWfyi)

80 Hadrian Claude mailed that in
Throw some blotchy paint on a canvis and call it a sea scape

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (ccLZe)

81 Ross and Alexander could paint something much more attractive in a little more than 20 minutes.

Posted by: Happy Bush at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (JM9I6)

82 And that Morty.
I'll tell you, that old guy's full of life.
He was convinced Monet was nearsighted. - The close talker from Seinfeld

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (cq1gA)

83 Is this supposed to be good? It looks like it was painted with a sponge.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:57 AM (MWfyi)

Shouldn't it say 'first' somewhere then?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (ExV1e)

84 63 >>We won't take it for granite.

>>Let's all be gneiss and end this now.

Yeah, hard to lava the rock puns!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:54 AM

>Looks like we've hit rock bottom.

Posted by: But keep digging at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

85 " I really like the way Monet caught the texture of rock and water. "

*cleans glasses*

*looks again*

*makes appointment with optometrist*

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:58 AM (MWfyi)

86 >>>Looks like we've hit rock bottom.

Miner point: not all of us have!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 09:59 AM (X8xt3)

87 What's Up, Chuck? - a limerick

There once was a lad from Belle Isle
Who was swallowed by a river crocodile
The outcome was in question
'Til the croc got indigestion
Then we knew he'd be back in a while

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2026 09:59 AM (I0N4X)

88 Looks like a good spot for teens to gather discretely and watch the submarine races.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM (wVcYX)

89 I like it... But I'm a fan of the French Impressionists...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM (FtULh)

90 Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

91 87 What's Up, Chuck? - a limerick
###

User safety tip: avoid the lettuce.

Posted by: It's explosive at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

92 Looks like it was painted with Bob Ross' Afro.

Posted by: Pubic Television at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (JM9I6)

93 All artist Claudes are good.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (2ap+5)

94 >>Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.

Shale we continue?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (X8xt3)

95 84 that's so igneous it's aggregating.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (R11M+)

96 Rock puns are Bio-Tite!

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (MWfyi)

97 Is it true that Impressionists favorite song is "Monet, Monet"?

Asking for the dog and 'happy little bush' fans amongst us.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2026 10:02 AM (0sNs1)

98 Out: This city was built on rock and roll

In: This coastline was built on rock and...rock.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (sKqQm)

99 90 Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:00 AM

Wonder what's slated for tomorrow...

Posted by: Make it stop! at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

100 87it's the stuff i have occassion to wipe off of my boots from time to time.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (R11M+)

101 Claude was an old barber in my hometown who worked at the County Seat Barber Shop.

Posted by: No Artist, Either at July 22, 2026 10:03 AM (JM9I6)

102 I love Monet.

Hey, me too! We should go to Starbucks!

Posted by: Frito Pendejo at July 22, 2026 10:04 AM (sKqQm)

103 No one would call this painting gorge-ous.
Not peak Monet.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:04 AM (X8xt3)

104 So I'm reading the most amusing thread I have in a while.

The topic is about ICE killing the illegal that tried to run them down and someone brough up Killdozer and the lefties are trying to come up with a reason why shooting him was (D)ifferent and...failing.

Posted by: Frito Pendejo at July 22, 2026 10:05 AM (sKqQm)

105 "50 I think he mailed it in."
+++

This was during my sedimentary phase.

Posted by: Monet at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

106 ". . . I got a rock."

Posted by: Charlie Brown on Halloween at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (JCLJi)

107 I saw Bob Ross' Afro open for Leo Sayer in '75.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (XvL8K)

108 I wonder how many quartz are in that ocean.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

109 Not being one of his better works, Monet considered this rock painting semi-precious.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM (X8xt3)

110 don't buy pears. buy two minus.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)

111 >>The topic is about ICE killing the illegal that tried to run them down and someone brough up Killdozer and the lefties are trying to come up with a reason why shooting him was (D)ifferent and...failing.

LOVE it!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:08 AM (X8xt3)

112 The orange in the sky complements the color of the sea, hence the glow.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:08 AM (v5XIn)

113 What's ursine?
(-- overheard in bars in the '70s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:55 AM

Sorry, it's unlisted.

- heard in a Mel Brooks movie in the 70s.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 10:09 AM (ZANHd)

114 109 Not being one of his better works, Monet considered this rock painting semi-precious.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM

You have to marble at the beauty of it.

Posted by: Puh-leeze! at July 22, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

115 104 i saw killdozer open for mastodon on goose island.
killdozer also classic big black.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:09 AM (R11M+)

116 Some of these rock puns are pretty igneousnious.
You must be stoned.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (tw5K6)

117 Not being one of his better works, Monet considered this rock painting semi-precious.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:07 AM (X8xt3)

Actually he said it was hard.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (v5XIn)

118 Now we’ve gotta bear ursine puns, too?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

119 >>You have to marble at the beauty of it.

. . . or make it the butte of the joke!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:10 AM (X8xt3)

120 107 oh, yeah- the richard simmons' special event.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:11 AM (R11M+)

121 This painting is a classic.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:11 AM (v5XIn)

122 Where’s the Casbah?
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM

Algiers. But that's not important right now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2026 10:12 AM (ZANHd)

123 I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:12 AM (v5XIn)

124 I saw Low-Budget Mutant Blob Monster open for Janis Joplin in Fiddler's Green. in '83.

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2026 10:12 AM (I0N4X)

125 . . . or make it the butte of the joke!

Of quartz!

Posted by: Bum-tiss at July 22, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

126 I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.
Posted by: ...

*********

Thanks, man

Posted by: Eric Clapto at July 22, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)

127 Well, this doesn't sound good.

OpenAI Pauses Deployment of New Model Due to Repeated “Escapes”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

128 Speaking of gerbils . . .

White House Slams Richard Gere over USAID: “Slush Fund for Radical Left Activists … Funding Bull****”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)

129 >>I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.

"A kindred spirit!"
-- Johnny Cash

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:14 AM (X8xt3)

130 You just know Lizzy is going to die an old s-punster.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (v5XIn)

131 126 ha.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

132 Mamdani’s Netanyahu Threats May Have Broken The Law, NY Rep Says

The Rep warned that Mamdani’s anti-Israel grandstanding crosses the line from political posturing into potential criminal misconduct.

In a scathing letter to the state’s top prosecutor, Democrat state Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein warned that Mamdani’s anti-Israel grandstanding crosses the line from political posturing into potential criminal official misconduct.

https://tinyurl.com/45pp4d42

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (1g3xS)

133 Eric Clapto?

/truncated sock fail

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (I0N4X)

134 Daily Mail headline: Family's heroic dog fights off bear that charged at 6-year-old boy in shocking video

*watches video*

lol, nope.

Bear was running away with the dog close on its ass when the two animals crossed the driveway where the little boy happened to be standing about 20 feet away.
The bear was not charging at the the little boy.

And I wouldn't call it a "fight" either. It was a single nip from behind by the dog to the bear's hindquarters and that was it.

Clickbait got me.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (J4Dwc)

135 >>You just know Lizzy is going to die an old s-punster.

Hey now!!

OK, must stop procrastinating, have a great day!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 10:16 AM (X8xt3)

136 223 I admire the way he mixed the blues with the rock.

Come see me.

Posted by: The Natchez Trace Parkway at July 22, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Clickbait got me.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 10:15 AM (J4Dwc)

The internet gradually evolved from thing that wastes a person's time into thing that intentionally wastes a person's time. I enjoyed it the first way so much more.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:17 AM (v5XIn)

138 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C

Incoming flights were warned to “USE EXTREME CAUTION” by Air Traffic Control

https://tinyurl.com/36mzr5td

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 10:17 AM (5aQBy)

139

{{{SMH}}}

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (v5XIn)

140 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

141 135 we shale sea.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (R11M+)

142 There is no evodence of voter fraud by illegals.

Ok, there is some evidence but it is a minor problem. Bad, but not terrible.

Well, voter fraud committed by illegal coyers may be widespread but let me explain why it is a good thing...

https://tinyurl.com/53p26w9d

Posted by: Democrat Hacktivist Media at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (HN+yX)

143 OK, can we talk about chicks now?

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Sophie Cunningham just became one of the first current American female pro athletes to come out against men playing in women’s sports in an @espn profile article. Good for her. Rock star. Many others should follow. She’s the anti-Megan Rapinoe.

-
They're calling her the MAGA Barbie. They think it's an insult.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (ndZc7)

144 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

It's never too slate...

Posted by: Boswell at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (NTVPI)

145 Alga on rocks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 10:21 AM (l3cgK)

146 it's no piece of cake, but i want my pyrite.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:21 AM (R11M+)

147 Hey Ellipsis!

I'm just wondering how a commercial pilot avoids being hit with a missile while on approach to La Guardia.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 10:21 AM (5aQBy)

148 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C

Incoming flights were warned to “USE EXTREME CAUTION” by Air Traffic Control

https://tinyurl.com/36mzr5td
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
_____________

So TSA didn't have a problem with checking him through?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 10:22 AM (XvL8K)

149 144 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

It's never too slate...
Posted by: Boswell at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (NTVPI)

Agate what you're saying.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:22 AM (w/O5Q)

150 take the tide pool challenge.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:23 AM (R11M+)

151 OK, can we talk about chicks now?

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Sophie Cunningham just became one of the first current American female pro athletes to come out against men playing in women’s sports in an @espn profile article. Good for her. Rock star. Many others should follow. She’s the anti-Megan Rapinoe.

They're calling her the MAGA Barbie. They think it's an insult.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*Riley Gaines has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:23 AM (1g3xS)

152 149 my sediments exactly.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:24 AM (R11M+)

153 a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 10:24 AM (MWfyi)

154 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C

Incoming flights were warned to “USE EXTREME CAUTION” by Air Traffic Control

https://tinyurl.com/36mzr5td
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
_____________

So TSA didn't have a problem with checking him through?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He's probably a goatfucker. They'll just wave them thru.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:24 AM (1g3xS)

155 Claude Monet --> Claude Hirst --> Clifton neighborhood of Cincy --> Allman Bros live at ludlow garage

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:25 AM (2ap+5)

156 Guess airline pilots will have to learn combat takeoffs/landings.

The passengers will love those.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 10:25 AM (5aQBy)

157 a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?
Posted by: fd

One that doesn't like bacon AND does like little boys.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:26 AM (1g3xS)

158 Speaking of rocks I have new respect for The Clash… Rock the Casbah was a diss of the Iranian mullahs!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 10:26 AM (+gA9j)

159 >It's never too slate...

Hurry before the thread metamorphs into something else.

Posted by: Bazinga at July 22, 2026 10:27 AM (2Ez/1)

160 If I’m gonna use a rock as a weapon, I’m gonna use a taltical basalt rifle.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

161 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
"My name is Dina Nina. Trans woman, live in poverty, and I want to legalize weed!" (Real campaign ad)

https://tinyurl.com/yc43nv6z

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Video of butch tranny at link.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

162 138 NEW: MANPADS ALERT issued at LaGuardia Airport in NYC tonight amid reports of a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER at Terminal C
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I was wondering what happened to Bruce Cockburn

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:28 AM (2ap+5)

163 Guess airline pilots will have to learn combat takeoffs/landings.

The passengers will love those.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Hit the end of the runway, pull the stick back, and go straight up for 50,000 feet.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:28 AM (1g3xS)

164 "Rock the Casbah was a diss of the Iranian mullahs!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt "

Sheikhs and Jews, living together!

Posted by: It's the End Times! at July 22, 2026 10:29 AM (MWfyi)

165 >Shale we continue?

Posted by: Lizzy
----

I have a whole slate ready to go

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 10:29 AM (ZxPkt)

166
a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?
Posted by: fd

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:31 AM (Cqx++)

167 It wasn't me!

OpenAI says their system hacked into another AI company on its own 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

168 Rolls Royce Engine Engineers:

Ok. We have to come up with after burners for our 777 engines. We need them by last week.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (1g3xS)

169 I wanted to jump into the rock puns, but I guess it's slate.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 22, 2026 10:19 AM (w/O5Q)

It's never too slate...
Posted by: Boswell

I marble at all these rock puns.

Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (lJ0H4)

170 Wasn’t Fred Flinstone’s boss a Mr Slate?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 10:36 AM (+gA9j)

171 a man armed a PORTABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER "

What kind of man? Don't they have a description of his shirt?
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He can't be a man because he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me...

Posted by: Mick J at July 22, 2026 10:36 AM (TN0g+)

172 Fred Flintstone worked for Mr. Slate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2026 10:37 AM (Cqx++)

173 170 Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

174 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Took some real stones to paint that picture.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2026 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

175 all these trannies running for office -- I thought we were erasing them, or running them down in the street and killing them, or something. Isn't that what they are constantly telling us?
If we are doing that, why are there so freaking many of them?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 22, 2026 10:39 AM (FGA9/)

176 So TSA didn't have a problem with checking him through?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Pretty sure TSA does not have checkpoints located on the ramp outside the terminal buildings.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 10:41 AM (J4Dwc)

177 In a scathing letter to the state’s top prosecutor, Democrat state Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein warned that Mamdani’s anti-Israel grandstanding crosses the line from political posturing into potential criminal official misconduct.

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Oh my a scathing letter!!!! Well that will surely stop Mamdani in his tracks.

BTW Simcha, why are you a member of a party whose official position is your extermination? Can’t fix stupid.

It’s hil

Posted by: Silliness at July 22, 2026 10:41 AM (GEtfQ)

178 172 Fred Flintstone worked for Mr. Slate.

In the town of Bedrock.

Posted by: Yabba Dabba at July 22, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)

179 Can y’all pumice not to make any more rock puns?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

180 Hmm, its needs some leftist bodies strewn around the base of the rocks when TDS finally killed their will to live.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 10:43 AM (S41Gd)

181 Now I’ve got the Flintstones theme song in my head.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

182 The Sirens are gatherd on the cliffs
Their numbers growing hourly
The captain has set fire to the mast
And soon to follow any sanity.

The lunatics pretend to dance
I crawl into the hull
To await my fate
Tie myself to the mast

When you are hung on the rocks
Do you stand by your captain
Or go ashore with the natives

Posted by: Reforger at July 22, 2026 10:44 AM (PjoLk)

183 French Impressionists: the boy-bands of the art world.

Posted by: front toward enemy at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM (TIizU)

184 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM (wGerL)

185 If you must eat fruits and vegetables, stock to the hydroponics

Posted by: Oglebay at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM (l6UsA)

186 We are proud to announce that Pete Mitchell has just joined us as a 777 pilot.

Posted by: United Airlines at July 22, 2026 10:47 AM (GEtfQ)

187 Fred Flintstone worked for Mr. Slate.

In the town of Bedrock.
Posted by: Yabba Dabba
____________

Twitch! Twitch!

Posted by: Rock Roll at July 22, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)

188 OpenAI says their system hacked into another AI company on its own 😬

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

Isn't that conveeeenient

Posted by: The Church Lady at July 22, 2026 10:48 AM (v5XIn)

189 Good morning! This is nice, would definitely hang, but I like Monet.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:48 AM (hftzA)

190 184 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.

Some say it's a total gem.

Posted by: Rock solid opinion at July 22, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)

191 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.

Some say it's a total gem.
Posted by: Rock solid opinion

It's a diamond in the rough.

Posted by: Tuna at July 22, 2026 10:50 AM (lJ0H4)

192 I'm looking at a myrtle, shrouded in mist, and ladylike rain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 10:50 AM (BI5O2)

193 Brit Lass granddad worked on Rolls Royce engine designs. Don't know how she didn't end up with that Royce Money

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 10:50 AM (v5XIn)

194 I would not think of these as rocks. I would lichen them to heaps of moss.

Posted by: And not the psycho Scientologist actress either at July 22, 2026 10:51 AM (TbWk/)

195 184 That is my least favorite Monet painting ever.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 22, 2026 10:45 AM

I think it rocks! Granite, some may have different opinions.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:51 AM (hftzA)

196 189 Good morning! This is nice, would definitely hang, but I like Monet.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 10:48 AM (hftzA)

I'm completely baroque, I have no Monet.

Posted by: Art puns! Getcher art puns! at July 22, 2026 10:53 AM (TbWk/)

197 The rain blew off the mist. It was nice while it lasted. For about 90 seconds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

198 162 "some sonofabitch would die!"

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:53 AM (R11M+)

199 Greetin's, group. G'day, CBD.

The sky is nice. The sea is pretty. The "rocks" look like piles of spinach. Needs a dog. Or something.

Monet: What, this? It's just what I do when I don't care what I'm painting.

Mas cafe!

Posted by: mindful webworker - channeling Gloria Grahame at July 22, 2026 10:54 AM (M5tgA)

200 The "rocks" look like piles of spinach.

Worse: kale.

Posted by: SILENCE! I KALE YOOUUU!! at July 22, 2026 10:55 AM (TbWk/)

201 Scylla and Charybdis!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:56 AM (faghi)

202 Like most famous, or successful artists, Monet's "technique" was his, and his alone until other's copied it. Doing it first is what made him "famous."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 10:56 AM (jehhT)

203 Monet: What, this? It's just what I do when I don't care what I'm painting.

Perhaps you were stoned.

Posted by: Duuuude at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (2Ez/1)

204 201 Scylla and Charybdis!
Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:56 AM (faghi)

My favorite box wine!

Posted by: Basic AWFL at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (TbWk/)

205 77 I really like the way Monet caught the texture of rock and water. The color choices making them up is interesting. The dark, supposedly immovable, rock contrasts with the lighter, fluid water but both have elements of each other. Light marks in the rock and darker in the water. The brush work adds to the differences, straight for the rock versus curved for the water. It's like there is a connection between them even as they are at war. The sky at the top is almost incidental. It is literally above the conflict.

In many ways I'm more intrigued by the technique than the scene. Seeing it in person would be interesting.
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

This was a very useful guide for me in observing the painting.

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (faghi)

206 I'm guessing Rocket Man jumped the fence and was hiding out on the tarmac.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (gKWVE)

207 Disney cuts another 1000 jobs including several at ESPN. This is Disney's 3rd round of layoffs in 2026.

Lrn 2 Kode Bitches

Posted by: Thats A Shame at July 22, 2026 10:58 AM (GEtfQ)

208 "Charyb dis."

--your local street-smart thug

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 10:58 AM (faghi)

209 My favorite box wine!
Posted by: Basic AWFL at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM

I'm right here in the cabinet!

Posted by: Box of cheap New Zealand Chardonnay at July 22, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)

210 Fun fact, my earliest ancestor in the new world was Alexander Le Borgne de Belle Isle. He was governor of Acadia. A less distant in time ancestor was William Baliles, a "doctor" and captain in the Union Army. A more relative in time but still distant cousin was Gerald Baliles, governor of Virginia.

Le Borgne was a prisoner of the English for a time, so he didn't travel to Louisiana. The family made it's way down the Appalachian chain all the way into north Georgia where my father met another royal line: the Bruces.

Likely none of that lineage is actually mine, as we don't track our family name from the mother as other more intelligent people are known to do.

Posted by: meh at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (zZxsY)

211 206 I'm guessing Rocket Man jumped the fence and was hiding out on the tarmac.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 10:57 AM (gKWVE)

Saying now it wasn’t credible so no rocket man at all. But holy smokes what are we doing here! The pilot didn’t know what a manpad was. I am actually not sure why I do, now that I think about it.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (Dd38x)

212 I guess it's out of view, in the painting, exactly where the ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (faghi)

213 212 I guess it's out of view, in the painting, exactly where the ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.
Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 11:00 AM (faghi)

It was only a three-hour tour!

Posted by: USS Minnow at July 22, 2026 11:02 AM (TbWk/)

214 207 Disney cuts another 1000 jobs including several at ESPN. This is Disney's 3rd round of layoffs in 2026.

Lrn 2 Kode Bitches
Posted by: Thats A Shame at July 22, 2026 10:58 AM (GEtfQ)
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Just a matter of time before Goofy is found homeless, living on the mean streets.

Posted by: WisRich at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (G0vdT)

215 Andy Biggus Dickus is the Republican nominee for AZ Gov.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (gKWVE)

216 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 11:03 AM (1g3xS)

217 187 flintstone flop.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 11:05 AM (R11M+)

218 >>I'm guessing Rocket Man jumped the fence and was hiding out on the tarmac.

There was no Rocket Man. The report was deemed non-credible.

What's somewhat alarming to me is that apparently neither pilot knew what a MANPAD alert is. ALPA has periodically addressed the threat from MANPADs for a few decades now.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 11:06 AM (J4Dwc)

219 150 take the tide pool challenge.
Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2026 10:23 AM (R11M+)

; )

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 11:29 AM (faghi)

220 194 I would not think of these as rocks. I would lichen them to heaps of moss.
Posted by: And not the psycho Scientologist actress either at July 22, 2026 10:51 AM (TbWk/)

"I would lichen them to"

groooan

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 11:39 AM (faghi)

221 test

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2026 12:43 PM (l4RKn)

222 test
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

6 - 5 - 2 - 3 - 1
Answered by: USSR judges

Posted by: mindful webworker - usswhaat? at July 22, 2026 12:57 PM (M5tgA)

The Morning Report — 7/ 22 /26

Good morning kids. Before diving in, here's a little omething to ponder. Given the constant insane drumbeat from the Left that President Trump is somehow going to steal the 2026 midterms, what if they now have to let fair elections take place and perhaps take a legitimate beating in a few or most key races in order to maintain their fiction and/or engineer mass leftist rioting and unrest? Just a passing thought. And with that in mind I give you the latest repulsive blathering out of the Garden state:

First

According to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a software error at the Motor Vehicles Commission signed up over 6,600 noncitizens to vote. But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.

As Cob and New Jersey resident CBD can attest, Jersey is a completely rigged state, especially the northern Hudson and Bergen counties which are just across the river from NYC. Last year's election that saw this repulsive harridan Sherrill "win" stank to high heaven. Yes, much of the Garden State especially the areas bordering on NYC and Philly are solidly Democrat and so the chances of any kind of fair election that might allow a Republican to win a statewide election are essentially nil. And they along with the national , soon to be national socialist Democrat Party will never allow that to happen. And so scum like Andy Kim (no not the late 70's one-hit-wonder singer) fart this toxic poison out in unison with Sherrill et al:

Tuesday on MS NSDAP's "All In," Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said a serious software error in New Jersey's Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who were not U.S. citizens was "not this widespread systemic problem."

No it's not a systemic "problem" but it is a systemic Democrat policy everywhere in the USA that they can get away with it. Illegal aliens, dead people, counterfeit ballots singly and in multiple will be utilized as we all saw they were in 2020.

And yet?

Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

Given all of the aforementioned, the Democrats have nothing to worry about.

A federal judge appointed by [so-called quote-unquote] President joe Biden, Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad adn Tobago and became a U.S. citizen in 2009, blocked former President Donald Trump's efforts to purge non-citizens from voter rolls. The case challenged the Trump governance's overhaul of the SAVE program, designed to verify immigration status and citizenship, claiming it led to the wrongful removal of eligible U.S.citizens and infringed on voters' privacy rights.Judge Sooknanan ruled that the overhaul unlawfully disenfranchises voters and breaches privacy protections.Her decision halted the use of a federal database intended for voter verification, a move praised by voting rights advocates but criticized by some officials, including Department of Homeland Security representatives, who argued it hindered efforts to prevent voter fraud. Critics have accused Sooknanan of being biased,citing her background representing illegal immigrants pro bono and her progressive stance. The ruling generated social media debate, with figures like Elon Musk criticizing it as problematic and others viewing it as a setback for election security. The controversy highlights ongoing partisan conflicts over voter integrity, immigration verification, and election security measures.

Election thievery, open borders and a corrupt Judiciary....Yeah, another 250 years are in the bag, America. Gevalt.

Have a good day,

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

The survey asked respondents, “How much of a threat, if any, do Communists in the United States pose today?”
Poll: 4 in 10 View Communists in U.S. as Posing Major or Moderate Threat
Expect More Terroristic Actions Against ICE
Escalating rhetoric against the immigration-enforcement agency suggests at least tacit approval of lawless behavior.
Slams ‘special interests like AIPAC’.
Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Calls US Political System a ‘Disease’
‘The county has told us to only help people of color at this time’
Portland-Area County Hit With Class Action Lawsuit for Race-Based Homeless Policies
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Oh, and he wants American citizenship too.
Obama Dreamer who murdered his girlfriend now wants $75 million because Trump made him the poster child for open-borders crime
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Iran’s attacks on neighboring countries are causing massive disruptions of commerce and travel in Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, from reduced oil exports to canceled airline flights, even though most of Iran’s missiles and drones have been intercepted.
Iran War Causes Massive Disruptions in Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Iran’s four-hundred-level approach to getting everything for nothing
Advanced Iran Negotiation Theory

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Pro-Israel research group Canary Mission said Monday that a video shows several Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned politicians joined an online rally where a speaker lamented that neutralizing Iran would strip Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis of their funding.
WATCH: DSA-Backed Candidates Mourn Iran Losing Power to Fund Hezbollah, Hamas
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
“Justice is being done slowly, but it is being done.”
Israel Eliminates Hamas, Islamic Jihad Terrorists Who Committed Atrocities on October 7
Like the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists found itself in a quandary when Hamas and other affiliated terrorist groups published obituaries identifying the slain ‘journalists’ as combatants
Embarrassment as Second Major Journalism Group Secretly Removes Terrorist Names From List of Slain ‘Journalists’ in Gaza: Group’s Woes Mirror Those of CPJ

* * * * *
One of the major issues with our immigration system now is that foreigners can obtain tourist, student, or work visas that allow them into the country for a temporary period, but some aliens simply use these visas as entrance passes before they stay for decades in the United States. In Mahdawi’s case, he has been living in the United States while agitating for Islamic terror by pretending to be an undergraduate student for a staggering 15 years.
Court Rules in Favor of Deporting Hamas-Loving Longtime Undergrad
How defeat on the pitch becomes "proof" of a Zionist plot.
The Messi Conspiracy
Anti-Israel hatred in Europe grows more outrageous and sinister.
Stockholm: A Mock Auschwitz Entry Gate Set Up to Protest Against Israel
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is holding back roughly $867.5 million from California and $199 million from Minnesota, HHS said in a news release. The department stressed the money is being deferred, not cut, and that both states can recover it by documenting that the claims meet federal Medicaid requirements.
RFK Jr. Freezes $1B in Medicaid to California, Minnesota over Fraud Fears
Khalid Satary, 54, was cuffed in the Middle East on Monday after more than three years on the lam for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $547 million, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
Nowhere to hide FBI captures fugitive on ‘Most Wanted Fraudsters’ list who allegedly led $547M Medicare fraud scheme
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Canada and the U.S. do far too little fuels treatment to prevent the fires.
Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke
The department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service found that the money was set to be sent to “ghosts” after reviewing 885 million payments totaling nearly $2.7 trillion, according to a report by the New York Post.
Treasury Department Stops Nearly $100M in Payments to Dead People
San Francisco supervisor's insane plan would have punished stores for closing.
California Dodges A Vacant Grocery Store Tax — For Now
Landbell USA secured mandatory payments totaling tens of millions of dollars a year as its corporate revenue, then promised to hire some people and form the organization.
Mandatory Compliance With The Regulatory State Is A Lucrative Business Model For A New California NGO
Congress can't repeal astronomy. "Spring forward, fall back" remains the least bad way to live on a tilted planet.
U.S. Congress! Leave Time Alone
The river supports nearly 40 million people, tribes, farms, businesses, and power systems across seven states and Mexico. Federal managers reduced releases from Lake Powell and shifted water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to protect Glen Canyon Dam from dropping below minimum power pool.
Seven States Kept Arguing As the Colorado River Hit a Record Low
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Suicide by willful blindness.
Glaswegian Police Describe a Muslim Rapist as a ‘Tanned European’
Noticing motive would be ‘Islamophobic.’
Australia’s ‘Islamophobia’ Top Dog: Pay No Attention to Those Screams of ‘Allahu Akbar’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
The Little Sisters of the Poor are battling New York over its ‘Suicide Counseling Mandate.’
Catholic Nuns Sue New York Over ‘Suicide Counseling Mandate’
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
...Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) spoke out about that today at a House Republican leadership press conference, warning about the rise of so-called "democratic socialists" and the reality for voters and the media. Malliotakis would know. Her mother fled Cuba in 1959 as Fidel Castro took power. The Castro regime stole her family's home and their small business, a gas station owned by her grandfather. She says her mother never saw her grandfather again after that. I've heard countless stories just like that from Venezuelan friends and acquaintances. Communism ruins families.
Congresswoman Has a Blunt Message for the MSM on 'Democratic Socialism'

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Across almost all 50 states, there’s a move toward moratoriums on building data centers as concerns about their potential impact grow...and they remain a political liability as the midterms approach.
Billion-Dollar Data Centers And The Growing Opposition
AI is one of the most valuable technologies ever to emerge, yet it’s increasingly losing the political battle for public support.
Without that support, America will squander its huge advantages and fail to benefit from what it’s built.How to build a pro-AI majority — before we squander America’s future
President Trump correctly challenged the assumption that America could outsource strategic industries without consequences.
Washington Can’t Afford to Let the US Lose the Open-Source AI War
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The White House stated on Tuesday that the results “demonstrate the undeniable power of President Trump’s America First economic agenda,” adding: “By putting American families and businesses first, the Working Families Tax Cuts are rebuilding American industrial strength, creating opportunity in every community, and delivering real results for real Americans.” National Association of Manufacturers President Jay Timmons praised it as “one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in a generation,” adding that it had “delivered the permanent, pro-growth tax code manufacturers needed to invest in their people, purchase new equipment and plan confidently for the long term.”
Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Boosting U.S. Manufacturing: Report.
The record comes after a massive surge of 832,000 workers dropping out of the labor force in June alone. The overall number of NILFs is higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic.
Number of Americans ‘not in the labor force’ surges to record 105.8M as total exceeds Great Recession, COVID era
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The report could aid Democrats and activists suing oil companies for billions of dollars in damages related to hurricanes, floods, heat waves, and tornadoes
High-Profile Report Linking Extreme Weather to Human-Caused Climate Change Lists Lawyer Suing Oil Companies, Researchers Paid by Anti-Oil Lawsuit Funders in Acknowledgments
Climate science in the federal government is about to get a whole lot more honest.
USGCRP’s Fresh Head Brings Fresh Air To US Climate Science
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Manny Rutinel faced intense criticism from the Gazette Editorial Board, which said defeating the legislation would 'bring in people who sell children for sex'
‘A Welcome Mat for Perverts’: Colorado House Candidate Helped Kill Bill Slapping Mandatory Prison Sentences on Convicted Pedophiles
Betsy McCaughey: The social contract collapses one block at a time.
Tolerating Homeless Encampments Violates the Rights of Everyone Else
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“Rather than rely on MCAT scores or GPA, San Diego Med’s shadow application process unlawfully judged applicants for admission based on their race.”
DOJ Finds UC San Diego Med School Racially Discriminated in Admissions Process
SECOND AMENDMENT
VanDyke said, “To put it more colloquially, it’s time for some benchslaps. Nothing less will give this court any pause before ultimately blessing every arms restriction it reviews.”
Judge Urges SCOTUS to Give ‘Benchslaps’ for 9th Circuit’s Gun Rulings
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Dhillon is giving Sherrill five business days to provide key data allowing the federal government to assess whether any more non-citizens are registered to vote in New Jersey and make sure their names are removed.
Justice Department Sends Team for Arizona Elections, Puts New Jersey on Notice
But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill Blames Software Error for Registering 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote
Tuesday on MS NSDAP’s “All In,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said a serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who were not U.S. citizens was “not this widespread systemic problem.”
Andy Kim: Illegals Voting in New Jersey Not a ‘Widespread Systemic Problem’ (record another Rock Me Gently then go away - jjs)
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
The donations expose the gap between the rhetoric of Talarico’s campaign about the “Epstein Class” having “no place in Texas” and the reality of Talarico’s campaign, undermining his credibility on campaign finance reform and billionaires’ influence in politics.
Talarico Takes Funds from Epstein-Linked Billionaire, After Campaigning Against ‘Epstein Class.’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Biden’s national security adviser, now a Harvard professor, confesses: 'he had lain awake many nights'
Jake Sullivan Can’t Sleep
The Republican is using his final months in office to try to extract political concessions from the White House.
RINO Scumbag John Cornyn Threatens To Sink Trump Nominees Over Foreign Aid Cuts
POLITICS
Trump-backed candidates, including ex-NFL kicker, easily win Arizona primaries — socialist House hopeful gets smoked
ALIVE AND KICKING
The Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. reported a whopping $400 million in its latest FEC filing – more specifically, $400,559,788.98. Politico noted that MAGA Inc. added $18 million to the war chest in June alone. Year to date, the PAC has raised almost $100 million.
Republicans Have Massive Money Advantage over Democrats Ahead of Midterms
Republicans held a four-point advantage on the economy, with 39% choosing the GOP compared with 35% who selected the Democrats.
New Poll Suggests Midterms May Not Be Quite the Slam Dunk Democrats Expect
How do we stop them? (redacted - JJS)
Democratic Socialists Are Courting the Youth
But Richards and many of his peers have played along with the hard left for years, on criminal-justice issues, on charter schools (which minority families support), on lunatic housing policies and more.
Black Dems are right about the DSA threat — but they helped create it
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
“Hunter doing the podcaster thing is all about getting notoriety and … promoting his art,” said a source of Hunter Biden’s appearances with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens.
Latest hustle Hunter Biden is still trying to charge $54,000 for his paintings — and the huge price includes a video call with him
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“Parties put in place by the Yankees, put in place by the Somoza regime, coming back to power — that story is over.”
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega: ‘There Will Never be Elections Here Again’
Carney has demonstrated an enormous degree of reckless irresponsiblity in failing to either prevent or combat these wildfires.
Trump is right: Canada’s Liberal government is incompetent in the face of forest fires
There’s no doubt that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is closely watching how the U.S. wages war in Iran, wondering what it means for his own future.
Pyongyang Kim getting nervous?
She believes Europeans are wrong to try to keep out “migrants and refugees.”
The UN’s Francesca Albanese Isn’t Just a Hater of Israel
Raw Egg Nationalist: Violence is now, without doubt, a part of British politics, just as it is now, without doubt, a part of American politics
If It Looks Like a Leftist: What the Murder of Ann Widdecombe Says About Politics in the UK.
Trump and Infantino enhanced their already strong friendship during the ramp-up to this year’s World Cup, as the pair worked hard to deliver what became the most watched and heavily attended event in the tournament’s history.
REPORT: Trump Wants FIFA Boss Gianni Infantino for UN Secretary-General
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
In countries where long-term sick leave benefits are generous, GLP-1 drugs could potentially help employers and governments save money. Meanwhile, in countries in which long-term sick leave benefits are comparatively less generous, the drugs could help reduce “presenteeism,” when employees are unable to complete tasks at a normal rate due to health issues. They could also stop sick workers from spreading their illness to colleagues. As such, GLP-1 drugs could help boost productivity. GLP-1 drugs may also potentially save money for airlines and help reduce cancer.
DATA: GLP-1 Medications Reduce Employee Sick Days by 17%.
The "compassionate" culture of death in Canada is unfortunately thriving.
A Catholic Priest Walks Into A Canadian Hospital. They Offer To Kill Him, Twice.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
On August 5, 2026 at precisely 2:35 am (Easten), the upper stage used by the Falcon 9 rocket that launched in 2025 the Blue Ghost and Hakuto-R lunar landers will impact the Moon.
Scientists rally to observe the Falcon 9 that will hit the Moon on August 5, 2026
In doing its second launch in less than eight hours, SpaceX today successfully placed Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle-1 (MRV) into orbit, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida.
SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman’s MRV robotic servicing satellite
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Ma’am, are you a white supremacist?”
White Supremacy, Mickey Mouse, Politeness: Rep. Gill Takes on Smithsonian Director
A tale of two speeches.
Who Will Win the Battle for America’s Future?
...the discipline, perseverance, teamwork, and healthy habits young people gain through sports can prepare them for success in school, work, and life as federal agencies collaborate with the NFL to explore expanded youth opportunities in underserved communities.
Exclusive — HUD Secretary Scott Turner: Sports ‘Will Change the Trajectory’ of Young People’s Lives — ‘I’m a Living Witness’
The fight between liberty and tyranny -- whatever the iteration -- is never over in the U.S.
Gad Saad, Meet Alexis de Tocqueville
Christian Toto: Rep. Brandon Gill does it again. How long can Kimmel and co. ignore him?
he Killer Clip That Won’t Make the Late-Night TV Rounds
Larry Elder: A haunting glance at the blatant racism of prominent figures on the Left.
What’s the Real ‘Defining Image of Race in America?’
HITHER & YON
“Once counterintuitive, such provocations are now anything but...Girard trained his own hermeneutic of suspicion on just this sort of gesture.”
How French Theory Lost Its Cool

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1 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 07:30 AM (/+uur)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 07:32 AM (0N4FZ)

3 According to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a software error at the Motor Vehicles Commission signed up over 6,600 noncitizens to vote. But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.

If they are admitting 6,600 there are about twice that many.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2026 07:32 AM (0N4FZ)

4 Willowed:

Hi Boomer Haters!

Here's some interesting fuel for your fire:

https://markatwood.substack.com/p/two-heirs

I think he's somewhat mistaken in what's going on because in fact and probably by intention, Trump is both breaking and breaking the hold of the "Boomer Gerontocracy". But, the severe and layered pushback he keeps getting, even on common sense things like the SAVE Act both prove his point and sorta give lie to his eventual decline theory.

anyway, a think read.

Also, this on "Disillusionment as a product"-

https://markatwood.substack.com/p/disillusionmen

t-is-also-a-product

Has pretty good bead on today commie resurgence.

They tell you that Capitalism is crushing you, but fortunately they have this great NEW product to sell you!

These two quicky posts seem to pretty much explain the current doldrums we as conservative Americans are trying to fight our way out of.

More or less Via Insty.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 07:33 AM (iJfKG)

5 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2026 07:33 AM (w3u3d)

6 At ZH: "Feds Flagged Daszak As 'An Extremely High Person Of Interest'"

Extremely High Person of Interest > Person of Extremely High Interest > Person of Moderate Disinterest

Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 07:33 AM (Jr5Lq)

7 NJ, corrupt as ever.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 22, 2026 07:34 AM (Q/FnY)

8 It was not a software glitch.
Idemia is just a data company that composes files on a person or ID.
Someone in NJ state still had to CLICK to add that person to the voter rolls.
ps
Whether they got added by mistake or added on purpose they (the illegal) can still be jailed or deported based on just the fact they are now a Registered Voter.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

9 "A disgruntled migrant allegedly gunned down three staffers at his Minnesota apartment block in a crazed rampage after he couldn’t cancel his parking garage contract.

Tsegaab Binessu, 30, allegedly shot dead Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 25, Dena Silcox, 56, and Adam Wilwerding, 43, at the complex in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday"

There's your diversity. Choke on it, Minnesota.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:34 AM (MWfyi)

10 Also willowed:

AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)

I would recommend that "AI Companies" buy up sermons delivered by the men a century around the founding of this country. It was very often the case that a sermon would be delivered for whatever was going on.

Early Application Based Sermons. So those sermons will be loaded with theology, and something AI totally lacks: wisdom.

Imagine replacing the board of Wikipedia and the ID-10Ts of reddit with reformed theologians who were so respected their sermons have survive over the generations.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:26 AM (PVBkQ)

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry AI" coming soon to a laptop near you!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 07:34 AM (iJfKG)

11 Gevalt indeed, JJ ... thank you for bringing us the news !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 07:35 AM (VyBeY)

12 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 07:35 AM (jehhT)

13 Katy Hopkins (in Liberace-grade sequined pantsuit) at Cambridge Union on the crime of "giving offense", which really means that somebody chose to take offense:

https://tinyurl.com/4ry7kpwa

"Let us not tiptoe around life. Let us dress as Nazi Elvis and strive boldly and cause offense if we must, but let's try to build ourselves strong so that we can live bigger, better, fuller lives."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 22, 2026 07:36 AM (kpS4V)

14 3 According to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a software error at the Motor Vehicles Commission signed up over 6,600 noncitizens to vote. But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.

If they are admitting 6,600 there are about twice that many.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

I read an article that the number is north of 30k that they know of.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 22, 2026 07:36 AM (Q/FnY)

15 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

16 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 22, 2026 07:39 AM (53oGX)

17 Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

Stupid question. The US has had communists in the country longer than anyone has been alive.

Being "in the United States" and "as judges, congressmen, in executive roles" are VERY different things.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:39 AM (9Hs2w)

18 >> Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

Thank you JJ.

I can’t understand why that poll result isn’t 10 in 10 Americans. Shouldn’t everyone fear communism given its bloody record? It’s obviously a threat…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 07:39 AM (yz/88)

19 I always thought Andy Kim the singer sounded like Neil Diamond. I think Andy's one or two top 40 songs overlapped with several of Neil's releases in the '70s, like "Song Sung Blue," and so it was easy to confuse them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:40 AM (wzUl9)

20 If they are admitting 6,600 there are about twice that many.

If they are saying "software error" the very last thing it was is a software error.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:40 AM (a3CJ+)

21 There's a restaurant in my 'hood that specializes in Indian and Thai food. I've noticed Sparkle Sooknanan on the dessert menu but have not yet tried it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

22 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 07:41 AM (ccLZe)

23 Yonder Horde
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 07:35 AM (jehhT)

Yonder lies da castle of my fadder.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 22, 2026 07:41 AM (uQnxg)

24 Wait! We have a tilted planet? No wonder stuff looks weird!

(Or maybe I'm just getting used to wearing glasses occasionally.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)

25 Leftists blame their crimes on opponents

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 07:42 AM (ccLZe)

26 There's a restaurant in my 'hood that specializes in Indian and Thai food. I've noticed Sparkle Sooknanan on the dessert menu but have not yet tried it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

With a name like "Sparkle",

shouldn't she be on the pole and not the bench?

It's like we're living in crazy world!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 07:42 AM (iJfKG)

27 Congress can't repeal astronomy. "Spring forward, fall back" remains the least bad way to live on a tilted planet.

Because accepting time as it is inconveniences New Yorkers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

28 ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTE FRAUD TRACKER

Illegal aliens don’t vote. Trump is nuts

Illegal voting is rare, but doesn’t impact elections

Illegal alien voting is a problem

Illegal alien voting impacts elections

*we are here.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 07:43 AM (RQgUN)

29 - Hadrian, thank you reply willowed.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 22, 2026 07:44 AM (dAv7M)

30 Angel Studios has come out with a film on the Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavic. I knew about a few films in development when I was in Hollywood. The real story has not, as they say, ever been told. And it's a great story indeed. Jeff Daniels plays Reagan.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 07:44 AM (fZiTB)

31 Why would you believe any poll? No one has a landline phone any more. No one answers calls from unknown numbers. Websites don't give a representative cross section. In person is too expensive.
They just asked ten people in line at Starbucks and extrapolated the results.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

32 I find it fascinating that during the 2 weeks when many pretended that the MOU was a good idea, a big justification was that at least we had completely destroyed their nuclear weapons program.

Now it turns out that we had only hit a part of it, and one huge facility full of centrifuges and possibly containing the enriched nuclear material was still up and running (Pickaxe Mountain)

What’s worse is that the way the Iranians had continued work on this is harsh proof that they have never given up their ambition to give up their nuclear program, and never intended ti

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 07:45 AM (T2w7I)

33 Number of Americans ‘not in the labor force’ surges to record 105.8M as total exceeds Great Recession, COVID era

"The definition is broad — it covers all Americans age 16 and over who aren’t currently working, including retirees and students."

Some 45% of NILFs are retirees who took standard retirement at the age of 65 or later. About 3-5% retired early.

So, as the boomer generation retires, we would expect this number to increase.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

34 "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry AI" coming soon to a laptop near you!

Seriously. Dave Barton was doing a presentation and was talking about the early years of the US with circuit riders and other theologians, who were essentially the region's sages.

Barton was showing topics like how Christians should understand and address property tax, government policies, all with the usual stuff like raising a family and interacting with the world at all levels.

I'm pretty sure there was no advice to chop off their son's nuts and dress him like a girl when he misbehaves.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:47 AM (a3CJ+)

35 30 Angel Studios has come out with a film on the Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavic. I knew about a few films in development when I was in Hollywood. The real story has not, as they say, ever been told. And it's a great story indeed. Jeff Daniels plays Reagan.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 07:44 AM
###
Saw the trailer recently. Looks interesting.

BTW J.K. Simmons is cast as George Schultz.
Evidently George Schultz knew a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)

36 I saw The Boomer Haters open for Andy Kim at Jarry Park Stadium in Montreal in 1975.

All the ladies threw their moistened panties at Andy, who then threw them back.

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Hallyday at July 22, 2026 07:50 AM (F1rMs)

37 Wait! We have a tilted planet? No wonder stuff looks weird!

(Or maybe I'm just getting used to wearing glasses occasionally.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)

It could be because you're living in that crazy central land I escaped yesterday.

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 07:50 AM (ZTeTB)

38 DOJ CRD and the magnificent Harmeet Dhillon immediately wrote the state of NJ and told them to turn over the voters roles. NJ tried to say this was an isolated incident because they have already been sued by the DoJ to release their lists. The governor knows that under the CRA, et al this likely provides the necessary cause for DoJ to file with the judge for those lists citing this as one example of faulty maintenance and a reason to question list integrity. It may take some time, but I don’t see how over the long run a judge doesn’t grant DoJ’s request. NJ previously made representations to the court there wasn’t an issue with their lists. lol.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 07:51 AM (RQgUN)

39 Some 45% of NILFs are retirees who took standard retirement at the age of 65 or later. About 3-5% retired early.

Boomers are three years away from being 100% retirement eligible. Then we can fret about Gen-X.

If you were an employer looking to bring on senior level staff (which allegedly your late career candidates are) would you do it considering that your new hire might retire a couple years later when what you needed was stability and unified vision?

Senior management turn-over twitches the antenna of the M&A crowd.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:52 AM (NzX/y)

40 BTW J.K. Simmons is cast as George Schultz.
Evidently George Schultz knew a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)

In Ken Adelman's book on Reykjavic, maybe the most comprehensive first-hand account, Schultz does not come off all that well. Who does come off well, busting all myths about his detachment and air-headedness, is Reagan.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 07:52 AM (fZiTB)

41 It could be because you're living in that crazy central land I escaped yesterday.
Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 07:50 AM
+++
Where you could watch Johnny Carson at 10:30 PM.

Posted by: Back in the day at July 22, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

42 Judge Sookie?

Posted by: Serious Country? at July 22, 2026 07:52 AM (JM9I6)

43 >> The definition is broad — it covers all Americans age 16 and over who aren’t currently working, including retirees and students."

Dig down. It also includes an unknown number of illegal aliens and non citizens.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 07:53 AM (Pu/zx)

44 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 07:53 AM (1g3xS)

45 stability and unified vision > moving fast and breaking things > moving other peoples' cheese

Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 07:54 AM (Jr5Lq)

46 Boomers are three years away from being 100% retirement eligible.

How do you define "100% retirement eligible"? Full Social Security? In that case, the last of the Boomers (technically, the people born in 1964) is five years away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

47 It was a a backhand reference to The Farmers Insurance tagline.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)

48 Congress can't repeal astronomy. "Spring forward, fall back" remains the least bad way to live on a tilted planet.

Or just go UTC and by local convention schedule your day.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:55 AM (NzX/y)

49 Where you could watch Johnny Carson at 10:30 PM.
Posted by: Back in the day at July 22, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

If you were really lucky you could watch him at 4:30pm live in studio.

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 07:55 AM (ZTeTB)

50 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 07:45 AM

(T2w7I)Your schtick is getting old.

Posted by: Methuselah at July 22, 2026 07:56 AM (SExz7)

51 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)

52 For those who skip the tech thread, prayers around lunchtime would be appreciated - first round interview for a remote position that would pay the bills and more today.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 07:56 AM (aJQbY)

53 Election thievery, open borders and a corrupt Judiciary"

Hmm. Spain, early 1930s

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)

54 "46 Boomers are three years away from being 100% retirement eligible."

Today is the three month mark for my retirement. Unfortunately I still seem to be vaguely aware of what day of the week it is. Need more practice.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

55
How do you define "100% retirement eligible"? Full Social Security? In that case, the last of the Boomers (technically, the people born in 1964) is five years away.

I was going along with the commenter's 65 threshold. Didn't feel a need to be pedantic. There are a lot of people, particularly teachers and LEOs who have much earlier retirement eligible years. Some people mark retirement based on forced Medicare enrollment dates.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM (NzX/y)

56 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM (JvZF+)

57 A writer/director friend of mine was attached to an earlier Reagan/Reykjavic project. It has been kicking around for a while.

I happen to think Reagan's final confrontation with the media at the summit was a profile in presidential courage perfect for a movie. I hope this movie gets it right.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM (fZiTB)

58 Boomers (technically, the people born in 1964)"

That's funny right there. 'cause people born in '45 had the same experiences growing up as those in '64...

*generational bull shiite is still generational bull shiite

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)

59 Republicans are done in NJ, sure there’s cheating, but there are also a lot of lunatic Donks in that state, Sherrill won in a blowout on a platform of I’m going to raise your sales tax, similar to how Karen Bass is going to ride to victory on we’re going to burn your house down and steal the land and build affordable housing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 07:59 AM (XV/Pl)

60 Boomers are three years away from being 100% retirement eligible. Then we can fret about Gen-X.

I'm 3.5 years from becoming a ghost.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 07:59 AM (1g3xS)

61 The very idea that 'you must enroll in Medicare/you must start drawing retirement/you must start drawing social security even if you're still working full time' is obscene. This is America!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (aJQbY)

62 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (2YhKe)

63 ELIMINATED: Adham Ibrahim Sha'aban Nasman, Hamas’ Head of the Operations Department of the Gaza City Brigade, who directed the October 7 Massacre infiltration of his brigade's terrorists and held numerous hostages captive.

Wish we had the balls to take some bad guys out.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (/+uur)

64 Just pick one time scheme and stick with it the whole year. The twice-yearly time change is absurd.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (77rzZ)

65 I'm old enough to remember when the left PROMISED me there was absolutely ZERO fraud in any elections and Trump was just a stupid poopyhead who couldn't handle losing free and fair elections.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:01 AM (2YhKe)

66 > Now it turns out that we had only hit a part of it, and one huge facility full of centrifuges and possibly containing the enriched nuclear material was still up and running (Pickaxe Mountain)
--------
The Iranians have moved almost all of their weapons manufacturing underground. Nuclear, ballistic missile and drone manufacturing are all in huge, underground facilities. Typically fortified and hardened against attack. There was an article some months ago with photos of some of this.

It's impressive. And scattered all over the country. It's what the mullahs and IRGC have spent most every Rial on. What they didn't spend on this went to rig our elections.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:01 AM (jehhT)

67 Court Rules in Favor of Deporting Hamas-Loving Longtime Undergrad

--

I can't help but wonder how many of these deported, dangerous malcontents, trouble-makers and terrorist sympathizers will be let right back in as soon as the next Democrat president is in office.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 22, 2026 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

68 52 Prayer up, Random Dave.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:02 AM (77rzZ)

69 I hope this movie gets it right.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM (fZiTB)

With Jeff Daniels in it? I expect it will be a hagiography of Gorbachev as the real hero of Reykjavik.

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 08:03 AM (ZTeTB)

70 Tuesday on MS NSDAP's "All In," Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said a serious software error in New Jersey's Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who were not U.S. citizens was "not this widespread systemic problem."

And yet these types of 'glitches' NEVER benefit Republicans. NEVER. And they just can't seem to ever explain why this is the case.

"People just love democrat policies SOOOO MUCH, they're willing to commit fraud to make them happen" I guess......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:03 AM (2YhKe)

71 Sherrill is an idiot. You can see she is in way over her head and capabilities. She has done zero for NJ except stand on podiums and blame Trump. She has no solutions for any and never did. Democrats must be so proud of their new useless dunce. They seem to like electing them. But she’s a Dem- amiright?

Posted by: That Guy at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (oh+I7)

72 Wish we had the balls to take some bad guys out.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (/+uur)

The Israelis have always specialized in that. It takes extremely high level intelligence operations to do it, and they have the best.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (T2w7I)

73 "Didn't feel a need to be pedantic."
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM
++++

What the hell's wrong with you?
Don't you know where you are?
This place runs on pedantic.
With a healthy side order of arrogant, boastful, erudite and smug.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)

74 The very idea that 'you must enroll in Medicare/you must start drawing retirement/you must start drawing social security even if you're still working full time' is obscene. This is America!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (aJQbY)

Assuming that you're working for a company with at least 20 employees, you're not required to take Medicare at 65.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

75 I was going along with the commenter's 65 threshold. Didn't feel a need to be pedantic. There are a lot of people, particularly teachers and LEOs who have much earlier retirement eligible years. Some people mark retirement based on forced Medicare enrollment dates.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:58 AM (NzX/y)

Born in 64 would mean 62 today.
Plus three would make them 65 so eligible for Medicare.
However, SSI Full Retirement Age is 67 for their cohorts.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (/+uur)

76 That's funny right there. 'cause people born in '45 had the same experiences growing up as those in '64...

Any Boomer born in the 60s wasn't threatened with conscription into Vietnam.

Late Boomers also don't call the 60's to be the best music rather 70's and 80's.

Boomers brought into the world in the 60s were probably the most privileged due to the fact they were probably too young to care about the tribulations of the day (parents did though) and could enjoy a relatively easy childhood.

Then once no-fault divorce set in... that ended an era.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (PVBkQ)

77 With Jeff Daniels in it? I expect it will be a hagiography of Gorbachev as the real hero of Reykjavik.
Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 08:03 AM (ZTeTB)

I thought that too. However Angel Studios is notably conservative.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (fZiTB)

78 A federal judge appointed by [so-called quote-unquote] President joe Biden, Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad adn Tobago and became a U.S. citizen in 2009, blocked former President Donald Trump's efforts to purge non-citizens from voter rolls.

The fact that no one is doing anything to impeach this bitch tells me we're not a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:05 AM (2YhKe)

79 Steiner loved daylight savings time.

Posted by: Hermann Fegelein at July 22, 2026 08:05 AM (IWfdg)

80 71 Sherrill is an idiot. You can see she is in way over her head and capabilities. She has done zero for NJ except stand on podiums and blame Trump. She has no solutions for any and never did. Democrats must be so proud of their new useless dunce. They seem to like electing them. But she’s a Dem- amiright?
Posted by: That Guy at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM
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Pfft.
Amateur.

Posted by: Old Lady Spamburger at July 22, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

81 Nice weather in N IL now, with most of the smoke gone. Fair and unseasonably cool for a coupla days.

Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 08:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

82 I believe Judge Sparkle's ruling has already been reversed by a federal judge in Florida.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:05 AM (viF8m)

83
Wish we had the balls to take some bad guys out.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:00 AM (/+uur)

Shit. We elect them to public office.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:06 AM (2YhKe)

84 NJ was cute in their announcement. They said the 6,600 illegal alien voters contained “Democrats, Republicans and Independents”. No break down of course for those who actually voted or made their way onto the list. So you can be sure it was one Republican, one who didn’t fill out party affiliation and 6,598 Democrats.

Posted by: That Guy at July 22, 2026 08:06 AM (oh+I7)

85 Dual citizens must be thrown out of all public employment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 08:06 AM (JvZF+)

86 Boomers are three years away from being 100% retirement eligible. Then we can fret about Gen-X.

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Close. But I'm near the caboose end of the Boomers and have 4 years until 100% retirement. Mr. Black, born in '64, has 5 years until 100% retirement.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 22, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

87 77 With Jeff Daniels in it? I expect it will be a hagiography of Gorbachev as the real hero of Reykjavik.
Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 08:03 AM.
******

Rush used to call them "Gorbasms."

Posted by: I miss Rush at July 22, 2026 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Generation Jones is where it’s at.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:07 AM (77rzZ)

89 Nice weather in N IL now, with most of the smoke gone. Fair and unseasonably cool for a coupla days.
Posted by: gp at July 22, 2026 08:05 AM (Jr5Lq)

We're in the 100's for the next several days.

I figured this was coming since we've had reasonably mild summers for the last few.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:07 AM (2YhKe)

90 Democrats must be so proud of their new useless dunce. They seem to like electing them. But she’s a Dem- amiright?
Posted by: That Guy at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM

Dems love sheep.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe)

91 Sherrill is an idiot. You can see she is in way over her head and capabilities. She has done zero for NJ except stand on podiums and blame Trump. She has no solutions for any and never did.

