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The Morning Report — 10/30 /26

Good morning kids. Unfortunately we'll start things off on a sad note as we have learned that the iconic actor Patrick Stewart has passed away. Of course he is probably best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek:the Next Generation.

But my first recollection of seeing him was in the visually stunning John Boorman film of the Arthurian legend Excalibur. But Stewart's talents encompassed so many genres and he was terrific in every one. One of his most memorable performances for me was his portrayal of a gay opera star in an episode of Frasier where his romantic advances on the good doctor are totally misinterpreted by Frasier as merely a budding friendship. As a huge fan of the series in general that episode is in my top 5 or so. Hilarious. In any case, thanks for the memories and RIP.

And now on to the news of the day which as we all know is generally chock full o' gloom and doom and straight up insanity. And with the midterm elections appropriately enough just a couple of days past Halloween coming up tomorrow, we have this trick being perpetrated on the good folk of Alaska.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) revealed more about “Decoy Dan” J. Sullivan, including that he wanted to fake his middle initial.
Incumbent Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) has the middle name Scott. So the ballot lists him as Dan S. Sullivan.
“Decoy Dan” attempted to use S as his middle initial instead of J. . .
. . .Remember, the Alaska Board of Elections kicked “Decoy Dan” off the ballot over the summer because officials could tell he is a fake. The Alaska Supreme Court put him back on the ballot.
But despite the evidence discovered during that investigation, Dunleavy announced a new investigation into whether members of Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign should face charges for possible election manipulation regarding “Decoy Dan.”

Ah yes, the courts. Where would we be were it not for our Judiciary? Probably a much freer and more prosperous society, that's not on the brink of national suicide. But hey, why exaggerate, eh?!

The Wisconsin Supreme Court opened an investigation into a judge who helped an illegal immigrant evade capture by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a probe that could lead to her disbarment, according to a letter issued by the court and obtained by The Daily Wire... “I am pleased to find out that the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has taken the step to investigate Hannah Dugan as a result of CASA’s grievance. Not only did her actions make her unfit to be a judge, but they also call into question her fitness as an attorney,” Schube said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.

Considering the Wisconsin Supreme Court is entirely hardcore Leftist and come this Tuesday there is a chance that this David Crowley commie criminal might very well be the next governor and turn us into the Fromunda Cheese state, I have serious doubts that this Dugan scum will face more than the teensiest of wrist slaps, if that.

Elsewhere, no my inclusion of RFK's remarks vis a vis Islam in the lead is no mistake. I highlight it not because of its veracity but that someone high up and in the public eye has the stones to state it loudly and plainly. Good for him for doing so, and as such opening himself up for rhetorical and real slings arrows bullets and suicide Islamikaze belts.

Democrat media cronies and supporters are frothing at the mouth and fighting back hard, pulling out their tired old smears of “racist.” Even the World Socialist website fulminated against “Trump and Kennedy’s racist tirades against Muslims and Arabs.”

Well you do indeed take the most flak when you're directly over the target. Sadly we go from a hero to an abject piece of dog-turd that's less than a zero!

On the 25th anniversary of the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor, I watched the somber recollections without seeing the same emotion I have felt since that day -- absolute fury.
I’m not sure what made President George Bush say that Islam is a religion of peace on 9/11, but he certainly did not know what he was talking about. Islam has never been a religion of peace. It was founded in violence and continues to this day to wage war against perceived “infidels.”
Instead of recognizing the true meaning behind the attack, many community leaders seemed to bend over backward to placate the Muslim community. After 9/11, more than 300 mosques were added in various states, and school boards were adding foot-washing stations and other Muslim accommodations.
Here in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was elected to that position shortly after the attack, had no problem allowing a Muslim community center to be located near Ground Zero. While I thought the proposed Arab school was a good idea, did it have to be headed by a radical Islamist connected to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Meh look who's Mayor of NYC now!

Or for that matter, Pope!!

Just seven months ago Pope Leo XIV declared in a Palm Sunday homily that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” I wrote then that this was not only demonstrably and biblically false, but the wrong message to be sending in a climate of intensifying persecution of Christians and a war being waged against Christendom by the unholy Red-Green alliance. Apparently Leo ignored me, because earlier this week, in a video message to an interfaith gathering of religious leaders, the American Pope stated, “There is no such thing as a holy war,” adding, “Only peace is holy.”

And on these and all the other links du jour, I nevertheless bid you all to have a great weekend, a safe and fun Halloween if you are partaking of any events and as always please get out and VOTE EARLY and OFTEN!!!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Fierce blowback from the Red-Green Alliance.
RFK Jr. Video: ‘Muslim Brotherhood Wants to Install Sharia Law’

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

Uploaded to a database called Icepick, the tranche included the details of 21,000 CBP staff, 6,600 ICE workers as well Homeland Security Investigations, Federal Protective Service and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency personnel. The data also contained the names of dozens of the agency’s operations, including undercover missions, which agents were in charge or worked on them, and the type and provider of tech utilized, with Cellbrite and Palantir mentioned by name.
Work details of more than 41,000 DHS staff hacked, published online
“You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York.”
Texas Judge to Lawyer: Your ‘White Mediocrity’ Can’t Handle ‘Black Excellence’
Margot Cleveland: A free society cannot survive unless terrorists, supporters of terrorists, and apologists for terrorists are driven from polite society and politics.
Democrats Care Too Much About Power To Distance Themselves From Terrorism Apologists
It will be our own fault if we allow our constitutional republic to be transformed by the Left into the kind of government our ancestors broke away from.
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me…?
No, not the E.T. kind. These are uncomfortably closer to home.
Aliens Among Us
No, America is not (yet) Brazil, but the growing power within the Democratic Party of progressives who’ve for decades cheering a long string of anti-democratic Latin leftists suggests it can happen here. Add in Dems’ obsessive lawfare against Trump & Co. — with not a hint of regret even now — and everyone who threatens to get in the hard left’s way has serious reason to fear.
Lefties’ cheers for Lula’s Brazil victory should leave US citizens very worried
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Republicans have to decide whether they will be the party that fights to preserve America or go along with the party trying to destroy it.
America’s Future Is Either Mass Immigration Or Mass Deportations
During her July sentencing hearing, the judge said she hoped to one day return to public service.
EXCLUSIVE: New Probe Opens Into Judge Who Helped Illegal Immigrant Evade ICE
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
In her remarks at last night’s Women’s International Zionist Organization gala, she called campus attacks on Jews a “canary in the coal mine for anti-Americanism.”
Elise Stefanik Honored for Her Leadership in Confronting Anti-Semitism
Board members are partial to discussing Israel with Quranic lines such as ‘Allah loves the drop of blood that is for his sake’
‘May Allah Curse the Jews’: El-Sayed and Father Have Close Ties to Mosque Whose Board Is Packed With Extremists Slinging Bloodthirsty Lines From Quran
Both are anti-Israel and pro-Muslim Brotherhood.
El-Sayed and Obama – Perfect Together
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Islam a religion of peace? Nothing in its works would suggest that.
George Bush Was Wrong On 9/11 And Still Is
At this point, would anything stop them from doing so?
Are the Italian Bishops Promoting the Qur’an as the ‘Revealed Word of God’?
Tell that to the jihadists.
Pope: ‘There is No Such Thing as Holy War’
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Salim Said, who operated Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis, received the sentence Wednesday after being convicted in March 2025 of exploiting a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic. (SAID, He Said She Said Nur Said?! - jjs)
Minnesota Fraud Ringleader Gets 30 Years in Prison for $44 Million Scheme
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The incident happened at the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) Savannah River National Laboratory, and Fox News reported SRS placed restrictions on rail, river, and air traffic in the area for a time.
South Carolina: Fire at DOE Nuclear Site Laboratory Prompts Emergency Declaration
The allocation was intended to fund care for more than 1,000 children across 10 counties but the nonprofit has only its Bakersfield facility which provides care for no more than six children. (the youngest in his mid-30s?! - jjs)
California Nonprofit With 39 Nonexistent Daycares Awarded $18.2 Million in State Grants
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel writes rules that bind the executive branch without court review. Conservatives should demand those rules be published before Democrats take power.
Washington’s Secret Legal Advisory Office
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Math is hard for hopelessly biased journalists (not math, truth! - jjs)
Don’t Buy The Media Lie: Gas Prices Are Not Higher Under Trump Than Biden
Democrats promise to lower costs, but journalists rarely ask them to explain their policies—or account for the soaring prices under Biden.
Questions The Media Should Be Asking Democrats About Affordability
Another editorial this week was titled, "Europe is running out of other people's money," which made me do a double-take. I don't think WaPo channeling Margaret Thatcher has ever been on anybody's bingo card.
Trying to Ignore France's Muslim Problem, WaPo Stumbles Onto Truth About Socialism

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They’ve pledged most of their equity to philanthropy. That could transform the funding landscape for the AI doomer movement—and its political ambitions.
Anthropic’s IPO Will Make Its Effective Altruist-Aligned Founders Worth Hundreds of Billions
...the right policy, give or take a few caveats, is simple: build, baby, build. To see my reasoning, come to the nation of my birth. The UK. Terrific place. Big Ben. Impressive universities like Oxford and Cambridge. The nation that incubated the Industrial Revolution. What’s not to like?
Shunning AI data centers will cost the US far more than embracing them. Just look at the UK.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Let's party like it's 2008!" said no one ever, but that's only because the SoCal real estate scene is even worse today than it was during the Great Recession. That's according to Johnathan Lansner, columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.
L.A. Real Estate Is Partying Like It's 2008
Governor Hochul promises a workaround for a provision in state law that mandates freezing the wage amid job losses.
Even a Downturn Won’t Stop New York’s Minimum-Wage Hike
‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’ means guaranteed maximum tax hikes.
First City to Pass Reparations Raises Property Taxes 9%
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Two concealed carriers in a Polk County, Florida, Dollar General Store, pulled their firearms and held a knife-wielding woman for police, Sheriff Grady Judd said on Wednesday.
Concealed Carriers Stop Alleged Knife Rampage in Dollar General
Ismael Pinedalopez, 34, is accused of killing Nicholas Garcia, 28, at his Anaheim home after allegedly catching him in his underwear in his bed with their two children, aged two and four.
EXCLUSIVE' Get out' Moment dad is arrested after allegedly killing wife’s lover when he caught them in bed with his two kids — as new details emerge
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
. . .as you can see from this guy's sign, which invoked the assassination of Charlie Kirk to dispirit TPUSA supporters and make himself look completely deplorable. Mission Accomplished, dillweed. Hope you don't have kids, but if you do, I hope they get a look at this sign and take the full measure of your character.
Clash at U of Oregon Turning Point Event Looked Like the Protest 101 Class Was Let Out for Recess
ABORTION
‘The primary objective of this proposed amendment is to codify “abortion on demand” for any reason and at any time during a woman’s pregnancy.’
Doctor: Serial Baby Murderer Kermit Gosnell ‘Could Not Have Been Prosecuted’ Under Virginia’s Abortion Amendment (He should've been executed - jjs)
SECOND AMENDMENT
In the letter, Dhillon noted that the city of Glendale “recently increased the initial application fee for a license to carry a firearm…from $100 $1,078.” The fee for renewing a license was increased from $50 to $826.
Trump DOJ to Glendale, CA: Lawsuit Coming If the City Doesn’t Immediately Halt $2,000 Concealed Carry License Fees
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
They also apparently don’t know where he is!
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy: ‘Decoy Dan’ Tried to Use Sen. Dan Sullivan’s Middle Initial on Ballot
Less than a week before the election, you guys. This should have been done back in June.
Alaska Governor Orders Probe Into Peltola Campaign’s Alleged ‘Decoy Dan’ Scheme
You know the old saying, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire?” That has to be on your mind as you learn more about this. The number of well-known factions within the Democrat party and certain individuals who appear to be implicated in this scandal is growing.
Will the Stench of Alaska's Peltola Scandal Spread to Marc Elias?

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Records and recollections from the time dispute Talarico's class-size claims.
Talarico’s Classroom Claim Is Strangely Similar To Obama Story From 2012
The 'working class' Maine Senate hopeful used Jackson Associates, his 'logging and forestry' business, to take consulting fees from a Maryland union
Troy Jackson's 'Logging' Company Is Actually a Consulting Firm, Records Show

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“The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said,” reports the Times. Allow me to pause here to highlight Barry’s inability to feel shame. Even though this investigation started during his failed administration, Barry recently described the Omar investigation as “appalling.”
NY Times Admits Obama DOJ Found Evidence of BRO-FO Omar’s Suspected ‘Sham Marriage’
POLITICS
Blue Wave may – or may not – be swelling next week. Nevertheless, crisscrossing the country to stave it off is President Donald J. Trump – who, like all incumbents, in a very real way is on the ballot, and dominates headlines like no other political figure before him.
The 5 ‘I’s Trump Must Stress In The Midterm’s Final Stretch
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“Qatar and Turkey … funneled money into Israel to influence voting in Arab communities.”
Israel Investigates Suspected Election Interference by Turkey and Qatar
In addition to Netanyahu’s record in government, the longstanding dispute over military service exemptions for ultra-orthodox Jews also became a particularly important dividing line, given manpower shortages and repeated reserve mobilizations. Netanyahu has defended the religious exemption system, while opposition leader and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot has promised broader conscription.
Israel Elections: Bibi’s Coalition is Projected to Lose Its Majority. What Happens Next?
"They also tried to cut off his genitals, but luckily a worker showed up, and these two pig offspring then made their getaway"
White South African farmer's ears hacked off during heist
. . .Argentina has continued to assert its claim, using diplomatic, economic, and legal pressure rather than military force in recent decades. For instance, earlier this year, Argentina announced its opposition to the Sea Lion Field, an oil drilling project off the coast of the Falklands. The Argentine government, led by President Javier Milei, has threatened companies involved in the project, while Britain maintains that the Falkland Islanders have the right to make use of their natural resources.
Britain’s EU ‘Partners’ Want to Build Attack Submarines for Argentina.
Chinese technology and commercial ties are helping the Houthis and Russia challenge U.S. interests, raising questions about Beijing’s strategic intentions.
Is China Indirectly Enabling America’s Adversaries?
FRANCE IS BURNING, And Europe With It
Fred FLeitz: Europe is in deep trouble because socialist and globalist policies are destroying European civilization.
Europe’s Riots Are the Bill Coming Due for Socialism and Globalism
The Brave New World were the police are the useless. (they'll be arresting the shopkeepers - jjs)
In France, Shopkeepers Arming Themselves
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
It is a question a close friend and former student of mine in Ukraine would despise.
Are Ukrainians Really Just Russians?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Urgent action was needed and could not wait another second."
Hegseth Fires Top Pentagon Planner After Leaks, Failed Polygraphs
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
. . .emphasizing the importance of the state’s agricultural economy, concerns about cancer rates, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn’s willingness to address difficult questions surrounding food and health policy.
Exclusive: Former HHS Senior Adviser Calley Means Calls Iowa ‘Ground Zero’ for MAHA Movement
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Astronomers will use these images to analyze gravitational distortions to learn more about dark matter in the foreground galaxies and to lay the groundwork for future Roman observations. Images like this offer a glimpse of how Hubble and Roman will work together to build an even more comprehensive picture of the cosmos.
Galaxies galore from Hubble
It shows what appears to be a satellite with solar panels docked to the spaceplane’s aft. According to the report, this was during the third Chinese spaceplane mission of 268 days, during which it “released and interacted with an object.” (Looks kind of like a BSG viper - jjs)
New War Department report on the global state of military space includes first high resolution image of China’s spaceplane
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The driver, identified only by the initials L.Z., lodged the complaint on March 16 at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, according to Reduxx. He alleges discrimination in employment over ethnic origin, gender identity, and sex.
Transgender Man Sues to Regain Job as ‘Lolita’ School Bus Driver
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Clooney, who has never been too shy to push his far-left politics, is helping to sponsor a table reading of a political comedy play entitled, Smear, written by Marvel super hero film actor Clark Gregg.
Midterms: George Clooney Headlines Star-Studded Last Minute Fundraiser for Progressive Groups
If language corruption continues unchecked, the term “university educated” may soon signify useful idiot.
The Left’s Dumbed Down Tower Of Babel
Gen X is the only thing standing between this country and communism — the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency generation.
Slackers to saviors Gen X resists the left — and our skepticism can save America
Christian Toto: Same industry screaming 'Free Palestine' goes quiet over new injustice.
Hollywood Vet Calls Out Silence Over Iranian Director’s Sentence
HITHER & YON
Sir Patrick Stewart, the incomparable actor who died Wednesday at age 86 after a brief battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body dementia, had an Alpha Quadrant-sized task ahead of him back in 1987.
R.I.P. PATRICK STEWART 1940-2026

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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 October 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 07:39 AM (I43vL)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 07:40 AM (NcvvS)

4 Happy Friday I think

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 07:40 AM (/+uur)

5 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Is Oslo burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)

6 Foist

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 07:40 AM (dtajH)

7 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 07:41 AM (qomx6)

8 Top 10 and it's Friday! yAy!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 07:42 AM (lXoJ5)

9 "his portrayal of a gay opera star "

Not a stretch.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:42 AM (MWfyi)

10
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 30, 2026 07:42 AM (AMvSw)

11 >>Just seven months ago Pope Leo XIV declared in a Palm Sunday homily that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”

Jesus ain't no pacifist.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 07:44 AM (XV/Pl)

12 Good morning, J.J. So good to see your compendium of current events, with trechent commentary.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

13 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 30, 2026 07:45 AM (RORbl)

14 Pope Leo XIV declared in a Palm Sunday homily that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
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Wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

15 12 Good morning, J.J. So good to see your compendium of current events, with trechent commentary.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

Well I was going for Trenchcoat commentary but hey, there's always next week!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 30, 2026 07:47 AM (x0n13)

16 "God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”

So much for "Onward Christian Soldiers". Did anybody ask the Pope about Jihad?

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:48 AM (MWfyi)

17 Thanks JJ, and God’s blessings to all of us, especially our brave warriors and our CIC. Morning Horde! Congrats to NaCly Dog for another first.

Posted by: Buck at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (z6ONu)

18 One can only hope that the National Rally will win the next election in 2027, and Marine Le Pen will call a halt to Muslim migrants, deny welfare benefits to all migrants during the first five years of their presence in the country, deport all those convicted of crimes after they have completed their sentences, and also return to their countries of origin all those migrants who have shown themselves to be both unable and unwilling to integrate into the larger society.
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Sounds like a plan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (1KK9q)

19 When did all thus government money start flowing to child care?

Preschool 25 years ago was a huge after-tax financial expense.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

20 RFK Jr. Video: ‘Muslim Brotherhood Wants to Install Sharia Law’

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But...but...wasn't Prolapse Paul just in here a mere few days ago saying that muslims are required to follow our laws?

What Prolapse Paul conveniently left out was that they do so up until the point where they start changing them as their numbers increase and they increasingly get elected to office.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

21 San Franpsycho

Pope Leo XIV is mistaken, again. On day, there may be a Pope that is actually Catholic. I remember John Paul II. Now that was a Pope.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

22 From Grok, the exact word "war" appears 758 times across standard translations of the Bible. The vast majority of these occurrences, and nearly all instances where God is directly enlisted to smite or destroy enemies.

I don't think The Pope is Catholic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 07:50 AM (XV/Pl)

23 Thank you JJ

Let’s just get these miserable midterms over with. It’s like I’m bipolar, back and forth between expecting disaster then the next day confident of a win. I’m tired of this roller coaster

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 07:50 AM (M+uMR)

24 Well I was going for Trenchcoat commentary but hey, there's always next week!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 30, 2026 07:47 AM

JJ is a flasher?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 30, 2026 07:50 AM (sabhw)

25 18 Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (1KK9q)

She's a big government Lefty but on Ilam and the mongrelization/desruction of French culture she is dead right!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 30, 2026 07:50 AM (x0n13)

26 I've described the Left as being an ersatz religion, like Scientology or the Church of Olsteen or -- dare I say it -- Islam. What they share is a belief that faith is rewarded in the here and now.

The Left is now reaching the stage of a Doomsday Cult. When the promised Big Event doesn't happen, a few will drop out and the rest will carry on with more fervor.

The current Big Event is the Blue Tsunami that will hit on Tuesday. R candidates will get washed away. Righteous candidates like Talarico, El-Sayed and Hochul will win by double digits, because the polls say so.

Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.
Vote eraly and often.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 07:51 AM (dtajH)

27 Morning all. Thanks for the Morning Report, JJ!

Off to teach Math to middle schoolers for the day, and praying for one of these jobs to come through.... Dunno what God's got planned but the sheer number of weird things like 'client goes completely silent on the recruiter' tells me (in my more positive moods) that there's something being moved into place, but it's taking time.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 07:51 AM (aJQbY)

28 If RFK.Jr were to run for president it would be the only time the dems wouldn't automatically vote D.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 07:52 AM (8Uo7a)

29 We used to shoot traitors. Now they are guests on CNN.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:52 AM (MWfyi)

30 Why is there a commercial playing constantly telling is that everyone will be able to see whether we have voted? It makes me not want to vote.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 30, 2026 07:53 AM (2ap+5)

31 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

32 CBS says Perolta claims to no nuttin about no Decoy Dan!

So there!

So, she's being investigated by the DOJ for no good reason that anyone at CBS can even think of...

Posted by: Boswell at October 30, 2026 07:53 AM (j10i6)

33 I remember John Paul II. Now that was a Pope.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)
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Just seeing his name brings up such a well of emotion in me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

34 Should hang traitors. Shooting is too good for them.

Posted by: Buck at October 30, 2026 07:54 AM (z6ONu)

35 The Pope thinks God has a spam filter.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:55 AM (MWfyi)

36 The driver, identified only by the initials L.Z., lodged the complaint on March 16 at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, according to Reduxx. He alleges discrimination in employment over ethnic origin, gender identity, and sex.
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Gee whiz, they fired this guy? I wonder why....

https://tinyurl.com/ahudmkdv

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 07:55 AM (8zt2q)

37 John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Maggie Thacher and Ronald Reagan won WWIII.

Fight me.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 07:55 AM (dtajH)

38 It will be our own fault if we allow our constitutional republic to be transformed by the Left into the kind of government our ancestors broke away from.

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Elon Musk had a very chilling take on X this morning on what's coming once the D's retake all branches. There isn't one thing he said I don't agree with, and it parallels my exact thoughts over the past years. Now so more than ever.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

39 Buck

That is military tradition.
Hanging is a dishonorable death. A firing squad is an honorable death.
This was active as recent as WWII.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

40 Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, who told Reuters that, “adjusting for inflation … Americans are still not paying record amounts of ⁠their income on filling up their tanks.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 07:57 AM (/+uur)

41 Ignoramus

Nay, bro. I agree with you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

42 37 John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Maggie Thacher and Ronald Reagan won WWIII.

Fight me.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 07:55 AM (dtajH)

So I assume we are in the midst of WW IV???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 30, 2026 07:57 AM (x0n13)

43 "Hanging is a dishonorable death."

And then there's Braveheart style.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 07:58 AM (dtajH)

44
I've started reading the Bible, four chapters every day. Just finished Leviticus. I felt sorry for Moses trying to take all that stuff down. "Wait a minute, what was that again?.."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 07:58 AM (eRlcH)

45 Pope: ‘There is No Such Thing as Holy War’

--

Slaughtered and murdered Christians all over Nigeria by muslims? What's that all about?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

46 So what happens if they can't find that decoy dan in Alaska?

Obviously it's way too late to remove his name from the ballot and they can't just say, give all of his votes to the real dan.

It's gonna be weeks maybe months before they can sort all of that out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 30, 2026 07:59 AM (I43vL)

47 Hadrian - even in the Protestant version, there's lots of stuff that you're like, "wait, why have I never heard that?". I bet the Catholic version is even moreso!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 07:59 AM (aJQbY)

48 "Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis"

They are eating the big cats!

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:00 AM (MWfyi)

49 Some of that Wired article wasn't bad but so much of it is bs because you can always trust that a lib has an ulterior motive.

For me I wonder if what the author really hates is that the control once hoped for and wielded by the Left to control and manipulate is being slowly eroded for a shitty but fractured and more free thinking and feeling experience for people.

I don't know if it's the case, it's just a gut feeling. The Left really loved the internet for a time.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:00 AM (I+a8W)

50 They're eating the warthogs!

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:00 AM (MWfyi)

51 This non-Catholic always loved Pope John Paul II. Also like Benedict afterwards but it started to go sideways when he became Pope Emeritus while still alive and handed the baton to the next guy who was a disaster. Pope Emeritus… I’d never heard of that; why’d it happen??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:01 AM (M+uMR)

52 "So I assume we are in the midst of WW IV???"

WWIII ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

IMHO we mismanaged what came after. Our Deep State exploited it for fun and profit. Ukraine especially.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 08:01 AM (dtajH)

53 Pope Leo XIV is mistaken, again. On day, there may be a Pope that is actually Catholic. I remember John Paul II. Now that was a Pope.

There are 10 conditions under which God doesn't hear prayers:

• Cherished or unrepented sin
• Deliberate refusal to obey God
• Hypocrisy and false worship
• Prayers motivated by selfish desires (so much for Name it And Claim it "prayers")
• Lack of faith
• Refusal to forgive others
• Mistreatment of one's spouse
• Whoever "closes their ear to the poor"
• Idolatry
• Persistent rebellion and hardness of heart.

I'm not seeing War in here. The Pope needs to explain why war-makers like David, Joshua and Gideon worked out strategery with God in terms of exacting war.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:01 AM (BvPIe)

54 Paul Dx Oppostional Defiant Disorder

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

55 The Voyager space probe just had it's 49th launch anniversary on September 5. Next year it will officially be 50 years in space, and it is so far away now from Earth that BehindtheBlack says it takes a full day to send/receive communications.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:02 AM (fF9ID)

56 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at October 30, 2026 08:02 AM (Gq9/0)

57 Effective Altruism

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

CSL

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:02 AM (/+uur)

58 Pope Emeritus… I’d never heard of that; why’d it happen??

Politics. The demonic Globalists control everything, they even decide who is going to be the Pontifex Maximus

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:04 AM (BvPIe)

59 OT: Voted in VA last night - straight R and straight NO on all the questions.

Lots of blue voters out when I went, so if you're in VA and looking to vote R, get out today or tomorrow.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 08:05 AM (Gb7+b)

60 In reading a few comments in the Pixy thread about adults watching cartoons, I was reminded of a cute thing I read a while back where good friends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee liked to sit around watching Looney Tunes together and laughing their heads off. If Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein/Dr. Van Helsing could watch cartoons and enjoy them, that's good enough for me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

61
No.

George W. Bush was a good President. If you can't recognize all the great stuff he did, you're an isolationist and Code Pinker.

All the best Presidents are universally reviled by everyone in the country, including those who voted for him. Because of Code Pink, you see.

I have it on good authority.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 30, 2026 08:05 AM (BI5O2)

62 Catholicism is a somewhat uncomfortable fit with the West given its focus on the here and now, while the West is always looking toward the horizon. The difference might be captured to a degree by comparing the Hagia Sophia with the Chartres cathedral.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 30, 2026 08:06 AM (2ap+5)

63 Mel Blanc voiced most of the Looney Tunes characters. IMHO he's one of the greatest actors ever.
His tombstone reads:

"That's all folks"

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 08:07 AM (dtajH)

64 It will be our own fault if we allow our constitutional republic to be transformed by the Left into the kind of government our ancestors broke away from.
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We already did.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:07 AM (I+a8W)

65 61 — YD, I am glad I recognized your intentional absurdity!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:07 AM (M+uMR)

66 Isreal demonstrates again that they have the worst electoral system in the developed world. How can people who are supposedly so smart design a system that bad? It’s designed to produce chaos.

Most likely outcome - neither side forms a government, Bibi leads a caretaker government for 6 months, and then a do-over election next year.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 08:07 AM (xOuxV)

67 Well, I got news for Pope Dumbass The XIV.

He's in a war. The muslims are waging war on the west and Christians, so he best leave the kids and climate change alone and get to it.

Posted by: Arrest Father Pfleger at October 30, 2026 08:08 AM (Ssbab)

68 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2026 08:09 AM (yKqEx)

69 Hegseth Fires Top Pentagon Planner After Leaks, Failed Polygraphs

I have seen it reported, on X, that he admitted to giving the information to reporters. I don't know if those reports will be borne out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

70 Is the Pope going to say we should no longer fight against Satan in our lives, as war is bad?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:10 AM (l3cgK)

71
How can people who are supposedly so smart design a system that bad? It’s designed to produce chaos.

Yoo hoo!

Posted by: The Weimar Republic at October 30, 2026 08:10 AM (eRlcH)

72 The difference might be captured to a degree by comparing the Hagia Sophia with the Chartres cathedral.

Today's "cathedrals" are tilt-wall construction which includes gymnasiums, concert halls and a coffee café .

Maranatha

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (+4Cf6)

73 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (77rzZ)

74 The Pope smokes Dope!

Posted by: David Peel and the Lower East Side at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (EdP2u)

75 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (ccf/V)

76
Is the Pope going to say we should no longer fight against Satan in our lives, as war is bad?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:10 AM (l3cgK)

Old: The Church Militant

In: The Church Nice Guys

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (eRlcH)

77 I am reminded of the story of David and Goliath, where God told David "I can't condone this, you are on your own".

Posted by: Pope fd at October 30, 2026 08:12 AM (MWfyi)

78 I loved that CS Lewis quote for a long time until I realized it was time to shelve it because the Left was clearly so far beyond doing anything "for the good of its victims", let alone "sincerely".

That was maybe in 2011 when I decided that for certain. For the previous years, especially watching what they used Obama for, had only suspected it.

Many of these people are just diabolical, obsessed with themselves and with multiplying their inner misery to soothe their own egos or at least make everyone feel worse than they do every day.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:12 AM (I+a8W)

79 Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2026 08:12 AM (h4J+2)

80 RFK: I never in a zillion years ever thought I'd like a Kennedy. Crazy times we live in.

Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 08:12 AM (2Drhq)

81 China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are developing, testing, deploying, and using space capabilities in a way that threatens the security of all space systems and their associated space benefits. China and Russia are developing a formidable spectrum of offensive capabilities to degrade or destroy space services of other countries, from kinetic destruction to sophisticated jamming and cyber operations. These countries have exhibited behaviors that often run counter to a safe, secure, and sustainable space domain.
=======================
Gee, you think?

The "axis of evil" hasn't changed much since Shrub first used the term in 2002.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:12 AM (1ZMia)

82 Should hang traitors. Shooting is too good for them.
Posted by: Buck at October 30, 2026 07:54 AM (z6ONu)

There is another way. -- Vlad III

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

83 Is the Pope going to say we should no longer fight against Satan in our lives, as war is bad?...

New Jack Chick tract Incoming!

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (+4Cf6)

84 Very eye opening ass rip to coffee & brands and how you are being taken to the cleaners.

11 US coffee brands to avoid and the 4 which are safe

YouTube - 29 minutes:

https://tinyurl.com/3v9pdna3

Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (yKqEx)

85 The Anti-pope keeps pissing on us and saying "it's raining."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (LOvBA)

86 . . .Remember, the Alaska Board of Elections kicked “Decoy Dan” off the ballot over the summer because officials could tell he is a fake. The Alaska Supreme Court put him back on the ballot.

What law did the Alaska SC site to allow for the fake candidate to remain on the ballot? What Constitutional amendment? Or are we just legislating from the bench, yet again?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (ccf/V)

87 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Happy Friday and a great weekend to all.
Looking at the LA real estate article shows that they didn't learn from 2008. The City of Philadelphia didn't either as they are now setting up some kind of public run mortgage program for low income people with bad credit. The City is working with Citizens Bank. I'd get my money and investments out of Citizens

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (f8snw)

88 Ronnie and Bush the Elder embodied the split in the GOP between Freedom Lovers and the Deep State Establishment (Deep State).

It's still playing out with Trump, with the Establishment aligning with elements of the Left to lord it over us Freedom Lovers.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (dtajH)

89 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:14 AM (pFPY8)

90 I'm adding on my wish list to Santa Clause people to denaturalize and deport from the U.S.GD.S. in order to save our society:

-Perpetual criminals
-Judges and DAs who release perpetual criminals
-Muslims, Communists, Socialists (basically anyone with the ideology that is designed to subvert, remove and destroy the Constitution)
-Government and Non-Government officials who enabled, benefited, or had knowledge of tax payer fraud.
-Defenders of illegal aliens

I hope I'm on the nice list.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 30, 2026 08:14 AM (nCTkv)

91 The Pope smokes Dope!
Posted by: David Peel and the Lower East Side at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (EdP2u)
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Pope-a-Dope!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:14 AM (1ZMia)

92 Slaughtered and murdered Christians all over Nigeria by muslims? What's that all about?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

African bishops have embraced neither Islam nor homosexuality so Leo don't care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

93 OK, going to look through my Bible to see where it commands Christians to be pacifists at all times. Be back later.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 08:15 AM (lXoJ5)

94 Here in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was elected to that position shortly after the attack, had no problem allowing a Muslim community center to be located near Ground Zero. While I thought the proposed Arab school was a good idea, did it have to be headed by a radical Islamist connected to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Meh look who's Mayor of NYC now!

"What weren't we supposed to ever forget again?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:15 AM (ccf/V)

95 -Perpetual criminals
-Judges and DAs who release perpetual criminals
-Muslims, Communists, Socialists (basically anyone with the ideology that is designed to subvert, remove and destroy the Constitution)
-Government and Non-Government officials who enabled, benefited, or had knowledge of tax payer fraud.
-Defenders of illegal aliens
Posted by: Cray Cray

Good as far as it goes but let's add:

Folks that put beans in chili, ketchup on hotdogs, and those that like and eat marshmallow peeps and circus peanuts.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:16 AM (pFPY8)

96 Obviously it's way too late to remove his name from the ballot and they can't just say, give all of his votes to the real dan.

It'll be interesting to see how they treat any write-in responses. Back when the Murk ran as a sore loser write in candidate, judges ruled that any entry which contained something which might be an M meant her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

97 There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

Posted by: Jack Benny at October 30, 2026 08:16 AM (EdP2u)

98 I did flip off a leftoid freak driving down the highway with a Talarico sticker on their back window.

Made me feel good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

99 It's one thing for a guy with a similar name to go through the process of getting his name on the ballot.

It's another thing when he's solicited by conspirators who do the work of getting his name on the ballot.

You'd think the Alaska Supreme Court would see the difference.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 30, 2026 08:17 AM (dtajH)

100 Talarico’s Classroom Claim Is Strangely Similar To Obama Story From 2012

That they both have a favorite Drag Queen

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:18 AM (/+uur)

101 The opening salvo of whatever world war we are in was the deliberate release of covid on the world and the ensuing "response". This world war is the globalists vs everyone else. I've been saying it for 6 years and it is only becoming more apparent.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:18 AM (I+a8W)

102 I didn’t know Alaska was so corrupt. Naive me… I always assume it’s deep red. But that Murkowski out front shoulda told me…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:18 AM (M+uMR)

103 -Perpetual criminals
-Judges and DAs who release perpetual criminals
-Muslims, Communists, Socialists (basically anyone with the ideology that is designed to subvert, remove and destroy the Constitution)
-Government and Non-Government officials who enabled, benefited, or had knowledge of tax payer fraud.
-Defenders of illegal aliens
=====

-Pedestrians who instead of crossing at the green light stand there at the crosswalk looking at their phone

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

104 Catholicism is a somewhat uncomfortable fit with the West given its focus on the here and now, while the West is always looking toward the horizon

The US started out as an escape from Catholicism's oppression against the growing Reformation.

Then Europe followed the Puritans into the New Land and corrupted it with Enlightenment and secular humanism.

The Remnant still remains, but the larger replacement theology is best understood as The American Religion which does fit the post-modern culture.

A form of DIY salvation where God is your personal concierge and mental health coach. Where when things totally go to shit you can rely on "Jesus" swooping you up and letting the reprobates remaining on Earth eat each other.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (+4Cf6)

105 @86

>>What law did the Alaska SC site to allow for the fake candidate to remain on the ballot? What Constitutional amendment?

They didn't cite any law, they said their was no basis in law to remove the fake Dan Sullivan, which is bullsh*t because when he was removed, the BOE literally stated the provisions in law that were being violated.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (XV/Pl)

106 @86 I think the Alaskan SC used the "fairness" doctrine . It simply wasn't "fair" to keep the fake Sully off the ballot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (f8snw)

107
George W Bush let the regulatory state run wild. Gave good performances as a conservative, but as deep state as his pappy.

Posted by: Auspex at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (Y8DZL)

108 I did flip off a leftoid freak driving down the highway with a Talarico sticker on their back window.

--

I've never done that kind of thing, but whenever we pass some dimwit with any kind of Leftist candidate or drivel sticker on their car, Mr. Black will glare over at them with an undeniable, "you're an idiot" look.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (qBdHI)

109 There's a glimmer of hope in that the AK ballot does say "Republican Incumbent" after the real Dan's name.

But, given what's happened in the past re: Murky, who knows what shenanigans may be in store.

Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 08:19 AM (2Drhq)

110 First City to Pass Reparations Raises Property Taxes 9%

I saw a vid the other day on EweToob where Parliament in UK borrowed money in 1833 to pay off slaveholders for the loss of their "property" due to the abolishment of slavery there...that bill was not fully paid back until 2015...
So the English were paying taxes to pay reparations to slaveholders for over 180 years...

https://youtube.com/shorts/dgEMhofsf5s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK)

111 Sponge — You shoulda run him off the road! :-)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:20 AM (M+uMR)

112 Today's "cathedrals" are tilt-wall construction which includes gymnasiums, concert halls and a coffee café .

Maranatha
Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:11 AM (+4Cf6)

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The old contrast was between "God is right here" and "God is way out there". I'm not sure how to describe the current environment.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 30, 2026 08:21 AM (2ap+5)

113 The 6/26/2026 order of the superior court directing the Division to include
appellee Sullivan as a candidate for United States Senator on the primary election ballot
is AFFIRMED. This matter is remanded for the Division of Elections to determine, in
the first instance, how appellee Sullivan shall be listed as a candidate within the confines
of existing Alaska ballot design law.

A full opinion will be issued at a later date.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:21 AM (/+uur)

114 I think the Alaskan SC used the "fairness" doctrine . It simply wasn't "fair" to keep the fake Sully off the ballot
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Examples need to be made of these assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 08:21 AM (wOO3z)

115 This world war is the globalists vs everyone else. I've been saying it for 6 years and it is only becoming more apparent.

The John Birch Society has been saying it for over 60 years.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:22 AM (a3CJ+)

116 99 It's one thing for a guy with a similar name to go through the process of getting his name on the ballot.

It's another thing when he's solicited by conspirators who do the work of getting his name on the ballot.

You'd think the Alaska Supreme Court would see the difference.

This. Perfectly stated.

Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 08:22 AM (2Drhq)

117 85 The Anti-pope keeps pissing on us and saying "it's raining."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 30, 2026 08:13 AM (LOvBA)

"Golden Rain! A blessing!"
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:23 AM (l3cgK)

118 Folks that put beans in chili, ketchup on hotdogs, and those that like and eat marshmallow peeps and circus peanuts.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:16 AM (pFPY

People that put carrots in chili are right out!

Posted by: Polka will never die at October 30, 2026 08:23 AM (zuZpx)

119 I didn’t know Alaska was so corrupt. Naive me… I always assume it’s deep red. But that Murkowski out front shoulda told me…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:18 AM (M+uMR)

If I had to guess, all state governments are deeply corrupt. Blue/red only, possibly, indicates variations in the style of corruption.

I'd go further and guess that all county/city governments are deeply corrupt. HOAs too.

Comes from being able to take other people's money and spend it as you please.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

120 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 30, 2026 08:23 AM (VA8wq)

121 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (aDmlG)

122 James Talarico said his favorite drag queen is Alyssa Edwards.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

123 Which state will take longer to finalize its count: California or Alaska? It might be close as Alaska’s RCV advanced mathematicians duel with California’s ballot harvesters scrounging up new ballots. I don’t think either will be done by New Year’s Day. Sigh

Let’s hope the senate and house don’t come down to those two states

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (M+uMR)

124 Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

Eric Bauza, who took over the Mel Blanc voice roles, died last week. He was only 46.

I did not see his passing mentioned here. That's dethpicable.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (zdLoL)

125 LinusVanPelt

The treatment of Joe Miller was the reveal. I've met him. Awesome dude.

His late father, Rex Miller, was in the local T.E.A. Party group. We ran a Constitution Bee, and he excelled in that endeavor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

126 124 Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

Eric Bauza, who took over the Mel Blanc voice roles, died last week. He was only 46.

I did not see his passing mentioned here. That's dethpicable.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (zdLoL)

Ya don't know what ya don't know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:25 AM (l3cgK)

127 Let’s just get these miserable midterms over with. It’s like I’m bipolar, back and forth between expecting disaster then the next day confident of a win. I’m tired of this roller coaster

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 07:50 AM (M+uMR)

Next time this comes around step off the merry go round. Don't try to assess what is coming, there are too many lies to do so. Plus the election itself will be full of lies.

Just torturing yourself by ignoring those two things. Like deciding to pan for gold in a pile of shit knowing that a liar told you the gold was there. The whole thing is intentionally obscured before and after the event.

It's nerve wracking because you have to wait for the outcome but if you just stick to waiting patiently rather than trying to figure it out, you will deal with it a lot easier. At least your brain will know it's just a waiting game.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:25 AM (I+a8W)

128 The old contrast was between "God is right here" and "God is way out there". I'm not sure how to describe the current environment.

Eastern Orthodox, curators of the Hagia Sophia until the Muslims became the new land lord, is an odd duck when compared to all the other Christian denominations.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:26 AM (a3CJ+)

129 “Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind,
for he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things.”

Psalm 107:8-9

Posted by: Marcus T at October 30, 2026 08:26 AM (vbdXu)

130 I did not see his passing mentioned here. That's dethpicable.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (zdLoL

We're not good people.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:26 AM (I+a8W)

131 TGIF all!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (rOKnE)

132 Elise Stefanik Honored for Her Leadership in Confronting Anti-Semitism

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This bitch is doing all she can to elect el Sayed. Jews can be very stupid for being smart people.

Posted by: Weird at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (uVhzg)

133 Russian barbarism is nothing new: the mass rapes committed by Stalin’s drunken Red Army as they marched their way across Europe at the end of the Second World War illustrate this.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that when he went to occupied Berlin, General Patton was quoted in The National Guardsman as remarking: “I think we’ve been fighting the wrong people all this time...”
=======================
Russia has a smaller economy than Italy, and yet devotes a huge percentage of it's fruits to their military and the war in Ukraine. It's always something with Russia.

Bewildering.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (I4gbT)

134 At Politico, the new version of Epimenides Paradox: "Poll: Americans don’t trust polls."

Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Jr5Lq)

135 Elise Stefanik Honored for Her Leadership in Confronting Anti-Semitism

—

This bitch is doing all she can to elect el Sayed. Jews can be very stupid for being smart people.
Posted by: Weird at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (uVhzg)
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Being charitable, I think you must mean someone else, and not Elise Stefanik.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:28 AM (I4gbT)

136 Sponge — You shoulda run him off the road! :-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:20 AM (M+uMR)

The little Ranger isn't really capable of running anything off the road.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

137 132 Elise Stefanik Honored for Her Leadership in Confronting Anti-Semitism

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This bitch is doing all she can to elect el Sayed. Jews can be very stupid for being smart people.

Elise Stefanik is Catholic.

Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (2Drhq)

138 Sponge — You shoulda run him off the road! :-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Was that wrong?

If I had known that was wrong. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (pFPY8)

139 Elke Sommer has also died.

Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

140 Meanwhile, the cheeseheads are on a roll. World Series championship then the Packers win last night. Plus Wisconsin whooped USC last Saturday (beat ‘em like red headed step children). Your adopted state is doing pretty well, JJ

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (M+uMR)

141 The panelist later explained that Europe is better because of all the “free stuff”—free health care, free college, generous social benefits, government pensions, and so on.

free stuff is NOT
freedom

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:30 AM (/+uur)

142 139 Elke Sommer has also died.
Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (77rzZ)'

not now Kato

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:30 AM (/+uur)

143 Eastern Orthodox, curators of the Hagia Sophia until the Muslims became the new land lord, is an odd duck when compared to all the other Christian denominations.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 08:26 AM (a3CJ+)

=======

I think it is important that there was no such thing as Eastern Orthodox when Roman emperor Justinian I rebuilt it from somewhat humble beginnings into a temple so grand, Julian believed he had outdone Solomon.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 30, 2026 08:30 AM (2ap+5)

144 Huck Follywood

I see Russia's actions as ethnic cleansing of the unwashed, non-Slavs. The ones on the front lines are mostly non-Slavs. Who last only for a short time.
Plus, wartime control. Putin likes control.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

145 >>Christian Toto: Same industry screaming 'Free Palestine' goes quiet over new injustice.

Wow.
Shocking!

Not

Posted by: Theo Van Gogh at October 30, 2026 08:31 AM (rOKnE)

146 This bitch is doing all she can to elect el Sayed. Jews can be very stupid for being smart people.
Posted by: Weird

Reasoning and common sense don't exist for %40+ of society.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 08:31 AM (8B4gm)

147 I'm always ambivalent about the end of election season.

On the one hand, this place goes back to normal and gets fun again.

On the other - no more political ads. I love the ads.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 30, 2026 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

148 Sorry! That should be Justinian, not Julian the Apostate!

Posted by: Oglebay at October 30, 2026 08:31 AM (2ap+5)

149 The poster above is obviously thinking of Dana Nessel.

Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

150 Russia has a smaller economy than Italy, and yet devotes a huge percentage of it's fruits to their military and the war in Ukraine. It's always something with Russia.

Bewildering.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (I4gbT)

Russia has always thought that killing their own was a great way to increase the Per Capita GDP

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:32 AM (/+uur)

151 Someone confused Elise Stefanik (pretty decent congresscritter from NY) with Elissa Slotkin (CIA deep stater from MI)

The names are similar!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 08:32 AM (M+uMR)

152 This bitch is doing all she can to elect el Sayed. Jews can be very stupid for being smart people.
Posted by: Weird at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (uVhzg)
=====

You're a little confused. I know, they all look alike.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

153 Vlad Tepes had a point!

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at October 30, 2026 08:32 AM (z6ONu)

154 Good news, everyone!

HOA residents are learning that HOA's are in no way regulated and their charging families $90,000 a year in fees is perfectly legal and there's nothing you can do about it.

ENJOY!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

155 Russian barbarism is nothing new: the mass rapes committed by Stalin’s drunken Red Army as they marched their way across Europe at the end of the Second World War illustrate this.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that when he went to occupied Berlin, General Patton was quoted in The National Guardsman as remarking: “I think we’ve been fighting the wrong people all this time...”

==

who wrote this ?

Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 08:33 AM (AKptf)

156 Being charitable, I think you must mean someone else, and not Elise Stefanik.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:28 AM (I4gbT)

Fuck me.

Too early in the morning. I read that as Elissa Slotkin.

Posted by: Weird at October 30, 2026 08:33 AM (uVhzg)

157 She was also surprised the wife would have been having an affair, calling her a “very good girl” but possibly “irresponsible” if the cheating allegation was true.
...
“Violence is never the answer, and it is truly heartbreaking that these young children had to witness their father commit such a horrific act of brutality in their own home,” Spitzer [ Orange County DA ] said.

This is so f'd up. If I found a random man in underwear sleeping with my kids I might do something violent too.
And YES, violence IS the answer sometimes, otherwise you have no right to defend yourself, you asshole. I hate this stupid, so-called aphorism: "Violence is never the answer". Sounds too close to the current Pope.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:33 AM (l3cgK)

158 I did flip off a leftoid freak driving down the highway with a Talarico sticker on their back window.

-----

Growing up in the blood red part of Colorado, I grew accustomed to Democrat campaigners at the stoplight in our town being constantly berated by passers-by. People would even chuck trash at them. I always laughed at this, because fuck them.

Where I live now, in another blood red place, nobody really bothers them.

It's a big cultural difference.

In Colorado, they were so hated because their giant tumor-city in the middle of the State ran everything and did so with sneering contempt for everyone else.

Here, they are an angry but powerless minority and that won't be changing any time soon. So everyone just drives past them rolling their eyes. I love it.

Once Democrats are powerful enough to anger the normies, you already have a problem.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 30, 2026 08:33 AM (BI5O2)

159 Eric Bauza, who took over the Mel Blanc voice roles, died last week. He was only 46.

I did not see his passing mentioned here. That's dethpicable.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (zdLoL)

He sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:34 AM (ccf/V)

160 Is China Indirectly Enabling America’s Adversaries?

Yes. And directly, too. Well, what do you expect? China IS an adversary.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:35 AM (l3cgK)

161
Russia has a smaller economy than Italy, and yet devotes a huge percentage of it's fruits to their military and the war in Ukraine. It's always something with Russia.

Bewildering.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:27 AM (I4gbT)

The only conclusion that makes sense is that both Putin and Zelensky are certain they’ll lose power and be replaced if the war ends, so they’l do anything and sacrifice endless lives to keep it going no matter what.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 08:35 AM (xOuxV)

162 Elise Stefanik Honored for Her Leadership in Confronting Anti-Semitism

—

This bitch is doing all she can to elect el Sayed. Jews can be very stupid for being smart people.

Elise Stefanik is Catholic.
Posted by: Delurker at October 30, 2026 08:29 AM (2Drhq)

don't be too harsh on the inbred, it's the nose that got him confused

Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 08:35 AM (AKptf)

163 Is China Indirectly Enabling America’s Adversaries?

Yes. And directly, too. Well, what do you expect? China IS an adversary.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:35 AM (l3cgK)

The enemy of my enemy is still an enemy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)

164 In honor of Patrick Stewart we should all burn our hair off.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)

165 The video showed him half inside his bus in a pink-and-white Japanese schoolgirl uniform, with a short skirt, bare midriff, and long white stockings. A sheet of paper taped to the windshield read “Lolita Line.”

that picture made my fuckin day

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:36 AM (/+uur)

166 149 The poster above is obviously thinking of Dana Nessel.

Posted by: Bulg at October 30, 2026 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

I refused to do the Nessel run.

Posted by: Han Solo at October 30, 2026 08:37 AM (l3cgK)

167 In honor of Patrick Stewart we should all burn our hair off.
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)

you first

Posted by: runner at October 30, 2026 08:37 AM (AKptf)

168 In honor of Patrick Stewart we should all burn our hair off.
Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)

After all the 'hair on fire' polls released this election cycle, I'm afraid I've no hair left to burn, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 08:37 AM (ccf/V)

169 "Violence is never the answer". Sounds too close to the current Pope.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:33 AM (l3cgK)

What if the question is ¿Hitler?

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)

170 "you first
Posted by: runner"

I'm just an idea man. It will take someone really stupid to put it into action.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:38 AM (MWfyi)

171 A fay frog with an English accent in MY CHAIR?

*scoffs*

I don't think so.

Posted by: Shatner! at October 30, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

172 Democrats promise to lower costs, but journalists rarely ask them to explain their policies—or account for the soaring prices under Biden.

You have to vote for us to find out what our ideas are.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 08:39 AM (lXoJ5)

173 I buy my Circus Peanuts in bulk. Have a couple barrels of them here for the burning times. They get a little hard over time, but don't really go bad. I'll be dining on their artificial banana goodness when you folks are scavenging dumpsters for sustenance.

Posted by: Semper Paratus!! at October 30, 2026 08:40 AM (EdP2u)

174
160 Is China Indirectly Enabling America’s Adversaries?”

China is the primary backer of Neville Roy Singham. In fact he’s mainly just a proxy for the CCP. He’s one of the primary financial backers of the DSA which is taking over the dying Democrat party.
He also was the biggest financial backers of the BLM riots, and if course he financed the group his wife founded, Code Pink.

It’s gotten common to rail about George Soros - of course he’s evil. But these days Singham is far more active, and far more destructive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 08:40 AM (xOuxV)

175 164 In honor of Patrick Stewart we should all burn our hair off.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)

I shaved my head bald for cancer in February 2014 (my wife had lost her hair again to chemo). The company said they would donate $100 per employee who did that...they didn't expect over 100 of us to go through with it, including a few women.

Posted by: Han Solo at October 30, 2026 08:40 AM (l3cgK)

176 r hennigantx

Hitler killed Hitler. So on brand.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

177 As Marc Andreessen said on a podcast: “Europe seems, I just take them at their word, they seem determined, they seem enthusiastic about being left behind. They seem to really badly want that.”
=======================
I stole that quote from Nellie Bowles this morning, and it is true, Europe is not only being left behind in every sense, but they seem to revel in their decline. Just weird.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:42 AM (Ttn/0)

178 Today Is Frankenstein Friday.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 30, 2026 08:42 AM (wzaBj)

179 Democrats promise to lower costs.
-------

Good thing they always tell the truth. That kind of promise from someone who always lies would be scary.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:42 AM (I+a8W)

180 ".they didn't expect over 100 of us to go through with it, including a few women.
Posted by: Han Solo "

That's awesome. I've never shaved my head. If trends continue, I may not need to.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:43 AM (MWfyi)

181 "Today Is Frankenstein Friday.
Posted by: redridinghood"

*lights thumb on fire*

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:44 AM (MWfyi)

182 Galaxies galore from Hubble

I like the gravitational lensing at the bottom right. Some nice red-shifting on some of the galaxies, along with some nice spiral galaxies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 30, 2026 08:44 AM (l3cgK)

183 Europe is not only being left behind in every sense, but they seem to revel in their decline. Just weird.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:42 AM (Ttn/0

There is a lot to loot in a civilization.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:44 AM (I+a8W)

184 Amazon and Intel both had crap earnings last quarter and are down bigly in pre market trading.
Nasdaq futures down 2.5% overall.

Posted by: End of AI Bubble? at October 30, 2026 08:44 AM (uVhzg)

185 Soros is over. He's a decrepit mummy, and his organization is being run by his basement-IQ son and his pathetic wife, the saddest catamite on the Acela Corridor.

He's about as important as Hill-Dawg these days.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 30, 2026 08:44 AM (BI5O2)

186 Russia has a smaller economy than Italy, and yet devotes a huge percentage of it's fruits to their military and the war in Ukraine.

Russia has spent a significant portion of its history being invaded. Now, with Ukraine, NATO has advanced to its border. Their response is entirely predictable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 30, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

187 It's also,
National Candy Corn Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 30, 2026 08:45 AM (wzaBj)

188 There is a lot to loot in a civilization.
Posted by: ...

Only once. Then "Bad Luck" hits.
Islam, like Evil, can no longer create.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

189 just an idea man. It will take someone really stupid to put it into action.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 08:38 AM (MWfyi)

I wonder if one could do it with a power washer.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 08:45 AM (I+a8W)

190 Russia has always thought that killing their own was a great way to increase the Per Capita GDP
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 30, 2026 08:32 AM (/+uur)
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I laughed. Was that wrong?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:45 AM (Ttn/0)

Daily Tech News 30 October 2026

Top Story

The internet may or may not be on fire again and there's not enough information available to determine which: There's a severity 9.8 flaw in the Linux kernel's networking stack which may (or may not) give everyone on the planet root access to every server. (The Hacker News)

The cheerily blasé Anthropic post on the subject indicates that it may be connected specifically to multipath TCP rather than the ordinary variety which may be why East German sources only score it as a 5.9. I just ran around scanning my servers for multipath TCP listeners and that came up clean, but whether that means I am actually safe remains unknown.

And if you're running Ubuntu or RedHat Linux, there is no patch out yet, so all you can really do is panic. Or not panic; RedHat rates it at 5.9, and Amazon who do have a patch out for their home brand Linux rate it at 7.0.

Tech News

Reddit is getting a "For You" feed. (The Verge)

Reddit but somehow worse.
Speaking of Reddit but somehow worse the site will now require you to log in to read anything. (The Verge)

There has never been a better opportunity for Digg to return.
Please let Wired die. (Wired) (archive site)

You know it's the right thing to do.
Anthropic only spends one third of its money directly on providing services to customers. (Tom's Hardware)

The other two thirds is spent on generating maliciously unhelpful bug reports involving the Linux networking stack.

Musical Interlude

Oops, wrong song.

Disclaimer: B-b-b-b-b-ungood.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

3 TGIF too

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

4 LOL!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

5 Reddit is getting a "For You" feed. (The Verge)
Reddit but somehow worse.

Heh; Pixy snark.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

6 Speaking of Reddit but somehow worse the site will now require you to log in to read anything. (The Verge)

Hahahahaha this is all hilarious.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:03 AM (odBC9)

7 Damn... just when I thought it might be (reasonably) safe to switch to Linux...

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)

8 There's a JQ sighting on the tech thread!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:04 AM (odBC9)

9 >>>B-b-b-b-b-ungood

Hahahahahaha! Funny!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 04:04 AM (rdVOm)

10 Ungood?
I like George Thorogood

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 30, 2026 04:05 AM (sAmhv)

12 There's a JQ sighting on the tech thread!
Posted by: m

WooHoo!

*does the shimmy*

Love you guys!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)

13 BOING!

Way too much cooking to do.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2026 04:06 AM (i2Ycu)

14 from the Wired article:

Please Let the Internet Die

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

"exacerbating"
That's a ten-dollar word. Has a sort of ... AI ring to it.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:07 AM (odBC9)

15 Also, the green bottlebrushes (bottlebri?) I ordered online arrived. Plants, that is. These, but with green rather than red flowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_pachyphylla

Cost about $7 each delivered, but they are much bigger than I was expecting - I was expecting seedlings a few inches tall, and what I got was plants already two feet tall, one of them in flower.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 30, 2026 04:08 AM (BLOW1)

16 Oh, reddit.

"You know, this mountain of cow manure is nice, but what it really needs is an algorithm to actively inject the bullshit straight into their stupid head holes."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:10 AM (aKiSo)

17 There has never been a better opportunity for Digg to return.

I get some helpful technical information every now and then by doing a search and some Reddit post comes up with an answer or solution.

That's about the only time I ever land on Reddit, and apparently I won't even be able to do that now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:10 AM (6ydKt)

18 Wow, Pixy! Those are so pretty. Green, not red? Extra special. Hope they grow well for you. $7 is a great price!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 04:11 AM (rdVOm)

19
wikipedia ... Melaleuca_pachyphylla
It is a medium-sized shrub with a straggling habit and red, or sometimes greenish, bottlebrush flowers in summer.

Straggling habit: many such cases.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:12 AM (odBC9)

20 Look at all the poor bastards searching for a needle in a haystack that might not even have a needle in it.

What they need is some kind of apparatus to blow the hay directly at them, constantly, to help them forget all this silliness about "needles". You don't need a needle, Zek. You need hay. Glorious, stupid hay.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:14 AM (aKiSo)

21 To be online, many now admit, is to be endlessly manipulated and exploited. In December, Oxford University Press declared rage bait to be the word of the year, noting that use of the term had tripled over the previous 12 months. The lexical spike represented a heightened awareness that monetized social accounts churn out bad-faith takes and extremist content, automating this abusive behavior with generative AI, simply to profit off hostile engagement. Billionaire oligarchs have opened the floodgates to such inauthentic activity, conspiracy-mongering, and hate speech by rolling back moderation.

---
Miles Klee is a senior writer at WIRED covering digital culture in all its forms. He was previously a reporter at Rolling Stone and Mel magazine. ...

Wired's first mistake was hiring a writer from Rolling Stone.
Got no clue what 'Mel' is but I know to avoid it now.

The internet was filled with scams, hackers, and trolls way before Elon bought Twitter.

He doesn't want the internet to die.
He wants it to be turned over to the socialists so they censor it and tax it in order to protect us from ourselves and protect them from ourselves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:16 AM (6ydKt)

22 He doesn't want the internet to die.
He wants it to be turned over to the socialists so they censor it and tax it in order to protect us from ourselves and protect them from ourselves.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:16 AM (6ydKt)

Yet another glaring case of "thee and not me".

Our righteous anger over legitimate concerns is "rage bait". Their Rage Baiting over manufactured lies is "community engagement".

Brownshirts existed long before TCP/IP.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:19 AM (aKiSo)

23 I guess if you're a billionaire (?) like the founder of Antropic, you can be "cheerfully blasé."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:23 AM (JrHfD)

24 My goodness, this sentence is so dumb:

from the Wired article:

Zeitgeist-defining platforms like Vine can be vaporized in an instant, a fact reinforced in January 2025, when Americans posted farewell TikTok videos ahead of an expected US ban on the app.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:25 AM (odBC9)

25 And I love that the prescribed solution is simply "more moderation".

This big, fancy worded, high-minded, I have all the answers stemwinder, and it all boils down to "They're dumb and wrong and we should shut them up".

Yeah, well, your mom's dumb and wrong and we should shut her up. Mnyeah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:27 AM (aKiSo)

26 Night, all.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

27 I always thought "bad to the bone" was a good song and the musician quite a talented one. I thought being "bad to the bone" was "dramatic license"-that was his persona and the little note under the video-if it's correct- explained what was going on. Thanks, Pixy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:30 AM (JrHfD)

28 from the Wired article:

The internet doesn’t really have winners, unless you count the few without the sense to stop chasing relevance at any cost.

How many negatives can you safely set inside a sentence before it loses the ability to be read?

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

29 from the Wired article:

There’s no reason to assume that the present tech empire will rule the century to come; the organic and anarchic web stands to mount a triumphant renaissance if (or when) it falls.

wut

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

30 How many negatives can you safely set inside a sentence before it loses the ability to be read?
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

"The internet doesn't have winners", says the enterprise that basically only exists to gossip about the internet on the internet, and still somehow has generated an income for enough people such that they still manage to exist....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:32 AM (aKiSo)

31 Hymn of the day, "Forth in thy name, I go" by the great man of faith and poetry, Charles Wesley:

https://tinyurl.com/r7wkfdp9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (JrHfD)

32 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com
amateur prospector discovers gold

In Australia too

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)

33 There's always been a weird fuddy-duddy character to all these Tech Zines, ever since the internet became a thing. That annoying hipsterish urge to make sure everyone knows they're cooler than you because they think everything you like sucks.

They're all like the Statler and Waldorfs of Technology, except not charming or funnny.

Looking at you, too, there, Arse Technica.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (aKiSo)

34 from the Wired article:

Please Let the Internet Die

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

"It's time to start over."

What exactly is your plan, here, Miles Klee?

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

35 What exactly is your plan, here, Miles Klee?
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

From the sounds of it, the plan is more oligarchs and more slop.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:36 AM (aKiSo)

36 How many negatives can you safely set inside a sentence before it loses the ability to be read?

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

His entire job depends on the internet, but it's so negative, towards him in particular, that he'd rather kill it than let anybody else have it.

He sounds like a failed influencer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:36 AM (6ydKt)

37 >>>Please let Wired die. (Wired) (archive site)
You know it's the right thing to do.

Do you think maybe this could happen?

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

38 33 There's always been a weird fuddy-duddy character to all these Tech Zines, ever since the internet became a thing. That annoying hipsterish urge to make sure everyone knows they're cooler than you because they think everything you like sucks.

They're all like the Statler and Waldorfs of Technology, except not charming or funnny.

Looking at you, too, there, Arse Technica.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (aKiSo)

And, generally speaking, they had writing talent. Which ....

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

39 There’s no reason to assume that the present tech empire will rule the century to come; the organic and anarchic web stands to mount a triumphant renaissance if (or when) it falls.

wut

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

He mentioned Tumblr as a good thing in the article somewhere, so you know he's full of crap and estrogen pills.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:38 AM (6ydKt)

40 It's hillarious that these mutants are looking at the grimy, lame surface of the inside of the bubble they helped blow up, and are saying "wow this sucks. Screw all those people outside our bubble for making it so bad."

This is your pigpen, idiots. You raised the hogs. You fostered the slop. You cheered for the slop and browbeat anyone who cautioned against it decades ago. So now we're out here yukking it up on a homebrew comments section about how bad you suck, and loving it, and you're bitching about your own stink and expecting anyone else to care.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:39 AM (aKiSo)

41 Homeless man helps others in a flood in New Mexico in New Mexico and then prays earnestly for himself . Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/26nfs5fd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:39 AM (JrHfD)

42 They're all like the Statler and Waldorfs of Technology, except not charming or funnny.

Looking at you, too, there, Arse Technica.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:35 AM (aKiSo)

They are all clustered in the Bay Area and Brookyln.
Their zip codes, alone, tell them they are better than the rest of us.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:40 AM (6ydKt)

43 Psalm quote:

Psalm 73:26—“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:43 AM (JrHfD)

44 Maybe we can turn the internet into a mish-mash of Geocities sites (complete with at least 10 gifs per page), Blogpsots, shopping sites, and everything else will be AI Google search and Reddit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:47 AM (6ydKt)

45 Older man approached him, and he got a wonderful blessing from the encounter. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/udhjfys2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:48 AM (JrHfD)

46 Is it possible to know you, dear God, and not love you? Your beauty, strength, grandeur, power, and goodness; your generosity, magnificence, and perfection of every kind—these are far beyond what any created being could understand. And what touches me in the depths of my heart is that you love me.

François Fénelon, The Complete Fenelon

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 04:59 AM (JrHfD)

47 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

48 Nothing about what makes "The Internet" suck is inherent to the Internet. It's just a big microphone. People suck. People have always sucked. All the qualities about humans that suck, which we've spent millennia crafting stories and drama and myths in order to confront, are still there. Nothing changed. We've just increased our contact patch with it by a staggering amount.

People lie? No shit. Who knew. People con each other out of their money? Wow. Amazing. People push farcical political philosophies and drum up anger over bullshit to draw the masses to their cause? There are many, many headless Kings in hell who are hardly rolling over about your precious insight. The majority of whom don't even speak French or English, neither.

Bitching about clickbait and ragebait as your chosen form of clickbaiting and ragebaiting in order to try to make a living is.... well, i mean, it's a choice, I guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 05:09 AM (aKiSo)

49 Just about everyone in my neighborhood has those 12 ft skeletons lurking on their lawns and even in my nearest neighbors Chinese pickup, sitting in the drivers seat. What ever Chinese company that makes them must be doing well.

Posted by: colin at October 30, 2026 05:14 AM (CiQE7)

50 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2026 05:14 AM (V0/Sp)

51 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

You're not the boss of me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:15 AM (km/UM)

52 Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

I hope you have a great day too, Skip, and everyone else here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:19 AM (JrHfD)

53 >>> the Statler and Waldorfs of Technology

My brain is infected with slop. My first thought was "Are these new Wojaks?", but memory kicked in.

Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2026 05:24 AM (V0/Sp)

54 @40/Warai-otoko: "...and expecting anyone else to care"

Yup, and this will be their downfall. Imagined income doesn't pay actual debts when the butcher's bill comes due.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

55 English actor David Suchet reads Psalm 111:

https://tinyurl.com/2fvun6m6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:26 AM (JrHfD)

56 Posted by: colin at October 30, 2026 05:14 AM (CiQE7)

I dislike those skeletons .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:27 AM (JrHfD)

57 I dislike those skeletons .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:27 AM (JrHfD)

You have a bone to pick?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:28 AM (km/UM)

58 57 I dislike those skeletons .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 05:27 AM (JrHfD)

You have a bone to pick?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:28 AM (km/UM)

This is no time to be humerus.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 05:31 AM (aKiSo)

59 G'morning, all!

57 degrees out, and the sky is clear for one more day.

After taking the Volvo in for the new windshield, and being told that the new windshield has disappeared and the need to reschedule we re-stained the back yard fence that I power-washed last week.

Time for a short PSA about handheld paint sprayers.

Harbor Freight sells this nifty little unit that holds 48 ounces of stain at a whack. And it just works. Less than four hours to do the actual spraying, and the results are better than I expected.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 30, 2026 05:33 AM (iMotb)

60 You have a bone to pick?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:28 AM (km/UM)

This is no time to be humerus.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 05:31 AM (aKiSo)

I'm ulnable to comply.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:33 AM (km/UM)

61 >>> This is no time to be humerus.

We must take up arms against these giant skeletons.

Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2026 05:35 AM (V0/Sp)

62 "You can party until you're up to your coccyx. But I learned the hard way that once you've hit coccseven, it's time to call it an evening."

-"Jane" "Doe" of Ithaca, NY

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 05:37 AM (aKiSo)

63 We must take up arms against these giant skeletons.

Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2026 05:35 AM (V0/Sp)

Most don't have the spine for it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:38 AM (km/UM)

64 And I love that the prescribed solution is simply "more moderation".

But if we let you choose, you could make the wrong choice comrade. And then where would we be?

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 05:41 AM (lXoJ5)

65 And I love that the prescribed solution is simply "more moderation".

But if we let you choose, you could make the wrong choice comrade. And then where would we be?

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 05:41 AM (lXoJ5)

Commies to the last.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:44 AM (km/UM)

66 21 To be online, many now admit, is to be endlessly manipulated and exploited. In December, Oxford University Press declared rage bait to be the word of the year, noting that use of the term had tripled over the previous 12 months. The lexical spike represented a heightened awareness that monetized social accounts churn out bad-faith takes and extremist content, automating this abusive behavior with generative AI, simply to profit off hostile engagement. Billionaire oligarchs have opened the floodgates to such inauthentic activity, conspiracy-mongering, and hate speech by rolling back moderation.

--Wired
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 04:16 AM (6ydKt)

For sure, one reason that this sounds like utter dreck to some of us is that Pixy threads have given us some defenses against such blah and banality.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)

67 It just dawned on me that the angry NIMBY-ism that's so fashionable to display these days about the construction of new data centers is exactly the same feeling I've always had about housing developments....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 05:48 AM (aKiSo)

68 Reddit is getting a "For You" feed. (The Verge)
Reddit but somehow worse.

This pithy snarkiness is truly a knee-slapper.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 05:52 AM (odBC9)

69 Commies to the last.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Funny thing is that I broke out that quote on another forum and people took me seriously and had no idea where it originated from.

We really need better education in this country.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 05:53 AM (lXoJ5)

70 It just dawned on me that the angry NIMBY-ism that's so fashionable to display these days about the construction of new data centers is exactly the same feeling I've always had about housing developments....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 05:48 AM (aKiSo)

Both net takers in any community.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 05:54 AM (km/UM)

71 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! And Halloween Eve as well.

I'm up to work out, but the will is lacking. We'll see if coffee washes out some of the usual morning aches and pains. I've gone three times this week, and there is still tomorrow. At my usual time, too, starting this Sunday, it will be light or almost so; a nice change.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

72 25 And I love that the prescribed solution is simply "more moderation".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 30, 2026 04:27 AM (aKiSo)

When it should be "more cowbell."

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 05:56 AM (odBC9)

73 G & R, if you're here: I bookmarked your link about the good and bad modem/routers and will check it when the Spectrum box arrives, which could be tomorrow.

A while back someone mentioned a site to buy refurbished Macs for decent prices. It might be time for me to get at least a new laptop and maybe a desktop. What was that site?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

74 Reasons I'm Glad I'm Retired Dept.: The main bridge over the river going to the city proper is going to lose a lane starting Nov. 3 for repair work. Could last months. True, my old commute was earlier in the morning, so the delay wouldn't have been too bad, but it would have been annoying (or worse with an accident or breakdown).