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In a heavy D state, that's all the qualifications she needs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 22, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

92 It's impressive. And scattered all over the country. It's what the mullahs and IRGC have spent most every Rial on. What they didn't spend on this went to rig our elections.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:01 AM (jehhT)

Yes it is. They’ve done the same thing with what they call “missile cities” ; huge underground facilities storing thousands of missiles, hidden throughout the country. During the initial strikes in March, we collapsed the entrances to many of them. But now they’ve dug them up and have access to their inventory again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 08:08 AM (T2w7I)

93 Basketball Jones > Generation Jones

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe)

94 Since March 2025, the Trump administration’s screening of the funds has reportedly uncovered more than 4,900 payments worth about $99 million that were associated with dead payees.

I pay dead people.

Posted by: Uncle Sam at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (/+uur)

95 I think Angel Studios produced that Animal Farm movie where the villains were all MAGA Trump economic and social conservatives. You know Animal Farm. That famous story about the dangers of Sarah Palin.

So forget this idea they're "conservative".

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (v5XIn)

96 I thought that too. However Angel Studios is notably conservative.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:04 AM (fZiTB)

Didn't they recently distribute something not so conservative minded?

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (naOT2)

97 "The fact that no one is doing anything to impeach this bitch tells me we're not a serious country."

People say "impeachment" like its some kind of magical cure all. A majority of the HoR can impeach anyone and even if that did happen, just how in the hell are you going to get 67 Senators to convict and remove?

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (SExz7)

98 Any ruling issued by a judge named “Sparkle” should be automatically null and void.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (77rzZ)

99 Assuming that you're working for a company with at least 20 employees, you're not required to take Medicare at 65.

With a "qualifying health coverage plan", mostly that permits delaying enrolling in Part B w/o penalty.

Once on the dole though, any contribution to an HSA ends.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (9Hs2w)

100 80 and 86% down here by the Bay

Posted by: Uncle Sam at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (/+uur)

101 NJ was cute in their announcement. They said the 6,600 illegal alien voters contained “Democrats, Republicans and Independents”. No break down of course for those who actually voted or made their way onto the list. So you can be sure it was one Republican, one who didn’t fill out party affiliation and 6,598 Democrats.
Posted by: That Guy at July 22, 2026 08:06 AM (oh+I7)
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If there had been TWO illegal alien votes for Republicans, you can bet the Dems would have shut the operation down quick...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 08:10 AM (FZ29D)

102 off sox

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur)

103 "The fact that no one is doing anything to impeach this bitch tells me we're not a serious country."

The path we are on, we may need the Mitch Rapp Impeachment method.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:10 AM (9Hs2w)

104 We, giant nation, China, have one time zone-everybody happy!

Posted by: Or Else! at July 22, 2026 08:11 AM (JM9I6)

105 With a healthy side order of arrogant, boastful, erudite and smug"

You left out "condescension"

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

106 Richard Gere decides to muddle into the political realm and slam Trump for ending USAID declaring Trump is too stupid to know what it even stands for and surrounds himself with idiots taking necessary dollars for people in need.

White House responds:

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung trolled leftist actor Richard Gere as “a guy that may have put a gerbil up his ass” on Monday.

“Sorry, not going to listen to a guy that may have put a gerbil up his ass,” Cheung wrote in a Monday X post, sharing a screenshot of a 2020 article published by MEL Magazine, headlined, “A Highly Questionable Cultural History of Richard Gere’s Ass Gerbil.”

BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

107 During the initial strikes in March, we collapsed the entrances to many of them. But now they’ve dug them up and have access to their inventory again.

I think this is where dirty bombs are justified.

When we say NO we mean it for a Thousand Years.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:13 AM (9Hs2w)

108 Why would you believe any poll? No one has a landline phone any more. No one answers calls from unknown numbers. Websites don't give a representative cross section. In person is too expensive.
They just asked ten people in line at Starbucks and extrapolated the results.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 22, 2026

***
Then instead of four, *one* of the ten might have said communism is a threat. Maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 08:13 AM (wzUl9)

109 NJ was cute in their announcement. They said the 6,600 illegal alien voters contained “Democrats, Republicans and Independents”.
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I thought they checked a box saying they didn't want to register to vote. But they still declared a party affiliation? 👀

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:14 AM (v5XIn)

110 What's the big deal about people retiring? They do it all the time.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 08:14 AM (bqIVz)

111 If I have my way I will not wait until 65 to retire. No way… and certainly not 67. My definition of retirement means no more full time job. I will probably settle into part time employment on my own terms and I won’t start taking SS until 67. So stop working full time then some years after that start pulling SS. My financial advisor tells me that’s the way to go if you don’t need the SS immediately… it maximizes your SS payout

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:14 AM (yz/88)

112
People say "impeachment" like its some kind of magical cure all. A majority of the HoR can impeach anyone and even if that did happen, just how in the hell are you going to get 67 Senators to convict and remove?
Posted by: Will Robinson at July 22, 2026 08:09 AM (SExz7)

The fact that we've become so corrupt, we can't remove those that are blatantly NOT doing their jobs according to the rule of law and the Constitution proves my point.

We're not a serious country. We're a corrupt shithole of greed and contempt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:14 AM (2YhKe)

113 CBD is from New Jersey??

Well, that answers a few questions about him.

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2026 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)

114 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 08:13 AM (wzUl9)

House hunt?

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 08:15 AM (naOT2)

115 "White House Communications Director Steven Cheung trolled leftist actor Richard Gere as “a guy that may have put a gerbil up his ass” on Monday."

Cheung is a wild man. I'd like to see more of him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:15 AM (fZiTB)

116 > Sherrill is an idiot. You can see she is in way over her head and capabilities. She has done zero for NJ except stand on podiums and blame Trump. She has no solutions for any and never did.
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Sort of like an ex-President*

*biden was every bit a Sherrill... controlled deep state plant. The garden variety plant.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:16 AM (jehhT)

117 Beginning on August 5, New York “authorizes medical providers to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients for the purpose of ending their own life.”

Call me when NY MAID hits #4 in all death causes like Canadia.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

118 We're not a serious country. We're a corrupt shithole of greed and contempt.

Scary to think that even with that, we're still relatively among or at the best in terms of corruption and freedom/rights, huh?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 08:16 AM (aJQbY)

119
I saw Richard Gere’s Ass Gerbil open for Pink Lady and Jeff at the Cow Palace in '82.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

120 Good morning Horde,thx JJ.
It should be interesting to see if anyone complains about the $100m in payments to dead people which is now suspended. Somehow I think not. As I recall 600 health care facilities were cut off in Cali and no one complained, because they couldn't admit it was all s fraud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:17 AM (sMkB+)

121 My financial advisor tells me that’s the way to go if you don’t need the SS immediately… it maximizes your SS payout
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:14 AM (yz/8

About 8% return 62 thru 70

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (/+uur)

122 The very idea that 'you must enroll in Medicare/you must start drawing retirement/you must start drawing social security even if you're still working full time' is obscene. This is America!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026

***
I'm glad I had those options. With Medicare and supplementary insurance (so I could cancel my healthcare deductions from work), and with SS coming in, during my last few years working I was able to salt away a lot of money. I never could afford to do that in earlier years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (wzUl9)

123 We're not a serious country. We're a corrupt shithole of greed and contempt.
Posted by: Sponge at July 22, 2026 08:14 AM

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Mexico at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)

124 Yeah, who hasn't tried the gerbil thing at least once?
Knowing it could lead to capybaras is what ended my flirtation.

Posted by: Vonn der Asche at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (JM9I6)

125 Scary to think that even with that, we're still relatively among or at the best in terms of corruption and freedom/rights, huh?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 08:16 AM (aJQbY)

They haven't come for us, yet.

Next Democrat majority, shit gets REALLY real.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (2YhKe)

126 Trump and his team need to follow up on all the DOGE and USAID cuts and what they've meant in savings. Poor communications.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (fZiTB)

127 Was I mistaken in imagining irascible fembots with fat fingers and machinegun tits?

Who also like fooling with their clocks twice a year?

Posted by: Hermann Fegelein at July 22, 2026 08:19 AM (IWfdg)

128 >>NJ was cute in their announcement. They said the 6,600 illegal alien voters contained “Democrats, Republicans and Independents”.

Trump is already out this morning saying the really number in NJ is over 35,000 and likely much higher.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:20 AM (viF8m)

129 Beginning on August 5, New York “authorizes medical providers to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients for the purpose of ending their own life.”

Call me when NY MAID hits #4 in all death causes like Canadia.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

Hochul is going after Christian organizations and forcing them to give suicide "care."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:20 AM (2YhKe)

130 Fucking putz.

Mamdani acknowledges that NYC doesn't have legal authority to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:20 AM (1g3xS)

131 Whoever said that most our debt could be gotten rid of by eliminating fraud is spot on.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:21 AM (sMkB+)

132 Irascible Fembots was our garage band name when we were just starting out.

Posted by: The Dixie Chicks at July 22, 2026 08:22 AM (2Ez/1)

133 I saw Machinegun Tits open for Machinegun Kelly at Riflefest in 2012.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)

134 > Whoever said that most our debt could be gotten rid of by eliminating fraud is spot on.
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You don't get $38 trillion dollars in debt without fraud.

All of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (jehhT)

135 What are the odds that some leftist or jihadist loon in NYC tries to take out Netanyahu when he visits the UN. I've been surprised that no suicide bombers have popped up yet. This might be some crazies opportunity

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (sMkB+)

136 Fucking putz.

Mamdani acknowledges that NYC doesn't have legal authority to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:20 AM (1g3xS)

When you don't know what you're doing and have no clue what American law is.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)

137 If you were born in 1964 your full SS retirement is age 67. That is in 5 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (JvZF+)

138 Another factor for Eberstadt is the increasing number of dropouts — otherwise fit and healthy Americans opting not to work or try to work.

“Very roughly speaking, there are about 7 million of these men who are out of the labor force for the 25-to 54-year-olds,” said Eberstadt, whose 2016 book, “Men Without Work,”

So dealing drugs, on EBT, living with Grandma, and worthless mutha fuckers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

139 Mamdani acknowledges that NYC doesn't have legal authority to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:20 AM (1g3xS)

He doesn't care. He got to say it, that's what matters.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:24 AM (fZiTB)

140 Yeah, who hasn't tried the gerbil thing at least once?

Pretty sure God didn't intend for the rectum to be a Habitrail.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:24 AM (rgGn5)

141
130 Fucking putz.

Mamdani acknowledges that NYC doesn't have legal authority to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:20 AM (1g3xS)

Found on X:

“If Trump wishes to really show Mamdani his place, he should have Mamdani drive Bibi in a limo through the streets of New York, proclaiming before him, "This is what is done for the man the president delights to honor!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 08:24 AM (T2w7I)

142 Your schtick is getting old.
Posted by: Methuselah at July 22, 2026 07:56 AM (SExz7)
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Oh, dear!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 08:24 AM (JvZF+)

143 during my last few years working I was able to salt away a lot of money. I never could afford to do that in earlier years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Funny saying that-salt away money. Better than peppering your portfolio?

Posted by: Spice Must Flow at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)

144 126 Trump and his team need to follow up on all the DOGE and USAID cuts and what they've meant in savings. Poor communications.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:18 AM (fZiTB)

We're spending those savings currenty in Iran...so Trump really doesn't want to spotlight the overall budget, just the times he's stopping fraud...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM (tOcjL)

145 If you were born in 1964 your full SS retirement is age 67. That is in 5 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (JvZF+)

If you're born in 1971, your full SS retirement is age 72. That's batshit f*cking insane.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM (2YhKe)

146 "...there are about 7 million of these men who are out of the labor force for the 25-to 54-year-olds..."

Is that a lot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 22, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

147 >>When you don't know what you're doing and have no clue what American law is.......

He knew. His idiot followers didn't which is why he made this fake claim but he knew all along.

He lies constantly but he relies on a relatively small number of very stupid people who actually believe his bullshit to get elected because only a fraction of NYers actually vote.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:26 AM (viF8m)

148 during my last few years working I was able to salt away a lot of money. I never could afford to do that in earlier years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Funny saying that-salt away money. Better than peppering your portfolio?
Posted by: Spice Must Flow

Think just how much more he could have saved if he had more thyme.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (1g3xS)

149 Whoever said that most our debt could be gotten rid of by eliminating fraud is spot on.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
___________

Probably first said by some functionary in the city of Ur.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (5lJg2)

150 Funny saying that-salt away money. Better than peppering your portfolio?
Posted by: Spice Must Flow at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM

Don't sugar coat it.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (2Ez/1)

151 So dealing drugs, on EBT, living with Grandma, and worthless mutha fuckers.

I wouldn't discount the number who are working "off the books".

Since illegals do it as a matter of course, why not the whole roofing crew?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (rgGn5)

152 Irascible Fembots was our garage band name when we were just starting out.
Posted by: The Dixie Chicks at July 22, 2026

***
* Applause *

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (wzUl9)

153 The MR is long and distinguished. Nicely done, JJ!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (wVcYX)

154 That Gere gerbil story has gotta be apocryphal. Theres no way a gerbil is going in anyone’s ass. I admit (and I’m proud to admit) that I’m completely naive on such matters

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (+gA9j)

155 He knew. His idiot followers didn't which is why he made this fake claim but he knew all along.

He lies constantly but he relies on a relatively small number of very stupid people who actually believe his bullshit to get elected because only a fraction of NYers actually vote.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:26 AM (viF8m)

He only knows sharia law and gives no f*cks about American law. He'll continue to try whatever he wants and make someone stop him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:28 AM (2YhKe)

156 so England looks like it's going from one shitheel PM to another

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:28 AM (j+aD2)

157 Think just how much more he could have saved if he had more thyme.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM

Sage advice.

Posted by: Groan at July 22, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

158
What are the odds that some leftist or jihadist loon in NYC tries to take out Netanyahu when he visits the UN. I've been surprised that no suicide bombers have popped up yet. This might be some crazies opportunity
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (sMkB+)

All of the Democrats plans more or less boil down to-

*wink**wink* Assassination

The whole Mandami thing was delusional anyway, no official can conduct their own foreign policy, esp. one counter to the US.

I think that's a go to prison item if I remember correctly.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 08:28 AM (iJfKG)

159 during my last few years working I was able to salt away a lot of money. I never could afford to do that in earlier years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Funny saying that-salt away money. Better than peppering your portfolio?
Posted by: Spice Must Flow
*
Think just how much more he could have saved if he had more thyme.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026

***
I flatter myself that it was a sage decision

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)

160 145 If you were born in 1964 your full SS retirement is age 67. That is in 5 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 08:23 AM (JvZF+)

If you're born in 1971, your full SS retirement is age 72. That's batshit f*cking insane.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM (2YhKe)

When it was created, the age was set at 65 b/c average life span was 66. It wasn't intended as retirement - it was intended as last years of awful health income to survive...especially for widows (since men died at 62.9 then)...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (tOcjL)

161 Is Mitch dead yet?

Posted by: The Undertaker at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (F1rMs)

162 154 That Gere gerbil story has gotta be apocryphal. Theres no way a gerbil is going in anyone’s ass. I admit (and I’m proud to admit) that I’m completely naive on such matters

probably seen in an ER but not him necessarily. the concept is to have the poor little animal in a flexible tube like a condom I guess and force it up there that way. the stories go, the gerbil escapes the tube and runs deep into the colon

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (j+aD2)

163 Think just how much more he could have saved if he had more thyme.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (1g3xS)

Uh oh… I sense we’re gonna be sprinkled with a punfest…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (+gA9j)

164 Climate science in the federal government is about to get a whole lot more honest

Interesting that when someone takes real number, for instance sea levels, and looks back 50 or so years the real change is 1 to 5% of the predicted numbers.
Or when look at 60 year of temperatures over a certain number, say 95F, that from 1907 to 1966 there are almost 25% more days over that number than the time period of 1967 to 2026.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (/+uur)

165 If you're born in 1971, your full SS retirement is age 72. That's batshit f*cking insane.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM (2YhKe)

It's also incorrect.

Same as everyone else born in 1960 or later, you can claim reduced benefits at 62, 'full' benefits at 67, and max benefits at 70. Waiting beyond 70 does not gain you anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

166 If you're born in 1971, your full SS retirement is age 72. That's batshit f*cking insane.

Declare yourself an illegal alien and get full SS, top of scale checks now!

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (a3CJ+)

167 Funny saying that-salt away money. Better than peppering your portfolio?
Posted by: Spice Must Flow at July 22, 2026 08:25 AM

Don't sugar coat it.
Posted by: Oh, no... at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (2Ez/1)

Or lard it up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (wVcYX)

168 Uh oh.......

Sophie Cunningham has stepped on the 3rd rail and her WNBA career is about to take a Caitlyn turn.

She said "boys should not be allowed to compete in girl's sports, even if they think they're a girl."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (2YhKe)

169 Dad Joke 4,751,395:

What's the last thing you see when your parachute doesn't open?

Ground Cumin.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (1g3xS)

170 Since illegals do it as a matter of course, why not the whole roofing crew?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (rgGn5)

So... the illegals and one guy who speaks English?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

171 But I don't want to get on the cart!

Posted by: Mitch at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)

172 She said "boys should not be allowed to compete in girl's sports, even if they think they're a girl."

she better not to go to England they beat you to death with hammers for saying that

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (j+aD2)

173 RFK Jr. Freezes $1B in Medicaid to California, Minnesota over Fraud Fears

—

Lol

Posted by: District Judges in California at July 22, 2026 08:30 AM (GEtfQ)

174 I thought the gerbil thing was known to have been made up by pedowood people who didn't like that Gere was outspoken against China for Tibet.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:31 AM (v5XIn)

175 An essential plank in restoring America is defunding the judiciary.

Start with defunding all the judges appointed by Biden.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 08:31 AM (3cUTc)

176 That Gere gerbil story has gotta be apocryphal. Theres no way a gerbil is going in anyone’s ass. I admit (and I’m proud to admit) that I’m completely naive on such matters
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (+gA9j)

Supposedly, the story was started by Chy-nah because Gere had been vocal in opposing their takeover of Tibet... not that anyone pay attention to the spoutings of actors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

177 Same as everyone else born in 1960 or later, you can claim reduced benefits at 62, 'full' benefits at 67, and max benefits at 70. Waiting beyond 70 does not gain you anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

So, you're telling me the letters I used to get from the federal government specifically telling me that I would get maximum retirement $$$ at age 72 were lying to me?

You would think the SSA would know their own guidelines.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:32 AM (2YhKe)

178 This place is spicy this morning.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:32 AM (v5XIn)

179 174 I thought the gerbil thing was known to have been made up by pedowood people who didn't like that Gere was outspoken against China for Tibet.

could be. yeah I don't think it was true (about him) but it might happen people are weird

we had a local news anchor that got the same story circulating about him - Jerry Penacoli? I mean the name alone! poor guy. he was closeted maybe so.

just an 80s thing to do to famous gay men maybe? (spreading that rumor)

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:32 AM (j+aD2)

180 159 during my last few years working I was able to salt away a lot of money. I never could afford to do that in earlier years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Funny saying that-salt away money. Better than peppering your portfolio?
Posted by: Spice Must Flow
*
Think just how much more he could have saved if he had more thyme.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026

***
I flatter myself that it was a sage decision
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)

Stop trying to curry favor on this blog.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 08:33 AM (9CbuZ)

181 >>He only knows sharia law and gives no f*cks about American law. He'll continue to try whatever he wants and make someone stop him.

Before becoming mayor he was on the NY state assembly. He knows he never had any authority to arrest a foreign leader with diplomatic immunity visiting the UN. He made his promise to arrest Bibi and then admit he didn't have the authority about 15 minutes apart when he knew Netanyahu was coming for weeks. He didn't just brush up on the law last night.

Mamdani lies about everything like free buses and only taxing the uber rich and then reverses himself after the fact because lies are what Islamist communists do best. And it works with stupid people like the idiots who still believe there was a genocide in Gaza when it has been proven conclusively over and over there was not.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:33 AM (viF8m)

182 Some migrant first name Tsegaab wacked three workers in a Minneapolis apartment complex because they wouldn't let him out of his parking contract. No evidence of Floyd like riots .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:33 AM (sMkB+)

183 “Rather than rely on MCAT scores or GPA, San Diego Med’s shadow application process unlawfully judged applicants for admission based on their race,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.

An investigation by the Department revealed that the UC San Diego School of Medicine “manipulated applicant data to achieve greater racial diversity in student admissions.”

Pure fuckin stupid

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (/+uur)

184 "RFK Jr. Freezes $1B in Medicaid to California, Minnesota..."
++++

Is that a lot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

185 That Gere gerbil story has gotta be apocryphal. Theres no way a gerbil is going in anyone’s ass. I admit (and I’m proud to admit) that I’m completely naive on such matters
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:27 AM (+gA9j)

The well practiced sodomite uses a tube which is inserted in the anus, then the gerbil or whatever creature of want is forced down the tube and once in the anus the tube is removed. The gerbil then does the thing he does in the rectum trying to escape back out through the anus.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (F1rMs)

186 This place is spicy this morning.
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:32 AM (v5XIn)

Some asshole in the tech thread was flinging Italian spices and cayenne all over the place.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe)

187 good morning guys I'm having a rough and busy week and am slightly grumpy

it's good to be busy! just some clients are ...

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (j+aD2)

188 Star-nosed mole is the best bunghole buddy. Chunky, and has a French Tickler out front.

Posted by: Vonn der Asche! at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)

189 You can start collecting SS between 62 and 70. The longer you wait the more money you get. It’s a bet on how long you think you’ll live.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 08:35 AM (GEtfQ)

190 So, you're telling me the letters I used to get from the federal government specifically telling me that I would get maximum retirement $$$ at age 72 were lying to me?

You would think the SSA would know their own guidelines.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:32 AM (2YhKe)

If you got a letter from the gubment which said that, they were lying to you. Now, can I promise that Congress won't monkey with things again? No. But, as of today, the numbers are as I stated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

191 I’ve read that the Gere gerbil was started by Sly Stallone, who had some kind of animus against Gere.

Gere has been married to Carrie Lowell, a hubba hubba former Bond girl, for awhile, so I doubt that he’s into the gerbil thing.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

192 I have a friend who's a volunteer fireman in a nearby town. He swears that he went to a guys house who had a PVC pipe stuck in his butt because he was trying the gerbil trick. My friend is a little off, but knowing that town and this area I'm not sure I can discount the tale as being tall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:36 AM (sMkB+)

193 This place is spicy this morning."

Picante...

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

194 supposedly knowing the law and not giving a shit about it and doing whatever you want until someone tells you you can't isn't that big a difference.

Seriously.....Mamdani is the f*cking Devil and is here to destroy democracy and institute sharia law, full f*cking stop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:36 AM (2YhKe)

195 Stop trying to curry favor on this blog.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 08:33 AM

Getting salty in here.

Posted by: Oops at July 22, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)

196 The company Sherrill blamed has already come right back and said that it is not a software issue at all, but the elections dept who are supposed to review the data and register the voters. They said pretty bluntly Sherrill is lying.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 08:37 AM (hftzA)

197 Speaking of SSA retirement benefits, my first retirement benefit payment was direct deposited this morning.

Thank you to all the higher-earning and/or still working contributors! Much obliged!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 08:37 AM (wVcYX)

198 It has nothing to do with the law. Mamdani did a persuasion play. Elevating himself above Netanyahu to grant himself more authority to speak on the issue. Otherwise who gives a fuck was some idiot mayor thinks about foreign affairs.

The Left are going to steal a lot of Trump's shtick this next 50 years.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (v5XIn)

199 Getting salty in here."

Chile, too.

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

200 They increase the age because a lot more people will die before they reach 72 and if you do make it to 72 how many checks will you get before you die? The government is trying to withhold paying out social security money, that's what it is all about.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (bqIVz)

201 >>Seriously.....Mamdani is the f*cking Devil and is here to destroy democracy and institute sharia law, full f*cking stop.

Of course he is. And the devil relies on lies.

The US isn't even a member of the ICC. Who exactly would he be turning Netanyahu over to?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

202 It’s a bet on how long you think you’ll live.
Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 08:35 AM (GEtfQ)

Unless fraudvid eliminated your job and you needed an income.

Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (naOT2)

203 If you got a letter from the gubment which said that, they were lying to you. Now, can I promise that Congress won't monkey with things again? No. But, as of today, the numbers are as I stated.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

Wife and I used to get those letters every year until around the Biden administration.

I believe both gave 3 sets of numbers: 62, 65 and maximum payment at 72.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (2YhKe)

204 196 The company Sherrill blamed has already come right back and said that it is not a software issue at all, but the elections dept who are supposed to review the data and register the voters. They said pretty bluntly Sherrill is lying.

well good for those guys but OF COURSE she is lying

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (j+aD2)

205 195 Stop trying to curry favor on this blog.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 22, 2026 08:33 AM

Getting salty in here.
Posted by: Oops at July 22, 2026 08:36 AM

Kinda chili, too.

Posted by: Zing! at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

206 Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said a serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who were not U.S. citizens was “not this widespread systemic problem.”

Tell 6600 black women that their vote for Kamala will not count and let me know what kind of response you get.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:39 AM (/+uur)

207 The company Sherrill blamed"

See, this is why private bad. Must have gubment run stuff!

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

208 When it was created, the age was set at 65 b/c average life span was 66. It wasn't intended as retirement - it was intended as last years of awful health income to survive...especially for widows (since men died at 62.9 then)...

Since then SSI has had far greater utility as a political tool.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:39 AM (rgGn5)

209 Grok tells me that anyone who shoved a gerbil up their ass should expect to die as gerbils have sharp claws and like to burrow…. Grok also says it’s not possible.

I have to go shower again now just having thought of it…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 08:39 AM (+gA9j)

210 If Sherrill says there are 6000 illegals registered and 400 voted, multiply by 10x. She's trying to get out front of and lessen an incoming shit show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:39 AM (sMkB+)

211 All parts will blame each other. The governor will say it's the software. The software will blame the treasury department. The treasury department will blame the DMV. The DMV will blame the governor.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (v5XIn)

212 Been collecting SS since 2008. Thanks to all slaving in the salt mines today. Keep it up!

Posted by: Some Beach, Somewhere at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (JM9I6)

213 See, this is why private bad. Must have gubment run stuff!

Open Source is the way.

Dominion must run open-source software too.
All voting and election processing must run exclusively on open sourced software or performed by hand.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (rgGn5)

214 Grok tells me that anyone who shoved a gerbil up their ass should expect to die as gerbils have sharp claws and like to burrow…. Grok also says it’s not possible.
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Grok is clearly in the pocket of Big Gerbil

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (v5XIn)

215 well good for those guys but OF COURSE she is lying
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (j+aD2)

Idemia just collects data point on ID like a FICO score.
They DO NOT have the ability to add people to the voter rolls, that would be the NJ Division of Elections.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)

216 If only living citizens voted, and only once per election, I suspected the Dems couldn't win elections outside of the left coast and New England.

NJ has probably been red for a couple of election cycles now.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (sKqQm)

217 X poster Raylon Givens reports that missiles are reportedly in flight towards an American base in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (T2w7I)

218 Declare yourself an illegal alien and get full SS, top of scale checks now!
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:29 AM (a3CJ+)

Feign "disability" and watch the money roll in while you go play golf, hunt and hit the gym 6 days a week and you get parking decals and cool license plates telling everyone you scamming The Man.

Posted by: My Arm, It's Broken at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (F1rMs)

219 Trump is playing Media about voting fraud.

Once they say that his recent reveals aren't so bad, he'll back up the truck for the huge garbage dump.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (dtajH)

220 193 This place is spicy this morning."

Picante...
Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:36 AM
++++

New York City?

Posted by: Get a rope at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

221 The company Sherrill blamed has already come right back and said that it is not a software issue at all, but the elections dept who are supposed to review the data and register the voters. They said pretty bluntly Sherrill is lying.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 08:37 AM (hftzA)

Back in the day I had to deal with a customer who presented me with a issue and my response started with, "it's not possible for the situation you describe to occur." We went round and round for a couple weeks and I finally got them on a phone call and was going over, in great detail, how the software worked and they said, "Wait... oh, I see."

Turns out they were feeding the wrong data to the system, ignoring the error message telling them that the input was invalid, and just being angry that it didn't do what they had imagined.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

222 blame the treasury department. The treasury department will blame the DMV. The DMV will blame the governor."

Whew. At least we're not involved...

/Education department

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

223 "Seriously.....Mamdani is the f*cking Devil and is here to destroy democracy and institute sharia law, full f*cking stop"

Of course. People like Pamela Gellar and David Horowitz were telling us this 25 years ago. So far no indication we have any serious response. We are a nation that is losing the last bits of its self-respect. (Bursting out periodically in glorious patriotic displays is not, in itself, self respect.)

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (fZiTB)

224 Grok tells me that anyone who shoved a gerbil up their ass should expect to die as gerbils have sharp claws and like to burrow…. Grok also says it’s not possible.

Who knew that Grok would serve as a counter to "Hold My Beer" Darwinism.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:42 AM (rgGn5)

225 Posted by: Black Orchid at July 22, 2026 08:34 AM (j+aD2)

It will get better soon!

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:42 AM (v5XIn)

226 214 Grok tells me that anyone who shoved a gerbil up their ass should expect to die as gerbils have sharp claws and like to burrow…. Grok also says it’s not possible.
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Grok is clearly in the pocket of Big Gerbil
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (v5XIn)

Limmiwinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDZkukBIZ4I

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:42 AM (/+uur)

227 (Bursting out periodically in glorious patriotic displays is not, in itself, self respect.)

That is the "Circus" part of the equation.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:43 AM (rgGn5)

228 I get pushed onto Medicare at the end of the year. I'm already being inundated with calls and mail trying to sell me a gap plan.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 08:43 AM (avzH0)

229 >>Trump is playing Media about voting fraud.

>>Once they say that his recent reveals aren't so bad, he'll back up the truck for the huge garbage dump.

He's already doing it. Once Sherrill admitted that their are illegals not just on the voter roles but voting Trump came up this morning to say the number doing it NJ are much higher in reality.

We've already established she's a whore. Now we are just arguing about price.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:44 AM (viF8m)

230 Illegal alien voting impacts elections (and that’s a good thing)

*we are here.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 22, 2026 07:43 AM (RQgUN)

The () is the most important part of that step.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 22, 2026 08:44 AM (IgKwI)

231 Iran Blasts US 'Fabricated Pretext' To Hit Pickaxe Mountain, Launches More Attacks On Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan

Iran's leadership has condemned the Trump administration's "obsessive focus on Kolang Kouh where no nuclear activity is taking place is nothing more than a fabricated pretext for aggression, destruction, and sabotage,"

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 08:44 AM (oaWAY)

232 The company Sherrill blamed has already come right back and said that it is not a software issue at all, but the elections dept who are supposed to review the data and register the voters. They said pretty bluntly Sherrill is lying.
Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 08:37 AM (hftzA)

Well, then. Per Fox v. Dominion, it would seem the NJ state government owes this company $787m.

Hahaha I'm just being funny.

This company's denial of wrongdoing is a clear attack on Our Sacred Democracy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 08:44 AM (BI5O2)

233 poster Raylon Givens reports that missiles are reportedly in flight towards an American base in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 08:41 AM (T2w7I)

The same missiles we claimed were all obliterated?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:44 AM (fZiTB)

234 aggression, destruction, and sabotage"

So, the Beastie Boys?

Posted by: man at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (XuXeR)

235 Wife and I used to get those letters every year until around the Biden administration.

I believe both gave 3 sets of numbers: 62, 65 and maximum payment at 72.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (2YhKe)

Don't take my word for it. Here's the info on the SSA's own website.

https://tinyurl.com/5fetabjd+

Also, the increase for waiting is on a monthly basis so you don't need to wait for 67, or 70.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

236 There is not set year for SS. It can start any time between 62 and 70 (not 72). You can start at 62 and 3 months or 68 and 8 months.

67 is the year you can get full benefits. Every month early is penalized every month after 67 is rewarded.

The calculus is start early and get less or wait and get more. It’s a complex question with factors like life expectancy and return on investment. If you start early but can invest the money you could end up doing better than waiting. Worst case is you wait until 70 and die at 71.

There’s no right or wrong answer everyone has a unique set of circumstances and risk tolerance to weigh.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (GEtfQ)

237 > You can start collecting SS between 62 and 70. The longer you wait the more money you get. It’s a bet on how long you think you’ll live.
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I took "early" social security as I doubt I'll live into my 80's or even 70's. My health today is significantly worse than I thought it'd be when I was 50. By 62 it was apparent I'd die early. Maybe not tomorrow (hopefully) but it'll be sooner rather than later.

So on the off chance I'm wrong, I'll collect less, but over a longer time than I thought.

I can literally live with that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (jehhT)

238 Grok tells me that anyone who shoved a gerbil up their ass should expect to die as gerbils have sharp claws and like to burrow…. Grok also says it’s not possible.

I'm pretty sure that just by asking Grok this, you are on a List.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (rgGn5)

239 OpenAI Admits Model Escaped Containment And Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test

...an “unprecedented cyber incident”... a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities..

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (oaWAY)

240 Again remember the people that tell you that millions are dying because social welfare programs are underfunded have reacted to billions in fraud in those social welfare programs with a shrug.

Which of course tells you they don't believe a damn thing they say and that the POINT of the system is the graft.

Its sort of like when some lefty tells my ICE killed an illegal that was resisting deportation. Well, the point of ICE is to get rid the invaders so...mission accomplished why should I care he choose to get himself shot instead of a plane ticket home?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

241 I believe both gave 3 sets of numbers: 62, 65 and maximum payment at 72.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (2YhKe)

Mandela effect, ol' Sponge. The maximum SSA retirement payment starts at age 70.

The only things that boost your SSA retirement benefit after age 70 are the annual inflation adjustment and if you continue working AND are replacing one of the 35 years of earnings history (inflation adjusted) with the current year's earnings in nominal dollars. The 35 years of earnings history uses the highest 35 years of reported earnings and inflation adjusts them at your age 62. From age 62 on, the earnings history used in the best 35 years calcs are in nominal (that year's) dollars.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (wVcYX)

242 Soon it will be known as KickAss Mountain.

Posted by: Amirite at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)

243 As we speak Grok is trying to shove a digital gerbil up its AI ass

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (sMkB+)

244 Today is Pi Aproximation Day.

Casual Pi Day, also known as Pi Approximation Day, arrives every July 22. This day celebrates the mathematical constant Pi using the fraction 22/7 as its approximate value. Dive into the world of numbers, bake a delicious pie, and share your love for mathematics!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

245
Grok is clearly in the pocket of Big Gerbil

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (v5XIn)

Wait!

But then, does that mean that Big Gerbil is in the anus of ChatGPT?

It...it's like a never ending mobius loop of perversion!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

246 I find it fascinating that during the 2 weeks when many pretended that the MOU was a good idea, a big justification was that at least we had completely destroyed their nuclear weapons program.
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1) no one was pretending it was a good idea. At best, there was tepid "let's see how it plays out."
2) no one said we had completely destroyed their nuclear weapons program. In fact, the MOU you deride had pretty extensive points on their current nuclear weapons program. Specifically, it required them to turn over or downgrade any and all enriched uranium.
A/K/A, their _existing_ nuclear weapons program.

But you also said multiple times over several days that Rubio was distancing himself from the MOU--yet he was standing right behind Trump when it was signed.
So ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2026 08:47 AM (3cUTc)

247 I've lived in Colorado for 27 years. I truly hate what this state has become. Land of drugs, trafficking, and trannies.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at July 22, 2026 08:47 AM (J3Cv/)

248 >>According to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a software error at the Motor Vehicles Commission signed up over 6,600 noncitizens to vote. But only 400 of them voted, you guys. No biggie.

I question the numbers.
Has NJ provided its voter roll data to the DoJ as requested, or is it one of the 10 or so blue states that has refused?

This is a$$ covering. Don't investigate! We checked, minor problem, look away now!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 08:47 AM (X8xt3)

249 The same missiles we claimed were all obliterated?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 22, 2026 08:44 AM (fZiTB)

If "Raylon Givens" on Twitter says it....

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:47 AM (v5XIn)

250 >>> You can start collecting SS between 62 and 70. The longer you wait the more money you get. It’s a bet on how long you think you’ll live.

The longer you wait the closer you are to death.

The key is to figure out how long you will live. If you wait until you are 70 to take it and you only love until 72 the house wins.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (viF8m)

251 >> I've lived in Colorado for 27 years. I truly hate what this state has become. Land of drugs, trafficking, and trannies.

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (X8xt3)

252 Don't get me wrong, Wolfus, I'm not objecting to using whatever of operations makes the most bank. I'm objecting to the 'forced' nature of it.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (aJQbY)

253 He's already doing it. Once Sherrill admitted that their are illegals not just on the voter roles but voting Trump came up this morning to say the number doing it NJ are much higher in reality.

I'd like to see Trump offer a bill to make illegal alien voting a capital, federal offense.

Let's have the left argue they are opposing the law even though illegals don't vote...

And it would honestly be even more amusing when Jose Welfare recipient gets arrested and proves he was on vacation back home when someone cast a ballot in his name from within the US...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

254
I believe both gave 3 sets of numbers: 62, 65 and maximum payment at 72.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (2YhKe)

I just went to the website. Early is 62, full is 67 and delayed is 70 (the max).

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (hftzA)

255 Lizzy, New Jersey was one of 31 states that refused.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (v5XIn)

256 They increase the age because a lot more people will die before they reach 72 and if you do make it to 72 how many checks will you get before you die? The government is trying to withhold paying out social security money, that's what it is all about.
Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (bqIVz)

Yeah. My brain immediately told me I wasn't waiting that f*cking long to get my money back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (2YhKe)

257 They love their colons.

Posted by: Stuff Chris Plante sez at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

258 Why are talking about Social Security instead of discussing boobs?

If we’re gonna admit to being old anyway, we might as well be dirty old men.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

259 I get pushed onto Medicare at the end of the year. I'm already being inundated with calls and mail trying to sell me a gap plan.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 08:43 AM (avzH0)

Wife starts Medicare next month. What a PITA that was setting everything up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

260
I just went to the website. Early is 62, full is 67 and delayed is 70 (the max).

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (hftzA)

Then they changed it after they stopped sending me letters.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (2YhKe)

261 Lotta math going on.

Posted by: davidt at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (Q+gd/)

262 I've lived in Colorado for 27 years. I truly hate what this state has become. Land of drugs, trafficking, and trannies.

THIS
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (X8xt3)

Welp, y'all did vote for legalized dope...so, you were kinda asking for it.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 08:50 AM (iJfKG)

263 Trump isn't sending in ground troops which is honestly the most important thing.

To "win" he'd need to directly inflict pain on the IRGC leadership by bombing their neighborhoods and infrastructure which it seems he won't do.

So we'll continue to bomb them while they attack random ships or lob missiles for a while I guess.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:50 AM (sKqQm)

264 It's an exit, not an entrance.

Posted by: Rock Bottom at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (JM9I6)

265 I've lived in Colorado for 27 years. I truly hate what this state has become. Land of drugs, trafficking, and trannies.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at July 22, 2026 08:47 AM (J3Cv/)

Took the family on a camping trip to Colorado back in 2019. Pikes Peak / Colorado Springs area.

We noticed right away the entire identity of the state revolved around weed.

I was saddened by it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (2YhKe)

266 >>He's already doing it. Once Sherrill admitted that their are illegals not just on the voter roles but voting Trump came up this morning to say the number doing it NJ are much higher in reality.

We've already established she's a whore. Now we are just arguing about price.

Oh, hadn't seen that!

How can you not love Trump?
HE FIGHTS

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (X8xt3)

267 258 Why are talking about Social Security instead of discussing boobs?
+++
We seemed to be "Gered up" for an anal discussion.

Posted by: Ewwww at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

268 It's an exit, not an entrance.
Posted by: Rock Bottom at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (JM9I6)

Better not fall for the old banana up the tailpipe gag again......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (2YhKe)

269 Assuming SS still exists and white straight males are allowed to collect, the day I turn 62 I’m signing up. Bird in had and all that. I ran the numbers a few ways and with average returns in the s&p500 my break even vs waiting until 70 was something like living to 85. Which is a bet I’ll take.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (GEtfQ)

270
Then they changed it after they stopped sending me letters.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (2YhKe)

No idea. You can get a pdf on the site.

Also, I need to stop being stupid and marry J so I can get his SS payment, not mine. lol.

Posted by: Piper at July 22, 2026 08:51 AM (Dd38x)

271 244 Sounds like Casual Pi Day should be the 7th day of the 22d month.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

272 They could also stop sick workers from spreading their illness to colleagues. As such, GLP-1 drugs could help boost productivity.

I'm stumped, trying to imagine what contagious illnesses are addressed by GLP-1 meds. As far as I know, GLP-1 drugs suppress appetite and lower blood sugar.

On the other hand, I've seen evidence that there are efforts to expand their usage. My husband's cardiologist suggested a sleep study and a GLP-1 if apnea is detected, and apnea is no longer just the temporary cessation of breathing from a blockage. There's now a type of apnea that is "silent" so you don't know you have it without a sleep study. Medicare is getting a workout.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (OlzlW)

273 How much is the difference between the age ranges? And then if you get ~10% by investing it per year is 62 still not the best pick?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm)

274 Today is Pi Aproximation Day.

Casual Pi Day, also known as Pi Approximation Day, arrives every July 22. This day celebrates the mathematical constant Pi using the fraction 22/7 as its approximate value. Dive into the world of numbers, bake a delicious pie, and share your love for mathematics!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159!

Posted by: MIT Cheer Team at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

275
Every state has some version of Somali Learing Centers, burning through billions upon billions of federal dollars in each of those states, with Democrats raking off the lion's share.

Every state is registering illegals to vote - and it's a whole helluva lot more than 6,600 of them in every state.

Our political system is based entirely on fraud, from head to tail. It's a human centipede of corruption.

It's why I frequently call it Scamerica.

Say it again with me, kids: "it's not that the system is corrupt; it's that corruption is the system."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

276 The longer you wait the closer you are to death.

The key is to figure out how long you will live. If you wait until you are 70 to take it and you only love until 72 the house wins.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (viF8m)

Some people wait for tax purposes. They understand that while they might not end up taking as much as possible from the system, no taking SS for a time provides them a window to move funds from an IRA to a Roth account at a lower tax rate. This *can* be a major benefit later - for some retirees.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

277 They increase the age because a lot more people will die before they reach 72 and if you do make it to 72 how many checks will you get before you die? The government is trying to withhold paying out social security money, that's what it is all about.
Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 08:38 AM (bqIVz)

Yeah. My brain immediately told me I wasn't waiting that f*cking long to get my money back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (2YhKe)

The lively and calculating Mrs naturalfake plans to work until her SS maxes out, which makes sense, I suppose, or perhaps just no difference, her folk are very long lived.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 08:54 AM (iJfKG)

278 Casual Pi Day, also known as Pi Approximation Day, arrives every July 22. This day celebrates the mathematical constant Pi using the fraction 22/7 as its approximate value. Dive into the world of numbers, bake a delicious pie, and share your love for mathematics!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC)
=====
So. Much. Math.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2026 08:54 AM (JvZF+)

279 >>Welp, y'all did vote for legalized dope...so, you were kinda asking for it.

Some voted for it.
This was right around the time CO went 100% mail-in voting, which was the final step in ensuring the state would be completely dominated by the Dems.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 08:54 AM (X8xt3)

280 The trend of inserting a penguin into the lower digestive tract has become an epidemic.

Posted by: Penguin F at July 22, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)

281 Experts recommend starting with a Puffin, or perhaps a Sparrow.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at July 22, 2026 08:55 AM (MWfyi)

282 Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159!
Posted by: MIT Cheer Team at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM
++++

Why did Boeing designate the plane "707?"

Posted by: Obscure trivia for 200, Alex at July 22, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

283 Then they changed it after they stopped sending me letters.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 08:49 AM (2YhKe)

I think it's more the case that the letters were wrong, deliberately or otherwise, as the SS ages were last modified in 1983.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

284 Once one has reached full retirement age, one can start drawing Social Security and still work full time with no tax penalty thanks to Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill. For me, this September represents 66 years and 10 months and full retirement age.
I recently applied with my request to start receiving my benefits at FRA in Sept. they are going to start in October - just one more twist of the knife.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 22, 2026 08:56 AM (JNTt1)

285 Wife starts Medicare next month. What a PITA that was setting everything up

My neighbor suggested I visit the local insurance broker in town who he said simplified the process.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 08:56 AM (avzH0)

286 >>Every state is registering illegals to vote - and it's a whole helluva lot more than 6,600 of them in every state.

It was the point of motor-voter. Fill up the voter rolls knowing a certain % won't vote, which will hide the fake ballot dumps.

And then they started giving illegals get drivers licenses.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)

287 I get pushed onto Medicare at the end of the year. I'm already being inundated with calls and mail trying to sell me a gap plan.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 08:43 AM (avzH0)

Even once you go on it, the calls / texts / emails NEVER. STOP. !!! "THEY" have you in their sights.

Listen, and understand! That Medicare Agent is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

Posted by: Kyle Reese at July 22, 2026 08:57 AM (wVcYX)

288 Always remember the longer you live,
The sooner you'll bloody well die....

Posted by: The Clancy Brothers (With Tommy Makem) at July 22, 2026 08:57 AM (JM9I6)

289 Why did Boeing designate the plane "707"

Vx is 45 deg?

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 08:57 AM (avzH0)

290 How much is the difference between the age ranges? And then if you get ~10% by investing it per year is 62 still not the best pick?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm)

67 is 100% of benefits.

Above or below it gets decreased/increased each month. Minimum you’ll get is 70% at 62. maximum you’ll get is 124% at 70.

62 is 70%, 63 is 75%, 70 is 124%. And

So th

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 08:57 AM (GEtfQ)

291 > Some people wait for tax purposes.
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Yeah.... doesn't matter if you're dead before SS kicks in. The "death tax" will still get you/your estate regardless.

Seriously, given how volatile our government is these days you'd be better served by taking SS ASAP and living to a ripe old age. It's your money... don't wait to get it back.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:58 AM (jehhT)

292 Hassan Piker:

I think people need to take it seriously. And the speech he just gave that’s generating all the news was actually before the College Democrats of America. It wasn’t some small campus gathering. It was the official national College Democrats of America invited him to speak. And I would encourage people to listen to it.

I listened to his 14-minute speech in its entirety and he’s very good at what he does. And what he does is selling the destruction of the United States.
==================
Bill Jacobson reports on Piker's speech to college Democrats, advocating the complete destruction of the United States.

They cheered.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 08:58 AM (en7t0)

293 I find it fascinating that during the 2 weeks when many pretended that the MOU was a good idea, a big justification was that at least we had completely destroyed their nuclear weapons program.

Now it turns out that we had only hit a part of it, and one huge facility full of centrifuges and possibly containing the enriched nuclear material was still up and running (Pickaxe Mountain)

What’s worse is that the way the Iranians had continued work on this is harsh proof that they have never given up their ambition to give up their nuclear program, and never intended ti
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 07:45 AM (T2w7I)

MOU was shit, but Trump got tired of the split in his cabinet , so he made them own it. Majority in the US and the region said it is not a good idea to stop hitting Iran and to lift the blockade. At least now Trump can hang that over the dissenters heads.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 08:59 AM (GD0B3)

294 >>Some people wait for tax purposes. They understand that while they might not end up taking as much as possible from the system, no taking SS for a time provides them a window to move funds from an IRA to a Roth account at a lower tax rate. This *can* be a major benefit later - for some retirees.

Absolutely. Every person's situation will be different. I started having this conversation with my financial guy years ago and he made the point I was not really considering as much as I should.

Every person's situation will be different because all of us have different clocks. Look at your family history, how long do the men and women in your family live? Some have histories of long life, some do not. Genetics plays a role. People tend to look at it as an open end situation when the reality is some of us are not going to live until 75 much less 85.

Impossible to predict but it should be a factor you consider when choosing when you will take SS.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:59 AM (viF8m)

295 Time to motivate. Later all.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 09:00 AM (viF8m)

296 Yes. The wings intersect the fuselage at a 45 degree angle.
And as any school child can tell you, the tangent of 45 degrees is zero point seven oh seven.

Posted by: The More You Know at July 22, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

297 I get pushed onto Medicare at the end of the year. I'm already being inundated with calls and mail trying to sell me a gap plan.
Posted by: Halfhand

I am supposed to get 80/20 BCBS for life as retirement benefits from work. Or until they kill it.
(They pay 80%, I pay 20%)

And then Medicare when I hit 65.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:01 AM (1g3xS)

298 If you have a habit of shoving gerbils up your ass you should take SS at age 62 since you won't be living much longer.

Posted by: GrooK at July 22, 2026 09:01 AM (Q+gd/)

299 Try that again lol

62 = 70%
63 = 75%
64 = 80%
65 = 86.7%

And so on up to 70 when it’s 124%

It’s not perfectly linear. There is a bigger incentive to wait from 67 to 70 than from 62 to 65. It’s a really wacky formula. Something only the govt could come up with.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:01 AM (GEtfQ)

300 The key is to figure out how long you will live. If you wait until you are 70 to take it and you only live until 72 the house wins.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (viF8m)
___

Problem with this is that no one knows how long anyone will live.

Only God knows.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:01 AM (5aQBy)

301 There is not set year for SS. It can start any time between 62 and 70 (not 72). You can start at 62 and 3 months or 68 and 8 months.

67 is the year you can get full benefits. Every month early is penalized every month after 67 is rewarded.

The calculus is start early and get less or wait and get more. It’s a complex question with factors like life expectancy and return on investment. If you start early but can invest the money you could end up doing better than waiting. Worst case is you wait until 70 and die at 71.

There’s no right or wrong answer everyone has a unique set of circumstances and risk tolerance to weigh.
Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 08:45 AM (GEtfQ)

There is iron in SS Math's words.

Posted by: Chief Ten Bears at July 22, 2026 09:02 AM (wVcYX)

302 My financial advisor tells me that’s the way to go if you don’t need the SS immediately… it maximizes your SS payout
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I believe that the famous "this is your benefit " from SSA when recv'd assumes your current income continues until you retire.

Not sure how taking less income several years before retirement maximizes SS payout.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 09:02 AM (ItWcy)

303 296 I couldn’t have told you that as a school child, much less as an adult.

Now, had you asked me as a school child about the Schlieffen Plan…

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

304 OMG. Math formulas AND trigonometry!

Posted by: Wraps head with duct tape at July 22, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)

305 226 214 Grok tells me that anyone who shoved a gerbil up their ass should expect to die as gerbils have sharp claws and like to burrow…. Grok also says it’s not possible.
--------

Grok is clearly in the pocket of Big Gerbil
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 08:40 AM (v5XIn)

Limmiwinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDZkukBIZ4I
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 08:42 AM (/+uur)

I see your Limmiwinks and raise you Armageddon

https://tinyurl.com/armageddongerbil

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 22, 2026 09:04 AM (N39Ws)

306 How much is the difference between the age ranges? And then if you get ~10% by investing it per year is 62 still not the best pick?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm)

Roughly 6% reduction, per year, from 62 to 67.
8%, per year, bonus from 67 to 70.

Both the reduction and the bonus are calculated on a monthly basis.

As for taking the money at 62 and investing, what are you living on? If you're still working then you have to give a lot of the money back until 67. If you're spending retirement savings then you're using other money which could be growing in order to invest SS money which could grow. Lastly, 10% per year isn't guaranteed whereas the reduction is.

There's a ton of argument on the issue and it probably depends on a lot of specifics for each individual so a correct answer cannot be given in a comment section.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

307 Holland said that when he told the doctor he was morally opposed to euthanasia, the doctor said “he just wanted to make sure that, if a [terminal] diagnosis came up or not … I knew of the different services I had access to,” according to the report.

Holland said the nurse seemed uncomfortable talking to him about the MAiD program but likely did so because he was suffering badly. “It’s a false compassion, really,” he said.
============================
"I can offer you two Advil, or death"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 09:04 AM (msMYi)

308 Martini Farmer — I saw your comment above regarding life expectancy and it resonates. At 50 I was a physical specimen and could imagine living into my 90s and remaining active at that age… but, aging is a nonlinear phenomenon I’m discovering. I’m still active with no major health issues but a myriad of minor ones hit after 55 and all the sudden I feel worn out! If the decline over the next decade is similar to say the last 5 years I wonder if I’ll make 75…. Kinda depressing honestly

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:04 AM (m6Mib)

309
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
Clay Travis nails the real reason so many leftists with expensive degrees hate capitalism.

It's simpler than you think.

TRAVIS: "This is so incredibly important. These highly educated young far-left Democrats hate capitalism because they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on degrees the country DOES NOT value."

"They spent $200,000 on a women's studies degree [meanwhile] plumbers and electricians are driving better cars and making MORE money."

"They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson... GET USEFUL SKILLS."

https://tinyurl.com/mr35s39z

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

310 I figured out my break even on SS was age 83 and after that I would collect less overall if I live to 84 or beyond but I don't care because I will not be counting on SS at age 84. So I am getting my SS back now before it runs out or I do. I get to spend it on whatever I want, like 5 chemo treatments for the dog.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:05 AM (MWfyi)

311 Jeesh, with all this SS talk, I’m ready for a Rothko Art Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

312
The lively and calculating Mrs naturalfake plans to work until her SS maxes out, which makes sense, I suppose, or perhaps just no difference, her folk are very long lived.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 08:54 AM (iJfKG)

First Lady's grandfather started collecting at 62, lived into his 90's. He still likely didn't get all his money back, but put a pretty good dent in it, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:06 AM (2YhKe)

313 I am supposed to get 80/20 BCBS for life as retirement benefits from work. Or until they kill it.

Some of the old-guard at my prior employer qualified for something similar (and a pension). I missed the window where they closed it off. I am playing the ACA game right now. I did manage to make the pension window though, so I'll get a small one allegedly.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 09:06 AM (avzH0)

314 247 I've lived in Colorado for 27 years. I truly hate what this state has become. Land of drugs, trafficking, and trannies.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at July 22, 2026 08:47 AM (J3Cv/)

This breaks my heart. I'm a native Coloradan, but we moved to a sane state. The nice thing about our move is the vast improvement in the culture.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 22, 2026 09:06 AM (OlzlW)

315 Sitting right here...

Posted by: Naked lardass on an ottoman at July 22, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)

316 How much is the difference between the age ranges? And then if you get ~10% by investing it per year is 62 still not the best pick?
Posted by: 18-1

Roughly 6% reduction, per year, from 62 to 67.
8%, per year, bonus from 67 to 70.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I just went to my SS Benefits page. I lose $600 a month if I retire today instead of waiting until 67.
That's $7200 a year. Off the top.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:07 AM (1g3xS)

317
"They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson... GET USEFUL SKILLS."

https://tinyurl.com/mr35s39z
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

What a novel concept.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:07 AM (2YhKe)

318 OMG. Math formulas AND trigonometry!
Posted by: Wraps head with duct tape at July 22, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)

Isaac Newton, Lorenzo Avogadro, and Max Planck walk into a corner bar . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 09:07 AM (wVcYX)

319 They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson... GET USEFUL SKILLS."

==

They are a bunch of snowflakes.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:08 AM (GD0B3)

320 I don't need SS and there is a penalty for continuing to work and make beyond I think $24K but whatever. I don't care. I was forced into it and that money was as good as gone anyway.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:08 AM (MWfyi)

321
Not sure how taking less income several years before retirement maximizes SS payout.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

Simple example.

Start getting $10K a year today. Or start getting $15k a year starting in 2031.

In 2031 you’ll have $50k plus whatever growth it had so say $70k. And in 2013 that $70k returns $6k. So starting in 2013 you still get your $10k, plus $6k return vs getting $15k in SS.

That’s a rudimentary example and ignores cpi adjustments and taxes annd all that. But that’s how you come out ahead getting less money but more often.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:09 AM (GEtfQ)

322 My SS is pretty low anyway because I have been self employed for most of my career. People like me get double screwed.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:09 AM (MWfyi)

323 Lorenzo Avogadro used to make some great guacamole.

Posted by: Not a joke at July 22, 2026 09:10 AM (2Ez/1)

324 Some of the old-guard at my prior employer qualified for something similar (and a pension). I missed the window where they closed it off. I am playing the ACA game right now. I did manage to make the pension window though, so I'll get a small one allegedly.
Posted by: Halfhand

I have the medical benefits and a 401k and a retirement account thru my company. Only because I've been here 37 years. I know at some point they changed it for the "newcomers".

I never expected to be a dinosaur.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:10 AM (1g3xS)

325 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
- Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:10 AM (5aQBy)

326 My neighbor suggested I visit the local insurance broker in town who he said simplified the process.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 08:56 AM (avzH0)

I tried that but most of them never contacted me back. It was weird. The big deal is that you need the Medicare ID number before you can sign up for a supplement, or advantage - if that's your choice, and then waiting to hear back from the company.

Deciding what's the right choice - for your circumstances - is harder but I'd been researching things for some time and had that part down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

327 Casual Euler identity: e^i*pi + 1 ~ 0

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:11 AM (cq1gA)

328 This place. I simply love it!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2026 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

329 Was 2013 a typo?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 22, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

330 284 Once one has reached full retirement age, one can start drawing Social Security and still work full time with no tax penalty thanks to Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill. For me, this September represents 66 years and 10 months and full retirement age.

Posted by: Bonecrusher

I believe you could always work and suffer no penalty once you reached FRA.

The BBB had nothing to do with that formula

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 09:12 AM (ItWcy)

331 I'm on my first cup of coffee and all I see is math on this blog. What the hell happened??

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2026 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)

332 You lose $7200 but how much do you gain by starting early and investing for 5 years? And then all the future returns of the money made in those 5 years. Remember compound interest works in magical ways. Thats the other side of the calculation.

You have to figure out your break even and then decide if you think you’ll live to that age. That’s essentially the gamble.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:12 AM (GEtfQ)

333 Too late

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2026 09:12 AM (ZxPkt)

334 Barring any unforeseen accidents or murders, I have roughly 10-15 more years left, based on family history.

Men in my family tend to die in the early to mid 70s.

So, there’s that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 22, 2026 09:13 AM (XV/Pl)

335 Medicare sucks. I hate it. Like Ocare the premiums are outrageous. Just another thing the Imperial Federal Government forced upon us.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:13 AM (MWfyi)

336 Yeah.... doesn't matter if you're dead before SS kicks in. The "death tax" will still get you/your estate regardless.

Seriously, given how volatile our government is these days you'd be better served by taking SS ASAP and living to a ripe old age. It's your money... don't wait to get it back.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 08:58 AM (jehhT)

To each his own.

BTW, apparently, Roth accounts are not subject to federal death taxes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

337 It's in the governments interest that you be confused as hell.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 09:13 AM (bqIVz)

338 Social Security, anal gerbils , assisted suicide. That's what we talked about at school today, mom

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 09:14 AM (sMkB+)

339 all I see is math on this blog
Old greek homos

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2026 09:14 AM (EHYeZ)

340 331 Big Slide Rule has taken over the blog, unfortunately.

Bring back Big Corvid!

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

341 > I'm on my first cup of coffee and all I see is math on this blog. What the hell happened??
---------
Commenters trying very hard to demonstrate their math acumen as it relates to Social Security.

Not realizing that all their calculation are for naught as nobody knows how long they'll live after taking the payouts... whatever amount they are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 09:14 AM (jehhT)

342 325- Back at you, SMH, sister in the Lord. 🙂

Psalm 32:8
King James Version

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 09:15 AM (EQmpy)

343 Social Security, anal gerbils , assisted suicide. That's what we talked about at school today, mom
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 09:14 AM (sMkB+)

LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:15 AM (m6Mib)

344 Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:07 AM (1g3xS)

My mother regrets not waiting the five years.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 09:15 AM (v5XIn)

345 TRAVIS: "This is so incredibly important. These highly educated young far-left Democrats hate capitalism because they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on degrees the country DOES NOT value."

"They spent $200,000 on a women's studies degree [meanwhile] plumbers and electricians are driving better cars and making MORE money."

"They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson... GET USEFUL SKILLS."

https://tinyurl.com/mr35s39z
Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:05 AM (NpAcC)
=============================
Useless idiot: "The world does not value my degree? Well, obviously, we should destroy civilization."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 09:15 AM (NRBAC)

346 Stockholm: A Mock Auschwitz Entry Gate Set Up to Protest Against Israel

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Classy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)

347 Social Security, anal gerbils , assisted suicide. That's what we talked about at school today, mom
Posted by: Smell the Glove

It's time to switch Geres and learn something else.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2026 09:16 AM (lWhTZ)

348 I believe that the famous "this is your benefit " from SSA when recv'd assumes your current income continues until you retire.

Not sure how taking less income several years before retirement maximizes SS payout.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 09:02 AM (ItWcy)

I believe that you can go into the online calculator and set future earnings to zero and it will show you the new number.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

349 The death tax kicks in at $15M for single people and $30M for married. Not something most of us will worry about. I’d love to have that problem but sadly won’t. 🙂

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:16 AM (GEtfQ)

350 "Remember compound interest works in magical ways. Thats the other side of the calculation.
"

Just think if you had been able to put your SS payments in your own account. We have been so f'd for so many years.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:16 AM (MWfyi)

351 Math and SS... Morn' all

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 09:17 AM (FtULh)

352 OMG. Math formulas AND trigonometry!
Posted by: Wraps head with duct tape at July 22, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)
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Welcome to the Bizarro universe AoSHQ, where it's nothing BUT math!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2026 09:17 AM (FZ29D)

353
Unless fraudvid eliminated your job and you needed an income.
Posted by: Still Time Tunnel OrangeEnt at July 22, 2026

***
Teh Sniffle Scare didn't eliminate my job. But my employer was insisting on our taking the clot shot on pain of dismissal. I was ready to let them fire me, take my SS and my annuity, try to get unemployment, and soldier on, shotless.

Fortunately they accepted my religious exemption, and I was able to go on putting away dough and slipping plenty of it in to the annuity account for two more years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

354 Since you guys are pretty knowledgeable about this Medicare, Social Security, financial stuff, what kind of accountant, lawyer, etc. do I need to get to discuss what to do with the social security money because hubby and I are both going to continue working for at least 5-10 more years.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 22, 2026 09:17 AM (2noDb)

355 335 Medicare sucks. I hate it. Like Ocare the premiums are outrageous. Just another thing the Imperial Federal Government forced upon us.
Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 09:13 AM (MWfyi)
========================
Pump unlimited federal money into any system, and watch prices explode upward.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 09:17 AM (NRBAC)

356 Amen Fen.

Nothing wrong with making plans, but without God...

It's all for naught.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:17 AM (5aQBy)

357 346 Stockholm: A Mock Auschwitz Entry Gate Set Up to Protest Against Israel

I was assured being anti-Israel was 1000% not being anti-Jewish. I guess that’s changed huh.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (GEtfQ)

358 ‘Brazen corruption’: critics denounce Trump Media plan to sell priority access to Truth Social posts

Move would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to potentially profit from seeing president’s posts first

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

359 Only 12 more minutes to the Art Thread…

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

360 The Left are rebranding their youth from snowflakes to Sturmtruppen.

Going to be interesting times.

God spared Trump so openly for a reason. We still don't quite know what it is. But we will.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (v5XIn)

361 Hey Bulg. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 22, 2026 09:19 AM (5aQBy)

362 I have a (distant) relative now retired who was self employed his entire career (painting business).. he underreported income for his entire career to avoid taxes and now in retirement it’s biting him in the ass; his SS checks are tiny compared to what they would’ve been with an honest reporting of income

The govt gets their cut no matter what

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:20 AM (m6Mib)

363 God spared Trump so openly for a reason. We still don't quite know what it is. But we will.
Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (v5XIn)

I wish he'd hurry up... It's getting scary out there...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 09:20 AM (FtULh)

364 you guys are pretty knowledgeable about this Medicare, Social Security, financial stuff, what kind of accountant, lawyer, etc. do I need to get to discuss what to do with the social security money because hubby and I are both going to continue working for at least 5-10 more years.
Posted by: Jaimo

Save your money and don’t pay accountants or lawyers. Invest in simple ultra low cost index funds. Set it and forget it.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:20 AM (GEtfQ)

365 354 Jaimo, do you have a financial advisor? If not, I recommend getting one.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

366 Only 12 more minutes to the Art Thread…
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

What? You haven’t enjoyed the anal gerbil and certainty of death and taxes discussion??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:21 AM (m6Mib)

367 I can't get PEMDAS out of my head this morning.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

368 359 Only 12 more minutes to the Art Thread…

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

Unless it gets posted early, when you'll get less art.

Posted by: SS Plan at July 22, 2026 09:22 AM (Q+gd/)

369 Hey, SMH!

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

370 I'm on my first cup of coffee and all I see is math on this blog. What the hell happened??
---------
Commenters trying very hard to demonstrate their math acumen as it relates to Social Security.

Not realizing that all their calculation are for naught as nobody knows how long they'll live after taking the payouts... whatever amount they are.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2026 09:14 AM (jehhT)

True, nobody knows when they'll die.

You could walk outside and a meteor hits you on the head.

But, as a f'instance, insurance companies make a lot of money using actuarial tables based around life factors and longevity, and they are very, very accurate.

Not perfect but damn close to it.

If you want to get a good idea of when you'll die get a hold of their info on you.

Otherwise, just looking at family history and personal health provides a pretty good approximation, and in most cases you'll probably be 1-3 years of being correct.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:22 AM (iJfKG)

371 I get pushed onto Medicare at the end of the year. I'm already being inundated with calls and mail trying to sell me a gap plan.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026

***
I'm not getting the calls and little mail, but the endless spots on TV for "extra benefits" and Medicare Advantage plans are wearing me out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9)

372 ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ And always remember the longer you live,
the sooner you bloody will die. ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 22, 2026 09:23 AM (3ImbR)

373 Honestly this place has been pretty depressing this last week or so. I'm probably not helping but I feel like crap.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 09:23 AM (v5XIn)

374 Run some Monte Carlo simulations on when to take SS with various returns, cpi, tax rates, etc. It’s an interesting exercise.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:24 AM (GEtfQ)

375
If CBD starts the Art Thread now, we get half of a refrigerator picture he drew in crayon when he was 3.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:24 AM (iJfKG)

376 Only 12 more minutes to the Art Thread…
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)
*
What? You haven’t enjoyed the anal gerbil and certainty of death and taxes discussion??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026

***
As long as it doesn't become a "certainty of anal gerbils" thread. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:24 AM (wzUl9)

377 375
If CBD starts the Art Thread now, we get half of a refrigerator picture he drew in crayon when he was 3.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:24 AM (iJfKG)

Probably be more entertaining than this thread... What a downer...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 09:25 AM (FtULh)

378 >>> 346 Stockholm: A Mock Auschwitz Entry Gate Set Up to Protest Against Israel

-
Classy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)

We're fighting notsees just like the guys at Normandy by gassing those genocidal JOOOS!!!

Posted by: leftists at July 22, 2026 09:25 AM (vDZgA)

379 I plugged my finances into an AI bot I used and it was pretty sure I should wait until 70 to collect SS.

Its argument is average life expectancy for someone in my situation is 85 so based on that waiting is better.

However, if you don't like until 80 collecting early is better.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)

380 I believe that you can go into the online calculator and set future earnings to zero and it will show you the new number.
Posted by: I used to have

I think this is correct

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (ItWcy)

381 Nice story about a policeman and an abandoned puppy. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/mssvrh92

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (dom7w)

382 One can start SS after 62, but Medicare at 65? So, what do people do for med insurance ????

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (GD0B3)

383 378 >>> 346 Stockholm: A Mock Auschwitz Entry Gate Set Up to Protest Against Israel

Is that a protest or a warning ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (FtULh)

384 Only 12 more minutes to the Art Thread…
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)
*
What? You haven’t enjoyed the anal gerbil and certainty of death and taxes discussion??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026

***
As long as it doesn't become a "certainty of anal gerbils" thread. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I'm leaving before it becomes mandatory.
Posted by: Bob Hope

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (1g3xS)

385 Under reporting is better for him if he saved the money.

SS is not a linear pension. It is front-loaded for the working poor.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 09:27 AM (qFwJc)

386 Serious question, how do people insure themselves if they retire before Medicare kicks in ?

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)

387 I'm something of a Numbers man, myself.

Posted by: Bobby Bare at July 22, 2026 09:27 AM (wVcYX)

388 That’s a rudimentary example and ignores cpi adjustments and taxes annd all that. But that’s how you come out ahead getting less money but more often.
Posted by: SS Math

Understood.

I was looking at just the monthly recv'd from SS.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 22, 2026 09:28 AM (ItWcy)

389 do they go to obamacare or something ??

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3)

390 Trump is right: Canada’s Liberal government is incompetent in the face of forest fires

-
Why should forest fires be any different?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 22, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)

391 One can start SS after 62, but Medicare at 65? So, what do people do for med insurance ????
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026

***
There's Medicare Part B, medical insurance, which they charge you a monthly premium for; and then there are gap plans available from companies galore so that you can get covered for most of what Medicare and B don't cover. I have a dental, which I haven't used yet, and a medical, which I have used.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

392 >>> 370
==
True, nobody knows when they'll die.

You could walk outside and a meteor hits you on the head.

But, as a f'instance, insurance companies make a lot of money using actuarial tables based around life factors and longevity, and they are very, very accurate.

Not perfect but damn close to it.

If you want to get a good idea of when you'll die get a hold of their info on you.

Otherwise, just looking at family history and personal health provides a pretty good approximation, and in most cases you'll probably be 1-3 years of being correct.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:22 AM (iJfKG)

Uh, *how* do you get that information? Seems like they wouldn't want to share...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 22, 2026 09:29 AM (vDZgA)

393 There's Medicare Part B, medical insurance, which they charge you a monthly premium for; and then there are gap plans available from companies galore so that you can get covered for most of what Medicare and B don't cover. I have a dental, which I haven't used yet, and a medical, which I have used.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

ok, but what happens during 62-65 ?

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (GD0B3)

394 Nood art

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (sMkB+)

395 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

396 ObamaCare.

With my retirement income being moderate, I got a $1,000 / month (or rather BCBS got it) benefit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (qFwJc)

397
ok, but what happens during 62-65 ?
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (GD0B3)

Don't get sick ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (FtULh)

398 Or that is what that B is ?

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:30 AM (GD0B3)

399 Noodus gratia artis, finally.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

400 Maybe the Feds should offer buyouts to social security recipients, a present value of treasury bonds in exchange for the future payments owed.

Let the individual keep the bonds, or exchange them for some other qualified security, and assume the risk for their own retirement income.

This would reduce the claim on future treasuries.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (74AaH)

401 Yea,, we can do better with trillions allocated for SS and Medicare.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:31 AM (GD0B3)

402 One can start SS after 62, but Medicare at 65? So, what do people do for med insurance ????

ACA (Obamacare) on the interim to 65 is what I've been doing.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (avzH0)

403 I retired at 62. BCBS Florida was very happy to take my premiums for three years.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (J4Dwc)

404 The retardation of the trolls never abates does it? Good grief…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (gZZCh)

405 ACA (Obamacare) on the interim to 65 is what I've been doing.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 22, 2026 09:32 AM (avzH0)

Yeah. Sounds like private like BCBS is available too. What a mess...

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (GD0B3)

406 ok, but what happens during 62-65 ?
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026

***
Not sure. I was covered by my employer, signed up with Medicare at 65 (free), continued with the employer plan, and then started SS at the max age for my cohort while still working. When I started Medicare B and my supplemental plans, I canceled my employer coverage -- no point in paying twice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

407 do they go to obamacare or something ??
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3)

Generally. Or VA if they can get that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

408 Uh, *how* do you get that information? Seems like they wouldn't want to share...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 22, 2026 09:29 AM (vDZgA)

That is true, madam.

It's their secret sauce.

On the other hand, maybe you could use your womanly wiles.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 09:35 AM (iJfKG)

409 One can start SS after 62, but Medicare at 65? So, what do people do for med insurance ????
Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:26 AM (GD0B3)

Buy it or work for an employer who provides it. Or most commonly a spouse has insurance from work that covers the entire family.

Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (GEtfQ)

410 I only brought it up because the plan to take early SS is not just taking the money and investing into an index. All the calcs are thrown off between 62-65, because of Medical.

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:39 AM (GD0B3)

411 Buy it or work for an employer who provides it. Or most commonly a spouse has insurance from work that covers the entire family.
Posted by: SS Math at July 22, 2026 09:37 AM (GEtfQ)

you easy math does not work, they older people get , the more they need in Medical , which your model does not account for

Posted by: runner at July 22, 2026 09:40 AM (GD0B3)

412 You are right. We only CAUGHT 6,000. When we catch the other million I'm sure you promise to take it seriously.

Posted by: ... at July 22, 2026 09:59 AM (v5XIn)

413
According to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a software error at the Motor Vehicles Commission signed up over 6,600 noncitizens to vote.

Of course. They expected the software to sign up 660,000 noncitizens, but the stupid code left off two zeros.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2026 10:01 AM (iqcvy)

414 Pasta Puttanesca >>> Francesca Albanese

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 22, 2026 10:06 AM (l3cgK)

415 I hope everyone here knows that the whole “illegal registrations but no illegal votes” thing is pure bullshit.

A. Illegal registrations give the cheaters the ability to create legal-appearing votes, and create them as and where needed.
B. “No illegal votes” is the result from doing step A above successfully.

Tell a friend.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 22, 2026 10:16 AM (UWN7z)

Daily Tech News 22 July 2026

Top Story

LLM company OpenAI says that LLM archive site Hugging Face was breached by hackers using OpenAI's LLMs to gain access to models hosted at Hugging Face in order to breach... I dunno. (Tech Crunch)

Seems legit.

Tech News

EU courts have ruled that if your country is invaded by VPNs that's your own problem. (Tech Radar)

This decision actually seems to be sane.
How to link two Dell Pro Max GB10 AI systems together with the built-in 200Gb Ethernet to make a single system. (Tom's Hardware)

Step One: Plug them in.
China is considering banning Chinese AI companies from manufacturing chips at Taiwan's TSMC. (Tom's Hardware)

And also from reversing entropy.
AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)

It's a real problem, because if you feed AI slop into a slop machine things go from bad to worse, fast.

Tech News

Disclaimer: Still

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:44 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Mornin' Pixy, Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 04:45 AM (sAmhv)

3 w00t post-G&R

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 04:45 AM (faghi)

4 BOING!

Hot here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 22, 2026 04:45 AM (4jnK3)

5
(O7YUW) fine nick
(sAmhv) nice nick
(faghi) I mean, really

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

6 G'Day everyone

I think I know where my phone problem of no mobile data is. Chrome has wanted a update yet, tried few times to do that and the warning is still there. Seems Spotify works but popping in here get a no internet connection.
So supect same will happen today.

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)

7 So China doesn't like things not under their control.

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

8 Where is my mind?

Posted by: Fuzzy Nuggets, Jr. at July 22, 2026 04:50 AM (M0gtU)

9 By which I mean, why won't my brain go to sleep?

Posted by: Fuzzy Nuggets, Jr. at July 22, 2026 04:55 AM (M0gtU)

10 (faghi)

LoL!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 04:56 AM (sAmhv)

11 Work starts sooner this morning, so I'm up earlier.

"Hugging Face" breach: Yeah well you shouldn't have poked the xeno-egg, genius. Now the option to cancel self-destruct has expired, and you have five minutes to reach minimum safe distance.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 04:56 AM (O7YUW)

12 Puddles cover of Where is my mind
https://tinyurl.com/39j3pndw

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 04:59 AM (Ia/+0)

13 @m: G'morning. Thank you.

Power cycling the router at the head of your network might change that hash (if that's what you desire.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 04:59 AM (O7YUW)

14 >>>AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)

The writer says, "Internal Anthropic documents about its plan to scan millions of books, revealed in the copyright lawsuit, don’t make clear why the company wanted to destroy the books in the process."

I don't think it's been established that the company "wanted to destroy the books in the process." Some scanning processes are destructive; others are not--as the writer says next. But, "want"?

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:02 AM (faghi)

15 They are not paying to store books.
Every destroyed hard copy is one less leak.

Posted by: Accomack at July 22, 2026 05:05 AM (KQ27X)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 22, 2026 05:07 AM (AMvSw)

17 Disclaimer: Still

We played the games that people play
We made our mistakes along the way
Somehow I know deep in my heart
You needed me
'Cause I needed you so desperately
We were too blind to see
But then most of all
I do love you
Still

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:09 AM (faghi)

18 Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbows End has a subplot where entire libraries are digitised by throwing the books into a shredder and reintegrating the scans of the resulting confetti.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 22, 2026 05:17 AM (BLOW1)

19 13 Power cycling the router at the head of your network might change that hash (if that's what you desire.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 04:59 AM (O7YUW)

I tried restarting my Mac--no luck. "Power cycling the router at the head of [my] network" sounds like a task waaay above my skill level!

Maybe faghi is my cross to bear.

*sad face*

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:20 AM (faghi)

20
Man from Seattle uses his own car to stop runaway car and help unconscious woman and boy;

https://tinyurl.com/y25w8p6p

Posted by: Wondering at July 22, 2026 05:21 AM (Bw1/o)

21 My son somehow subscribed to a leftist magazine called "The Atlantic". Its headline is "The Age of Reading is over". I find that a depressing thought .

Posted by: Wondering at July 22, 2026 05:23 AM (Bw1/o)

22 Oops; Sock off .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:24 AM (Bw1/o)

23 If I pick up a musty old book in the back shelves of a university library and it has a copyright notice in the 1920s, then I have some faith that big brother hasn’t altered the text.
I am saving some paperbacks of Orwell for my grandchildren.

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 22, 2026 05:25 AM (1FEc1)

24 Evening and morning to all on this Woden's Day!

My son somehow subscribed to a leftist magazine called "The Atlantic". Its headline is "The Age of Reading is over". I find that a depressing thought .
Posted by: Wondering at July 22, 2026

***
Has it occurred to anybody at The Atlantic that if the age of reading is over, nobody at all will read their junk? No, of course not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:27 AM (wzUl9)

25 @14/m: They're trying to avoid the copyright mess they're currently embroiled in (millions of books copied into the LLMs without paying for copies now resulting in them being sued for grand-scale copyright violation.) And since it's for a commercial purpose, that may result in criminal charges as well as being a civil tort.

Destroying the original (while preserving an image of the cover plus the purchase receipt) would prove that they did indeed purchase a copy of the material for their use, but destroying their copy (as is their right) lets them:

a) Avoid physical storage fees
b) Avoids them having two copies (the original and the digital copy they made without permission of the copyright holder.) They'll try to argue that the digital copy now takes the place of the physical one, since they only have "one copy" that they paid for.

(1 of 2, more...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

26 (2 of 2)

And that's what any legal case in copyright law will hinge on. Is the act of reading a physical object in order to make a digital one, by itself, a violation of that copyright?

Remember that for computer software licenses, the license holder grants you the right to make that second copy in memory so the software can run, otherwise you couldn't legally run the software since there are now two copies (the one on the media, and the one in memory.)

The copyright holder has to grant you the license to make that second copy, otherwise you made a copy in violation of the copyright holder's rights.

The LLMs are going to try to argue they only have the one copy in memory now, but... the act of making the copy without being granted the right by the copyright holder is in itself a violation. There is no "book license" that grants that right.

So the LLMs are likely going to try to twist the law and use the betamax decision to say that it's like timeshifting a TV program, because you're making a physical copy from the airwaves, and that was permitted in law despite what the original copyright holder may have wanted or intended.

It's going to get messy and take years.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

27 Anyway, as our former Let's Pretend president used to say! I am awake, for certain values of "awake," and sipping some coffee. Conditions outside are the same warm nasty soup as usual. Winds are supposed to be out of the north and fairly brisk with the approaching storm, but when I stuck a hand outside just now I noticed nothing like that. Oh well.

Landfall is not expected until lunchtime, probably well south of me. We should have time to run some quick errands this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9)

28 "Rhythms of Joy" a lovely reflection on the power of music in Our lives and psalm 30:4-12.:

https://tinyurl.com/n5smu3n6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:32 AM (D+BhG)

29 @24/Wolfus: The people at "The Atlantic" are a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

30 18 Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbows End has a subplot where entire libraries are digitised by throwing the books into a shredder and reintegrating the scans of the resulting confetti.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 22, 2026 05:17 AM (BLOW1)

In such a way that the scans contain text like THBBFT?

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:36 AM (faghi)

31 @24/Wolfus: The people at "The Atlantic" are a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026

***
And they don't realize it and are cheering what will lead to their own demise. Heh, heh, heh. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

32 We need the old fashion Nazi book burning, very entertaining and the left would celebrate. Of course that doesn't include the great books by Lenin and the great ones in China and North Korea. And definitely not the Koran. Christian bible, eh, just not that important.
and the Gideon bible in the hotel rooms of course.

Posted by: colin at July 22, 2026 05:37 AM (CiQE7)

33 25 "destroying their copy (as is their right)"

seems crucial, here.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:38 AM (faghi)

34 The furry thugs are fine. I put down liquid ant baits yesterday, one under the fridge so that the cats could not bat the capsule around and spill the poison, and one outside the front door. I suppose I should bring it in for the duration of the storm so it won't wash or be blown away. Haven't seen any more ants in any case.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

35 Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End

publication date: May 16, 2006

The book is set in San Diego, California, in 2025....

hah!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:43 AM (faghi)

36 Get a million chimpanzees to glue the confetti back together, suddenly you're talking real Business Model.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2026 05:44 AM (Ot/FD)

37 I dreamed last night that I was somehow an interim appointment as President of the U.S., and was in the midst of giving a live, unrehearsed speech on TV to the nation -- one written by someone else. I was doing everything I could to seem natural, even drinking some lemonade on TV and praising the flavor and the staffer who'd mixed it up.

All the while, see, I was aware that I *did not know what was coming next* in the script I was reading. I'd never seen it before and had been tapped to be the (pretend) president at very short notice. For all I knew, the script would have me read, "Accordingly, I have ordered devastating nuclear missile strikes on Mecca, Teheran, and Beijing"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

38 "To be, or you have already been pre-approved for is the question, whether 'tis THIS IS NOT A BILL".....

Dammit, Larry, stop hucking your junk mail into the Knowledgeulator!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2026 05:46 AM (Ot/FD)

39 Accordingly, I have ordered devastating nuclear missile strikes on Mecca, Teheran, and Beijing"!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

" Also Brussels because screw their gross little mutant cabbages and their One World Government. But mostly the gross little cabbages."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2026 05:47 AM (Ot/FD)

40 Time I changed, stretched, and hit the workout trail.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

41 See if this works

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 05:52 AM (ccLZe)

42 8 Where is my mind?
Posted by: Fuzzy Nuggets, Jr. at July 22, 2026 04:50 AM (M0gtU)

9 By which I mean, why won't my brain go to sleep?
Posted by: Fuzzy Nuggets, Jr. at July 22, 2026 04:55 AM (M0gtU)

12 Puddles cover of Where is my mind
https://tinyurl.com/39j3pndw
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 04:59 AM (Ia/+0)

Earworms are for sharing! Although many bands have covered it, I think the original is still the catchiest:

Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (Official Lyric Video)
https://youtu.be/OJ62RzJkYUo

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 05:57 AM (Sy6m/)

43 thank you, reddit:

... the book's title is Rainbows End, no apostrophe. As in "All rainbows end eventually."

Heavy, man.
*toke*

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 05:57 AM (faghi)

44 21 My son somehow subscribed to a leftist magazine called "The Atlantic". Its headline is "The Age of Reading is over". I find that a depressing thought .
Posted by: Wondering

I guess the bright side is nobody will read the article because reading is over. I bet the headline writers thought themselves clever.

Idiots.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 05:58 AM (sAmhv)

45 From ballplayer to preacher. Darryl Strawberry talks about his life and his struggles, his drug addiction and how faith in Christ changed his life . Faithpot " site

https://tinyurl.com/2j4tdh8n

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 05:59 AM (Bw1/o)

46 Forever Changes

Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 22, 2026 06:01 AM (DZ9Lv)

47 I thought this was such an interesting , uplifting story. Montana man's new skill with roping helps save person's life from drowning:

https://tinyurl.com/bddwwtcc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 06:04 AM (Bw1/o)

48 "But mostly the gross little cabbages."

LOL

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 22, 2026 06:05 AM (qFwJc)

49 @37/Wolfus: { For all I knew, the script would have me read, "Accordingly, I have ordered devastating nuclear missile strikes on Mecca, Teheran, and Beijing"! }

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Secretary, The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah." - President Greg Stillson (played by Martin Sheen) in The Dead Zone, 1983.

(That line still makes me twitch.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

50 @41/Skip: Your comment made it! (I hope you have a good day today.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

51 37 I dreamed last night that I was somehow an interim appointment as President of the U.S.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

Muammar Mamdani did that same thing!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 06:08 AM (faghi)

52 Hey Pixy or a COB. Some idiot left you a nugget at the end of the last ONT thread. May want to clean it up?

Good morning Techsters.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 06:08 AM (CEq3K)

53 Lead video:

I see the creator of the Floppotron has crossed the line from genius to madness. I wonder if he can get it to yell out "THIS IS SPARTA!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

54 Today is the feast day for St. Mary Magdalene, a devoted follower of Christ. Happy feast day to Hadrian and our other RC posters!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 06:09 AM (Bw1/o)

55 I dreamed last night that I was somehow an interim appointment as President of the U.S.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

You dream big Wolfus. I just cannot find the classroom where the final for the class I forgot to drop is held.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 06:10 AM (CEq3K)

56 52 Hey Pixy or a COB. Some idiot left you a nugget at the end of the last ONT thread. May want to clean it up?

Good morning Techsters.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 06:08 AM (CEq3K)

I was just starting to place an order....

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 06:11 AM (faghi)

57 @52/Pete Bog: I've emailed CBD.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

58 Again OT after reading the ONT.
Nearby big hospital paid out bigly in a baby switch. One of the fathers involved had economic motivation to switch wristbands due to pending child support issues. (IIRC)
Hospital was gag ordered by court to cease protesting innocence in any public statements.

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 22, 2026 06:17 AM (1FEc1)

59 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 22, 2026 06:20 AM (Hbeqj)

60
(faghi) I mean, really
Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 04:47 AM (faghi)

It's the SQZ A55 of hashes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 06:23 AM (O0L8i)

61 Little itty, bitty kitty ( but growing bigger daily ) sounds like a herd of elephants galloping through the house. I wish I had a small bit of his energy .

Have a good day everyone. May you experience blessings, God's presence and peace and know that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2026 06:24 AM (D+BhG)

62 And Freddy has been gone almost 35 years...wow.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 22, 2026 06:26 AM (FmapG)

63 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2026 06:27 AM (VyBeY)

64 From the site Faith and Freedom:

J.R.R. Tolkien, the beloved author of The Lord of the Rings and a devoted Catholic, gave the world more than epic tales of Middle-earth. He also contributed a profound theological insight wrapped in a single invented word: eucatastrophe.

The term, which Tolkien coined in his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” describes the sudden, joyous turn in a narrative when all seems lost but hope breaks through in an unexpected victory. It is the moment when darkness gives way to light, when despair is shattered by deliverance.

And that is what makes his stories so good. There is always hope even when things are their most dire. A lot of authors could stand to learn that.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026 06:31 AM (lXoJ5)

65
The kennel dogs are happy to be up at the house. Certainly I'm happy they're up at the house. Poor old Dutchess has laryngeal problems and she'll be more comfortable now. The savings on electricity will be considerable after I turned all the floor fans off down there and set the air conditioners to 80.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 06:35 AM (O0L8i)

66 AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)

--

They buy them, feed them to AI, then shred them

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 22, 2026 06:45 AM (7gFa4)

67 And that is what makes his stories so good. There is always hope even when things are their most dire. A lot of authors could stand to learn that.
Posted by: NR Pax

Meh

Posted by: Cormac McCArthy at July 22, 2026 06:53 AM (sAmhv)

68

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 22, 2026 06:58 AM (sUMTS)

69 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 22, 2026 06:59 AM (2Ez/1)

70 52 Hey Pixy or a COB. Some idiot left you a nugget at the end of the last ONT thread. May want to clean it up?

Good morning Techsters.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Thanks for the heads up. Cleanup hamsters have been dispatched.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 22, 2026 07:04 AM (BLOW1)

71 I was wondering how they got through the filters and it appears by being inconceivably bad at spelling.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 22, 2026 07:05 AM (BLOW1)

72 @marceelias
·
Follow
NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 07:05 AM (/+uur)

73 - Joe South

Posted by: TeeJ at July 22, 2026 07:06 AM (dAv7M)

74 And that is what makes his stories so good. There is always hope even when things are their most dire. A lot of authors could stand to learn that.
Posted by: NR Pax
*
Meh
Posted by: Cormac McCArthy at July 22, 2026

***
And we're going to take the word of someone who never learned to use quotation marks?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:07 AM (wzUl9)

75 And we're going to take the word of someone who never learned to use quotation marks?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Could be worse. It could be George RR Martin with his "Everyone dies, gets raped or mutilated" storylines.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026 07:08 AM (lXoJ5)

76 And that is what makes his stories so good. There is always hope even when things are their most dire. A lot of authors could stand to learn that.
Posted by: NR Pax

Just add eagles.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2026 07:09 AM (dK+Kv)

77 Morning Horde! Got an interview in just under 5 hours, hoping that not only does it go well, but the followup(s) are swift and also go well.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 22, 2026 07:12 AM (aJQbY)

78 I'm back from my workout. There was a little north wind, which moved the heat and humidity within spitting distance of bearable. Cleaned up, fed the monsters (yes, Fen, eventually you will begin to refer to the kitten as a monster, esp. after he reaches his full growth), and am having breakfast.

One of Clifton Webb's movie comedies from the early '50s, Dreamboat, is on Movies at 6:55 this morning. He plays a former silent movie matinee idol, now a professor, whose former female partner is using footage of their old flicks in comedy bits on her TV show. Incensed, he sues her for defamation and ruination of his image and public persona. Ginger Rogers plays his former partner. Loads of fun!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:14 AM (wzUl9)

79 - copyrighted books
Excuse my ignorance but, if you have a book that has copyright dates of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1995,

Why so many?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 22, 2026 07:17 AM (dAv7M)

80 79 - copyrighted books
Excuse my ignorance but, if you have a book that has copyright dates of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1995,

Why so many?
Posted by: TeeJ

Publisher fell into a stable time loop. Hazard of the trade.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 22, 2026 07:18 AM (BLOW1)

81 Could be worse. It could be George RR Martin with his "Everyone dies, gets raped or mutilated" storylines.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026

***
Isn't McCarthy's stuff like that? I was very disappointed with both the novel and the film version of No Country for Old Men. He has the protagonist, the guy played by Josh Brolin, doing battle with Chigurh the killer, and he's doing pretty well . . . and then suddenly Chigurh kills him, and we don't get to see it. No, the protagonist doesn't need to win or live in the end, but we need to see the payoff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:19 AM (wzUl9)

82 Used Excel instead of Word.

Posted by: Just the punchline at July 22, 2026 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)

83 “IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote.

Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.”

So the software glitch is that Div of Election can anyone they want to voter rolls.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 07:19 AM (/+uur)

84
Excuse my ignorance but, if you have a book that has copyright dates of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1995,

Why so many?
Posted by: TeeJ

If I had to hazard a guess, it's because they're separate editions to which changes were made. Make a change, get a new copyright date.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2026 07:20 AM (O0L8i)

85 I was wondering how they got through the filters and it appears by being inconceivably bad at spelling.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 22, 2026 07:05 AM (BLOW1)

Strategic Incoherence.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 07:20 AM (CEq3K)

86 Isn't McCarthy's stuff like that?

No idea. I've never read the books or saw the movies.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026 07:25 AM (lXoJ5)

87 mornin yall

"A disgruntled migrant allegedly gunned down three staffers at his Minnesota apartment block in a crazed rampage after he couldn’t cancel his parking garage contract.

Tsegaab Binessu, 30, allegedly shot dead Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 25, Dena Silcox, 56, and Adam Wilwerding, 43, at the complex in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday"

There's your diversity. Choke on it, Minnesota.

Posted by: fd at July 22, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)

88 In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 07:05 AM (/+uur)

He really means "in a win for Democrats" of course, not voters, so who does he even think he's fooling? Its insulting the way these lefties twerk in your face over every set back to everyday Americans...

Posted by: Boswell at July 22, 2026 07:26 AM (NTVPI)

89 AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)

I would recommend that "AI Companies" buy up sermons delivered by the men a century around the founding of this country. It was very often the case that a sermon would be delivered for whatever was going on.

Early Application Based Sermons. So those sermons will be loaded with theology, and something AI totally lacks: wisdom.

Imagine replacing the board of Wikipedia and the ID-10Ts of reddit with reformed theologians who were so respected their sermons have survive over the generations.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:26 AM (PVBkQ)

90 In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data.

Only the Democrats' client the CCP is allowed comprehensive and sensitive voter data.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:28 AM (PVBkQ)

91 Imagine replacing the board of Wikipedia and the ID-10Ts of reddit with-

Nothing. Let it die.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026 07:28 AM (lXoJ5)

92
Hi Boomer Haters!

Here's some interesting fuel for your fire:

https://markatwood.substack.com/p/two-heirs

I think he's somewhat mistaken in what's going on because in fact and probably by intention, Trump is both breaking and breaking the hold of the "Boomer Gerontocracy". But, the severe and layered pushback he keeps getting, even on common sense things like the SAVE Act both prove his point and sorta give lie to his eventual decline theory.

anyway, a think read.

Also, this on "Disillusionment as a product"-

https://markatwood.substack.com/p/disillusionmen

t-is-also-a-product

Has pretty good bead on today commie resurgence.

They tell you that Capitalism is crushing you, but fortunately they have this great NEW product to sell you!

These two quicky posts seem to pretty much explain the current doldrums we as conservative Americans are trying to fight our way out of.

More or less Via Insty.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 07:29 AM (iJfKG)

93 Isn't McCarthy's stuff like that?

No idea. I've never read the books or saw the movies.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 22, 2026

***
No Country for Old Men is pretty nihilistic. And McCarthy refuses to use quotation marks or anything at all (like that Euro introductory dash) to set off teh speeches of his characters. Reading his stuff is pretty claustrophobic for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2026 07:30 AM (wzUl9)

94
JJS be up

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 22, 2026 07:30 AM (/+uur)

95 AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)

I would recommend that "AI Companies" buy up sermons delivered by the men a century around the founding of this country. It was very often the case that a sermon would be delivered for whatever was going on.

Early Application Based Sermons. So those sermons will be loaded with theology, and something AI totally lacks: wisdom.

Imagine replacing the board of Wikipedia and the ID-10Ts of reddit with reformed theologians who were so respected their sermons have survive over the generations.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 22, 2026 07:26 AM (PVBkQ)

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry AI" coming soon to a laptop near you!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2026 07:32 AM (iJfKG)

96 Good Luck, RD

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 07:33 AM (sAmhv)

97 Who names their kid Tsegaab?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 22, 2026 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)

98 #MeToo still echoes through the anime convention world.

Anime Matsuri in Houston kicks off Friday. Vic Mignogna will be there, voice of Edward Elric, and Maxey Whitehead, voice of Alphonse Elric, was announced to be there.

Anime Matsuri advertised it as a reunion between the two voice actors. Maxey has elected to not attend after going on social media to say the announcement violates her contract.

Vic has been embroiled in #MeToo accusations by other voice actors like Monica Rial of being a PDF.* This basically destroyed his voice acting career as Funimation fired him.

I think Anime Matsuri could have avoided this controversy by merely saying the two voice actors would be there and not hype it as a reunion. *shrugs*

*Speaking as someone who has interacted with Vic at conventions a couple times before the accusations were aired, these accusations were an easy victory for the likes of Monica Rial because Vic is a very tactile person who loves to give his fans hugs and big ol goofy smiles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2026 07:35 AM (2GVsD)

99 - Thank you Hadrian.

That's kind of what I figured. So,,, oopsie, we got that wrong. Need to change it. Sadly, it's still a perversion.
As is another I have, with dates of 1973, 1978 and 1984.
Both bought on recommendation by people who should have known better.

Something just seemed off about them so I stuck with what I'd had since high school. Some time back I learned about the who and what was behind them.
"Something just seemed off" doesn't come close to how bad...

Posted by: TeeJ at July 22, 2026 07:37 AM (dAv7M)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 08:37 AM (faghi)

101 zerohedge:

OpenAI Admits Model Escaped Containment And Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test

...an “unprecedented cyber incident”... a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities..

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 08:48 AM (oaWAY)

102 I think my old copy of University Physics is lying around here somewhere circa 1977

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 22, 2026 10:20 AM (mCVxF)

103 With regard to AI companies buying old books: It looks like those companies have finally learned the old adage about not shitting where you eat.

And, BTW, if that's what AI companies think of their output, why should we think any more highly of it?

Posted by: Nemo at July 22, 2026 10:31 AM (4RPgu)

104 Font Shock: What Printers Need to Know About New Licensing Notices

Monotype, now owned by private equity firm HGGC, appears to be leveraging its massive library and legacy agreements to restructure font licensing across the board, aligning it with its current business model. In doing so, they are not only auditing websites and digital properties for font usage but also scrutinizing long-term licenses for renegotiation or revocation.
https://glga.info/

I thought the “font wars” ended with the OpenType initiative

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2026 10:21 PM (O7XEN)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 21, 2026 [Doof]

From ArmyBrat68

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived - as so have you! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Rainy in your part of the country?

We really needed that ☔️ pic.twitter.com/Pz5ZxjvJEW
— Charlie Berens (@CharlieBerens) July 21, 2026

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Gotta love a good "switched at birth" story!

Men sue hospital after DNA tests showed they were switched at birth 38 years ago

The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead.
Kyle Bylin discovered his birth family after taking an at-home test he chose randomly during a Christmas gift-exchange. That led to his biological aunt on a genealogy platform. Her nephew, Jeremy Morrison, then had his DNA tested. The results were irrefutable.
“That’s when my mind was just completely blown,” Bylin said. “We could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.”

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That worldwide kickball / keepaway tournament is finally over. Let's turn our attention to baseball for a bit

Rare sportsball feats - the unassisted triple play is among the most rare. There have only ever been 15. Here is a video featuring (almost) all of them.

Every Unassisted Triple Play in Baseball History pic.twitter.com/gbWyd9qKds
— MLB Replays (@MLBReplays_) July 18, 2026

This is how you deal with pansies who hate their own great country

��This is EXACTLY what this country needs back - WHIPPIN DAT ASS !!!!! ��pic.twitter.com/3izRDLNt1a
— ZeroBarkThirty(2) (@ZeroBarkThirty2) July 22, 2026

Well played, Mr. Rocker!

John Rocker
— JohnRocker (@itsJohnRocker) June 30, 2026

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The South in The North?

Alabama guy finds New Hampshire. Wait until he finds out we don't have any gun laws or income tax, or seat belt laws either, lol.

Yea, I know the @NHDems think relating NH to Alabama is a put-down, but most the the country disagrees. pic.twitter.com/krwvNwK3gm
— Chris (@Mopar) July 21, 2026

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DJ Doof - Supergroups Edition

Recognize that last video? Was a short-lived supergroup who only released a single album. GTR featuring Steve Howe from Yes and Steve Hackett from Genesis. Very 80s. Had a lot of promise. But they couldn't top or even replicate the minor success of that song.

The story of Genesis/Yes supergroup GTR’s When The Heart Rules The Mind

On the surface it was one of the world’s more fascinating supergroups – the combination of guitarists Steve Howe (Yes) and Steve Hackett (Genesis). But ultimately the project never got the chance to develop and fizzled out in a matter of months.
“The idea came from Steve Howe’s manager, Brian Lane,” explains Hackett. “Steve and I knew each, of course, and Brian thought our styles would be complementary.”
So GTR was born in 1985, with a line-up completed by vocalist Max Bacon, bassist Phil Spalding (who’d worked with Mike Oldfield) and drummer Jonathan Mover (briefly associated with Marillion), and the first song the guitarists worked on was to prove their biggest hit.
“We played each other some stuff we’d worked on separately,” Hackett says. “Steve had an idea for the instrumental opening for a song. I had a tune that we could add, so we started to construct When The Heart Rules The Mind.”
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Although their self-titled debut album did well in America – making it to Number 11 – the band soon fell apart. “I thought we could have followed a similar path to Queen. But in the end, When The Heart Rules The Mind was our strongest song, and the whole thing was short-lived.”

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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 21, 2026 10:00 PM (B2pWp)

2 YAY ONT!!! Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 21, 2026 10:00 PM (B2pWp)

3 DOOF...?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:01 PM (ok2JK)

4 Not first! Good evening good people!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:01 PM (ourEi)

5 I Can’t Get Started

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 10:01 PM (hPgrk)

6 DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:01 PM (ok2JK)

7 We could definitely use some rain here in Minnesota.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 21, 2026 10:01 PM (B2pWp)

8 DOOF!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:01 PM (ok2JK)

Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:02 PM (QMAsf)

9 Yay Doof and the Doof ONT!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at July 21, 2026 10:02 PM (2FNO5)

10 The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead.

I know that sort of thing didn't happen often but when my children were born I accompanied them everywhere when they were taken from my wife's room.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 21, 2026 10:04 PM (ExV1e)

11 Evenin' Doof!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 21, 2026 10:04 PM (6lIrI)

12 Sorry I'm late, I don6 really want to discuss it, but I will report thst the emergency escape latch worked exactly as designed.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2026 10:04 PM (sZBEc)

13 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 21, 2026 10:04 PM (+9wcF)

14
How Metsian to lose a ball game on an unassisted triple play.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 10:05 PM (O0L8i)

15 *whack*. Sorry, Doof, large mosquito on your arm.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)

16 The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead.
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What a crock of shit. Lead the lives you were given and shut up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (hPgrk)

17 Good evening Horde! Thank you Disco!

Posted by: TRex - outdoor griller dino at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)

18 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 21, 2026 10:07 PM (sAmhv)

19 What a crock of shit. Lead the lives you were given and shut up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (hPgrk)

The lives they were given were ones where they could sue a hospital for a fuckload of money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 21, 2026 10:07 PM (ExV1e)

20 For the bar fight, I'm thinking Nolan Ryan with a bucket of baseballs.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 10:07 PM (vTZFs)

21 I like the photographic representation of griller evolution, but shouldn't the fat dude in front be holding a stick?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:08 PM (u/oMr)

22 Yay Doof and the Doof ONT!
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at July 21, 2026 10:02 PM (2FNO5)

That's an excess of whelmage you seem to have!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

23 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (hPgrk)

The lives they were given were ones where they could sue a hospital for a fuckload of money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Another give me free check.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 10:09 PM (hPgrk)

24 Evenin' Doof!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 21, 2026 10:04 PM (6lIrI)

Thanks! To you, as well!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

25 Evening Horde thx Doof.
I was watching the game when Shane Spencer hit into the unassisted triple play. Oddly the defender was Randy Velarde who had come up with the Yankees and played with them for several years

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 10:10 PM (sMkB+)

26 Throwing caution, and tradition, to the wind, I read the content first.

Switched at birth story is real Twilight Zone.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and here we are at July 21, 2026 10:10 PM (p+5Bi)

27 I know that sort of thing didn't happen often but when my children were born I accompanied them everywhere when they were taken from my wife's room.

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Are you sure that was your wife?

Just asking questions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:11 PM (u/oMr)

28 Evening Horde!

Posted by: Iris at July 21, 2026 10:12 PM (5qIVm)

29 I saw a very unusual Triple Play in a Banana Ball game a couple months ago-a 2-4 triple play. Bases loaded, no outs, batter hits a screaming low liner headed up the middle. 2nd baseman dove, made a great catch on the ground, he popped over to second to catch the runner off by a millisecond. The runner on third tagged up and was flying home, second baseman gets up, fires home and the runner is tagged out by an eyelash.
Supposedly hadn't been done in pro ball since 1889.

Posted by: Go Bananas! at July 21, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)

30 *whack*. Sorry, Doof, large mosquito on your arm.
Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (Dd38x)

It was certainly humid enough for that here today!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

31 Evening, folk,

We've watched the first half of Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence based on a 1920 Edith Wharton novel. The mind reels at the thought of how Marty came to direct this when he is best known for gangster epics and "tough" films, but I'll say it's beautiful and well-lit (a rarity for modern movies). It's not fast-paced, it's not Die Hard, but it is well-acted.

The local CBS outlet's website lists our chance of rain tomorrow at 40%, but no real change in temps -- still 80-something overnight and 95 in the daytime -- though winds tomorrow are supposed to be from the north instead of the eternal southern ones. I doubt we are going to have any kind of storm disaster tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:13 PM (wzUl9)

32 Kyle Bylin discovered his birth family after taking an at-home test he chose randomly during a Christmas gift-exchange. That led to his biological aunt on a genealogy platform.

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What kind of at-home test leads you to an aunt you didn't know you had?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:13 PM (u/oMr)

33
*looks at cheap paneling and orange shag carpet*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 10:13 PM (O0L8i)

34 Pit Boss has to turn sideways and work one-armed on his grill.

Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026 10:14 PM (wVcYX)

35 I was watching the game when Shane Spencer hit into the unassisted triple play. Oddly the defender was Randy Velarde who had come up with the Yankees and played with them for several years
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 10:10 PM (sMkB+)

I'm amazed that a lot of the guys in the video tossed the ball away. That's a super rare feat and worthy of keeping that ball forever!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

36 The triple plays were awesome. Doesn't surprise me to see Rafael Furcal on that list. He was always fun to watch.

I miss going to Braves games. I've been to Fulton County Stadium ($5 cheap seats!), Turner Field, and whatever they call that new one up in Cobb County.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 21, 2026 10:15 PM (hPLSE)

37 Good evening Horde! Thank you Disco!
Posted by: TRex - outdoor griller dino at July 21, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)

Howdy Dino!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

38 That last pic goes for homebrewer to brew master too.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2026 10:15 PM (NnhvP)

39 Oh, and that long-thought-to-be-mythical XPO Pension payment finally arrived and is correctly made out. I'll ship it with tracking tomorrow to my IRA guy in Kansas. Once it's there, I'll celebrate -- seven months or more since this epic struggle with Fidelity Investments began.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

40 I really thought Richie was switched at the hospital too.

Posted by: Rob Petrie at July 21, 2026 10:17 PM (wVcYX)

41

Some of the people who were switched at birth might not like their "new" families.

Oh hi!!! You are a successful rich person? Good, we've been living on welfare and food stamps for decades.

Welcome to the family and bring your money.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 10:17 PM (/QHx4)

42 What kind of at-home test leads you to an aunt you didn't know you had?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026

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The Ancestry software lists "matches" for you, people who have strongly similar DNA to yours.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:18 PM (wzUl9)

43 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

My cat Allie's surgery to drain a hematoma in her ear went well, though she may suffer from "cauliflower ear" for the rest of her life.

Now I have to go pick her up from the vet tomorrow.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 10:18 PM (FZ29D)

44
Another give me free check.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

It's contagious.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 10:19 PM (Cqx++)

45 The Ancestry software lists "matches" for you, people who have strongly similar DNA to yours.

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And how often does Hilarity Ensue?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:20 PM (u/oMr)

46 Wait. New Hampshire has no income tax, gun laws, or seat belt laws? Why are we all not living there???

Okay, winter, but aside from that!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:20 PM (wzUl9)

47 Richie (Whitey) Ashburn calling that last triple play. Phillies fans spoiled for 2 decades with Whitey & Harry Kalis in the booth. (Not Harry that inning).

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at July 21, 2026 10:21 PM (KaHlS)

48 Bill Wambsganss had an unassisted triple play in the 1920 World Series. No film obviously

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 10:21 PM (sMkB+)

49 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)

50 Age of Innocence is a beautiful film. Scorsese is in love with New York, and he said that sees that film as something of a mirror image to Gangs of New York. Both set in latter half of the 19th century, one focused on the lives of the Upper Class, and the other focused on the lower.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (T2w7I)

51
I really thought Richie was switched at the hospital too.
Posted by: Rob Petrie

How about the time you and Laura dyed your hands black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)

52 48 Bill Wambsganss had an unassisted triple play in the 1920 World Series. No film obviously

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Is there at least a charcoal sketch?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (u/oMr)

53 The Ancestry software lists "matches" for you, people who have strongly similar DNA to yours.

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And how often does Hilarity Ensue?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026

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I was ready to sneer if it should suggest that I have, say, 10% Hottentot ancestry, but it was pretty much on the money with the Swedish, Eastern Euro, and German parts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (wzUl9)

54 And how often does Hilarity Ensue?
Posted by: Cicero

Often enough that many times answering a knock on the door and the visitor saying "Dad?" has happened way too often.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (ourEi)

55
I knew of a near miss case of being switched at birth. No one thought it was one bit funny.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (mmrXZ)

56 I found a half brother I didn't know I had when my brother did 23&me. At 50 years old. Cleared a lot up on why my family bailed from Utah after only a year.

Posted by: Reforger at July 21, 2026 10:23 PM (PjoLk)

57 I'm still waiting for the fourth out play. Two out, long fly ball, runner on third leaves immediately and crosses the plate before the ball is caught. IIRC, you need to get the ball to third base for the fourth out before all the players leave the field to negate the run or it counts.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 21, 2026 10:23 PM (w/O5Q)

58 The Ancestry software lists "matches" for you, people who have strongly similar DNA to yours.

And how often does Hilarity Ensue?
Posted by: Cicero

"Why are all these matches my in-laws?"

Posted by: Mohammed M. Muhammad at July 21, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

59 Mississippians threaten New Hampshire; It's either us or the Yankees.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 10:23 PM (hPgrk)

60 @47 Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball that broke a woman's nose. As she was being taken out of the stadium on a stretcher Ashburn hit another foul ball that also hit the woman. Helluva player

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 10:24 PM (sMkB+)

61 I saw a 27 batter, no hitter, that wasn't a perfect game.

Tribe vs Athletics

Dick Bosman threw 79 pitches, game last less than 2 hours.

A batter reached base on a throwing error, and was erased by a double play.

Amazingly enough, there were over 24k in attendance ... this was in 1974 ... back in the dark days of Tribe lore.

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 10:24 PM (3sXRv)

62 I found a half brother I didn't know I had. . .
Posted by: Reforger

Which half?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:24 PM (ourEi)

63 Bill Wambsganss had an unassisted triple play in the 1920 World Series. No film obviously

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Is there at least a charcoal sketch?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (u/oMr)

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Jeez. Don't be giving CBD ideas for the Art Thread.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 10:24 PM (2WIwB)

64 I think you have to take either Aaron Judge (6'7 285 lb) or Joe Mauer (6'5 235 lb). You could go with someone like Milton Bradley (who no one liked making him expendable)....but, I'd always go with Rickey Henderson because he always talked in third person, and that just makes me laugh.

"Rickey saw your sign. John 3:16. Rickey is going to hit .320."

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 10:25 PM (dIske)

65 I really thought Richie was switched at the hospital too.
Posted by: Rob Petrie
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How about the time you and Laura dyed your hands black?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026

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Or when Laura got her toe stuck in the hotel tub faucet? (Which was hot, BTW)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

66 I'm still waiting for the fourth out play. Two out, long fly ball, runner on third leaves immediately and crosses the plate before the ball is caught. IIRC, you need to get the ball to third base for the fourth out before all the players leave the field to negate the run or it counts.

Runner doesn't have to tag up on third after it's caught / stay on third until after it's caught?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026 10:25 PM (wVcYX)

67 Dino is in the house🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:26 PM (ok2JK)

68 Greetings Everyone

Thank you Mr. Doof

I'm just going to sit quietly and hope JQ shows up and offers me a beer, which I wouldn't say no to.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 21, 2026 10:26 PM (QGaXH)

69
Is there at least a charcoal sketch?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:22 PM (u/oMr)

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There's a photo

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 10:26 PM (O0L8i)

70 Ok to bitch at a guy who won't stand for the anthem, but not to hit him.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (2WIwB)

71 Tonight's ONT brought to you by: BBQ Body Types

So, the better you BBQ, the better your beard gets?

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

72 46 Wait. New Hampshire has no income tax, gun laws, or seat belt laws? Why are we all not living there???