I'll have to use the other, older bridge for a while even in the middle of the day, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

75 Oh have I got a problem
I am really out of gas and forgot my wallet.
Hope my co-worker who is supposed to be hete has $5 to lone me

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:03 AM (qomx6)

76 We must take up arms against these giant skeletons.

Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2026 05:35 AM (V0/Sp)
*
Most don't have the spine for it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026

***
When you hurl the grenade, make sure you're outside the blast radius.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

77 75 Oh have I got a problem
I am really out of gas and forgot my wallet.
Hope my co-worker who is supposed to be hete has $5 to lone me
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:03 AM (qomx6)

Fingers crossed!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:04 AM (odBC9)

78 @73/Wolfus: I'm still here. I head off to work in about 25 minutes.

"I bookmarked your link about the good and bad modem/routers and will check it when the Spectrum box arrives, which could be tomorrow. "

There you go. Intel Puma 5 and 6 are proven bad eggs. I had three in a row, they were absolute turds, and my provider (at the time) had NOTHING else that didn't have that chipset. The symptoms I'd experience: 50 to 60 percent packet loss that would just show up somewhere between 24 and 36 hours since the last time the modem was power-cycled.

The solution was to:

a) Live with power cycling the modem once every 24 hours
b) Use a different modem we owned that had a Broadcom chipset, and go with the provider it came from.

Our family chose (b) and it has worked out marvelously. We're definitely not as fast as the 1 gig connections, but the firewall is 100Mbps, so whatever. I don't care, it works, it's reliable, and THAT is what is king above speed for us.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

79 For me the internet largely consists of the same handful of sites I've been visiting for the last 20 years or so.

Im not on twitter or TikTok, I've never stepped foot on Reddit, I quit Facebook about half a decade ago.

So, my internet experience is pretty good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 06:07 AM (XV/Pl)

80 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 30, 2026 06:07 AM (VyBeY)

81 @75/skip: Do you have AAA? They, in an emergency, will bring you a small amount of gas. It's in your coverage plan.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

82 79 For me the internet largely consists of the same handful of sites I've been visiting for the last 20 years or so.

Im not on twitter or TikTok, I've never stepped foot on Reddit, I quit Facebook about half a decade ago.

So, my internet experience is pretty good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 06:07 AM (XV/Pl)

Sounds good!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)

83 @75/skip: Do you have AAA? They, in an emergency, will bring you a small amount of gas. It's in your coverage plan.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026

***
I've never had them do that, but they will replace your battery. The service call and installation is free. You pay for the battery, which is usually a bit higher in price than if you bought it yourself . . . but there's the convenience factor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:10 AM (wzUl9)

84 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 30, 2026 06:11 AM (Hbeqj)

85 81 @75/skip: Do you have AAA? They, in an emergency, will bring you a small amount of gas. It's in your coverage plan.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

And check your pockets! I found a twenty in my pocket the other day. Surprised the heck out of me.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)

86 Remember that post I made a few days ago about FireFox with all the extensions/add-ons that make browsing the web better for me due to all the ad-blocking I'm doing?

I can still read Reddit without issue (without an account there.) Maybe it's my configuration, maybe it's Reddit doing the "lockout without an account" in a specific geographic area, say the United States (I'm in Canada.) If the latter, they'll likely extend that to "worldwide" shortly and then I'll be locked out unless I find a reflector that lets me read (sort of like Nitter to X.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

87 BBC

Crypto firm Binance finds multiple 'points of breach' in $6.3bn hack thought to be largest ever

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:15 AM (odBC9)

88 Spectrum offered their 500 Mbps package at quite a savings over what I pay now, and it's really fast enough for me. But they insisted I'd have to activate the (supposedly free) mobile phone service as well. I could keep my phone and number, but it sounded like a major hassle -- and would require I call them on a second phone, which I don't have. So I went with the 1 G package for the same price. They waived the phone business.

I'm saving $40/month, so there's that too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

89 @85/m: "And check your pockets! I found a twenty in my pocket the other day. Surprised the heck out of me."

The teserract in the clothes-dryer giveth, and it taketh away.

Posted by: The sock of disappearing at October 30, 2026 06:15 AM (O7YUW)

90 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:17 AM (amcLV)

91 90 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:17 AM (amcLV)

Did you see that Patrick Stewart has died.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)

92 @90/Captain Obvious: "I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle."

The "We come to you!" Open-Heart surgeon has arrived.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 30, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

93 Did you see that Patrick Stewart has died.
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)
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It's kinda all over the place, now. So, yes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:18 AM (amcLV)

94 @91/m: "Did you see that Patrick Stewart has died."

I'll light five candles in his memory.

O O O O

Posted by: Madred at October 30, 2026 06:20 AM (O7YUW)

95 Lemme check something really quick.

...yep. Jane Fonda is still wasting my air.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 06:21 AM (lXoJ5)

96 Reposting my comment from the Stewart thread from yesterday:

I met Patrick Stewart before he was PATRICK STEWART. It was 1980 and he and his then-wife were giving lectures around CSUN, where I was a theater student. I had a lot of free time that day, so I followed him around from venue to venue. At the last venue, a seminar room, we found it was locked and someone had to get the key. So he and I were sitting on the hallway floor waiting, and he asked me if I was an actor. I shrugged and said, "Such as I am.". He smiled and said, " Such as any of us are."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:21 AM (amcLV)

97 Pogo - Data & Picard

https://tinyurl.com/mw2emccn

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:23 AM (odBC9)

98 Damn skeleton punsters - wouldn’t want tibia!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 30, 2026 06:24 AM (NZIuw)

99 Damn skeleton punsters - wouldn’t want tibia!
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 30, 2026

***
Making pa(t)ella for dinner tonight?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)

101 mornin yall. Are you guys ribbing Fenelon again?

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 06:35 AM (MWfyi)

102 When I saw I, Claudius in one of its revivals around 1991, I was startled by Stewart in his role as Sejanus. He still had hair! Plus his foreplay scene with one of Tiberius' grown daughters (?) is one of the most sensual and yet disturbing ever on film.

At the end of his last episode, Sejanus has been revealed as plotting against Tiberius and has been arrested. As he is about to be marched off to execution, Stewart's Sejanus gives a little smile, as if thinking, "Well, it was a good run and I gave it all I had."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

103 I'm saving $40/month, so there's that too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

I’d make sure that isn’t a time-limited deal.
They love to give it to you for half price for six months or a year and then jack the price up 50 - 100%.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

104 He showed up and loned me $10

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:38 AM (qomx6)

105 At the end of his last episode, Sejanus has been revealed as plotting against Tiberius and has been arrested. As he is about to be marched off to execution, Stewart's Sejanus gives a little smile, as if thinking, "Well, it was a good run and I gave it all I had."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)
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And then he was brutally informed of the murder of his beloved children.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:38 AM (amcLV)

106 104 He showed up and loned me $10
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 06:38 AM (qomx6)

Yay!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 06:39 AM (odBC9)

107 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:40 AM (amcLV)

108 Camela are a rally for Ossoff yesterday:

“In your careers, there will probably be many moments when you are in a room where you are the only person like you. The only person who looks like you, the only person who has had your life experience, but one of the things I require you to remember when you walk in that room: I require you to be you"

At this very moment I am in a room where I am the only person like me. There was someone else like me here but he left.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

109 I’d make sure that isn’t a time-limited deal.
They love to give it to you for half price for six months or a year and then jack the price up 50 - 100%.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026

***
It is a year. But they were upfront about it. The rep told me I can call when I get the renewal notice, and they may have new packages then. I don't plan to be living here by that time anyway.

Cox started me at $75 in 2020, and somehow in only six years it's crept up to $110. There were no alternatives -- Starlink wasn't available at my location until recently -- so I had to go with it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

110

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 30, 2026 06:42 AM (D7VIl)

111 The story goes that Stewart was not sure TNG would be a success, or that his contract would be renewed. He said he didn't unpack completely for the first six months or so.

His Picard, especially at first, was very much the kind of tough but fair captain a big vessel like the Enterprise-D would require -- old-line Navy for sure. You could see him on the bridge of a nuclear carrier in our century, or on a carrier at Guadalcanal in the twentieth.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

112 More from Camela in Georgia:

"We have a moment now to say that we see you, neighbor, and we know you can't afford the price of gas or food or housing or childcare or healthcare, and we intend, with your help, to do something about that,” Harris said.

Neighbor? She lives in a 8 million dollar mansion in California. Vapid does not begin describe the windmills of her mind.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 06:47 AM (MWfyi)

113 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 30, 2026 06:21 AM (amcLV)

Nice story. As a fellow former actor, I appreciate that.

Wolfus , I think I missed the sex scenes in "I, Claudius" but he was certainly a very good actor and "I, Claudius" was a great series.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:48 AM (xz+xK)

114 Cicero she ain't. Koalemous, the Greek god of stupidity is more like it.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 30, 2026 06:48 AM (8Uo7a)

115 Fuck. Looking at the pre...pre-market data for tech it's going to be a blood bath today. I've been eyeing about 6 tech hardware companies to buy for weeks, and it may be the time. The problem is, with all of the these falling knives, how to avoid the one (or many) that will cut my investing throat. Intel alone is dropping 25% before today's bell, that's going to drag everything down. Hell, I might just park everything in a 3.5% high yield savings account for the next year.

Posted by: Croaker at October 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Aem5b)

116
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a big double cup of French-roast coffee. Today being Friday, no music, so I can't work on my playlist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 06:52 AM (eRlcH)

117 Wolfus , I think I missed the sex scenes in "I, Claudius" but he was certainly a very good actor and "I, Claudius" was a great series.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026

***
It was not really a sex scene per se, Fen. He and the actress are on a bed and mostly clothed. It's what they are talking about to excite each other that forms the sensuality.

I, Claudius was filmed on a shoestring, as a lot of BBC productions were. So the directors had to get creative and use a lot of closeups and two-shots, focusing on the actors. It worked so well that other series followed suit.

To this day I picture the actors who played Livia, Tiberius, Claudius, and Sejanus when I read about that period of Roman history. Brian Blessed's Augustus too, but as an older man, not as the youth Octavian whom no one around Caesar and Antony took seriously (to their detriment).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 06:53 AM (wzUl9)

118 If anyone has Democrats they're friendly with, this is a very good article on why "I didn't leave the Democrat Party because I wanted to. I left because I was paying attention."

https://tinyurl.com/kzekku42

I am supposed to have lunch today with a dear friend who is a Democrat. We assiduously avoid talking about politics. I may send it to her after lunch.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:53 AM (xz+xK)

119 @115

>>Hell, I might just park everything in a 3.5% high yield savings account for the next year.

I'd recommend an etf like schd or jepi, you'd get a better roi than a "savings" instrument.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 06:54 AM (XV/Pl)

120 "It was not really a sex scene per se, Fen. He and the actress are on a bed and mostly clothed. It's what they are talking about to excite each other that forms the sensuality."

Then I do remember it. 🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:56 AM (xz+xK)

121 @119 - Oh this isn't my retirement investments, those are mostly ETF's and mutual funds of varying risk. This is just my "I can either go to the Casino, or do stocks, and I'm not a huge fan of cigarette smoke" money. But, if I really need to dodge out of the AI rollercoaster you have given good advice.

Posted by: Croaker at October 30, 2026 06:58 AM (Aem5b)

122 Just about everyone in my neighborhood has those 12 ft skeletons lurking on their lawns...

--

Oh, how I hate those things. We have a guy in our neighborhood with half a humongous skeleton looking like it's crawling out of the ground. It's nearly 1/3 the size of his house. Down the road is another house with about 4 or 5 skeletons that, I swear, are 16 ft tall. It looks abominable. I don't mind some cute Halloween decor, but there's a lot of unappealing, kinda demonic-looking stuff out in front of people's houses now...along with the gigantic skeletons. It's a bit ridiculous.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 07:02 AM (qBdHI)

123 Clearly I have not gone to work out. A little yogurt with my coffee and a pipe have started me off. I'll get cleaned up, run out to wash the car, and then visit my favorite diner when they open at 7:30 for a real breakfast. A nice omelet, say.

Later I'll hit Walmart for some more dry chow for the furry thugs (who have had their breakfast).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 07:03 AM (wzUl9)

124 I got a fortune cookie with two fortunes in it. One said that this month I will see success in my endeavors. The other said that small changes will bring big rewards. So I endeavoured to collect all my pennies and was rewarded with twelve dollars and eighty six cents, which is almost enough to go back to the Chinese buffet.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:04 AM (MWfyi)

125 OK, got geeky and looked it up.

Gashadokuro: A yokai from Japanese mythology. A large skeleton made from the bones of those who died in battle or from starvation.

So we're committing cultural appropriation!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 30, 2026 07:07 AM (lXoJ5)

126 @121

>>But, if I really need to dodge out of the AI rollercoaster you have given good advice.

There are only a handful of sectors that appreciate measurably, tech has been the hot sector for going on 30 years.

As much as I loathe them, Msft has been one of the best stocks to own, and at 500+, it may be undervalued. Eli Lilly is another stock that’s had a good run and may have significant more loft.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 07:07 AM (XV/Pl)

127
Just about everyone in my neighborhood has those 12 ft skeletons lurking on their lawns...

Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with adults being that interested about Halloween? Or cartoons?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 07:08 AM (eRlcH)

128 The last buffet I visited was at the last Shoney's here in town (since defunct). Good food and a wide selection, but I was horrified at the price for two people plus coffee, and that was two years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

129 3.5% is “high yield”?

Posted by: Sure at October 30, 2026 07:09 AM (fS43b)

130 The last time I went to the Shoneys buffet it was $16. Definitely not worth it.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:11 AM (MWfyi)

131 The work on the river bridge is likely to take 18 months, they say, which (considering it's Lousy-ana, which does everything poorly and late) means two years. Gah.

This particular span is only forty years old. The older one, which used to be the only bridge, dates to 1959.

The state did, however, improve and widen the older bridge upriver, which dates to the 1930s. It's a superhighway now, as it should always have been. No doubt with the jams on the newer bridge, that one will often be clogged too as people divert to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 30, 2026 07:13 AM (wzUl9)

132 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

133 I asked Grok if Android streaming apps like YouTube use MPTCP to do multipath failover. If they do, we're fucked. Every streaming app on the planet does it: Roku, TiVo, Android, iPhone, everybody. Think of YouTube flipping between WiFi and 5G while watching a movie without interruption.

Grok claims streaming apps generally do not use MPTCP to do multipath failover. They typically implement their own failover at the app level, using things like Android's ConnectivityManager.

Phew.

Posted by: WillowViney at October 30, 2026 07:15 AM (gYAkw)

134 Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with adults being that interested about Halloween? Or cartoons?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

===

There's an exception for classic Looney Tunes, though?

Posted by: Hamas at October 30, 2026 07:16 AM (4HoLg)

135 Off terrorist sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 30, 2026 07:17 AM (4HoLg)

136
Breakfast buffets, oh yum. Rubbery scrambled eggs, cold sausages, toast either raw or burned. Sustains life without adding in any way to its beauty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 07:17 AM (eRlcH)

137 89, LOL!

" ... And he built a crooked clothes dryer."

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 30, 2026 07:18 AM (VyBeY)

138 Nope. You’re not the only one. I find it really strange when adults watch cartoons, get into kid holidays, or collect kid things.

Sure that stuff can be fun but it’s for the kiddos.

The only thing worse than a grown woman with a doll collection is a grown man with a doll collection.

Posted by: MJ at October 30, 2026 07:18 AM (noEKK)

139 "Man with Diabetes Says He Was Denied Boarding a Plane with His Great Dane Service Dog"

A Great Dane service dog? For diabetes? Why didn't he get an elephant?

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:18 AM (MWfyi)

140
There's an exception for classic Looney Tunes, though?

Of course. It's people who watch The Simpsons or Family Guy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2026 07:18 AM (eRlcH)

141 127; no, you are not.

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 30, 2026 07:19 AM (VyBeY)

142 @129

>>3.5% is “high yield”?

For a generic savings instrument, sure.

An etf like schd, jepi or will have a significantly greater yield.

SCHD has returned 31pct ytd.

So a 50k investment would have yielded 16k so far.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 30, 2026 07:22 AM (XV/Pl)

143 gotta get rid of that lowercase "o" ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2026 07:24 AM (VyBeY)

144 118 I am supposed to have lunch today with a dear friend who is a Democrat. We assiduously avoid talking about politics. I may send it to her after lunch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 06:53 AM (xz+xK)
I bookmarked it yesterday for the same type of friend. I’ve known her since 1st grade, she’s a brainwashed retired teacher who hates what happened to the school system but can’t connect the dots. We never talk politics either but damn I sure do want to plant that mustard seed.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 30, 2026 07:24 AM (itAg7)

145 I was gonna say something, but I figure JJ will show up in a minute.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 07:27 AM (1Ff7Z)

146 "The Canadian government on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, to be conducted on people who have lost the mental capacity to give informed consent for the procedure."

MAID will be able to decide for you. Sorry Grandma.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:29 AM (MWfyi)

147 Becky Quick's eyes! She does not age.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 30, 2026 07:30 AM (2ap+5)

148
since willow left us, we all have been taking turns, trying to fill her shoes ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2026 07:31 AM (VyBeY)

149 The Canadian government on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, to be conducted on people who have lost the mental capacity to give informed consent for the procedure."

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 07:29 AM (MWfyi)

Schisse! Vhy didn't ve zink of zat!

Posted by: You Know Who at October 30, 2026 07:32 AM (1Ff7Z)

150 holy cow, how'd it get to be 6:30?

*grabs the Norelco, starts shaving*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2026 07:33 AM (VyBeY)

151 holy cow, how'd it get to be 6:30?

*grabs the Norelco, starts shaving*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2026 07:33 AM (VyBeY)

Relax, it's only 4:30.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2026 07:34 AM (1Ff7Z)

152 oh, well, okay then ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 30, 2026 07:34 AM (VyBeY)

153 No J.J. This is about the latest he has been.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

154 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 07:39 AM (NcvvS)

155 J.J. Sefton Runway 01. I appear to have summoned him.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

156 Posted by: TxAnn at October 30, 2026 07:24 AM (itAg

You've probably gone to the new thread, but thanks for your reply , TxAnn. My friend is a retired teacher as well. I haven't known her that long, but I have known her from church and that's a good phrase you used- to "plant the seed."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2026 07:51 AM (xz+xK)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 29, 2026

From Aesthetic vibes - near Silverton, Colorado

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Congrats to the Brewers on winning their first World Series.

Milwaukee celebrates in true Milwaukee style

Do know how much legendary status you need to have for fans who’ve never experienced a World Series win to take the time from their celebrations to leave over 100 Miller Lite cans beside Bob Uecker’s statue last night.
Glad to see Brewers fans treated him right last night and gave him his flowers while celebrating
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) October 29, 2026

JUST IN: Miller Lite says it took beer that was on the line at 10:13 pm CT, when the Brewers won it all, and put it special "Clinch Cans."
4,400 cans will be available online starting 11/2. https://t.co/ZsllSOtE1r
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) October 29, 2026

Not everyone wanted to watch the Series, though

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So this guy (Walt) had the interwebs abuzz today.

This broke me.
Find this man. Find him and I will personally fundraise for him. https://t.co/hwdHT8hJvI
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) October 28, 2026

He was concerned he might get fired. Nope! Red Baron has his back.

He’s still here. He’s got a fan club.
Including us. https://t.co/7oppfnDUfx
— Red Baron Pizza (@redbaronpizza) October 29, 2026

Dude stuck a nerve and America responded

🔥 JUST IN: THOUSANDS of Americans are now saying they will be buying Red Baron pizzas and supporting the business after the company PUBLICLY BACKED the hardworking patriot instigated in a now-viral video
"He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us."
HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars have now been raised for him as well 🙏🏻
This is America! 🇺🇸
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 29, 2026

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Speaking of responding -- I think I know how most of you would answer this

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From one of my favorite X accounts Terrible Maps

The dessert each state brings to a cookout

How'd they do for your state?

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Wonder what our resident pinball junkie garrett thinks of this

10 Greatest '80s Pinball Machines, Ranked

The 1980s marked an exciting period for games and pinball, as manufacturers experimented with new gameplay mechanics, increasingly elaborate playfields, and creative themes that gave each machine its own personality. From multiball mayhem to unusual playfield designs, the decade delivered plenty of machines that challenged players to sharpen their reflexes and chase increasingly high scores.
Ranking the greatest pinball machines of the '80s means looking beyond flashy artwork and memorable themes to consider gameplay, mechanical innovation, and lasting influence on the hobby. Whether a machine changed how people played pinball or simply delivered an unforgettable arcade experience, these 10 classics represent some of the best the decade had to offer.

You here tonight, garrett??

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DJ Doof - City Edition

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by elusive targets

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Doof Enterprises, LLC has placed a large order with Red Baron. Free pizza for all premium subscribers!

Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me.

Posted by: Doof at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Now to read the content....

Posted by: RandomDave (who, me, cynical?) at October 29, 2026 10:00 PM (aJQbY)

2 But, I'd never buy Halal meat because it's a sacrifice to someone I don't worship.
Posted by: Just FYI at October 29, 2026 09:50 PM (1Ff7Z)

This was the argument of Athanasius II of Balad when he was patriarch of the Oriental Church of Antioch and Syria in the AD 680s

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:01 PM (88C+u)

3 That cabin looks aflame.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 st!

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 10:02 PM (Cjcf6)

5 Yo Doof! Howdy Horde

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 29, 2026 10:02 PM (K3aCg)

6 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:02 PM (SaoqG)

7 Not everyone wanted to watch the Series, though

No. There is no place for you two here. Maybe SF.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

8 Nice ONT, Doof! Thank you.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:03 PM (47diA)

9 Doof, you've had the greatest pictures.
Thanks for the ONTs.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:04 PM (Sco7b)

10 What it is? What it is not is a picture of an eastern mountain state.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 29, 2026 10:04 PM (sl73Y)

11 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at October 29, 2026 10:04 PM (vBZcw)

12 OK, I don't know. What is the three finger salute in the gun pic?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:04 PM (47diA)

13 I gotta say, Red Baron's now on my list for 'easy evenings' once I have steady work again. I don't see anything objectionable in their past feed, either.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:05 PM (aJQbY)

14 Koenig, now Stewart - so many of the Trek greats are passing away.

And here’s Bill Shatner, 100 years old and still going strong!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 10:05 PM (xOuxV)

15 That "disabled... LGBTQ" against "cishet" is almost certainly Average Joe doing a bit in reddit.
Nobody really talks like this.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:05 PM (88C+u)

16 Well done Doof.
Danke!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 10:06 PM (2WIwB)

17 100 beer cans? Pfft. Milwaukee has really lost its enthusiasm.

Queers that want to socialize in a queer environment because they hate baseball and America (and probably Trump) and want to gloat about their intolerance and use it to "virtue" signal how wonderful they are... well, if they found a spot I hope it didn't close down because it catered to only an incredibly small niche of insane clients.

And someone already started a GoFundMe (or whichever flavor of that) for RedBaron man. (I already buy Red Baron pizzas almost exclusively, so I can't buycott.)

(I could have been first, but I read the content.)

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:06 PM (kU0PQ)

18 I've never seen a kringle at a cookout here in WI.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 10:06 PM (Q+gd/)

19 Which is the nicer place in Colorado? Silverton or Leadville?

I know Leadville has Silverton beat in elevation by nearly a thousand feet.

Posted by: Flatlander, Myself at October 29, 2026 10:07 PM (EdP2u)

20 I learned in an earlier thread that Patrick Stewart was married. Really married. To a real, biological woman and everything.

My whole life, I assumed he was gay. British actor. I never even thought of the possibility he was hetero.

Sorry, Patrick!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 10:07 PM (BI5O2)

21 Fried pies = interstate food.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:07 PM (47diA)

22 Get in?
Hell, I'll drive!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 10:08 PM (2WIwB)

23 This was the argument of Athanasius II of Balad when he was patriarch of the Oriental Church of Antioch and Syria in the AD 680s
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:01 PM (88C+u)

And he was and is correct.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

24 What the hell is Lane Cake?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:08 PM (b99Hl)

25 IMO Silverton is mainly touristy. Leadville is a real town.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:08 PM (47diA)

26 Kringle is a Norwegian dessert. I remember it most around Christmas. My Mom used to make it.

Posted by: Odd Fra Oslo at October 29, 2026 10:08 PM (EdP2u)

27 Howdy everyone!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

28 As for work progress... nothing new today, but I found some things to apply for. Yesterday was a good day but I was ready to conk out right after I got home, honestly. Barely found the energy to do the Bible reading. Probably fell asleep before the Wednesday ONT was up.

We'll see what tomorrow brings.... I'll be teaching middle-school math. We'll see how much I've forgotten!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:09 PM (aJQbY)

29 14 Koenig, now Stewart - so many of the Trek greats are passing away.

And here’s Bill Shatner, 100 years old and still going strong!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 10:05 PM (xOuxV)

I thought the Shat was 95...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:09 PM (l3cgK)

30 Beer is the most common dessert at a WI cookout.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)

31 I gotta say, Red Baron's now on my list for 'easy evenings' once I have steady work again. I don't see anything objectionable in their past feed, either.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:05 PM (aJQbY)

Maybe I just didn't hear the first part of the vid clearly. What was the Red Baron guy mad about?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

32 Kringle is a Norwegian dessert.
Posted by: Odd Fra Oslo

Is it grown in North Dakota by Norwegian bachelor farmers?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (SaoqG)

33 Silverton and Leadville are both beautiful. Silverton is more touristy. I personally prefer Leadville, but if you're just passing through you might like Silverton.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (BI5O2)

34 ygUXcGF0cmljayBzdGV3YXJ0IGZyYXNpZXI

Patrick Stewart was great on Frasier. Enjoy!

Posted by: Dandalo at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (tmYdE)

35 "He was concerned he might get fired. Nope! Red Baron has his back."

Got dusty in here all of a sudden.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (0CU3H)

36 I could watch this all night long. https://youtu.be/5zB5jDc5B2s?si=nSd1JNUpd3_cpQBy

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 10:11 PM (lCppi)

37 I heard a term for boobs today that made me chuckle; "Calcium Cannons"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:11 PM (l3cgK)

38 nicer place in Colorado? Silverton or Leadville?

Leadville has the mining museum. Although the city was probably better back when YD was living in the state and everything wasn't as publicly gay. When I went, the main street was as publicly gay as every other mountain town main street.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:11 PM (88C+u)

39 Driver: Get in!

Me: Got room for more ammo?

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 10:11 PM (P6Eyu)

40 I heard a term for boobs today that made me chuckle; "Calcium Cannons"...
Posted by: jim

BOOB THREAD!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (SaoqG)

41 Maybe I just didn't hear the first part of the vid clearly. What was the Red Baron guy mad about?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

Some influencer type tried to prank him and was recording it. Dude wasn't having it.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

42 40 I heard a term for boobs today that made me chuckle; "Calcium Cannons"...
Posted by: jim

BOOB THREAD!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (SaoqG)

Just doing my part.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (l3cgK)

43 41 Maybe I just didn't hear the first part of the vid clearly. What was the Red Baron guy mad about?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

Some influencer type tried to prank him and was recording it. Dude wasn't having it.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

What was the prank?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

44 I've done the Durango to Silverton train ride.
Beautiful scenery out there, especially when the aspen trees are shining in the sun.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (Lo97M)

45 Not everyone wanted to watch the Series, though

r/DoorCounty
Looking for a low-key restaurant that will NOT be playing the World Series

Wow, that was really gay.

Posted by: Elton John french-kissing Richard Simmons at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

46 Elke Sommer had a lovely can and haunches back in the day.

Posted by: RIP Dear at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (EdP2u)

47 OrangeEnt, I haven't watched the vids, but apparently some dumbass 'youtube prankster' type waltzed in, faked 'dude I haxxed ur fone and stole ur stuff' with realistic fake-notification sounds and stuff. Then tried to claim it was funny to do that.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (aJQbY)

48 Best pinball machine: Gorgar from 1979. Just missed the 80s cut line. Three great song choices this evening.
Thanks for the ONT Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (u6hXB)

49 Posted by: Darrell Harris

How are things looking?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (b99Hl)

50 Some influencer type tried to prank him and was recording it. Dude wasn't having it.
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

About what? I didn't understand it. Seems like the vid guy was trying to give the RB guy money?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

51 20 I learned in an earlier thread that Patrick Stewart was married. Really married. To a real, biological woman and everything.

My whole life, I assumed he was gay. British actor. I never even thought of the possibility he was hetero.

Sorry, Patrick!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 10:07 PM (BI5O2)

Even had two bio-children, but was a complete lefty and atheist...well, perhaps not anymore.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (l3cgK)

52 Nebraska what's your problem?

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ZxPkt)

53 BOOB THREAD!!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (SaoqG)

Wheeeeeeeee!

https://tinyurl.com/4w48e7zs

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (rbvCR)

54 I heard a term for boobs today that made me chuckle; "Calcium Cannons"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I think I first heard it here, actually.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

55 That dessert map is lazy AI slop. 50% accurate at best.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (K3aCg)

56 once I have steady work again.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:05 PM (aJQbY)

I'm still praying for you.

Also, today, I got a pleasant email telling me a job I recently applied for was filled by someone else.

Well, I've been in my new job for two months now, so I asked myself, "Recent?" I searched through my emails for something about when I submitted for that job.

It was at the end of July. A month before I started my new job. THREE MONTHS ago I submitted for that, and they just now said, "Oh, hey, we picked someone else, thanks for your time." I applied for, was interviewed for, pre-screened for (I-9, checking my clearance), started work, and am 4 paychecks into a job, between my application and my rejection for that other job.

So keep your head up, man!

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ)

57 Thanks for the ONT Disco.
Posted by: scampydog at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (u6hXB)

Yo, Doggo!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

58 OrangeEnt, I haven't watched the vids, but apparently some dumbass 'youtube prankster' type waltzed in, faked 'dude I haxxed ur fone and stole ur stuff' with realistic fake-notification sounds and stuff. Then tried to claim it was funny to do that.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (aJQbY)

I saw the phone being pointed at the guy, but too much crosstalk. Wasn't funny.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

59 So friggin' weird.

I was in a store today and heard that Nick Gilder song, for the first time in at least two decades.

It got me remembering when I first heard it when I was a kid: Certain it was a chick singing it. Then I saw a pic of Nick, and was pretty sure he was a chick.

then I recalled our alternate lyrics:

Fat fuck in the city
Poppin' zits and lookin' shitty

Oh, and I friggin' loathe that song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 29, 2026 10:16 PM (0aYVJ)

60 55 That dessert map is lazy AI slop. 50% accurate at best.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (K3aCg)

I've never had an açaí bowl...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:16 PM (l3cgK)

61 52 Nebraska what's your problem?
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ZxPkt)
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Kool-Aid was invented here, in my wife's hometown. But we don't bring it as a dessert... see my previous comment.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 29, 2026 10:17 PM (K3aCg)

62 >I've done the Durango to Silverton train ride

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did it on a large American-made motorcycle in a hard rain all the way

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:17 PM (ZxPkt)

63 Get in?
Hell, I'll drive!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 10:08 PM (2WIwB)

"Lots more room for ammo, morons, and 'ettes in my deuce and a half. Wanna switch vehicles?"

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (kU0PQ)

64 I hope cowboy cookies and possum pie are not like cow pies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (l3cgK)

65 43 41 Maybe I just didn't hear the first part of the vid clearly. What was the Red Baron guy mad about?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:10 PM (1Ff7Z)

Some influencer type tried to prank him and was recording it. Dude wasn't having it.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

What was the prank?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

From what I gathered passing through on a busy day, the 'influencer' said he took money from the guy through his phone.

He now has an extra $300,000 bucks. Cool. Dude shouldn't have to put up with crap lie that. I hope the influencer channel dies.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (Sco7b)

66 I've done the Durango to Silverton train ride

Sometimes the train ride is accompanied by small forest fires! Sometimes large forest fires!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (47diA)

67 Good for the guy and good for Red Barron. There's a lesson here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:19 PM (b99Hl)

68 How'd they do for your state?

"Bars" for MN is absolutely correct.

It's also the best choice, because, like, 20 people can bring "bars" and you won't have two alike. It's like saying "cookies."

And, LOL @ Colorado. "Trail Mix." Bunch of hippies!

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

69 Baseball is "hate shoved in our faces"?

Wow. Some alphabet person needs to take a chill pill.

Posted by: Emmie at October 29, 2026 10:20 PM (OlzlW)

70 GWB, I firmly believe that every prayer helps, and it also helps keep my spirits up. Gotta love how these 'urgent' job openings take 2-3 months to even interview candidates.

I have faith that *something* will change for the positive soon.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:20 PM (aJQbY)

71 Nebraska what's your problem?

Nebraska finds soybeans an exciting change of pace from corn.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:20 PM (vTZFs)

72 I did it on a large American-made motorcycle in a hard rain all the way
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:17 PM (ZxPkt)

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

Pffft. Piker.

I did it on a on a Yamaha 1st-gen jetski in cabbage-sized hail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 29, 2026 10:21 PM (vBZcw)

73 Good for the guy and good for Red Barron. There's a lesson here.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Never get involved in a land war in Asia?

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:21 PM (SaoqG)

74 I actually like Red Baron pizza. Gonna go get a few for the freezer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 29, 2026 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)

75 >>He’s still here. He’s got a fan club.
Including us.

Possibly the best thing I've seen a company do for one its employees in a very long time.

I'm not a fan of frozen pizza in general but I'll be buying a Red Barron pizza next time I go grocery shopping.

Good on all.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:21 PM (viF8m)

76 Some alphabet person needs to take a chill pill.
Posted by: Emmie

That post brought to us by the letters A-V-E-R-G and J-O.

Posted by: and there's something he does with roosters at October 29, 2026 10:21 PM (88C+u)

77 71 Nebraska what's your problem?

Nebraska finds soybeans an exciting change of pace from corn.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:20 PM (vTZFs)

So from corn huskers to soy packers?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)

78 Some influencer type tried to prank him and was recording it. Dude wasn't having it.
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

About what? I didn't understand it. Seems like the vid guy was trying to give the RB guy money?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

Other way around. He was pretending to have stolen money from him.

And, RandomDave, the pranksters have already shut down their TikTok or whatever it was because the internet basically erupted over it.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:22 PM (kU0PQ)

79 If you see a story on cops called on black kid for being too good
it is fake
If someone gets within arms reach of you in mall store walmart etc
you are on film
If someone approaches you at gas station
you are a target
If someone ask for help getting something off shelf bin display
your are a target

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:22 PM (/+uur)

80 In Michigan fudge might be brought to Christmas gatherings, but not much else. And I really wouldn't want "Spud Bar" for dessert. Sorry, Idaho.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2026 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

81 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - city wok dino at October 29, 2026 10:23 PM (cCn4/)

82 BOOB THREAD!!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (SaoqG)

Wheeeeeeeee!

https://tinyurl.com/4w48e7zs
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (rbvCR)

Boobs hardly in evidence there. I'm not complaining. Just saying that was an anatomy misdirect.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:23 PM (kU0PQ)

83 How are things looking?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:14 PM (b99Hl)

Funny you should ask.

I'm still the underdog here in this race. That said, my opponent finally responded to all the Tax My People signs I've had put up all over the district by posting a video saying my accusation was 'misinformation', even though she said it on tape. What's better is that she started the video with her standing...in front of one of my signs(!!). Then her people started taking all of my signs from front yards in the district. Then her people posted that I'm anti-gay, anti etc etc. (my response would be that if that were the case, the town DEI group that I co-chair would have no members because they would have all resigned, but still). The DEI group is a long story, BTW.

TL;DR - I'm definitely getting in their OODA loop. I'm focusing on parts of the district that she's not showing up in, so I think I'm making a good impression. I just came from a gathering at a local country club, and that went very well. While they try to make me look like a MAGA Trumper (guilty, but that's not how I'm running my race), I'm hitting her with silly quotes she's recently said -cont-

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 10:24 PM (0CU3H)

84 Washington State pie might be blueberry or even lingonberry.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 10:24 PM (lCppi)

85 Baseball is "hate shoved in our faces"?

Wow. Some alphabet person needs to take a chill pill.
---

Just going out on a limb here, but perhaps its been too long since reality punched him in the face.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 10:24 PM (Cjcf6)

86 Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Glorious top photo and song by Mark Knopfler. Man, he is Celtic at times. It's in the blood of my ancestors to me. I do wish I had chosen to play the violin vs the piano. My aunt had a friend who taught violin at a college and was in the symphony. A regret in life, which are thankfully few.

The photo of the orange tipped aspens...that's their color at the very top of some mountains and we know fall has arrived with that color. The golds are far more common but no less gorgeous. Beautiful trees waiting for snow.

Question: The Red Baron guy, and I'm glad he's going to be ok...how did that punk steal $10 from him? I watched it twice. Felt really badly for him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:25 PM (hzuYO)

87 70 GWB, I firmly believe that every prayer helps, and it also helps keep my spirits up. Gotta love how these 'urgent' job openings take 2-3 months to even interview candidates.

I have faith that *something* will change for the positive soon.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:20 PM (aJQbY)

Occasionally pass my mind and send good thoughts.

Like many of us do. For many.
So many stories.

Many of us could think of our own, read someone else's and go "Damn..."

I have....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:25 PM (Sco7b)

88 Yeah, rough week on the starship Enterprise. Kirk is still going though. He only has to outlast sulu to be the last one of the original series. I really hope he outlasts that nutbar. I want to hear him say "of all the souls I encountered in my travels, his was the most....homo."

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (vzuC7)

89 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hanging in there -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (SRRAx)

90 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (sAmhv)

91 79 If you see a story on cops called on black kid for being too good
it is fake
If someone gets within arms reach of you in mall store walmart etc
you are on film
If someone approaches you at gas station
you are a target
If someone ask for help getting something off shelf bin display
your are a target

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:22 PM (/+uur)

I have helped get stuff off high shelves before...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)

92 From what I gathered passing through on a busy day, the 'influencer' said he took money from the guy through his phone.

He now has an extra $300,000 bucks. Cool. Dude shouldn't have to put up with crap lie that. I hope the influencer channel dies.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (Sco7b)

So, I guess the loser posted the prank even though it went badly? I could see him being that clueless. Not obscuring the mark's face could land him in deep shit..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (08OqX)

93 If someone ask for help getting something off shelf bin display
your are a target
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:22 PM (/+uur)

oR tHeY tHiNk YoU aRe MiChElLe ObAmA

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (rbvCR)

94 If you see a story... it is fake
If someone gets within arms...you are on film
If someone approaches... you are a target
If someone ask for help... your are a target

This is how a high trust society turns into Somalia. Or France.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs)

95 Alaska Dan Sullivan

Alaska Supremes says he stays on the ballot and we will render our exact decision in about 16 months.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:27 PM (/+uur)

96 88 Yeah, rough week on the starship Enterprise. Kirk is still going though. He only has to outlast sulu to be the last one of the original series. I really hope he outlasts that nutbar. I want to hear him say "of all the souls I encountered in my travels, his was the most....homo."

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (vzuC7)

"...to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations." Never expected it to be strange life...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (l3cgK)

97 Haven't those guys from Door County ever heard of gay bars? They just want an excuse to whine. "Ooh, poor me, I'm oppressed."

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

98 This is how a high trust society turns into Somalia. Or France.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs)

See DHS at Airport
Same as it ever was National Police

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (/+uur)

99 You only eat Lane Cake at Christmas.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

100 If you see a story... it is fake
If someone gets within arms...you are on film
If someone approaches... you are a target
If someone ask for help... your are a target

Been operating on those assumptions since at least 5th grade.

Posted by: 88C+u knows it's no way to live, but is alive at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (88C+u)

101 (continued)

...and taxes she's raised and promises she hasn't kept. I've got more coming out tomorrow and Saturday. My third mailer just hit, and that should get Weston to give me some serious consideration on Tuesday. My race will be won or lost in Weston. Meanwhile, she and her team are focused on getting their state senate candidate over the line, so she's occupied in my town, where most of the votes *aren't*.

The next four or five days will be the hardest. If Fazio does better than expected, his coattails should help me - even if he ultimately doesn't win as CT governor. I'd say my chances now are about 50-50. Now I need to make lots and lots of phone calls to get people to the polls on Tuesday, as the people who want to early vote have probably done so already. Most Republicans will wait until Election Day to cast ballots. Time to pray.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 10:29 PM (0CU3H)

102 Question: The Red Baron guy, and I'm glad he's going to be ok...how did that punk steal $10 from him?

He didn't. He pretended to in order to make the guy feel victimized. Just to be an ass.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:29 PM (vTZFs)

103 94 If you see a story... it is fake
If someone gets within arms...you are on film
If someone approaches... you are a target
If someone ask for help... your are a target

This is how a high trust society turns into Somalia. Or France.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs)

I will say I no longer answer first when I pick up the phone. I've gotten so many spam/scam calls...
I wouldn't mind if more than a few cruise missiles were sent to some of their call centers in Pok-ee-stan and India...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:29 PM (l3cgK)

104 Yep.
I'm late.
That goofy moose out front kept tripping me, so I couldn't get in....
Anyways, I'll use one of tankdemon's excuses...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 29, 2026 10:30 PM (96kpa)

105 Another whelming ONT! Lovely photo taken near Silverton, Colorado. Worked there a couple of summers during college and have many fond memories.

Huckleberry pie is really a "thing" in Montana. Bears love the huckleberries so you have to be careful while harvesting.

Bravo to the Patriot Gang! Ooh rah!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 29, 2026 10:30 PM (D/6p1)

106 I have helped get stuff off high shelves before...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I've never asked someone for help at the store, but a few times tall men have offered when they saw me struggling. I appreciated it, but am also not averse to climbing the shelves get things out of reach.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 29, 2026 10:30 PM (ftFVW)

107 Oh, and if a truckful of patriots arrived and asked me to get in I would.

Not sure how useful I'd be, but I'm pretty calm in an emergency and could learn.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:30 PM (hzuYO)

108 Just in the last couple of days, I received calls with the caller ID of my home phone...apparently the scammers got the receiving and sending numbers switched.
They're all a bunch of godless assholes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (l3cgK)

109 He didn't. He pretended to in order to make the guy feel victimized. Just to be an ass.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:29 PM (vTZFs)

It was a black kid wiff a white dude also filming

You could be called a racist and fired

That is the plan

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (/+uur)

110 Question: The Red Baron guy, and I'm glad he's going to be ok...how did that punk steal $10 from him? I watched it twice. Felt really badly for him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:25 PM (hzuYO)

He didn't really steal money from him. He pretended to by getting his phone close and having it make a sound that made it seem like something happened. RB guy just wasn't in the mood for his little game.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)

111 89 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hanging in there -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (SRRAx)

YES! So glad you are, TiFW.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (0CU3H)

112 I'm wondering if Patrick Stewart is certain of the number of lights now.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (SaoqG)

113 I will say I no longer answer first when I pick up the phone. I've gotten so many spam/scam calls...
I wouldn't mind if more than a few cruise missiles were sent to some of their call centers in Pok-ee-stan and India...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:29 PM (l3cgK)

Landline has an answering machine on it. I can screen calls. Cell only gets answered if it comes up a number already in my contact list. If it's real, they'll leave a message.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:32 PM (1Ff7Z)

114
Baseball is "hate shoved in our faces"?

Wow. Some alphabet person needs to take a chill pill.
Posted by: Emmie

They should go to The Last Ditch.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Cqx++)

115 So, I guess the loser posted the prank even though it went badly? I could see him being that clueless. Not obscuring the mark's face could land him in deep shit..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October

He didn’t steal anything, that was the prank, he faked it, but never got any money.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

116 89 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hanging in there -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (SRRAx)

You could probably use a wonderful hello from another country which is for some crazy reason is a sure to fail trade war with the US.

I hope you are well today from Canada (big sigh).

MSNow had Talarico up by 5 or 7. It's been a busy day.

Texans will love watching soccer eating tofu hotdogs, I'm sure.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Sco7b)

117 If you see a story on cops called on black kid for being too good
it is fake
If someone gets within arms reach of you in mall store walmart etc
you are on film
If someone approaches you at gas station
you are a target
If someone ask for help getting something off shelf bin display
your are a target
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:22 PM (/+uur)

I might not go that far on everything, but I will say...
A "tap" pay device can grab your card info from further away than you think; keep your card behind an RFID blocker until it's time to pay, and put it back promptly after.
The same goes for your phones NFC and Bluetooth. Unless you are actively using the Bluetooth for headphones or something, turn it off. And lock it down if you do need it on.
And, in general, keep your head on a swivel and know where your phone and wallet (and sidearm, if appropriate) are at all times.

RFID blocking cards and sleeves can be found on Amazon and at other sellers.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

118 Hello TiFW! Stay strong as always.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:32 PM (47diA)

119 He didn't really steal money from him. He pretended to by getting his phone close and having it make a sound that made it seem like something happened. RB guy just wasn't in the mood for his little game.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)

This is why I have NFC turned OFF on my cell phone, and Bluetooth only turned on when I'm driving (off otherwise). Don't use WiFi with my cell phone ever (also off).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (l3cgK)

120 The Milwaukee Brewers were awesome all season long; one of the best baseball teams I've ever seen. Relentless comes to mind.

Now that the World Series is over I can go back to massaging my Seattle Mariners sore spot: The team started in 1977 and I have spent the last 50 seasons suffering the team never making it to the World Series let alone winning one.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (wcyKn)

121 He didn't. He pretended to in order to make the guy feel victimized. Just to be an ass.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:29 PM (vTZFs)

*****
Ok. They looked like scrawny punks. I hope they get some meth that doesn't agree with them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)

122 Not sure how useful I'd be, but I'm pretty calm in an emergency and could learn.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:30 PM (hzuYO)

"Dude, you know I would take a bullet for you! Honestly, though, I would probably be the reason they were shooting at us in the first place, but balance is important in life"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (rbvCR)

123 You only eat Lane Cake at Christmas.
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

I had to look it up. I see it's made with bourbon. How did I not know of its existence??

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

124 Washington State pie might be blueberry or even lingonberry.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 10:24 PM (lCppi)

SHOULD be huckleberry.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (kU0PQ)

125 I will say I no longer answer first when I pick up the phone.

I don't answer at all unless it comes up with a name I recognize. If it's real and it's important, they can leave a message. They never do.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (vTZFs)

126 I appreciated it, but am also not averse to climbing the shelves get things out of reach.
Posted by: She Hobbit

"Nice Beaver!"

Posted by: Leslie Nielsen at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (SaoqG)

127 Not obscuring the mark's face could land him in deep shit..
----

No. There's no "reasonable expectation to privacy" in public.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (Cjcf6)

128 I'm sure McDonald's wasn't showing the game. And since when is baseball "hate"? Those lesbians should go to Massachusetts and save the last chance lesbo bar.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (ZKtCv)

129 123 You only eat Lane Cake at Christmas.
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

I had to look it up. I see it's made with bourbon. How did I not know of its existence??

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

Sounds like a cousin of fruit cake...I do like fruit cake...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:35 PM (l3cgK)

130 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - city wok dino at October 29, 2026 10:23 PM (cCn4/)

Howdy, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:35 PM (QMAsf)

131 Speaking of low trust, the reason Archive of-our-own is locked down...
x.com AO3_Status/status/2115982211765748184
and otwstatus.org/incidents/g12jnxck9g6h

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:35 PM (88C+u)

132 >>Baseball is "hate shoved in our faces"?

Was texting with a friend, an old guy like me, from Wisconsin last night after the Brewers won. All he could say was "What a night!". He was so happy he didn't know what else to say.

People will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:35 PM (viF8m)

133 124 Washington State pie might be blueberry or even lingonberry.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 10:24 PM (lCppi)

SHOULD be huckleberry.

AGREED!

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at October 29, 2026 10:35 PM (+OqQR)

134 128 I'm sure McDonald's wasn't showing the game. And since when is baseball "hate"? Those lesbians should go to Massachusetts and save the last chance lesbo bar.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (ZKtCv)

They do a pledge of allegiance to the Flag at the start of games...and there are a bunch of white guys with bats?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (l3cgK)

135 I'm proud of the Red Baron dude for not blasting that chickenshit social media "prankster" in the fucking mouth purely on principle.

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (oqH4h)

136 Some influencer type tried to prank him and was recording it. Dude wasn't having it.
Posted by: Doof

Influencers are pretty much universally hated. The female ones are about the most annoying people you can imagine. They seem to be untalented people who don't want to get a real job.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (0Htd1)

137 Marionberry is right for Oregon.

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (+OqQR)

138 52 -- I have lived in Nebraska for the past nearly sixty years and never saw Kool-Aid served as dessert. Possibly someone used Kool-Aid in place of Jello in a sweet, fruity "salad" , but straight Kool-Aid as dessert? No. Every bit as improbable as people in New Jersey serving up salt water taffy as dessert.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (DK5Sh)

139 I could not get what Red Baron guy was ranting about.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (fzlJX)

140 137 Marionberry is right for Oregon.

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (+OqQR)

I was just right for DC too!

Posted by: Marion Barry at October 29, 2026 10:37 PM (l3cgK)

141 Marionberry

Wasn't he the mayor of DC?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:37 PM (47diA)

142 64 I hope cowboy cookies and possum pie are not like cow pies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (l3cgK)

No fear! Cowboy cookies are chocolate chip/oatmeal/pecan/pretzel/dried fruit of choice cookies, and possum pie is that chocolate pudding/cream cheese/graham cracker/whipped cream layer dessert. The former was kitchen sink cookies to me, while the latter was simply chocolate layer dessert. It's like Hollywood remaking movies - but with food. Each generation changes the name or the actors or the ingredients slightly, making a whole new dish!

Posted by: moki at October 29, 2026 10:37 PM (wLjpr)

143 DJ Doof - City Edition

Bonus tracks!

Triumph - Hot Time (In This City Tonight)
https://youtu.be/tAoFb6MexlY

Glenn Frey - You Belong to the City
https://youtu.be/8TToLgW7zuc

Ghostly Kisses - The City Holds My Heart
https://youtu.be/_FYaoKdRZeg

Amon Düül II - Wolf City
https://youtu.be/h2iQCEL7-ak

"Spinsrÿche" - Motor City Woman
https://youtu.be/Xt59gvjjJu4

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:37 PM (VHUov)

144 Yup, my first thought was to buy a Red Baron frozen pizza the next shopping trip. Just because.

He’s just some punk who should be picking his teeth up like Chiclets out of the gutter. But ya can’t do that these days. I didn’t grok what he did to set him off, thanks for the ‘splain. “I just stole $10 from you” ??

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (RdGct)

145 Most of Colorado is really great. I shouldn't use "Colorado" as shorthand for the front range corridor. The rest of the State kicks ass. Except Pueblo. It's a dump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (BI5O2)

146 Washington State pie might be blueberry or even lingonberry.
Posted by: LASue
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I could go for a slice of huckleberry pie.

Posted by: scampydog at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (u6hXB)

147 Riddle:

Four Marxists are on a boat as a storm rolls in. The first Marxist says, "I'm not afraid. We have nothing to lose but our chains. I will live to see our Great Revolution come to be!" Second Marxist says, "Comrade, I believe in Equity and Diversity even more than you. I will outlive you and the Capitalist pigs!" The third Marxist says, "Comrades, the power of the people can never be defeated. I will outlive you both and celebrate our Great Revolution each year!"

Just as the fourth Marxist begins to speak, a huge wave capsizes the boat and all four drown.

Who won?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (r7+Q7)

148 I'm wondering if Patrick Stewart is certain of the number of lights now.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (SaoqG)
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One is all you need.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (FZ29D)

149 I know Leadville has Silverton beat in elevation by nearly a thousand feet.
Posted by: Flatlander, Myself at October 29, 2026 10:07 PM (EdP2u)

Plutoniumville is much warmer, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (fzlJX)

150 140+141

Hordemind continues to be both real and spectacular.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov)

151 143 DJ Doof - City Edition

Bonus tracks!

Triumph - Hot Time (In This City Tonight)
https://youtu.be/tAoFb6MexlY

Glenn Frey - You Belong to the City
https://youtu.be/8TToLgW7zuc

Ghostly Kisses - The City Holds My Heart
https://youtu.be/_FYaoKdRZeg

Amon Düül II - Wolf City
https://youtu.be/h2iQCEL7-ak

"Spinsrÿche" - Motor City Woman
https://youtu.be/Xt59gvjjJu4

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:37 PM (VHUov)

"We Built This City"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (l3cgK)

152 What the fuq are "buckeyes" as a dessert?

Never, ever, have heard of them ...

Former NEOhioan here, enlighten me pleaze

Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (oCio0)

153 Who won?
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (r7+Q7)

Four dead marxists? We did.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

154 Bears love the huckleberries so you have to be careful while harvesting.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 29, 2026 10:30 PM (D/6p1)

My mom worried when we would go huckleberry picking when I was a kid. (Aside from the fact my bucket was often empty while my face was covered in huckleberry juice.) But she was honestly torn over whether I would be unwilling to back off from my huckleberries or whether I'd sit down with the bear and share them.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:40 PM (kU0PQ)

155 139 I could not get what Red Baron guy was ranting about.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 10:36 PM (fzlJX)

A tiktoker fuckface cocksucking ne er do well walked up on him and did a fake I stole your money

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:40 PM (/+uur)

156 One does not simply mine plutonium...
There used to be a town "Tungsten" just below Nederland, though. And "Telluride" still exists.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:40 PM (88C+u)

157 Walmart should have tresspassed his ass

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (/+uur)

158 What the fuq are "buckeyes" as a dessert?

It's some kind of tree nut, like an acorn, innit? I didn't think they were edible.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (vTZFs)

159 Former NEOhioan here, enlighten me pleaze
Posted by: browndog

Those are the chocolate and peanut butter candies that look like buckeyes.

No one takes buckeyes to a cookout btw.

Posted by: Leslie Nielsen at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (SaoqG)

160
We're both LGBTQ and would really like a place where we could feel safe and not have to deal with the usual cishet energy or usual Christian-nationalism vibe that tends to come with baseball around here.

Hey shit birds, I hope that you were not able to have your petty and bitchy wish fulfilled and instead you wound up in a raucous pub where the game's volume was turned up to eleven and boisterous fans were in your face all through your meal. Bonus points if one of them threw up all over you and your meal.

You see those emboldened words up there? Those noisome turds are the contributions from you and yours to the culture and you simply CANNOT SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THEM. You are the Canada Geese of our times. You waddle about, hocking your linguistic loogies throughout our public discourse, and leave your very own greasy green turds of restricted speech and meddlesome rules throughout our physical and cultural worlds.

You are the unwelcome guests here, not the other way around. Find yourselves a place more suited to your refined sensibilities. I hear that Gaza is nice this time of year and its aerial views are stunning for the likes of you.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (ixS3i)

161 Rainbow flags, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)

162 47 OrangeEnt, I haven't watched the vids, but apparently some dumbass 'youtube prankster' type waltzed in, faked 'dude I haxxed ur fone and stole ur stuff' with realistic fake-notification sounds and stuff. Then tried to claim it was funny to do that.
Posted by: RandomDave

On that note, I have small Faraday pouches for my key fob and credit cards. I read somewhere that people can get a device where they can scan your cards and key fob as they walk past you. This may be paranoia on my part, but it makes me feel safer.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

163 What the fuq are "buckeyes"

Someone from THE Ohio State University will tell us . . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:42 PM (47diA)

164 Granted I was raised in a very ethnic portion of IN, spent 45 years there and never heard of a sugar cream pie.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:42 PM (2NHgQ)

165 153 Who won?
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (r7+Q7)

Four dead marxists? We did.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 10:42 PM (r7+Q7)

166 What the fuq are "buckeyes" as a dessert?

Never, ever, have heard of them ...

Former NEOhioan here, enlighten me pleaze
Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (oCio0)

I don't know, but some Brits made them:

https://tinyurl.com/ypfe5mcx

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z)

167 Yeah, rough week on the starship Enterprise. Kirk is still going though. He only has to outlast sulu to be the last one of the original series. I really hope he outlasts that nutbar. I want to hear him say "of all the souls I encountered in my travels, his was the most....homo."
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (vzuC7)
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That's a pretty strong contender for Comment of the Week right there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 10:42 PM (FZ29D)

168 buckeyes are like a home-made Reese's peanut butter cup, and they look like buckeye nuts, except they are not toxic usually

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 10:43 PM (rbvCR)

169 What the fuq are "buckeyes" as a dessert?

Never, ever, have heard of them ...

Former NEOhioan here, enlighten me pleaze
Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (oCio0)

Peanut butter balls covered in chocolate with a little circle of peanut butter left uncovered. They're quite tasty!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

170 He now has an extra $300,000 bucks. Cool. Dude shouldn't have to put up with crap lie that. I hope the influencer channel dies.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:18 PM (Sco7b)

Sounds like a good thrashing would be in order. And destroy the fucker's phone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 10:44 PM (fzlJX)

171 Bringing salt water taffy as a dessert to a cookout gets you a day in the box.

However, it is New Jersey, so I guess we should just be happy if they don't bring anything, and don't steal anything before they leave.

For Morons in the Garden State...learn to pump your own gas.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 10:45 PM (dIske)

172 On that note, I have small Faraday pouches for my key fob and credit cards. I read somewhere that people can get a device where they can scan your cards and key fob as they walk past you. This may be paranoia on my part, but it makes me feel safer.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

Nothing wrong with that. Too many unsavory types in the country now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

173 No one takes buckeyes to a cookout btw.
Posted by: Leslie Nielsen

LadyL brought buckeyes to the TXMoMe.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ftFVW)

174 They never do.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:34 PM (vTZFs)

They do with me. I've been getting spam for something like 18 months or more, sometimes 5+ a day, about some loan application I supposedly made (but didn't). They always leave a message, because it's a pre-recorded AI script. Fortunately my voice mail (on my cell) turns a voicemail into a text and sends it to me (sometimes with hilarious typos) immediately. A quick glance tells me whether I should call back. Very few require it.

(Oh, and all of those spammers are from separate phone numbers. I don't think I've gotten a repeat yet, even with the 8xx numbers. Just one and gone on to another number - with the same script, an hour apart.)

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (kU0PQ)

175
Peanut butter balls covered in chocolate with a little circle of peanut butter left uncovered. They're quite tasty!
Posted by: Doof

Round his parts, with Big Mike, Barky calls that "chocolate fondue".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ixS3i)

176 Now that the World Series is over I can go back to massaging my Seattle Mariners sore spot: The team started in 1977 and I have spent the last 50 seasons suffering the team never making it to the World Series let alone winning one.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 10:33 PM (wcyKn)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

but at least you enjoyed the Western Canadians coming over and making the stadium feel like a home game.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (Sco7b)

177 The dessert map got New Mexico completely wrong. The dessert should have been tequila shooters.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (wcyKn)

178 If I don't know your number to the point of having it saved as a contact? You're going to voicemail. My voicemail message clearly says, "If you don't leave a message, I'm not calling you back."

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:47 PM (aJQbY)

179 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat:

Copied from last night's ONT; commenter "m" had the answer to your question about who the similar-nicknamed person was..... though he hasn't been around for a while.

Are you they guy who used to add stuff to your nic to make me laugh? Or am I finally losing it?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Might be miklos?
Posted by: m

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)

180 My neighbor grew up in Indiana. His mom makes a sugar cream pie for Thanksgiving, I don't think she'd make one for just a cookout though.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 10:47 PM (PV+Zw)

181 Peanut butter balls covered in chocolate with a little circle of peanut butter left uncovered. They're quite tasty!
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

and they look like buckeye nuts from the tree of that name....

Posted by: Iris at October 29, 2026 10:48 PM (286+n)

182 158 What the fuq are "buckeyes" as a dessert?

It's some kind of tree nut, like an acorn, innit? I didn't think they were edible.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (vTZFs)

Child pleaze ... I know what a real buckeye is O H ... I O

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Those are the chocolate and peanut butter candies that look like buckeyes.

No one takes buckeyes to a cookout btw.
Posted by: Leslie Nielsen at October 29, 2026 10:41 PM (SaoqG)

Good lord ... who came up with that lame ass idea?

Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at October 29, 2026 10:48 PM (oCio0)

183 Dessert map is retarded. Possum Pie is a main course, not dessert.

Posted by: a.moron at October 29, 2026 10:49 PM (X5Jzz)

184 but at least you enjoyed the Western Canadians coming over and making the stadium feel like a home game.
Posted by: Stateless

I made the mistake to go to a Toronto game one time.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 10:49 PM (wcyKn)

185 Who won?
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 10:38 PM (r7+Q7)

WE did!

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:49 PM (kU0PQ)

186 So I didn't get the Red Baron guy. Why was that guy filming him and what makes the RB a patriot?? (Glad RB backed him but the video made no sense to me)

Posted by: Iris at October 29, 2026 10:49 PM (286+n)

187 Patrick Stewart's son was on an episode of ST:TNG.

I guess he'll be voting Democrat from now on?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2026 10:50 PM (CHHv1)

188 Stepson loves buckeyes. They’re a pain in the ass to make.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:50 PM (2NHgQ)

189 Re: RFID - yep, I bought a pack years ago and when one wears out I swap it. Every credit card goes into one.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:50 PM (aJQbY)

190 If I don't know your number to the point of having it saved as a contact? You're going to voicemail. My voicemail message clearly says, "If you don't leave a message, I'm not calling you back."
Posted by: RandomDave

Back when the world was still landlines and answering machines, but robo-dialers existed, I changed my message to a very fast "hi. message. now!" So the message would be over by the time the robo-dialer connected to a real human.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

191 Peanut butter balls covered in chocolate with a little circle of peanut butter left uncovered. They're quite tasty!
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:43 PM (QMAsf)
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So if I took a Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Cup and carved a small divot in the top, that would count?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 10:50 PM (FZ29D)

192 "We Built This City"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (l3cgK)

Oh, you goin' to hay-ull for THAT one, mister!

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:51 PM (kU0PQ)

193 (Oh, and all of those spammers are from separate phone numbers. I don't think I've gotten a repeat yet, even with the 8xx numbers.

Yeah, the caller IDs are all spoofed. That's why blocking them is useless.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 10:51 PM (vTZFs)

194 LadyL brought buckeyes to the TXMoMe.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 29, 2026 10:46 PM (ftFVW)

Must be a Columbus / Cincinnati thing then ...

And if LadyL brought them, I withdraw my objections to the confection.

Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at October 29, 2026 10:51 PM (oCio0)

195 I shed all my telemarketers in 2011 when I had my phone shut off by Qwest even though I had paid my bill, and then it took me a month and a half to transfer the number to another provider. By that time the spammers got the "no such number" and dropped me from their call list

My wife gave out my number to "roofing contractors" at the state fair this year, and I have been hammered by spam calls again ever since then. I am thinking about suspending my phone service again.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

196 So I didn't get the Red Baron guy. Why was that guy filming him and what makes the RB a patriot?? (Glad RB backed him but the video made no sense to me)

Posted by: Iris

See 155

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 10:52 PM (wcyKn)

197 Good night, horde! Be nice to each other. But have a good time!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 29, 2026 10:52 PM (47diA)

198 My favorite dessert is dingleberry pie

Posted by: AOS cope at October 29, 2026 10:52 PM (G9O61)

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:53 PM (aJQbY)

200 99 You only eat Lane Cake at Christmas.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

Lane cake is my favorite cake of all time - but - with the filling also as the frosting, instead of seven minute frosting. So so so rich and delicious!!!!!

Now i need to make one this year!!

Posted by: moki at October 29, 2026 10:53 PM (wLjpr)

201
Butt boy! Slow night at your glory hole?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (ixS3i)

202 Who’s tmj and why is some idiot referencing he or she in a shit post?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (2NHgQ)

203 >>>Not everyone wanted to watch the Series, though

Dirty commies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (ZHIH/)

204 Baseball is probably the most equitable sport in the world. It makes no difference what color you are, how big or strong you are, where you came from, how many chromosomes you have.

One guy throws a ball, you have no idea how fast or slow, with a curve or just gas, rising or sinking and you have to hit it with a round stick and your brain and body have less than a second to react. It's incredibly difficult. You either can or you cannot and no DEI is going to save you.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (viF8m)

205 DJ Doof - City Edition
Bonus tracks!
Posted by: mikeski

"We Built This City"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I would rickroll you before I'd stoop to that.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (VHUov)

206 Stepson loves buckeyes. They’re a pain in the ass to make.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:50 PM (2NHgQ)

Hey there! Haven't seen you on here in a while.

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:55 PM (QMAsf)

207 89 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hanging in there -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2026 10:26 PM (SRRAx)

*******
You keep hanging in there! Praying every night for you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:55 PM (hzuYO)

208 Here, I'll copy and paste from earlier. Just in case a bunch of you decide "Shit, life may be better in Canada." I went shopping today.

I'm working on stuff. Haven't reached crazy shut-in status, but have zombie apocalypse supplies. I just like to let you know what things are like here.160 One dollar Canadian is about 0.72 US today. Make it $0.70.

Walmart
1.75 kg frozen broccoli - $6.97
Chicken Burgers - great buy - 8 to a pack - 20 grams of protein - $12.98
Frozen Blueberries - 1.75 kg - $16.48
Gatorade powder - $7.98

50 Halloween Chocolate mini bars for the neighbours kids - $8.97
100 - Halloween Chocloate mini bars for me $12.77

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:55 PM (Sco7b)

209
No Frills
Activia Yogurt - 650 ml - $3.87
Frozen pizzas - $3.47
Avocados - about 10 small ones to a bag - $5.00
Eggs - 12 large - $3.37

Meats
Swedish Meatballs - $10 a bag. 11 grams of protein per 3 I think.

Halal Chicken - lean - yeah but $10 for about a buck per 25 grams of protein.

Chicken Legs, thighs and backs were $0.99 a pound. We'll see how that goes.

12 mangoes - $8.88

Gas station ahs apples at 6 bucks a bag, grapefruit at $1.29 and 3 or 4 peppers for a buck.

Just so you know.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 10:55 PM (Sco7b)

210 Evening, folken. RandomDave, you found steady work again? Congratulations! Was it a job you wanted, or just something to cover the bills while you search for something better?

And Patrick Stewart is gone? Damn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 10:55 PM (wzUl9)

211 I wanna try some fromunda cheese

Posted by: AOS cope at October 29, 2026 10:57 PM (G9O61)

212 Doof. I haven’t had time to spend at the hq. Retirement has been highjacked by a church project. Also, 11 month old pup that keeps me hopping and tired out.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:57 PM (2NHgQ)

213 Good evening morons и спасибо, Дуф

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:57 PM (RIvkX)

214 I'm taller than the panthers QB

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 10:57 PM (enNUy)

215 We just watched a 1996 modern Western (sort of) called Lone Star, a mystery-drama set in a '96 Texas border town, with Chris Cooper, brief appearances in flashbacks by Matthew McConaghey and Kris Kristofferson, and Elizabeth Pena. It ranges back and forth in time between the late '50s and the late '90s, yet is easy to follow, and features sharply etched characters and a good mystery plot as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

216 "Spinsrÿche" - Motor City Woman
https://youtu.be/Xt59gvjjJu4
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:37 PM (VHUov)

Back to the City, Guess Who:

https://youtu.be/bn_L08c97a8

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 10:58 PM (fzlJX)

217 >>>10 Greatest '80s Pinball Machines, Ranked

No Cyclone?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 10:59 PM (ZHIH/)

218 Wolfus, alas, no. Still working on getting *steady* work. But I'm subbing every couple days and using the in-betweens for interviews and more aggressive job-searching.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026 10:59 PM (aJQbY)

219 Doof. I haven’t had time to spend at the hq. Retirement has been highjacked by a church project. Also, 11 month old pup that keeps me hopping and tired out.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:57 PM (2NHgQ)

Good to see you - good luck with all of that life stuff!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:59 PM (QMAsf)

220 Aos Chode fears tmj because his pp still has scars

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:00 PM (88C+u)

221 I'm wondering if Patrick Stewart is certain of the number of lights now.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (SaoqG)
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There are only three, Gul Madred. You've been here so long...and obsessed with power so intensely...that you lost your grip on...what's going on around you. Go ahead...take a look...there are three.

Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (TN0g+)

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:00 PM (Cjcf6)

222 Might be miklos?
Posted by: m
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)

*******
Yes! I apparently have some sort of dyslexia for names.

He could send me into snort giggles. Even somehow had accents. I hope he returns.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 11:00 PM (hzuYO)

223 Plutonium is an artifact of running a reactor iirc. A transuranic? It doesn’t occur in Nature.

Uranium was considered a waste product, mostly. Was found to make a nice yellow glaze for pottery, but once Radium was discovered, that took center stage. With mostly very, very tragic results.

By some strange geological quirk, the Shinkolobwe mine in the Congo has the richest concentration ever found. About 60% uranium ores were found. In most places, if you find 1% it was considered profitable to mine. Several thousand tons of the Shinkolobwe ore were stored in NYC at a warehouse long before anyone thought much about making bombs, Once the war department realized they needed it, they went looking for the owner. “I was wondering when you’d show up”.

After the war, the AEC offered high prices for ore in the U.S. plus a $10k bonus for new mines, setting off a uranium exploration bonanza in the 4 Corners region of the Colorado Plateau. Charlie Steen was one such beneficiary. You can still see his house at the north end of Moab, currently the Sunset Grill on the side of a cliff.

The Soviets took a completely different tack, using slave laborers in gulags. Wtetched conditions.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 11:01 PM (gzzK/)

224 Beer is the most common dessert at a WI cookout.
Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 10:09

I'd rate that as true davidt.

I'm headed back up there to Point next week. We finally have the stock from the antique business in an online auction. Too bad the cut glass and flow blue that she liked is out of fashion. If you know anyone who might be interested shoot me an email.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 29, 2026 11:01 PM (4Qj8V)

225 My favorite Mariners story. It was in the mid 80s, the last two weeks this season, the Mariners were like 47 games out of first place, bottom of the ninth inning, with more ushers than fans left in the Kingdom.

My friend and I were making our way towards the exit and decided we would go sit behind home plate in the TV seats and watch a couple outs. We weren't there 5 minutes and some nasty-faced usher came down and said we leave now or I'm getting the King county sheriff's. The guy in front of us said these guys are my friends and he whipped out seven season tickets. So we went and sat with him.

Minutes later three King county Sheriff showed up and gave us the choice of going to jail or to leave the stadium. It was the only time I've been physically perp walked out of a place by the cops and then tossed on to the sidewalk.

My 2nd favorite memory of the Mariners was harassing Darryl Strawberry from the left field bleacher seats with all the other drunk fools during his early cocaine period.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:02 PM (wcyKn)

226 Which is the nicer place in Colorado? Silverton or Leadville?

I know Leadville has Silverton beat in elevation by nearly a thousand feet.
Posted by: Flatlander, Myself at October 29, 2026

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I drove up to Leadville 2x when I lived in Denver. Every side street seemed to dead end in a mountain. On the other hand, I recall a bar with a sign in its window: "High Altitude Recovery Station."

Never got to Silverton that I recall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 11:02 PM (wzUl9)

227 AOS Cope seems to be a spammer, posting the same info multiple times.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)

228 Baseball is probably the most equitable sport in the world. It makes no difference what color you are, how big or strong you are, where you came from, how many chromosomes you have.