Okay, winter, but aside from that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July

I don’t think they even have summer. Or grits. Or okra. And their beaches don’t look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/t37cpyf7

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (hftzA)

73 The Ancestry software lists "matches" for you, people who have strongly similar DNA to yours.

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And how often does Hilarity Ensue?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026

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Miss Linda's insistence on this genealogy stuff led to our finding out things about my father and my family I'd have been better off not knowing. So, little hilarity, I'll admit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (wzUl9)

74 "And how often does Hilarity Ensue?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 10:20 PM (u/oMr)"

More often than you might think.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (/HDaX)

75 I really thought Richie was switched at the hospital too.
Posted by: Rob Petrie
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How about the time you and Laura dyed your hands black?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026

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Or when Laura got her toe stuck in the hotel tub faucet? (Which was hot, BTW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

I liked the inflatable raft in the hall closet one.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (wVcYX)

76 Which half?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:24 PM (ourEi)

If only. Dude's a dick. I myself have never attempted communication but my brothers did and some of the E-mails are just wow.
He should have been a blowjob.

Posted by: Reforger at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (PjoLk)

77 Thank you for the ONT.

Always liked Silent Running.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:28 PM (u82oZ)

78 We saw a bear in the Grand Tetons today! It was a young-looking black bear by the road. I didn't stop, because I wasn't sure what the rules are outside of Yellowstone, and it was waaaay too close to the road for my comfort.

Pooky broke his promise about not telling the kids what "Tetons" means before we even went through Yellowstone. *eyeroll*

It was a gorgeous drive and we got caught in a thunderstorm that was hiding on the other side of a peak. That little squall made the temperature drop 30 degrees in 5 minutes! So Pookette got to experience quite a bit of mountain weather today.

Posted by: pookysgirl is glad to be done with that stretch at July 21, 2026 10:28 PM (c8vc9)

79 Miss Linda's insistence on this genealogy stuff led to our finding out things about my father and my family I'd have been better off not knowing. So, little hilarity, I'll admit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Better than finding out at the funeral home during the viewing.

Wow! That was a day!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:28 PM (ourEi)

80 39 Oh, and that long-thought-to-be-mythical XPO Pension payment finally arrived and is correctly made out. I'll ship it with tracking tomorrow to my IRA guy in Kansas. Once it's there, I'll celebrate -- seven months or more since this epic struggle with Fidelity Investments began.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

I remember when it began. Glad it came to fruition.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 21, 2026 10:28 PM (QGaXH)

81 Howdy Doof!

Piper, please be gentle with the whacking. He’s a delicate flower.

Oh! Big one!

*SMACK!*

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 10:29 PM (urHev)

82 Genetic tests and ancestry.com led to my Dad and uncle finding a sister they did not know they had. Who is one year older than dad (eldest of four brothers.)

Her mom was a nurse in England...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

83 @64 Rickey was playing for the Mets and saw teammate John Olerud playing the field wearing a batting helmet . He said to Olerud "I played with a guy in Toronto who did that" Olerud responded "that was me Rickey"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 10:29 PM (sMkB+)

84 Wait. New Hampshire has no income tax, gun laws, or seat belt laws? Why are we all not living there???

Okay, winter, but aside from that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July

I don’t think they even have summer. Or grits. Or okra. And their beaches don’t look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/t37cpyf7
Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026

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I can live okay without grits and definitely without okra, and beaches and oceans/gulfs are not anything that exerts a gravitational pull on me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:29 PM (wzUl9)

85 I’m in area that has thousands of acres of forest service administered land. Lots of campsites for miles and miles.

Some folks showed up in two vehicles and set up shop, tents and such, within a stones throw. I don’t get it. It’s not illegal or anything. I don’t really care too much, but I don’t understand why anyone would do this. It’s not super common, but I’ve had it happen enough times to really question “what the fuck is wrong with you?” It’s not a one off.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 10:30 PM (b5vpJ)

86 F. Coconut delight. Haaaack! Ptui!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)

87 I still remember J. D. Considine's review in Musician for that GTR album: SHT.

Posted by: goozer at July 21, 2026 10:30 PM (eTh1u)

88 26
Switched at birth story is real Twilight Zone.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and here we are

There was a Dick Van Dyke episode, where he was convinced their baby was switched with another baby at the hospital. The other baby had a similar name. He tracked the other baby's family down, and they were black.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2026 10:30 PM (0Htd1)

89 >>>>The Ancestry software lists "matches" for you, people who have strongly similar DNA to yours.

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And how often does Hilarity Ensue?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43
********
One of my wife's B.I.L.'s family found an unknown half sister that way.

Posted by: Cosda at July 21, 2026 10:30 PM (aZBZS)

90 72 46 Wait. New Hampshire has no income tax, gun laws, or seat belt laws? Why are we all not living there???

Okay, winter, but aside from that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July
_________________________

When I lived up there we were the only state that held out and refused to recognize MLK day as a national holiday. For a few months every time someone from NH would have to drive to another state, like clockwork someone would see the NH plate and scratch the entire side of the car with their keys. Never failed. Happened to me at least six times in different states.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 10:31 PM (dIske)

91 68 I'm just going to sit quietly and hope JQ shows up and offers me a beer, which I wouldn't say no to.

Yeah! Where the heck is JQ?!
My glass is empty...I'm sucking on ice cubes at this point😶...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:31 PM (ok2JK)

92 My glass is empty...I'm sucking on ice cubes at this point😶...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Go on. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:32 PM (ourEi)

93 I really thought Richie was switched at the hospital too.
Posted by: Rob Petrie
*
How about the time you and Laura dyed your hands black?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026

***
Or when Laura got her toe stuck in the hotel tub faucet? (Which was hot, BTW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

I liked the inflatable raft in the hall closet one.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026

***
The people who compare Everybody Loves Raymond to the DVD series are talking through other people's hats. DVD was never anti-male, and both Rob and Laura did silly things from time to time; it was never just Rob, to be sneered at by his wife.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:32 PM (wzUl9)

94 Did everything just taste purple for a second?

And why is it suddenly a completely different ONT?

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

95
I found a half brother I didn't know I had. . .
Posted by: Reforger

Which half?
Posted by: Tonypete

He was an Admiral, Lower Half.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 10:32 PM (Cqx++)

96 67 Dino is in the house🦖!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:26 PM
***
{waves politely!}

Posted by: TRex - triple play dino at July 21, 2026 10:33 PM (XfIK1)

97 Howdy, horde!

*sets up round for the house*

Gonna clock out early tonight.

Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

98 Wait. New Hampshire has no income tax, gun laws, or seat belt laws? Why are we all not living there???

Okay, winter, but aside from that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July

I don’t think they even have summer. Or grits. Or okra. And their beaches don’t look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/t37cpyf7
Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM (hftzA)

***

So.
No taxes, gun laws or seatbelt laws.
And no okra!
Pack it up Mrs D!!! We're moving'!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

99 Okay, winter, but aside from that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Mosquitoes, black flies, still cold in May, Massholes have invaded, etc.

Posted by: Candle Pin Bowler at July 21, 2026 10:34 PM (JM9I6)

100 There was a Dick Van Dyke episode, where he was convinced their baby was switched with another baby at the hospital. The other baby had a similar name. He tracked the other baby's family down, and they were black.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2026

***
As I recall, the husband was played by Greg Morris, later famous as Barney Collier the electronics whiz on Mission: Impossible. His son Phil later played Barney's son on the 1980s version of the show; and Phil also brought to life the immortal Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

101 Worst chocolate is coconut filled.

I ALWAYS get them. They suck. Make me spit them out. Even in polite company. Just. No.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 10:35 PM (yEz+x)

102 How's it going, Salty?

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 10:35 PM (RCjYY)

103 {{{Nurse}}}

{{{NaCly}}}

Much smooches💞

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:35 PM (ok2JK)

104 My wife is a neonatal nurse. I think they have ways to keep them from being switched these days.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 21, 2026 10:35 PM (B2pWp)

105 Okay, winter, but aside from that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Mosquitoes, black flies, still cold in May, Massholes have invaded, etc.
Posted by: Candle Pin Bowler at July 21, 2026

***
For somebody who finds March too hot here, "still cold in May" is a recommendation, not a warning! And we've got mosquitoes galore.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:35 PM (wzUl9)

106 Thanks for the doggo-themed ONT!

Great photo up top.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 21, 2026 10:36 PM (D/6p1)

107 Something just happened to what is left of my brain.

I clicked on the ONT and there were three rock songs and, I think???, doof.

One song was Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics, which I really like and watched.

Then it all changed to Wolf and dogs (I do like the Southern rock dog).

I have to go now. Mind is bent.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 10:36 PM (hzuYO)

108 New Hampshire is nice in the summer, though the state bird, the mosquito, will eat you alive.

The farther you get away from the cities the nicer it gets, and at night you can see the stars. Not a handful like in the MA cities, but millions of stars...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 10:37 PM (sKqQm)

109 "And why is it suddenly a completely different ONT?
Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)"

Ok, so I wasn't hallucinating. Good to know.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 21, 2026 10:37 PM (/HDaX)

110 Thanks for the doggo-themed ONT!

Great photo up top.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 21, 2026 10:36 PM (D/6p1)

You didn't really see that!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

111 What the hell?!?!

The ONT I just looked at featured all sorts of dogs. I thanked the author, hit post, and up pops a brand new ONT!

It's either haunted or magic. Or both!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 21, 2026 10:38 PM (D/6p1)

112 Did everything just taste purple for a second?
And why is it suddenly a completely different ONT?
Posted by: mikeski

Thanks for the doggo-themed ONT!
Great photo up top.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

...and now it's back to the way it was, and all the doggo content is gone.

Somebody take the brown acid away from the server hampsters, please.

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

113 94 Did everything just taste purple for a second?

And why is it suddenly a completely different ONT?

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Posted by: goozer at July 21, 2026 10:39 PM (eTh1u)

114 {{{COMountainMarie}}}

Gives you a life affirming hug, with proper hand placement. Not a quick release however. You give good hugs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:39 PM (u82oZ)

115 Now it's back again vs Snoopy music.

I know I saw this. I could look at my history to prove it but am too flipped out.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 10:39 PM (hzuYO)

116 There was a Dick Van Dyke episode, where he was convinced their baby was switched with another baby at the hospital. The other baby had a similar name. He tracked the other baby's family down, and they were black.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2026

***
As I recall, the husband was played by Greg Morris, later famous as Barney Collier the electronics whiz on Mission: Impossible. His son Phil later played Barney's son on the 1980s version of the show; and Phil also brought to life the immortal Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

He sounded taller on the phone.

Posted by: Rob Petrie at July 21, 2026 10:39 PM (wVcYX)

117 111 What the hell?!?!

The ONT I just looked at featured all sorts of dogs. I thanked the author, hit post, and up pops a brand new ONT!

It's either haunted or magic. Or both!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 21, 2026 10:38

Sorry.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:39 PM (Dd38x)

118 I think a funny baseball stat is that Rickey Henderson has 66 triples lifetime and Babe Ruth has 137.
Most of the top triples hitters were lefty batters. Rickey hit righty and was a dead-pull line drive hitter. You get many more triples hitting to the right field corner than the left because the throw from the outfield is so much longer.

Posted by: Strat-o-matic at July 21, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6)

119 I don’t think they even have summer. Or grits. Or okra. And their beaches don’t look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/t37cpyf7
Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM
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Or Mardi Gras.
Or SEC football.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2026 10:40 PM (2Ez/1)

120 A bit far-fetched, but boy and girl switched at birth, so parents’ solution is that they should marry: Japanese anime -

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

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 10:41 PM (wWuuh)

121 I choose the raspberry chocolate from the alternate ONT as the worst of the bunch.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 21, 2026 10:41 PM (/HDaX)

122 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Sooo....this is gonna sound weird, but I am looking for "validation" on something rather silly.

Does anyone remember the joke about the guy who was caught in a flood and several people came by to offer him a way off of his roof? He kept turning them away, saying, "God will provide". He ended up drowning, got to Heaven, God asked him why he was there, guy said, "I trusted you to get me out of there", and God told him, "I sent you a boat, a plane, etc."?

A couple of weeks ago I got a card in the mail telling me it was time to schedule my "routine" colonoscopy. I called the office, only to be told that since I had one done in November, 2024 (when getting Cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis), and since it said I didn't need to come back for 5 years, to just disregard that notification, as it was a technical oversight. I said okay, but then I mentioned it to my oncologist, thinking maybe the notification was a "sign" that something is going on inside my body (I feel fine). He said not to worry about it, so I left it at that. (Continued)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:41 PM (SRRAx)

123 119 I don’t think they even have summer. Or grits. Or okra. And their beaches don’t look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/t37cpyf7
Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:27 PM
+++++

Or Mardi Gras.
Or SEC football.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2026 10:40

Right? I am okay with my Alabama being in Alabama.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:42 PM (Dd38x)

124 What the hell?!?!

The ONT I just looked at featured all sorts of dogs. I thanked the author, hit post, and up pops a brand new ONT!

It's either haunted or magic. Or both!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 21, 2026 10:38 PM (D/6p1)

Here, does this rag smell funny?

Posted by: Doof, also holding a bottle at July 21, 2026 10:42 PM (zZu0s)

125 (Continued)

Yesterday, I received a phone call from the same office, telling me that I needed to schedule a colonoscopy. I thought that maybe my oncologist had decided to see what was going on. Turns out that nope, just someone not reading the notes from my recent phone call, doing routine diligence. Was told to ignore the phone call and come back in 2029 for my next colonoscopy.

So both of these were just "accounting" errors, but I can't help but think/feel as if maybe they are a "sign" (I don't usually believe in that sort of stuff) that God/the Universe is telling me that even though I don't have any symptoms, perhaps I need to get this checked out, just in case. I mean, I already have cancer; it is a very aggressive one that can metastasize into other parts of the body. If caught early it could be easily taken care of, rather than a year or two down the line, when it would be much more difficult to treat/deal with. (Continued)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:43 PM (SRRAx)

126 Damn! The entir ONT did chang! Must b du to the Larg Hadron Collidr.

I am ill at e's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 10:43 PM (1z8ji)

127 (Last part)

What do you guys think? Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done? I don't know if insurance would pay for it, or how to approach my oncologist to request one for me - I don't think "the patient has a feeling about this" is going to fly as a justification to have one done.

Thanks in advance for your opinions!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

128 mnw

Life is good.

One of the widows I walk with cooked bluebell's chicken recipe from the Deplorable Cookbook. That was after I use the FIFA final as an excuse to visit her and chat.

She got the cookbook, one of many she owns, as a gift for getting me to and from the local airport and the NoVaMoMeet. bluebell inscribed it.

She is a skilled cook, and has profound man management skills to choose that cookbook and recipe. Still walking, not stalking. She is on the prowl, however. Dodging is getting more difficult.

We are trusting friends.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:45 PM (u82oZ)

129 BTW...
That lab that ate the lunch...
Last night I was getting ready to eat a yummy cheesesteak sammy. Went to get a beer. Come back, and girldog had devoured it in seconds. Not the beer, the sammich.
Luckily I had a backup 🫪....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:45 PM (ok2JK)

130 *puts on hat*

Posted by: Perry the Platypus at July 21, 2026 10:46 PM (+0Wk3)

131 The most annoying animal in New Hampshire might surprise you. It's not moose, bears or beavers. It's those freakin weasels. There are two species of weasels up there, and the mischievous bastards are too intelligent for their own good. They easily figure out how to get the garbage can lid off by working together. Then they enjoy the smorgasbord before inviting every raccoon within a 5 mile area to a trash party.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 10:46 PM (dIske)

132 Teresa

Those auto notifications are set routinely. You’ve got enough going on now.

Ask if they can use any of your current CTs or MRIs or ultrasounds as a “virtual” colonoscopy.

Holy crap. No more invasive stuff. Give your body a break from being invaded.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 10:46 PM (pypbb)

133 Am I on the wrong thread?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:47 PM (ok2JK)

134 "I hate coconut - not the taste, the consistency."

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 21, 2026 10:47 PM (Jr+re)

135 126 Damn! The entir ONT did chang! Must b du to the Larg Hadron Collidr.

I am ill at e's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 10:43 PM (1z8ji)

I have the ONT up simultaneously on my phone and a laptop. The two devices have two completely different ONTs both posted at 10:00 PM.

This is beyond the pale. Gutfeld is on maybe I'll go watch him....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 21, 2026 10:47 PM (QGaXH)

136 *What do you guys think? Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done?*

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM

It's a great nap.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2026 10:48 PM (2Ez/1)

137 Insurance isn't going to pay, though I guess asking the oncologist couldn't hurt.

Posted by: Just My Opinion at July 21, 2026 10:48 PM (JM9I6)

138 Hi, TiFW

I don't have an opinion bc I'm totally ignorant. So I feel as if "having an opinion" might be a disservice.

But thinking of you and wishing you well.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 10:49 PM (RCjYY)

139 Thanks in advance for your opinions!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

Tell your doc you want it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 10:49 PM (hzuYO)

140 I don’t think they even have summer. Or grits. Or okra. And their beaches don’t look like this
------

We have much nicer beaches, higher mountains, and Charlie Choo Choo Justice.

Posted by: A Tar Heel at July 21, 2026 10:49 PM (XeU6L)

141 COMountainMarie

Nay, good lass. You anchor the thread for the better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:49 PM (u82oZ)

142 She is a skilled cook, and has profound man management skills to choose that cookbook and recipe. Still walking, not stalking. She is on the prowl, however. Dodging is getting more difficult.

We are trusting friends.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

This is always how it starts.

*Long ago when questioning now Dear Wife about her pursuit - "Why all the interest - I'm just some mope."*

Dear Wifey - "You're healthy, single, have your own money, and straight. You have no idea how rare that is."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:50 PM (ourEi)

143 "I hate coconut - not the taste, the consistency."
Posted by: LRob
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I know someone who feels tht way about bananas.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

144 78
Pooky broke his promise about not telling the kids what "Tetons" means before we even went through Yellowstone. *eyeroll*

Posted by: pookysgirl is glad to be done with that stretch at July 21, 2026 10:28
***
Moron.
😄

Posted by: TRex - park ranger dino at July 21, 2026 10:52 PM (XfIK1)

145 Teresa

Those auto notifications are set routinely. You’ve got enough going on now.

Ask if they can use any of your current CTs or MRIs or ultrasounds as a “virtual” colonoscopy.

Holy crap. No more invasive stuff. Give your body a break from being invaded.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 10:46 PM (pypbb)

I think you misunderstand what I am asking. After talking to the office the first time, I didn't think anything of it (although there was a niggling little voice in the back of my head....)

After getting the call yesterday, I am starting to wonder if the stars are aligning to tell me I might ought to go ahead and schedule a test, even though I am not scheduled for one right now 😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:52 PM (SRRAx)

146 Am I on the wrong thread?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 10:47 PM (ok2JK)

Can there ever be a wrong thread?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 10:52 PM (2WIwB)

147 Tomorrow: workout, cleanup, breakfast, and household chores; then out to the post office, library, and coffee shop. I hope any rain we get holds off until noon or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:52 PM (wzUl9)

148 Tonypete

Well, 3 out of four. She did tell me that I was the only guy she knew without a CPAP.

Other guy who is hitting on her creeps her out.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:52 PM (u82oZ)

149
Miss Linda's insistence on this genealogy stuff led to our finding out things about my father and my family I'd have been better off not knowing. So, little hilarity, I'll admit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

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

I knew a guy who found something he was looking for on those sites after years of shoe-leather detective work. Writing letters, calling people, knocking on doors. The secret he was looking for was literally about 100 years old. I never quite understood why he was so driven to find out the identity of his grandfather, but I've never been in that situation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 10:53 PM (mmrXZ)

150 Dear Wifey - "You're healthy, single, have your own money, and straight. You have no idea how rare that is."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:50 PM

++++

When a woman is looking for an eligible man at church she finds out they're like parking spaces.

All the good ones are either taken or handicapped.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2026 10:53 PM (2Ez/1)

151 I know someone who feels tht way about bananas.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026

***
Such has always been my reaction to bananas. They're too . . . mushy, I guess is the word. If they were served chilled, they might be fine, but at room temp they seem like a punishment rather than a treat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:54 PM (wzUl9)

152 Income earned from activities performed in America is generally, in almost all instances, taxable by the IRS. Under tax law in the U.S., certain payments to nonresident foreign athletes are generally subject to a 30% federal withholding unless reduced by a tax treaty or a different exception.

"It's wrong, and that kind of highlights something bigger," Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., said about the potential high tax rate on Spain’s prize.

Tax Spain badder
Tax Americans Gooderer

Fuck you Jon

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 10:54 PM (/+uur)

153 Helluva an ONT, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at July 21, 2026 10:55 PM (U3RIA)

154 Good evening morons und danke Disko

Beautiful sunset in Sonoma this evening. Looking forward to stargazing tonight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 10:55 PM (JvZF+)

155 Can there ever be a wrong thread?
Posted by: Diogenes

Old enough to autobanhammer you?

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

156 Teresa, I hear you. But you just had one less than two years ago. If you want, reach out to your oncologist and see what he/she thinks. Otherwise, just calendar it for another 3 years down the road and enjoy your freedom!

Posted by: The Grateful at July 21, 2026 10:55 PM (XfIK1)

157 Ok, I start out with the dog ONT and read the comments. I see the comments about the switching content. I refresh the site and now see the baseball ONT.

Posted by: clarence at July 21, 2026 10:55 PM (1QT7n)

158 128 Salty

Sounds like a happy situation. Good for you.

My ex-wife, with whom I'm on good terms, has 600 cookbooks. She buys, trades & sells them on eBay. Tries to keep 1 copy of each.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 10:56 PM (RCjYY)

159 Thanks in advance for your opinions!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

Tell your doc you want it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 10:49 PM (hzuYO)
* * * *
I agree with Christy. And in full disclosure, I just lost a boss in December from colon cancer, which he ignored until he couldn't ignore it anymore. By then, it was too late. And, yes, I do not believe in coincidences!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 21, 2026 10:56 PM (D/6p1)

160 Our nephew found out that his father isn't his biological father.

I don't think he has told his mother that he knows that, though....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:56 PM (SRRAx)

161 Dear Wifey - "You're healthy, single, have your own money, and straight. You have no idea how rare that is."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026

***
That makes me sound like 24k gold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:57 PM (wzUl9)

162
Better than finding out at the funeral home during the viewing.

Wow! That was a day!!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 10:28 PM (ourEi)
**************
My great-uncle was a very good looking and (so I heard and saw photos) charming man. He died very young but got around as 3 women with engagement rings showed up at his funeral at the same time. He was a train conductor in the South, with a port in every storm.

His father, my great-grandfather, was also a very handsome man. I have seen photos. His wife, Maggie, threw all of his clothing and belongings in the front yard and left him when she found a note from a lady friend in his jacket pocket in 1913. Five kids, the eldest was my grandmother, who took Maggie and siblings in to her home as a newlywed.

Maggie and husband never divorced. Everyone (including my father and aunt) thought she was a widow til he died in Louisiana after marrying again and having another daughter. My grandmother refused to go to his funeral, which was enlightening to my father and aunt.

There are family there who learned of us legals due to my mother doing genealogy and family trees. Surprise!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 10:57 PM (hzuYO)

163 TiFW -

What Nurse Ratched said because she’s a nurse: I like the idea of a “virtual colonoscopy” from recent scans. I am not any kind of medical anything.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 10:57 PM (wWuuh)

164 151 I know someone who feels tht way about bananas.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026

***
Such has always been my reaction to bananas. They're too . . . mushy, I guess is the word. If they were served chilled, they might be fine, but at room temp they seem like a punishment rather than a treat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

mushy... the reality:
like inside IceKingJOE's delusion of "running the world" from his bathtub filled with battleship floaties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY
TallyHall//Banana Man [Content warning: Danger/Psychohazard]

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 21, 2026 10:57 PM (VZnB7)

165 mnw

I know you have minor mobility issues. But you can ask a lonely widow if she will sit by you. The rest is up to you.

Being less socially isolated is a good thing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:58 PM (u82oZ)

166 We have much nicer beaches, higher mountains, and Charlie Choo Choo Justice.
Posted by: A Tar Heel at July 21, 2026 10:49 PM (XeU6L)

Joking aside, what is so cool about the US is our diversity in landscape and just how many gorgeous things there are to see right here in our very own country.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 10:59 PM (Dd38x)

167 I’m not one to go scoping for trouble.

Maybe it will kill me. I don’t care. My
Parents and their parents never had colonoscopies and endoscopies and all the craziness. Some died at 46. Some died at 104.

Love in the present. Live in the present. Tomorrow is never a guarantee.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 10:59 PM (V9k7L)

168 When our first was born, it was at home, and in fact I was the one to "catch" her. Spent the rest of the day walking around in a tired, merry daze.

Our second and third were twin boys. Born in a hospital, only ten minutes apart. Fraternals, they were and still are about as different as two brothers can be. The first of the two born was whisked away by the delivery room staff, and I was busy staying with Milady until the second was born, so it was not as warm and cuddly as our firstborn.

There was a brief time they were in the nursery, and I had to fret that they were properly tagged and identified. Years have convinced me they are both ours. But, still, there was that bit of concern about switching babies.

Posted by: mindful webworker - times we might wish we could trade one or the other out.... :) at July 21, 2026 10:59 PM (p+5Bi)

169 151 I know someone who feels tht way about bananas.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026

***
Such has always been my reaction to bananas. They're too . . . mushy, I guess is the word. If they were served chilled, they might be fine, but at room temp they seem like a punishment rather than a treat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 21, 2026 10:54 PM

I buy groceries at Aldi and have always been able to resist buying their Dark Chocolate Covered Freeze Dried Banana treats. Until yesterday.
Oh, baby. Inhale the whole bag in a single sitting.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2026 11:00 PM (2Ez/1)

170 39 Oh, and that long-thought-to-be-mythical XPO Pension payment finally arrived and is correctly made out. I'll ship it with tracking tomorrow to my IRA guy in Kansas. Once it's there, I'll celebrate -- seven months or more since this epic struggle with Fidelity Investments began.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

WOW! That's a long time for them to dick around. I retired three years ago and moved my 401(k) from The Standard, who managed the 401(k), to a rollover IRA at Vanguard. That took a couple of phone calls, a couple of signed forms, scanned and emailed back, and maybe a week or ten days total, from my first call to the money showing up at Vanguard.

Posted by: a.moron at July 21, 2026 11:00 PM (X5Jzz)

171 TFW - I think you should go for the colonoscopy. Trying to be objective here. FWIW, I just came off of one two weeks ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 11:00 PM (XeU6L)

172 156 Teresa, I hear you. But you just had one less than two years ago. If you want, reach out to your oncologist and see what he/she thinks. Otherwise, just calendar it for another 3 years down the road and enjoy your freedom!
Posted by: The Grateful at July 21, 2026 10:55 PM (XfIK1)

With this type of cancer, chances are that I don't have 3 years left. Just wondering if I should "check and see" if something else is lurking inside - if so, maybe I would catch it early enough to do something about it to give me a better chance of being here longer.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 11:01 PM (SRRAx)

173 Who’s your Daddy is always a pertinent question.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (wWuuh)

174 There was a brief time they were in the nursery, and I had to fret that they were properly tagged and identified. Years have convinced me they are both ours. But, still, there was that bit of concern about switching babies.
Posted by: mindful webworker - times we might wish we could trade one or the other out....

at July 21, 2026 10:59 PM (p+5Bi)

They should probably send all newborns to the FBI Crime Lab, and record the rifling marks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji)

175 139 Thanks in advance for your opinions!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

Tell your doc you want it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
----

If it's been over a year go for it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (hPgrk)

176 154 Good evening morons und danke Disko

Beautiful sunset in Sonoma this evening. Looking forward to stargazing tonight.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Watching a replay of the NHRA event at Sonoma. Lots of coats being worn. Apparently it's chilly. In the later rounds, those coats were off though so it warmed up. I know, NorCal is chillier than Babylon DC in July. 😁

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (sAmhv)

177 Pillow time for yours truly, all. I was nodding off during The Age of Innocence earlier, so it ain't the company, just the hours.

Be good, and if you can't do that, at least don't get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (wzUl9)

178 I never quite understood why he was so driven to find out the identity of his grandfather, but I've never been in that situation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 10:53 PM (mmrXZ)

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

You know who else was driven to find out the identity of his grandfather?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (u/oMr)

179 When a woman is looking for an eligible man at church she finds out they're like parking spaces.

All the good ones are either taken or handicapped.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

What does it mean if somebody parks their motor home crosswise across 5 spaces?

Posted by: mikeski may be misreading this at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (VHUov)

180 Wolfus Aurelius

When you move, go to a local Senior Center widow support group.

You sorta qualify, as your second wife has passed on.

You will find a new social group quickly. I assume your Linda will not accompany you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 11:03 PM (u82oZ)

181 Pooky broke his promise about not telling the kids what "Tetons" means before we even went through Yellowstone. *eyeroll*

Posted by: pookysgirl

Now enroll them in French lessons!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2026 11:03 PM (NnhvP)

182 Dunno. All your choice.

Done cancer treatment. Don’t want to do that again. Not looking for trouble. Living my
Life.

Not doing cancer treatment again.

Nope.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 11:04 PM (yEz+x)

183 146 Am I on the wrong thread?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
---

You're at the right place but it's the wrong time
You're at the wrong time but at the right place
It's been a long time, it's been a long time, it's been a long time
But now's the time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:05 PM (hPgrk)

184 What does it mean if somebody parks their motor home crosswise across 5 spaces?
****

I get to use my tire core removal tool again.

Posted by: clarence at July 21, 2026 11:05 PM (1QT7n)

185 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 11:06 PM (u82oZ)

186 Scampy🐕!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 11:06 PM (ok2JK)

187 What do you guys think? Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done?…
Posted by: Teresa

Haven't see what others have answered, but I'd say, Teresa dear, you have had enough going on with your health, and your doc says don't worry about it, so don't go looking for (more) trouble.

The only real sign, I hope, is that medical bureaucracies' left hand don't know what their right hand is doing sometimes.

N.B. I am not a doctor, of course, and my advice is worth everything you've paid for it, less tax.
❣️

Posted by: mindful webworker - I am a patient, however.... at July 21, 2026 11:06 PM (p+5Bi)

188 What does it mean if somebody parks their motor home crosswise across 5 spaces?

Posted by: mikeski
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Asshoes

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:07 PM (hPgrk)

189 What does it mean if somebody parks their motor home crosswise across 5 spaces?
Posted by: mikeski may be misreading this at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (VHUov)

They’re not going to Heaven until they Repark!
Erh, I mean Repent!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 11:07 PM (wWuuh)

190 165 NaCly

Since I last saw you, my mobility issues have gone beyond minor. But I'm NOT socially isolated, thankfully..

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

191 Oh, this is the right ONT thread this time!

Posted by: Berenstein Bears at July 21, 2026 11:07 PM (wVcYX)

192 Rifling marks!

Nice, AOP!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 21, 2026 11:08 PM (Jr+re)

193 mnw

Ohhh.
Story time!

*puts chin on intertwined fingers. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 11:08 PM (u82oZ)

194 https://youtu.be/W4PjWgiH-LQ

Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)

195 I've always said if I won the lottery I'd buy a home in New Hampshire.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 11:08 PM (KC5Lt)

196 182 Dunno. All your choice.

Done cancer treatment. Don’t want to do that again. Not looking for trouble. Living my
Life.

Not doing cancer treatment again.

Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 11:04 PM (yEz+x)

Fair enough.

I have been EXTREMELY fortunate that so far my cancer treatment has been relatively easy - very little nausea, and most of the side effects so far (knock on wood) have just been "annoying" (hair loss, nail issues, etc.).

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 11:09 PM (SRRAx)

197 What do you guys think? Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done?…
Posted by: Teresa

You could compromise and do a Cologuard test.

Posted by: Tuna at July 21, 2026 11:10 PM (lJ0H4)

198 My cat Allie's surgery to drain a hematoma in her ear went well, though she may suffer from "cauliflower ear" for the rest of her life.
Now I have to go pick her up from the vet tomorrow.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 10:18

Hope all goes well PS.

We have to take the 19 yo cat to the vet on Thurs. We are trying to untangle her, she's not so good at grooming at this age. And the County wants her vaxxed, although she's only been inside for yrs.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 21, 2026 11:10 PM (55Qr6)

199 Cancer runs in my family, I push them for more. They say you don't need, I say horseshit. Not literally but a nipping in the bud is the best nip.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:10 PM (hPgrk)

200 My ex-wife, with whom I'm on good terms, has 600 cookbooks. She buys, trades & sells them
——

Is she a decent cook?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 11:11 PM (b5vpJ)

201 Who’s your Daddy is always a pertinent question.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (wWuuh)

You asked. I sang.
https://youtu.be/TVRzk3VWOKY

Posted by: Zombie Toby Keith at July 21, 2026 11:11 PM (wVcYX)

202 Watching a replay of the NHRA event at Sonoma. Lots of coats being worn. Apparently it's chilly. In the later rounds, those coats were off though so it warmed up. I know, NorCal is chillier than Babylon DC in July. 😁
Posted by: Puddleglum

Going to the NW Nats this weekend with my
Oldest son! Love it! Top Fuel rocks!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 11:11 PM (yEz+x)

203 Woot! My blackcurrant bush has some ripe berries on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:11 PM (1z8ji)

204 I don't know about the mix up of baby boys but I'm guessing it was a tiny hospital screw up.

I worked as a neonatal RN for seven years and, having two of my own, the ID bracelets are put on baby and Mama within minutes of hatching.

No one could have swapped my first 10lb boy anyway because he attracted crowds as the largest in the nursery (his grandmother said).

He also was a furious and scary baby with hunger and no one would have kept him but his real parents, as he was super loud from his first breath.

A former classmate of mine was assigned to him. My mother and I walked down to the nursery to get him after I napped, and he was missing. Because he was waking the other babies being furious my friend said, he was put in an isolation room one shift. This is how bad he was.

Now they have bracelets that will send an alarm if baby has left the floor to alert for kidnapping. Now, too, newborns spend their time in their mother's room til discharge.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 11:11 PM (hzuYO)

205 127 (Last part)

What do you guys think? Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done? I don't know if insurance would pay for it, or how to approach my oncologist to request one for me - I don't think "the patient has a feeling about this" is going to fly as a justification to have one done.

Thanks in advance for your opinions!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

I don't think you're crazy, given your history. Maybe talk to your oncologist and see if you can get some kind of waiver to have it done sooner than normal. Or, maybe try for the poop-in-the-box test. Not as accurate, but pretty good, no prep required, and almost certainly less expensive.

Good luck.

Posted by: a.moron at July 21, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)

206 167 Love in the present. Live in the present. Tomorrow is never a guarantee.

This^^^

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 11:12 PM (ok2JK)

207 Be good, and if you can't do that, at least don't get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (wzUl9)

Brit Lass's father always used to say to her upon going out - "Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful."

Poor girl says it took her like 30 years to figure out what he meant.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2026 11:12 PM (vE0+H)

208 They should probably send all newborns to the FBI Crime Lab, and record the rifling marks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji)

Even with bullets, the FBI Crime Lab has been known to make mistakes.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 11:12 PM (wWuuh)

209 200 Tater

Yes, very.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:12 PM (RCjYY)

210 nurse - NHRA for you? I'm impressed! Top Fuel is intense! And that's just the sounds.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 21, 2026 11:12 PM (Jr+re)

211 We have to take the 19 yo cat to the vet on Thurs. We are trying to untangle her, she's not so good at grooming at this age. And the County wants her vaxxed, although she's only been inside for yrs.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 21, 2026 11:10 PM (55Qr6)

Does the County have cat detector vans roaming the streets?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:13 PM (1z8ji)

212 What Tuna said... try the less invasive first. BUT if this is going to make you nuts second-guessing yourself, maybe the peace of mind would be worth it.

None of our kids were switched, but the nurse once brought me one to feed that wasn't mine when our first was born. A case of semi-legible name tags, but she was a bit hard to convince.

Posted by: sal at July 21, 2026 11:14 PM (f+FmA)

213 We are trusting friends.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 10:45 PM (u82oZ)

I think this is sweet.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 11:14 PM (Dd38x)

214 I see Chris Hayes posted that the most leftwing people in America are those with post grad degrees strapped for cash and the most right wing are those without degrees who are rich.

And its funny because he is generally correct with this assessment but he takes it completely the wrong way. Why should spending 8 or more years in Women's Studies net you more reward from society then building a plumbing business?

I've hired plumbers and they've made my life better. The most I've ever gotten out of a women's studies graduate is a chuckle asking her how long she planned on working at Star Bucks.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 11:14 PM (sKqQm)

215
You're at the right place but it's the wrong time
You're at the wrong time but at the right place
It's been a long time, it's been a long time, it's been a long time
But now's the time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:05 PM (hPgrk)

Leon Russell?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)

216 Does the County have cat detector vans roaming the streets?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:13 PM (1z8ji

Exactly. I bet if you titer her, she is just fine. I would not vax a 19 year old cat.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 11:16 PM (Dd38x)

217 Have a great night, everyone.

May sleep give you inner peace.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2026 11:16 PM (u82oZ)

218 Curiously enough, they were both redheads, but of course mine was much cuter...

Posted by: sal at July 21, 2026 11:16 PM (f+FmA)

219 LRob in OK

This will be my 4th year in a row! It’s a hoot! And we cruise the pits in between and watch the mechanics freaking rebuild those rocket engines in a couple hours! It’s insane!

The funny cars are a hoot as well. But Britney Force is freaking awesome. Havent kept up to aee if she’s racing this weekend. Hope so.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 11:17 PM (yEz+x)

220 Well, hell.
The dude who stole my diary just died.

My thoughts are with his family.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:18 PM (2WIwB)

221 Leon Russell?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)

Dr. John.

https://youtu.be/W4PjWgiH-LQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji)

222 Shamim Mafi, (L.A. Woman), arrested at LAX, trying to escape, for running guns to Iran.

https://tinyurl.com/4h826ruj

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:19 PM (hPgrk)

223 Now enroll them in French lessons!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2026 11:03 PM (NnhvP)

Pookette, after being exposed to my German Nightcore (sped-up pop music) playlist, now wants to learn German. We'll see...

Posted by: pookysgirl now has Wild Und Frei in her head at July 21, 2026 11:19 PM (c8vc9)

224 So, the better you BBQ, the better your beard gets?

Yeah, that checks out...

Posted by: AnchorPoint at July 21, 2026 11:19 PM (J3Cv/)

225 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 11:01 PM (SRRAx)

TInFW, I looked up the cancer you mentioned and wanted to pass on a cancer story. My parents had a wonderful woman help them for a couple of years before they passed away in 2005&2007. We stayed close and sometime around 2012 she was diagnosed with a rare stomach carcinoma that couldn’t be excised but I never found out what the exact cancer was. The doctor at MDA gave her about 6 months to live at the time. She passed away on Halloween of last year, 13 years later. Her daughter had called me in the morning and said that I better get to her house because she was fading. I made it in time to see her and while she couldn’t speak, she knew I was there. (Here comes the lump in the throat). One of the last things I told her was that her story would keep inspiring people. So I hope this inspires you, if even for a tiny bit.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 21, 2026 11:20 PM (SjAWL)

226
You know who else was driven to find out the identity of his grandfather?
Posted by: Cicero

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

Wow, I must have forgotten that bit of history.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 11:20 PM (mmrXZ)

227 It’s way past bedtime. We are now in tropical storm conditions here, so not sure if class at 6a will or will not happen. It only sounds windy at the moment. Night!

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 11:20 PM (Dd38x)

228 G'night Pipes!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:21 PM (2WIwB)

229 For the bar fight, I'm thinking Nolan Ryan with a bucket of baseballs.
Posted by: Oddbob

Nolan Ryan doesn't need any help.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIZB9O24BEE

Posted by: Robin Ventura at July 21, 2026 11:22 PM (DZ9Lv)

230 Night, D!

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 11:22 PM (Dd38x)

231 Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)
-

You're not doing a colonoscopy right if there's anything to push.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 21, 2026 11:22 PM (4jnK3)

232 211 We have to take the 19 yo cat to the vet on Thurs. We are trying to untangle her, she's not so good at grooming at this age. And the County wants her vaxxed, although she's only been inside for yrs.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 21, 2026 11:10 PM (55Qr6)

Does the County have cat detector vans roaming the streets?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:13 PM (1z8ji)

His name is Eric.

Posted by: a.moron at July 21, 2026 11:22 PM (X5Jzz)

233
Shamim Mafi, (L.A. Woman), arrested at LAX, trying to escape, for running guns to Iran.

https://tinyurl.com/4h826ruj

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Sounds like someone in Iran is running low on weapons.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 11:22 PM (mmrXZ)

234 nurse, I think B. Force is taking this year off. Haven't seen her on TV lately.

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 21, 2026 11:22 PM (Jr+re)

235 220 Well, hell.
The dude who stole my diary just died.

My thoughts are with his family.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:18 PM (2WIwB)

Diary?

Posted by: Reforger at July 21, 2026 11:24 PM (PjoLk)

236 226
You know who else was driven to find out the identity of his grandfather?
Posted by: Cicero

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

Wow, I must have forgotten that bit of history.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 11:20 PM (mmrXZ)

Looking for a Jew in the woodpile, I believe.

Posted by: a.moron at July 21, 2026 11:24 PM (X5Jzz)

237 211 We have to take the 19 yo cat to the vet on Thurs. We are trying to untangle her, she's not so good at grooming at this age. And the County wants her vaxxed, although she's only been inside for yrs.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 21, 2026 11:10 PM (55Qr6)

Does the County have cat detector vans roaming the streets?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:13 PM (1z8ji)

Mobile cat scans?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026 11:24 PM (wVcYX)

238 You're at the right place but it's the wrong time
You're at the wrong time but at the right place
It's been a long time, it's been a long time, it's been a long time
But now's the time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 11:05 PM (hPgrk)

I know that one from Dazed and Confused. I was 10 years old during the Bicentennial summer, but the music was stellar. Plus, despite being only 10, I knew guys like Wooderson and the high school kids.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 11:25 PM (0aYVJ)

239 A longer video of the older guy smacking the young guy's head during the National Anthem...the two dweebs in front who turned also said some words to the old guy. When the anthem was over he chewed them out, too.

I like the old guy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 11:26 PM (hzuYO)

240 They should probably send all newborns to the FBI Crime Lab, and record the rifling marks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Heh.

Um...

I'm no forensics expert, but, wouldn't they have to check the barrel for comparison?
😶

Posted by: mindful webworker - gynecological forensics is highly specialized at July 21, 2026 11:27 PM (p+5Bi)

241 Mobile cat scans?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026 11:24 PM (wVcYX)

You must have missed a Monty Python skit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:28 PM (1z8ji)

242 LRob

I saw her go almost 342mph in 3 1/2 seconds last year. She’s composed and fierce. Amazing driver.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 11:29 PM (yEz+x)

243 I'm no forensics expert, but, wouldn't they have to check the barrel for comparison?
😶

Posted by: mindful webworker - gynecological forensics is highly specialized at July 21, 2026 11:27 PM (p+5Bi)

Hey leave me out of this

Posted by: The Barrel at July 21, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)

244 Ah, DoorDash. Committed to the goal of America having its own little Quebec.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 11:29 PM (pKv0r)

245 Did we tell this joke last Saturday?

Boy gets to an age to be interested in dating, Dad takes him aside telling him you can’t date the girls on either side of the house nor behind the house: they’re your sisters. Mom takes him aside later, says date who you want, he’s not your daddy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 11:30 PM (wWuuh)

246 Time for naps...girldog is insisting.
Love you Horde people 💕

"Tomorrow’s success starts with tonight’s nap.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 21, 2026 11:30 PM (ok2JK)

247 "the most leftwing people in America are those with post grad degrees strapped for cash":

I think this is consistent with that:

1) Best imaginable juror for a prosecutor (imo): a 45-yr-old brewery worker; married; 2 kids; wife has a part time job as a supermarket cashier now that the kids are older. "I've kept my nose clean, and we've done alright."

2) Worst juror: a 40-yr-old Episcopalian clergyman; also an adjunct professor of Comparative Religion, with special expertise on Thomas a Becket and St. Thomas Moore. "I believe that there is some good in every person."

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:31 PM (RCjYY)

248 See you tomorrow evening, horde. Thanks for another great ONT!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at July 21, 2026 11:31 PM (Jr+re)

249 100 [...] As I recall, the husband was played by Greg Morris, later famous as Barney Collier the electronics whiz on Mission: Impossible. His son Phil later played Barney's son on the 1980s version of the show; and Phil also brought to life the immortal Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 21, 2026

Greg Morris was also a fairly major cop & friend character in Vega$

Posted by: IS Roth at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (EIuqA)

250 Doof, have the ladies tonight been hitting mosquitoes using a flyswatter or a 2x4? Hopefully they don't pull out stun guns....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (qx7Zg)

251 239 A longer video of the older guy smacking the young guy's head during the National Anthem...the two dweebs in front who turned also said some words to the old guy. When the anthem was over he chewed them out, too.

I like the old guy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Me too! I’m so sick of “that’s not who we are” bullshit.

Fight fire with a fucking nuke. So tired of being classy and nice.

Fuck off,
Pussant. And stand the fuck up. Now.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (yEz+x)

252 Well, hell.
The dude who stole my diary just died.

My thoughts are with his family.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:18 PM (2WIwB)

Diary?
Posted by: Reforger at July 21, 2026 11:24 PM (PjoLk)
**

Sigh.
Just a bad dad joke.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

253 234: I think B Force stepped away to start a family. If I recall, she's married to Bobby Rahal's son.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 21, 2026 11:33 PM (sAmhv)

254 The song, Silent Running, always reminded me of Phil Collins and Genesis songs. Which makes sense as the guitarist was with Genesis.

I liked it then and now and wish they had made more music.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 11:34 PM (hzuYO)

255
Your mission, Mr. Phelps, should you decide to accept it...
.
.
.
This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.

Posted by: Mission: Impossible at July 21, 2026 11:34 PM (2Ez/1)

256 Does the County have cat detector vans roaming the streets?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:13

No AOP, but they call. Jules almost told them she died, but just couldn't do it.

We were shocked when in the UK maybe 20 yrs ago...that they had vans roaming the streets to detect untaxed TVs. No wonder some Euros loved the US.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 21, 2026 11:35 PM (55Qr6)

257 Gonna clock out early tonight.
Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

I’ve said that more than once as a precursor to seeing the sun rise on the way home from;

The party,
The Casino,
A cookout,
The office.😩

Posted by: Pete Bogs AI Alter Ego at July 21, 2026 11:35 PM (CEq3K)

258 You must have missed a Monty Python skit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:28 PM (1z8ji)

The Larch.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 21, 2026 11:37 PM (wVcYX)

259 248

sb Thomas More, not "Thomas Moore." I ALWAYS get that wrong.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:37 PM (RCjYY)

260 We were shocked when in the UK maybe 20 yrs ago...that they had vans roaming the streets to detect untaxed TVs.
-----

At one time, they taxed windows. On some old buildings, you will see them bricked up as a consequence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 11:38 PM (XeU6L)

261 Sigh.
Just a bad dad joke.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

Okay. I always pictured you as more of a journal type guy.

Posted by: Reforger at July 21, 2026 11:39 PM (PjoLk)

262 "No wonder some Euros loved the US."

Posted by: Farmer at July 21, 2026 11:35 PM

He called Taco Bell the Holy Land:

https://tinyurl.com/3h2nkpr2

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 21, 2026 11:39 PM (2Ez/1)

263 Ayanna Pressley wrote an article on how black women are underpaid and the government should give them money.

This is the same woman whose net worth went from -$12K to $8M in the 8 years since she was elected to congress.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 11:40 PM (sKqQm)

264 I think Britney Force stepped away to start a family.
Posted by: Puddleglum

The doctor in the delivery room better have unearthly reflexes.

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 11:41 PM (VHUov)

265 Sigh.
Just a bad dad joke.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

Okay. I always pictured you as more of a journal type guy.
Posted by: Reforger at July 21, 2026 11:39 PM (PjoLk)

Heh.
Moi?
At best an After Action Report type guy.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 11:41 PM (2WIwB)

266 I wouldn't slap the guy who wouldn't stand for TSSBanner, but.. I emphasize with the instinct to do so.

If the young guy wants to be a jerk, that's his business. I don't want to force anybody to be patriotic. Too North Korean.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:42 PM (RCjYY)

267
Neighbor has his smoker going. He always has it up against his house. I'm surprised his house has not caught fire.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 11:42 PM (/QHx4)

268 266

sb "empathize" not emphasize. I'm having a bad spelling hair day.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:44 PM (RCjYY)

269 Just watched the 'Other Mommy' trailer. Creepy. Jessica Chastain is a commie loon. I have never been a huge fan of the creepy child movies though. Seems wrong.

Posted by: Doof, also holding a bottle at July 21, 2026 11:44 PM (zZu0s)

270 /off doof sock

Posted by: Doof, also holding a bottle at July 21, 2026 11:45 PM (zZu0s)

271 Dammit, add failure to remove sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 11:47 PM (zZu0s)

272 Automatically DNA testing every kid at the hospital would generate some very interesting data. And a lot of work for divorce attorneys.

As a friend of mine used to say, "It's a wise man who knows who his real grandfather is."

Posted by: PabloD at July 21, 2026 11:47 PM (5Ide7)

273 Well, hell.
The dude who stole my diary just died.
My thoughts are with his family.
Posted by: Diogenes

Diary?
Posted by: Reforger

Sigh. Just a bad dad joke.
Posted by: Diogenes

We were confused because you weren't Hour of the Wolf.

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 11:47 PM (VHUov)

274 As a friend of mine used to say, "It's a wise man who knows who his real grandfather is."
Posted by: PabloD at July 21, 2026 11:47 PM (5Ide7)

Yeah, false paternity is a nightmare, I'd wager.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 11:48 PM (zZu0s)

275 Good evening

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2026 11:49 PM (CHHv1)

276 Hello, BC

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:50 PM (RCjYY)

277 Automatically DNA testing every kid at the hospital would generate some very interesting data. And a lot of work for divorce attorneys.

I remember reading a few studies that argued the hidden illegitimacy rate was 10% or so.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 11:52 PM (sKqQm)

278 I hate coconut - not the taste, the consistency.
Posted by: LRob

So use the fake stuff once in awhile

Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 21, 2026 11:53 PM (DZ9Lv)

279 At one time, they taxed windows. On some old buildings, you will see them bricked up as a consequence.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 11:38

Yes indeed Mike Hammer. I think the federal window tax of 1798 is a great source for family history. I'm trying to find out if the records exist some where for NJ.

My earliest patrilineal ancestor just lands there at that time from Mars.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 21, 2026 11:53 PM (55Qr6)

280 I remember reading a few studies that argued the hidden illegitimacy rate was 10% or so.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 11:52 PM (sKqQm)

I've seen numbers even higher 20-30- which seems absolutely bug nuts insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 11:53 PM (zZu0s)

281 Yeah, false paternity is a nightmare, I'd wager.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 11:48 PM (zZu0s)

Blonde in the maternity room, crying after having delivered an out-of-wedlock child. Her mother, also a blonde, says, "Don't cry, Honey. Maybe it's not yours."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:54 PM (1z8ji)

282 I remember reading a few studies that argued the hidden illegitimacy rate was 10% or so.
Posted by: 18-1

I've seen numbers even higher 20-30- which seems absolutely bug nuts insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Insane, but also an explanation for the 50-ish-percent divorce rate.

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 11:55 PM (VHUov)

283 IVF resolves all questions!

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:56 PM (RCjYY)

284
I don't want to force anybody to be patriotic. Too North Korean.
Posted by: mnw

I agree.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 11:56 PM (Cqx++)

285 Insane, but also an explanation for the 50-ish-percent divorce rate.
Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 11:55 PM (VHUov)

200 years ago, you could hide it and even argue it was recessive genes when the kid did not look like the 'father.' NOW? Really stupid.

But, people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 11:58 PM (zZu0s)

286
My earliest patrilineal ancestor just lands there at that time from Mars.
Posted by: Farmer
----

Mine apparently (there may be a pun there) crawled out of a swamp.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 11:58 PM (XeU6L)

287 I took a nap today. The first time I've done that in about three years. It was wonderful.

Posted by: Archer at July 21, 2026 11:58 PM (wvc0i)

288 Evenin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:00 AM (77rzZ)

289 My brother swears he was given to the wrong family when he was born.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 12:00 AM (S41Gd)

290 I took a nap today. The first time I've done that in about three years. It was wonderful.
Posted by: Archer at July 21, 2026 11:58 PM (wvc0i)

As you get older, getting more than 7 hours is a wonderful miracle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2026 12:00 AM (zZu0s)

291 'allo, Bulg

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 12:02 AM (RCjYY)

292 Matt Walsh has a good line:

In Apocalypto Mell Gibson takes you back to the mind of a Mayan

In the Northman Robert Eggers takes you back to the mind of a Viking

In The Odyssey Christopher Nolan takes you back to the mind of a liberal woman from 2017.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:02 AM (sKqQm)

293 Doof, have the ladies tonight been hitting mosquitoes using a flyswatter or a 2x4? Hopefully they don't pull out stun guns....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2026 11:32 PM (qx7Zg)

A guy can do a lot worse than getting beaten up by Piper and nurse at the same time!

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2026 12:04 AM (QMAsf)

294 I've never doubted my own lineage. There's a picture of my great-grandmother that shows exactly where I got my eyes. It actually disturbed me the first time I saw it. And I'm practically a clone of my father. When I first introduced him to my (future) wife I told her "This is how I'm going to look in 25 years. Don't say I didn't warn you."

Posted by: PabloD at July 22, 2026 12:04 AM (5Ide7)

295 It is silly to tax a window. What a world.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 12:04 AM (bqIVz)

296 Hey, Mnw.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (77rzZ)

297 It is silly to tax a window. What a world.
Posted by: Case

Hey, that was the clearest the tax code has ever been.

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (VHUov)

298 A guy can do a lot worse than getting beaten up by Piper and nurse at the same time!
Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2026 12:04 AM (QMAsf)

Exactly what do you mean by .... worse? I am not sure you could do any better than that.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (CEq3K)

299 Mine apparently (there may be a pun there) crawled out of a swamp.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 11:58

Well...at least your family has made it inland over a few generations. Less skeeters and more bears?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (55Qr6)

300 A guy can do a lot worse than getting beaten up by Piper and nurse at the same time!

Years ago I was walking home with some friends after a night of drinking.

Two women walked up to me and started leading me away when one of my female friends came to "save me".

Damnit I might have lost my wallet or even a kidney but it would have been worth it!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (sKqQm)

301 It is silly to tax a window. What a world.
Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 12:04 AM (bqIVz)

Almost as stupid as taxing carbon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (1z8ji)

302 Marriage as a social construct is pretty good stuff, it protects both husband and wife, by design and intent. That was the idea. It is certainly not fair for males to leave single mothers and children unsupported, nor is it fair for females to present children that are not his. Note well legislation, modern “feminism”, and/or “family courts” have practically destroyed all of it. The so-called “black lives matter” official website declared the nuclear family needs to be destroyed. Now that takes some real psychopaths.

Our “betters” in the rarified air of academe have long used blacks, among others, as guinea pigs for social experiments. You’ll then see the same programs rolled out into the larger society later. This is one reason why it is awfully difficult to watch successful celebrities (like say “Oprah”

.sign on to all this nonsense. The pay is good, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 12:08 AM (iodam)

303 Naps are a gift from God.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:08 AM (77rzZ)

304 Exactly what do you mean by .... worse? I am not sure you could do any better than that.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:07 AM (CEq3K)

That's what I was saying -
can't do better = could do worse!

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2026 12:10 AM (QMAsf)

305 Some states used to have a personal property tax. They would send out someone to go through your house and count the furniture, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 22, 2026 12:10 AM (iodam)

306 I watched a series of man of the street interviews where the interviewer asked "support homeless vets or illegals?"

One woman went with illegals. Her argument? If you are a vet and homeless you must have done something wrong and therefore the government shouldn't use its resource for you

Posted by: 18-1 at July 22, 2026 12:10 AM (sKqQm)

307 Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:44 PM (RCjYY)

Bonsoir mnw. Thanks to your technological tip about how to add an accent to foreign words on an iPad, I was able to slap out tête-a-tête the other day.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 22, 2026 12:11 AM (SjAWL)

308 Naps?

Yeah. Rigjt.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 12:12 AM (CtZTS)

309
Hey, that was the clearest the tax code has ever been.
Posted by: mikeski
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Yeah, but it was a pane.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 12:13 AM (XeU6L)

310 307

That wasn't me! I don't know how to do it.

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 12:14 AM (RCjYY)

311 @301 AOP

Almost as stupid as taxing carbon.

Yeah, another stupid tax. Government don't miss a trick do they. No wonder people don't like them.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 12:15 AM (bqIVz)

312 Smokey sunset and 93 today.

Supposed to be hotter tomorrow.