One guy throws a ball, you have no idea how fast or slow, with a curve or just gas, rising or sinking and you have to hit it with a round stick and your brain and body have less than a second to react. It's incredibly difficult. You either can or you cannot and no DEI is going to save you.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (viF8m)

Good to see the Brewers overpower with baseball rather than budget.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:03 PM (ZHIH/)

229 I could be wrong in studying that dessert map, but the cajun cousins I knew would not bring beignets to a cookout.

Beignets are only good warm and fresh for the powdered sugar explosion, with chicory coffee at Cafe du Monde. Have been there many times since I could walk.

There are boxed mixes and all sorts of attempts, but they don't come close. All of them from NOLA to Baton Rouge could cook (aunts), and I don't recall beignets. They are also all crazy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 11:04 PM (hzuYO)

230 Ranking the greatest pinball machines of the '80s means looking beyond flashy artwork and memorable themes to consider gameplay, mechanical innovation, and lasting influence on the hobby. Whether a machine changed how people played pinball or simply delivered an unforgettable arcade experience, these 10 classics represent some of the best the decade had to offer.
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Summer of '81 every available quarter got sunk into Black Knight 2000

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

231 Wolfus, alas, no. Still working on getting *steady* work. But I'm subbing every couple days and using the in-betweens for interviews and more aggressive job-searching.
Posted by: RandomDave at October 29, 2026

***
I've never understood the employers' thinking, where it's easier to get a job when you have one already. Sure, it shows you have drive and persistence, but if you're recently out of work, you can start *tomorrow*! None of that "giving two weeks' notice."

Drive and persistence are clearly something you have in spades. Keep it up!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 11:05 PM (wzUl9)

232 Not everyone wanted to watch the Series, though

Nothing in that post actually happened. That was simply a virtue signal. I doubt the poster even leaves its tiny apartment. The fresh air would be terrifying.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 11:05 PM (sAmhv)

233 Never got to Silverton that I recall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 11:02 PM (wzUl9)

Dude, it's just off Blue Diamond Road and the I-15.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 11:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

234 AOS Cope seems to be a spammer, posting the same info multiple times.
Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
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Even the telemarketing scammers don't want to be associated with him. They have standards.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 11:06 PM (FZ29D)

235
Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)
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The Paki Perseverator!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)

236 So if I took a Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Cup and carved a small divot in the top, that would count?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

You have to mash it into a ball.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 29, 2026 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

237
Life is hard enough without TikTok assholes adding to its burdens.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

238 Cishet. Learned a new word which I intend to promptly forget. It must take a lot of energy and time to make up idiotic words.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 11:09 PM (2NHgQ)

239 >>Good to see the Brewers overpower with baseball rather than budget.

I love it. I read the Brewers manager was talking smack about the Yankees playing for themselves instead of playing for each other after the win.

It's a simple game. Incredibly hard to master and even harder to understand how to win.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

240 I grew up in PA. I never heard of Shoofly Pie, BUT, I looked it up and I have had it. A lot. Just didn't know that it was called Shoofly Pie. I live in VA now and I don't think I've had a peanut pie. Lived in FL and have had Key Lime pie.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 11:09 PM (sAmhv)

241 Not everyone wanted to watch the Series, though

Nothing in that post actually happened. That was simply a virtue signal. I doubt the poster even leaves its tiny apartment. The fresh air would be terrifying.
Posted by: Puddleglum

It was too over-the-top, really. All it was missing was a reference to "my wife's boyfriend." It had to be sarcasm.

So fess up, Morons, which of you was it?

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 11:10 PM (VHUov)

242
Baseball is probably the most equitable sport in the world. It makes no difference what color you are, how big or strong you are, where you came from, how many chromosomes you have.

__________

I love that guys like John Kruk and Daniel Vogelbach who look like a sack of potatoes can become stars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:11 PM (eRlcH)

243 I love my MAGA hat!

Posted by: AOS cope at October 29, 2026 11:11 PM (6KUwx)

244 Fool for the City

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 11:13 PM (Cqx++)

245 It's a simple game. Incredibly hard to master and even harder to understand how to win.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

Very humble set of guys, giving thanks to the lord.

An even better story is how Brewers coach Pat Murphy got his start in baseball. Talked his way onto a college squad in a Florida men's restroom.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:13 PM (ZHIH/)

246 Who’s tmj and why is some idiot referencing he or she in a shit post?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 10:54 PM (2NHgQ)
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There is a paki poll troll who mentions TheJamesMadison often.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

247 Deluxe 8 Ball #1

Texas should be cobbler

Red Baron is the best pizza for the price

And I would not get in

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:14 PM (Ti9vn)

248 I love that guys like John Kruk and Daniel Vogelbach who look like a sack of potatoes can become stars.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You have to watch out for those 'sack of potatoes' guys. I work with one and he runs all the time. Marathons, 10ks, 3ks, whatever. He runs. In his late 40s too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 11:15 PM (sAmhv)

249 Talked his way onto a college squad in a Florida men's restroom.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:13 PM (ZHIH/)

er....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

250 The only proper way to reference The James Madison is when bringing up Prometheus. Especially when he's doing his morning comment shift.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:16 PM (wcyKn)

251 Baseball is probably the most equitable sport in the world. It makes no difference what color you are, how big or strong you are, where you came from, how many chromosomes you have.

I dunno about that. I suspect that elite baseball players are genetic freaks just like elite basketball and football players, just in ways that are not as outwardly obvious. The best baseball players are way out on the right-hand tail of the bell curve for things like visual acuity, eye-hand coordination, and reaction speed.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 11:16 PM (vTZFs)

252 Howdy, horde.

Nice ONT, Doof! Except, I think that map was filled in by someone what doesn't get out much.

Spud bars? For cookout dessert? No. Just no...

****obviously, Idaho has nothing but potatoes (/sarc) and so *anything spud* was the go-to.****

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

253 S'mores would be my guess, for cookout dessert.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 11:19 PM (rdVOm)

254 Posted by: AOS cope at October 29, 2026 11:11 PM (6KUwx)
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I know we're not supposed to engage with the troll, but I have to ask:

IF the Republicans (at least by name) manage to hang on to the House and the Senate, could you bother to step up and give us a simple post like "Gee, I guess I was wrong"?

Because otherwise, that doesn't seem very courageous of you. I know you want to be strong in your convictions. Could you humor us here with a simple promise?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:19 PM (Cjcf6)

255 My City Was Gone.

Posted by: Chrissy Hynde at October 29, 2026 11:19 PM (dX+L6)

256 I never heard of Shoofly Pie, BUT, I looked it up and I have had it. A lot. Just didn't know that it was called Shoofly Pie.
Posted by: Puddleglum

And, as most things in life, wet bottom is much better than dry bottom (shoefly pie).

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 11:20 PM (SaoqG)

257 We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Lemon bars at October 29, 2026 11:21 PM (dX+L6)

258 >>You have to watch out for those 'sack of potatoes' guys. I work with one and he runs all the time. Marathons, 10ks, 3ks, whatever. He runs. In his late 40s too.

Our first baseman in high school looked like the Michelin tire guy. Only chubbier. Somehow he was also a twitchy mofo. Some of the moonshots he hit are probably still orbiting the earth.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:22 PM (viF8m)

259 The troll does not read English

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

260 227 AOS Cope seems to be a spammer, posting the same info multiple times.
Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 11:03 PM (kU0PQ)

AOS Cope is a disgruntled "regular." He has a monomaniacal fixation on TJM, commenting about him even when he isn't present; that's personal, not random. He's a he. Little dick energy. Feels unappreciated. Resents the goodwill TJM has; thinks that esteem should be his instead.

Posted by: HQ Profiler at October 29, 2026 11:22 PM (pe2q3)

261 256: My Mom used to make it. I have no idea what she called it, except 'pie'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 11:22 PM (sAmhv)

262 For those who want a Hammer Films reminder, try Veronica Carlson. I may have to watch a few, if I can find them cheap.

https://tinyurl.com/5nkpan8u

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:23 PM (qx7Zg)

263
There are some tiny, trace amounts of natural plutonium isotopes produced on earth. Uranium decay is one route, and then there are extraterrestrial sources, but I'm not sure of the details. I'll look it up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 11:23 PM (w6EFb)

264 This City Never Sleeps

youtu.be/ITuBoXM4jPo

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

265 I never heard of Shoofly Pie, BUT, I looked it up and I have had it. A lot. Just didn't know that it was called Shoofly Pie.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I once bought a gallon of molasses, and then I had to find something to do with it.
Shoofly Pie was one of the things.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

266 We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Lemon bars at October 29, 2026 11:21 PM (dX+L6)
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I've *never* understood how lemons became so popular. IF there was a "vote one off the island" moment, I'd vote lemon off the island over lime. There's very little that lemon makes better. And with most dishes, there's no reason to involve lemon or lime.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:24 PM (Cjcf6)

267 The troll does not read English
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

This should help:

BE A MAN AND COME BACK AND SAY YOU WERE WRONG AFTER THE REPUBLICANS KEEP THE HOUSE AND SENATE!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 11:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

268 The best baseball players are way out on the right-hand tail of the bell curve for things like visual acuity, eye-hand coordination, and reaction speed.
Posted by: Oddbob

My late uncle, a former pitcher for the Yankees (and others) would say that even among ball players, Ted Williams was a freak of nature. He captured and mentally stored all aspects of every pitch he was ever thrown. Wind, sunlight, weather, how old the ball itself was, the pitch, who was catching, the health of the pitcher, age, etc. EVERYTHING.

Just like pro golfers can recall every hole they've played, Williams could do that regarding every pitch.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 11:25 PM (SaoqG)

269 255 My City Was Gone.
Posted by: Chrissy Hynde at October 29, 2026 11:19 PM (dX+L6)

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We built this city.

Posted by: J. Starship at October 29, 2026 11:25 PM (vBZcw)

270 If you need a good story, try this one. He *earned* that belt the hard way.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:25 PM (qx7Zg)

271 If you need a good story, try this one. He *earned* that belt the hard way.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2y9nuz

(Sorry, forgot the link.)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:26 PM (qx7Zg)

272 123 You only eat Lane Cake at Christmas.
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

I had to look it up. I see it's made with bourbon. How did I not know of its existence??
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10

Because you don’t live in Alabama? 😂

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

273 Summer in the City, by the Lovin' Spoonful.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:27 PM (qx7Zg)

274
I've *never* understood how lemons became so popular. IF there was a "vote one off the island" moment, I'd vote lemon off the island over lime. There's very little that lemon makes better. And with most dishes, there's no reason to involve lemon or lime.
Posted by: Crusader

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You sound damaged. You've met the wrong lemons.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 11:27 PM (mmrXZ)

275 Yes from their 90125 album.

City of Love
https://youtu.be/pZ6xV72oxo0

Deep cut. Underrated!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 11:28 PM (QMAsf)

276 I've *never* understood how lemons became so popular. IF there was a "vote one off the island" moment, I'd vote lemon off the island over lime. There's very little that lemon makes better. And with most dishes, there's no reason to involve lemon or lime.
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:24 PM (Cjcf6)

[ahem]

"Scurvy is what happens when life does not hand you lemons"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

277 I've *never* understood how lemons became so popular. IF there was a "vote one off the island" moment, I'd vote lemon off the island over lime. There's very little that lemon makes better. And with most dishes, there's no reason to involve lemon or lime.
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:2

While I generally don't like fruits lemon is a necessity to drizzle on seafood. Also vodka martinis need a lemon twist, and pickled mushrooms if available.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 29, 2026 11:29 PM (4Qj8V)

278 Veal Scallopini without lemon?
Shrimp Scampi without lemon?
Lemon Meringue Pie??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

279 Baseball ...

I love that guys like John Kruk and Daniel Vogelbach who look like a sack of potatoes can become stars.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:11 PM (eRlcH)

Babe Ruth has entered the chat.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 11:32 PM (kU0PQ)

280 "Scurvy is what happens when life does not hand you lemons"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

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I understand sodomy is a poor substitute.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 29, 2026 11:32 PM (vBZcw)

281 274
I've *never* understood how lemons became so popular. IF there was a "vote one off the island" moment, I'd vote lemon off the island over lime. There's very little that lemon makes better. And with most dishes, there's no reason to involve lemon or lime.
Posted by: Crusader

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You sound damaged. You've met the wrong lemons.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 11:27 PM (mmrXZ)

A lemon once hurt Crusader deeply.

Posted by: HQ Profiler at October 29, 2026 11:32 PM (pe2q3)

282 Lemons are yummy

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:32 PM (88C+u)

283 The Rhubarb Pie song:
https://youtu.be/PLqP9cqdPK0

Posted by: Bebop a rebop at October 29, 2026 11:32 PM (dX+L6)

284 LA Woman Live

https://youtu.be/u6YaJMrmxFM

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:32 PM (wcyKn)

285 Peanut ballz...I think I met that guy once...😲

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 29, 2026 11:33 PM (96kpa)

286 285 Peanut ballz...I think I met that guy once...😲

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I WAS IN THE POOL!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 29, 2026 11:34 PM (vBZcw)

287 Show me on the doll where the lemon hurt you.

Posted by: Overpriced therapist at October 29, 2026 11:34 PM (dX+L6)

288 I dunno about that. I suspect that elite baseball players are genetic freaks just like elite basketball and football players, just in ways that are not as outwardly obvious. The best baseball players are way out on the right-hand tail of the bell curve for things like visual acuity, eye-hand coordination, and reaction speed.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 11:16 PM (vTZFs)

A lot of that can be trained. A lot is just hard work and dedication, genetic freaks notwithstanding.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:35 PM (ZHIH/)

289
Just like pro golfers can recall every hole they've played, Williams could do that regarding every pitch.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 11:25 PM (SaoqG)

__________

A conductor was once approached by an clarinetist before a performance of Götterdämmerung who told him a stuck key wouldn't let him play a certain note. The conductor thought for a few seconds and replied that it was all right, that note wasn't in the clarinets thet evening.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:35 PM (eRlcH)

290 Peanut ballz...I think I met that guy once...😲
Posted by: COMountainMarie

A hell of a party that a mention of is STILL of limits during HS reunions.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 11:35 PM (SaoqG)

291 Lemon Meringue Pie??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

Lemming meringue pie was just nasty. Little fuckers are teeming with fleas.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 11:36 PM (fzlJX)

292 If you need a good story, try this one. He *earned* that belt the hard way.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:26 PM (qx7Zg)

Very nice. I remember that story.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 11:37 PM (kU0PQ)

293
A lot of that can be trained. A lot is just hard work and dedication, genetic freaks notwithstanding.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:35 PM (ZHIH/)

______________

Larry Bird shot hundreds of free throws every day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:37 PM (eRlcH)

294 Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree:

https://youtu.be/MLhYghzNfII

Posted by: Peter, Paul and Mary at October 29, 2026 11:37 PM (dX+L6)

295 Lemming meringue pie was just nasty. Little fuckers are teeming with fleas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 11:36 PM (fzlJX)
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Try squirting some lemon on it!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:38 PM (RIvkX)

296 Yes from their 90125 album.

https://youtu.be/pZ6xV72oxo0

Deep cut. Underrated!

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 11:28 PM (QMAsf)

Holy Lamb is another great.

https://youtu.be/Tno-uymF-9c

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:38 PM (ZHIH/)

297 We can all feel a wonderful sense of satisfaction that we comment on a blog where one of the commenters mentioned the Götterdämmerung in a proper sentence.

Umlauts, baby!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 29, 2026 11:39 PM (vBZcw)

298 >>I dunno about that. I suspect that elite baseball players are genetic freaks just like elite basketball and football players, just in ways that are not as outwardly obvious.

Exactly. I don't think they are freaks, they are just phenomenal athletes.

When I was in high school we did a lot of dual sport scheduling, probably to help offset the costs. My high school baseball team traveled a lot with our cross country team. Sometimes there would be multiple schools playing in a tournament over a weekend.

I will never forget one time we had a multiple school tournament weekend and the buzz was all about this one kid who was supposed to be really good at cross country. We were like, who gives a shit, like being really good at jerking off.

Turns out he was really, really good at running long distance. He beat everyone and then sat in the stands to cheer on his high school baseball team before the 2nd place finisher even came out of the woods.

Alberto Salazar. You might have heard of him.

We won the baseball game. 2nd in the tournament.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:39 PM (viF8m)

299 Summer of '81 every available quarter got sunk into Black Knight 2000
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

Fireball. After dinner at the commissary, every night, until the quarter was done. Prevented having to study, often for more than an hour. It was my sanity and salvation.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 11:39 PM (5WPt1)

300 Try squirting some lemon on it!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Led Zeppelin has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 11:39 PM (SaoqG)

301 Bob Uecker

"Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment."

"I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture."

"I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment."

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:40 PM (wcyKn)

302 We let them have their lemon tree back, because it was haunted.
Perhaps Crusader will accept this complementary glass of turnip juice.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:40 PM (88C+u)

303 You have no idea how crazy it is here in Wisconsin right now. Going to the parade and then the rally at the lakefront tomorrow. Schools are closed in Milwaukee. We had a wild watch party in our barn last night and then celebratory fireworks. Did you see how many of us were in Tampa?

Posted by: Badgergal at October 29, 2026 11:40 PM (Vvx5H)

304 So, the Brewers showed up at Lambeau tonight, and walked in after the first quarter with the trophy. A few of the guys did the Lambeau Leap. Why the hell not? WI is just lit.

I don't think anyone on the Brewers team has slept. Parade in downtown Milwaukee tomorrow, the route has been published. I don't think anyone in Milwaukee will be at work, and I doubt many of them were today, either.

DH is over the moon.

And the Uecker memes are just wonderful.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 11:41 PM (5WPt1)

305 I once bought a gallon of molasses, and then I had to find something to do with it.
Shoofly Pie was one of the things.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

______________________________

Should have held Boston hostage.

Reference: https://tinyurl.com/yfn4tnav

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 11:42 PM (dIske)

306
You've met the wrong lemons.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

All his lemons skip school and smoke cigarettes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 11:42 PM (Cqx++)

307 Larry Bird shot hundreds of free throws every day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:37 PM (eRlcH)

A lot of coach counsel is just stay in the pool. Many quit, get distracted by drugs and alcohol, girls, etc. Stay in the pool. And be willing to work harder than the next guy. It's how my non-genetic freak 9th grader is playing/running varsity. admittedly small school though.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:43 PM (ZHIH/)

308 All his lemons skip school and smoke cigarettes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 11:42 PM (Cqx++)

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I know the type.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 29, 2026 11:44 PM (vBZcw)

309 You have no idea how crazy it is here in Wisconsin right now. Going to the parade and then the rally at the lakefront tomorrow. Schools are closed in Milwaukee. We had a wild watch party in our barn last night and then celebratory fireworks. Did you see how many of us were in Tampa?
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I did! I was pulling for the Brewers!

And I have a crush on Front-row Amy! She's a hottie!

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:44 PM (Cjcf6)

310 In re the top photo: so that’s where Ted Kaczynski was hiding!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 11:45 PM (1paM0)

311 Bringing forward the millionaire-ette and her millionaire parents who are 'citizens of the world' praising the murder of Charlie Kirk.

UT student, St. Agnes Academy graduate, go Texas:

103 https://isacasahuga.com/

That's gonna leave a mark. Can't wait for the liberal tears.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 11:45 PM (Pee1E)

312 215 We just watched a 1996 modern Western (sort of) called Lone Star, a mystery-drama set in a '96 Texas border town, with Chris Cooper, brief appearances in flashbacks by Matthew McConaghey and Kris Kristofferson, and Elizabeth Pena. It ranges back and forth in time between the late '50s and the late '90s, yet is easy to follow, and features sharply etched characters and a good mystery plot as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

One of my 10 best Texas movies- glad you liked it! Chris Cooper is an underrated actor, imo- he's good in everything.

Posted by: sal at October 29, 2026 11:45 PM (f+FmA)

313 A lot of coach counsel is just stay in the pool.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

My potential coaches always counseled me to just stay in the hot tub.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:46 PM (wcyKn)

314 Have you noticed how everyone in Milwaukee rioted last night and tore down light poles and looted stores?

No?

Huh.

How could that be?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 11:46 PM (5WPt1)

315 Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:40 PM (wcyKn)

______________________

I remember seeing Bob Uecker on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He told Johnny that he had taken up fishing, but it was boring. So he decided to fish using dynamite.

Got 250 on his first cast.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 11:46 PM (dIske)

316 at a guess, everyone in Milwaukee was too hammered to riot

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:47 PM (88C+u)

317 https://youtu.be/RKWktkAfhKk

Classic Bob Uecker. Never gets old.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 11:48 PM (5WPt1)

318 Kind of surprised that Iowa's dessert was scotcheroos and not Snickerdoodle salad. (For the unenlightened, it's whipped cream, vanilla pudding, chopped up Snickers bars, and apple chunks.)

Posted by: pookysgirl could go for a apple right now at October 29, 2026 11:49 PM (Wt5PA)

319 Before the Brewers were the Brewers

They were the Seattle Pilots.

Whoohoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 11:49 PM (vTuB/)

320 Apparently the bar next to Tropicana served more beer to Brewers fans than they sell all year, in three days. WI tends to travel well, but the venues really need to brace themselves for WI drinkers in advance. Kudos to them for not running out entirely. That would have gotten ugly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 11:49 PM (5WPt1)

321 274
I've *never* understood how lemons became so popular. IF there was a "vote one off the island" moment, I'd vote lemon off the island over lime. There's very little that lemon makes better. And with most dishes, there's no reason to involve lemon or lime.
Posted by: Crusader

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

You sound damaged. You've met the wrong lemons.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 11:27 PM (mmrXZ)

Pink lemons. Very good.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:49 PM (l3cgK)

322 First pitch for game one was thrown by Robin Yount wearing an insanely ugly Uecker sport coat from Johnny Carson appearance

Posted by: Badgergal at October 29, 2026 11:50 PM (Vvx5H)

323
"Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment."

___________

Actually, Uecker played during a time when pitchers dominated and batting averages were low across the board. Also, a team often trades batting average for defensive skills in its middle infielders. Martin Maldonado had a 12-year career despite batting .203 because he was an excellent handler of pitchers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:50 PM (eRlcH)

324 291 Lemon Meringue Pie??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

Lemming meringue pie was just nasty. Little fuckers are teeming with fleas.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 11:36 PM (fzlJX)

Howza bout some Stargazy pie?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:51 PM (l3cgK)

325 Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, but the fruit of the poor 🍋 lemon is impossible to eat.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 11:52 PM (1paM0)

326 'Shoofly Pie was one of the things.'
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR

Miklos...is that you!!???

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 29, 2026 11:52 PM (96kpa)

327 And I brought a Brewers kringle to our party last night (lemon blueberry)

Posted by: Badgergal at October 29, 2026 11:52 PM (Vvx5H)

328 >>Have you noticed how everyone in Milwaukee rioted last night and tore down light poles and looted stores?

When I was living in Boston the Patriots, Sox, Bruins and Celtics all won championships. Multiple in some cases.

Surprisingly little rioting.

Not really surprising,

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)

329 "They were the Seattle Pilots."

I went to school with a couple kids whose dad was one of the owners of the Pilots. They were self entitled shits and I secretly celebrated when the team folded.

I used to go to the Rainier's games at Sick Stadium. It was a good day when you didn't get a splinter in your butt from the wooden bleachers. For years I had a color picture of the team I got at one of the games.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 29, 2026 11:53 PM (wcyKn)

330 Sabatasso's at Costco is the same company as Red Baron

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:54 PM (vE0+H)

331 "We're doing Patriot shit, get in."

Yes, I would.

That post reminded me there's a recent Yarnhub drop on youtube of the Doolittle Raiders- (they all 'got in' no questions asked) I started watching it last night but was overwhelmed with commercials. Good luck. Maybe tonight will have less interrutions.

https://youtu.be/2ZKANCH80-M?

Posted by: Rex B at October 29, 2026 11:57 PM (sdSI9)

332 My dad moved to Seattle when he was 16, during the war years, and they used to sneak into Seattle Rainiers games after the 7th inning when they didn't charge admission. He only got to go once in a while, because while he was in high school, he was also working in the ship yards as a welder on military ship building. But he fondly remembers those days, living in the "big city," having come from Laramie WY which never had a baseball team beyond kids' leagues. Dad explained to me when I was very young that the last two words to the National Anthem are "Play Ball!"

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 11:57 PM (5WPt1)

333
Re plutonium. Pu-244 has a half-life of around 81 million years, long enough to be primordial. That is, it was present in the material that formed the solar system, and should still be in here in some small amounts, but it's current a little below the threshold of detection.

They've found its decay signature in meteorites, confirming it was present primordially. They have discovered some relatively high concentrations of it in Pacific seafloor samples, and it's origin is interstellar, and the age is about 100 million years. 100 million years ago, the solar system passed through some dust cloud containing it.

Pu-244 is about the heaviest element that can last enough to stick around. Heavier elements can be produced by astrophysical processes, but their half-lives are so small, they don't last long.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 11:57 PM (w6EFb)

334 I can see a few of the 'Ettes doing this:

My sister is an emergency room nurse and likes to tell stories about one of her coworkers who always has a smart answer ready for any situation.

A notorious problem in the ER is people who come in for things that are not actually emergencies and then complain when they're put at a low priority.

During a very busy day, this nurse is hurrying through the waiting room and is stopped by a man.

Man: "Hello, nurse? This is taking too long! I've been waiting for almost two hours!"

Nurse: "Congratulations! Good for you!"

Man: "What's that supposed to mean?"

Nurse: It means you're not in danger of dying any time soon. See you in another couple of hours!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:58 PM (qx7Zg)

335 Washingtonian here, and I have a bit of a dessert reputation to uphold, descending from my fabulous-cook-mother and all. Last family event, I made a pumpkin swirl cheesecake (Sally's baking addiction recipe) that was well-received. I like a mixed fruit pie, like berries or apple berry. Rhubarb raspberry. I like a good cobbler too...and a good shortcake. I make my pie crust with oil rather than butter, much less faff and just as good. If its casual, peanut butter stuffed brownies are always a hit.

Posted by: Funsize at October 29, 2026 11:58 PM (3j87q)

336 Oh, and I friggin' loathe that song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 29, 2026 10:16 PM (0aYVJ
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I never loved it either, but nowadays it does bring back memories of my youth like few others do.

Posted by: 496 at October 29, 2026 11:58 PM (mK9pP)

337 Loving these Rainiers and Pilots stories.

Posted by: Funsize at October 30, 2026 12:00 AM (3j87q)

338 Bed time and my cat is opening and shutting the bathroom cabinets. Over and over. Do not be jealous of this life I lead.

Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2026 12:00 AM (ZdaMQ)

339 Amazon wants $400. for a twenty three year old Apple computer.
Let's go Brandon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 12:01 AM (Pee1E)

340 >>Washingtonian here, and I have a bit of a dessert reputation to uphold, descending from my fabulous-cook-mother and all. Last family event, I made a pumpkin swirl cheesecake (Sally's baking addiction recipe) that was well-received. I like a mixed fruit pie, like berries or apple berry. Rhubarb raspberry. I like a good cobbler too...and a good shortcake. I make my pie crust with oil rather than butter, much less faff and just as good. If its casual, peanut butter stuffed brownies are always a hit.

I don't believe you. You will have to send me a cheesecake to prove it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)

341 Hey!
Getting closer to aprox. 500 comments.
Will we ever make a grand again?
Oh, for those heady nites 🥺...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 12:01 AM (96kpa)

342 During a very busy day, this nurse is hurrying through the waiting room and is stopped by a man.

Man: "Hello, nurse? This is taking too long! I've been waiting for almost two hours!"

Nurse: "Congratulations! Good for you!"

Man: "What's that supposed to mean?"

Nurse: It means you're not in danger of dying any time soon. See you in another couple of hours!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 11:58 PM (qx7Zg)

These are the same assholes that don't pull over for an ambulance with lights and siren.

I went to the ER this summer, in an ambulance, because I split my head open in a fall and really needed someone else to drive while I bled. I specifically asked to not use the siren, because it wasn't going to get worse, and why piss off all the neighbors if I don't have to?

But if an ambulance has sirens and lights, get the fuck off the road. Seconds matter.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 12:01 AM (5WPt1)

343 Jackstraw, if there is a MoMe out here that i can go to, i'll bring some cheesecake. Her lemon curd cheesecake is bonkers good.

Posted by: Funsize at October 30, 2026 12:03 AM (3j87q)

344 338 Bed time and my cat is opening and shutting the bathroom cabinets. Over and over. Do not be jealous of this life I lead.
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2026 12:00 AM (ZdaMQ)

Squirt bottle, stat.

Do not allow them to get the upper paw. They will use it, mercilessly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 12:03 AM (5WPt1)

345 Amazon wants $400. for a twenty three year old Apple computer.
Posted by: Braenyard

Retrocomputing is a thing. It's antiquing for nerds.

Posted by: mikeski at October 30, 2026 12:04 AM (VHUov)

346 I know nobody up here who makes Baked Alaska. Not sure there is a signature dessert for white people, but Natives make muktuk ice cream, which is disgusting, but they like it. Whale fat, snow, blueberries, sugar. Vile stuff.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 12:04 AM (5WPt1)

347 My dad moved to Seattle when he was 16, during the war years, and they used to sneak into Seattle Rainiers games after the 7th inning when they didn't charge admission. Posted by: tcn in AK

That would have been when they were in the Pacific Coast League which at one time was thought of a near third major league. The PCL eventually ended up being a minor league beginning around 1958. Joe DiMaggio played for the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals from 1932 through 1935

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 30, 2026 12:05 AM (wcyKn)

348 Faux noise ratings drop so murdock tells faux noise cut down on televising dump rallies as even their viewers are tired of the lies and bullsh*t! as they put 6 dollar a gallon fuel in their pickup trucks. Dump's rambling are now helping the democrats!

Posted by: raimondo at October 30, 2026 12:08 AM (h4U0y)

349 Squirt bottle, stat.

Do not allow them to get the upper paw. They will use it, mercilessly.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 12:03 AM (5WPt1

I wish that would work, but Savannahs like water! He would think it was a game. I pulled him out and told him it was time to simmer down. He will mope for awhile and then settle in bed with the rest of my creatures. I hope. 😂. Good night everyone!

Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2026 12:09 AM (ZdaMQ)

350 Miklos...is that you!!???
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 29, 2026 11:52 PM (96kpa)

I can't make a decent crust to save my life. My sister laughs at me, but she can't make bread worth a damn.
So I make cobblers and crisps, and wet bottomed Shoo fly pies.
I will make a rough pastry crust when I make a pot-pie, but a crust isn't as important, and I have the dodge of putting anise flavored rum when I try to make a fruit pie, but they always seem to turn out with the texture of butter and anise flavored sand.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:09 AM (rbvCR)

351 Dad explained to me when I was very young that the last two words to the National Anthem are "Play Ball!"
Posted by: tcn in AK

And the first few words to the National Anthem are:

"Jose can you seeeeeeeeeee. . . . ?"

Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2026 12:09 AM (SaoqG)

352 Raimondo. Don't try to speak.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2026 12:10 AM (vBZcw)

353 >>Jackstraw, if there is a MoMe out here that i can go to, i'll bring some cheesecake. Her lemon curd cheesecake is bonkers good.

We aren't doing this trickster stuff.

You put that lemon curd cheesecake stuff in the mail and if it's as good as you say I will return lobsters.

If it's only ok you might just get a claw but you've entered a dangerous game when you start taunting me with cheesecake.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:10 AM (viF8m)

354 looks like the short bus just dropped someone off

Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 12:10 AM (88C+u)

355
Hey!
Getting closer to aprox. 500 comments.
Will we ever make a grand again?
Oh, for those heady nites 🥺...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Wait until Tuesday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:14 AM (Cqx++)

356
Amazon wants $400. for a twenty three year old Apple computer.
Posted by: Braenyard

Retrocomputing is a thing. It's antiquing for nerds.
Posted by: mikeski

An old car can go fast. An old computer, not so much.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:17 AM (Cqx++)

357 Pretty much done with the 12-volt wiring for the little Honda generator. Made a faceplate, that provides a mount for the circuit breaker and a pair of binding posts. To that I attached a piece of perf board that mounts the filter choke, two capacitors, and the little IC regulator board. Mounted pilot lamp next to the ignition toggle switch. Most of the interconnecting wiring done. Will hook it up to the machine tomorrow, start it, and see if I can tweak the regulator to put out 13.2 volts. That is a safe level for the HEI module, and should provide a float charge for an AGM battery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 12:18 AM (fzlJX)

358 Yeah... if the demonrats regain power, we'll be looking back at "6 dollar a gallon fuel" as the good old days

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

359 My favorite was "Armor-piercing tits "

Posted by: Lord Percy at October 30, 2026 12:20 AM (eb1bp)

360 Yeah... if the demonrats regain power, we'll be looking back at "6 dollar a gallon fuel" as the good old days
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

In that case, it will be time to make moonshine as an alternative fuel.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 12:21 AM (qx7Zg)

361 G'night y'all!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2026 12:21 AM (aJQbY)

362 In that case, it will be time to make moonshine as an alternative fuel.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 12:21 AM (qx7Zg)

Trannypyrolysis. Make combustible gas in big retorts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 12:24 AM (fzlJX)

363 Night, RandomDave. Hope you find that perfect job soon!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

364 He didn't really steal money from him. He pretended to by getting his phone close and having it make a sound that made it seem like something happened. RB guy just wasn't in the mood for his little game.
Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)

******
Ah. Thanks for explaining. What little jerks they were.

It made me sad he was working 4 jobs or something to pay the mortgage.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 12:29 AM (hzuYO)

365 352 Raimondo. Don't try to speak.

No kidding. I think Raimo is here for entertainment purposely only...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 12:29 AM (96kpa)

366 Door. Your work here is done. I'm guessing you've checked out already.
Thanks love!!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 12:33 AM (96kpa)

367 Door. Your work here is done. I'm guessing you've checked out already.
Thanks love!!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 12:33 AM (96kpa)
-

I assume you meant Doof, not Door.

But that triggered me.

Is JQ here? Can I get a shot of Knob Creek, please?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 30, 2026 12:36 AM (fDryU)

368 I can't make a decent crust to save my life. My sister laughs at me, but she can't make bread worth a damn.
So I make cobblers and crisps, and wet bottomed Shoo fly pies.
I will make a rough pastry crust when I make a pot-pie, but a crust isn't as important, and I have the dodge of putting anise flavored rum when I try to make a fruit pie, but they always seem to turn out with the texture of butter and anise flavored sand.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:09 AM (rbvCR)

I got the following tip from Cooks Illustrated.

Replace the cold water with frozen vodka. Much less water, and it's excess water you want to avoid in piecrust. I can use 7+ tbsp for a double crust. Try it sometime and tell me what you think.

I haven't had a shoofly pie in decades.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 30, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)

369 *pours Knob Creek for Bidens Dog*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:38 AM (rdVOm)

370 *rummages around ONT kitchen for some snacks*

Well, looky here...

An assortment of hot snacks!

Rumaki, jalapeno poppers, egg rolls...

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

371 366
My autocorrect always makes you a 'door',,,
You know what I mean,,,,🥲

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 12:42 AM (96kpa)

372 Her lemon curd cheesecake is bonkers good.

Posted by: Funsize at October 30, 2026 12:03 AM (3j87q)

I need to have this recipe. Please. Help.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 30, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

373 My bed won. I’m going to sleep.
Good night wonderful Horde!!!
💕💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 30, 2026 12:46 AM (96kpa)

374 Night, COMM. Nice seeing you!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

375 He could send me into snort giggles. Even somehow had accents. I hope he returns.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 11:00 PM (hzuYO
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Miklos is hilarious

Posted by: 496 at October 30, 2026 12:48 AM (uDka+)

376 Benne Wafers are thin & crispy/crunchy sesame seed cookies.

They are popular in the Lowcountry of SC, mainly.