Glad I live on the beach. The water is 56 degrees. Might be time for a quick plunge.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 12:16 AM (yEz+x)

313 Hi, mnw. I might have part two done this week. Other than that...no whining.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 12:16 AM (CHHv1)

314 IVF resolves all questions!

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:56 PM (RCjYY)

Until the embryos get mixed up. (It hasn't happened yet at the place we use, they are pretty meticulous about their records and forms.)

Posted by: pookysgirl can spot family traits a mile away at July 22, 2026 12:16 AM (c8vc9)

315 I liked it then and now and wish they had made more music.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 21, 2026 11:34 PM (hzuYO)

From what I understood, all the Genesis members had individual bands and albums about the same time because Phil Collins' wife decided to leave him and move to Canada while Genesis was on tour, and Phil wanted some time to try to get her to change her mind.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 12:17 AM (rbvCR)

316 Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 12:14 AM (RCjYY)

Well damnation, now I’m gonna have to go back and find who it was. The bonsoir still stands though.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 22, 2026 12:17 AM (SjAWL)

317 Some states used to have a personal property tax. They would send out someone to go through your house and count the furniture, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Better than property taxes, which are statistically determined. They haven't the slightest idea what my house is worth. I've invited the assessor to come out and take a look.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 12:17 AM (XeU6L)

318 Tit-a-tit. Not hard to type at all.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:18 AM (77rzZ)

319
Interesting. They've just discovered an atmosphere around a rocky, super-earth type planet for the first time. It's LHS 1140 b, about 48 ly away, orbiting a red dwarf in the habitable zone. They don't know what the atmosphere is, but detected it via seeing helium escape.

Surface gravity of the thing would be about 1.8g.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

320 can't do better = could do worse!
Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2026 12:10 AM (QMAsf)

You would be like the nuns in Monty Python’s Holy Grail. “First you must spank me” “Next you must spank me! You both must spank me!”

You would go out on a high note. See if you can line it up at the MoMe. It would be better than karaoke.

Posted by: Pete Bogs AI Alter Ego at July 22, 2026 12:20 AM (CEq3K)

321 You guys playing cards?

Posted by: Rain Tax at July 22, 2026 12:23 AM (wVcYX)

322 Interesting. They've just discovered an atmosphere around a rocky, super-earth type planet for the first time. It's LHS 1140 b, about 48 ly away, orbiting a red dwarf in the habitable zone. They don't know what the atmosphere is, but detected it via seeing helium escape.

Surface gravity of the thing would be about 1.8g.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

Sounds like a perfect planet for "The Experts". If anyone could figure out how to live there, they can, with their inflated egos countering the higher gravity.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:23 AM (qx7Zg)

323 Blonde in the maternity room, crying after having delivered an out-of-wedlock child. Her mother, also a blonde, says, "Don't cry, Honey. Maybe it's not yours."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2026 11:54 PM (1z8ji)

. . . And the very pregnant brunette asked the the very pregnant red-head if it was true that if she got pregnant while she was on top if it was going to be a boy, and the red-head answered that was true and if she got pregnant while she was on the bottom, it would be a girl, and the very pregnant blonde next to her started crying "no! I don't want puppies!"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2026 12:23 AM (rbvCR)

324 309 Pick yer window puns carefully.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:24 AM (77rzZ)

325 I became a thing because some localities taxed the number of rooms in a home and a clothes closet counted as a taxable room.

Posted by: Armoires at July 22, 2026 12:27 AM (wVcYX)

326 Since Bulg is here, it's time to throw out a name.

Caroline Munro in Starcrash.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:27 AM (qx7Zg)

327 326 Very nice. Thanks, HotW.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:30 AM (77rzZ)

328 Surface gravity of the thing would be about 1.8g.
Posted by: publius
-------

In that vein, I note that the numbers from Nurse's 242 comment produce 4.45 G's.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 12:31 AM (XeU6L)

329 Sounds like a perfect planet for "The Experts". If anyone could figure out how to live there, they can, with their inflated egos countering the higher gravity.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:23 AM (qx7Zg)

You spend fifty years hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light to start a new bastion of humanity only to arrive at Planet Knowitall. Full of Mother’s in law and HR Managers.

Posted by: Pete Bogs AI Alter Ego at July 22, 2026 12:31 AM (CEq3K)

330 Hour of the Wolf, how are you doing?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:32 AM (77rzZ)

331 I'm doing pretty well, Bulg. Building a campaign set in Tunisia for a computer war game called Panzer Corps 2. Keeping out of the smoky air outside - unless someone's using a grill.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)

332 How have you been doing, Bulg?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:35 AM (qx7Zg)

333 Good to hear, HotW. Cheers!

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:36 AM (77rzZ)

334 You spend fifty years hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light to start a new bastion of humanity only to arrive at Planet Knowitall. Full of Mother’s in law and HR Managers.
Posted by: Pete Bogs AI Alter Ego
...................................
And suddenly, the dark, emptiness of the cosmos, seems the better option.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 22, 2026 12:37 AM (sAmhv)

335 The water is 56 degrees. Might be time for a quick plunge.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 12:16 AM (yEz+x)

Brrrrrrrrrr. Then you’d hear the Jaws theme

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:38 AM (CEq3K)

336 The water is 56 degrees. Might be time for a quick plunge.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 22, 2026 12:16 AM (yEz+x)

Brrrrrrrrrr. Then you’d hear the Jaws theme
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:38 AM (CEq3K)

Not the Benny Hill theme?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:39 AM (qx7Zg)

337 Pick yer window puns carefully.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:24 AM (77rzZ)

Don’t start throwing shade.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:40 AM (CEq3K)

338
This planet could well be a cold eyeball planet.

That would be a cold configuration of a tidally locked planet. This thing orbits a small red dwarf, with a period of just 29 days. That's how close the habitable zones of these red dwarfs are, so the planet will almost certainly be tidally locked.

A cold eyeball would have a warm spot around the equator facing the star, with an ocean there, and the night side would be covered in ice, which would then transition to liquid in a ring surrounded the warm spot. It would thus look like an eyeball.

On the other end, there's the hot eyeball. Scorching hot on the light side, and maybe liquid water existing on the night side.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

339 @326 - boy was she gorgeous, still is I imagine.

Movie - painfully stupid. Worst robot ever.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 12:42 AM (CHHv1)

340 332 I’m OK. Bought a new car last weekend. Now I’ve got to clean out the old one so that we can donate it. It’s a daunting task. I’ve had the old one for 15+ years, so it’s got a lot of stuff in it. But enough wifely nagging should cause me to get the job done.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:43 AM (77rzZ)

341 Don’t start throwing shade.
Posted by: Pete Bog
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Or start sashaying around.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 12:44 AM (XeU6L)

342 Brrrrrrrrrr. Then you’d hear the Jaws theme
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:38 AM (CEq3K)

Not the Benny Hill theme?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2026 12:39 AM (qx7Zg)

That’s for dancing around on the rocky shore in bare feet because the 56 degree water sobered you up.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:45 AM (CEq3K)

343 Don’t start throwing shade.
Posted by: Pete Bog
--------
Or start sashaying around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 12:44 AM (XeU6L)

Can’t keep us at Bay.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:49 AM (CEq3K)

344
1.8g would be a royal bitch. Us 29 year olds need not apply.

Falling over, which you would do a lot, would be quite dangerous, and if you didn't kill yourself, getting back up would be a problem indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 12:49 AM (w6EFb)

345
181 Pooky broke his promise about not telling the kids what "Tetons" means before we even went through Yellowstone. *eyeroll*

Posted by: pookysgirl

Now enroll them in French lessons!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2026 11:03 PM (NnhvP)

Ancc DC meteorology. Teach them about Mammatus clouds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 12:49 AM (T2w7I)

346 I heard the Northeast cleared up some. The smoke is not as bad. But they said the clearing would not last long.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 12:50 AM (bqIVz)

347 Or start sashaying around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2026 12:44 AM (XeU6L)

Ended badly for Roger Casement.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 12:51 AM (1z8ji)

348 345 Mastodons. “Breast-teeth,”

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 12:51 AM (77rzZ)

349 In that vein, I note that the numbers from Nurse's 242 comment produce 4.45 G's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

That's the average G force for the whole race, yes.

Top-fuel dragsters accelerate really fast. 0 to 100mph in less than a second. 5.5 to 6 G's at launch. They shake the whole grandstand area when they race.

11000 horsepower. They rebuild the engines after every run, because the engines destroy themselves. At a minimum, they've melted/vaporized their own spark plugs, and started dieseling partway down the track. Realizing that "all the way down the track" is only 3.7 seconds.....

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 12:54 AM (VHUov)

350 CIA Distances Itself From Trump's Iran War With Media Leak

CIA and other US intelligence officials...are leaking intelligence to the [WaPo&NYT] press ...American strikes on Iran are unlikely to change Iran's negotiating position.
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President Harry Truman wrote two op eds in the WaPo saying they should be abandoned. In one was a regret that he signed them into existence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:54 AM (hPgrk)

351 A cold eyeball would have a warm spot around the equator facing the star, with an ocean there, and the night side would be covered in ice, which would then transition to liquid in a ring surrounded the warm spot. It would thus look like an eyeball.

On the other end, there's the hot eyeball. Scorching hot on the light side, and maybe liquid water existing on the night side.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

Both could potentially have a "Goldilocks" region, where life could exist, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 12:55 AM (1z8ji)

352 1.8g would be a royal bitch. Us 29 year olds need not apply.

Falling over, which you would do a lot, would be quite dangerous, and if you didn't kill yourself, getting back up would be a problem indeed.
Posted by: publius

Hope your heart's good enough to actually push blood up to your brain in that gravity well.

Stand up extra slowly.

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 12:55 AM (VHUov)

353 Bought a box of Nestle Drumsticks the other day. Hadn't had any in 2 years. What I noticed about these is 1) they're smaller, and 2) the ice cream in them isn't hard, even when deep frozen, it's more like air cream.
Another thing I liked that is no more. Time to look into store brands. Sorry Nestle, your cost-cutting cost you a customer...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 22, 2026 12:58 AM (TWsPO)

354 11000 horsepower. They rebuild the engines after every run, because the engines destroy themselves. At a minimum, they've melted/vaporized their own spark plugs, and started dieseling partway down the track. Realizing that "all the way down the track" is only 3.7 seconds.....

Posted by: mikeski
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Amazing, and CAFE would have us in a crappy 1800cc four banger with no boost.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 12:59 AM (hPgrk)

355 Stand up extra slowly.
Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 12:55 AM (VHUov)

You will. It’s 1.8 G.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:59 AM (CEq3K)

356 Another thing I liked that is no more. Time to look into store brands. Sorry Nestle, your cost-cutting cost you a customer...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at July 22, 2026 12:58 AM (TWsPO)

Do Tillamook or Bluebell make a similar confection?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 01:00 AM (1z8ji)

357 You will. It’s 1.8 G.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 22, 2026 12:59 AM (CEq3K)

People who weigh 400 pounds basically experience that right here on Earth.

You could plan the flight to have 1G acceleration at the start, an gradually ramp it up to 1.8, and hold there, and hold 1.8 G on turnover to approach orbit. Train for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 01:04 AM (1z8ji)

358 Chinese should petition Trump to protect them from Sam Altman

OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing and hacked another startup theglobeandmail. com

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:04 AM (hPgrk)

359
Yep, orthostatic hypotension big time. They have done extended duration high g human tests (of very healthy, fit specimens) in centrifuges.

IIRC, they've tolerated 1.5g for up to 7 days. In 2G, however 24 hr is about the limit. Severe cardiovascular problems will developed. In the 1.5g case, fluid imbalances still become a big problem, but the ticker doesn't get too fatigued.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:06 AM (w6EFb)

360 So are you saying that there could be some kind of monster star system consisting of a dwarf with one cold eyeball and one hot one?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2026 01:07 AM (T2w7I)

361 IIRC, they've tolerated 1.5g for up to 7 days. In 2G, however 24 hr is about the limit. Severe cardiovascular problems will developed. In the 1.5g case, fluid imbalances still become a big problem, but the ticker doesn't get too fatigued.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:06 AM (w6EFb)

You'd have to have sturdy, reinforced bowls for the terlits.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 01:09 AM (1z8ji)

362 348 345 Mastodons. “Breast-teeth,”

To be a mastodon, you've got to be strong
Live right, eat right

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 01:09 AM (CHHv1)

363 To be a mastodon, you've got to be strong
Live right, eat right
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 22, 2026 01:09 AM (CHHv1)

Stay off the heroin, too. No junk in the trunk.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 01:11 AM (1z8ji)

364 I saw Cold Eyeball Star open for Blind Melon

Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 22, 2026 01:11 AM (DZ9Lv)

365 What sucks is that some smart ass reviewer called GTR “SHT”. I thought the GTR album was good.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 01:13 AM (8l6/L)

366
A problem with those centrifuges is the Coriolis effect. That will scramble the vestibular system like crazy when you move around. That makes it tricky to separate out the pure g effect vs the Coriolis.

One thing is to not move your head relative to your body. Moving your head with high Coriolis acceleration present causes a "cross coupling" of the those fluid thingies between each ear. The result will be much puking, as your brain can't make sense of that input.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:14 AM (w6EFb)

367 Trump put a word in for Altman, missed it b/4
Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial
@TruthTrumpPost
Jul 11
Sam Altman just got sued by Apple. And that's not even his biggest problem this year!!

His own co-founder, Elon Musk, spent two years trying to prove in court that Altman betrayed him. 😯

Now Apple says OpenAI stole its secrets too. Two billion-dollar wars. One CEO in the middle. 🤨

Back in 2015, Musk and Altman built OpenAI as a nonprofit, a lab to build AI safely before Google could lock it down. Musk put in $38 million. Altman turned OpenAI into a for-profit company.

Apple's claim: OpenAI stole its secrets to build it. OpenAI's hardware boss, Tang Tan, a former Apple VP, allegedly told job candidates still at Apple to bring "actual parts," like batteries and logic boards, for "show and tell."

Is his empire standing on stolen ground? 🤔 Tell us what you think, and subscribe @TruthTrumpPost for more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:14 AM (hPgrk)

368 Well, I am going to call it a night. Busy day planned for tomorrow. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2026 01:15 AM (1z8ji)

369 Mastodons. “Breast-teeth,”

To be a mastodon, you've got to be strong
Live right, eat right
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

https://youtu.be/i4Ji3Uz5R3E

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 01:15 AM (VHUov)

370 87 I still remember J. D. Considine's review in Musician for that GTR album: SHT.
Posted by: goozer at July 21, 2026 10:30 PM (

Thank you! I couldn’t remember the name…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 01:16 AM (8l6/L)

371
You spend fifty years hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light to start a new bastion of humanity only to arrive at Planet Knowitall. Full of Mother’s in law and HR Managers.
Posted by: Pete Bogs AI Alter Ego at July 22, 2026 12:31 AM (CEq3K)
Sounds like time to break out White Zombie’s “Welcome to Planet Motherfucker”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 01:18 AM (8l6/L)

372 266 I wouldn't slap the guy who wouldn't stand for TSSBanner, but.. I emphasize with the instinct to do so.

If the young guy wants to be a jerk, that's his business. I don't want to force anybody to be patriotic. Too North Korean.
Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 11:42 PM (RCjYY)

At many a running event it is funny seeing how people react. The anthem starts playing and those of us who do hear it stop what we are doing and slowly this makes its way through the crowd, and slowly the crowd goes silent…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 01:22 AM (8l6/L)

373 368 G’night AOP.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 01:26 AM (77rzZ)

374 Got recommended the band Whom Gods Destroy recently on YT.

Couldn’t figure out why.

Though the keyboardist sure looked familiar…

Derek Sherinian, formerly of Dream Theater.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 01:30 AM (8l6/L)

375 I’m gonna call it a night, too. G’night, All.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2026 01:35 AM (77rzZ)

376 First Lake Tahoe is losing water. Now lake Mead is. Last I heard California is still trying to put out wildfires. Hell of a summer some folks are having. And still go August to go.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 01:36 AM (bqIVz)

377
About 1 RPM is the "normal limit" for Coriolis. Just about everybody could handle that straight in. 1 - 2 RPM and some adjustment period is required, but your brain would get used to it for most people.

Now, 2 - 4, some people can adapt, but they have to modify how they mover. Above 4, and it's puke city all the time.

You can figure out how big a radius you need for 1g at 1RPM. It's YUGE.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:37 AM (w6EFb)

378 >> So are you saying that there could be some kind of monster star system consisting of a dwarf with one cold eyeball and one hot one?

You don't even want to think about the "brown eye" planets....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:38 AM (w6EFb)

379 What do you guys think? Am I crazy, or should I push to have a colonoscopy done? I don't know if insurance would pay for it, or how to approach my oncologist to request one for me - I don't think "the patient has a feeling about this" is going to fly as a justification to have one done.

Thanks in advance for your opinions!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 21, 2026 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

Bridget Phetasy, on her Dumpster Fire shows, often includes a plug for a medical testing service with a promo code for a discount. You can just... take tests, if you're willing to pay for them, and they probably cost a lot less than you think. (The insurance price is also a "pay later" price, and a "some other guy might pay you later maybe" price at that, so they are both legally and morally allowed to charge more for it.)

Let me find the most recent episode with that... Oh right, it's Quest. I have it cued to the promo, ignore her sales pitch focused on their tests for women's health issues, and just check out their catalog:

You’re Going To Hate My Odyssey Take - Dumpster Fire 331
https://youtu.be/mVs_NKfV6Y0?t=603

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 01:38 AM (Sy6m/)

380 Tonight's video meandering included another movie on YootUbe.

Apparently, some folks upload movies to YT but don't put the name of the movie in the title or description. They avoid copyright take-downs, at least for a while. These are not the latest, greatest blockbusters. Often low-budget things I've never heard of. Such was our movie tonight. Slow-building but interesting premise & characters. Then they forgot to have an ending or tie up any of the many threads. Thud.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the stuff YT recommends after seeing this...! at July 22, 2026 01:40 AM (p+5Bi)

381 Wait, Bulg. You can't leave yet. I was going to make espresso:

Here's a 3-minute flick for the Rons: Faith Bacon, 1942 Soundie, "Dance of Shame." Not safe for work, but what are you doing at work at this hour anyway?
https://youtu.be/i8PpMOd53Ew

It's not soft pr0n. It's classical cinema art.
Faith Bacon is generally considered to have created the fan and veil dances (shown here) that are associated with Sally Rand. Rand created the bubble dance. Faith died at age 46 in 1956 after a fall from a window that may or may not have been suicide. Faith is 32 years old in this film.

Good. Passed that along, so I can close the tab.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the stuff YT recommends after seeing this...! at July 22, 2026 01:43 AM (p+5Bi)

382 You can figure out how big a radius you need for 1g at 1RPM. It's YUGE.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Are you saying that Werner vas vrongk?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 01:46 AM (hPgrk)

383 Teresa, I'm not a doctor and never played one on t.v.
The best advice I can give you is to check with your Doctor for anything you do concerning your health. Your Doctor works for you and I'm sure has the best advice for you.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 01:50 AM (bqIVz)

384
Problems with some spinning centrifugal gravity spaceship/station go far beyond mere problems for humans with the Coriolis.

Balance, intermediate axis theorem and all that abound. As mass shifted around (moving people cargo, etc), you could easily get thing out of balance and start tumbling. You'd need one hell of a control system to actively compensate. Some ideas were using some very dense fluid that would be pumped around to maintain balance, and that would be a major engineering thing indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:52 AM (w6EFb)

385 Some show-off doing a solo guitar cover of an old Beatles song, Live at Newport Jazz Festival, 1986.

Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby (4:36)
https://youtu.be/aGoGyGSnVuA

And that's it for me.
G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - closing time at July 22, 2026 01:55 AM (p+5Bi)

386 You spend fifty years hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light to start a new bastion of humanity only to arrive at Planet Knowitall. Full of Mother’s in law and HR Managers.

Posted by: Pete Bogs AI Alter Ego at July 22, 2026 12:31 AM (CEq3K)

And they your honor is when the orbital bombardment started.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 01:55 AM (S41Gd)

387 And I thought I type bad after a few drinks. Pain killers are a whole new territory. I had a bone implant and sinus lift yesterday for a dental implant. My face feels like I got hit with a fire hydrant.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2026 01:59 AM (S41Gd)

388
And then all that moving fluid, and you'd have things like that anyway as part of the habitat system will have oscillations, various mass-spring systems.

Now, you've got a carefully balanced spinning habitat around it's moment of max inertia. You start getting mass oscillations around the structure. They hit some resonance. The moment of inertia tensor starts shaking around, and so does your spin axis. It's not damped, but gets worse and worse.

The thing just flies apart.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 01:59 AM (w6EFb)

389 And I thought I type bad after a few drinks. Pain killers are a whole new territory. I had a bone implant and sinus lift yesterday for a dental implant. My face feels like I got hit with a fire hydrant.
Posted by: Berserker

My sympathy. I had to do the sinus lift & bone graft thing for an implant a few years ago.

It's worth it in the end.

Posted by: mikeski at July 22, 2026 02:11 AM (VHUov)

390 159 B-DD

That does sound unpleasant. Hope they gave you some good stuff!

Get well soon!

Posted by: mnw at July 22, 2026 02:15 AM (RCjYY)

391
I'm recalling some rotating systems stuff from way back in a Mechanics course at Clempson Cow Collidge.

Imagine you have a rotating disk. Now start putting various mass-spring oscillators on it, and let 'em fly. Mass moves around. Inertia tensor changes with time. They had a contraption so you could actually see motion like this. A thing with a 3-axis gimbal. Still under gravity, and not like it would be in free space, but it was designed to produce the full complexity.

You wouldn't believe the crazy motion that thing would do. Bob and weave, speed up, slow down.

Such systems will easily get chaotic. That was far, far beyond the level of undergrad mechanics, believe me. The contraption was not chaotic, as it was designed not to be, but still show just how complex such motion can be.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 02:17 AM (w6EFb)

392 @387 Berserker.

Damn, what you went through yesterday sounds worse than a dental implant.

A nurse asked me one time if I was allergic to anything. I said yes, pain. She laughed at me.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2026 02:18 AM (bqIVz)

393
If you want to see a simple example of this chaotic motion, see "chaotic pendulum". Those things will blow your mind watching them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 02:39 AM (w6EFb)

394
Take two of those chaotic pendula that are identical. Start them at the same position. The motion of each will be entirely different, even though they (*seem*) to start with the exact same initial conditions. That's chaos.

The truth is no matter how identical they appear to be, they aren't really down to some very small decimal point. And likewise, when you start them at the same position, same initial conditions, you don't exactly, at some very small decimal point level.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 22, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)

395 Speaking of chaos, the contractor tore out my crappy kitchen today, down to the studs. Tomorrow he's taking out the bathroom with the shower. I'm moving into the camper for the duration, except the camper has no hot water or heat currently, so DH is delivering the camper to the camper repair place on Saturday. Not at all sure what will happen for THAT week. I guess I'll shower... not at all.

Luckily we live out in the boonies, so I guess if I stink, I stink.

I think we could have worked the timing better, but DH is in charge of that part.... Let's hope it is just for a day or two and they fix what ails the camper systems quickly.

Oh well. This too shall pass.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2026 03:00 AM (w2Efp)

396 Been up 45 minutes already

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 03:01 AM (Ia/+0)

397 If we.get to 400 comments, Ace.gets a cookie 🍪

Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at July 22, 2026 03:10 AM (XVyDE)

398 Some ideas were using some very dense fluid that would be pumped around to maintain balance, and that would be a major engineering thing indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb
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Well, it looked like a good idea on Disney, sad trombone.

Berserker, just take another pill and wait 30 minutes. If it still hurts, have your wife keep an eye on you and take another one.
Pain is another infirmity your body works to overcome. Without the pain your body will focus on the nose.

tcn, hot water and heat? Get ready to pony up some bucks.
_ for my last camper I bought a 5 gallon, 120v water heater from Homely Depot, hooked it up in a lower kitchen cabinet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:13 AM (Pee1E)

399 On the camper: it wouldn't work in glacier north but my little,20', camper had a convection furnace - no fans required. Can't buy them anymore.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:16 AM (Pee1E)

400 Braenyard I have a barely used 5 gallon water heater in the garage. Thought to maybe make it a instant water heater in the kitchen but haven't done it.

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 03:17 AM (Ia/+0)

401 Back to the grind…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2026 03:38 AM (An2iq)

402 Oh look! Its time to get up

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 03:40 AM (Ia/+0)

403 I guess you are all asleep (and I should be!), but I published a blog post I started back in May for my database work, so I'm pretty happy to get that crossed off my list. Tuesdays are usually my "Postgres night", but I've missed the last several weeks due to Independence Day travel and other things. After a hectic spring, all my conference & meetup talks are done, and it looks like the open items against my v19 contribution are getting resolved, so I'm feeling some big-time relief.

Posted by: frammish at July 22, 2026 03:57 AM (rcENI)

404 Berserker, just take another pill and wait 30 minutes. If it still hurts, have your wife keep an eye on you and take another one.
Pain is another infirmity your body works to overcome. Without the pain your body will focus on the nose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 03:13 AM (Pee1E)

Yeah, I didn't realize that until recently. I've been blessed with a largely pain-free life, so when my right shoulder hurt, I ignored it. It spread and got worse, the whole arm from fingertips to shoulder blade, couldn't sleep but in fits and starts. Finally just took some buffered aspirin at the amount indicated on the package, and after a few days of not having to fight the pain too, whatever it was healed up and the pain was gone. I vowed to try to remember to not "tough it out" unnecessarily next time.

Posted by: SciVo at July 22, 2026 04:03 AM (Sy6m/)

405 403 I guess you are all asleep (and I should be!), but I published a blog post I started back in May for my database work, so I'm pretty happy to get that crossed off my list. Tuesdays are usually my "Postgres night", but I've missed the last several weeks due to Independence Day travel and other things. After a hectic spring, all my conference & meetup talks are done, and it looks like the open items against my v19 contribution are getting resolved, so I'm feeling some big-time relief.
Posted by: frammish at July 22, 2026 03:57 AM (rcENI)

A perfect post for the upcoming tech thread!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 04:10 AM (faghi)

406 Have to leave in 45 minutes

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 04:19 AM (Ia/+0)

407 Hope they are paying you a lot of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 22, 2026 04:22 AM (Pee1E)

408 Eh, survived so far in life doing this.
Seems a bad streak every job is a long commute

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2026 04:41 AM (Ia/+0)

409 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2026 04:44 AM (faghi)

410 .
NOOD

Pixy's here with the Tech News

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 22, 2026 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

Miniature World Cafe

Joanna Turner/CougarMagic

I've read about "shiners" using being used to cheat at cards. Here's a demonstration.

"Pygmy?"

Wolves welcome back a long-absent friend.

Armadillo noises.

Evolution of German tanks.

Road safety demonstration for Japanese kids.

Dog plays fetch with himself.

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1 Yay! Cafe!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:33 PM (VyBeY)

2 They sometimes put labs with cheetahs in the zoo. They get along great.
I think farmers should keep cheetahs.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE)

3 That bear seems well groomed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

4 Isn't that swimming thing basically what Esther Williams was doing 80 years ago?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 07:35 PM (vTZFs)

5 Kinda sorta willowed:

Welp, this looks creepy.

"Other Mommy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEpTgowZ1dI&t=134s

Could be another good horror movie in this year of good horror movies.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 07:37 PM (iJfKG)

6 Watching Bob Odenkirk in "Normal"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 21, 2026 07:37 PM (WL2lA)

7 Bear looks stuffed.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 07:38 PM (GD0B3)

8 Cute bear.

Posted by: Leo C at July 21, 2026 07:39 PM (Q+gd/)

9 Willowed

Make
Apprenticeships
Great
Again
Posted by: clarence

My 39 year old godson and name sake recently left his safe banking job to start an apprenticeship as an electrician. He absolutely loves it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 21, 2026 07:39 PM (l26NL)

10 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Isn't that swimming thing basically what Esther Williams was doing 80 years ago?
Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 07:35 PM (vTZFs)

yeah, but she is a bit old to do that anymore.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:39 PM (rbvCR)

12 "Armadillo Noises" was the never completed sequel to "Pet Sounds". Brian Wilson has reportedly abandoned the project, saying "Zappa has already been there".

Posted by: Beach Boy Facts at July 21, 2026 07:40 PM (MWfyi)

13 Bears in the wild often look a little bedraggled and have sticks and crap in their fur.

Ordinarily a black bear will run away at the sight of humans, until dumb shits start feeding them. Then they learn humans won’t do shit in the parks except bang pots or something. They are a pest at best.

Grizzly bears are different. Lewis and Clark noted they would attack on first sight, running at full gallop. That tends to get your attention. I’m not sure if this trait is still evident but they will fuck your day up when so inclined.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:40 PM (SY3aZ)

14 "Joanna Turner/CougarMagic"

That is a funny attribution right there all by itself!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 07:41 PM (ourEi)

15 The bear is loose.

Posted by: Barry O at July 21, 2026 07:42 PM (Q+gd/)

16 142 The bottom line:
A former Pfizer executive. An Iranian arms trafficker arrested at LAX. A cartel-linked Palestinian arms dealer caught fleeing to Kuwait with $44K in stolen cash.

A company-owned aircraft registered 45 minutes from the border. A Fort Bliss LTC whose father-in-law is the arms dealer. And a Distinguished Honor Graduate whistleblower Soldier Richard Halliday murdered for exposing it all.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a documented criminal enterprise.

https://tinyurl.com/yb7fmh5x

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:43 PM (hPgrk)

17 That bear looks delighted to eat me.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 07:43 PM (3uBP9)

18 Awwww. No sea otters again?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 07:44 PM (WSQTx)

19 Of course, the "Penguin Squawks" concept was dead from the start

Posted by: Beach Boy Facts at July 21, 2026 07:44 PM (MWfyi)

20 “I raised my rifle to fire but immediately recollected she was not loaded”

Lewis, recounting how a Grizzly snuck up on him within about 20 paces undetected near the Great Falls in Montana.

He decided to slowly back away calmly. That …. didn’t work. He set a land speed record running away into the river. He later allowed “I then vowed never to leave my rifle unloaded longer than the time required to reload her.” LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:44 PM (SY3aZ)

21 Lot of AI slop 8n that airport video.

Posted by: Rex B at July 21, 2026 07:45 PM (6jbIA)

22 Could only find memoriams for the 10th, and the 32nd AAMDC.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:45 PM (hPgrk)

23 Top photo. Is that one of those "found footage" things that they keep making movies out of?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at July 21, 2026 07:49 PM (kdtv/)

24

nurse,

Son, DIL and the 4 grandkids are going to roadtrip from here in Wyoming to Port Townsend in a few days.

They are very excited.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 07:50 PM (/QHx4)

25 It is 100 F outside. Bleagh.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:53 PM (rbvCR)

26 Evolution of German tanks.

You're velkom!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 07:54 PM (2WIwB)

27 Bear has a very nice smile.

Not your Average Bear.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 07:54 PM (JvZF+)

28 aaaaand we are going to get cloud cover tonight to seal the heat in.

I have put the window unit in and turned it on.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)

29 The Bear.

Last picture by Joanna Turner.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 07:55 PM (2WIwB)

30 They're up to their tricks again here in CA, the Dems just changed the wording on the Voter ID proposition. Fuck them!

https://tinyurl.com/5huynrck

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 07:55 PM (kX27y)

31 I drove 500 miles on I-95 on Saturday, and somewhere in the middle of NC was a Community College right next to the road. About 3 dozen power poles in a big space with transformers and such on some, others on the ground. A bucket truck, etc. Obviously teaching linemen work. A great, in-demand skill. The kind of things college should teach.

Posted by: Master of Grievance Studies at July 21, 2026 07:55 PM (JM9I6)

32 It's not miniature but I painted Vegas at night. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 07:55 PM (KC5Lt)

33 Red Sox are not going far with Chapman closing.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 07:56 PM (GbONR)

34 I know it's Tummy Rub Tuesday, which I'd guess is why that bear looks so well-groomed. What conditioner do they use?

Posted by: Clairol Herbal Essence at July 21, 2026 07:57 PM (JM9I6)

35 Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:44 PM (SY3aZ)

I don't think their air gun would have worked on the Grizzly even though it was ,46 caliber.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 07:58 PM (KC5Lt)

36 That bear seems well groomed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The wolf ain't the only one whose hair is perfect.

Posted by: that bear at July 21, 2026 07:58 PM (VHUov)

37 They need to have a Masonry College.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 07:59 PM (KC5Lt)

38 It's not miniature but I painted Vegas at night. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 07:55 PM (KC5Lt)

Very nice!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 07:59 PM (2WIwB)

39 Community colleges and Vo-Tech schools have instruction on all kinds of icky stuff like Welding, HVAC repair, Plumbing, Turfgrass management, Truck Driving, you name it.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 08:00 PM (SY3aZ)

40 I know it's Tummy Rub Tuesday, which I'd guess is why that bear looks so well-groomed. What conditioner do they use?
Posted by: Clairol Herbal Essence at July 21, 2026 07:57 PM (JM9I6)

It is also Geezer Golf Tuesday and the old dudes were looking good.
Well, those that still had hair that is.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 08:01 PM (2WIwB)

41 They need to have a Masonry College.
Posted by: polynikes

When one graduates, you get to wear a mortarboard.

HeyOhhhhhh!!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 08:02 PM (ourEi)

42
They need to have a Masonry College.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 07:59 PM (KC5Lt)

_____________

You mean where they learn about secret signs and have an occult induction ceremony?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:02 PM (O0L8i)

43 It's going to be 104 tomorrow in Houston. With 35-40 % humidity.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:02 PM (KC5Lt)

44 Why can’t I buy a gun without a magazine?

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:03 PM (/Chlc)

45 Other than used?

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:03 PM (/Chlc)

46 It is 100 F outside. Bleagh.
Posted by: Kindltot

Same here. So glad for a/c!

Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 08:03 PM (rdVOm)

47
When one graduates, you get to wear a mortarboard.

HeyOhhhhhh!!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 08:02 PM (ourEi)

_____________

That's plumb awful.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:03 PM (O0L8i)

48 You mean where they learn about secret signs and have an occult induction ceremony?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:02 PM (O0L8i)

If that's what it takes to get English speaking brick layers imma for it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:04 PM (KC5Lt)

49

Blue collar workers are icky, until an elitest needs something done.

Blue collar workers keep our country running.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 08:04 PM (/QHx4)

50 Why can’t I buy a gun without a magazine?
Posted by: Accomack

Hell, if you walk into a gun shop with a copy of Soldier of Fortune they'll give you a rifle.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 08:04 PM (ourEi)

51 Has anyone seen Pooky'sGirl around? I have missed a bunch of threads, but I was thinking of her and how the pregnancy is going.

Also, has Captain Josepha Sabin been here since her daughter passed away?

You know who else I haven't seen is VillageIdiotsApprentice

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 21, 2026 08:05 PM (FGA9/)

52 Frustrating evening of paperwork
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2026 08:06 PM (Ia/+0)

53 "Why can’t I buy a gun without a magazine?
Posted by: Accomack"

Yoo hoo!

Posted by: M-1 Garand at July 21, 2026 08:06 PM (MWfyi)

54 >>>Team China pulls off a ‘Gravitation’ hat trick in artistic swimming.

Looks more like autistic swimming.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 21, 2026 08:06 PM (syz1S)

55 I don't think their air gun would have worked on the Grizzly even though it was ,46 caliber
——

Nope, probably not. It’s one of the best parts of the Journals. They didn’t “discover” the Grizzly Bear, but they were completely unknown to Science. So they were looking forward to seeing them, or so they thought.

Prior to contact, they were a little over-confident. Yeah, the Plains Indian nations geared up for a Grizzly hunt like they were getting ready for war. But no bear could be a match for a modern Infantry rifle company. C’mon.

Then, they started seeing enormous grizzly besr tracks in the mud. Hm. They sure look pretty big, boss!

AFTER nearly getting killed, shooting them 5 times through different directions, through the lungs, and them being very hard to kill Lewis had a Mea culpa.

“The curiosity of our party with respect to these gentleman is pretty well satisfied” and “I’d rather fight two Indians than one Grizzly bear”

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 08:07 PM (SY3aZ)

56 Not your Average Bear.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 07:54 PM (JvZF+)

Would you say he's smarter?

Posted by: Yogi at July 21, 2026 08:07 PM (SExz7)

57 71° and soggy here.
I had a cat that would eat grass but had to be fed catnip.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:07 PM (/Chlc)

58
103 F right now in DFW.

This week is going to be a bitch.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 08:07 PM (iJfKG)

59 When one graduates, you get to wear a mortarboard.
HeyOhhhhhh!!!!
Posted by: Tonypete

That's plumb awful.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm not good with masonry puns, so imma throw in the trowel.

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 08:07 PM (VHUov)

60 Is that bear out of control?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2026 08:08 PM (sZBEc)

61 Evolution of German tanks was neat

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

62 I found three 10” barreled 300 blackouts: ATI MIL-SPORT, Radical and Hi Point. But, only with 30 rd mags. Can’t they just sell the gun?

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:09 PM (/Chlc)

63 I'm not good with masonry puns, so imma throw in the trowel.
Posted by: mikeski

Good point.

Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 08:09 PM (rdVOm)

64 I don't remember reaching 104 in Houston since I moved here in 1994. AI tells me though that we reached 109 twice. 2000 and 2011. I would think I'd remember that. Maybe it was the heat.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:10 PM (KC5Lt)

65 Seems the smoke in the air here kept the heat down a bit. Around 90, 10 degrees short of the forecast.

But the air quality is for shit right now. Good thing I ain't got the assmar.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)

66 If you've ever been out of power after a hurricane for days or weeks, the lineman's trucks are the prettiest sight in the world.

Posted by: Pull My Wire! at July 21, 2026 08:10 PM (JM9I6)

67 Why can’t I buy a gun without a magazine?

Since the magazine is the part of the gun (removable or not) that holds ammo, I guess technically a single-shot rifle or handgun could be described as being without a magazine. But I suspect that's not what you're asking. What are you asking?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 08:11 PM (vTZFs)

68 supposed to be a high of 74 here tomorrow.
NE IN
I am not complaining.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 21, 2026 08:11 PM (FGA9/)

69 Why can’t I buy a gun without a magazine?
Posted by: Accomack"

Details, please? Are you trying to buy a model that you already have plenty of magazines for?

Are you complaining about the current trend to put detachable magazines on bolt action rifles?

Perhaps you are bemoaning the scarcity of single shot firearms?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 21, 2026 08:11 PM (kdtv/)

70 The bear wants you to put pink ribbons in his hair and feed him cookies.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 08:12 PM (sYM3s)

71 Artistic swimming looks like the kind of thing that would make you lose your mind.

Zero fun combined with insectine obedience and discipline.

No. Thank. You.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

72 Eating sliced termaters the way my Dad and Grandpa taught me: with salt and pepper.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

73 Accomack, why don't you want the mags? Are you in a state that declares them illegal, or do you just not liking them?

Either way, make a deal with the shop, ask them to order you some ten round mags to go with the rifle for [reason] or order your own.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 08:13 PM (rbvCR)

74 New 10” blackouts come with 30 round magazines. Well, that’s too big for many states. Why won’t the gun manufacturer sell only the gun, no mag and let the end buyer sort out the magazines.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:13 PM (/Chlc)

75 Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

The Chinese are very good at that kind of crap.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (KC5Lt)

76 Perhaps you are bemoaning the scarcity of single shot firearms?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

In industry there are 'shotguns' that are single shot that must be tripod mounted. 6 ga. iirc. We used them to knock down material rings inside of rotary kilns.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (ourEi)

77
Bear looks happy cuz his dinner's right in front of him.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (iJfKG)

78 Star Trek is on. It's the one where they could have killed Hitler but instead they just let Joan Collins get run over.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (MWfyi)

79
Tecumseh,

Pooky's Girl is on vacation and has been commenting when she has time.

I think Capt has a lot going on with the loss of her daughter.

VIA usually comments early in the morning.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (/QHx4)

80 That bear has never skipped a meal.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (KC5Lt)

81
American and Russia: Good-enough tanks rolling off the assembly line in huge numbers.

Germany: Superb tanks handcrafted in workshops.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:15 PM (O0L8i)

82 I found three 10” barreled 300 blackouts: ATI MIL-SPORT, Radical and Hi Point. But, only with 30 rd mags. Can’t they just sell the gun?

So you're in a state that would allow you to buy the gun but not the 30 round mag? Seems odd but maybe you could ask your dealer to open the factory package and remove the mag. I'm not sure what the legalities of that are.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 08:15 PM (vTZFs)

83 Monkey and dog. Monkey knows how this game is played, declines to participate:

https://tinyurl.com/w3xtuctm

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 08:15 PM (IG3/x)

84 Star Trek is on. It's the one where they could have killed Hitler but instead they just let Joan Collins get run over.
Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (MWfyi)

They didn't want to prime directive themselves.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:15 PM (KC5Lt)

85 Pooky's Girl is on vacation and has been commenting when she has time.

I think Capt has a lot going on with the loss of her daughter.

VIA usually comments early in the morning.

Posted by: four seasons

You keep a spreadsheet of all of our data, don't you?

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 08:16 PM (ourEi)

86 Evolution of German tanks.

You're velkom!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 07:54 PM (2WIwB)

They make them all the same size. The first WWI tank might well be larger than the biggest modern tank in size. Certainly it was bigger than the Pz I and II after it.

The crew of that first tank was 15-25 men.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:17 PM (uhVAy)

87 my electric company sent me a nastygram that I'm using my power 37% more than last year.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:17 PM (gKWVE)

88
Lol Tonypete.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 08:17 PM (/QHx4)

89 "my electric company sent me a nastygram that I'm using my power 37% more than last year.
Posted by: gKWVE"

You'd think they would be happy. Don't they make a profit on electricity?

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 08:18 PM (MWfyi)

90 @84 Star Trek is on.

Isn't it always?

Posted by: Case at July 21, 2026 08:19 PM (bqIVz)

91

gKWVE,

When we lived in SC we used to get those notices.

Husband always said they can fuck off.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 08:19 PM (/QHx4)

92 American and Russia: Good-enough tanks rolling off the assembly line in huge numbers.

Germany: Superb tanks handcrafted in workshops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:15 PM (O0L8i)

The Russian tanks were better than ours because our procurement department General had a beef with the guy who invented the tank suspension and sloped armor. He ended up selling it to Russia.

Or was the beef about the machine gun procurement? Either way we tend to f up on our initial procurement decisions.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:20 PM (KC5Lt)

93 "Isn't it always?
Posted by: Case"

No. Sometimes it's Match Game.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 08:20 PM (MWfyi)

94 Artistic swimming looks like the kind of thing that would make you lose your mind.

Zero fun combined with insectine obedience and discipline.

No. Thank. You.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

I've been against sport swimming from the start but at least in the early days they went for elegance instead of this kinda brutish routine.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:20 PM (uhVAy)

95 my electric company sent me a nastygram that I'm using my power 37% more than last year.
Posted by: gKWVE

TF should they care, as long as they get their 37% mo' money?

That BS was started under o'barky, iirc. For a couple of years, we'd get a monthly "compared to your neighbors" usage blurb. (Mailed separately from the bill, of course.)

Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 08:21 PM (rdVOm)

96 It was a mechanical rice picker accident.

Posted by: Capt James T Kirk at July 21, 2026 08:21 PM (Q+gd/)

97 > In industry there are 'shotguns' that are single shot that must be tripod mounted. 6 ga. iirc. We used them to knock down material rings inside of rotary kilns.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 08:14 PM (ourEi)

There were also the old-school "punt guns" that were used for market hunting of waterfowl back when that was legal. Some of those bad boys would fire over a pound of shot at once. They were boat-mounted, not shoulder fired. Rumor has it that beyond a certain size they had to be registered with the navy, for potential requisition in war time.

When I was a kid a friend's grandpa had an 8 gauge (aka 8 bore) gun hanging on the wall. It was never fired to my knowledge, but man that thing was a beast.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 08:22 PM (IG3/x)

98 Artistic swimming looks like the kind of thing that would make you lose your mind.
Zero fun combined with insectine obedience and discipline.
No. Thank. You.
Posted by: naturalfake

I thought that sport used to be called "synchronized swimming."

Too on-point for the obedient insects? Had to gay it up a bit?

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 08:22 PM (VHUov)

99 I always thought why didn't they just use a bull dozer in WW1 when going over the top and then learned the bull dozer wasn't 'invented' until 1923.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:23 PM (KC5Lt)

100 Germany: Superb tanks handcrafted in workshops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Japan had that problem with their aircraft. I read there was one factory that didn't have an airstrip anywhere near it, so a finished plane would have to be driven through town by oxen to the nearest airstrip quite some distance. Plus, they really couldn't train pilots quickly enough. Until they only needed to train them to take off. Not land.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 21, 2026 08:23 PM (l26NL)

101 I always thought why didn't they just use a bull dozer in WW1 when going over the top and then learned the bull dozer wasn't 'invented' until 1923.
Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:23 PM (KC5Lt)

They pretty much did, they just needed to be big enough to not fall into a trench system and not be able to get out. The problem is how to get an engine big enough and reliable enough to keep the thing going.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:25 PM (uhVAy)

102 FourSeasons

I haven't seen VIA on Pixy at all, and he usually would comment there.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 21, 2026 08:25 PM (FGA9/)

103 King of the Hill had their second season of the reboot on Hulu. They did a great job if you're a fan of KotH.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2026 08:26 PM (KC5Lt)

104 Good evening, everyone. It is getting pretty grey and windy out there!

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 08:27 PM (+dm09)

105 American and Russia: Good-enough tanks rolling off the assembly line in huge numbers. Germany: Superb tanks handcrafted in workshops.
——-

Right, but everybody seems to forget this maxim when the subject of shitty Chinese navy ships or submarines comes up. Oops

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 08:29 PM (SY3aZ)

106 my electric company sent me a nastygram that I'm using my power 37% more than last year.

I have a friend who has a fairly advanced solar setup. He gets nastygrams from his power company because he routines runs a negative bill. They keep coming out and replacing the meter because they're sure something's wrong.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 08:29 PM (vTZFs)

107 my electric company sent me a nastygram that I'm using my power 37% more than last year.
Posted by: gKWVE

Energy companies are the only ones that constantly beg you to buy less from them.

You'll never hear, from a bartender, "Pappy Van Winkle, sir? Wouldn't you be just as happy with Valu-Rite?"

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 08:29 PM (VHUov)

108 Seems odd but maybe you could ask your dealer to open the factory package and remove the mag"

I know a few folks who have done just that...

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 08:29 PM (XuXeR)

109 When the Germans captured an American tank and took it apart they were amazed at the design allowing ease of repair and parts replacement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 08:30 PM (hPgrk)

110 For a couple of years, we'd get a monthly "compared to your neighbors" usage blurb"

Yeah. Everyone got them...

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 08:30 PM (XuXeR)

111 On Aug. 5th, around 2:35 AM EDT, the upper stage of the Falcon 9 that launched the Blue Ghost lander, will slam into the Moon. The Moon will be about 3rd quarter, and will hit on the upper limb of the sunlight side.

Very unlikely to see anything with the naked eye, but with a telescope a dust cloud might, just might be visible.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 21, 2026 08:31 PM (iKvf9)

112 51 Has anyone seen Pooky'sGirl around? I have missed a bunch of threads, but I was thinking of her and how the pregnancy is going.

Also, has Captain Josepha Sabin been here since her daughter passed away?

You know who else I haven't seen is VillageIdiotsApprentice
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 21, 2026 08:05 PM (FGA9/)

Captain posted a few nights back ...

pookysgirl is traveling the west on vacation ...

VIA I haven't seen

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 08:31 PM (3sXRv)

113 30’s are currently illegal. Guns.com won’t sell but my local FFL might since the injunction has landed.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:32 PM (8jVAy)

114 my electric company sent me a nastygram that I'm using my power 37% more than last year.
——-

Who is paying for it? Write them a nice letter in response. They need to STFU

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 08:32 PM (SY3aZ)

115 will slam into the Moon"

I saw that. Edison film, I think.

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 08:32 PM (XuXeR)

116 Germany: Superb tanks handcrafted in workshops.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Overengineered, a bitch to fix, and Germany didn't have a sufficient repair system to deal with the realities of Russia. When they worked, they worked great. Had radios and really good crews. Lacked sloped armor and tread width was too narrow rural Russia. That said, if they had begun Barbarossa with Panthers and Tigers instead of IIIs and IVs, they might have won. Significant-sized units were often held up for days by a single JS-1.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 08:35 PM (DZ9Lv)

117 >>Energy companies are the only ones that constantly beg you to buy less from them.

...
Posted by: mikeski

or we'll jack up the price. Don't worry, they'll jack up the price anyway.

Here's the deal, SMRs are just around the corner, maybe not common for us but for our kids. Warn them about regulators and how they will screw it up.
Keep the regulators away and they will have virtually free electricity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 08:35 PM (hPgrk)

118 For a couple of years, we'd get a monthly "compared to your neighbors" usage blurb"

Yeah. Everyone got them...
Posted by: man

And if you were on the left side of the median, because you're a single dude and thus doing 1/5 of the cooking and laundry and such compared to the average house with their 2.2 kids?

Then they don't compare you to the average neighbor. You get "You used 18% more power than your 'efficient' neighbors, you capitalist swine."

I presume my 'efficient' neighbors were the unoccupied homes with realty signs in front of them.

Posted by: mikeski at July 21, 2026 08:36 PM (VHUov)

119 @iAnonPatriot
Hunter Biden is now claiming that Ted Cruz is gay and likes doing inappropriate stuff with animals..

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:37 PM (gKWVE)

120 111 On Aug. 5th, around 2:35 AM EDT, the upper stage of the Falcon 9 that launched the Blue Ghost lander, will slam into the Moon. The Moon will be about 3rd quarter, and will hit on the upper limb of the sunlight side.

Very unlikely to see anything with the naked eye, but with a telescope a dust cloud might, just might be visible.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone
----

That's an old, old movie. Hit the moon right in the eye, it did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 08:37 PM (hPgrk)

121 "Hunter Biden is now claiming that Ted Cruz is gay and likes doing inappropriate stuff with animals."

I thought that was a good thing nowadays.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 08:38 PM (MWfyi)

122 When the Germans captured an American tank and took it apart they were amazed at the design allowing ease of repair and parts replacement.
Posted by: Braenyard

They were even more amazed that we could ship an entire army across the Atlantic and still provide it with Valu-rite. That's when they knew the gig was up.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 08:38 PM (DZ9Lv)

123 Sounds like Trump is going to be in my hood tomorrow. Hopefully I get to work early enough to avoid traffic. GA please please don’t be crazypants tomorrow.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 08:38 PM (3uBP9)

124 I with Trump would stop being nice and just obliterate these ragheads.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:39 PM (GbONR)

125 King of the Hill had their second season of the reboot on Hulu. They did a great job if you're a fan of KotH.

That's good to hear. I watched most of KotH-TOS on Fox and was afraid that they'd screw up the reboot just because. that's the way those things usually go.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2026 08:40 PM (vTZFs)

126 Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 08:38 PM (MWfyi)

I know, right? Almost as if Hunter was smoking crack or something

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:40 PM (gKWVE)

127 I presume my 'efficient' neighbors were the unoccupied homes with realty signs in front of them.
Posted by: mikeski

LOL! I figured that was the case, too.

Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2026 08:41 PM (rdVOm)

128 Hunter Biden is now claiming that Ted Cruz is gay and likes doing inappropriate stuff with animals."

I thought that was a good thing nowadays.
Posted by: fd

Is good!

Posted by: Muhammed M Muhammed at July 21, 2026 08:41 PM (601KG)

129 122

I read that they were also impressed that the U.S. had enough shipping availability to send cake and pianos across the ocean,

There was such a thing as a "combat piano" to cheer up the troops. Small. light. compact.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 08:44 PM (RCjYY)

130 When the Germans captured an American tank and took it apart they were amazed at the design allowing ease of repair and parts replacement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 08:30 PM (hPgrk)

we couldn't afford to ship the tank back to the USA over an ocean for repair. So we took steps. The Germans also could not afford their decision to ship tanks back to Germany for repair, but tried anyway and often tanks were cannibalized to keep some running

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:44 PM (uhVAy)

131
Japan had that problem with their aircraft. Plus, they really couldn't train pilots quickly enough. Until they only needed to train them to take off. Not land.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Atta boy, Ruther!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 08:46 PM (Cqx++)

132 we couldn't afford to ship the tank back to the USA over an ocean for repair. So we took steps. The Germans also could not afford their decision to ship tanks back to Germany for repair, but tried anyway and often tanks were cannibalized to keep some running

Posted by: Oldcat
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Something about US tanks fit for size and German tanks too big to fit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 08:47 PM (hPgrk)

133 Overengineered, a bitch to fix, and Germany didn't have a sufficient repair system to deal with the realities of Russia. When they worked, they worked great. Had radios and really good crews. Lacked sloped armor and tread width was too narrow rural Russia. That said, if they had begun Barbarossa with Panthers and Tigers instead of IIIs and IVs, they might have won. Significant-sized units were often held up for days by a single JS-1.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 08:35 PM (DZ9Lv)

well sure considering Panthers didn't have their teething troubles fixed up until probably 1944. That's about 2 years of wartime learning skipped over.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:47 PM (uhVAy)

134
I read that they were also impressed that the U.S. had enough shipping availability to send cake and pianos across the ocean,

There was such a thing as a "combat piano" to cheer up the troops. Small. light. compact.
Posted by: mnw

You should have tasted combat cake!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)

135 As I recall, all the British armored vehicles had hot water taps connected to the radiators.

For tea, of course.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 08:48 PM (IG3/x)

136 Meanwhile in Scottsdale AZ, voting machines are down in a number of Republican precincts.

Every time.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 21, 2026 08:49 PM (l26NL)

137 Something about US tanks fit for size and German tanks too big to fit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 08:47 PM (hPgrk)

Doctrine at the time was that tank destoyers were to kill enemy tanks. But if there was a tank spotted, the US would send a unit of 5 tanks out to meet it. If three or more tanks, they would send three units of 5 tanks.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:50 PM (uhVAy)

138 > Until they only needed to train them to take off. Not land.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Same as the Iraqi Air Force in Gulf War I.

Except with them it wasn't intentional.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 08:50 PM (IG3/x)

139 As I recall, all the British armored vehicles had hot water taps connected to the radiators.

For tea, of course.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 08:48 PM (IG3/x)

ours had a telephone outside so you could talk to the tank commander without him opening up the tank.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:51 PM (uhVAy)

140 122

What is "Valu-rite" in the WWII context?

The pharmacy chain by that name was established after WWII, and that's all I can find when I Google it.

Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 08:51 PM (RCjYY)

141 If the town can't keep its voting machines working, the water needs cutting off. And power.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:51 PM (gKWVE)

142 What is "Valu-rite" in the WWII context?

The pharmacy chain by that name was established after WWII, and that's all I can find when I Google it.
Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 08:51 PM (RCjYY)

Lore is the only product us AoS morons consume is Valu-Rite vodka.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:52 PM (uhVAy)

143 > What is "Valu-rite" in the WWII context?

Sterno, I think.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 08:52 PM (IG3/x)

144 >>> If the town can't keep its voting machines working, the water needs cutting off. And power.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:51 PM (gKWVE)

And nuts.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 08:55 PM (3uBP9)

145
The pharmacy chain by that name was established after WWII, and that's all I can find when I Google it.
Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2026 08:51 PM (RCjYY)

Probably "torpedo alcohol"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 08:55 PM (rbvCR)

146
ours had a telephone outside so you could talk to the tank commander without him opening up the tank.
Posted by: Oldcat

I'll bet there were a lot of prank calls.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)

147
Every boot, bullet and ration had to be shipped thousands of miles in ships we didn't have at first. Yet the Allies never went without. That's a remarkable story that's never really been told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (O0L8i)

148 "the WWII context" was pretty good for discovering new ways to keep troop morale high. Instant coffee for instance.
The Germans also discovered some chemicals which could keep their troops awake for long marches.
I think the US did better.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (gKWVE)

149 I bought an alcohol camping stove. It is the sort that has the coil of copper tubing that preheats the fuel to fumes, and conducts the heat back to the tank to boil the alcohol to force more fuel up to the coils.
It is pretty neat. It takes about 5 minutes to boil a couple of cups of coffee.
It is not as good as a gas stove, but I wanted something as a back up.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 08:58 PM (rbvCR)

150 "the WWII context" was pretty good for discovering new ways to keep troop morale high. Instant coffee for instance.
The Germans also discovered some chemicals which could keep their troops awake for long marches.
I think the US did better.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (gKWVE)

We knew that in the Civil War - huge coffee/sugar ration, and lots of durable hardtack for munching on. Dried veggies for soup and salt pork / beef for cooking.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:58 PM (uhVAy)

151 I bought an alcohol camping stove. It is the sort that has the coil of copper tubing that preheats the fuel to fumes, and conducts the heat back to the tank to boil the alcohol to force more fuel up to the coils.
It is pretty neat. It takes about 5 minutes to boil a couple of cups of coffee.
It is not as good as a gas stove, but I wanted something as a back up.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 08:58 PM (rbvCR)

Whoa!
Am i the only one thinking 'shine here?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 09:02 PM (2WIwB)

152 ours had a telephone outside so you could talk to the tank commander without him opening up the tank.
Posted by: Oldcat

I'll bet there were a lot of prank calls.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 09:05 PM (ourEi)

153 ours had a telephone outside so you could talk to the tank commander without him opening up the tank.
Posted by: Oldcat

I'll bet there were a lot of prank calls.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 09:05 PM (ourEi)

That's not funny!!!