Had them a few times, and they aren’t terrible, but you’re more likely to see somebody here with a pecan pie than benne wafers to he honest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 12:49 AM (6ydKt)

377 I went to the ER this summer, in an ambulance, because I split my head open in a fall and really needed someone else to drive while I bled. I specifically asked to not use the siren, because it wasn't going to get worse, and why piss off all the neighbors if I don't have to?“

I was working at a rent house by myself a few years back when a ladder collapsed under me and I fell about 8 feet to the floor. Laying on my back, I checked my fingers and limbs and was relieved that everything worked - but my hair felt wet and a found that my head was resting in a big puddle of blood.
Didn’t realize it at the time but I learned that a nail sticking out of the wall had ripped my scalp on the way down, so it was a bloody mess but my head wasn’t cracked open.
Anyway I had to get home (about 10 minutes away) to see if I needed a hospital and time was of the essence, so I remember how surreal it was to be driving with one hand while with the other i had a towel and was applying pressure to cut down in the bleeding from my head.
I didn’t get stitches after all. I probably still got a scar there but it’s under my hair so who cares.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 12:51 AM (xOuxV)

378 RE: "Would you get in?"

1) If they would drive by my place so I could pick up certain . . . "implements" that would make me fit in with the group, and

2) WOLVERINES.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at October 30, 2026 12:52 AM (eN4xb)

379 Happy Thursday Horde, late to the party but up to date in the comments.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 30, 2026 12:52 AM (ibDUx)

380 Good night folks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 30, 2026 12:52 AM (CHHv1)

381 *pours Chivas for Debby*

Cheers to you as well!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

382 {{{BC}}}

You've been so quiet, I didn't know you were here!

Good night.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

383 I didn’t get stitches after all. I probably still got a scar there but it’s under my hair so who cares.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 12:51 AM (xOuxV)

It might show if you go bald in old age, but you can always wear hats.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 12:54 AM (1paM0)

384 I didn’t get stitches after all. I probably still got a scar there but it’s under my hair so who cares.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It might show if you go bald in old age, but you can always wear hats.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Chicks dig scars.

Posted by: mikeski at October 30, 2026 01:03 AM (VHUov)

385 383 I didn’t get stitches after all. I probably still got a scar there but it’s under my hair so who cares.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2026 12:51 AM (xOuxV)

It might show if you go bald in old age, but you can always wear hats.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 30, 2026 12:54 AM (1paM0)

Or a helmet.

Posted by: knightlife at October 30, 2026 01:04 AM (qi2kW)

386 I'm guessing the 3-finger signs represent three percenters? You know, that group of patriots that obastard got classified as terrrrorrrrists back in the day.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

387 Speaking of Miklos, has anyone heard from him lately? Is he OK?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 01:09 AM (fzlJX)

388 I'm guessing the 3-finger signs represent three percenters? You know, that group of patriots that obastard got classified as terrrrorrrrists back in the day.
Posted by: JQ

That, or they got two patriots each from the east side and the west side, and one of the east-siders is dyslexic.

Posted by: mikeski at October 30, 2026 01:09 AM (VHUov)

389 Haven't seen him post in a long while, AOP. The 'leens must've kidnappped him.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

390 Dessert map is lame. Jello is a thing in Utah, but not for dessert. Ice cream, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, carrot cake - now you're talking.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at October 30, 2026 01:13 AM (vYek6)

391 >>Jello is a thing in Utah, but not for dessert.

Yeah-- they're Mormons, not Lutherans!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

392 I miss Miklos too, he truly made me laugh out loud here sometimes.

Thanks JQ, Cheers to you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 30, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)

393 Sweet dreams Horde, I am fading fast.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 30, 2026 01:33 AM (ibDUx)

394 I got an email from miklos last week, just to give his condolences about Mama Publius' passing. He made no mention of what's going on in his life.

I'll give him a call. It's been too long.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 30, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)

395 G'nite, Debby. We need to catch up as well.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 30, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)

396 🔥 JUST IN: THOUSANDS of Americans are now saying they will be buying Red Baron pizzas and supporting the business after the company PUBLICLY BACKED the hardworking patriot instigated in a now-viral video

"instigated"?

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:35 AM (odBC9)

397 Re: the map - nobody (in VT or anywhere else) brings maple creemee to a picnic. It's soft serve... unless you're pulling up in an ice cream truck, you'd be weird for bringing a cone to a picnic

Posted by: 496 at October 30, 2026 01:37 AM (ZF01D)

398 RE: #52

What's wrong with Nebraska? Y'all don't allow posts long enough to list them. I will note that we moved to Hastings, Nebraska in early 1968. As in during lunar New Years. Called Tet in Vietnam, and it was . . . Offensive. In the high school there they had a special, mandatory, pep rally to dedicate one day a week in PE classes as Vietnam Day to "toughen you up to go kill Cong". The fact that I was a straight-A student whose career desire was to be a naval officer did not matter. I am Chinese in ancestry, and y'all cannot tell us slant-eyes apart. A bunch of these cornhuskers decided that I was VC.

The first [and far from the last] time I had to regularly carry a gun was in high school in Nebraska. After I convinced a bunch of them that 7 fewer would reach me than started out, the attacks and threats stopped.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at October 30, 2026 01:39 AM (eN4xb)

399 *waves at miklos*

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:39 AM (odBC9)

400 400

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:40 AM (odBC9)

401 I'm working on catching a batch of kittens that were born in my yard. Been feeding them and trying to get them used to me. I have the traps all ready for this weekend.
I also have a huge cat patio I made for the involuntarily indoor cat. I took the door off to finish it and left it on the sawhorses while I went to work. Tonight when I got home I went looking for the babies and found them all, moma included, bedded down in the cat patio. As long as their heads won't go through the wire I might be able to catch them all at once. Not sure how I get them into the cages to be fixed but...

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 01:40 AM (Ae6Br)

402 387 Speaking of Miklos, has anyone heard from him lately? Is he OK?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 01:09 AM (fzlJX)

*****
I asked about him earlier as I got him & mikeski mixed up like a loon.

I miss him as well as a couple of times he had me near hysterical with laughter.

Which I could use right now as my mother is not doing well in MS & coming home from rehab next week. I am weighing flying for a few days. Not that I can do anything to help at this point (she has full time sitters).

Will weigh this after the midterms & hope she perks up a bit. Apparently the food stinks, she told my brother today. I'm sure she's exhausted at 95yrs old having to deal with all this (she had a repair of a lumbar vertebrae with glue).

I saw her mother do this same downward spiral at 95 like her & die promptly the day she turned 96yrs a month later. Mother will be 96 in early December. It's like a really bad rerun. Both were lucid and bossy.

I need to get it together after my stress-induced (from all this and a husband's MRI) insomnia illnesses.

So miklos needs to come back for us all, but especially for me and speak fake German in his nic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 01:40 AM (hzuYO)

403 Night, Debby

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

404 Not found

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

405 100 If you see a story... it is fake
If someone gets within arms...you are on film
If someone approaches... you are a target
If someone ask for help... your are a target

Been operating on those assumptions since at least 5th grade.
Posted by: 88C+u knows it's no way to live, but is alive at October 29, 2026 10:28 PM (88C+u)

Sorry, man.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:46 AM (odBC9)

406 Sorry about your mom, ChristyBlinky.

Yes, institutional food *sucks*-- it's not just "old people being picky"-- the slop they serve is the cheapest of the cheap!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

407 404 Not found
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

; )

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:46 AM (odBC9)

408 I'll give him a call. It's been too long.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 30, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)

Please give him my regards, Miley. And all my best to you and Publius, and condolences, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 01:50 AM (fzlJX)

409 Good to see you, Miley. Hope you & publius are well and healing from your loss.

Please convey to Miklos that he is missed here.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

410 asmongold on Patrick Stewart
We lost a legend today
17:48

https://tinyurl.com/2ex2pzpw

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:55 AM (odBC9)

411 406 Sorry about your mom, ChristyBlinky.

Yes, institutional food *sucks*-- it's not just "old people being picky"-- the slop they serve is the cheapest of the cheap!
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
********
Thank you, sweetie.

Living to be this old, I'm seeing with my grandmothers (both 90 and 96) and now Mama is both a blessing and not so good. She's outlived all of her peers, and family of her youth, my father and one brother. Only in back pain for six weeks

On the plus side she's met her greatgrandchildren, something I doubt I will do as they are 8,5 and 1yrs old. She's seen her children and grandsons (our boys) thrive and marry happily. She lived totally independently and sharp til almost 96yrs, computer savvy, etc, and is much beloved. My prayer in God's will is she goes to heaven in her sleep without pain, fear or suffering. I've prayed this for a few years when she was healthy.

So, yeah, she could use some prayers as could her family. I hesistate to ask when others are going through so much worse than this. We'll be fine and she has a very strong faith. She taught me that all will be well.

Need to get some hopeful sleep! My motto for six weeks!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2026 01:56 AM (hzuYO)

412 Night, ChristyBlinky. Sleep well.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

413 It's the time of year, that I go through alternating sweats and chills due to the outdoor temperature/ humidity swings.

Coat in the morning, t-shirt in the afternoon, sweatshirt in the evening...

At least it's not sub-freezing out there! (yet)

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

414 Summer of '81 every available quarter got sunk into Black Knight 2000
Posted by: San Franpsycho

1981 for me was Defender, Tempest, and Mars God of War.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 30, 2026 02:07 AM (Fv808)

415 410 asmongold on Patrick Stewart
We lost a legend today
17:48

https://tinyurl.com/2ex2pzpw
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 01:55 AM (odBC9)

from the comments:

When they do their job so well you forget they're mortal.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 02:09 AM (odBC9)

416 Couple of days ago when I went to have lunch with hubby, he'd already left the dining room. When he saw me in the hallway, started to cry-- said he was so hungry and there was nothing to eat. (!)

I wheeled him to his room & got him calmed down. Put his coat on because he was chilled... and talked him into going back to dining room because I'd brought him a treat: fried chicken thigh and homemade gravy! He chowed down on that!

Then I looked at what they'd served: some diced meat (white meat chicken?) a lump of rice (he hates rice) and a lump of mushy green stuff (mixed "oriental" veggies) that tasted awful.

Yeesh! And we're PAYING THOUSANDS PER MONTH for this??!!?! ^%*&)(^(*^^%###

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

417 I'm working on catching a batch of kittens that were born in my yard. Been feeding them and trying to get them used to me. I have the traps all ready for this weekend.
I also have a huge cat patio I made for...
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 01:40

You are a kind soul Reforger. We went through the same almost 20 yrs ago.

Neighbor girls played w/ stray cat. Named her Butterscotch as they were eating butterscotch cookies the day she appeared.

Of course she had kittens in the neighbor's woodpile. We had to take them in, it was fall and they needed protection.

Butterscotch moved them a couple of times in the house but we eventually got them settled in a box in the dining room.

Found homes for all the kittens, kept Butterscotch and she ruled the roost when we got dogs again. We just lost Butterscotch last month at the age of 19. RIP our accidental cat.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 30, 2026 02:18 AM (4Qj8V)

418 I'm a teapot

Posted by: now that you've found me at October 30, 2026 02:19 AM (VHUov)

419 Then I looked at what they'd served: some diced meat (white meat chicken?) a lump of rice (he hates rice) and a lump of mushy green stuff (mixed "oriental" veggies) that tasted awful.

Yeesh! And we're PAYING THOUSANDS PER MONTH for this??!!?!
Posted by: JQ

Because pre-digested food doesn't keep long?

Posted by: mikeski at October 30, 2026 02:20 AM (VHUov)

420 I'm working on catching a batch of kittens that were born in my yard.
Posted by: Reforger

You are a kind soul Reforger.

We just lost Butterscotch last month at the age of 19. RIP our accidental cat.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take

You're a kind soul as well, Farmer.

Posted by: mikeski at October 30, 2026 02:22 AM (VHUov)

421 Awww... rescuing feral kitties & their mommas...

You guys are awesome!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

422 419 Found homes for all the kittens, kept Butterscotch and she ruled the roost when we got dogs again. We just lost Butterscotch last month at the age of 19. RIP our accidental cat.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 30, 2026 02:18 AM (4Qj8V)

Good kitty!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 02:27 AM (odBC9)

423 Because pre-digested food doesn't keep long?
Posted by: mikeski

Not that.. hubby has issues with chewing & swallowing, but doesn't need anything pureed. They used to have steamed/ formerly frozen veggies on the side (which taste much better than canned!) but now? Canned cheap crap.

They serve mostly the cheap, starchy, cheap carb crap-- did I mention cheap? Crap that doesn't cost them much.

Something changed since mid-summer. Many regular employees now gone, fewer replacements. The meal menus went from 'meh' to garbage at the same time.

Corporate bean-counters turning the screws tighter, I'd imagine...

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

424 Thanks AOP and JQ, yes, we're in a different world now. I've been napping a lot, and feel as though I'm drifting. Our lives were dictated by Mama's needs and happiness for the past few years and there is a vacuum for sure. Disorienting in a way.

Christy Blinky, very similar situation although Mama wasn't in as much pain. Her quality of life was pretty good up to 96. A few months after her birthday she was in the hospital, then institutionalized for a month or so. Thank God we got her home for the last two. I guess you could say that she died in her sleep, because with the morphine and all, she wasn't quite conscious.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 30, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

425 To the "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." AoSHq commenter:

condolences.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 02:33 AM (odBC9)

426 "...there is a vacuum for sure. Disorienting in a way..."

Of course, Miley. It's an abrupt change in your daily routine & will take time to adjust to the *new reality*

Bless you both for caring for Mama in her final weeks. Takes a heart of gold!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

427 Hour to go

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 02:44 AM (Ia/+0)

428 312 215 We just watched a 1996 modern Western (sort of) called Lone Star, a mystery-drama set in a '96 Texas border town, with Chris Cooper, brief appearances in flashbacks by Matthew McConaghey and Kris Kristofferson, and Elizabeth Pena....
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 10:58 PM (wzUl9)
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One of my 10 best Texas movies- glad you liked it! Chris Cooper is an underrated actor, imo- he's good in everything.

Posted by: sal
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Just finished, good movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:47 AM (Pee1E)

429 .>Something changed since mid-summer. Many regular employees now gone, fewer replacements. The meal menus went from 'meh' to garbage at the same time.

Corporate bean-counters turning the screws tighter, I'd imagine...

Posted by: JQ at October
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New owner or management. Are there other options in your area?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2026 02:50 AM (Pee1E)

430 427 Hour to go
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 02:44 AM (Ia/+0)

Hope your biking went great yesterday, Skip.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 02:52 AM (odBC9)

431 Almost 0100 here. Time for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2026 02:55 AM (fzlJX)

432 For those who struggle with pie crusts, go simple. 1 cup flour, 1/3 cup shortening (can use lard, or vegetable shortening), 1/2 t. salt. Use a pastry blender or pulse it in your food processor. I do it by hand. Then, add 2-3 T of ice water and fork it all together, lightly. Don't over blend. Mash it with your hands into a puck, and then roll it lightly and evenly until it's big enough for your pan.

I have never had one fail.

Use more water if your flour is dry, and less if it is fresher. You will know by feel after a couple of tries which way to go.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 02:56 AM (5WPt1)

433 > How'd they do for your state?

I don't think I've ever seen a baked Alaska here.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen one anywhere in many decades. Do people even still make those?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 02:58 AM (qlLNh)

434 New owner or management. Are there other options in your area?
Posted by: Braenyard

The place is corporate-owned. Said corporation has bought up most of the local care facilities in this region! I'm thinking they had a change at corporate level. New bean-counter, trying to squeeze out more profits for stockholders?

Agency on Aging is closed on Fridays, but I'll be reaching out next week. There's got to be a better place!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

435 > Not sure there is a signature dessert for white people

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 12:04 AM (5WPt1)

If this were some years ago, I'd say one of Peggy's pies.

If it were even further back, and I wanted to be morbid, I'd say something from Hansen's Bakery.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:04 AM (qlLNh)

436 435 > Not sure there is a signature dessert for white people

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 12:04 AM (5WPt1)

If this were some years ago, I'd say one of Peggy's pies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:04 AM (qlLNh)

Twinkies.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:05 AM (odBC9)

437 > Corporate bean-counters turning the screws tighter, I'd imagine...
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

Can't help that billions in "health care funding" are being wired to Somalia.

Even with private insurance, the ripple effect makes a big difference.

I know that the health care system I use has recently had to seek funding to pay for their "nurse line"... a deal where a nurse calls you after you've been discharged from the hospital just to make sure you're still breathing and answer any questions that have come up. Apparently that's been unfunded until now. Because of course it isn't. Because it's something that's actually useful and serves a legitimate healthcare purpose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:11 AM (qlLNh)

438 If it were even further back, and I wanted to be morbid, I'd say something from Hansen's Bakery.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:04 AM (qlLNh)

Ew.

I was that age when Robert Hansen was hunting women. Not cool.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 03:12 AM (5WPt1)

439 m - it was nice to ride again. My sister gave me my BiL's trail bike. Its a Trex and is in excellent shape

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 03:14 AM (Ia/+0)

440 439 m - it was nice to ride again. My sister gave me my BiL's trail bike. Its a Trex and is in excellent shape
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 03:14 AM (Ia/+0)

Super cool. Really great.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:17 AM (odBC9)

441 >>Can't help that billions in "health care funding" are being wired to Somalia.

Would *make my day* if our military had... a small mishap... and "accidentally" vaporized Somalia. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:25 AM (rdVOm)

442 > Not cool.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 30, 2026 03:12 AM (5WPt1)

You're right, and my apologies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:28 AM (qlLNh)

443 Thought it might be raining lightly but nothing on weather radar. Hasn't rained in almost 2 weeks. Not thst we need it.

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 03:30 AM (Ia/+0)

444 Open an Adult Daycare JQ.
Looks like billions of $ are available.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 03:30 AM (Ae6Br)

445 > Would *make my day* if our military had... a small mishap... and "accidentally" vaporized Somalia. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:25 AM (rdVOm)

You know, I can't think of a single positive thing that's ever come from there.

Even other shithole countries usually have SOME redeeming features. Iran and Iraq have some cool art and lots of interesting historical sites. Mexico has good food. Hell, even Ethiopia has ancient monasteries with some of the oldest Christian texts known.

The only other country I can think of that's down in Somalia territory is Haiti.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:32 AM (qlLNh)

446 No sh1t, Reforger-- definitely would consider it, except I'm registered as a republican-- I'd never get away with it!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)

447 Medical lab tests early tomorrow (well, it doesn't *have* to be early tomorrow, but the earlier I can get in there the sooner I can eat and have coffee).

Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 03:35 AM (qlLNh)

448 Night, Rodrigo!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:36 AM (rdVOm)

449 As one of the few Americans to actually visit samoshithole I would say it's most redeeming quality is...
...
..
.
There is one nice little slice of beach near the airport.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 03:38 AM (Ae6Br)

450 450

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:39 AM (rdVOm)

451 449 As one of the few Americans to actually visit samoshithole I would say it's most redeeming quality is...
...
..
.
There is one nice little slice of beach near the airport.
Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 03:38 AM (Ae6Br)

Could you come up with a bigger list? Like, seriously, top ten? I know nothing about Somalia.

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:39 AM (odBC9)

452 Sorry m, but I don't believe we'll make it to 500 here tonight.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

453 asmongold on the Red Baron pizza guy
3:36

https://tinyurl.com/hnttaku

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:41 AM (odBC9)

454 452 Sorry m, but I don't believe we'll make it to 500 here tonight.
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

We might if miklos would show up!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:42 AM (odBC9)

455 453 asmongold on the Red Baron pizza guy
3:36

https://tinyurl.com/hnttaku
Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:41 AM (odBC9)

from the comments:

Walt singlehandedly just raise Red Baron's sales by millions of dollars by being a freaking Epic Dad

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 03:46 AM (odBC9)

456 Red Baron Guy... ROCKS!

Dude is a saint. Instagram mofo should've been spitting teeth.

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

457 Will be having Red Baron pizza for dinner tomorrow night!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)

458 I'm having the wife order me 7 Red Barron pizzas tomorrow.
I want to show that standing up to these shitheads is rewarded.
It's on the menu for quite a while at this point.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 03:54 AM (Ae6Br)

459 Hmm. I think there's room in the deep freezer for a few extra pizzas.

Just updated my shopping list!

Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)

460 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 30, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

461 Iran will attack before election. U.S. if they can to hurt trump ;but would probably help him as bush benefited from his criminal negligence ignoring warning signs before 9-11. The draft dogger attacks Iran after the election to stop the democrats.

Posted by: raimondo at October 30, 2026 06:05 AM (h4U0y)

462
I was sad when Limbaugh died. But in his case, his listeners at least "knew" him, listening to him daily for decades, along for his ride through his triumphs and struggles. And, he led a political movement that affected all of them personally. So it was kind of like losing a "friend."

But, I'll never understand the mass outpouring of grief for celebrities, as a general rule. These aren't people who people actually know - even in a "parasocial" way. They only know the characters they played on TV.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 30, 2026 07:41 AM (BI5O2)

Beaver AMSR Cafe

Edinburgh Castle as seen from Greyfriar's Cemetery
by Dan Dunlop

Beaver goes munch munch munch.

In Czech Republic, a planned dam had been delayed for seven years do to bureaucratic bungling. A group of beavers built a dam in almost the exact spot the human dam had been planned in a couple of weeks.

A gigantic pumpkin disqualified from a contest for having a soft/rotted part becomes a giant snack for zoo polar bears.

Dogs enjoying water of all kinds.

Woman buys her wienerdog a hotel-style bell, and the dog rings for service every ten seconds. I mean, what did she expect.

Dog raised by bunnies develops some bunny-like behaviors. He likes lettuce. Yuch.

Golden retriever is best friends with bunny.

Poor little dog chases car praying to be adopted.

Baby elephant thinks he's a big man.

The Michael Scofield of hounds.

This weisenheimer's Halloween costume is P. Diddy and a little friend.

Every Tarantino movie explained by the Always Sunny cast.

And how about some badger ASMR?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM

Comments

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Huh

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:41 PM (U/Byj)

3 I love Beaver.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:42 PM (Qugny)

4
Creamed chipped beef on toast, please.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:42 PM (eRlcH)

5
Edinburgh Castle as seen from Greyfriar's Cemetary

___________

Photo taken by Greyfriar's Bobby.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:44 PM (eRlcH)

6 A group of beavers built a dam in almost the exact spot the human dam had been planned in a couple of weeks.
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I'm willing to bet it didn't cost billions of $$$ to do that.

I'm also willing to bet the humans involved in the original project are upset because they didn't get any kickbacks from the beavers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 07:44 PM (FZ29D)

7 3 I love Beaver.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:42 PM (Qugny)

Hmmm... /taps pipe...

/scratches garrett off the potential baby sitter list...

Posted by: Ward Cleaver at October 29, 2026 07:45 PM (mP0Kj)

8 3 I love Beaver.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:42 PM (Qugny)

Chat and I....

Beaver - national animal of Canada?

Yes! The beaver is Canada's official national animal and one of its most recognizable symbols.

It was officially designated a national symbol on March 24, 1975, through the National Symbol of Canada Act.

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) has been important to Canadian history, particularly through the fur trade.

And here's an interesting distinction: Canada has two official national symbols commonly associated with its identity—the beaver as its national animal and the maple leaf as its national floral emblem.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:45 PM (Sco7b)

9 Nice Beaver!

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 07:45 PM (rj6Yv)

10 Sorry to break into cafe with current news but this is pretty important.

"
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
·
1h
BREAKING: Axios reports the Army general Pete Hegseth fired this week admitted to leaking classified Iran and Ukraine intel to reporters at two different outlets.

The critics who cried political purge owe Hegseth an apology tonight.

Leaking secrets in wartime is not whistleblowing.

It is betrayal. Treason."

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)

11 I have been watching the classic Universal Monsters movies on Amazon Prime! Dracula last night. Probably Frankenstein tonight.

The castle looks just like the Dracula set! Bela Lugosi, no one else did Dracula quite like he did. But I do love Gary Oldman's take.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 07:46 PM (Toos7)

12 Wouldn't guess a Polar Bear would want a pumpkin

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

13 >>I love Beaver.

He was like 12 you pervert.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:47 PM (viF8m)

14 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)

/Points two posts down...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 07:47 PM (mP0Kj)

15 >>Wouldn't guess a Polar Bear would want a pumpkin

They didn't ...
until the Zookeeper drilled a hole in it and threw it in the microwave.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:47 PM (Qugny)

16 Being a little hard on the Beaver, there, aren't you?

Posted by: June at October 29, 2026 07:49 PM (dX+L6)

17 Love the picture. So spooky.

I'd love to have an afternoon to wander that cemetery.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

18 Sea otters>>>> beavers

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 07:49 PM (eelaG)

19 No thread about beavers would be complete without a Buc-ee's reference.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 07:50 PM (B0NCh)

20 I been to Edinburgh castle, that New Years trip 1979/1980

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

21 Love the picture. So spooky.

I'd love to have an afternoon to wander that cemetery.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

Me too. My clan was from Edinburgh. Even had an ancestor who was constable of the castle.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 29, 2026 07:51 PM (0aYVJ)

22 Get yer beaver nuggets!

Posted by: Buc-ee's at October 29, 2026 07:51 PM (dX+L6)

23
Highland cattle eat pumpkin

https://youtube.com/shorts/X5iSVS08Md8

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:51 PM (eRlcH)

24 if you want to munch beaver, you can't do it here anymore

Posted by: the last ditch at October 29, 2026 07:52 PM (88C+u)

25 /Points two posts down...
Posted by: Romeo13

This is a bit different. Earlier post did not claim Sylvia admitted making the leaks. Axios is claiming he did. Apparently DoW procedures during polygraph require the subject to make an admission before they technically fail. Sylvia failed three times apparently and this means leaks to two reporters--one of which is supposedly Jenn Griffin of Faux News who hates Hegseth and Trump with a thousand burning suns passion.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:53 PM (E4rtv)

26 apparently those Czech beavers also killed Kody

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR)

27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdHG-gnVZPc

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 29, 2026 07:56 PM (jrgJz)

28
A group of beavers built a dam in almost the exact spot the human dam had been planned in a couple of weeks.

That's not the link I'm getting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 07:56 PM (Cqx++)

29 Woman buys her wienerdog a hotel-style bell, and the dog rings for service every ten seconds. I mean, what did she expect.

We got the sleigh bells to hang on the door and taught the dogs to ring them when they needed to go out. One doesn't use them at all. The other one? Guess what he uses them for??

He bats at them when he wants a snack, which is ALL THE DAMN TIME! Something's cooking in the oven? That little bastage is banging those bells until it cools enough for him to have a taste of whatever it is. We created a monster.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 07:57 PM (zYpTz)

30 Uhhhh.....
The link about the Czech dam ain't right.
Unless people saying "Damn!" when they find a human head is what was intended.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 07:57 PM (EuPh7)

31 Me too. My clan was from Edinburgh. Even had an ancestor who was constable of the castle.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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My surname is from the Scottish Highlands, Clan Chattan, MacPherson. Thought now and again about joining the clan group but health has not been kind to me enough to travel. Just trying to make a MoMeet in the last several years has been beyond me.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:57 PM (E4rtv)

32 anybody know what kandi is ?

Posted by: grass monkey at October 29, 2026 07:58 PM (EH7ZV)

33 So the best part of that video about Czech beavers is when the Deputy Sheriff said "oh ___, that's a head" and later said, "yeah, it's got teeth and hair and ears and everything"

Bad link ace. Morbid, but interesting.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 07:58 PM (rbvCR)

34
He bats at them when he wants a snack, which is ALL THE DAMN TIME! Something's cooking in the oven? That little bastage is banging those bells until it cools enough for him to have a taste of whatever it is. We created a monster.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 07:57 PM (zYpTz)

__________

Your life is busy. They have all the time in the world to learn how to do this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:59 PM (eRlcH)

35 Haven't been sleeping well all week so better call it a night.
Have a good night everyone

And lots of cute videos tonight

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

36 I like beavers!

Posted by: Winona at October 29, 2026 07:59 PM (0sNs1)

37 YEah, the link to the beaver building a dam video is actually a link to Asmongold watching a video about some dude killing and leaving a pedo's corpse in a cornfield or something.

Not a beaver vid. Probably not a vide you want to watch.

Why is Ace even having a link to that?

Posted by: SimoHayha at October 29, 2026 08:00 PM (IeYnM)

38 He bats at them when he wants a snack, which is ALL THE DAMN TIME! Something's cooking in the oven? That little bastage is banging those bells until it cools enough for him to have a taste of whatever it is. We created a monster.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 07:57 PM (zYpTz)
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Heh.

I have bell-in-a-ball dangling from the doorknob that leads out to the sunroom. It's just a cat toy attached to a string.

Hexie has learned to pat it when she wants to go out into the sunroom. Fortunately, she only does that if she knows I'm nearby and will let her out. I don't get woken up in the middle of the night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 08:00 PM (FZ29D)

39 Returning from a round trip to Bullhead City and Yuma AZ.Presently holed up in one of those Route 66 theme motels, and this one is actually nice (no junk car parked out front, but the shop across the highway has an Edsel). On the way out I stayed at a pretty nice motel in Williams, but the next morning was rough. Temp went from 70 to 28 overnight and the 6100 foot elevation wrecked the arthritic joints.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 29, 2026 08:01 PM (d7pTx)

40 Asmongold? Based.

Posted by: mea culpa at October 29, 2026 08:01 PM (iN6fC)

41 Creamed chipped beef on toast, please.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:42 PM

I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we are out.

May I interest you in an MRE, or we have some exceptional vintage C-Rations, in particular a "Ham and Lima Beans", which was even more regarded than creamed chipped beef en pointe.

Posted by: Cafe Garcon at October 29, 2026 08:02 PM (0sNs1)

42 Love the picture. So spooky.

I'd love to have an afternoon to wander that cemetery.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 07:49 PM (zYpTz)

I look at that picture and I can hear the plaintive, spine-chilling call of the werebeaver.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 08:03 PM (wVcYX)

43 Wow, I'm pretty good about just letting things out of my control go. Dramatic family stuff. Elections. I take care of what I can control. The rest I have to let go.

By the way...worry about something that may happen 3 months from now and what you'll have to do. That may NEVER happen. So ask yourself what will you do about an alien attack. Aquaman turning evil. Cats and dogs on the rampage.

Equal odds of happening. That shut up an anxiety part of my brain pretty effectively.

But that UTSA student, that's just a bitch I want to suffer. Entire bloodline. Isa Casahuga.

During the last year or so, bullets being fired at President Trump left and right, leftists celebrating murder. I'm not longer considering a lot of things human. And I'm from Canada and somehow got my elderly mother through Covid.

My hatred already ran pretty deep.
But I want this bitch and her family to suffer.
And I'd like it to spread.

Oh, I have a happier thing later.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:03 PM (Sco7b)

44 >> I like beavers!

Heeeee .. hee hee hee

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:04 PM (viF8m)

45 Our cats just stand at the door and yowl when they want out. I keep telling them I'm not a f'n doorman.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)

46 Here we go. For Halloween. Every Gothic Horror Trope

(not really, but enough of them to fit into 2 minutes run-time)

youtu.be/C0imE4vozDM

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 08:06 PM (rbvCR)

47 I didn’t miss anything not seeing anything of Sunny and Tanrrantino

Posted by: Accomack at October 29, 2026 08:06 PM (dJCmT)

48 I look at that picture and I can hear the plaintive, spine-chilling call of the werebeaver.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 08:03 PM

Where beaver?
There beaver.
There castle.

Posted by: Marty Feldman at October 29, 2026 08:06 PM (dX+L6)

49 45 Our cats just stand at the door and yowl when they want out. I keep telling them I'm not a f'n doorman.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)

As you're opening the door for them again, amirite?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:07 PM (zYpTz)

50
I look at that picture and I can hear the plaintive, spine-chilling call of the werebeaver.
Posted by: Count de Monet

He were beaver now he's lumpy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 08:08 PM (Cqx++)

51 Doorman is an excellent career choice. There are a lot of openings in the field.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM (0sNs1)

52 I find cat parts down at the creek on our property from house cats the coyotes kill. It's pretty gross. One still had its air tag collar.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM (enNUy)

53
"It licks the beaver or it gets the hose again..."

-- background dialogue from the Cornell 7 sessions

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM (ixS3i)

54 "As you're opening the door for them again, amirite?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!"

No. I only do it if it is convenient. They are not the boss of me.
Besides, Mrs fd will do it.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM (MWfyi)

55 It all hinges on who you know.

Posted by: Oh, no... at October 29, 2026 08:10 PM (dX+L6)

56 Besides, Mrs fd will do it.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM (MWfyi)

LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:10 PM (zYpTz)

57 i have a lever style handle on the door and the dog has learned to let himself in.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 08:10 PM (8Uo7a)

58 Not exactly Six Flags. Don't see any rides. Not exactly lit up very well. Bet the food sucks. Oh well, keep on driving I guess.

Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 08:11 PM (fzmBj)

59 Then NextDoor has the missing cat notices.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:11 PM (enNUy)

60 53
"It licks the beaver or it gets the hose again..."

-- background dialogue from the Cornell 7 sessions
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Coming soon on the Netflix Documentary.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:12 PM (E4rtv)

61
51 Doorman is an excellent career choice. There are a lot of openings in the field.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM

That's a-door-able!

Posted by: Groan at October 29, 2026 08:13 PM (dX+L6)

62
I find cat parts down at the creek on our property from house cats the coyotes kill. It's pretty gross. One still had its air tag collar.
Posted by: NCKate

I am reasonably certain that our last cat, who may well have been ill at the time, was dispatched ten years ago and consumed by a family of foxes who resided in this area at the time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:13 PM (ixS3i)

63 Good evening, Ben Had!

*raises glass

Having a nice Bordeaux Clairet, which is my new favorite, but I'm questioning my life choices, because it seems my favorite wines come from communist countries.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:13 PM (zYpTz)

64 If you feed a beaver a banana...

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:13 PM (MWfyi)

65 Here, the Brewer's won. Kylie is 21 and sang the national anthem for game 2.

No instruments. Beautiful voice. She just finished a tour and got 48 notice asking if she wanted to sing.

https://tinyurl.com/yuxymr23

She was on a great DisneyChannel sci-fi show "Gabby Duran and the Unsittables.' Cute, funny inventive show. Never political. I still follow her.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:14 PM (Sco7b)

66 AMSR??? what's that ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:15 PM (AKptf)

67 We've got a family of foxes we've watched for over 12 years. They are hell on rabbits, chipmunks, moles, etc. And scream bloody murder which is crazy sounding.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:16 PM (enNUy)

68 But that UTSA student, that's just a bitch I want to suffer. Entire bloodline. Isa Casahuga.

My hatred already ran pretty deep.
But I want this bitch and her family to suffer.
And I'd like it to spread.

Oh, I have a happier thing later.
Posted by: Stateless
=====
If it makes you happy, other students on visas have been deported for making remarks like hers.

And realtor mom is probably going to take a hit in her day job as people, especially of the CEO class buying expensive homes right now, are not exactly the people that are favoring talk of assassinations.

Mom, as a self proclaimed activist is probably what created this disgusting mess of a daughter's thinking. And it would serve her right that her daughter is deported to the tender mercies of Lula's Brazil. Hope she follows with hubbie too.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:16 PM (E4rtv)

69 "AMSR??? what's that ?
Posted by: runner"

Twenty bucks. Two for forty.