Posted by: Prince Harry at July 21, 2026 09:06 PM (2WIwB)

154 iAnonPatriot
Hunter Biden is now claiming that Ted Cruz is gay and likes doing inappropriate stuff with animals..
Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:37 P

And Hunter knows this how...?

Posted by: LASue at July 21, 2026 09:08 PM (lCppi)

155 Every boot, bullet and ration had to be shipped thousands of miles in ships we didn't have at first. Yet the Allies never went without. That's a remarkable story that's never really been told.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (O0L8i)

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics. – General Omar Bradley

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 09:08 PM (IG3/x)

156

Hunter is most likely back on drugs.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 09:10 PM (/QHx4)

157 well sure considering Panthers didn't have their teething troubles fixed up until probably 1944. That's about 2 years of wartime learning skipped over.
Posted by: Oldcat

They didn't need a wartime environment, just some off-road trials.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 09:11 PM (DZ9Lv)

158 Every boot, bullet and ration had to be shipped thousands of miles in ships we didn't have at first. Yet the Allies never went without. That's a remarkable story that's never really been told.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (O0L8i)

Something I have thought about in passing, but never dwelt upon. Holy cow. The sheer amount of effort keeping America in the fight!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 09:11 PM (0aYVJ)

159 Hunter Biden is, shall we say,,,,,,,,,,distracted.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 21, 2026 09:12 PM (RWFuC)

160 “Morale” and “Civil War Hardtack” don’t often pair well together. They were still issuing that in World War I.

The weevils were said to increase protein content, but

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:12 PM (b5vpJ)

161 Hildreth Meiere was a woman artist/muralist who helped bring Art Deco to the USA. She was studying in Paris at just the right time. She and Louis Ross built more than a hundred triptychs for use in religious services by the US Military in both theaters in WW II. Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic. Wooden panels with raised plaster, enamel, and extensive use of gold and silver leaf. I doubt many came back after the war. I know there is one at the Biltmore in NC. I own a large 7'X8' oak panel done by Mr. Ross in 1941.

Posted by: We Moved "Stuff" All Over at July 21, 2026 09:13 PM (JM9I6)

162 I was told that hardtack was nicknamed "worm castles."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 09:14 PM (0aYVJ)

163 "Hunter Biden is now claiming that Ted Cruz is gay and likes doing inappropriate stuff with animals."

So he's a Cruz supporter now?

Posted by: davidt at July 21, 2026 09:16 PM (Q+gd/)

164 141 If the town can't keep its voting machines working, the water needs cutting off. And power.

Posted by: gKWVE
---

Someone stuck a shoe init.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 09:16 PM (hPgrk)

165 That there bear has a cute smile.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 21, 2026 09:17 PM (m1/YG)

166 By that I mean, literally Civil War hardtack. 60 year old Hardtack.

Nothing is too good for our boys, you see, fighting the War to End All Wars!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:17 PM (b5vpJ)

167 148 "the WWII context" was pretty good for discovering new ways to keep troop morale high. Instant coffee for instance.
The Germans also discovered some chemicals which could keep their troops awake for long marches.
I think the US did better.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 08:56 PM (gKWVE)

Instant coffee > crystal meth

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:17 PM (4g5V+)

168 > The sheer amount of effort keeping America in the fight!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 09:11 PM (0aYVJ)

Don't forget all that stuff we were shipping to the Sovs through the back door, by way Murmansk/Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, and muhfuggin' Iran.

Without that Stalin would've folded, and the history of the world would've been much different.

My theory is that if Stalin got curbstomped, the war would've continued until the US got nukes (hopefully before the Nazis), whereupon we would've nuked Hitler as well as Tojo.

Downside: mass civilian casualties (although maybe not as many as resulted from the conventional fight).

Big upside: war ends with no Soviet Union.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 09:18 PM (IG3/x)

169 147
Every boot, bullet and ration had to be shipped thousands of miles in ships we didn't have at first. Yet the Allies never went without. That's a remarkable story that's never really been told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Ya know who built the ships? ....... _ Kaiser

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 09:18 PM (hPgrk)

170 Instant coffee > crystal meth
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:17 PM (4g5V+)

Oh fuck OFF animal lover.

Posted by: Hunter (on another laptop) at July 21, 2026 09:19 PM (gKWVE)

171 The Royal Navy learned that if you banged your ship's biscuit on the table a few times, then set it aside, most of the weevils would come to the surface so they could be flicked off.

That's culinary news you can use.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 09:20 PM (IG3/x)

172 Unscrupulous contractors galore supplying the blue belly Federal army. Huge scandals at the time.

They did try to issue Coffee, in green bean form. At a halt of any duration fires would get lit, to get a boil going.

Confederates were cutoff from Coffee right away, and caused lots of trouble. Trading went on between armies. Tobacco, for Coffee.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:20 PM (b5vpJ)

173 Hunter Biden is, shall we say,,,,,,,,,,distracted.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 21, 2026 09:12 PM (RWFuC)

He is a scum-sucking Siberian snow pimp and a lying asshole as well.

Posted by: Prince Harry at July 21, 2026 09:21 PM (2WIwB)

174 I believe the record time for construction of a Liberty Ship was 11 days, start to finish.

Posted by: Express Lane at July 21, 2026 09:21 PM (JM9I6)

175 Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics. – General Omar Bradley
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 09:08 PM (IG3/x)

Logistics? We don’t need that shit.

Posted by: Wehrmacht at July 21, 2026 09:22 PM (4g5V+)

176
Confederates were cutoff from Coffee right away, and caused lots of trouble. Trading went on between armies. Tobacco, for Coffee.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:20 PM (b5vpJ)

And the beginning of using chicory in the South.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:23 PM (4g5V+)

177 The Royal Navy learned that if you banged your ship's biscuit on the table a few times, then set it aside, most of the weevils would come to the surface so they could be flicked off.

That's culinary news you can use.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 09:20 PM (IG3/x)

So...
Banging that morning biscuit has some value.
Something Mrs D has ignored now for years.

Posted by: Prince Harry at July 21, 2026 09:23 PM (2WIwB)

178 @168 Don't forget all that stuff we were shipping to the Sovs through the back door, by way Murmansk/Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, and muhfuggin' Iran.

Without that Stalin would've folded, and the history of the world would've been much different.

I couldn't finish the Diana West book that revealed this, I kept getting angrier and angrier until all I was wearing was purple shorts.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2026 09:26 PM (CHHv1)

179 I’m telling you, the availability of coffee is the LIMFAC for the military.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:27 PM (4g5V+)

180 Yes, banging the biscuit is, how you say, what the kids call it these days.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 21, 2026 09:28 PM (Q+gd/)

181 BeckoningChasm, you might not want to read Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 09:28 PM (gKWVE)

182 Overengineered, a bitch to fix,

This, too, is the story of BMW

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 21, 2026 09:29 PM (vJrRc)

183 Don't forget all that stuff we were shipping to the Sovs through the back door, by way Murmansk/Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, and muhfuggin' Iran.

Without that Stalin would've folded, and the history of the world would've been much different.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 09:18 PM (IG3/

Tell me about it.

Posted by: BGen Philip R. Faymonville at July 21, 2026 09:29 PM (4g5V+)

184 The real scandal with Diana West is how she got canceled by the Polite Conservatives.
Ahoy!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 09:29 PM (gKWVE)

185 And the beginning of using chicory in the South.
——

Right, and roasted Acorns, Kentucky “coffee tree” beans.

None of which contained any Caffeine. Interestingly many if not most letters to home often mentioned Coffee, and that was on the Union side.

The Rebs would definitely target the commissary wagons, and pick through the dirt to find stray beans that were lost in the rout or whatever. Talk about hard up for a cup of Joe

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:29 PM (b5vpJ)

186 The Red Army got to Berlin via Detroit in a very real sense.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:31 PM (4g5V+)

187 I’m telling you, the availability of coffee is the LIMFAC for the military.
——

? I don’t know what that is. I read that when World War eleven started, Nimitz or Halsey or someone like that sailed into the harbor at Brazil and purchased the entire years crop of coffee. Priorities, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:32 PM (b5vpJ)

188 187 I’m telling you, the availability of coffee is the LIMFAC for the military.
——

? I don’t know what that is. I read that when World War eleven started, Nimitz or Halsey or someone like that sailed into the harbor at Brazil and purchased the entire years crop of coffee. Priorities, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:32 PM (b5vpJ)

LIMFAC = LIMiting FACtor.

And now you know some logistician’s lingo.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:34 PM (4g5V+)

189 What’s sad is Packard and Studebaker and many other major manufacturers didn’t survive the war or last very much longer.

Stude held on till the 1960s, but .

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:34 PM (b5vpJ)

190 My comment about Valu-rite in WW2 was a joke.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 09:37 PM (DZ9Lv)

191 190 My comment about Valu-rite in WW2 was a joke.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 09:37 PM (DZ9Lv)

I think we knew, but it spurred a conversation

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 09:39 PM (gKWVE)

192 crack of dawn they storm again
Hunting, fighting and killing all men
Our end is near, our time now short
Our kingdoms have fallen as a result of his sport

Blitzkrieg tactics of the German command
Born with the power of God in his hand
Withdrawn from fighting, he now takes his leave
Seeking out goals that can't be conceived

Machine gun fire, blood level higher
Visions of torture and terror to all
Ready for battle, awaiting the final command

Posted by: Slayer at July 21, 2026 09:40 PM (4g5V+)

193
Man on base, two outs, two strikes. Yordan Alvarez swings and misses. But the pitch gets past the catcher, who can't find it. Alvarez is safe at first. Next batter, first pitch, three-run homer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 09:42 PM (O0L8i)

194 Fuckin SLAYER

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:43 PM (4g5V+)

195 most of the weevils would come to the surface so they could be flicked off."

Ah. The lesser of two weevils...

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 09:43 PM (XuXeR)

196 Hadrian.

I saw that.

Baseball is so fun.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 09:44 PM (urHev)

197 Hunter is looking to keep his name in the headlines. I think he is planning a political run of some sort. Or a podcast to capitalize on his name. He is not stupid, he must have gotten that from his mom. Anyway, it’s working. Everyone is still talking about him and he is getting invited for interviews now.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2026 09:46 PM (Dd38x)

198
Sovaboos regularly disparage Lend Lease because the tonnage was a small fraction of Soviet output. But US aid allowed the Red Army to be mechanized. It also supplied avgas, aluminum, alloys and food. The best evidence of the importance of Lend Lease was that the Reds were always demanding more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2026 09:46 PM (O0L8i)

199 178 @168 Don't forget all that stuff we were shipping to the Sovs through the back door, by way Murmansk/Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, and muhfuggin' Iran.

Without that Stalin would've folded, and the history of the world would've been much different.

I couldn't finish the Diana West book that revealed this, I kept getting angrier and angrier until all I was wearing was purple shorts.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2026 09:26 PM (CHHv1)

Some interesting things came out of that. The P-39 Airacobra was a sturdy fighter and ground attack plane that did almost everything well, but didn't do any one thing superbly. The US built 3,000 or so but never found a good use for them, and they were overshadowed by newer models. Almost all of them were shipped to the Soviet Union, where they were heavily used and became one of the most successful airframes of the war. A plane that did everything well and was easy to use and maintain was exactly what the Soviets needed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 09:47 PM (edUvp)

200 We won WWII and saved baseball. If it went the other way we would be stuck with soccer.

Posted by: Case at July 21, 2026 09:47 PM (bqIVz)

201 Baseball is so fun.
Posted by: nurse ratched.
****

Which is why you scream F*c*in Mariners several times a week. 😜

Posted by: clarence at July 21, 2026 09:50 PM (1QT7n)

202 Why can’t I buy a gun without a magazine?
Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 08:03 PM (/Chlc)

Could you buy a gun with a subscription to American Rifleman?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 09:51 PM (wWuuh)

203 If we lost WWII, would the World Series be held in Japan?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 09:53 PM (wWuuh)

204 Fuckin SLAYER
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 21, 2026 09:43 PM (4g5V+)

Last time I saw Slayer, Jeff was dead, Gary Holt* was in his place, and Tom's head was no longer on the swivel. Old man neck. I am there. No Lombardo, but Bostaph kills the skins.

Still fucking killed.
*Gary Holt is the only one who could step into Jeff Hanneman's shoes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 09:56 PM (0aYVJ)

205 Sovaboos regularly disparage Lend Lease because the tonnage was a small fraction of Soviet output.
——

I doubt it was a “small fraction”, it was a truly staggering amount of equipment. No chance they would have prevailed without it.

When Germany surrendered in May, Lend Lease was ended for Uncle Joe, and boy was he pissed. I guess he expected the West to keep sending all this stuff

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 09:57 PM (b5vpJ)

206 When I think about the whole of human history as seafaring people, imagine the colossal amount of stuff that now lies on the floor of all the seas. Titanic, ooh, yeah, how tragic.

But there is a crazy bunch of stuff on the ocean floor; jeeps, tanks, medical supplies, airplane parts, ammunition.

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Software "Glitch" in Democrat-Riddled NJ Allows That Thing the Media Democrat Party Says Never Happens to Happen 6600 Times

A "glitch" permitted 6,600 illegal aliens to sign up to vote, and we know at least 400 did illegally vote.

Deb Heine at AmGreatness:

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D.) announced Tuesday that a "software error" in the state's Motor Vehicle Commission system registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote between June 2023 and June 2024 even though they had indicated they were not U.S. citizens on driver's license and ID applications.
New Jersey is one of approximately 31 states that has refused to provide full, unredacted voter registration lists to the Department of Justice for the Civil Rights Division's ongoing review of U.S. voter rolls.
Sherrill emphasized that the error happened "under the previous administration" and alleged that a preliminary analysis showed that fewer than 400 of these individuals actually cast ballots in elections.
Sherill was preceded by Democrat Governor Phil Murphy, who appears to have concealed the issue after it was caught in 2024.
She told reporters during a news conference Tuesday that it was unacceptable that the "previous administration" didn't bring the system error to light and demand accountability.

...
"I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024" she added. "The new MVC Administrator that I appointed has begun the process of replacing the vendor responsible for administering the system."

What about the other thousands of illegal aliens on your rolls?

She then pivoted to, get this: Trump.

...
Sherrill also took the opportunity to bash President Trump's election integrity efforts and patted herself on the back for taking immediate action to fix the problem.
She stated that Trump has "zero credibility on the issue" due to his efforts to expose how the 2020 election was rigged.

DHS Secretary Mullin says she wants to close this file ASAP because NJ still has around 35,000 illegal aliens on the rolls, and they want to keep those illegal voters:

"This should've been done a LONG time ago," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin posted on X. Just ONE illegal vote cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen. As @DHSgov reported last week--New Jersey could have as many as 35,152 potential non-citizens registered to vote. Looking forward to working with you to secure your elections in the future."

I wouldn't hold your breath.

BREAKING

WE WERE RIGHT!

Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) just confirmed that illegal aliens ARE registered AND voting in New Jersey.

The thing that never happens is happening.

If it weren�t for the Department of Homeland Security sharing that 250,000 non-citizens are� pic.twitter.com/GXWnLhnWWT
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) July 21, 2026

Wait. Weren�t you the guy on TV with me on CBS last Thursday saying noncitizen voting wasn�t a problem. Might want to check in with Gov. Sherrill. She says 6600 foreigners got on her rolls and about 400 voted. https://t.co/l1onCsxp0v
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) July 21, 2026

The deal for the Democrats to pass Motor Voter was that voter rolls be purged routinely due to precisely these concerns.

When Motor Voter passed in May, 1993 during the 103rd Congress, Bill Clinton was President, the House was 258 D, 176 R, and 1 I. Senate was 57 D, 43 R. https://t.co/NozYf3GswQ
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) July 21, 2026

Unrelated: Who the socialists? The same people they have always have been: bitter, resentful failed aspirants to the elite class.

They wanted to be elite. They went to college where administrators told them they would be elite. They took completely-useless majors in Theoretical Subjects that they were assured were the true markers of an elite mind.

But they're working at Foot Locker, if they work at all. So like all prior bitter, entitled failures of decades past, they want to loot and pillage the productive, successful members of society.

In today's newsletter, I argue this is the sweet spot for the DSA. DSA members are *very* college-educated (80% BA+) but *not* particularly well-off (45% HHI incomes below $60K). Their class status is ambiguous. But they tend to be very liberal on culture as well as economics. pic.twitter.com/yXAW5pVczi
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver53 July 21, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:48 PM

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1 Just a handfull of votes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (Cqx++)

2 "We fixed the glitch."

Posted by: The Two Bobs at July 21, 2026 06:50 PM (FZ29D)

3 SAVE act still hasn't passed.

Posted by: Crusader at July 21, 2026 06:50 PM (TN0g+)

4 This would never happen in Oregon. I have been reassured that. Also, Oregon refuses to share information about the voter rolls with the Feds on principles, direction from the state Constitution, and a pinkie-swear that this has never happened in Oregon.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:51 PM (rbvCR)

5 Less chat no blade

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:51 PM (GbONR)

6
Every single one of illegals who signed up need to be instantly deported with prejudice and

fully identified so that they can never return to the US.

And maybe for laughs we can deport them to North Korea.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (iJfKG)

7 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

8
I bet the numbers are much higher.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (/QHx4)

9 >>>In today's newsletter, I argue this is the sweet spot for the DSA. DSA members are *very* college-educated (80% BA+) but *not* particularly well-off (45% HHI incomes below $60K). Their class status is ambiguous. But they tend to be very liberal on culture as well as economics.

I wonder what it would take to start allowing bankruptcy on student debt?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (rbvCR)

10 a preliminary analysis showed"

Or, a "guess"

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (XuXeR)

11 Less chat no blade
Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:51 PM (GbONR)

Anyone else ever wonder if Elric is Uncle Palp reskinned?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

12
Uncle Palp was interesting.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 06:53 PM (/QHx4)

13 There should be ZERO government student loans for post graduate degrees. It's simply creating communists in America.

Republicans should have put this in the BBB.

I'm really for zero gov loans for undergraduate also, but just playing the politics game. Gov funded graduate school is ridiculous to most voters.

Posted by: Leupold at July 21, 2026 06:53 PM (eIzlH)

14 Bettah? In Calif you can use a Post Office Box address to register to vote.

We also have very cheap mail forwarding services, that can pick up your mail and send it wherever.

You can voter register online, WITH NO VERIFICATION at all... just two simple check boxes saying you are a citizen and live at the address of the P.O. Box.

And if you are a Birthright Citizen, who has never even lived in the US past your Birth? It is alllll legal.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:54 PM (mP0Kj)

15 Hey why not just let the whole world vote on state representatives?
Mail a ballot to everyone, Zimbabwe, Cuba, England, Spain Australia, India, Pakistan and so forth.

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)

16 We'll make sure the system keeps working. Our Pensions depend on it.

Back us. We're the Blue.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 06:54 PM (tTmAL)

17 Uncle Palp was interesting.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 06:53 PM (/QHx4)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

18

Aetius

😀

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 06:55 PM (/QHx4)

19 I think Palp was that guy from the Balkans with the crazy stories who then morphed into Cristy Blinky.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:55 PM (8jVAy)

20 AlexTheChick brings it.

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2026 06:56 PM (LHPAg)

21 The soul of wit is brevity. Well played.

*yes, phone 'wit' is a word.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:56 PM (zZu0s)

22 When you go to a street protest and decide to carry your own home-made sign (which one of you is this?)

https://tinyurl.com/4dtzxntv

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:56 PM (rbvCR)

23
The one bright note here is that these newly minted Democrats are failing financially. It's evil of me to say that, but I don't WANT a degree in Gender Studies to be lucrative.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 06:56 PM (mmrXZ)

24 A "glitch" permitted 6,600 illegal aliens to sign up to vote,

-----

OK, that makes for 132,000 finger- and toenails that can be removed with pliers for this crime.

Those can be mixed with chicory to brew their camp coffee at the deportation facility.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 06:57 PM (BI5O2)

25 Willowed: Red Ed Milliband has been appointed the new English Foreign Secretary. He's the guy who helped destroy their energy sector. That country is almost dead

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 06:57 PM (sMkB+)

26 If I were in this country illegally, with Il Trumpo and his ICE gestapo hunting down and lynching anyone who even looks illegal (sarc), the last thing I would be doing is raising my profile by registering to vote.

So who is doing these "registrations" and why, if not to use them for fraudulent votes?

Posted by: boatbuilder at July 21, 2026 06:58 PM (ayypu)

27 Or Skip. Maybe Palp is Skip. Or Biden’s Dog.
I suspect everyone here of being Palp.
Except me. No way am I Uncle Palpatine.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:58 PM (8jVAy)

28 Stay Moribund With Milliband. Has a nice campaign-y ring to it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 06:58 PM (BI5O2)

29 I miss Uncle Palp's sword swinging nieces, daughters, grand daughters?

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2026 06:59 PM (LHPAg)

30 BTW, go read the idiot's statement. It's our "democracy" bs mixed with "vendor's fault"

What a maroon

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:59 PM (XuXeR)

31
Things happened. Accidentally. No malice involved, just trying to make sure participation in our democracy extends beyond white peoples who accidentally got born here..

Time to move on.

Posted by: Auspex at July 21, 2026 06:59 PM (Y8DZL)

32 There is a clip making the rounds of Scott Jennings on CNN debating with some smarmy asshole about socialism.

He starts listing all the great things that government did, claiming they are "socialism" and how does Scott respond to that????

Well, he listed lots of bullshit -- I think Oak Ridge (?) TVA, and NYC subway. Saying they were all built with all "government workers".

Oak Ridge was a defense plant for building the bomb. Yikes, hard line libertarians (the opposite of socialists) understand that gov. has three jobs - defense, courts, and maintain order.

TVA is a utility, and relies on eminent domain and a "commons" Even most libertarians are on board for the gov. being in charge of that.

And most of the NYC subway was built by private corporations.

I wanted the little bitch to get slapped. Scott let me down.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 07:00 PM (TfrXu)

33 I think mine was the Palp-iest comment on this thread so far. It was a very SMR thing to say.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:00 PM (BI5O2)

34 Except me. No way am I Uncle Palpatine.
Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:58 PM (8jVAy)

Which is JUST what Uncle Palpatine would say....

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 07:00 PM (mP0Kj)

35 It's evil of me to say that, but I don't WANT a degree in Gender Studies to be lucrative.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 06:56 PM (mmrXZ)

Why is that evil ? I'll got one more. Lets talk about why we give scholarships to certain groups ... OK - blacks ... just because they can jump high or shoot a ball in a hoop ?

How many times have you ever said to yourself "I sure wish we had a Power Forward ? Or a great big Defensive Tackle " ?

Never. My answer is Never.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:01 PM (tTmAL)

36 "glitch"
Let's see the bug report
Was there a ticket opened woth tech support?
Who implemented a fix?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 21, 2026 07:01 PM (WL2lA)

37 SAVE act still hasn't passed.
Posted by: Crusader at July 21, 2026 06:50 PM (TN0g+)
---
And this is all we need to know...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 07:01 PM (0aYVJ)

38 You can voter register online, WITH NO VERIFICATION at all... just two simple check boxes saying you are a citizen and live at the address of the P.O. Box.

And if you are a Birthright Citizen, who has never even lived in the US past your Birth? It is alllll legal.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:54 PM (mP0Kj)
----------
I live in CA and you know why the vote counts are always 60+% to 30+% against our favor. Every single time. Fraud all the way down.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 07:01 PM (kX27y)

39 of course it's a word!

"I wan it wit lettuce, tomato, an' mayo."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:02 PM (VyBeY)

40 Palp was the best damn troll this forum ever had. I miss him. Not being ironic, he was awesome.

We have 0 trolls who are any fun anymore. It sucks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:02 PM (BI5O2)

41
Blame the software. What a dumbass. I bet there are hundreds of bug reports and warnings from engineers on that project who were completely ignored.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 07:02 PM (mmrXZ)

42 SAVE act still hasn't passed.

We just need to vote harder. And listen more to those that insist we vote harder.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:02 PM (tTmAL)

43
36, 41

Great minds, vmom. The records are all there for anyone who cares to investigate.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 07:03 PM (mmrXZ)

44
In Ace of Spades smart military blog, uncle Palp is everyone.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 21, 2026 07:03 PM (QVmho)

45 40 Palp was the best damn troll this forum ever had. I miss him. Not being ironic, he was awesome.

We have 0 trolls who are any fun anymore. It sucks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:02 PM (BI5O2)

I never thought of Uncle Palp as a troll.

Pushed his Dignity Canal hard, but never a troll.

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 07:03 PM (3sXRv)

46 So like all prior bitter, entitled failures of decades past, they want to loot and pillage the productive, successful members of society.

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

* Karl Marx has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 07:04 PM (78LDJ)

47 I liked his native American tales of Sun-In-His-Hair the best

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:05 PM (VyBeY)

48 Palp was a teller of tall tales, not sure anyone will be able to do that again

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2026 07:05 PM (Ia/+0)

49 Pushed his Dignity Canal hard, but never a troll.
Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 07:03 PM (3sXRv)

Listen - he was my pal. I named his canal the Grand North American Dignity Canal, to his delight.

But he was definitely trolling.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:05 PM (BI5O2)

50 So like all prior bitter, entitled failures of decades past, they want to loot and pillage the productive, successful members of society.

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

* Karl Marx has entered the post *
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 07:04 PM (78LDJ)

Every bank bail-out in recent memory enters the chat.

And there have been a bunch.

Tarp I ... II ... and III enter the chat.

This is exactly the kind of shit that chaps my ass.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:06 PM (tTmAL)

51 College could be good if you went there to learn something productive and marketable instead of a random piece of paper.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 07:06 PM (n5tGW)

52 In Ace of Spades smart military blog, uncle Palp is everyone.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 21, 2026 07:03 PM (QVmho)

In a way you could say that we all made up Uncle Palpatine.
*Radar snickers*

Posted by: Hawkeye Mahon, CPT 4077th at July 21, 2026 07:06 PM (0aYVJ)

53 yeah, I'm with browndog, Palp was not a troll.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:06 PM (VyBeY)

54 NYS is all in on getting everyone registered. When I practiced in administrative courts the attendants would ask everyone who showed up if they wanted to register, even the aliens legal or otherwise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 07:06 PM (sMkB+)

55 Blame the software. What a dumbass. I bet there are hundreds of bug reports and warnings from engineers on that project who were completely ignored.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 07:02 PM (mmrXZ)

"no, that is not a small issue to be corrected by a few lines of code, that is a major change at a basic level that will propagate through the entire system. We will log the SQR, but we will need it to be budgeted, and we need some time to implement it, and neither will be small."

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:07 PM (rbvCR)

56 Oh yes, a "software error".

So, how do you test your software?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 21, 2026 07:08 PM (vDZgA)

57 Palp was like ZOD is ...

Sui Generis

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 07:08 PM (3sXRv)

58 Palp mentioned he was in a pretty bad car wreck, and I don't think it was a tall tale. I seem to remember he was from the little town of Nitro, WV and was growing displeased with his Texas stomping grounds. Maybe he hung it up and went back to WV for the duration.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 21, 2026 07:09 PM (gm9Sb)

59 test? software? do they really do that? lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:09 PM (VyBeY)

60 You have to be thoroughly mis-educated to think Socialism is a good thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy)

61 SAVE act still hasn't passed.

We just need to vote harder.
.......

and Send Money - GOP

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2026 07:10 PM (UjdFS)

62 No word from Centcom on June 21, strikes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:10 PM (hPgrk)

63 The Ministry for Social Correction & Conquest of Nature, and its Office of the Excavator Plenipotentiary were my contributions to that man's running gag, as well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:10 PM (BI5O2)

64 > But they're working at Foot Locker, if they work at all.

Case in point: O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca, who has a degree in "economics" from Boston University, but wound up making a living by using her tits to distract drunks while she shortchanged them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 07:11 PM (IG3/x)

65 Uncle Palp was interesting.

Posted by: four seasons

THE HORDE CRIES OUT

Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at July 21, 2026 07:11 PM (A764u)

66 “That never happens! But it’s Good that it does!”

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:11 PM (SY3aZ)

67 Pushed his Dignity Canal hard, but never a troll.
Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 07:03 PM (3sXRv)

It was like... going to see a one man show. You know it's an act, but entertaining.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 07:11 PM (zZu0s)

68 Most of those 400 illegals who voted probably don’t even know that they “voted.” There’s a good chance a ballot harvester or proxy voted on their behalf.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 21, 2026 07:11 PM (d9Cw3)

69 Voting irregularities in New Jersey? What?
That's just crazy talk.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 21, 2026 07:12 PM (0MjtC)

70 Palp was like ZOD is ...

Sui Generis

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 07:08 PM (3sXRv)

For myself, the ZOD schtick wears thin.

By the same token, I scroll by.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 07:12 PM (zZu0s)

71 @trump_repost
13m
Effective August 1st, 2026, all Generic Drugs being brought into the United States will continue to have a TARIFF of ZERO PERCENT for a two year period of time, after which the TARIFF will be raised to 100% for a one year period of time, and 200% thereafter.

This is done in order to RESHORE Generic Pharmaceutical Production into America, with a penalty to those Companies that decide not to build Plant and Equipment within the stated period of time...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:12 PM (hPgrk)

72 She is getting out ahead of it by saying " Yeah it's happening but these are tiny numbers" ( spoiler alert the numbers are much higher)

Posted by: steevy at July 21, 2026 07:12 PM (YwEeS)

73 this is AI and is not suitable for anyone really.
But if you want Greta Thumberg in a grey hoodie with alien eyes talking about bondage like a regency novel, well, here you go

https://tinyurl.com/36y9px9

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:13 PM (rbvCR)

74 I thought he agreed to meat space someone and that kinda end things. But, yeah, headed back to boonies far away from you morons.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 07:13 PM (/Chlc)

75 I once told Palp of my love for AK-47s and 1911s. He called it "the arm of the Slav, and the fist of the Yankee."

I still use this turn of phrase.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:13 PM (BI5O2)

76 ... proxy voted on their behalf.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 21, 2026 07:11 PM (d9Cw3)

You say that like its a bad thing !?!?

Posted by: Vanguard / Blackrock / State Street Bank at July 21, 2026 07:14 PM (3sXRv)

77 I liked ZOD's plains indian stories. They were fun.

Yao!

Posted by: Hawkeye Mahon, CPT 4077th at July 21, 2026 07:14 PM (0aYVJ)

78 >>> Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:13 PM (rbvCR)

1) Oddly specific
2) Unless your name is David Hogg...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 21, 2026 07:14 PM (vDZgA)

79 I wonder what it would take to start allowing bankruptcy on student debt?
——

Congress did that for a reason. Some schools had a cottage industry, particularly Law schools.

It was de rigeur to get a Law degree, and then declare bankruptcy and renege on the student loans that paid for it. They had specific classes on exactly how to do this.

Maybe there were better ways to prevent this, but, this was the remedy. Student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy proceedings.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:14 PM (SY3aZ)

80 "We fixed the glitch."
Posted by: The Two Bobs at July 21, 2026 06:50 PM (FZ29D)

As a software guy, that isn't how software errors work. If answering no to "are you a citizen" is ignored, it would always be ignored. Not just every so often.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 07:15 PM (uhVAy)

81 [ICYMI: Ace posted this yesterday, Adam Carolla interviewing Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon]

"... back in 2017 Los Angeles was forced to admit in a lawsuit [by Judicial Watch] they had OVER 1 MILLION ILLEGAL VOTERS on their voter rolls

That’s not all

- LA Voting Rolls have 144% of the total number of eligible residents

- San Diego County has 138% registrations, meaning 810,966 ghost voters at the time

- California had a minimum of at least 1,736,556 ghost voters

We know this number has only skyrocketed to levels we can’t even comprehend

California Democrats are rigging their elections

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 07:15 PM (78LDJ)

82 I once told Palp of my love for AK-47s and 1911s. He called it "the arm of the Slav, and the fist of the Yankee."

I still use this turn of phrase.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:13 PM (BI5O2)

That's a keeper!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 07:15 PM (0aYVJ)

83 @trump_repost - 3h

Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD.
Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD.
Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD.
Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD.
Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD.
Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD.

also: Administration to allow all U.S. airline carriers to fly directly to Lebanon so that Americans can easily visit this beautiful land. Hopefully, other Countries will do the same.
Enjoy! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:16 PM (hPgrk)

84 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 21, 2026 07:16 PM (601KG)

85 I think Palp was that guy from the Balkans with the crazy stories who then morphed into Cristy Blinky.
Posted by: Accomack

Ancient SlavoAstronauts.

Blyat!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 21, 2026 07:16 PM (l26NL)

86 73 this is AI and is not suitable for anyone really.
But if you want Greta Thumberg in a grey hoodie with alien eyes talking about bondage like a regency novel, well, here you go

https://tinyurl.com/36y9px9
Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:13 PM (rbvCR)
Thanx a lot, Kindltot.

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2026 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

87 Uncle Palp was entertaining.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 21, 2026 07:17 PM (601KG)

88 You have to be thoroughly mis-educated to think Socialism is a good thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy)

Exactly why those younger than you or I are going to have it.

First ... they've never lived under Capitalism. They've lived under Socialism. You've never lived under a Free Market either. Not how its worked since FDR.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:17 PM (tTmAL)

89 iirc Uncle Palp's nasty car accident occurred when he was (allegedly) on his way to that year's TX MoMee.

I don't think he's ever been back to the blog after leaving.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 21, 2026 07:18 PM (vDZgA)

90 >>>Just ONE illegal vote cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen.

If we had an opposition party, they'd make this point early and often and pass the SAVE act.

Instead, the opposition that our party puts forth is to us.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 07:18 PM (dK+Kv)

91 47 I liked his native American tales of Sun-In-His-Hair the best
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:05 PM (VyBeY)

Oh, hahaha! I had forgotten about those.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 21, 2026 07:18 PM (zYpTz)

92 "Self-reliance", "objective, rational, linear thinking", "being polite" and "planning for the future" are now symptoms of "whiteness" according to the Smithsonian.

https://tinyurl.com/2udzvauv

Remember when the Smithsonian was just a cool museum?

There is no institution that cannot be taken over by Communists and perverted into a parody of itself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 21, 2026 07:18 PM (IG3/x)

93 Scientists Discover Four Chameleons Found Nowhere Else on Earth

Bob
Carol
Ted and
Alice

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:19 PM (/+uur)

94 You have to be thoroughly mis-educated to think Socialism is a good thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 07:09 PM (uhVAy)

Exactly why those younger than you or I are going to have it.

First ... they've never lived under Capitalism. They've lived under Socialism. You've never lived under a Free Market either. Not how its worked since FDR.
Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:17 PM (tTmAL)

Even before FDR the economy was mixed rather than pure anything. But its better than aiming to keep all the shit parts rather than eliminate them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)

95 Uncle Palpatine-Stuck on Stupid. Both grand story tellers. Both the same person.

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 21, 2026 07:20 PM (SExz7)

96 Uncle Palp's nasty car accident occurred when he was (allegedly) on his way to that year's TX MoMee.

I don't think he's ever been back to the blog after leaving.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 21, 2026 07:18 PM (vDZgA)

I remember that. Nothing at all after that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 07:20 PM (0aYVJ)

97 I am Friend of All Noble Palpatine Peoples, and celebrate our Pact Of Perpetual Unbreakable Friendship and Non-Aggression

Posted by: General Secretary Miklos at July 21, 2026 07:21 PM (A764u)

98
Since there's no trolls around lurking, I would call your attention to the "I'm totally on your side" variety that spend a few weeks before letting you know who they are and hand off snark until going full asshole, imaging themselves to being cunning influencers that are turning you poor morons to their carefully crafted libertarianism.

Disinterested FDA guy comes to mind.

Posted by: Auspex at July 21, 2026 07:21 PM (Y8DZL)

99 Man I love pickles. I had to cut down because of the sodium. But I used to just crush a whole jar and then guzzle the brine. They're so awesome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:21 PM (BI5O2)

100 Palp wanted to glass the entirety of the Middle East and Western Europe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 21, 2026 07:22 PM (601KG)

101 Software glitch cancels 6000 Americans voter reg.
Software glitch cuts schools lunch for 6000 ATL children.
Software glitch enroll 6000 illegals a reg voters.
Software glitch loses American Birth Certs for 6000 babies.

Only 1 of these happened.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:23 PM (/+uur)

102 I think Palp was that one guy from Community who hung out with Troy and Abed, and bragged about how many bad guys he slaughtered.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 07:23 PM (0aYVJ)

103 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced a proposal to prohibit the importation and sale of foreign-produced military-grade drones in the U.S.

"Today, the FCC took additional action to safeguard our homeland. We have proposed banning the sale of foreign, military-grade drones, including those capable of swarming,"

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:23 PM (hPgrk)

104 She is getting out ahead of it by saying " Yeah it's happening but these are tiny numbers" ( spoiler alert the numbers are much higher)

Posted by: steevy at July 21, 2026 07:12 PM (YwEeS)

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

[The evolution of Michael Anton's "Celebration Paradox:]

. IT'S NOT HAPPENING -- QUIT IMAGINING, BIGOTS!
. It's happening, but MINISCULE -- QUIT EXAGGERATING, BIGOTS!
. It's happening, and it's TRUMP'S FAULT -- QUIT OPPRESSING, BIGOTS!
. It's happening, and it's a GOOD THING -- QUIT COMPLAINING, BIGOTS!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 07:24 PM (78LDJ)

105 Cuban President Warns "McCarthyism Is Back" As US Begins Fight Against Marxist Subversion Networks
---

Yep, and the Donroe Doctrine too.
Watch your step.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:24 PM (hPgrk)

106
62 No word from Centcom on June 21, strikes.
Posted by: Braenyard

I've been trying to fifind more details on the troops killed in the drone strike in Jordan. They all four members of two of the Army's Air and missile Defense Command (AAMDC), the 10th, and the 32nd AAMDC. This makes me think it was a consolidated Eucom/CENTCOM joint AAMDC. Also means that drone was remote piloted because the limited video from the event shows the view from a bunker with a loud speaker saying 'threat attack, impact imminent, take cover immediately.'

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 21, 2026 07:25 PM (QVmho)

107 “The Worse, the Better” VI Lenin

They’ve been working this angle for a long time. The problem is the free market, free enterprise, private property rights, rule of law, etc is so far superior to other systems, they really, really have to fuck shit up like a wrecking ball to make headway with attitudes and beliefs. It’s working great, but it’s taking longer than they’d prefer. Hence the ever increasing stridency and hysteria

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:26 PM (SY3aZ)

108 99 Man I love pickles. I had to cut down because of the sodium. But I used to just crush a whole jar and then guzzle the brine. They're so awesome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:21 PM (BI5O2)

Alan Castaneda comes in my room at the Pike House about 1235 A, opens my lil fridge, takes out a jar of vlasic dills, eats the 2 left and guzzles the jar of brine.
Lies down on the other bed (I paid to have a private room) and sleeps until about noon the next day.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:26 PM (/+uur)

109 OK, this prompts the question: why in the everloving hell were we allowing people to import swarms of foreign military drones? I mean, really... there are some seriously horrible motherfuckers running this country, and some seriously retarded ones allowing them to get away with murder, even in this comparatively decent administration.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (BI5O2)

110 Envy is a nasty vice. It is often accompanied by resentment, contemptuousness, greed, ingratitude, disloyalty, pride, guile, and deviousness. It is a perfect fit for someone who bathes in self- absorbed victimhood.

It has its own Commandment but it goes by the name covetousness.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (47/pr)

111 College could be good if you went there to learn something productive"

Learn how to score!

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (Lv/70)

112 A Moroccan died in Italian police custody. People are saying it's their version bod George Floyd. Riots have started.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (sMkB+)

113 I remember when the Smithsonian was considered a major backer of scientific research.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (rbvCR)

114 I bet you can add another "0" to the number NJ admits.

66,000 registered by the glitch*
4000 voted

* but that's just the alleged software "glitch."
It does not include those who gave an invalid or no social security.
The illegals who lied and said they were a citizen.
Add another "0" for those.
660,000 illegals registered; 40,000 have ballots voted.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (3cUTc)

115 Cuban President Warns "McCarthyism Is Back"
——

He left out “Red Scare” and “Witch Hunt”. I’m pretty sure that’s mandatory whenever this topic is brought up.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:28 PM (SY3aZ)

116 Cuban President Miguel Canel visiting the grave of Karl Marx in London's Highgate Cemetery.

-what a monument, fitting that it remains in London-

https://tinyurl.com/5d4tb2hm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:28 PM (hPgrk)

117 Welp, this looks creepy.

"Other Mommy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEpTgowZ1dI&t=134s

Could be another good horror movie in this year of good horror movies.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 07:29 PM (iJfKG)

118 The problem is the free market, free enterprise, private property rights, rule of law, etc is so far superior to other systems, they really, really have to fuck shit up like a wrecking ball to make headway with attitudes and beliefs. It’s working great, but it’s taking longer than they’d prefer. Hence the ever increasing stridency and hysteria
Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:26 PM (SY3aZ)

Is this the line we wait in to not get a loaf of bread.
No, that line is 1 block over, this is the line we wait in to not get butter.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:29 PM (/+uur)

119 College could be good if you went there to learn something productive and marketable instead of a random piece of paper.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

They should teach welding, plumbing or HVAC trades.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 07:29 PM (ourEi)

120 Abderrahim Fakir died in police custody "

That faker!

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 07:30 PM (cGjQu)

121
I don't watch horror movies. Reading the news is scary enough.

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 07:30 PM (/QHx4)

122 Best communist story I remember was department store has 500 mens suits.
Everyone runs to town to buy a suit.
About a week later the arms fall off. Then the collar.
They were burial suits that a mortuary had too many of and sold.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:31 PM (/+uur)

123 Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:26 PM (/+uur

Vlasic used to be great, but the quality dropped. I'm a Mt. Olive man now.

Also - I'm tired of "boutique" pickle brands coming at me with a salt-only brine. No vinegar, no sale.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 07:31 PM (BI5O2)

124 St. Floyd was kind of a piece of shit. Why do they elevate these clowns?

He robbed a pregnant female by sticking a pistol in her belly, in Texas. Great lead to the kids. It’s almost like white liberals are bat-shit fucking crazy and want to start a race war.

“Here let’s you and him fight”. Thanks a lot

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:31 PM (SY3aZ)

125 They should teach welding, plumbing or HVAC trades.
****

Make
Apprenticeships
Great
Again

Posted by: clarence at July 21, 2026 07:31 PM (1QT7n)

126 Cuban President Warns "McCarthyism Is Back"

If only.

New York City and Los Angeles have been ... as Media Hubs ... centers of Communist Sympathy for a long, long time.

Just as - in the beginning - it was the Russian Landed Gentry that gave the first hand holds up to Lenin.

McCarthy was right in the macro. There. I said it.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:32 PM (tTmAL)

127 Cafe is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 07:33 PM (zZu0s)

128
Hate on Ann Coulter all you want, but she did do a good book on Tailgunner Joe.

Posted by: Auspex at July 21, 2026 07:33 PM (Y8DZL)

129 Envy is a nasty vice. It is often accompanied by resentment, contemptuousness, greed, ingratitude, disloyalty, pride, guile, and deviousness. It is a perfect fit for someone who bathes in self- absorbed victimhood.

It has its own Commandment but it goes by the name covetousness.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 21, 2026 07:27 PM (47/pr)

It also turns the people suffering from it into absolute jackasses as they strive to prove that they are entitled to their envy.
Envy drives the envious jackass into extremes of action to prove that the people they are envious of are not entitled to the fruits of what they achieve, and that the benefits should come to them instead. Don't they struggle and invent and say pretty words too?

You have to find it in your heart to celebrate other people's successes, and if needed then model on the actions to earn successes as well. You have to forgive yourself for past failures as well.
You may not succeed, but you will at least stop hurting other people on purpose.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 07:33 PM (rbvCR)

130 Democrats Are Fighting A Civil War, And Bernie Sanders Started It

Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026 - 04:20 PM
Democrats desperately want to retake the House in November, not just to thwart President Donald Trump's legislative agenda, but to launch countless investigations under the guise of oversight.

However, their most stubborn obstacle to achieving this goal isn't President Trump or the Republican Party. The biggest obstacle actually sits inside their own party.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent this cycle bankrolling primary challengers against sitting Democrats, and the fight has split the party into two camps that can barely stand each other.
_ZH

Bernie spent his own money?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:33 PM (hPgrk)

131 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 07:33 PM (VyBeY)

132 The guy from Serbia or wherever was always going on about bad guys and hotels in Slavic lands. He was interesting then he picked on Fen.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (/Chlc)

133 Since there's no trolls around lurking, I would call your attention to the "I'm totally on your side" variety that spend a few weeks before letting you know who they are and hand off snark until going full asshole, imaging themselves to being cunning influencers that are turning you poor morons to their carefully crafted libertarianism.

Disinterested FDA guy comes to mind.
Posted by: Auspex at July 21, 2026

Ive noticed that too.

Posted by: LASue at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (lCppi)

134 Make
Apprenticeships
Great
Again
Posted by: clarence

My 39 year old godson and name sake recently left his safe banking job to start an apprenticeship as an electrician. He absolutely loves it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (l26NL)

135 They should teach welding, plumbing or HVAC trades.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 07:29 PM (ourEi)

Pell can now be used for that.
Mike Rowe has a program to learn at trade.
Big Tech (apple alpha goog et al) will now take you into a 6 to 18 weeks course, pay you a stipend, to learn to work on their stuff.
Here in Houston look up Independent Elect Contractors. They will teach you trades, estimating, and proj mgmt for free as they assign you to a company.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (/+uur)

136 >>>It has its own Commandment but it goes by the name covetousness.

Posted by: Minuteman

>On the bright side, no tranny, LGBTQ+, pedophile, immigrant rape or communist infiltration on this thread so far.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (sYM3s)

137 McCarthy was right in the macro. There. I said it.
——-

“Blacklisted by History” should be required reading.

You wouldn’t be ashamed to state the obvious

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 07:35 PM (SY3aZ)

138 These "highly-educated" persons may be knowledgeable (in actual truth is often debatable) but they are neither smart nor intelligent, much less, wise.

A ninny with a vast education in nonsense, attained at great trouble and expense, is objectively worse off than your garden variety numbskull.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 21, 2026 07:36 PM (47/pr)

139 sauerkraut brine > pickle brine

They're both good. But sauerkraut is slightly better.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 07:36 PM (3uBP9)

140 imaging themselves to being cunning influencers that are turning you poor morons to their carefully crafted libertarianism.

So honestly ? Give Dildo the entire site. Except none of you can afford to retire Ace. And Dildo is retired, and can't profit off this either.

But that's the dream, right ? Everybody logs in - vetted - and then you all just nod and agree.

A subscription plan. And then you can tell each other its the Wild West of the Internet ... while not read a single objectionable text.

Posted by: Back Us at July 21, 2026 07:38 PM (tTmAL)

141 Womens Studies majors. Indigenous Peoples Majors. Cartoons as Social Constructs Majors. Ceramics for Transgenders of Color Majors.

Socialist's easy pickings, especially at the 'better' universities.

Posted by: LASue at July 21, 2026 07:40 PM (lCppi)

142 The bottom line:
A former Pfizer executive. An Iranian arms trafficker arrested at LAX. A cartel-linked Palestinian arms dealer caught fleeing to Kuwait with $44K in stolen cash.

A company-owned aircraft registered 45 minutes from the border. A Fort Bliss LTC whose father-in-law is the arms dealer. And a Distinguished Honor Graduate whistleblower Soldier Richard Halliday murdered for exposing it all.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a documented criminal enterprise.

https://tinyurl.com/yb7fmh5x

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 07:41 PM (hPgrk)

143 idn't it curious that errors like this always break positively for dem initiatives?

Posted by: DanMan at July 21, 2026 07:43 PM (8uzBS)

144 1 Just a handfull of votes.

fistful of dollars > handful of votes

Posted by: anachronda at July 21, 2026 07:51 PM (v3pYe)

145 142 A company-owned aircraft registered 45 minutes from the border. A Fort Bliss LTC whose father-in-law is the arms dealer. And a Distinguished Honor Graduate whistleblower Soldier Richard Halliday murdered for exposing it all. walk into a bar

waiting for the punch line...

Posted by: anachronda at July 21, 2026 07:52 PM (v3pYe)

146 They should teach welding, plumbing or HVAC trades.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2026 07:29 PM (ourEi)

Pell can now be used for that.
Mike Rowe has a program to learn at trade.
Big Tech (apple alpha goog et al) will now take you into a 6 to 18 weeks course, pay you a stipend, to learn to work on their stuff.
Here in Houston look up Independent Elect Contractors. They will teach you trades, estimating, and proj mgmt for free as they assign you to a company.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 21, 2026 07:34 PM (/+uur)

My high school in the 70s had vocational training programs.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 08:00 PM (uhVAy)

147 1 Just a handfull of votes.

fistful of dollars > handful of votes
Posted by: anachronda at July 21, 2026 07:51 PM (v3pYe)

they only got caught for a handful of votes.

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Posted by: colmek bocill at July 22, 2026 08:03 AM (KXAAx)

149 The software company reports NO GLITCH. Those registrations came directly from the State.

Damn software left a trail of breadcrumbs. They are getting fired today.

Posted by: SS at July 22, 2026 10:32 AM (52U6V)

BLM Activists Bully James Talarico Into Admitting How Extreme His Leftwing Politics Really Are

I wrote about the fat BLM loudmouth bullying this Sensitive Sally earlier.

What I missed was how productive the BLM activist was, both for her own grifting career and for Republicans.

James Talarico has a history of taking the most extreme possible positions on issues. However, during this election cycle, he has tried to not talk about his positions. He isn't renouncing them or even "distancing himself" from them. He just doesn't want to say what he believes in, apart from "the working class."

This BLM grifter demanded he co-sign on to every extreme black-racist political agenda item and Talarico, being a sad cuck, couldn't help but obey her.

Team Cruz
@TeamTedCruz
In one four-minute, off-the-cuff answer, Talarico managed to advocate for or say all of the following:
- Reparations are part of his faith tradition.
- Race-based tuition relief.
- Race-based homeownership grants.
- Race-based baby bonds.
- Slavery still defines modern Texas.
- Government must "repair" the past.
- When Democrats win the Senate they will enact reparations
- The George Floyd Act was "transformational."
- Washington must protect Americans "from police violence."
- Shows like 'Cops' promote violence

In one four-minute, off-the-cuff answer, Talarico managed to advocate for or say all of the following:

- Reparations are part of his faith tradition.
- Race-based tuition relief.
- Race-based homeownership grants.
- Race-based baby bonds.
- Slavery still defines modern Texas.
-�
— Team Cruz (@TeamTedCruz) July 21, 2026

Good luck in the general election (in Texas) with that issue profile!

And thanks for putting it all on video.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:50 PM

Comments

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1 Foist?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)

2 So the clock is off, but at least we're not centered?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (O7YUW)

3 I guess Ace pressed {Publish} a few minutes early.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2026 05:43 PM (O7YUW)

4 He's no Beto.

Posted by: Robert Francis O'Rourke at July 21, 2026 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

5 Texas can has flakes!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2026 05:44 PM (NnhvP)

6 "Race-based baby bonds"

_________________________

That sounds racist to me. Why are we tying up babies?

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 05:45 PM (dIske)

7 He's a slouchy dresser, too.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:45 PM (kX27y)

8 Talarico doesn't worry me.

It's more the "generic" Democrats that no one really knows in downticket races.

Posted by: Leupold at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (eIzlH)

9 You forgot the last one

I will suck any
Black c@ck of you vote for me

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (nGraA)

10 He's no Beto.

At least Beto had the good sense to marry into money, like John Kerry and Ro Khanna.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (a3CJ+)

11 I really want to go back 30 years when race wasn't being shoved in our faces every day.

Thanks, Obama.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (JvZF+)

12 Hi Ace! Keep it like this please. I was going crosseyed.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (MWfyi)

13 One of the best descriptors for this guy: "dweebishly gay."

Posted by: AoS Style Guide Update at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (2Ez/1)

14 I prefer Reno 911 to Cops.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (enNUy)

15 They grew this creepy faggot in a vat of diarrhea, dead skunks, dildos, and Democrap NPC duckspeak, didn’t they?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (JgYL0)

16 So, as more and more evidence comes out saying that Yes, the 2020 election was flawed...

Mike Lindell is not only still being punished, but a Judge just added MORE fines for him not following Court directives...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

17 It's more the "generic" Democrats that no one really knows in downticket races.

Your school board and local judges have far more influence on your daily life than these retards in Congress. It only takes 2% of the voting population to elect your locals.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (a3CJ+)

18 You can not right the past wrongs of slavery 175 years ago. The slaves and slave holders are dead.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (n5tGW)

19 11 I really want to go back 30 years when race wasn't being shoved in our faces every day.

Thanks, Obama.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (JvZF+)

I contend the LEAST Racist era of US history, was the late 70's early 80's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj)

20 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (VyBeY)

21 This guy is fuckin GAY!

Posted by: Freddie Mercury at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (oqH4h)

22 Paxton is in trouble!

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (GD0B3)

23 I've got the receipt for your reparations right here.

Posted by: The Antietam Battlefield at July 21, 2026 05:49 PM (2Ez/1)

24 Quite simply BLM are bullies. All that they accuse white people of they are many times that.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 21, 2026 05:49 PM (xvV+O)

25 18 You can not right the past wrongs of slavery 175 years ago. The slaves and slave holders are dead.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (n5tGW)

clearly the Jews need reparations from the Egyptian Pharoh, and of course Rome needs to make the Slavs whole...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:49 PM (mP0Kj)

26
Why did Texas Democrats prefer this to Jasmine Crockett? She could have done all this while looking fabulous.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 05:49 PM (mmrXZ)

27 I still can’t get over how small the Talacreepo event was, and how bored its slovenly and geriatric audience was. I guarantee that room stunk like an 1870s outhouse.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (JgYL0)

28 Speaking of BLM:

California's soft-on-crime policies are producing great results! :

Repeat offenders rob Berkeley corner store{/b] -- with superb "Mugshots of the Day" in which no stereotypes were harmed:

https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/07/17/crime/ berkeley-police-arrest-mini-mart-armed-robbery-suspects/

You can bet your bottom dollar they're going to get off with probation again, or slap-on-the-wrist sentences and be back out on the streets in no time flat.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (Av6i5)

29 "I contend the LEAST Racist era of US history, was the late 70's early 80's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj) "

Affirm. I was there. You're right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (VyBeY)

30 unbold

ugh

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (Av6i5)

31 You know, Africa made us do it. If they didn't have a slave market we couldn't have bought any. So really people with African heritage should be paying white people reparations.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:51 PM (n5tGW)

32 - Slavery still defines modern Texas.
---
Because Texas is still standing.

I'm telling you, they get mad at people for arguing the opinion not to lay waste to all public strictures.

That's why they thing conservatives are racist at their core. Which is also why if we wanted to have an insurrection, it could only be to create a more racist government.

So, "our government was ATTACKED" on January 6th--just NOT in a good way. The people deemed as racist overthrowing the government is almost as bad as the government remaining.

Notice how, you don't become automatically anti-racist when you're interpreted as overthrowing the government? No, you're still racist from your characteristic of normally defending the government.

Notice, how stipulative all their shit becomes?