Posted by: Same as in town at October 29, 2026 08:16 PM (MWfyi)

70 Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 08:17 PM (0sNs1)

71 The person who patented the door knocker received a no-bell prize.

Posted by: Make it stop... at October 29, 2026 08:17 PM (dX+L6)

72 I keep Lucy the Fink inside. She used to go outside when we first got her. Then we moved to a big house on a hill and the first week I saw a Coyote in the backyard. Nope. She had a second story deck she could hang out on and eat her cat grass and chatter at the birds. Then I moved again, down to the beach and it’s a busy street and there’s owls and eagles amd coyotes and cars.

She’s used to being inside. I do wish I could build a catio for her, but the landlady would never allow.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 08:18 PM (+8HoB)

73 >>Our cats just stand at the door and yowl when they want out. I keep telling them I'm not a f'n doorman

I took Elvis up to see my mom at the retirement home yesterday. The wheelchair army came out in force once they heard Elvis was in the house. Next couple of hours was Elvis getting loved up by the residents and staff.

I was asked over and over "When is Elvis coming back?".

Apparently, I have graduated to my dog's chauffeur. A mans got to know his limitations.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:18 PM (viF8m)

74 ASMR - yes
AMSR- no

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:18 PM (AKptf)

75 Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response...
but that's not important right now.

Posted by: Victor Vector at October 29, 2026 08:19 PM (dX+L6)

76 49 45 Our cats just stand at the door and yowl when they want out. I keep telling them I'm not a f'n doorman.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)

My friends' cat Snowflake has this as her base of operations.

They have a full house of kids. I have a big house she's welcome in. And she and Ralphy are friends.

Do you get flea protection for the cats? I do for Snowflake since she stays here. Just the Advantage stuff. If they're going outside.

Snowflake waits until my sleep cycle is over and I'm kind of awake and she'll jump from the chair to the bed, purr and let me know she wants to go out. It's really cute. Ralphy continues to sleep.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:19 PM (Sco7b)

77 If you feed a beaver a banana...
Posted by: fd

I can't exactly recall where I saw that show: Tijuana, Olongapo, or Pattaya.

Everyone tells me I had a pretty good time..

Posted by: Colossus at October 29, 2026 08:20 PM (SaoqG)

78 That painting is pretty spooky and certainly appropriate to this time and place.

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 08:21 PM (SwyyQ)

79 I find cat parts down at the creek on our property from house cats the coyotes kill. It's pretty gross. One still had its air tag collar.
Posted by: NCKate

Then NextDoor has the missing cat notices.
Posted by: NCKate

"Hi, is this Susan? I found your cat. Well, I found about a quarter of your cat."

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 08:22 PM (VHUov)

80 I took Elvis up to see my mom at the retirement home yesterday. The wheelchair army came out in force once they heard Elvis was in the house. Next couple of hours was Elvis getting loved up by the residents and staff.

I was asked over and over "When is Elvis coming back?".

Apparently, I have graduated to my dog's chauffeur. A mans got to know his limitations.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Animals make life happier for residents. May the Lord bless your endeavors as chauffeur to your service dog.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:22 PM (E4rtv)

81 Apparently, I have graduated to my dog's chauffeur. A mans got to know his limitations.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:18 PM (viF8m)

We're all just staff.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:22 PM (zYpTz)

82
There is a "wilderness area" up in the Poconos, designated as the Thunder Swamp, with a series of hiking trails around and within it. It was really a lovely place. Our troop had hiked there two different times over the span from 2000 to 2009. One spot, near to a stream, was a perfect place to camp out overnight. We used it on both trips.

About a decade ago we returned for another camping weekend, but now beavers had dammed that stream. A vast area, including our idyllic camping site, was under water. We had to settle. We've not been back there since.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:23 PM (ixS3i)

83 Hi. I found your cat's face. We burned it in the fire pit and sent his spirit into the wind.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:24 PM (enNUy)

84 Is the P. Diddy costume AI?

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 08:25 PM (SwyyQ)

85 Cat-agories:

Inside always
Inside mostly
Inside sometimes
Inside rarely
Inside never

We've had all varieties. The ones who spend much time at all inside get flea medicine. Except Spooky. She gets phenobarbital.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 08:25 PM (MWfyi)

86 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:16 PM (E4rtv)

Thank you.

I saw things here in Canada get pretty extreme. I'll never forget that. And I'm still fine with about 66.6% of the population dropping dead from the shots.

But the US, wow, that's a group that needs a few punches, and massive defunding.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:27 PM (Sco7b)

87 Dash, Cheers, sweet lady. I am enjoying a glass of Rodney Strong.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 08:28 PM (8Uo7a)

88 Breaking News: Ian Choudri, he CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority, resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities”.

“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life." Mr. Choudri wrote in his resignation letter.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 29, 2026 08:28 PM (0sNs1)

89 We found a dead deer in our yard. It was frozen solid since it was February. Animal Control is never helpful because they're fuckfaces. So we packed the deer to the greenway for the stroller moms to find next morning.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (enNUy)

90 ASMR - yes
AMSR- no
Posted by: runner

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response...
but that's not important right now.
Posted by: Victor Vector

I had to check, because I assume every 3- and 4-letter acronym must mean something.

"Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk."

So, reading the Cafe would help!

.....

Obligatory:

"Suicide hotline."

"Hi, this is Hillary Clinton. I'd like to place an order."

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (VHUov)

91 "I got filthy rich and will now go away". Mr. Choudri wrote in his resignation letter.

Posted by: That's more like it at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (MWfyi)

92
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Posted by: Duncanthrax

You watch your phraseology!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (ixS3i)

93 80 I took Elvis up to see my mom at the retirement home yesterday.
+++

No Kings!

Posted by: Geezer Karen McAwfl at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (dX+L6)

94 “This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life." Mr. Choudri wrote in his resignation letter.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 29, 2026 08:28 PM (0sNs1)

Grifting can be rewarding. But meaningful? GTFO.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 08:30 PM (ZHIH/)

95 I bet Elvis lifts the spirits of the older folks like nothing else.

Elvis let them love on him and he shows them happiness and gratitude.

Which is more than I can say for some relatives I bet.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 08:30 PM (mZLuT)

96 A vast area, including our idyllic camping site, was under water. We had to settle. We've not been back there since.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:23 PM

At least you didn't die from dysentery.

Posted by: The Oregon Trail at October 29, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

97 Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Posted by: Duncanthrax

You watch your phraseology!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (ixS3i)
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It does sound a bit like something you'd say to attract mephitic waterfowl.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 08:31 PM (FZ29D)

98
So we packed the deer to the greenway for the stroller moms to find next morning.
Posted by: NCKate

Let it never be said here that NCKate was not a giver!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:31 PM (ixS3i)

99 Grifting can be rewarding. But meaningful? GTFO.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 08:30 PM (ZHIH/)

I'll be helping the children.
Whether or not they exist.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:31 PM (Sco7b)

100 >>Animals make life happier for residents. May the Lord bless your endeavors as chauffeur to your service dog.

It's very true. Elvis went and sat with one elderly lady for a while. She suffers from dementia. She's very anxious and sad. But she got noticeably calmer and communicative just by petting Elvis for a few minutes. Told me all about her Dalmatian she probably had decades ago.

Elvis isn't a service dog, just a goofy mutt who is very gentle. It's honestly fun for me. Some lovely people with lots of stories to tell. People don't stop being people just cause they get old and infirm.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:31 PM (viF8m)

101 So we packed the deer to the greenway for the stroller moms to find next morning.
Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM

It's always cute to get one of those Mylar Get Well Soon! balloons and tie it to the antler.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at October 29, 2026 08:32 PM (dX+L6)

102 Armenia's national legislature kicked off its entry into the global parliamentary donnybrook competition:

https://tinyurl.com/zczha4fh

Observers welcomed a new participant in the tourney, but some said Armenia had to build for the future, as its effort was not in the same class as Taiwan or South Korea.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 08:32 PM (U/Byj)

103 Thank you.

I saw things here in Canada get pretty extreme. I'll never forget that. And I'm still fine with about 66.6% of the population dropping dead from the shots.

But the US, wow, that's a group that needs a few punches, and massive defunding.
Posted by: Stateless
=====
Some positive signs for Canada with the BC elections, Quebec's Premier publicly humiliating Carney, and even the Alberta Referendum though it failed, indicates increasing support for fundamentally redoing Canada. Wish everyone there well except for the non-human goblin folks of the left.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:32 PM (E4rtv)

104 Too bad it was before e-bikes and scooters or we could've had some real fun.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 08:33 PM (enNUy)

105 AMSR??? what's that ?
Posted by: runner

It's why the dyslexic girl falls for you when you whisper in her ear.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 08:34 PM (VHUov)

106
At least you didn't die from dysentery.
Posted by: The Oregon Trail

Our kids had that game on our desktop computer way back in the day. I am sad to report that I never took it out for a spin.

SimCity, on the other hand, I did. I used to take fiendish delight in bulldozing into rubble their housing whenever the SimCity denizens began demanding more high speed rail.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:34 PM (ixS3i)

107 Even Italy has seen more entertaining parliamentary fisticuffs.
Northern Italy anyway. If they'd been Sicilians . . .

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (88C+u)

108 Whew! The day has ended. How is everyone?

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

109 It's very true. Elvis went and sat with one elderly lady for a while. She suffers from dementia. She's very anxious and sad. But she got noticeably calmer and communicative just by petting Elvis for a few minutes. Told me all about her Dalmatian she probably had decades ago.

Elvis isn't a service dog, just a goofy mutt who is very gentle. It's honestly fun for me. Some lovely people with lots of stories to tell. People don't stop being people just cause they get old and infirm.
Posted by: JackStraw
========
My Mom is in memory care from vascular dementia. They allowed her to keep her elderly cat as she was getting worse which is why we picked the place and the cat passed eventually before Mom got too bad to take care of it. They also have a Great Dane service dog that visits the residents who love him.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv)

110 I always figgered there were at least a few Scots in here.

Posted by: Cheap Skates at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (EdP2u)

111
Animals make life happier for residents. May the Lord bless your endeavors as chauffeur to your service dog.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:22 PM (E4rtv)

___________

Many, many years ago, Her Majesty took Johnny to visit an old-time famous Borzoi breeder who was in a nursing home. His wife was dead and he was just waiting to die too.

When he saw Gentleman John he burst into tears, hugged him and wouldn't let go; I'm sure Johnny behaved with his usual aplomb. Russ took Johnny around to show the other residents the kind of dog he once had. And so for a short time, his purpose and love returned.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:36 PM (eRlcH)

112 Elvis isn't a service dog, just a goofy mutt who is very gentle. It's honestly fun for me. Some lovely people with lots of stories to tell. People don't stop being people just cause they get old and infirm.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:31 PM (viF8m)

I take Ralphy to one of my late mother's friends who is in her 90s but still at home. She loves Ralphy.

I'll bring her a Tim's muffin and timbits for her to give to Ralphy. My ONLY connection is she was Mom's friend, who I knew. I try to go as much as I can, but I'm still rebuilding.

And Ralphy, almost 106.5 in dog years. We celebrate every morning when he wakes up.

May all of us get to that age.
I've checked so many times to make sure Mom and Dad were breathing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:36 PM (Sco7b)

113 Obligatory:

"Suicide hotline."

"Hi, this is Hillary Clinton. I'd like to place an order."
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 08:29 PM (VHUov)

"Suicide hotline, please hold..."

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:36 PM (AKptf)

114 102 Armenia's national legislature kicked off its entry into the global parliamentary donnybrook competition:

https://tinyurl.com/zczha4fh
+++
A brouhaha.
A melee.
A scuffle.

Posted by: A real dust up at October 29, 2026 08:36 PM (dX+L6)

115 Whew! The day has ended. How is everyone?
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

Better and better. Because in 2 days I will get my stolen hour back!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:37 PM (AKptf)

116
Elvis isn't a service dog, just a goofy mutt who is very gentle. It's honestly fun for me. Some lovely people with lots of stories to tell. People don't stop being people just cause they get old and infirm.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026

This is really a beautiful thing you do.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:37 PM (ZdaMQ)

117 Better and better. Because in 2 days I will get my stolen hour back!
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:37 PM (AKptf)

Cats are going to wonder why I am sleeping in an extra hour.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)

118 Elvis isn't a service dog, just a goofy mutt who is very gentle. It's honestly fun for me. Some lovely people with lots of stories to tell. People don't stop being people just cause they get old and infirm.
Posted by: JackStraw

Moose the lab made trips to the MiL's assisted living place. The olds loved him. He just wants to be everybody's friend.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 08:38 PM (b99Hl)

119 One anonymous observer of the brawl in the Armenian parliament said "if you look closer you'll see many of the deputies hit like girls. This is not the stuff that gets you to the finals." A rumored "friendly" match with neighboring Turkey slated for November has some fans hoping for more impressive action.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 08:40 PM (U/Byj)

120
It's very true. Elvis went and sat with one elderly lady for a while. She suffers from dementia. She's very anxious and sad. But she got noticeably calmer and communicative just by petting Elvis for a few minutes.

____________

We were once at a show in Indiana when a group of profoundly retarded people were brought in for an outing. All the dogs realized, "Whoa, special handling required." They behaved impeccably. It was touching to see the way the eyes of these unfortunates lit up when they were visited.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

121
Better and better. Because in 2 days I will get my stolen hour back!
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:37 PM

Do we get to stop changing after this?

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

122
-- background dialogue from the Cornell 7 sessions
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 08:09 PM (ixS3i)

I looked up your handle again just for fun and found this darkly amusing item:

“After deliberating for just over 5 1/2 hours, the jury of 5 women and 7 men found Samantha Krebs guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing death of Joey Carnot. The judge scheduled sentencing for the morning of November 25, 2025.”

Looks like it was an epic battle, alright.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 08:41 PM (xOuxV)

123 Cats are going to wonder why I am sleeping in an extra hour.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)
----
More importantly, they are going to wonder where their food is...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 08:42 PM (FZ29D)

124
Do we get to stop changing after this?
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

_________

Let us pray.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:42 PM (eRlcH)

125 Genie: I shall grant you 3 wishes.
Me: I wish for a world without lawyers.
Genie: Done, you have no more wishes.
Me: But you said 3.
Genie: Sue me.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 08:42 PM (zjffd)

126 I take Ralphy to one of my late mother's friends who is in her 90s but still at home. She loves Ralphy.

I'll bring her a Tim's muffin and timbits for her to give to Ralphy. My ONLY connection is she was Mom's friend, who I knew. I try to go as much as I can, but I'm still rebuilding.

And Ralphy, almost 106.5 in dog years. We celebrate every morning when he wakes up.

May all of us get to that age.
I've checked so many times to make sure Mom and Dad were breathing.
Posted by: Stateless
====
May Ralph continue enjoying his treats everyday and may others get to love on him as much as he gives back to them.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 08:42 PM (E4rtv)

127 115 Whew! The day has ended. How is everyone?
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

Better and better. Because in 2 days I will get my stolen hour back!
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:37 PM (AKptf)

Thank God!

Also, hi, Piper!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:43 PM (zYpTz)