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:52 PM (Fi81e)

33 What the hell is race based baby bonding?

Posted by: Wondering at July 21, 2026 05:52 PM (D+BhG)

34 You can not right the past wrongs of slavery 175 years ago. The slaves and slave holders are dead.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:47 PM (n5tGW)

clearly the Jews need reparations from the Egyptian Pharoh, and of course Rome needs to make the Slavs whole...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:49 PM (mP0Kj)
——

‘Don’t forget about me!”

— Abel

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:52 PM (JgYL0)

35 Gotta add the 90s in least racist decade as it was when we got our first "black" president.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 21, 2026 05:52 PM (xvV+O)

36 Whatever happened to the United Way? Did BLM shank them? One year the bank, his employer, asked my husband to give his "donation" to UW and they calculated it was like 10 grand. I laughed.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:53 PM (enNUy)

37 32 You know, Africa made us do it. If they didn't have a slave market we couldn't have bought any. So really people with African heritage should be paying white people reparations.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:51 PM (n5tGW)

What slays me is that they are bitching about slaves freed 150 years ago, when there is Slavery still happening in the Mid East and Africa today.

Let alone the Human trafficking going on across our very own Southern Border.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)

38 You know, Africa made us do it. If they didn't have a slave market we couldn't have bought any. So really people with African heritage should be paying white people reparations.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:51 PM (n5tGW)
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But Woman King was such an empowering movie!!

(About the biggest slavers in African history).

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:53 PM (Fi81e)

39 clearly the Jews need reparations from the Egyptian Pharoh,

The Hebrews looted the Egyptians while the Egyptians were burying their dead.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:54 PM (+4Cf6)

40
That sounds racist to me. Why are we tying up babies?
Posted by: Orson

Babies in bondage!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 05:54 PM (Cqx++)

41 Why hasn't he campaigned on banning all meat and barbecue in Texas?

Come on, cuck -- have the courage of your constrictions!

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 05:55 PM (27aLr)

42 He's a symptom. You SHOULD worry about him.

He's a symptom of Austin leftists. They haven't managed to win a statewide election in 32 years. Their position on illegals pisses off the non-grifter Texicans - who're the actual largest minority group in the state, and their decision to run this twink pisses off the blacks - who're the most reliable minority group in the state.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 21, 2026 05:56 PM (ExV1e)

43 Our word for slave is "slave" because Slavs (from the Balkans) were the most common ethnicity for slaves in ancient Rome -- so much so that the Latin word for "Slav" basically just eventually meant "slave." Passed down to modern languages like English almost unchanged.

Hence, Italian-Americans need to be paying reparations to Yugoslav-Americans!

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (Av6i5)

44 "What slays me is that they are bitching about slaves freed 150 years ago, when there is Slavery still happening in the Mid East and Africa today.

Let alone the Human trafficking going on across our very own Southern Border."

always gotta remember "the issue is never the issue; the issue is always The Revolution".

it's just one more way to knock another couple of chips off the foundation ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (VyBeY)

45 I think the idea "Race-based baby bonds" is that thing when black people don't want white people adopting black babies, or babies from Africa.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (Fi81e)

46 You know, Africa made us do it. If they didn't have a slave market we couldn't have bought any. So really people with African heritage should be paying white people reparations.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
___________

And for the million or so white slaves taken by the Barbary pirates. They were raiding Italy for slaves well into the 1700s.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (XvL8K)

47 We already have Trump baby bonds, which are not based on race. James Tapioca wants an extra one just for black babies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (n5tGW)

48
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (Av6i5)

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Wow to that publication, to the story, and the comments. 45 is a lot of comments for a routine crime story in a local rag. Looks like a few Berkleyites are PO'd. One of them even says the problem is blue cities.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (mmrXZ)

49 >>>You know, Africa made us do it.

Look at the way they were undressed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (dK+Kv)

50 Slavery still defines modern Texas.

Slavery didn't even define olde tyme Texas. Retard.

Posted by: Delurker at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (2Drhq)

51 49 We already have Trump baby bonds, which are not based on race. James Tapioca wants an extra one just for black babies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (n5tGW)

Immediately accessible to baby mama Shaniqua...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (6ud1w)

52 The Hebrews looted the Egyptians while the Egyptians were burying their dead.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:54 PM (+4Cf6)

FAFO

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (GD0B3)

53 Hence, Italian-Americans need to be paying reparations to Yugoslav-Americans!
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 05:57 PM (Av6i5)

/nods...

I hear the Pope is pretty rich...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

54 I'm put in mind of my dad telling me to quit crying, or he would give me something to cry about.

All this jaw flapping about an issue that hasn't existed since the end of the Civil War. Enough already. If you feel you are in bondage, it's because you put yourself there. Get off your lazy ass, get a job, start a business, work yourself into success.

Or, keep assaulting each other in line at the boarding dock to the cruise ship or the airport ticket counter.

Or that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:00 PM (w2Efp)

55 Willowed:
BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooks Rollins reveals the largest pork company in the U.S. is owned by CHINA.
~~~~~

That Chinese owned company is Smithfield. They own a ton of other name brands as well:

Ekrich
Nathan’s
Farmer John
Farmland
Armour
Carando
Cooks
Curly’s
Gwaltney
John Morrell
Kretschmar
Margherita

Buy Hatfield instead. They're American owned, pork from local family farms without growth promotants, hormones or steroids.

Think Hatfields & McCoys. 'Murica!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 21, 2026 06:00 PM (3ImbR)

56 Is there a reason why I'm shadow banned from commenting?
Posted by: resist_we_much at July 21, 2026 06:00 PM (cpys

UK Parliament.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 21, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

57 >>You know, Africa made us do it. If they didn't have a slave market we couldn't have bought any. So really people with African heritage should be paying white people reparations.

The US had a relatively small number of slaves in proportion the total number in the world including Africa and the Middle East where it still exists yet the determined to get money and power from whining about slavery would have you believe the US was unique in owning slaves.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2026 06:01 PM (viF8m)

58 Yet the Wisconsin Lutheran doesn't worry any of you.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 05:49 PM (YyBvb)

You again. Here to teach us what we don't know, and prove you are suitable for the reward?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:01 PM (rbvCR)

59 Following up on my comment from last thread, there's another song that Lana Del Rey made about summer, that might be more controversial here: a cover of Lee Hazlewood's "Summer Wine." Lana made her version with then-beau Barrie-James O'Neill, and I think it stacks up quite well against the venerable version that Lee made with Nancy Sinatra. Judge for yourself:

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine (The Ed Sullivan Show, 1967)
https://youtu.be/nbtKHrI-OAs

Lana Del Rey ft. Barrie-James O'Neill - Summer Wine (Music Video, 2013)
https://youtu.be/1OEron4rXfk

Posted by: SciVo at July 21, 2026 06:01 PM (Sy6m/)

60 Someone should ask the good pastor what reparations the Egyptians paid the Israelites, since reparations is a Biblical principle.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:01 PM (3cUTc)

61
Rubber black baby bonds
Rubber black baby bonds
Rubber black baby bonds

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e)

62 I contend the LEAST Racist era of US history, was the late 70's early 80's.
——-

OK. What is the least racist Nation? If America is so bad, where is the successful, Utopian ideal?

The whole damn world is racist as fuck. Now that’s a fact. What these clowns are actually doing, the only thing I can’t decide is if this is the actual strategy here, is making an awful lot of people Race conscious, where they weren’t before, or didn’t want to be. They start asking questions.

You laugh at people trying to ret-conn Richard Nixon, but there are actual bad guys in our history.

Hell, I’m sick of hearing about racial “minorities”. White peoples are the minority dumb fucks. And it isn’t even close. 4% maybe 6%? Something in the single digits.

Negro fatigue indeed

Posted by: Club 85 Logic at July 21, 2026 06:02 PM (TdayT)

63 Bias-based black baby bonds. Do they bounce?

Posted by: Delurker at July 21, 2026 06:02 PM (2Drhq)

64 willowed

229 If you only look at some track but not field and thug sports you have a point.

Posted by: Community Notes
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(did you mention wrestling?)

They have no motivation to excel in those sports.
They do, however, have physical attributes that lend themselves to physical contest over the Caucasian: higher bone density, higher oxygen assimilation, shorter vertebrae, more fast muscle twitch and a longer Achilles tendon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:02 PM (hPgrk)

65 reparations is a Biblical principle.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:01 PM (3cUTc)
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So what reparations did the Israelites pay to the Canaanites?

No. That was the Lord's recompense for the fullness of their iniquity.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (Fi81e)

66 Whatever happened to the United Way? Did BLM shank them? One year the bank, his employer, asked my husband to give his "donation" to UW and they calculated it was like 10 grand. I laughed.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:53 PM (enNUy)

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I was working for Wells Fargo Bank in the early 90s and every year there was a big United Way donation drive.

Each Department bribed their employees by offering everyone an extra paid day off if they contributed -- even as little as $1. There was this really unlikable co-worker of mine (in hindsight, likely a ChiComm Spy) and she was the only one who refused.

I actually thought although it was somewhat admirable (being myself generally a contrarian, loner, and individualist) and funny -- while everyone else in the Department was pissed at her (and attempted to persuade her to change her mind) -- but obviously poorly played on her part all the way 'round.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (27aLr)

67 The dems version of civil rights from 1965 legislation that funded single black mothers to be paid for having out of wedlock kids is playing out just like LBJ said it would.

The ones that fell for it are owned.

Posted by: DanMan at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (8uzBS)

68 get a job, start a business, work yourself into success.

That's white supremacy!
- The Smithsonian

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (n5tGW)

69 I'm not here to teach you a damn thing. Because you can't be taught.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:03 PM (YyBvb)

You seem nice.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (w2Efp)

70 63 Someone should ask the good pastor what reparations the Egyptians paid the Israelites, since reparations is a Biblical principle.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

According to Ptolemy of Mendes / Manetho, the Israelites looted Egypt on their way out.

Posted by: gKWVE seems to be here to annoy every nation on earth at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (gKWVE)

71 I'm not here to teach you a damn thing. Because you can't be taught.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:03 PM (YyBvb)

Ah, you are here to be my master. How suitable in a discussion about slavery.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)

72 James Tapioca wants an extra one just for black babies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

If any of this actually happens, the Dems will necessarily have to bring back the infamous antebellum Virginia "One Drop Rule," i.e. if you have even one drop of African blood, you count as black.

Ever since DNA testing became commonplace about 15 years ago, lefties have been constantly getting their jollies by revealing to self-identifying "white" people that they actually have a little bit of African blood in the DNA -- as a way of embarrassing them and humiliating them on various TV shows and documentaries.

But all that is going to come back and bite the Left on the ass, when half the white people in America will claim reparations, since Ancestry.com or 23andMe proves that they are 0.05% African.

How can this be countered? The only way is to establish some national "One Drop Rule" -they law that specifies just exactly how much African DNA you mist have to count as "black" and thus entitled to free $$$.

Second look at Jim Crow?

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:05 PM (Av6i5)

73 30 "I contend the LEAST Racist era of US history, was the late 70's early 80's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj) "

Affirm. I was there. You're right.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (VyBeY)

I’d say that’s pretty accurate.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 21, 2026 06:06 PM (SjAWL)

74 According to Ptolemy of Mendes / Manetho, the Israelites looted Egypt on their way out.

Posted by: gKWVE seems to be here to annoy every nation on earth at July 21, 2026 06:04 PM (gKWVE)
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And Exodus.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e)

75 *[left out important word:] Each Department bribed their employees by offering everyone an extra paid day off if they ALL contributed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:06 PM (27aLr)

76 15 They grew this creepy faggot in a vat of diarrhea, dead skunks, dildos, and Democrap NPC duckspeak, didn’t they?

Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Curious about his parents. Italians in San Antonio. Not that there's anything wrong with that but it is unusual. So, a who, what, when, where and why may be enlightening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:07 PM (hPgrk)

77 Talarico: mommy the black kids are beating me up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 06:07 PM (sMkB+)

78 "Babies in bondage!"

Penguins in bondage!

Posted by: Bosk at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (VMFAF)

79 Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:03 PM (YyBvb)

So, you're just a prick. For no good reason. You get a teeny boner from people being pissed off at you.

Sad muthafucka.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (0aYVJ)

80 A few weeks back, one of the coastal African shitholes did a slave market reenactment.
To cosplay for the white liberals worldwide the horrors of that market.

All of the slavers were dressed in colonial British dress.
Red coats, powdered wigs, all that.

Whitewashing out that every single man, woman and child sold in that market was brought there in chains 1st put on them by a black man.
Every single one.

And almost the first thing the freed slaves from America did when they founded Liberia was ... create de facto slavery.
Slavery in all but name because their constitution banned slavery.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (3cUTc)

81 and a vote from me too, the 80's was a magical time for race relations, the best kind, where nobody cared.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (n5tGW)

82 How can this be countered? The only way is to establish some national "One Drop Rule" -they law that specifies just exactly how much African DNA you mist have to count as "black" and thus entitled to free $$$.

Second look at Jim Crow?
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:05 PM (Av6i5)

Probably the same way they determine if Natives get "free" healthcare. I believe the current amount is 1/32nd Native, but I could be wrong about that. So, if your history says you have any Native blood, you get free healthcare, courtesy of the rest of us paying taxes on your behalf.

I guess that makes up for..... some damned thing. I really don't know. Particularly in AK, where there are no reservations, and nobody was driven off their land, and they were given title to lots of land and set up Native Corporations that pay dividends based on all the set-aside government contracts they pull in for being... Natives.

When is enough ENOUGH?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (w2Efp)

83 I hate to slag him, but it's surely disappointing to Minnesota voters fed up with the left wing insanity that the best the Rs can offer as an alternative is the My Pillow guy.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (2ap+5)

84 "I contend the LEAST Racist era of US history, was the late 70's early 80's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj) "

Affirm. I was there. You're right.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (VyBeY)

I’d say that’s pretty accurate.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 21, 2026 06:06 PM (SjAWL)

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Yep. I was a teenager and young adult then playing various high school and college sports -- and the black and white players all got along and became great friends.

I saw many of those same folks at a 45th reunion a couple of years ago, and it was like meeting family again after decades of being separated.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:09 PM (27aLr)

85 Shain, the 100% participation push got diabolical

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 06:09 PM (enNUy)

86 85 Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:03 PM (YyBvb)

So, you're just a prick. For no good reason. You get a teeny boner from people being pissed off at you.

Sad muthafucka.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (0aYVJ)

He comes here to wave that tiny thing around, and we all just point and laugh. You think he would get the picture, but apparently he's too dense to notice.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:09 PM (w2Efp)

87 This guy looks like the catcher at the gloryhole with his tongue wagging for cleanup duty.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 06:10 PM (sYM3s)

88 I'm not here to teach you a damn thing. Because you can't be taught.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:03 PM (YyBvb)
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Why do you even bother commenting here at all?

You are never, ever going to change anyone's mind. Period.

Do you just feel the need to spit your venom?

Can't you do that on some other platform?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 06:10 PM (FZ29D)

89 I grew up in the late 70s-early 80s in as diverse a neighborhood as it possibly gets. White (mostly Italians and Polish), Black, Chinese, Hispanic (lots of Portuguese) Native Americans, Middle Eastern Christians (Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian etc.)

Literally nobody gave a flying F what race anybody was, from the kids to the adults. Everybody hung with everybody. All we boys cared about was if you could come out and play ball or ride bikes. Skin color was no factor whatsoever.

Posted by: Delurker at July 21, 2026 06:10 PM (2Drhq)

90 ---
So what reparations did the Israelites pay to the Canaanites?

No. That was the Lord's recompense for the fullness of their iniquity.

Posted by: Axeman
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Yeah, is funny question. If the Israelis had fulfilled God's command we wouldn't be having the problems we're having today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:11 PM (hPgrk)

91 I bet he wears capri pants.

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2026 06:11 PM (UjdFS)

92 When is enough ENOUGH?"

As long as you're alive...

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:11 PM (XuXeR)

93 Oh yeah, it is well known that Cops had to cut massive amounts of footage because non-blacks being arrested were so rare.
So they cut thousands of hours to keep the handful of whites and Hispanics.

Because they're so racist.

Just like body cams.

It racist to show the unfiltered, raw truth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:11 PM (3cUTc)

94 It was a shake down.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:07 PM (YyBvb)

I am surprised you didn't seize the opportunity to lecture your bosses about the correct and moral path, like you do here. Isn't that what someone who knows better should do?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:11 PM (rbvCR)

95 When is enough ENOUGH?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (w2Efp)

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To ask is to have answered, weedhopper.

It will NEVER BE ENOUGH!!!!!

There's too much money in the grievance- and race-hustling industry ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (27aLr)

96 Telarico’s already primed white for a black paint job. But it’ll fade.

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (ED8FQ)

97 The whole damn world is racist as fuck.

Posted by: Club 85 Logic at July 21, 2026 06:02 PM (TdayT)

Retired US Navy, yup. Go ask the Japanese about the Chinese or even worser, the Koreans.

Whole world has been tribal since the advent of Man, but the US we tried to make our Tribe American... just that, with no sub tribe, but the Left has destroyed that by forcing us LEGALLY into categories.

Forcing us right back to Tribes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (mP0Kj)

98 I'm licensed and bonded to perform race-based baby services in all 50 states except Alaska and Hawaii.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (ZypAx)

99 Whitewashing out that every single man, woman and child sold in that market was brought there in chains 1st put on them by a black man.
Every single one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (3cUTc)
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The coastal African tribes raided the inland tribes. This was at a time where white Europeans thought they would catch malaria for sure venturing into the jungle and bush.

Black people should be mad at the Semitic people (Arab, et al) who purchased the majority and Brazil who purchased 2/3rds of the slaves headed West.

The American take was only 10% of all West-bound slaves. Bad enough, but is scale is considered, it is what it is.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (Fi81e)

100 Can't you do that on some other platform?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Dog's got big hard on for something. But he takes it out on everyone who had nothing to do with his displeasure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (hPgrk)

101 Whatever happened to the United Way? Did BLM shank them? One year the bank, his employer, asked my husband to give his "donation" to UW and they calculated it was like 10 grand. I laughed.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:53 PM (enNUy)

United Way was famous for giving just about 0 to the causes they asked for money for.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)

102 Wow. He's a leader who has seen the elephant!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

103 Just like body cams.

It racist to show the unfiltered, raw truth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:11 PM (3cUTc)

It's actually hilarious that any of them honestly thought that body cams would show anything other than the uncomfortable truths about the conduct of an over-represented minority in the crime stats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (dK+Kv)

104 78 30 "I contend the LEAST Racist era of US history, was the late 70's early 80's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj) "

Affirm. I was there. You're right.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (VyBeY)

I’d say that’s pretty accurate.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 21, 2026 06:06 PM (SjAWL)

I graduated high school in 1979 in AK. I do not recall giving one fat rat's ass what color anyone was, and we had everybody.

That was NOT true when I went to college in St. Louis. Whites and blacks did not mix, and there weren't many other races around. It was bizarre to me, to say the least.

I still don't give a fiddler's fart what race anyone is. I DO care how people behave, and what they whine about, and how they push their idiocy on others. That gets damned old fast.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:14 PM (w2Efp)

105 Go ask the Japanese about the Chinese or even worser, the Koreans."

Stumble thru S America...

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:14 PM (XuXeR)

106 The coastal African tribes raided the inland tribes. This was at a time where white Europeans thought they would catch malaria for sure venturing into the jungle and bush.

Black people should be mad at the Semitic people (Arab, et al) who purchased the majority and Brazil who purchased 2/3rds of the slaves headed West.

The American take was only 10% of all West-bound slaves. Bad enough, but is scale is considered, it is what it is.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (Fi81e)

Yellow Fever was the big killer off the slave coast IIRC

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:14 PM (uhVAy)

107 United Way was famous for giving just about 0 to the causes they asked for money for.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)

They did claim to give money to Planned Parenthood, so I never contributed, no matter how pushy management was.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:15 PM (w2Efp)

108 Ohh, no. Paxton is slightly ahead of Talarico in RCP !

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:15 PM (GD0B3)

109 Whatever happened to the United Way"

Scandal. "Leadership" was scamming...

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:15 PM (XuXeR)

110 Everybody hung with everybody. All we boys cared about was if you could come out and play ball or ride bikes. Skin color was no factor whatsoever.
——-

And that could not be allowed to continue

Posted by: Club 85 Logic at July 21, 2026 06:15 PM (TdayT)

111 Whole world has been tribal since the advent of Man, but the US we tried to make our Tribe American... just that, with no sub tribe, but the Left has destroyed that by forcing us LEGALLY into categories.

Forcing us right back to Tribes.

Posted by: Romeo13
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There is a solution in those words.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:15 PM (hPgrk)

112 I'm licensed and bonded to perform race-based baby services in all 50 states except Alaska and Hawaii.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at July 21, 2026 06:12 PM (ZypAx)

I perform non-race-based baby services in all 50 states including Alaska and Hawaii, IYKWIMAIKTYD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 06:15 PM (dK+Kv)

113 People treat Jasmine Crockett as a joke, but in the primary nearly every black Texas Dem voted for her. AND the Texas Dem party and the national party did a lot of under handed stuff to make sure Talarico won, and they all know it.

So Talarico has now got to crawl on the floor and lick the soles of their shoes to get them to show up in November, or else he doesn’t even clear 30% in the general.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (T2w7I)

114 Will Angelina Jolie's millionaire-rich nepo-baby adopted black African children be entitled to reparations? Apparently so. They're black, hence they get the free $$$.

But WAIT a minute, the lefties will protest -- that's not fair! They're rich. And, they may be "black," but they were born in Africa, and emigrated here, and are not descended from slaves. That doesn't count!

OK, then, are we gonna have to start keeping track of who is descended from a slave or not?

Obama's family were never slaves -- in fact, they OWNED slaves back in Africa. So none of the Obamas get reparations.

What if you have a street in a black neighborhood, on on that street you have:

-- An American black guy who can prove he was descended from American slaves.
-- A Somali guy who arrived here in 2021.
-- A guy from the Dominican Republic who is indeed descended from slaves -- but slaves in a foreign country that has nothing to do with America.
-- An American black guy who CAN'T prove he was descended from American slaves, has no paperwork.
-- Some random dude with dark skin who has no clue as to his ancestry.

Who gets reparations? And why?

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (Av6i5)

115 clearly the Jews need reparations from the Egyptian Pharoh
Posted by: Romeo13

Throw in Babylonia, Roman, and Persian reps too!

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (DZ9Lv)

116 In Guatemala, the Hispanics really hate the Mayans, and I expect the feeling is mutual.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (w2Efp)

117 89 I hate to slag him, but it's surely disappointing to Minnesota voters fed up with the left wing insanity that the best the Rs can offer as an alternative is the My Pillow guy.
Posted by: Oglebay at July 21, 2026 06:08 PM (2ap+5)
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BAD BAD BAD idea for Trump to endorse him. Lindell is not taken seriously in MN and will not get any crossover voters. Lisa Demuth is the only one who has a chance against the next governor, sure to be Amy K. And then they'll get the insane current Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan to take Amy's spot in the Senate. Michele Tafoya will probably lose to crazy Peggy but has a chance....probably the cows and rocks people once again will be outvoted by the metros.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (kX27y)

118 Biden was never popular. However he still won. "won" Talarico and all the commie foreign weirdos proceeding to November with confidence is a sign that the dems at least believe their cheat machine is fully operational.

It might not be. It might just be the left always planning for maximum win. Which they always do as sure as the republicans always plan for complete capitulation.

But don't discount the chance that there may be Georgia style GOPe operatives in TX and elsewhere waiting to throw everything in exchange for personal benefit.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (3uBP9)

119 Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (/4+vQ)

120 The Reddit Lefties are trying to downplay this and say it's overblown, manufactured controversy.

Houston Public Media: The poll found 67% of Black voters surveyed said they support Talarico — of note considering what those numbers looked like for previous Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate at similar points in their campaigns. In 2024, the group’s polling around this time showed Colin Allred drawing 47% of the state’s Black voters, while Beto O’Rourke had 49% in 2018.

Monica Thompson said she’ll likely support Talarico in November but remains frustrated with how this year’s Democratic primary unfolded.

“We do want him to beat Ken Paxton, but I don’t like the way he got it,” said Thompson. “I just don’t think Jasmine Crockett got a fair chance because of her skin color.”

In a general election, these somewhat-reluctant voters could prove to be a deciding factor, according to Texas Southern University political scientist Michael Adams.

“If we have an election that’s a statistical dead heat, those voters who may opt to stay at home would be very important,” said Adams. “Jasmine Crockett was able to get them off of their sofas and out to the polls.”

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2026 06:17 PM (2qI1t)

121 The American take was only 10% of all West-bound slaves. "

We made sure there was no further population...

/Arab states

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:17 PM (XuXeR)

122 Wasn't there something about United Way having target amounts for participating organizations and money would only go to the donor-selected organization if all the targets were reached?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 21, 2026 06:17 PM (2ap+5)

123 But to show everyone else how stupid it is.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (YyBvb)

And then you get here and show how stupid you are.

Does not work or play well with others. On your permanent record.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 06:17 PM (w2Efp)

124 Super Glue Gel is unsurpassed in bonding babies.

Posted by: Sorry, Phil Swift! at July 21, 2026 06:17 PM (JM9I6)

125 It's actually hilarious that any of them honestly thought that body cams would show anything other than the uncomfortable truths about the conduct of an over-represented minority in the crime stats.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (dK+Kv)

Often, people believe the things they believe first, then go look for evidence. In their mind it is two things:
1) body cameras have to be wrong. Cops are racist and most people are good (except the ones they hate.)

2) the cameras must just not be being shown for all the black and gay people getting shit by police.

I have started to wonder if certain black people believe that a LOT of the black on black murders (the people they don't know personally) are actually white cops shooting the people.

In short, people can maintain delusions in the face of clear disproving evidence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

126 I want Talerico enslaved picking cotton.

Posted by: torabora at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (55uYK)

127 I worked for a bank at one point, same shit. I never donated but it was always a big push. And United Way basically funded anti-bank orgs. After they took their 95%.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (n5tGW)

128 I saw many of those same folks at a 45th reunion a couple of years ago, and it was like meeting family again after decades of being separated.
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:09 PM (27aLr)

You probably graduated from HS about the same time I did. Our HS was about 90% white but the kid who was voted most popular was black. Natl Honor Society, athlete, AOS level of rapier sharp wit. No one cared what color he was.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (SjAWL)

129 Its the twitch I have to argue against hypocrisy, I guess. As well as the urge to show how people so fucking wrong are wrong. Not to change that mind. But to show everyone else how stupid it is.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (YyBvb)

Well ... I know stupid when I see it...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (6ud1w)

130

He's such a nice man.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (et1vG)

131 I bet the lectures older black thugs in CA give their kids are pretty lit.

"Listen here, Lil' Maqqoniyum! Your generation doesn't know how easy they got it! When I used to stick up that Mini-Mart, I had to walk through Aryan Brothers both ways on the way to yard time and back for at least two years after! And then there was the halfway house... they made you work a jay-oh-bee, and you'd get chiggers in your ankle monitor!

Now they let you out the next day, and pay you reparations, too! Here... take my MAC-10 back to that Mini-Mart and get me 3 forties and a carton of Kools. And some Funyuns. The flamin' hot kind. I'll see yo lil' ass tomorrow."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (BI5O2)

132 Flubber

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (UjdFS)

133 I've cringed about Mike Lindell before, but AFAIK, he was the only one that knew that China had so many American voter's records.

Maybe that's what Trump is promoting here. A source that found out early that China had "all our records".

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:19 PM (Fi81e)

134 [UNEXPECTEDLY!]

Physics Geek
@physicsgeek

Homes burn to the ground.

Rebuilding permits are mostly not issued to homeowners.

CA is now going to buy up the land and build "affordable" housing, leaving the former homeowners SOL.
==========================
Remember when a lot of us said this was going to happen and many of you simply LOLed? Pepperidge Farm remembers

x.com/physicsgeek/status/
2079588346884411511

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:20 PM (78LDJ)

135 In short, people can maintain delusions in the face of clear disproving evidence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

We all saw the same stats. We knew what body cams would show, in the face of overwhelming agitprop to the contrary.

It was really fun to just point and laugh at the idiots when all the anecdotal body cam evidence came out in support of the crime stats.

Then they changed the crime stats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 06:20 PM (dK+Kv)

136 I grew up in one of the whitest towns ever. I was afraid I might be racist. But, I ended up in Phoenix before the Army, and while working at a grocery store, developed a crush on a really beautiful black girl. She was way out of my league, but she was so sweet and laughed at my dumb jokes. But, I realized I was NOT racist.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 06:20 PM (0aYVJ)

137 The military equivalent was the Combined Federal Campaign.

The Drill Sergeants wanted 100% participation. There was one guy who flatly refused, and the Senior Drill was pissed. “You mean you won’t even contribute one fucking dollar a month!?” And the guy held is ground. I can’t remember exactly what he said in response but it was pretty good, and he had a point.

One Drill sergeant admonished me “Don’t be givin’ no money to no damn Trees, and shit” LOL

Posted by: Club 85 Logic at July 21, 2026 06:20 PM (TdayT)

138 So Talarico has now got to crawl on the floor and lick the soles of their shoes to get them to show up in November, or else he doesn’t even clear 30% in the general.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Try not to gag when you eat the disgusting cuisine with your fingers.

Posted by: Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey at July 21, 2026 06:20 PM (2qI1t)

139 Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (/4+vQ)

Show off.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 21, 2026 06:21 PM (hmYU4)

140 The Romans built aquaducts, highways and multistory houses while the rest of the world was sleeping in bushes and drinking ditchwater.

The closest most come to civilization were lucky enough to be our slaves.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 21, 2026 06:21 PM (wBaIH)

141 We should do a "Wheel of Reparations" game show.
Hosted by AI Richard Dawkins al la Running Man.

Contestants get to spin a big giant wheel for their prize.

Only catch is, they have to accept is as final.

One slot will be $0. Another $100. Various others up to $100k.
And one "Return to Africa." Plays the bankruptcy sound from Wheel of Fortune.
Where, if they land, security rushes the stage to take them home to Africa.

LOL
I can imagine how many of the high-functioning retards would clamber to get on that show.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:21 PM (3cUTc)

142 If Elon is successful in mining asteroids for precious metals, we deserve reparations as well.

Posted by: We, the Dinosaurs at July 21, 2026 06:22 PM (ZypAx)

143 Who gets reparations? And why?
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (Av6i5)
======

*readies paper bag*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 06:22 PM (JvZF+)

144 >>>Who gets reparations? And why?

Posted by: zombie

>Skin baby! Power to the people!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 06:22 PM (sYM3s)

145 Reparations won't happen, can't happen. Too many issues to ever solve even if the majority thought it ok.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:22 PM (n5tGW)

146 Who gets reparations"

For what?

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:22 PM (XuXeR)

147 “ In 2024, the group’s polling around this time showed Colin Allred drawing 47% of the state’s Black voters, while Beto O’Rourke had 49% in 2018”

Okay stop right there. BULLSHIT DETECTED!!!

A generic dem has *always* gotten 90% of the black vote in Texas. If it’s true that Talarico only has 67%, he is way way down from the norm.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 06:23 PM (T2w7I)

148 It's actually hilarious that any of them honestly thought that body cams would show anything other than the uncomfortable truths about the conduct of an over-represented minority in the crime stats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (dK+Kv)
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I knew a few criminal types in my growing up days.

It's never about them. They are just having a little fun and the cops really have it out for them.

One guy I know broke the law to "pay back" the system that kept punishing him.

That was *just* the way he thought.

So, it doesn't surprise me that people like these guys would expect that body cams would show the cops being assholes, because they completely discount how they bring this upon themselves.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:23 PM (Fi81e)

149 A story that's just too good to check is California was looking at reparations and found that, if eligibility were based on having ancestors who were slaves, most of the money would go to white people.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 21, 2026 06:24 PM (2ap+5)

150 Its the twitch I have to argue against hypocrisy, I guess. As well as the urge to show how people so fucking wrong are wrong. Not to change that mind. But to show everyone else how stupid it is.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (YyBvb)

Nah, your twitch is that you have horrible envy issues and you disguise it as moral correction of others. You accuse people of being naive, blinded, overconfident and wound up in their privilege out of projection of your own faults.
You don't care about anything anyone else thinks or their arguments for believing what they do, you just want to drag other people down so you can look bigger.
You want to be praised for it, because you need validation for how you think of yourself.

You need praise and you hate other people who don't need to beg for it like you do.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:25 PM (rbvCR)

151 "🚨"Trump will allow Tate brothers to be extradited to Britain

The White House will allow Andrew Tate and his brother to be extradited to Britain, despite pressure from figures in Donald Trump’s inner circle"

Who are these figures in his "inner circle" ?? Names ?

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:26 PM (GD0B3)

152 We got the lowest rates in South Central!

Your baby only has to pay us 10% when they get sprung.

And now you can enroll in the Larmondo Baby Life Plan. Your policy will put a $10,000 annuity on your child's commissary the day he's transferred out of the juvenile system.

Posted by: Larmondo's Baby Bonds at July 21, 2026 06:27 PM (BI5O2)

153 Then the UW would start in with the visiting testimonials in the office instead of actually working. A mother with a retarded baby. Guy no legs. Crack head, but not this week! All to guilt you in to getting to 100% participation.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 06:27 PM (enNUy)

154 Okay stop right there. BULLSHIT DETECTED!!!

A generic dem has *always* gotten 90% of the black vote in Texas. If it’s true that Talarico only has 67%, he is way way down from the norm.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Here's the poll they were using:

https://tinyurl.com/3e5dfck5

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2026 06:27 PM (2qI1t)

155 Who would stick up for Tate? He dressed like a fagheluh(sp?)

My guess this is a planted 'sources say' when they want to cast libel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)

156 Its the twitch I have to argue against hypocrisy, I guess. As well as the urge to show how people so fucking wrong are wrong. Not to change that mind. But to show everyone else how stupid it is.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (YyBvb)
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So why bother with US?

Surely there are far richer treasure troves of idiots out there, such as Reddit or Democratic Underground.

Oh, wait. Those people will actually BAN you, while we just mostly ignore you.

And I pity you. Because you can never become better than what you are right now. And THAT is what eats at you the most.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)

157 If this talk of reparations continues, people like me will get very angry in comments. On sites like this one.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 06:28 PM (TfrXu)

158 Who gets reparations? And why?
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While the Republicans remained in power, there are some people who already got their reparations.

It's the Dems who discontinued the program.

But the Democratic Party is the one sacrosanct former central agent of actual racism that can't be touched because What does that have to do with now??!!

Because they were strong for the unions (which was an actual racist development) and came out strong for the right women to abort black babies.

But this is how you can see how strong demonic blindness is. So many racial things were birth and nursed in the Democratic party, but its the one institution that it would be RACIST to tear down.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:28 PM (Fi81e)

159 So, it doesn't surprise me that people like these guys would expect that body cams would show the cops being assholes, because they completely discount how they bring this upon themselves.
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The oft-repeated comment on X is, they lack the mental capacity to think more than 15 seconds into the future.

And you watch these body cams and ... holy shit do they prove it.
They way they cycle through the same phrases. How they keep trying to talk their way out. How quickly their story changes, changes back and changes again.
And the whole time, you can almost hear the voice in their head telling them stuff like "say 'don't touch me,' that will make them leave."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 06:28 PM (3cUTc)

160 Maybe that's what Trump is promoting here. A source that found out early that China had "all our records".
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:19 PM (Fi81e)

Yes, that's true but he has 0 % chance in Minnesota, conservatives know he has no chance at all and are pissed Trump endorsed him. Reminds of me of Curtis Silwa in the NYC mayors race.......

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 06:28 PM (kX27y)

161 But don't discount the chance that there may be Georgia style GOPe operatives in TX and elsewhere waiting to throw everything in exchange for personal benefit.

Posted by: banana Dream
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or that conservative TX is not GA pacifists

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:29 PM (hPgrk)

162 Trump will allow Tate brothers to be extradited to Britain

I'd pardon him!

Posted by: Tim Walz at July 21, 2026 06:30 PM (2qI1t)

163 The Roman Empire needs to compensate the Jews: what do you think happened to the survivors of the Fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD? Oops, wait there isn’t any Roman Empire anymore, neither East nor West. There is an argument you could apply to the Turks. Good luck!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 06:30 PM (zeRnp)

164 "Howdy" is one of those prophets in Life of Brian, so certain he is right, while being mostly ignored. Hope his codpiece stays true.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 06:31 PM (0aYVJ)

165 Most of the people here are still high trust even though we have entered a low trust society.

But most of it is reflexive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

166 Everybody is some kind of tribal asshole, it's our nature. That's why we have sportsball leagues and teams and political parties.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 06:31 PM (sYM3s)

167 One guy I know broke the law to "pay back" the system that kept punishing him.

That was *just* the way he thought.

Posted by: Axeman
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My older brother used to justify stealing 8-track decks out of cars by saying that it was his way of keeping "even." People would steal from him, so he had to steal from them first.

I saw him break into beat up cars that were clearly owned by girls. He was 17 or so, so I was 12. I thought he was a fucking loon, as that girl never stole shit from him. I understood that thieves and scumbags rationalize what they do. It is their nature. (That was a valuable lesson.)

He was a broken, fallen, flawed. POS.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 06:32 PM (TfrXu)

168
Reparations is the card you play after somebody played an Accident card on you.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e)

169 Everybody is some kind of tribal asshole, it's our nature.

==

We re not in Wakanda. Individualism matters to most Americans.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:32 PM (GD0B3)

170
Does Trump endorsing Mike Lindell make a difference? It's a Republican primary, anyone who votes is paying attention to the candidates.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 06:32 PM (mmrXZ)

171 There is an argument you could apply to the Turks. Good luck!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2026 06:30 PM (zeRnp)

Why did Constantinople get the works?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (T2w7I)

172 The Roman Empire needs to compensate the Jews"

Hey, that Aleric enslaved and sold a bunch of us!

/Romans

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (XuXeR)

173 Who are these figures in his "inner circle" ?? Names ?
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:26 PM (GD0B3)

Oh, I am sure they are just un-named figures that are similar to the un-named sources that are always being quoted to cause a reason for doubt and blackpills for credulous MAGA voters who are always falling for evidence that Trump has gathered around him a council of traitors.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (rbvCR)

174 Only way Talarico wins is huge Dem cheat.
If Talarico wins expect a huge shit storm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (hPgrk)

175 From the CA Post. So, how many more Khalid's are out there????????

A notorious fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters List for allegedly stealing more than half a billion dollars from Medicare was captured after an international manhunt.

Khalid Satary, 54, was cuffed in the Middle East on Monday after more than three years on the lam for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $547 million, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (kX27y)

176 Then they changed the crime stats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2026 06:20 PM (dK+Kv)

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How long before "AI" is used to change all the non-white criminals' faces on body cam videos and in mug shots to "white"-- so that they match the race label assigned at booking?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (78LDJ)

177 Why did Constantinople get the works?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (T2w7I)

It's nobody's business but the Turks

Posted by: It's me donna at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (6ud1w)

178 The solution to the “who gets reparations” is yes. Yes is the only possible solution. All solutions that create distinctions are racist.
The answer is yes.
The way to implement “yes” is to say “ no” to reparations and “yes” to everything else.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (GbONR)

179 I cannot imagine Talarico winning. And polls in July are mostly crap.

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (GD0B3)

180 Imagine this:

The Dems win the Senate and the White House in 2028.

First thing on their agenda: Re-open the borders. Abolish ICE. Allow in the world, No deporations. No ID checks.

Second thing on their agenda: Reparations for "black" people. Every black person in the US gets $1 million (or some amount).

Guess what would happen?

THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA WOULD IMMEDIATELY DECAMP FOR THE UNITED STATES, just to get that free $1 million.

Oh no! National bankruptcy! Welfare system instantly collapses! We'll have to close the borders, institute ID checks, deport all the Africans...wait - -we're just become the enemy.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (Av6i5)

181 EVERYONE IS TRIBAL, TO AN EXTENT.

Even commies are tribal to the ideology. So are we. It is the desire to not be an island in your beliefs and why most of us keep posting here like it is a use net forum and it is 1999.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

182 He's no Beto.
Posted by: Robert Francis O'Rourke at July 21, 2026 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

Talarico still has one chance to win.

He must adopt the Wendy Davis Gambit and-

prance around the stage in pink tennis shoes at his rallies.

Those bright pink clad tootsies are like a hypnotic, Siren song for all Democrats.

Do it Jimmy T.!!!! Go Pink and win!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 06:35 PM (iJfKG)

183 Evanston Illinois so called reparations are for housing assistance because of housing discrimination. Limited to residents prior to 1969. And if it still say it happened, then tell me if they have stopped asking for them in Evanston.

Also there is a federal lawsuit against this which is one of the problems of which I speak.

Pssst... you only saw this comment on AoS.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:35 PM (n5tGW)

184 THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA WOULD IMMEDIATELY DECAMP FOR THE UNITED STATES, just to get that free $1 million.

Oh no! National bankruptcy! Welfare system instantly collapses! We'll have to close the borders, institute ID checks, deport all the Africans...wait - -we're just become the enemy.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (Av6i5)
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When that happens, it'll be far too late.

All us white folks may have to move to Africa and build ourselves our own Wakanda.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 06:36 PM (FZ29D)

185
Praise ? Hell - I wish more Logic was on the table.
Posted by: Howdy at July 21, 2026 06:29 PM (YyBvb)

You hate people for having what you don't have, and continually attack them for it. Peace of mind, faith, family, community.

Wolfus is right, you will never be more that what you are today, a sad troll trying to hurt strangers because you can't think of a better way to spend your time.
Sad, boring, dull.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:36 PM (rbvCR)

186 Why did Constantinople get the works?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2026 06:33 PM (T2w7I)

It's nobody's business but the Turks
Posted by: It's me donna at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (6ud1w)
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That's some historical revision right there.

Move along, captured city, here. Move along.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:36 PM (Fi81e)

187 All us white folks may have to move to Africa and build ourselves our own Wakanda.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 06:36 PM (FZ29D)

Word.

Posted by: Rhodesia at July 21, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

188 All us white folks may have to move to Africa and build ourselves our own Wakanda.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 06:36 PM (FZ29D)

It was called South Africa.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:37 PM (mP0Kj)

189 191 I cannot imagine Talarico winning. And polls in July are mostly crap.
Posted by: runner

That's right! You can totally trust the ones in November though!

Posted by: Ann Selzer at July 21, 2026 06:37 PM (2qI1t)

190 The Brattleboro City Government has voted to pay reparations, but we've never had any people or children of coler up here. We are looking to adopt someone. Apply today. Bring your own paper bag.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at July 21, 2026 06:38 PM (JM9I6)

191 I feel differently about reparations --

I think blacks should pay back the people who brought them to this wonderful continent. I think they should also pay back the taxpayers for their immense social welfare burden, and pay back society for the high crime and disruption they cause.

And that is where this talk of reparations will lead. Do they want that? An accounting?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 06:38 PM (TfrXu)

192
Is it fair to say that Howdy is Doody?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 06:38 PM (iJfKG)

193 181
Does Trump endorsing Mike Lindell make a difference? It's a Republican primary, anyone who votes is paying attention to the candidates.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 06:32 PM (mmrXZ)

It could be the situation we had with Cornyn/Paxton. Had Trump endorsed Cornyn, it wouldn’t have mattered. Cornyn was going down.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 21, 2026 06:38 PM (SjAWL)

194 You all realize he enjoys you all insulting him, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

195 Oh no! National bankruptcy! Welfare system instantly collapses! We'll have to close the borders, institute ID checks, deport all the Africans...wait - -we're just become the enemy.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (Av6i5)
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That would be terrible!!

Posted by: Frankfort School Professors Trying Hard to Hide Their Smirk at July 21, 2026 06:38 PM (Fi81e)

196 "Howdy" is one of those prophets in Life of Brian, so certain he is right, while being mostly ignored. Hope his codpiece stays true.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 06:31 PM (0aYVJ)

The difference between Howdy and Laocoon is that Laocoon was right, and was under threat for saying what he did, and then went and said it and was suffered for it.

Howdy is trolling on an anonymous forum and he probably never has even kicked in money to ace

Posted by: Kindltot at July 21, 2026 06:39 PM (rbvCR)

197 Posted by: Ann Selzer

Holy Cow! blast from the past...that was a fun one!

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:39 PM (GD0B3)

198 All us white folks may have to move to Africa and build ourselves our own Wakanda.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

The funny part is, this "Whitekanda" would actually rapidly develop all the advanced technology depicted in the laughable racist fantasy movie.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)

199 I cannot imagine Talarico winning. And polls in July are mostly crap.
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (GD0B3)

Can't imagine the Dems do either. But apparently that or Crockett is all the Dems have.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:40 PM (uhVAy)

200 The funny part is, this "Whitekanda" would actually rapidly develop all the advanced technology depicted in the laughable racist fantasy movie.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)
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Yep. That's exactly why I brought it up.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 06:40 PM (FZ29D)

201 There is one tiny city in the USA that has ever passed reparations. It is currently under a lawsuit which was challenged by the city but they of course lost the challenge.

There are 10 cities that have had animal mayors, most were dogs, a cat, and two goats. There are currently more cities that have had goat mayors than reparations. And when the lone city has it's law struck down there will be zero and still two goat mayors.

There have been some cities that passed "reparation" bills that were not race based and included wipepo but had "reparation" in the title of the law and people were not so happy about that.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 06:40 PM (3uBP9)

202 On a more serious note, what is the best/worst thing to do to a group (any group) to help them succeed?

Best -- tell them they are not victims of anything and they need to get to work and bust their asses like everyone else. Tell them that life is unfair to all of us and deal with it.

Worst -- give them $1,000,000 each and tell them they are victims.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 06:40 PM (TfrXu)

203 180 Everybody is some kind of tribal asshole, it's our nature.
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We re not in Wakanda. Individualism matters to most Americans.
Posted by: runner
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America is different. Pre LBJ. Americans, like all people had their little tribes but an over arching unity was AMERICAN. Evidence?
How badly do you think blacks were treated pre-WWII?
How many blacks volunteered for service in WWII?
Regardless how shitty they were treated they were American and showed it.
That is something, a unity that exists, or existed before the hate mongers, no where else in the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:41 PM (hPgrk)

204 Well, I counter argued and he didn't respond, so I win. Slavery reparations will not happen. Unless you count EBT.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:42 PM (n5tGW)

205
“I just don’t think Jasmine Crockett got a fair chance because of her skin color.”

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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It's always funny when Dems accidentally condemn themselves and their own institutions. Who ran the Democrat primary in Texas?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 06:42 PM (mmrXZ)

206 I cannot imagine Talarico winning. And polls in July are mostly crap.
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2026 06:34 PM (GD0B3)

Can't imagine the Dems do either. But apparently that or Crockett is all the Dems have.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:40 PM (uhVAy)

Eh, the polls are all for teeing up the cheat.

If Democrat cheating is prevented, they lose.

Perhaps even in blue shitholes.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2026 06:42 PM (iJfKG)

207
I disagree that we cannot but be tribal.

There is no way I'm as tribal as TDS-ers who can't fly the flag or express patriotism or land at Trump International Airport.

Or elitists who think an academic education elevates you above all humanity who didn't go to college. Or globalists who have only become tribal about globalism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:42 PM (Fi81e)

208 I'm dying here...

Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will introduce "Sally," an M-Series robot built by Realbotix, to assist in coding, robotics, and AI classes for 11th and 12th graders.

Thing is, "Sally" is a sex robot for incels that has been repurposed to teach high school juniors and seniors.

Given how some teenagers have managed to hack the McDonald's mobile app's ordering AI to do their homework, I can only imagine that within a few hours in the classroom, "Sally" will be performing blow jobs on the horny teenage students.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 06:43 PM (BvPIe)

209 Read this and tell me why we need any more ungrateful immigrants. It's the latest mass shooting in the MPLS area. Ethiopian went to cancel his $65 a month parking contract at his St. Paul apartment complex and ended up killing 3 employees in the leasing office:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhk269u

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 06:44 PM (kX27y)

210 First three things we do in Whitekanda is: dam the rivers, kill the megafauna and finally, spray DDT on every square inch of every fucking thing.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 06:45 PM (GbONR)

211
that or Crockett is all the Dems have.
Posted by: Oldcat

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They don't have her anymore, do they?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 06:45 PM (mmrXZ)

212 All us white folks may have to move to Africa and build ourselves our own Wakanda.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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But that would be appropriating a fictional African culture made up by white comic writers!!

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:45 PM (Fi81e)

213 Thing is, "Sally" is a sex robot for incels that has been repurposed to teach high school juniors and seniors.

Given how some teenagers have managed to hack the McDonald's mobile app's ordering AI to do their homework, I can only imagine that within a few hours in the classroom, "Sally" will be performing blow jobs on the horny teenage students.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 06:43 PM (BvPIe)
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You are suggesting that that's not part of somebody's plan.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:46 PM (Fi81e)

214 Learning what I have about Africa, it is no wonder their slave trade was ever the only successful business to come out of there.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 06:46 PM (n5tGW)

215 Given how some teenagers have managed to hack the McDonald's mobile app's ordering AI to do their homework, I can only imagine that within a few hours in the classroom, "Sally" will be performing blow jobs on the horny teenage students.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 06:43 PM (BvPIe)

So, just change the name of the class to... Sex Ed?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:47 PM (mP0Kj)

216 Make Sally look like the hatchetfaced hags who taught me in schools. That won't distract the students.

Also make her a retard, for verisimilitude.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 06:48 PM (BI5O2)

217 Read this and tell me why we need any more ungrateful immigrants. It's the latest mass shooting in the MPLS area. Ethiopian went to cancel his $65 a month parking contract at his St. Paul apartment complex and ended up killing 3 employees in the leasing office:

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"This is feature, not bug, comrade!"

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:48 PM (78LDJ)

218 Nood - "The dumps in june, ain't like perfume.... deep in the heart of Jersey"

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (TfrXu)

219 201 There is one tiny city in the USA that has ever passed reparations. It is currently under a lawsuit which was challenged by the city but they of course lost the challenge.
Posted by: banana Dream

Heck, just yesterday Alameda County (in California) voted to give reparations to all black residents of the county.

Barely even made the local news. No one cares.

Why not? Alameda County has no money to spare. So they can promise reparations all they want, but will never be able to actually pay out.

Of course, the new law is hilariously unconstitutional, but I doubt it will ever be challenged, because everyone in the country either agrees with the law, or simply doesn't give a shit anymore.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (Av6i5)

220 Learning what I have about Africa, it is no wonder their slave trade was ever the only successful business to come out of there"

All cultures are not the same

Posted by: man at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (XuXeR)

221 Mary is on the wagon.

Unprecedented.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

222 198 All us white folks may have to move to Africa and build ourselves our own Wakanda.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

The funny part is, this "Whitekanda" would actually rapidly develop all the advanced technology depicted in the laughable racist fantasy movie.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)

Whut, you mean like Rockets that come back down and land themselves???

Wait.... Elon Musk is from Africa... and he's White... is he KING OF WHITEKANDA?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:50 PM (mP0Kj)

223 I should clarify: ..."just yesterday the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County (in California) voted to give reparations ...". It wasn't a public election vote -- just corrupt local politicians in a big guilt-soaked circle jerk.

Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:51 PM (Av6i5)

224 >>> Thing is, "Sally" is a sex robot for incels that has been repurposed to teach high school juniors and seniors.

Given how some teenagers have managed to hack the McDonald's mobile app's ordering AI to do their homework, I can only imagine that within a few hours in the classroom, "Sally" will be performing blow jobs on the horny teenage students.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 06:43 PM (BvPIe)

It doesn't look like sally is a sex robot. The company that produced sally did, in the past, acquire a company that made a sex doll. Sally does look a bit dolled up in the face. But I don't think it was designed for "sex". But to be a tradeshow presenter, or like in a kiosk showing carburetors or something.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (3uBP9)

225 >>>Given how some teenagers have managed to hack the McDonald's mobile app's ordering AI to do their homework, I can only imagine that within a few hours in the classroom, "Sally" will be performing blow jobs on the horny teenage students.

Posted by: Community Notes

>This is pure American ingenuity and gumption. I would hire these students work on my lunar rover.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 06:53 PM (sYM3s)

226 I saw Verisimilitude open for Reality Kings at The Lost Horizon in '87.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:53 PM (78LDJ)

227 >>> Heck, just yesterday Alameda County (in California) voted to give reparations to all black residents of the county.

Barely even made the local news. No one cares.

Why not? Alameda County has no money to spare. So they can promise reparations all they want, but will never be able to actually pay out.
Posted by: zombie at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (Av6i5)

Yeah when I looked there are a bunch of places that had a vote and it passed and it does absolutely nothing. Or it does something like provides shelter to unwed pregnant aardvarks but has reparation in the name.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 21, 2026 06:55 PM (3uBP9)

228 Red Ed Milliband is the new British foreign secretary. That guy was behind the Brits destroying their energy sector. They are a dying country

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 06:55 PM (sMkB+)

229 215 Given how some teenagers have managed to hack the McDonald's mobile app's ordering AI to do their homework,
...
Posted by: Community Notes
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I can't find it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:56 PM (hPgrk)

230 Wait.... Elon Musk is from Africa... and he's White... is he KING OF WHITEKANDA?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 06:50 PM (mP0Kj)

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Parasites like Talafreako will invade Whitekanda and try to remake it as Wokekanda.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 06:57 PM (78LDJ)

231 --------------

Parasites like Talafreako will invade Whitekanda and try to remake it as Wokekanda.

Posted by: ShainS
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That's what oak trees and ropes are for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 06:59 PM (hPgrk)

232 Red Ed Milliband is the new British foreign secretary. That guy was behind the Brits destroying their energy sector. They are a dying country
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 06:55 PM (sMkB+)

Paying him to leave the UK might be just the ticket.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:59 PM (uhVAy)

233 Red Ed Milliband is the new British foreign secretary. That guy was behind the Brits destroying their energy sector. They are a dying country

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 06:55 PM (sMkB+)

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Old & Busted: The Peter Principle.
New Hotness: The Preator Principle.

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 07:00 PM (78LDJ)

234 The funny part is, this "Whitekanda" would actually rapidly develop all the advanced technology depicted in the laughable racist fantasy movie.
Posted by: zombie

As soon as they stopped dying of malaria and other assorted tropical diseases, yeah.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 21, 2026 08:01 PM (vJrRc)

235 Good on you, Ace. Like usual.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 21, 2026 09:41 PM (D/yTJ)

236 United Way was famous for giving just about 0 to the causes they asked for money for.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)

United Way nuked themselves when word got out that the founder was getting 7 figures for nothing more than coining the name. They were really begging for money after that. Participation was a huge deal to CEOs and VPs. I think substantial perks were at stake. Our company pushed hard, too.

As far as Talarico goes, he just looks like a blow up doll to me, so bland. And when he smiles, the smile doesn’t reach his eyes. Not in that sharp, shark-like way of a predator, but because they’re blank.

Posted by: Advo at July 21, 2026 10:00 PM (jO4mz)

Democrats Push Unhinged Racialist Propaganda as Republicans Probe the Smithsonian for Its Rampant Leftwing Bias

"The museum does not take sides,' a Smithsonian official declared, perjuring herslef.

'The museum does not take sides': Smithsonian official defends institution amid Trump criticism
A scathing White House report accused museum leaders of "radical" activism.

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (MNAH) defended its work in a congressional hearing on Tuesday morning amid sharp criticism from the White House over the contents of the Washington, D.C. museum.
"Our work is governed by the Smithsonian standards of scholarship, accuracy, independence, and nonpartisanship," Anthea Hartig said. "The museum does not take sides in America's political debates. We preserve and document the evidence of American life in all of its breadth, so that the public can encounter the past and draw their own conclusions."
Hartig's comments came during her opening remarks to lawmakers in a House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency hearing titled "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past."
She is also expected to testify in a related hearing on Wednesday before the Committee on House Administration, a committee spokesperson confirmed to ABC News.
Hartig was named in a scathing White House Domestic Policy Council report released on July 4, accusing the MNAH and its leadership of engaging in "extreme political activism" and presenting "a radical view of American history."
She pushed back against the report's findings on Tuesday.
...
Hartig's testimony this week marks the first time that a top leader at the Smithsonian gets grilled publicly by Congress after President Donald Trump targeted the institution in his March 27, 2025 executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."
The executive order directed Vice President J.D. Vance, in consultation with the president's advisers on domestic policy, "to remove improper ideology" from Smithsonian institutions, arguing that materials that cast America in a "negative light" have no place in federal cultural institutions.
...
The report accuses the museum of "anti-White activism," "illegal alien activism," and "transgender activism." It also includes many photos of materials the White House has identified as problematic.
It also accused the museum's leaders of not loving America.
"The serious concerns raised in this report are not about a few exhibits or a few controversial labels," the report says. "As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian's flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: 'Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country.'"
Hartig pushed back against this claim on Tuesday and invited lawmakers to visit the museum to view its contents themselves.
"I believe what you will find, madams and sirs, is not an institution that has forgotten its country, but one that loves it enough to tell the full sweep of history, our triumphs and our struggles," she said. "I love the United States of America. I consider it the privilege of my career to help preserve its treasures and serve the American people."

Yes, the Democrats' "love" of America continues to be the same kind of "love" shown to Tina Turner by Ike Turner. Baby I love you so much, can't you see how much it hurts me when you make me abuse you?

The director of this DEI shitshow was grilled by Republican congressmen at today's hearing, with Democrats shrieking that it's "white supremacy" to demand neutral standards in a publicly-funded museum.

The director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Anthea M. Hartig, came under fire on Tuesday at a congressional hearing over a recent White House report that accused her of "radical activist ideology" and the museum of undermining "faith in American institutions."
...
Representative Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, an arm of DOGE that held the hearing, focused on content in two recent exhibitions: "Entertainment Nation," which explores the history of entertainment and "Girlhood (It's complicated)," which discussed gender identity.
"You have pictures of bondage, you have some overtly sexual things up there, you have transgendered folks," he said. "In another exhibit, a 6-year-old girl asked why she doesn't have male genitalia. Do you really think that content is appropriate for children? I mean, do you think little girls have penises?"
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina asked Ms. Hartig to list how many genders there are and said, "When was your gender revealed to you?"
The museum director responded, "I don't really think that's relevant to the conversation" and generally answered in measured tones, explaining at one point that the "Girlhood" show "was not designed for children" and had a label informing parents about some of the topics.
Ms. Hartig contested the thrust of the recent White House report about the museum she leads.
"We unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum," Ms. Hartig said at the hearing, "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past," while acknowledging that "there is always room for improvement."
"When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don't mean erasing it," she continued. "We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects that earlier tellings left out so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.

Below, Democrats shaming themselves in public.

WHY ARE THEY PROJECTING THIS MUCH?

PRESSLEY: "Dr. Blight, looking at history, why do neo-fascist autocrats attack cultural institutions like museums?"

DR BLIGHT: "Madam Congressman, it's because they believe that's where you can control people's minds. you can sustain a social� pic.twitter.com/mtA6iGOcn1
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) July 21, 2026

Fox News
@FoxNews
Jasmine Crockett says the real reason so many people were rooting for Spain to win the World Cup in the finals was because of "racist history" surrounding Argentina.
REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: "If you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain, and it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for Argentina- or actually against Argentina, right?"
"And why was that? Just give me an explanation. If you could guess."
PROF. DAVID BLIGHT: "Spain had the best team. Maybe that's why they were rooting for them?"
REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: "There's also a racist history"

Jasmine Crockett says the real reason so many people were rooting for Spain to win the World Cup in the finals was because of "racist history" surrounding Argentina.

REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: �If you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain, and it seemed like the� pic.twitter.com/KbGTWznA4O
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 21, 2026

Jasmine Crockett: "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome to the Republicans' white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing."

Absolutely beneath the office. Sadly, not shocked, but what a disgusting display. pic.twitter.com/zAZCC6yaQ9
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) July 21, 2026

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 OMG. Brutal moment as Rep. Brandon Gill embarrasses Smithsonian Director Hartig with this line of questioning
GILL: Is it important to be polite?
HARTIG: Yes
GILL: Your organization says politeness is a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am, are you a white supremacist?
HARTIG: No, sir.
GILL: Why does your organization say being polite is part of being a white supremacist?
😭😭
ANOTHER ONE:
GILL: Is objectivity important for history?
HARTIG: We strive to be objective
GILL: Your document says being objective is white supremacy.
HARTIG: Mm...
GILL: Are you promoting a white supremacy culture at the Smithsonian? Ma'am, is this a difficult question?

🚨 OMG. Brutal moment as Rep. Brandon Gill embarrasses Smithsonian Director Hartig with this line of questioning

GILL: Is it important to be polite?

HARTIG: Yes

GILL: Your organization says politeness is a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am, are you a� pic.twitter.com/Yeoqtx32G9
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 21, 2026

An old exhibit that should be posted in the Smithsonian to explain leftists:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:40 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2026 04:42 PM (N1tpc)

2
Hi ace

Posted by: four seasons at July 21, 2026 04:42 PM (/QHx4)

3 Good evening! In the morning Tech Thread, they mentioned "reverse seasonal affective disorder" or summer dysphoria. So it's a little late, but here's a pop song I really like, from her second album Born To Die (2012):

Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Audio)
https://youtu.be/B1PIEMofJuQ

There's also a music video with a couple versions. I fancy this one, where it was cut down to fit a club mix that a DJ made in 2013, that became her highest-charting U.S. solo single:

Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Music Video) [Cedric Gervais Remix]
https://youtu.be/5gqEJT1lxgk

I will go nood now.

Posted by: SciVo at July 21, 2026 04:42 PM (Sy6m/)

4 Weaned on cock

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 21, 2026 04:43 PM (YSM/8)

5 It's amazing how much the old segregationists and their opinion of what black people are like/capable of and the modern "woke" crowd's opinion of what black people are like/capable of match up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)

6 Ooo, centered.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)

7 Uhoh. Ace broke the HTML again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2026 04:44 PM (O7YUW)

8 They are like ticks, or termites.

Smithsonian buggered the B-29 Enola Gay display back in the early 1990s

The difference back then, there were a lot of World War II veterans still alive, including much of the crew, and they weren’t having any of it. Pseudo-intellectual quackery by credentialed cretins.

It’s only gotten worse. A lot worse

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 04:44 PM (dLypp)

9 This is hitting all the major leftwing themes:

1) Hating whitey
2) Wanting to sexualize kids
3) Claiming that's just normal non partisan stuff

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

10 Smithsonian buggered the B-29 Enola Gay display back in the early 1990s

The only moral choice in 1945 was to keep dropping nukes on Japan until they surrendered.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

11 Morons are at the top of the food chain.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2026 04:46 PM (viF8m)

12 Whos' the bald guy in a dress?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM (2Ez/1)

13
Just auction all this stuff (to American buyers only, of course).

There is no fucking excuse - none - to have our artifacts in the hands of this government that hates our country so much. They aren't safe with these people. Give them to someone who doesn't go to sleep fantasizing about burning them.

Empty the National Archives, too. It's pure perversion to have the US government in possession of the Declaration and Constitution.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM (BI5O2)

14 The comments are very centrist. Unlike the Smithsonian.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM (CwhoI)

15 Morons are at the top of the food chain.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2026 04:46 PM

Science!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM (kgE5c)

16 Smithsonian buggered the B-29 Enola Gay display back in the early 1990s

The only moral choice in 1945 was to keep dropping nukes on Japan until they surrendered.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

And the ONLY concern an American should have had was saving American lives.

It also happened to save MANY MORE Japanese lives than American ones, but the only moral choice an American should have had was clear.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM (N1tpc)

17 Back in the early nineties I subscribed to Smithsonian Magazine. After about two years I realized that it was going overwhelmingly left and I said bye-bye

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 04:48 PM (sMkB+)

18 i recall that in 1944 the smithsonian did a display about ww2 in which they blamed pearl harbor on american cultural imperialism

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 21, 2026 04:48 PM (CWTWj)

19 Gill is one of my favorites... And.. Just a reminder to Ms. Smithsonian and the harpies in Congress screeching racism about everything...If everything is racist ... Nothing is...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 21, 2026 04:48 PM (6ud1w)

20 Whos' the bald guy in a dress?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM

L'Opecia Pressley. D-Boston.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2026 04:48 PM (kgE5c)

21 Calm, composed, and well-balanced

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 21, 2026 04:49 PM (RUm4z)

22 My work requires reason and judgment. Well, then. I really am a Moron.

Also, 30 years of CAD drafting experience in the civil engineering and land survey fields.

But, still Moron.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 04:49 PM (0aYVJ)

23 >>Whos' the bald guy in a dress?

She looks like she should worshipping a head of Cabbage.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2026 04:49 PM (uzmqU)

24 Brandon Gill is brilliant but this is just another moment of leftists pretending to not know things.

Oh my organization says objectivity is white supremacy? Why, I'll have to look into that because I certainly didn't know about it!

Now if it was me I'd have followed up with:

Are you going to resign right now for promoting white supremacy or will you continue to lead the Smithsonian as a White Supremacist?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

25 With the death of Humphreys's Executor, why doesn't the Trumpster just fire this bint?

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 21, 2026 04:49 PM (sFNX2)

26 Wait....that can't be right. Ummm....so I can be impolite and it's actually a way to show solidarity with the black man?

This is going to be awesome. Who's first?

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 04:50 PM (dIske)

27 I’m really starting to like that Gill guy

Posted by: Iris at July 21, 2026 04:50 PM (mgRTg)

28 BTW, I find this formatting disturbing. AOS is anything but centrist.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 21, 2026 04:50 PM (sFNX2)

29 The picture of Anthea Hartig on the Smithsonian website had to have been taken 20 years ago, minimum.

She must've been a real estate agent early on in life.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 21, 2026 04:51 PM (J4Dwc)

30 And the ONLY concern an American should have had was saving American lives.

Yep

Your duty as an American president is to achieve American foreign policy goals with the minimal expenditure of American lives and treasure.

At no point should the impact on an enemy country enter the equation that is THEIR leadership's responsibility.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

31 WHY ARE THEY PROJECTING THIS MUCH?

PRESSLEY: "Dr. Blight, looking at history, why do neo-fascist autocrats attack cultural institutions like museums?"

WTF? Like you are erasing history by the minute? Like you destroyed monuments precious to many Americans? I have news for you. We don’t forget

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2026 04:51 PM (i+bC1)

32 BTW, I find this formatting disturbing. AOS is anything but centrist.
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 21, 2026 04:50 PM (sFNX2)

Happens a lot.
One adapts.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 04:51 PM (0aYVJ)

33 Who's the bald guy in a dress?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 21, 2026 04:47 PM
======

I wore it better.

Posted by: Corporal Max Linger at July 21, 2026 04:52 PM (2Ez/1)

34 PRESSLEY: "Dr. Blight, looking at history, why do neo-fascist autocrats attack cultural institutions like museums?"

The chick that destroyed a bunch of confederate monuments said this?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:52 PM (sKqQm)

35 Oops.

Posted by: Corporal Max Klinger at July 21, 2026 04:52 PM (2Ez/1)

36 PRESSLEY: "Dr. Blight, looking at history, why do neo-fascist autocrats attack cultural institutions like museums?"
------

Who even talks that way? Who elects people who talk that way?

Posted by: Crusader at July 21, 2026 04:52 PM (TN0g+)

37 My solution to all of these things is just defund them. You can never police this stuff and as soon as a Democrat is back in charge, we're back to square 1.

Posted by: Leupold at July 21, 2026 04:52 PM (eIzlH)

38 So Ace has adopted a centrist position?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 21, 2026 04:53 PM (s7Tj7)

39
What's really going on with these hearings? Is anyone going to yank funding? Is anyone going to get fired for dissing Trump's EO?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

40 By the current definition the left uses, the average American GI landing on the Normandy beaches in '44 was a fascist.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)

41 That big tall monument in DC honors a guy who owned slaves.

Posted by: Tear it down! at July 21, 2026 04:54 PM (2Ez/1)

42 According to the last exhibit, I actually am a Moron.
I guess I should feel good about that?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 21, 2026 04:54 PM (zafwz)

43 216 Apparently, it's a couple of back benchers doing it in the back benches, Hillary Scholten (D) and John James (R).
____

A reach-around the aisle?

_____

Her pics are with and without glasses, the latter she's maybe a Walmart 7. But some guys might like the glasses look.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

44 That big tall monument in DC honors a guy who owned slaves.

So did that Muhammed guy

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

45 39
What's really going on with these hearings? Is anyone going to yank funding? Is anyone going to get fired for dissing Trump's EO?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 04:53 PM

*****

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 21, 2026 04:55 PM (2Ez/1)

46 That's why we have congress people: To settle for everybody what soccer team we'd be racist to root for or against.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

47 Apparently, it's a couple of back benchers doing it in the back benches, Hillary Scholten (D) and John James (R).
____

A reach-around the aisle?

_____

Her pics are with and without glasses, the latter she's maybe a Walmart 7.
------

That's being...generous.

Posted by: Crusader at July 21, 2026 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

48 Why you be runnin' me down, Hoss?
Bitch had it comin'!

Posted by: Zombie Ike at July 21, 2026 04:57 PM (JM9I6)

49 That damn Trump put a statue of slave holder Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden and there's hell to pay!

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
President Trump installed a statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden last week, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the yet-to-be-announced move — continuing Trump’s effort to remake the White House and Washington.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 21, 2026 04:57 PM (ndZc7)

50
Holy fvk that Jasmine Crockett's argument.

"It seems like the whooole entire worrrrld prefers... vanilla ice cream. Or is it, chocolate ice cream."

Where but Congress can a person get paid for such a shitty job performance?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 04:57 PM (mmrXZ)

51 And the ONLY concern an American should have had was saving American lives.

——-

Surprisingly enough, that was the impetus from the Manhattan project right from the start. America needs to build this thing as fast as possible with the very highest priority and it may shorten or end the war. Every single day counts.

People cavalierly claim “oh they would have surrendered in a month or two”. When you’re losing 5000 a week, that isn’t much consolation.

People who aren’t slated to invade the home islands, people removed by decades from the event, they don’t think right.

It’s more pseudo-intellectual twaddle. Oppenheimer and the longhairs were not exactly happy about nuking people. But as they wrote in their report, they could find no practical alternative.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (dLypp)

52 So Ace has adopted a centrist position?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 21, 2026 04:53 PM (s7Tj7)
---
We know this: the alignment is one of two ways: Left and center.

Somehow, ace never makes a "mistake" to align us to the right!

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Fi81e)

53 What's really going on with these hearings? Is anyone going to yank funding? Is anyone going to get fired for dissing Trump's EO?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

Of course not.

But a normal IQ legislator can shoot retarded Leftist fish in a barrel for his campaign reel.

He will be feted on the Right for his SICK BURNZZZ and reelected ten times, before leaving Congress under a cloud of betrayal and taking a board chair at Netflix for millions of $$$.

Usual stuff.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

54 What kind of high grade imbecile formatted this post?

Posted by: A Moron at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (MWfyi)

55
Smithsonian buggered the B-29 Enola Gay display back in the early 1990s

I keep thinking of that whenever this subject comes up again. I didn't realize it was that long ago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Cqx++)

56 Her pics are with and without glasses, the latter she's maybe a Walmart 7.
------

That's being...generous.
Posted by: Crusader

I dunno, I didn't think she looked too bad here. Trying to cut Mr. James some slack -

https://tinyurl.com/srvrpd4c

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

57 Other than being polite, here are some other things the Smithsonian labeled aspects of white supremacy:

Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)

58 I watched as much of the hearing as I could stand. I don't think Hartig (Dr., my aching ass) ever opened her mouth without prefacing it with "Sooo"...

It seems that public speaking is a new, and not-yet-mastered skill for this bonehead.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Riz8t)

59 WaPo: House Democrats rebut GOP attacks on Smithsonian as museum leader faces hearing. The lawmakers called attacks on the museum “revisionist history” after a White House report accused it of “ideological capture.”

can we stop pretending the parties are “the same” yet

Republicans want to loot the Smithsonian, sell off whatever they don't want, then whitewash anything remaining. Good for the Democrats who speak out against the destruction of a fine institution.

The real issue here isn’t whether the Smithsonian should be more patriotic or more critical, it is whether the White House can pressure a supposedly independent cultural institution into telling history the way it wants it told. Once that happens, the debate stops being about scholarship and starts becoming about control.

The Smithsonian 100% takes sides, the issue Trump
And MAGA has is they take the side of actual truth and the right can’t have that light being shined on them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (2qI1t)

60
"It seems like the whooole entire worrrrld prefers... vanilla ice cream. Or is it, chocolate ice cream."

Since white people are more pinkish, shouldn't we be comparing chocolate and strawberry ice cream popularity?

I mean if we are going to play this stupid game.

And for the record it is much harder to make good strawberry ice cream because chocolate has a stronger flavor - strawberry is more subtle and so you have to be very careful to make it isn't overwhelmed by the sweetness...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

61 Huh.

So according to that infographic at the end, Morons are capable of performing tasks requiring reasoning and judgement.

Good to know!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (FZ29D)

62 wait, why do we have to do work requiring reason & judgement?

just because we're certified (tm) Morons.....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (CFj+S)

63 PRESSLEY: "Dr. Blight, looking at history, why do neo-fascist autocrats attack cultural institutions like museums?"

_________________________

How about that? There has been no such thing as a neo-fascist autocrat. "Neo-fascist" only applies post WW2. Autocrat refers to a ruler with unlimited power and absolute authority. No one, absolutely no one, can be labled as a "neo-fascist autocrat."

One would think that the Director of the Smithsonian would know that. I don't expect Pressley to know that. If she did, she wouldn't have asked the question.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 05:01 PM (dIske)

64 More Democrat crap:
@WallStreetApes
What a SCAM
So California is losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from people buying electric cars and not needing SMOG checks anymore

So the state is considering a new program called VSSI checks, Vehicle Safety Systems Inspection checks to be mandatory to make up for the money they are losing

This is what’s being talked about in the community of people who own SMOG check businesses, these are the whispers of what’s coming

The Vehicle Safety Systems Inspection was launched by the Bureau of Automotive Repair in 2021

Right now it’s not for all vehicles, it’s primarily required for salvage, rebuilt and reconstructed vehicles before DMV registration

It goes over things like brakes, lights, steering, suspension, tires, body structure, etc.

So the rumors are that Democrats are thinking about making this be the new mandatory check that will replace their SMOG revenue

California Democrats need to be removed. They keep doing insane things and you can’t vote them out of office because we all know they rig the elections

This check is what will likely be used later on to check your mileage for the mileage tax. I bet it’s all connected

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:01 PM (kX27y)

65 Republicans want to loot the Smithsonian, sell off whatever they don't want, then whitewash anything remaining.
____

Pretty sure this was laid out in the Republican Party founding documents.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 05:01 PM (Dv3i1)

66 President Trump installed a statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden last week.

President Thomas Jefferson. There is precedent for this.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 05:01 PM (dLypp)

67 Any time someone brings up "equity" or "white supremacy," you know they are just making things up to get into the academic spotlight. After all, if you come up with something new and publish it, TENURE *ching ching ching*

This has been true since at least the 1980's when I was in college. Professors literally had students make things up and insert them into "research" papers or "position" papers, usually things that had nothing to do with the subject at hand. This was considered cutting edge academia.

Same thing was true in architectural school design classes. More about modern, ugly sculpture than buildings that were beautiful and functional.

It is the corollary of "throw shit at the wall and see if it sticks." The elitist incorporation of nonsense in a world that demands sense.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 05:01 PM (w2Efp)

68 Other than being polite, here are some other things the Smithsonian labeled aspects of white supremacy:

Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)
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Not getting in "crowd fights".... at airports, cruise lines, casinos or other recreational areas.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e)

69 great old illustration up there, Ace!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (VyBeY)

70 Oh good. I use idiot a lot to describe leftists, so I am happy to be vindicated.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (n5tGW)

71 Where have you gone, CBD?
A blog turns its centered eyes to you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (0sNs1)

72 https://tinyurl.com/srvrpd4c
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

H.R. Department 7
Still: No. Just no! *rolls up newspaper*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)

73 Anyone who regularly does public presentations of their work or research recognizes immediately when someone is thinking more about how to not get trapped by their previous comments than about actually answering the questions. Hartig was doing precisely that.

She said about one question "I don't think that's an appropriate question for this hearing". Bitch, nobody cares what you think is appropriate. You spend OUR money and you WILL answer the question or you can start polishing your CV.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)

74 Slavery or serfdom was practiced in pretty much every country when the US was founded.

Sorry, slavery isn't worth a discussion AT ALL in the Smithsonian.

Now the US was important in the abolitionist movement, not as much as Britain, but still involved, so that can merit coverage but slavery in general? Does the Smithsonian also point out pre-Civil War America didn't have cancer drugs too?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

75 The museum does not take sides. We reflect both the Menshevik and Bolshevik point of view.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (wGerL)

76 61 Huh.

So according to that infographic at the end, Morons are capable of performing tasks requiring reasoning and judgement.

Good to know!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (FZ29D)

Well, some of us, anyway. The rest of us? Depends on how close we are to cocktail hour.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (w2Efp)

77 71 Where have you gone, CBD?
A blog turns its centered eyes to you.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (0sNs1)

This is how Ryan Reynolds sees the world.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (0aYVJ)

78 75 The museum does not take sides. We reflect both the Menshevik and Bolshevik point of view.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (wGerL)

"We got BOTH kinds, country AND western!"

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (w2Efp)

79 Speaking as a Moronette in good standing (I think) Brandon Gill is HOT. 2028 VP shortlist?

Posted by: Jmel at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (3TlS+)

80 >>Republicans want to loot the Smithsonian, sell off whatever they don't want, then whitewash anything remaining.

Project 2025 in full effect

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2026 05:04 PM (uzmqU)

81 Are there high grade idiots too?

Posted by: A Moron at July 21, 2026 05:04 PM (MWfyi)

82 So according to that infographic at the end, Morons are capable of performing tasks requiring reasoning and judgement.

Good to know!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I took it as this is where morons stumble at the limit of their development. Complex manual work is about the limit. Like putting up shelving.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 05:04 PM (Dv3i1)

83 This is how Ryan Reynolds sees the world.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (0aYVJ)
---
Wait. Is this like knowing that you starred in the Green Lantern movie?

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

84 This is why meat prices remain so high. 4 companies, 2 of which are foreign, control the pricing.

>>@libsoftiktok
·
14m
>>BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooks Rollins reveals the largest pork company in the U.S. is owned by CHINA.

>>Additionally, 85% of our meat packing is owned by just four companies, two of which are foreign.

>>WOW

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2026 05:05 PM (viF8m)

85 Not getting in "crowd fights".... at airports, cruise lines, casinos or other recreational areas.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e)

How about this?

https://tinyurl.com/mr46ucy8

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:05 PM (kX27y)

86 Personally I just like to look down below the comments if you know what I mean

Posted by: Rex Ryan at July 21, 2026 05:05 PM (sKqQm)

87
I’m really starting to like that Gill guy

He has a Superman haircut.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 05:06 PM (Cqx++)

88 Some of the points in the "Whiteness" document would be great to discover what other points of view are possible.
For instance, "No tolerance for deviation from single god concept".
Perhaps, we could bring in some Muslim Brotherhood to add their thoughts.
"Self reliance" .. wouldn't an alternative expose a possible slavery mindset.
"Cause and effect relationships" ... Causation is a difficult concept -- Spock

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2026 05:07 PM (WPIH0)

89 How about this?

https://tinyurl.com/mr46ucy8

Remember peasant you don't need private transportation, the public transit system will provide for all your needs

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:07 PM (sKqQm)

90 That questioning was pretty moronic. It's difficult to believe these things get government dollars.

Posted by: Stateless at July 21, 2026 05:07 PM (+MvNQ)

91 Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance
———

They cannot be this stupid. They are going to create the fictional monster in their fevered brains, into something tangible.

If these traits and others are exclusive to caucasians, then they really are superior. Right?

Why would they want to let any stupid people get anywhere near their country? Or let the stupid people run the Smithsonian?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 05:07 PM (dLypp)

92 Other than being polite, here are some other things the Smithsonian labeled aspects of white supremacy

The negation of all the attributes on that list sounds like the Eloi.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 21, 2026 05:08 PM (Ysav4)

93 Well since the Smithsonian wont tell it I will. Hirohito killed as many civilian and military in Asia as Hilter killed in the West. Hirohito refused to surrender and trained school girls to fight Marines using sharpened sticks because he was mosre concerned about saving himself than his people.

Hitler at least had the decency to kill himself.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 21, 2026 05:08 PM (wBaIH)

94 "5 It's amazing how much the old segregationists and their opinion of what black people are like/capable of and the modern "woke" crowd's opinion of what black people are like/capable of match up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)"

democrats have remained consistent over the years

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:08 PM (VyBeY)

95 >>Additionally, 85% of our meat packing is owned by just four companies, two of which are foreign.
___

I'd count this as a national security vulnerability, probably caused by overzealous regulations (and payoffs), at state and federal levels and would be ok if Trump ordered up more meat packing companies to be created.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 05:08 PM (Dv3i1)

96

I wonder if those black women bathe...

They look smelly as hell.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 21, 2026 05:09 PM (et1vG)

97 57 Other than being polite, here are some other things the Smithsonian labeled aspects of white supremacy:

Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)

So, as I understand it, black people don't have to do any of those things and they should still be just as successful as their white counterparts, is that about right?

Fucking idiots.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 05:09 PM (w2Efp)

98 Not getting in "crowd fights".... at airports, cruise lines, casinos or other recreational areas.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e)

How about this?

https://tinyurl.com/mr46ucy8
Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:05 PM (kX27y)
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Keep in mind, to me, this is not a black thing.

This is a GHETTO thing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)

99 61 Huh.

So according to that infographic at the end, Morons are capable of performing tasks requiring reasoning and judgement.

Good to know!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (FZ29D)

Well, some of us, anyway. The rest of us? Depends on how close we are to cocktail hour.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 05:03 PM (w2Efp)

It's five o'clock somewhere.

Posted by: Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett at July 21, 2026 05:09 PM (wVcYX)

100 If these traits and others are exclusive to caucasians, then they really are superior. Right?

The left has descended into this definition.

By the standards people would have used in the 60s racism was over by the 80s.

So...they needed to redefine terms...

Of course the funny thing is that if you were to take this list back to the 60s people would accuse you of being racist for claiming black people can't be on time or avoid getting in fights.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

101 Not enough people are telling these leftist America hating assholes to fuck off.

That’s it.

Fuck off.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 21, 2026 05:10 PM (K2cT3)

102 For instance, "No tolerance for deviation from single god concept
——

Monotheism goes back to what, Ankehnatten? Moses? About 3000 years ago. These people are so fucking stupid it beggars belief.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 05:10 PM (dLypp)

103 It's amazing how much the old segregationists and their opinion of what black people are like/capable of and the modern "woke" crowd's opinion of what black people are like/capable of match up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)"
---
Bingo.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:10 PM (Fi81e)

104 Watched some of the Smithsonian Bint's "testimony" which was the definition of wearing American history as a skin suit.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 21, 2026 05:10 PM (wBaIH)

105 nurse gets it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2026 05:11 PM (VyBeY)

106 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Having phone issues again, think I know what is problem

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2026 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)

107

Remember peasant you don't need private transportation, the public transit system will provide for all your needs
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:07 PM (sKqQm)
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This is one of the comments to that link.....sigh....ok, why aren't there more that feel like this????

Dante Henderson
@DanteHendo4188
·
1h
I am absolutely embarrassed right now to be black in America. Everytime I turn on the TV I see low class ghetto black people acting a fool, destroying businesses and causing chaos and not one news outlet covers it.

Black people are the first one to call out racism but never take accountability for their actions. People don’t care about skin color, they care about manners and character. Obama, BLM, and black people in congress are silent on this behavior and it causes people to not want to be around us.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:11 PM (kX27y)

108 So according to that infographic at the end, Morons are capable of performing tasks requiring reasoning and judgement.

Good to know!
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You're not reading the infographic correctly. We morons stumble at tasks requiring reasoning and judgment. Jeez, Louise! Can't you 'rons get anything right? You'd think we were retards rather than morons.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 21, 2026 05:11 PM (sFNX2)

109 Everyone connected to that American History "girlhood" display, from the director down to the guy who cleans the floor, should be listed as pedophiles and barred from ever coming in contact with children. They are all groomers.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 21, 2026 05:11 PM (yaIVL)

110 Hitler at least had the decency to kill himself./i]

The one good thing about Hitler is...

that he killed Hitler.

Though I wonder what the Soviets would have done to him? Probably nothing before a public trial and then....everything imaginable.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

111 For instance, "No tolerance for deviation from single god concept
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Because that's Christian in the main, and Abrahamic, regardless.

And yes, that's what we take to be superior concept of divinity. Ala Socrates, at least.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

112 The Marxists are joining hands

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2026 05:12 PM (Ia/+0)

113 He never asked or it wasn't in the clip of who developed that toolkit. But I'm going with communist China.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:12 PM (n5tGW)

114 ... I dunno, I didn't think she looked too bad here. Trying to cut Mr. James some slack -

https://tinyurl.com/srvrpd4c
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

A 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2 ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 05:13 PM (3sXRv)

115
All signs of whiteness and supremacy:

Flushing toilet paper instead of putting your shit in the trash can

Avoiding facial tattoos

Using your own SSN

Eating meat from grocery stores instead of people's dog runs

Refraining from ritual murder as a solution to sartorial disagreements

Running daycare centers with actual customers

And Many More

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

116 buying electric cars and not needing SMOG checks anymore

VSSI is probably best where it should be now, inspecting wrecks that need serious work to be roadworthy.

What doesn't make sense is VSSI for electrics and newer ICE cars. Many of these vehicles won't even start unless all safety systems check in.

Neighbor's popped the hood in the garage to check fluids, discovered it needed topping off of the brake fluid, lowered the hood but didn't latch it so he could drive up the driveway to the shop 100' away and the car wouldn't move unless the hood was latched.

Modern cars aggressively look for ways to force the owner to flat-bed it to the dealer.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:14 PM (9Hs2w)

117 There doesn't appear to be much of a difference between the Smithsonian lady and the NPR lady. Horrible people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 05:14 PM (sMkB+)

118 I love how she was slowing down all her answers, even sitting their writing something instead of answering?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:14 PM (mP0Kj)

119 If you can't be the smartest of the smart, be the smartest of the stupid.

Morons (Imbeciles but with reason & judgement).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

120 Avoiding facial tattoos

Back when we had real Neo-Nazis and not FBI Patriot Fronters, you could often identify them by facial tattoos...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

121 79 Speaking as a Moronette in good standing (I think) Brandon Gill is HOT. 2028 VP shortlist?
Posted by: Jmel

Who? Ah, looking him up, he has a kind of Clark Kent vibe: https://tinyurl.com/5fwubsb2

Although he looks kinda weird at some angles: https://tinyurl.com/s27vtkbs

Reminding me of "The Recruiter" from Deadpool: https://tinyurl.com/bdhdra2b

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2026 05:15 PM (2qI1t)

122 Not getting in "crowd fights".... at airports, cruise lines, casinos or other recreational areas.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e)

___________________________________

Lack of chicken nuggets are a perfectly good reason for 100 people to throw down on vacation. MLK pointed this out in his famous 1968 "I've been to the mountaintop" speech. He climbed all the way up there, and they were out of nuggets, so slugging the food shack owner was the only option. The owner pointed out that, had he been there earlier, he couldn't have enjoyed a full basket of the nuggets, to which MLK replied:

"Punctuality and being on time are White Supremacy in its purest form. Give me my nuggets, and quit apologizing. Politeness is White Supremacy as well."

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 05:15 PM (dIske)

123 113 He never asked or it wasn't in the clip of who developed that toolkit. But I'm going with communist China.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:12 PM (n5tGW)
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I found that odd as well, would have said, you used it but didn't develop it. Who did then?

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y)

124 Two Marxist Brazilians own JBS which keeps cutting supply while raising prices.
No water for ranching out west, either.
Wolves are being reintroduced. Huh.
We need data centers because a robot can’t shovel shit without our EZ Pass history.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 05:15 PM (/Chlc)

125 114 ... I dunno, I didn't think she looked too bad here. Trying to cut Mr. James some slack -

https://tinyurl.com/srvrpd4c
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

A 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2 ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 05:13 PM (3sXRv)

Wafflehouse 6?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:16 PM (mP0Kj)

126 Well since the Smithsonian wont tell it I will. Hirohito killed as many civilian and military in Asia as Hilter
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Rape of Nanjiing

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 05:16 PM (XeU6L)

127 Good Gawd.
Is Jasmine Crockett still a thing?
WTF???
Who the hell invit3d her to say anything?
Shit.
I need more beer.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 05:16 PM (2WIwB)

128 The Soviets were barbarians, they weren’t wrong about that. Fighting in the west at that point was kind of idiotic. But they did. Or get killed by the Gestapo maybe. The Soviets had their NKVD political officers behind the lines, in case anyone wasn’t enthusiastic enough about getting killed for the glorious Motherland, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 05:17 PM (dLypp)

129 61 Huh.

So according to that infographic at the end, Morons are capable of performing tasks requiring reasoning and judgement.

Good to know!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2026 05:00 PM (FZ29D)

No, it says that's where they stumble...

Posted by: SciVo at July 21, 2026 05:17 PM (Sy6m/)

130 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

________________________

You have to put "using refuse containers" on that list. Ever see the areas surrounding apartment buildings domiciling North Africans? They throw EVERYTHING right out the window. Old food, used diapers, bottles, cans EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 05:17 PM (dIske)

131 Crockett's accusations aren't completely unfounded.

I rooted for non-African teams that were comprised of players that were the actual ethnicity of the nations they played for.

Nobody thinks that Japan's soccer team should be comprised of a bunch of thick-lipped, dread-headed coons.

So yes, I rooted for Argentina. Spain, Norway, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and a couple of Middle Eastern teams.

England, France, Germany the United States have all just become teams of fried chicken munching black thugs.

Nobody wants a World Cup where every country is just all a bunch of blacks wearing different jerseys. I want true diversity.

Seeing Swiss players that are black as coal is absurd.

Posted by: Fatigue at July 21, 2026 05:17 PM (KgaOU)

132 The Soviets had their NKVD political officers behind the lines, in case anyone wasn’t enthusiastic enough about getting killed for the glorious Motherland, too.

Enemy At the Gates covered this pretty well

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM (sKqQm)

133 I need more beer.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2026 05:16 PM (2WIwB)

Well, yeah.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM (w2Efp)

134 Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (mkw2N)
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These are among the cultural habits identified by Thomas Sowell as economic determinants.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM (JvZF+)

135 So, as I understand it, black people don't have to do any of those things and they should still be just as successful as their white counterparts, is that about right?

No. The way the Smithsonian words it, black people cannot do these things. They need white liberals to manage them.

Totally unexpected to hear this coming from the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and internment camps.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM (kYmoU)

136 The Blade knew what Anthea Hartig looked like before he googled her. AWFuLs will be the death of this country. I’d rather have 100 leper cannibals than 1 of them.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM (JgYL0)

137 If any of you have ever read Heather Cox Richardson's screeds they could be a mirror of this witness

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2026 05:19 PM (sMkB+)

138 Hirohito did surrender, just with conditions. Like that he'd still get to do Emperor kabuki. MacArthur was shogun and actually did the hard work of fixing Japan so they could enjoy their nekoyuri in private and stop raping Koreans.
Although your point is taken about those assholes who didn't surrender like Iwabuchi in Manila (fuck that guy).

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 05:19 PM (gKWVE)

139 Time to drop Hartig over the Aioi Bridge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2026 05:19 PM (2GVsD)

140 128 The Soviets were barbarians, they weren’t wrong about that. Fighting in the west at that point was kind of idiotic. But they did. Or get killed by the Gestapo maybe. The Soviets had their NKVD political officers behind the lines, in case anyone wasn’t enthusiastic enough about getting killed for the glorious Motherland, too.
Posted by: Common Tater

No one mentions the forced expulsion of ethnic Germans from ancestral lands in Central Europe at the end of WWII, and the gang rapes of the women by the Russian army. I guess the excuse is that they had it coming?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (Dv3i1)

141 The anti-colonizer left has not only colonized the West and our governments, but also Western History itself.

all your history are belong to us

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

142 Posted by: Fatigue

Rein it in.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (JvZF+)

143 The Blade knew what Anthea Hartig looked like before he googled her. AWFuLs will be the death of this country. I’d rather have 100 leper cannibals than 1 of them.

Interestingly early America know how to keep AWFLs from becoming AWFLs by keeping them busy with family or real, immediate, community needs.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (sKqQm)

144 Being polite to a PoC is almost as racist as being rude to one.

Probably because we haven't burned our government to the ground yet.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

145 > Monotheism goes back to what, Ankehnatten? Moses? About 3000 years ago.

There's a strong argument the Jews in Jesus' day and before were Henotheistic. There are many Biblical passages that suggest other, lesser gods exist.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (mkw2N)

146 Posted by: Fatigue at July 21, 2026 05:17 PM (KgaOU)

🤨

Posted by: browndog says woof at July 21, 2026 05:21 PM (3sXRv)

147 I was watching these European teams that seemed to do quite well with mostly white players, yet somehow the USA team was almost exclusively black.

My daughter played competitive soccer, there was under 1% black players. Lots of Hispanics, but very few blacks.

I think Team USA was just more DEI on steroids.

Posted by: Leupold at July 21, 2026 05:21 PM (eIzlH)

148 Lack of chicken nuggets are a perfectly good reason for 100 people to throw down on vacation.

Now who doesn't like a full family, no rules brawl at the Golden Corral each Mother's Day?

For some of these people, other than shoveling food in their pie hole, the only aerobic exercise they get is from ad hoc public MMA exhibitions.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:21 PM (9Hs2w)

149 Posted by: Fatigue

Rein it in.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (JvZF+)
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

150 The Soviets had their NKVD political officers behind the lines, in case anyone wasn’t enthusiastic enough about getting killed for the glorious Motherland, too.
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Barrier troops.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 05:21 PM (XeU6L)

151 Monotheism?

Azura Mazda and Zoroaster have entered Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2026 05:21 PM (2GVsD)

152 No one mentions the forced expulsion of ethnic Germans from ancestral lands in Central Europe at the end of WWII,

The Soviets ethnically cleansing Germans after 4 (or 6) years of tyranny in eastern Europe was good

The Israelis not giving the Muslims their lands just because of 1300 years of tyranny is a crime against humanity.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:22 PM (sKqQm)

153 >>> Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance
———

Yeah, I remember seeing this document come to light about a decade ago. I knew it meant they were on their way, to trash our shared history so it seems like there is nothing left worth preserving. They are trying their best to make this so!

I'm just amazed we are getting hearings on this at all. Even if nothing comes of it, they had to squirm in their self righteous revisionist bullcrap for a few minutes. More justice than I ever thought we'd get.

Posted by: LizLem at July 21, 2026 05:22 PM (Eng1Z)

154 Based on that hearing that chick should be removed as director. So I looked it up and nope won't happen:

The Smithsonian Institution is not under any single federal agency; it operates as an independent trust instrumentality of the United States created by Congress in 1846. While it is sometimes classified as an executive agency for specific legal purposes (such as property management), it is organizationally separate from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

Governance and Status The institution is overseen by a 17-member Board of Regents rather than a cabinet secretary or agency head. This board includes the Chief Justice, the Vice President, six members of Congress, and nine private citizens. Because of this unique structure, the Smithsonian is exempt from several federal laws that govern standard executive agencies, such as the Freedom of Information Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:22 PM (n5tGW)

155 The Blade knew what Anthea Hartig looked like before he googled her. AWFuLs will be the death of this country. I’d rather have 100 leper cannibals than 1 of them.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM (JgYL0)
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George is getting angry!

Posted by: George at July 21, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

156
It's a national museum. If it's engaging in anything less than a triumphant depiction of the nation as the greatest culture to ever exist, it has no reason to.

This goes for the US, or Sentinel Island. If I were one of those illiterate cannibals and took my kids to climb the rope walkways through the canopy, I'd expect to them to enjoy an interactive exhibit where they feast on bushmeat sculpted to look like Michael Rockefeller, and ride in his canoe back down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:23 PM (BI5O2)

157 By Bill Craig? I just downloaded it. Gotta love the Internet for some things.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 21, 2026 05:23 PM (dLypp)

158 "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

*smug smile*

Posted by: Anthea Hartig at July 21, 2026 05:23 PM (wVcYX)

159 Two things I like a lot: book stores and museums. And the left has fucked up both of them. My mad money has nowhere to go.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:23 PM (enNUy)

160 145 > Monotheism goes back to what, Ankehnatten? Moses? About 3000 years ago.

There's a strong argument the Jews in Jesus' day and before were Henotheistic. There are many Biblical passages that suggest other, lesser gods exist.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:20 PM (mkw2N)

I've seen videos that suggest Yaweh started as the war god, one of many gods in Cannan, and eventually became chief god, then the only god.

Not sure if it's true but it would be typical of ancient religion.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

161 These are among the cultural habits identified by Thomas Sowell as economic determinants.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM
________

The Talk.

https://tinyurl.com/yy7kud2b

Posted by: By John Derbyshire at July 21, 2026 05:24 PM (2Ez/1)

162 No. The way the Smithsonian words it, black people cannot do these things. They need white liberals to manage them.

how is that not the ethos of the antebellum South?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:25 PM (U4c/V)

163 It's a national museum. If it's engaging in anything less than a triumphant depiction of the nation as the greatest culture to ever exist, it has no reason to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:23 PM (BI5O2)
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It's been a captured institution for probably over a decade, owing to the almost-completely captured academia.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:26 PM (Fi81e)

164 bonhomme, I get that you are coming from this at the LDS standpoint and... you are kind of right about henotheism in ancient Israel. Baruch Halpern wrote about this.
However this had been excised from Judaism with the Second Temple. Isaiah from 40+ is strongly monotheistic.
I understand that your tradition claims descent from the Judaism of the First Temple, so you might not accept Isaiah 40+, Ezekiel, Daniel, Haggai and others.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2026 05:26 PM (gKWVE)

165 No. The way the Smithsonian words it, black people cannot do these things. They need white liberals to manage them.
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Did they mention swimming?

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)

166 It is probably fascist to notice blacks are better athletes than whites.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 05:27 PM (/Chlc)

167 something something of low expectations.

Posted by: something dubya something at July 21, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)

168
I'm just amazed we are getting hearings on this at all. Even if nothing comes of it, they had to squirm in their self righteous revisionist bullcrap for a few minutes. More justice than I ever thought we'd get.
Posted by: LizLem at July 21, 2026 05:22 PM (Eng1Z)

True.... Not much else Trump can do about it...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 21, 2026 05:27 PM (FtULh)

169 One of the more amusing things I've notice is two strands of leftwing archeology running headlong into each other:

The group that wants to argue the Bible/Torah is wrong and that the Jews always lived in Israel

The group that wants to argue the Muslims are the original inhabitants of Israel that argue the Jews are invaders who conquered the essentially Arabic, pre-Muslim Canaanites.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2026 05:28 PM (sKqQm)

170 These are among the cultural habits identified by Thomas Sowell as economic determinants.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:18 PM
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Thomas Sowell was a white supremacist of color.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e)

171 But, they are a tuneful people, who can really dance!

Posted by: Smithsonian Institute at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (dLypp)

172 This is aggravating. I have to past the whole comment section into Word to read it. It is easier to read in Comic Sans though.

Posted by: A Moron at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (MWfyi)

173 OT: this is a really good ham sandwich.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

174 Think she lives up to her name??

Originating in Greece, Anthea is a girls name meaning “flowery,” and stems from the goddess of marriage, women, and family, Hera.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (kX27y)

175 166 It is probably fascist to notice blacks are better athletes than whites.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 05:27 PM (/Chlc)

Except that they aren't.

Posted by: Fatigue at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (KgaOU)

176 The world's first trillionaire is an African American.

Posted by: Don't look now, but... at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (2Ez/1)

177
Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
Jasmine Crockett Demands ICE Arrests More White People.

"ICE been roundin' up indigenous folk but NOT the COLONIZERS"

https://tinyurl.com/bdh6f732
"So what this is about is whiteness. Everything that this administration has pushed has been about white supremacy."

Posted by: redridinghood at July 21, 2026 05:29 PM (NpAcC)

178 This goes for the US, or Sentinel Island. If I were one of those illiterate cannibals and took my kids to climb the rope walkways through the canopy, I'd expect to them to enjoy an interactive exhibit where they feast on bushmeat sculpted to look like Michael Rockefeller, and ride in his canoe back down.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:23 PM (BI5O2)
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He was gamey.

Posted by: The Natives at July 21, 2026 05:30 PM (JvZF+)

179 My mad money has nowhere to go.
Posted by: nckate
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Uh...it's a short drive down to the Piedmont. I could take it off your hands. ;-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 05:30 PM (XeU6L)

180 176 The world's first trillionaire is an African American.

He does have 8 or 9 kids by 5 baby mamas and depends on a lot of government subsidies.

Posted by: Fatigue at July 21, 2026 05:31 PM (KgaOU)

181 You have to love Crockett.

She stays the course.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

182 You can't run a railroad on CPT.

Posted by: Cornelius Vanderbilt at July 21, 2026 05:31 PM (JM9I6)

183 lol, hammer. Glad you survived the gang shoot out between the crips and bloods in your locale.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:32 PM (enNUy)

184
I'm no bigger fan of white immigrants than the others. But, to give them their due, most of them have their papers in order.

Though, I suppose if ICE wants to please Miss Jasmine, they could do a dragnet of East Coast Irish pubs. A lot of their employees are chronic visa overstays.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:32 PM (BI5O2)

185 Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance
-------------------------------
Got a late start for work which was exacerbated when I saw two kids drinking coffee on the corner. I punched them...both. Then I spied a hoop game over at the park and played a 10 spot. Saw a sign that said "no trespassing" and ripped it down before spraying the fence with my tag. Old guy saw me, and asked me if I wanted to go to jail. I laughed. I live in the moment, baby. Besides, I don't see any cops. I'm going to teach my six kids from my 4 hoochies how to do my tag so it lives on. Then I saw it, a car parked and running. No driver in sight. Mine, baby. Nice of that idiot cracker to help me out.

I show solidarity to the black man.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)

186 There's a strong argument the Jews in Jesus' day and before were Henotheistic. There are many Biblical passages that suggest other, lesser gods exist.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

161
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I would buy "Henotheism", but only if we stress that the other things called "gods" (elohim) are far lesser beings, than "El Elyon" who is sui generis.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)

187 But first boy...a number. You know, a musical number - you've got it in your blood boy!

https://youtu.be/XAESlpT4yvg

Posted by: Classic Harry Morgan from MASH at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (2Ez/1)

188 Gill is one of my favorites... And.. Just a reminder to Ms. Smithsonian and the harpies in Congress screeching racism about everything...If everything is racist ... Nothing is...
Posted by: It's me donna

What state is Rep. Gill from?

Posted by: Tuna at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (lJ0H4)

189 It would be a curse to wish them to hell and, believe it or not, I try not to offend God.

So, I bid them their just deserts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (hPgrk)

190
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:22 PM (n5tGW)

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Why is the director being hauled in for a hearing then? That's why I asked way upthread, what are these hearings about? Even if Things Happened in real life, they're all off the table for the Smithsonian.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (mmrXZ)

191 lol, hammer. Glad you survived the gang shoot out between the crips and bloods in your locale.
Posted by: nckate
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Our DEI Chief of Police is all over it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 05:34 PM (XeU6L)

192 I feel like I'm getting partial retardation from this centeredness.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:34 PM (enNUy)

193 It's exhausting, having to engage with these historically ignorant retards that think they are fighting epic battles against all the -Isms.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 05:34 PM (3cUTc)

194 Though, I suppose if ICE wants to please Miss Jasmine, they could do a dragnet of East Coast Irish pubs. A lot of their employees are chronic visa overstays.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:32 PM (BI5O2)
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They owe too much in child support arrears.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:34 PM (JvZF+)

195 Please tell me they're using an anal probe.

Fauci might even volunteer ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 21, 2026 05:35 PM (gv18x)

196 Why is the director being hauled in for a hearing then? That's why I asked way upthread, what are these hearings about? Even if Things Happened in real life, they're all off the table for the Smithsonian.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (mmrXZ)
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The hearings were about the findings issed in the DOGE report on the Smithsonian

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:36 PM (JvZF+)

197
They could also probably roust some illegal Russians and Ukes in places like Brighton Beach.

Fine by me. Get 'em all out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:36 PM (BI5O2)

198

Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance

Rice and beans.
Beans and rice.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 05:36 PM (Cqx++)

199 192 I feel like I'm getting partial retardation from this centeredness.
Posted by: nckate

It's not so bad when you get used to it.

Posted by: Corky at July 21, 2026 05:37 PM (JM9I6)

200 I feel centered.

Posted by: ballistic at July 21, 2026 05:37 PM (oqH4h)

201 Can we move on to the excision of The Apocrypha

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2026 05:37 PM (XeU6L)

202
People like Jasmine think Asians are honorary Whites. Get all those illegals out, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:37 PM (BI5O2)

203 I'm no bigger fan of white immigrants than the others. But, to give them their due, most of them have their papers in order.

Though, I suppose if ICE wants to please Miss Jasmine, they could do a dragnet of East Coast Irish pubs. A lot of their employees are chronic visa overstays.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:32 PM (BI5O2)
——

They did deport that Irish drug dealer scumbag, or at least they tried to

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:38 PM (JgYL0)

204 They did deport that Irish drug dealer scumbag, or at least they tried to

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 21, 2026 05:38 PM (JgYL0)
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The Canadian slapping bitch.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)

205
The hearings were about the findings issed in the DOGE report on the Smithsonian
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

But... if Congress can't do anything about it...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2026 05:38 PM (mmrXZ)

206 It's not so bad when you get used to it.
Posted by: Corky at July 21, 2026 05:37 PM (JM9I6)

Listen to him- he's pre-med.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s)

207 I show solidarity to the black man.
Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)
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You didn't even shoot any dice? Give me a break, Jive Turkey!

Posted by: ballistic at July 21, 2026 05:39 PM (oqH4h)

208 There's gotta be millions of illegal Asians here

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:39 PM (enNUy)

209 > I understand that your tradition claims descent from the Judaism of the First Temple, so you might not accept Isaiah 40+, Ezekiel, Daniel, Haggai and others.

I can't say I've ever heard any LDS leadership take the position that we should not accept Isaiah 40+, Ezekiel, Daniel, Haggai, or any other Biblical sources.

I agree with you that Henotheism largely absent there, though Isaiah 40-55's heavenly host might fit.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:39 PM (mkw2N)

210 It is probably fascist to notice blacks are better athletes than whites.

Ping pong? Snow skiing? NASCAR/F1? MMA? Swimming/Diving? Ballet? Fencing? Triathalon? Cycling? Tennis? Volleyball? Sumo Wrestling? Golf? Mountaineering? Target sports (archery, firearms) ? Curlling? Figure skating? Gymnastics? Skill football positions (QB, Tight-end, kicker) ?

If you only look at some track but not field and thug sports you have a point.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:40 PM (rgGn5)

211 Yeah! And ICE sent that horrid Karenadian back to the land of Ann Murray. She's whiter than my Jewish taint in January.

How now, brown sow?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2026 05:40 PM (BI5O2)

212 American tennis has been mostly black for 20?? years.

Posted by: nckate at July 21, 2026 05:41 PM (enNUy)

213 Get 'em out by Friday
You don't get paid
Till the last one's well on his way
Get 'em out by Friday
It's important that we keep to schedule
There must be no delay
-Genesis

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2026 05:41 PM (JvZF+)

214 208 There's gotta be millions of illegal Asians here
Posted by: nckate

And give up Chinee Take-Out at 3 AM?

Posted by: Wi Tu Lo at July 21, 2026 05:41 PM (JM9I6)

215 Jasmine Crockett continues to be a one person Exhibit A that both the 14th and the 19th Amendments were mistakes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (3cUTc)

216 If you only look at some track but not field and thug sports you have a point.
Posted by: Community Notes at July 21, 2026 05:40 PM

+++++

Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Urban Marksmanship at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (2Ez/1)

217 I suppose Morticia there is a possibility the 3 gop and VP could cause trouble on the board. Not Roberts of course. I don't know the make up of the citizen members or how they are appointed.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (n5tGW)

218
Rice and beans.
Beans and rice.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2026 05:36 PM (Cqx++)

Or, in the case of Minnesota, bananas and rice.

Posted by: beckster at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (kX27y)

219 What kind of high grade imbecile formatted this post?
Posted by: A Moron at July 21, 2026 04:59 PM (MWfyi)

*raises hand*

Posted by: proud high grade imbecile at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (hmYU4)

220 Non Centered
Nood

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2026 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)

221 I agree with you that Henotheism largely absent there, though Isaiah 40-55's heavenly host might fit.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:39 PM (mkw2N)
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Psalm 82.

Also, you have to remember when Jesus quotes this, where he normally says "The Law", here he says "Your law", because he's referring to the rabbinic tradition which construes "You are gods" as addressed to the "Children of Israel".

He's contrasting them to their traditional interpretation. He is not as much confirming it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:44 PM (Fi81e)

222 > I would buy "Henotheism", but only if we stress that the other things called "gods" (elohim) are far lesser beings, than "El Elyon" who is sui generis.

That always seems to be the sticking point when you point out examples of Henotheism in the Bible.

False gods < people < gods < ... < ... < God the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I see absolutely no doctrinal problem with acknowledging gods who are not false gods and who are also not equal to or greater than God.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:45 PM (mkw2N)

223 Managing time,
Avoiding conflicts,
Protecting property,
Planning for the future,
Working before playing,
Rational, linear thinking,
Nuclear family structures,
Self-reliance
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Christmas!

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 05:46 PM (Fi81e)

224 The world's first trillionaire is an African American.
Posted by: Don't look now, but...

Probably spend it all in whore houses, crack houses, and liquor stores.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 21, 2026 05:48 PM (ndZc7)

225 So what this is about is Whiteness. Everything that this administration has pushed has been about White supremacy.
——-

Maybe you could find a country that is more in tune with your preferences? Go there. No one is stopping you, right? Because it’s Just So Horrible here.

Posted by: Club 85 Logic at July 21, 2026 05:50 PM (TdayT)

226 Also, you have to remember when Jesus quotes this, where he normally says "The Law", here he says "Your law", because he's referring to the rabbinic tradition which construes "You are gods" as addressed to the "Children of Israel".

He's contrasting them to their traditional interpretation. He is not as much confirming it.

I disagree with this interpretation.
Jesus: I and the Father are one (claiming Godhood)
Jews: HOW DARE YOU!! BLASPHEMY!! KILL HIM!!
Jesus: What do you mean? It's not blasphemy to be called gods. Even your own law recognizes YOU are gods.
*additional context* Jesus is telling the truth, so it's not blasphemy.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:51 PM (mkw2N)

227 The world hasn't gone completely insane, we have the Smithsonian to keep us on course to prosperity and the pursuit of happiness.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 21, 2026 05:54 PM (sYM3s)

228 Wonderful display of allyship, CN. I have noticed that sports requiring rapid acceleration have more blax while stick sports do not. Blax do race but only as amateurs.
I was worried one day about the corn and beans looking dry and since then, rain.

Posted by: Accomack at July 21, 2026 05:56 PM (T8bqm)

229 If you only look at some track but not field and thug sports you have a point.

Posted by: Community Notes
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(did you mention wrestling?)

They have no motivation to excel in those sports.
They do, however, have physical attributes that lend themselves to physical contest over the Caucasian: higher bone density, higher oxygen assimilation, shorter vertebrae, more fast muscle twitch and a longer Achilles tendon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 21, 2026 05:59 PM (hPgrk)

230 "Ms Hartig, isn't it racist for you to have this job and not a BLACK TRANS FURRIE!"
C'mon, we want Brandon Gill to ask it.

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at July 21, 2026 06:16 PM (yM17g)

231 I disagree with this interpretation.
Jesus: I and the Father are one (claiming Godhood)
Jews: HOW DARE YOU!! BLASPHEMY!! KILL HIM!!
Jesus: What do you mean? It's not blasphemy to be called gods. Even your own law recognizes YOU are gods.
*additional context* Jesus is telling the truth, so it's not blasphemy.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2026 05:51 PM (mkw2N)
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I agree. But I disagree he's confirming that they, themselves are "gods". Again the use of "your law" is significant over his normal "the law".

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2026 06:49 PM (Fi81e)

232 Punctuality is a characteristic of white supremacy. Hence, I am posting this comment now.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 21, 2026 06:52 PM (47/pr)

233 .
.
Anthea (Karen) Hartig needs to be put on display in the Smithsonian with some diversity.

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