128 Do we get to stop changing after this?
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
~~~~~

Just read today that the Senate is holding it up.

Again.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 29, 2026 08:43 PM (3ImbR)

129 Do we get to stop changing after this?
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

If it was up to me, yes. But it is not up to me.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:43 PM (AKptf)

130 Yknow you can eat beaver.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 29, 2026 08:43 PM (bk5Wq)

131 Hi, Dash!

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

132
And Ralphy, almost 106.5 in dog years. We celebrate every morning when he wakes up.

_________

Every day with our old friends is a day of grace.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:45 PM (eRlcH)

133 Yknow you can eat beaver.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Word.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2026 08:45 PM (ftFVW)

134 Just read today that the Senate is holding it up.

Again.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 29, 2026 08:43 PM (3ImbR)

The golfing lobby is powerful.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:46 PM (zYpTz)

135 grab your ankles, linux devs
youtu.be/0Ftp7ppbFUY
"a remote attacker with no credentials [can] run commands as root on Linux servers with a multipath TCP listener". Looks like it's a classic multithreading problem, two processes trying to hit the same resource at the same time.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 08:47 PM (88C+u)

136 The flesh of the beaver is looked upon as very delicate food by the North American hunters, but the tail is the choicest dainty, and in great request. It is much prized by the Indians and trappers, especially when it is roasted in the skin, after the hair has been singed off.

Posted by: Beaver preparation tips at October 29, 2026 08:48 PM (MWfyi)

137 >>This is really a beautiful thing you do.

I'm not really doing anything other than visiting my mom. I was just blessed to have a great one.

She raised horses, dogs and a variety of other critters and one half bubble off center son. I started bringing Elvis because I know how much she loves animals and it turns out many people do. Somehow it's turned into "When is Elvis coming back?". Even my mom asks when is the mutt coming back. Women.

I'm not kidding when I say it's as much fun for me as it is for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:48 PM (viF8m)

138 Just read today that the Senate is holding it up.

Again.
Posted by: IrishEi

Oh good, so I get to spend the next week feeling like I'm late for work.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 29, 2026 08:49 PM (ftFVW)

139 Lucy was still in her “don’t touch me” phase when I was having chemo.

She would sit next to me. And even lean against my leg. She knew.

Now she will sit on my lap. Kind of. And perch on my chest in bed.

Her purrs are magic.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 08:50 PM (mwI9z)

140 >>Moose the lab made trips to the MiL's assisted living place. The olds loved him. He just wants to be everybody's friend.

Exactly.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:50 PM (viF8m)

141 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 08:51 PM (77rzZ)

142 115 Whew! The day has ended. How is everyone?
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 08:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

Hoping you're well.

So I did exit the house today and went grocery shopping. I'm stocked until January. I'll just need to get milk for coffee, bananas and oranges once in a while. There's a gas station where the guy gets local greenhouse produce, most of the time great quality and cheaper than the stores aside from bananas.

Other than that, I can work on my projects.

So Walmart and NoFrills in Canada so you can compare. I just like letting all of you know. And I'm thrifty. BUT I spent over $300 at Walmart today and over $200 at NoFrills.

Of course, I haven't been big grocery shopping for about 6 weeks. Projects. - just wait.

And I'm still in the habit of being prepared for zombie apocalypse. Prices below if you want to see what the greener pastures are like.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:52 PM (Sco7b)

143 Moose the lab made trips to the MiL's assisted living place. The olds loved him. He just wants to be everybody's friend.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Retrieving and herding breeds all want to be everybody's friend, in my experience.

Possible exception for herders who actually have a herd. They can get testy.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 08:53 PM (VHUov)

144 Last link of feeding a badger. Please note this is an English badger, which is the limp-wristed faggot of the badger world. A North American badger will rip the flesh from your hand if you tried such a stunt.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 29, 2026 08:53 PM (D7fKa)

145 wait, Senate is holding up a bill to make DST permanent. NO BUENO!!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:54 PM (AKptf)

146 BUT I spent over $300 at Walmart today and over $200 at NoFrills.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 08:52 PM

If that's going to hold you into next year, it's nowhere near excessive.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:57 PM (zYpTz)

147
wait, Senate is holding up a bill to make DST permanent. NO BUENO!!
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:54 PM (AKptf)

__________

They should be passing a bill to make Standard Time permanent. DST is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:57 PM (eRlcH)

148 The mountain men considered roasted beaver tail a delicacy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 08:58 PM (0sNs1)

149 They should be passing a bill to make Standard Time permanent. DST is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:57 PM (eRlcH)

^^^^^This^^^^^

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 08:59 PM (zYpTz)

150 >>We were once at a show in Indiana when a group of profoundly retarded people were brought in for an outing. All the dogs realized, "Whoa, special handling required." They behaved impeccably. It was touching to see the way the eyes of these unfortunates lit up when they were visited.

There's some magic that happens between dogs and humans in need of compassion I won't even pretend to understand but I've seen it too many times to ignore. It's real.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:59 PM (viF8m)

151 They should be passing a bill to make Standard Time permanent. DST is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 08:57 PM (eRlcH)

A-men!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:02 PM (AKptf)

152 I'll burn down all of DC if Standard Time is enacted year round. Darkness at 4:30 PM is a crime against nature. DST or nothing. Deport morning people to China where there's only one time zone. Maybe then they'll be happy, but I doubt it.

Posted by: Slugabed Johnny at October 29, 2026 09:02 PM (EdP2u)

153 And I'm still in the habit of being prepared for zombie apocalypse. Prices below if you want to see what the greener pastures are like.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October

I am not even telling you what we spend. It’s embarrassing after this post!

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 09:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

154 A guy cock blocks his guy friend.

A girl beaver dams her guy friend.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:02 PM (Ti9vn)

155 A well stuffed beaver is a sight to behold.

Posted by: Drebin at October 29, 2026 09:04 PM (Q+gd/)

156
JD Vance crushed the town hall in texas. He'll make a great president in 2036.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 09:05 PM (mmrXZ)

157
Maybe then they'll be happy, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Slugabed Johnny at October 29, 2026 09:02 PM (EdP2u)

__________

Time for school, Johnny! Wakey-wakey!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 09:05 PM (eRlcH)

158
Again, if they pass permanent DST, it will be repealed after the first winter, just like it was back in the early '70s when they tried this before. Current generation has just forgot about that.

In the latter latitudes in the western most parts of time zones that are already too far west, sunrise will push 10AM around the winter solstice, and that will be the end of it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:06 PM (w6EFb)

159 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:06 PM (w6EFb)

How is that? We have different time zones. Sunrise time should be the same across time zones.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:08 PM (Ti9vn)

160 One dollar Canadian is about 0.72 US today. Make it $0.70.

Walmart
1.75 kg frozen broccoli - $6.97
Chicken Burgers - great buy - 8 to a pack - 20 grams of protein - $12.98
Frozen Blueberries - 1.75 kg - $16.48
Gatorade powder - $7.98

50 Halloween Chocolate mini bars for the neighbours kids - $8.97
100 - Halloween Chocloate mini bars for me $12.77

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:10 PM (Sco7b)

161
No Frills
Activia Yogurt - 650 ml - $3.87
Frozen pizzas - $3.47
Avocados - about 10 small ones to a bag - $5.00
Eggs - 12 large - $3.37

Meats
Swedish Meatballs - $10 a bag. 11 grams of protein per 3 I think.

Halal Chicken - lean - yeah but $10 for about a buck per 25 grams of protein.

Chicken Legs, thighs and backs were $0.99 a pound. We'll see how that goes.

12 mangoes - $8.88

Gas station ahs apples at 6 bucks a bag, grapefruit at $1.29 and 3 or 4 peppers for a buck.

Just so you know.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:10 PM (Sco7b)

162 Fell down today. First on bicycle, scrape elbow, not bad. Then fell down in my room. Took me an hour to get up. Not injured just arthritis and being old and fat.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 29, 2026 09:12 PM (cZ6oU)

163 I'll burn down all of DC if Standard Time is enacted year round. Darkness at 4:30 PM is a crime against nature. DST or nothing. Deport morning people to China where there's only one time zone. Maybe then they'll be happy, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Slugabed Johnny at October 29, 2026 09:02 PM (EdP2u)
**************************

Morning people are the idiots pushing for Translight Saving Time over Biological Time.

Posted by: Math! at October 29, 2026 09:12 PM (PXtw/)

164 Look, anyone and everyone can set their own opening times. Factories? We'll start at 8am beginning x date.
Schools? We'll start at x time starting x.
We've been shifting our starting times for years, according to available daylight. Only problem is guys with kids who go to school.
Why is it so hard? We're Murcans. Free to make our very own mistakes.

Posted by: Elias Cheatum and Howe at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (ik4bQ)

165 Halal Chicken -

===

👀

throw it out, trust me on this...or feed it to racoons

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (AKptf)

166 >> Sunrise time should be the same across time zones.

Sunrise time is a function of longitude. In fact the definition of local mean solar time is a strong function of longitude. Our hourly time zones correspond to 15 degrees of longitude, centered on certain meridian (and should be 15W, but that varies greatly cause of all the political factors0. Eastern time zone is centered on the 75W meridian.

If you're to the east of that central meridian, sunrise/set and solar noon occur *earlier* per the clock time. If you're to the west of the central meridian, those times occur later.

So, too far west, sunrise comes especially late in winter at high latitudes. Conversely sunset comes too early if you're too far east.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (w6EFb)

167 If you want more daylight, then get up earlier.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)

168 Walmart - 30 rolls of 3 ply Royale toilet paper - $12.97
12 boxes of Royale 3 ply facial tissue - $18.48.

Those are the highlights.
Sorry.

I just think people kind of like to know what things cost where 'the grass is greener.'

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (Sco7b)

169 Morning people are the idiots pushing for Translight Saving Time over Biological Time.
Posted by: Math! at October 29, 2026 09:12 PM (PXtw/)

Whatever. It's currently dark until 8 am.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 09:14 PM (zYpTz)

170 Hadrian, our disabled son LOVES animals, and they love him. I know how much animals mean to those with mental and physical impairments.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at October 29, 2026 09:15 PM (FGA9/)

171 It will save whale oil.
The wheat will grow faster.
We'll be able to harvest longer each day.
The kids will do better in school.
It's safer.

Posted by: And other feeble reasons at October 29, 2026 09:15 PM (dX+L6)

172 Morning people are the idiots pushing for Translight Saving Time over Biological Time.
Posted by: Math! at October 29, 2026 09:12 PM (PXtw/)

I misunderstood your position. Disregard previous post. Carry on.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 29, 2026 09:15 PM (zYpTz)

173
If you want more daylight, then get up earlier.
Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)

_________

No, they're neurodivergents with chronic fatigue syndrome who are whining for a 32-hour week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 09:16 PM (eRlcH)

174 165 Halal Chicken -

===

👀

throw it out, trust me on this...or feed it to racoons
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:13 PM (AKptf)

I've had it before.

Again, my fussiness level is near zero.

Food Basics - I stopped off in there. Wow. A lot of the stuff was Halal and expensive as hell.

The city isn't heavily muslim like windsoristan. So I wondered if that was a corporate decision. Seriously, I just ran in and out and so much of the stuff was halal.

And expensive as crap.
Creepy.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:17 PM (Sco7b)

175 I don't feed coons. I'd debone it and feed it to my dog.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:18 PM (b99Hl)

176 With all this talk about beavers, I see much opportunity in the air.
— Buc-ee’s litigation department

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:18 PM (77rzZ)

177
Our cats just stand at the door and yowl when they want out. I keep telling them I'm not a f'n doorman.
Posted by: fd

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

Surrender. Do as they say. I've doubled my productivity since I adopted this simple life hack.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone-definitely not get cat - Blonde is fine at October 29, 2026 09:18 PM (mmrXZ)

178
Jeez autocorrect in my SOCK ruined my joke.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 09:19 PM (mmrXZ)

179 Surrender. Do as they say. I've doubled my productivity since I adopted this simple life hack.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I'm the designated doorman. What I hate is that one of our cats can't exit the front or side door. Only the back door will do.
Bitch

Posted by: MkY at October 29, 2026 09:21 PM (ik4bQ)

180 I am fine with either standard or DST. Just pick one and stop with the semiannual time-switching.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 29, 2026 09:21 PM (0aYVJ)

181 177
Our cats just stand at the door and yowl when they want out. I keep telling them I'm not a f'n doorman.
Posted by: fd

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

Surrender. Do as they say. I've doubled my productivity since I adopted this simple life hack.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone-definitely not get cat - Blonde is fine at October 29, 2026 09:18 PM (mmrXZ)

Or, as last year, have the outdoor temperature about -20 Celcius. Very rare for my area.

Snowflake and her Mom Starry had no desire to leave the house. And Ralphy, old as he is, would still try to chase Starry.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:22 PM (Sco7b)

182 I am fine with either standard or DST. Just pick one and stop with the semiannual time-switching.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

No more fuckery of the clocks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:23 PM (b99Hl)

183 Eventually it doesn't matter because you'll go to bed at 8 and wake up at 4:00 am no matter what.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 09:23 PM (lCppi)

184 I can't remember the last time I ate any candy. Many, many years ago. I don't buy it and have no desire to eat it. A 180 from when I was a kid.

Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 09:24 PM (fzmBj)

185 Running a huge Nation by trying to please Skip and Hadrian is folly in the extreme. There's no hurry to get out of bed. Driving home from work in the dark is depressing and will lead to MAID being instituted right here in USA. Could well be part of the Globalist Conspiracy to undermine us.

Posted by: Slugabeds United For DST at October 29, 2026 09:24 PM (EdP2u)

186
Running a huge Nation by trying to please Skip and Hadrian is folly in the extreme

________

Au contraire, running a huge nation to please Skip and me will lead us all to the sunny uplands of peace and prosperity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 09:27 PM (eRlcH)

187 Morning people deserve waking up in the dark.

Leave the early nights to us owls.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:28 PM (77rzZ)

188
I had a uncle who was quite the curmudgeon and sort of conspiracy minded. "They" were trying to fool him with the DST change into coming to work one hour earlier and quitting one hour earlier.

He would never change his watch or clocks. So during DST, he was always doing 7AM - 4PM and having to mentally adjust any appointment times and all that. And he'd get mixed up occasionally, especially right after the changeovers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:30 PM (w6EFb)

189 Publius,
I recognize your posts from the first sentence, which is often the only one I understand. But I love them. Keep 'em coming.

Posted by: Wenda at October 29, 2026 09:30 PM (W2eM/)

190 Hi, Wenda!

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:31 PM (77rzZ)

191
Anyway, he would die before he would change his clocks. That was his hill to die on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:31 PM (w6EFb)

192 Hi back, Bulg.

How's by you?

Posted by: Wenda at October 29, 2026 09:32 PM (W2eM/)

193 Not injured just arthritis and being old and fat.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and

Oh no! I am sorry. Glad you are okay, though.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 09:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

194 The biggest sunrise difference within a time zone is about an hour from the most eastern to western part of the zone. So if we stay in the current time what will be the latest sunrise in the most eastern part of a zone?

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:34 PM (Ti9vn)

195 192 Wenda, I’m OK, thanks. How about you?

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:34 PM (77rzZ)

196 When I lived in Colorado, the sun would set just after 4pm in the winter. Sunrise was 8-ish.

Here in Idaho, on the other side of the time zone, it sets a little after 5 (I think), but does not rise until well after 9 am, and with the foothills it's closer to 10 am before we see the sun.

None of it has ever really affected how I sleep, or how my day goes. As I said, just pick one and stick with it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 29, 2026 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)

197 I'm trying to figure out why this isa casahuga thing bothers me when I have no control over it.

I think it's because she's pretty cute and reminds me of Kat from Gutfeld.

But also, that was pretty vile. And I hang around here. I'm used to the vile. This election cycle, assassination attempts, everything, I was already thinking of these things as sub-human.

Can't talk or negotiate. One of us can only survive. I'm coming to reality with those terms.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)

198 Polynikes,

See time.gov for the current time zone boundaries (which are a bit odd, and that's politics and local economic ties). In the original scheme, with 15 degree wide zones, standard time would differ from local mean time by no more than +/- 30 minutes. Now, the way it worked out (looking at you Michigan and Indiana) we're a bit wider than 15 degrees, especially with Eastern.

In fact, IIRC, and look at timezone map with the meridians compared, and I think the US scheme is just slightly shifted west too much on average, maybe 15 to 20 minutes for what the ideal would be.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:38 PM (w6EFb)

199 So if we stay in the current time what will be the latest sunrise in the most eastern part of a zone?
Posted by: polynike

=====

I'm about as far west as can be in EST. For NW Indiana counties that are on CST, which are due south of me, they'd get sunrise around 9AM.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 29, 2026 09:38 PM (4HoLg)

200
Go to timeandate.com, which is the most reliable sunrise/set/moon, etc, etc, astronomical etc, etc site there is. Plug in locations and see the sunrise and set times for any of those far western boundaries in Michigan and Indiana.

Look at the latest sunrise time (which will occur in late Dec to early Jan depending on latitude) and you can see how late it can get in those locations per standard zone time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:40 PM (w6EFb)

201 Put me in the "just pick ONE time format, and quit messing with the clocks" camp.

When working, I hated DST. My shift was 5am (sometimes 4am) to 5pm (sometimes 4pm)-- and the sun would be blazing until nearly 10pm.

Blackout curtains. But-- now can't open the windows.
Don't want to open windows anyway, because neighborhood kids out of school & outside playing all evening. Noisy!

So, my own fault for having a shift-job, but everyone needs to earn a living *somehow* right?

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 09:41 PM (rdVOm)

202 Stinking Cromwell took Edinburgh castle after 3 months. It is built in a great location. I do love that city. Eerie photo above, Ace.

Sweet goldens befriend any person or animal. Shelby and a squirrel played for years on the back porch. We had a pool screen and the squirrel messed with him and it was a game. When our sweet Shelby died the squirrel kept looking for him when I went outside to swim laps. He missed our boy, too. Shel-bear was so loved.

That baby boy elephant charging is so cute.

Again, to understand how elephants think and admire their intelligence and loyalty, read "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony. I was amazed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 09:42 PM (hzuYO)

203 Why is no one from DC on down discussing another clock time option?

Permanent change from Daylight Standard Time (DST) to DST + 30 minutes?

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 09:43 PM (5rh/l)

204 I was always more aggravated that it was dark when I got off of work than what it was like in the morning.

Right now sunrise is about 7:30 am and sunset 6:30 pm.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:44 PM (Ti9vn)

205 Growing up in Michigan just north of South Bend/Mishiwaka:

“Michigan time” v. “Indiana time” in the summer.

Arghh…

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

206 Embrace the season change. Or be a snowbird.

I have told myself to love the grey and the dark. The rain and wind and empty beach, save me and the ducks and the seagulls. I actually do love it.

Summers are hot and bright and loud and crowded. And they smell.

I love the gentle quacking of the buffleheads. And the hoots of the owls. I wear my old sailing gear and wander out into the gale and enjoy my bourbon and the storm. It’s beautiful and powerful.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 09:46 PM (ySK8l)

207 There are fewer hours of daylight in winter than in summer, no matter *what* the clocks read.

If you want maximum daylight all year, move to the equator.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 09:47 PM (rdVOm)

208 JQ

*fistbump*

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 09:49 PM (ySK8l)

209 Halal Chicken - lean - yeah but $10 for about a buck per 25 grams of protein.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 09:10 PM (Sco7b)

Tired of YouTube so I happened to be reading the cafe which I usually skip.

But, I'd never buy Halal meat because it's a sacrifice to someone I don't worship.

Posted by: Just FYI at October 29, 2026 09:50 PM (1Ff7Z)

210 I don't much care when the sun sets...but I do care, and have hated it since I had to get up early to catch a school bus or clock into a hospital shift...I HATE it being dark when I get up.

It is against nature to get up at dark unless you are on a farm and have to milk cows or similar.

This is the final word on this matter. Pick something where it's not dark at dawn. That's all I ask. And then leave it alone. Make up a new time zone if you have to.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 09:50 PM (hzuYO)

211
bourbon and the storm.

I hear that as a Doors song.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 09:51 PM (Cqx++)

212 I got a turkey that had halal label-- didn't notice it, or would've bought a different brand.

What to do? Rub it with butter AND bacon fat! Put cut-up bacon in the breast cavity along with the onion, apple, and garlic. End of "halal"!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 09:52 PM (rdVOm)

213 Michigan time” v. “Indiana time” in the summer.

Arghh…
Posted by: Bulg

====

Been here since 2009, and I still mess up. Case in point, a comment upthread about sunrise on day with latest sunrise.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 29, 2026 09:53 PM (4HoLg)

214
The trouble is the US is just too big, two wide in latitude and longitude for a one-size fits all DST scheme. But, a mishmash of different schemes varying all over the country would be big nightmare as well.

So here we are.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:54 PM (w6EFb)

215 Beaver pelts... or hardwood.
Whichever you prefer.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 09:54 PM (oq9dX)

216 Pick a time, stick with it. Don't fuck with the clock anymore. Let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:54 PM (b99Hl)

217 >>Pick a time, stick with it. Don't fuck with the clock anymore. Let the chips fall where they may.

THIS!^

Let businesses, schools, whatever, choose their hours according to local preferences.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 09:56 PM (rdVOm)

218 Bulg,
I'm good. It's been an up and down year. Last week was my birthday--tough because it used to be OUR birthday, but my twin brother is gone now. So it's full of memories instead.

Posted by: Wenda at October 29, 2026 09:58 PM (W2eM/)

219
My preference would be go back to Standard Time, which Means Something astronomically and historically, and then every locality can adjust their hours as they like.

You want more time in the evening after work, well, 7-4, or 6-3 hours, whatever you want.

But let mean solar time mean mean solar time (with the time zones, which are necessary, as the railroads discovered).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 09:59 PM (w6EFb)

220 There's some magic that happens between dogs and humans in need of compassion I won't even pretend to understand but I've seen it too many times to ignore. It's real.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 08:59 PM (viF8m)
*******
Growing up, a friend's baby sister was born profoundly deaf from her mother having rubella in her 3rd month of pregnancy. Advised to abort she refused.

She appeared beautiful, bright, and normal til she didn't talk much at 15mo, or respond to her name. Was already lip reading.

She attended a rare (at the time) school for the deaf and learned to lip read. People from other states brought their children to this school in MS. She entered regular school in 3rd grade and led a very normal life. Deafness in childhood does not have to be a handicap.

She was uncanny with animals from toddlerhood. An equestrian. She was once missing at 3yrs and her mother (frantic) found her milking a cow, with the cow patiently letting her.

Our entire community embraced this beautiful child and no one felt she was different. If anything her Southern accent sounds Scandinavian. Her daughter would inform people, as if we didn't know, that her mother's ears were broken.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 10:04 PM (hzuYO)

221
“After deliberating for just over 5 1/2 hours, the jury of 5 women and 7 men found Samantha Krebs guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing death of Joey Carnot. The judge scheduled sentencing for the morning of November 25, 2025.”

Looks like it was an epic battle, alright.
Posted by: Tom Servo

W0w, I am impressed that there is something in the real world with which my nickname matches. However...

My Krebs is Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, elucidator of the citric acid cycle in biochemistry, the principal source of energy for cells and thus an important part of cellular respiration.

My Carnot is Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, whose Carnot Cycle was the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines.

Biochemistry and physics were two areas in which I made my bones during my scientific career in academia and industry.

The "Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars" is a snarky salute to the series that ran on ABC, "Battle of the Network Stars" between 1976 and 1988. "Epic" attests to the fact that ABC's "battle" involved mere entertainers and my mock "battle" was between two highly regarded scientists.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ixS3i)

222 I think we should stop changing clocks.

Sunrise on the winter solstice in my AO would be 8:22am if we stayed on DST. Kind of a pain in the ass to be dark that late, but I'm willing to make the sacrifice.

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2026 10:13 PM (oqH4h)

223
My preference would be go back to Standard Time, which Means Something astronomically and historically, and then every locality can adjust their hours as they like.

You want more time in the evening after work, well, 7-4, or 6-3 hours, whatever you want.

But let mean solar time mean mean solar time (with the time zones, which are necessary, as the railroads discovered).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

This. Pick one, dammit, and enough of this foolish devilry.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 10:15 PM (ixS3i)

224
...enough of this foolish devilry.

Or chronodevilry, to coin a phrase.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 10:16 PM (ixS3i)

225 Yes, 10:30 pm and I'm just now looking at the Cafe.

30 Uhhhh.....
The link about the Czech dam ain't right.
Unless people saying "Damn!" when they find a human head is what was intended.
Posted by: buddhaha

Thank heavens someone else commented about the link with half an hour of police, a killer, a human head...!!!

So, either two of us saw the same link and many others simply commented about beaver without watching, OR the link was 'broken' for only two of several readers. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I suspect not much content reading for the 'rons once beaver - like boobs - burned into their brains.

I do love the opening picture! Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 10:39 PM (NFX2v)

High-Speed Train Crash Kills At Least 68 People In Spain

I'm pretty sure that Rome, as it crumbled, experienced many accidents such as this.

Dying nations like dying people experience a lot of injuries before they pass.

Kangmin Lee
@kangminlee
10m
Absolutely horrifying footage coming out of Spain.
A Rente high-speed train carrying 397 passengers rear-ended a stationary Iryo train carrying 147, with the death toll currently at 64 and rising and injuring dozens more among the 544 passengers aboard.
This tragedy marks the second major crash on the corridor this year, following a January collision at Adamuz that killed 46.
Accidents like this are easily preventable and utterly unacceptable in the first world. What is going on in Spain? Pray for the victims and their families.

A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped in central Spain, derailing two cars and killing at least 68 people Wednesday morning. https://t.co/i9vGczB1tt https://t.co/t1dKdYp18g
— CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) October 28, 2026

An Iryo train carrying 146 people and a Renfe train carrying 397 people, have collided near Toledo, Spain.
This is the second catastrophic high-speed rail accident on the Madrid-Seville line to occur this year. https://t.co/RGTDgpCusY
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

Video shows the immediate aftermath of a deadly high-speed train collision in central Spain on Wednesday that killed at least 64 people and injured 80 others, authorities said.
The crash occurred in the province of Toledo when a high-speed train slammed into the back of another train that had stopped, derailing two cars. Both trains were traveling from Madrid to Seville, carrying a combined 544 passengers. The cause of the crash remains unknown.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 28, 2026

You know who's to blame?

Foreign accounts already know who arranged this collision: Jews.

And the terrorist propaganda network Reuters tries to link the collision -- which occurred under a Socialist PM who's not spending enough on maintenance so that he can give freebies to nomads -- on "far right" groups.

Far right groups who think the government in power is responsible for what happens under its maladministration. What racist crazies.

Look at them, "clashing" with police even during this tragedy! The left would never exploit a tragedy like this for political purposes.

Far-right groups clashed with Spanish police in Madrid during a protest demanding the government's resignation following a high-speed train crash that killed at least 68 people https://t.co/QGmB3qDJa2 https://t.co/HyKXPgFyaq
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 29, 2026

NBC "News" similarly can't believe the "far right" would politicize a tragedy like this!

It's unseemly! It fails to seem! It's completely lacking in seem!

Protests erupt in Spain after train crash kills dozens

Far-right demonstrators clashed with police outside the country's transport ministry where they had gathered to call for the prime minister's resignation.
Spain began three days of mourning Thursday after at least 69 people were killed and dozens more injured in the country's deadliest train crash in decades. But anger is mounting about the alleged incompetence that allowed the accident to happen and protesters clashed with police overnight outside the country's transport ministry.
Once considered one of the country's crowning achievements, Spain's high-speed rail network had not endured a deadly crash since it came into service over 30 years ago.
After the second train accident in less than a year, the tragedy has deepened the feeling among many that there is something broken in Spanish society. The crash follows weeks of protests.

Oh right, I forgot, Spain as endured three weeks of violent rioting, looting, and arson at the hands of the Islamocommunists, but now "far right" groups protest in a perfectly appropriate place -- outside the offices of a government official credibly accused of deadly incompetence -- and all of a sudden protesting is Treason.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: National Guard Fashion Advisor at October 29, 2026 07:12 PM (MWfyi)

2 2nd

Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (fR677)

3 Coming to a state near you.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:14 PM (MWfyi)

4 Siesta at the switch

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 07:14 PM (r7+Q7)

5 Don't these trains have automatic lockouts?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:15 PM (XMwZJ)

6 Aw geez, man.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:15 PM (l3cgK)

7 Spain needs to import more scientists and engineers so these sort of tragedies will no longer happen!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:16 PM (XMwZJ)

8 "Accidents like this are easily preventable and utterly unacceptable in the first world. "

You have to expect this kind of thing every now and then in the interest of diversity and inclusion.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi)

9 48 hour rule...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:16 PM (l3cgK)

10 I am amazed that suck mishaps are possible in 2026 and it definitely affects my comfort level with such trains, at least in Europe. Japan has many issues but basic competence is not one of them. Chy-nah? Are you kidding? Fortunately don't have much interest in traveling in Chy-nah.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:17 PM (U/Byj)

11 "Three days of mourning" just contributes to the farce. A people capable of three days of sincere *morning* would be capable of running a government where events like this don't occur.

I'm not suggesting mistakes never get made. I'm just saying that "three days of mourning" is practically the chef's kiss to not taking something seriously. There will stuffed animals and candles and drawings on the sidewalks...and nothing of significance will change.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:17 PM (TN0g+)

12 CA bullet train has ZERO such incidents in all the years of its existence. So take that, h8trs.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (U/Byj)

13 Remember when the Spanish government sent out the riot squad with rubber bullets when a horde or muslims invaded Ceuta?

Nobody else does either.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (viF8m)

14 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (SaoqG)

15
I'm pretty sure that Rome, as it crumbled, experienced many accidents such as this.

VDH, fervent admirer of the plucky cruelty on regular display here, has said that the fall of a great civilization was not due to one or two great battles or upheavals as much as it was due to a prolonged decline in competence and knowledge, and erosion of the element of trust in interpersonal dealings.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (ixS3i)

16 High speed trains should have autonomous braking like cars. The braking distance adjusted with speed.

Or do they already have it and it failed?

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (Ti9vn)

17
Be more like Europe, they said.
They're so much more advanced than us, they said.
It'll be so much better, they said.

Posted by: They don't even have Ranch dressing at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (dX+L6)

18 All those years, Biden was taking his life in his own hands riding the train.

Even after Beau died that way...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (Sco7b)

19 Spain's parliamentary elections will be held on November 29. Polls indicate the Partido Popular together with the Vox party will win a bare majority of votes and a larger majority of seats.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (ilf0f)

20 I was drivin' that train,
High on Cocaine!

Posted by: Engineer Casey Jones at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (EdP2u)

21 Odd how the "far right" group looks just like a bunch of regular folk who are dissatisfied with their incompetent government...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (XMwZJ)

22 I wonder if Mohammad Sanchez was manning the switching line.

Posted by: Bosk at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (VMFAF)

23 12 CA bullet train has ZERO such incidents in all the years of its existence. So take that, h8trs.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (U/Byj)

And that's for a very good reason.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (l3cgK)

24 Posted by: They don't even have Ranch dressing

It's called America sauce.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2026 07:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

25 This wouldn't have happened if they had hired Amtrack Board member and International expert Hunter Biden as a consultant at €50,000/month.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 07:20 PM (B0NCh)

26 22 I wonder if Mohammad Sanchez was manning the switching line.

Posted by: Bosk at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (VMFAF)

In his S&M dungeon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:20 PM (l3cgK)

27 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (ixS3i)

Idiocracy

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 07:20 PM (Ti9vn)

28 It's unseemly! It fails to seem! It's completely lacking in seem!

It is bereft of seem.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 07:21 PM (Riz8t)

29 176 But Lloyd Austin was totally competent, haters...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

The sandals of the Hector of Afghanistan are hard to fill...

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 07:21 PM (Y8DZL)

30 24 Posted by: They don't even have Ranch dressing

It's called America sauce.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2026 07:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

"He covered the salad with his America sauce" just doesn't sound right...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:21 PM (l3cgK)

31 Very sad for all.

I've ridden high speed trains in Europe and I do have a nanosecond of thought of a wreck, then have another glass of wine. We've always arrived alive and enjoyed the ride. Now? I don't think so! Not because of this crash but because of barbarians.

Other than the obvious physical injuries, other things occur to human bodies when hit from behind with force and are often fatal quickly. These poor people.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 07:21 PM (hzuYO)

32 "High speed trains should have autonomous braking like cars. The braking distance adjusted with speed.

Or do they already have it and it failed?
Posted by: polynikes"

Old Charlie stole the handle.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (MWfyi)

33
It's unseemly! It fails to seem! It's completely lacking in seem!

It is bereft of seem.
Posted by: Archimedes

"Tell me about it -- I was bereft of seam"

-- R.M.S. Titanic

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (ixS3i)

34 Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak, and the couplings strain.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (88C+u)

35 Have to wonder sabotage, get one train to stop for some warning and BAM! another up their ass

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (Ia/+0)

36 The term "far right" keeps showing up non-stop in "press" coverage these days. Of course it's absurd, none of the targets of this distortion bear any resemblance to a "far right" element if the term is used accurately. Just another ridiculous distortion in the ceaseless pathetic cheap transparent propaganda on which millions and millions rely to preserve their dumb ignorant worldview.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (U/Byj)

37 It's unseemly! It fails to seem! It's completely lacking in seem!

It is bereft of seem.
-----

It goes without saying that there is NOT a plethora of seem.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (TN0g+)

38 To give California credit, this could never happen there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 07:23 PM (XeU6L)

39 17
Be more like Europe, they said.
They're so much more advanced than us, they said.
It'll be so much better, they said.
Posted by: They don't even have Ranch dressing at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (dX+L6)

Since Canada feels snubbed by America and President Trump, we've been trying to cozy up to Europe - out new lover.

It's going great. Carbon taxes on Canadian goods maybe. No word if we'll get the amusement of foreigners destroying crap. We probably brought in the laziest.

But aside from this, love can pull us through this..

The school beauty queen rejected us but there's always disease-ridden prostitutes.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:23 PM (Sco7b)

40 What is going on in Spain?
=====

Se llama La Socialisma

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 07:23 PM (RIvkX)

41 Old Charlie stole the handle.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM

He's the Man Who Will Never Return.

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at October 29, 2026 07:23 PM (dX+L6)

42 22 I wonder if Mohammad Sanchez was manning the switching line.
Posted by: Bosk at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (VMFAF)

Yes! that's exactly what happened.

Posted by: Gomez Adams, Renfe/Iryo trainee at October 29, 2026 07:23 PM (r7+Q7)

43 >>I am amazed that suck mishaps are possible in 2026 and it definitely affects my comfort level with such trains, at least in Europe. Japan has many issues but basic competence is not one of them. Chy-nah? Are you kidding? Fortunately don't have much interest in traveling in Chy-nah.

Took a high speed train from Shanghai to Beijing. Pretty nice. But I was a bit uneasy cause China.

Took a couple in Japan. No such concerns.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)

44 38 To give California credit, this could never happen there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 07:23 PM (XeU6L)

Indeed. See #12 & #23

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:24 PM (l3cgK)

45 I really don't understand why it's so difficult to avoid such accidents. Put an tracker on each train, and sensors every 100 meters or so, and let software stop the train if it thinks there's a chance of a collision. It isn't like the trains aren't on a known route. I suspect union "workers" are a big part of the problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 07:25 PM (Riz8t)

46 Don't see how this could happen.

Posted by: HAL 9000 at October 29, 2026 07:25 PM (XeU6L)

47 Also, nothing like that ever happened to the Hooterville Cannonball.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:25 PM (TN0g+)

48
Rockin', rollin', ridin'
All along the bay
All bound for
Morning T... KRRRRRAAAAAASSSSSSHHHH!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:25 PM (ixS3i)

49 I am a person experiencing seemlessness.

Posted by: My Kingdom for a seem! at October 29, 2026 07:25 PM (dX+L6)

50 33
It's unseemly! It fails to seem! It's completely lacking in seem!

It is bereft of seem.
Posted by: Archimedes

"Tell me about it -- I was bereft of seam"

-- R.M.S. Titanic
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (ixS3i)

Silence! I keel you!

Posted by: Achmed being fisted at October 29, 2026 07:26 PM (r7+Q7)

51 Fun fact:

The State Motto of NC is "Esse Quam Videri", "To Be Rather Than To Seem."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 07:26 PM (B0NCh)

52 Don't see how this could happen.
Posted by: HAL 9000

I do.

*Imagines the 'call me' sign*

Posted by: Colossus at October 29, 2026 07:26 PM (SaoqG)

53 To give California credit, this could never happen there.
I'm a bit surprised Gov Brylcreem isn't out touting this very obvious fact...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:27 PM (XMwZJ)

54 Indeed. See #12 & #23
Posted by: jim
----

Horde mind.

Posted by: HAL 9000 at October 29, 2026 07:27 PM (XeU6L)

55 Charlie stole the sensors too.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:27 PM (MWfyi)

56 3 Coming to a state near you.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:14 PM (MWfyi)

Nope, I can comfortably predict there will NEVAH be a HIGH SPEED Rail crash here in California!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 07:27 PM (mP0Kj)

57 Missed the last thread. And, I think this is valid information to include:

Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia was involved in the strategic planning of national security policies during the Afghanistan drawdown while serving as Vice Director for Strategy, Plans, and Policy (J5) on the Joint Staff from 2021 to 2023.

That should have had him led out to pasture before his leaking.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)

58 And all the copper wire to the sensors.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:27 PM (MWfyi)

59 The CA bullet train has a long history of existence to its contractors, grifting political leaders, and locals disrupted by its activities.

To actual customers, not so much.

And remember this atrocity was yet another one demanded by the voters.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (U/Byj)

60 Nope, I can comfortably predict there will NEVAH be a HIGH SPEED Rail crash here in California!

But if there is, it'll be Trump's fault.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (Riz8t)

61 Relevant from GatewayPundit...

JUST IN: California’s High-Speed Rail to Nowhere Chief Abruptly Resigns Amid Questions About Multi-Billion Dollar Boondoggle

Ian Choudri, the CEO of California’s high-speed rail to nowhere abruptly resigned late Wednesday night amid questions about the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle.

Originally greenlit by the voters with the promise of linking Los Angeles to San Francisco in a modern, efficient bullet train system for a mere $33 billion with a completion date set for four years ago, the project has ballooned to an eyewatering $128 bilion to $130 billion, with no clear completion date in sight, according to abc30.

Ian Choudri, who came on board in summer 2024, claimed last year that the high speed train might be finished in twenty years. That would be the year 2045.

LOL.
Twenty year.
Powered by cold fusion.
What an amazing world that will be.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (Sco7b)

62 I'm a bit surprised Gov Brylcreem isn't out touting this very obvious fact...
Posted by: Angzarr
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Action through inaction!

Posted by: Newsome at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (XeU6L)

63 59 The CA bullet train has a long history of existence to its contractors, grifting political leaders, and locals disrupted by its activities.

To actual customers, not so much.

And remember this atrocity was yet another one demanded by the voters.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (U/Byj)

Sooo... just before the election, the Governor is trying to lock in a TEN YEAR contract, from 2030 to 2040, to BUY and maintain 3 High Speed Trains from Siemons.

The graft, must flow....

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 07:29 PM (mP0Kj)

64 The CA bullet train has a long history of existence to its contractors, grifting political leaders, and locals disrupted by its activities.

To actual customers, not so much.

And remember this atrocity was yet another one demanded by the voters.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (U/Byj)
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Considering the voting irregularities in CA, I suspect the atrocity was demanded by the "ballots" rather than the voters.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 07:29 PM (FZ29D)

65

Ian Choudri, the CEO of California’s high-speed rail to nowhere abruptly resigned late Wednesday night amid questions about the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle.

Ian Choudri. Why am I not surprised.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 07:30 PM (lCppi)

66 I am not joking when I say people stampeded out to blame Israel for this on Twixxer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 07:30 PM (TMNW7)

67
Well done, Gavinsville!

At least two cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, have been confirmed in Stanislaus County, according to health officials.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:30 PM (ixS3i)

68 21 Odd how the "far right" group looks just like a bunch of regular folk who are dissatisfied with their incompetent government...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (XMwZJ)

I agree that it's odd. Further, I wonder what constitutes "far right" and what makes it extreme, because I never hear specifically what makes the far right bad except perhaps for made-up smears.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 29, 2026 07:30 PM (OlzlW)

69 Action through inaction!
Posted by: Newsome at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM

Leading from behind!

Posted by: B.O. at October 29, 2026 07:31 PM (dX+L6)

70 Ian Choudri, who came on board in summer 2024, claimed last year that the high speed train might be finished in twenty years. That would be the year 2045.

LOL.
Twenty year.
Powered by cold fusion.
What an amazing world that will be.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (Sco7b)

By which time he will be dead. So suck it, suckers!! (See also, King County.)

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 07:31 PM (lCppi)

71 Considering the voting irregularities in CA, I suspect the atrocity was demanded by the "ballots" rather than the voters.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Ran into an interesting Saul Bellow quote today:

"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California"
Saul Bellow

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 07:32 PM (XeU6L)

72 12 CA bullet train has ZERO such incidents in all the years of its existence. So take that, h8trs.
Posted by: rhomboid

*snort

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 07:32 PM (mZLuT)

73 Originally greenlit by the voters with the promise of linking Los Angeles to San Francisco in a modern, efficient bullet train system for a mere $33 billion with a completion date set for four years ago, the project has ballooned to an eyewatering $128 bilion to $130 billion, with no clear completion date in sight, according to abc30.

Ian Choudri, who came on board in summer 2024, claimed last year that the high speed train might be finished in twenty years. That would be the year 2045.
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IF...the next governor of California, regardless of party, wanted any of us normies to ever take California seriously again, they could do one simple thing upon taking office: simply announce that the high-speed-rail experiment was over and no more money would be allocated to it.

They could then go right back to grifting, but for at least 30 minutes the rest of us would be left wondering "What the hell got into California?".

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:32 PM (TN0g+)

74 Twixxer is bots.

Posted by: From Botswana at October 29, 2026 07:32 PM (dX+L6)

75 90 minutes from New York to Paris /
Well by '76, we'll be A-OK...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 07:33 PM (B0NCh)

76 Sooo... just before the election, the Governor is trying to lock in a TEN YEAR contract, from 2030 to 2040, to BUY and maintain 3 High Speed Trains from Siemons.

The graft, must flow....
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 07:29 PM (mP0Kj)

He thought they meant semen and he wants a lot

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2026 07:33 PM (NtVYv)

77 When Paxton wins, do you think a lot of the Freak0 supporters will finally leave this great state of Texas?

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 07:33 PM (lCppi)

78 Am I correct in my assumption that a "far-right" group in Spain is about as far-right as David French?

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2026 07:34 PM (oqH4h)

79 I think Colorado is trying to get a High Speed Rail Line funded this Election

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (Qugny)

80 90 minutes from New York to Paris /
Well by '76, we'll be A-OK...
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I was still in my hard-rock period of music appreciation circa 1983 when a friend put that album on the turn table. Its brilliant--there's not a clunker anywhere on that one.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (TN0g+)

81 Bet millions of those billions are just pocketed by layers of bureaucracy

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

82 @77 -- LASue, one can hope...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (XMwZJ)

83 Action through inaction!
Posted by: Newsome at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM

Leading from behind!
Posted by: B.O.
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Unburdened by what has been!

Posted by: Kamala at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (XeU6L)

84 Where the Hell can uou go from Colorado?

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)

85 "I've ridden high speed trains in Europe and I do have a nanosecond of thought of a wreck, then have another glass of wine. We've always arrived alive and enjoyed the ride. Now? I don't think so! Not because of this crash but because of barbarians."
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

The last words many will hear will be "Allahu Akbar", as the terrorists try to obtain their 64 virgin (goats). Unfortunately USA has also incentivized thousands of such crazy Islamic terrorists, as even "clever" Ilhan revealed in her terrorist song.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (vbXSk)

86

The Skipper drove the Cannonball Express

www.imdb.com/title/tt0051263

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (Cqx++)

87
Passenger rail: 19th century transportation at 21st century costs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (eRlcH)

88 From what I'm reading, there was a sensor/control system failure over a 60 km length of the line. The system automatically stopped all trains on the dead stretch.

But, operators in Madrid, overrode that automatic system and restarted the state-owned train and sent on down at full speed. The other train was still sitting there stopped.

Why the hell they did that, there is no clue. Mistakes were made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

89 Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:32 PM (TN0g+)

The idea that I will somehow drive to Merced (7 miles from me), and get on a train to go to Bakersfield, where I will then have to rent a car to do anything...

Instead of driving the 2.5 hour down 99 Highway to get to Bakersfield, in my own damn truck?

We left Realityville a loonnnggg time ago.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 07:37 PM (mP0Kj)

90 When Paxton wins, do you think a lot of the Freak0 supporters will finally leave this great state of Texas?
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No. I think the freaks will continue to be freaks and all of the money spent on Freak0's campaign will have ended up in all of the right pockets and those pulling the strings will move quickly to pretend none of that campaign ever really took place.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:37 PM (TN0g+)

91 Action through inaction!
Posted by: Newsome at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM

Leading from behind!
Posted by: B.O.
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Unburdened by what has been!

You know...the thing!

Posted by: Joseph R. Biden at October 29, 2026 07:37 PM (XMwZJ)

92
When Paxton wins, do you think a lot of the Freak0 supporters will finally leave this great state of Texas?
Posted by: LASue

Nah, they'll spend a year wandering aimlessly on the Llano Estacado, and then emerge to proclaim the Crazy, Crazy Crockett will be the One to Lead Them Out of Their Wilderness

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:37 PM (ixS3i)

93
Know how all this could have been prevented? By the rail workers going out on strike.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:37 PM (eRlcH)

94 Action through inaction!
Posted by: Newsome at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM

Leading from behind!
Posted by: B.O.
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Unburdened by what has been!

I got my butt wiped!

Autopen

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:38 PM (viF8m)

95 Importing a bunch of foreigners with "Inshallah" as their reaction to every close call or actual accident, rather than taking competence seriously is bad for first world transportation and industry. Coupling that with communism 'I should get a big piece of the pie because I need it, never mind that I have developed zero skills to make myself valuable as an employee'. It is a wonder that Europe is not experiencing a lot more of these tragic accidents.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 07:38 PM (PV+Zw)

96 >>Action through inaction!
Posted by: Newsome at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM

Leading from behind!
Posted by: B.O.
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Unburdened by what has been!

You know...the thing!

Si, Se Puede!

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (Qugny)

97 El socialismo.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (h86Sx)

98 wonder if Mohammad Sanchez was manning the switching line."

His uncle was listening to a soccer match while manning the tower at Tenerefe...

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (pfXMo)

99 81 Bet millions of those billions are just pocketed by layers of bureaucracy
Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

My Older Brother was an accountant for KPMG on that project...

Yeah, his retirement account if substantial.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (mP0Kj)

100 "We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,"

Joe Biden

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (XeU6L)

101 But, operators in Madrid, overrode that automatic system and restarted the state-owned train and sent on down at full speed. The other train was still sitting there stopped.

Why the hell they did that, there is no clue. Mistakes were made.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (w6EFb)
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So, Chernobyl but with a train.

Good to see the layabout lazy-assed Spaniards learned from the layabout lazy-assed Soviets.

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2026 07:40 PM (oqH4h)

102 wonder if Mohammad Sanchez was manning the switching line."

His uncle was listening to a soccer match while manning the tower at Tenerefe...
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"He passes it...passes it...HE PASSES IT..."

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:40 PM (TN0g+)

103 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

104 Look, I was on the Board of Amtrak. These things just happen.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at October 29, 2026 07:41 PM (XeU6L)

105 What term are they going to use when "far right" no longer has legs? ULTRA far right? Nazi Right? Omega Right?

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 07:42 PM (SwyyQ)

106 36 The term "far right" keeps showing up non-stop in "press" coverage these days. Of course it's absurd, none of the targets of this distortion bear any resemblance to a "far right" element if the term is used accurately. Just another ridiculous distortion in the ceaseless pathetic cheap transparent propaganda on which millions and millions rely to preserve their dumb ignorant worldview.
Posted by: rhomboid

To read/watch the MSM is to be misinformed. Not to read it means one is uninformed. Easier on digestive system to simply be uninformed. X has better and faster coverage than the dying fake and gay media with its endless dog and pony narrative crap.

Even in Europe, which is why the Eurotrash hates Elon, X is now the trusted source for news worldwide rather than the old decaying standards of the MSM. And smart bloggers and substackers recognize that and use links with summaries of their stories on X so you can go more into detail.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:43 PM (E4rtv)

107 The problem with Spain is that the didn't kill enough commies back in the '30s when they had a chance...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:43 PM (XMwZJ)

108 Sorry to not post this until now, I saw the mentions of students expelled for Charlie Kirk stuff in a previous thread...

I checked on updates for the "kirkiversary cake" story from the University of Utah (not the school Charlie was murdered at), about the horrible girl that marched up to the college republicans table on the one year anniversary of his death, with a "happy kirkiversary" cake.

It will surprise no one, since this is a very liberal school, that the only students that went through disciplinary measures was the college republicans. Because they posted video of it and it went viral.

Luckily it sounds like the school dismissed all allegations against them. But they could have been expelled. I think public pressure forced the school to halt going any further.

Also, one of the college republican kids present at the cake incident had previously been threatened. Someone has told them at a previous event they were going to "Kirk them." So IMO they have every right to expose anyone promoting violence.

The girl that baked the cake is apparently the daughter of a tech bigwig, and is going into medicine for kids. I wouldn't want her anywhere near kids of mine.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 07:44 PM (Toos7)

109 Instead of driving the 2.5 hour down 99 Highway to get to Bakersfield, in my own damn truck?"

That was the Houston Dallas fantasy...

An hour drive, park, 30 minute wait, 90 minutes ride, 30 minutes to uber or rental, 45 minutes to wherever...

For a 3 hour and change drive.

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 07:45 PM (pfXMo)

110 88. publius. That’s what I heard as well. Human error.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 29, 2026 07:46 PM (2NHgQ)

111 Too early?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcB43bQl5gI&

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 07:46 PM (vzuC7)

112 As a Spaniard I am beyond infuriated because it didn't use to be like this. We used to get refunds if it was so much as 5 minutes late.
Now we're lucky if the train even shows up, doesn't get stranded in the middle of the railways, doesn't catch fire, and we survive, all while paying through the wazoo for the privilege.

For some reason Spain has a unusual amount of very bad train crash fatalities, look up incidents between 2000 till now. It's unnerving.

Human error, underpaid and overexerted workers, no one complaining when one is fired and their work has to be done by the rest.

Kind of amazing that this happened today when there was already a strike called for tomorrow because of safety issues.

There is simply too many people visiting Spain and too little money invested on renovating aging infrastructures. Either we tax tourists more to pay for it or set a maximum number of tourists so there is less deterioration (and less chances for a disaster to happen).

On the face of it, it seems that the privatization of trains still is a flawed idea. what we saved on budget cuts we are now paying in lives

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2026 07:48 PM (6nZo9)

113 Sounds too crazy even for Ayn Rand to write. Oh ... wait.

Posted by: Keyser at October 29, 2026 07:48 PM (BSkyy)

114 84 Where the Hell can you go from Colorado?
Posted by: Skip

The Front Range used to be hip and happenin'. 23 skidoo between Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.
That was before the Blueprint drove out everybody productive.
I suspect the new train job will go down in flames because the survivors see the Californication and want none of it.

Posted by: vote against NN at October 29, 2026 07:50 PM (88C+u)

115 Too early?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcB43bQl5gI&
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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The train to Grinder's Switch is running right on time.

Posted by: Charlie at October 29, 2026 07:51 PM (XeU6L)

116 "That’s what I heard as well. Human error.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine "

Maybe even subhuman error.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:55 PM (MWfyi)

117 High speed rail is so sacrosanct for lefties that even flinching at news that incompetence by its administrators resulted in the deaths of several dozen people is heretical.

Posted by: mea culpa at October 29, 2026 07:59 PM (iN6fC)

118 Reddit posters never disappoint.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 08:03 PM (XeU6L)

119 If you want to see a REAL Civil War watch these people when they get going.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 08:11 PM (Wt1Rs)

120 Reddit posters never disappoint.

Yep, *somehow* it's all capitalism's fault.

Posted by: RandomDave (who, me, cynical?) at October 29, 2026 08:14 PM (aJQbY)

121 I hope you're all very grateful to Gavin Newsom for working so tirelessly to prevent something like this accident from happening in California.

Posted by: MLCross at October 30, 2026 05:42 AM (kV8re)

Trump Fires Three-Star General for Leaking to Press, Lying In Three Failed Polygraph Tests

Alexandra Ingersoll
@AlexIngersoll
NEW: On background from a War Department official:
Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. Although Sylvia's title was director of the Directorate for Strategy, Plans, and Policy at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, known inside the military as the J5, he was NOT a central planner for the Iran War. That is the responsibility of CENTCOM and its commander Admiral Cooper.
Sylvia is the subject of an investigation for leaking classified information about the Iran War, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and more. Due to the Pentagon's media policy requiring journalists to have escorts in the building, Sylvia began meeting with journalists outside of the Pentagon in order to leak classified information.
Sylvia failed three polygraphs which questioned him about leaking classified information. The investigation into him remains ongoing and has been referred to the Department of Justice for further action. The extent of his leaking became so critical that Secretary Hegseth took immediate action and fired Sylvia in order to protect national security. Urgent action was needed and could not wait another second.

Beege Wellborne saysthis comes after a story leaked to Steve Jobs' Widow's Vanity Magazine The Atlantic, claiming that Pete Hegseth is incompetent.

Fox News:

War Secretary Pete Hegseth fired one of the Pentagon's senior strategic planners amid an investigation into allegations he leaked classified information to journalists about the Iran war, Russia's war in Ukraine and other sensitive matters, a Department of War official told Fox News.
The official said Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia failed three polygraph examinations related to alleged disclosures of classified information. The investigation has been referred to the Justice Department.
Sylvia is also accused of meeting journalists outside the Pentagon with the alleged intention of leaking classified material after Hegseth imposed new media restrictions requiring reporters to be escorted inside the building.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Sylvia for comment but did not hear back at time of publication. The Justice Department declined to comment specifically on Sylvia but said it has "ongoing investigations related to possible leaks of classified information" and works closely with the Department of War.
Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell said the personnel action followed "an extensive Air Force OSI investigation," though he did not identify Sylvia by name in his statement or provide further details about the investigation.
Parnell issued a pointed warning to those suspected of leaking classified information: "Our commitment was not an empty promise. We vowed to find you, and we meant it."
...

The official stressed that Sylvia was not a central planner of the Iran war, which falls under U.S. Central Command and its commander, Adm. Brad Cooper.
...
Sylvia is the second officer leading the J5 to be removed under Hegseth, following Lt. Gen. Joseph McGee. Hegseth also removed Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, then director of the Joint Staff, earlier this year.
President Donald Trump told reporters Sylvia is going to have "big problems, long term problems" on Thursday.

From a commenter: the terrorist-aligned propaganda corporation Reuters escalates its SAVE IRAN campaign.

Brewers start to feel the costs of prolonged war in Iran https://t.co/pAuwbIGsMw
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 29, 2026

David French, who frequently speaks loosely of "we" braving enemy fire to take out the terrorists, is sitting sadly in the cuck chair again:

If I worked at The New York Times after the paper got a Pulitzer for Russia collusion reporting, I would be too ashamed talk about �decisively forfeit[ing] any presumption of honesty.�
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 InBev can suck it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

2 You didn't hear much about military officers blabbing to the press under *biden did you?

I have a theory about that.

Most uniformed, sane and unpartisan officers wouldn't do that. It's against the code. But leftists in uniform will.

The Pentagon needs a massive enema.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 06:24 PM (RORbl)

3 They can get the Clydesdales to piss in the cans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM (b99Hl)

4 Aw man, Anheuser-Busch will have to switch to using more-expensive horse piss instead of the camel piss they've been importing.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM (88C+u)

5 Great news!

I know this is beside the point, but the General has pedo lips. Yuck!

GET THEM OUT!

I wish we hung traitors like the olden days.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM (hzuYO)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM (hG5L0)

7 oh well, I guess I won’t buy any Budweiser or Bud Light.

Like I’ve been doing for years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:27 PM (6ydKt)

8 Sylvia's son Gavin was put on leave by the EPA for posting about the Charlie Kirk murder. Apparently he didn't like the flag being lowered

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (f8snw)

9
Due to the Pentagon's media policy requiring journalists to have escorts in the building, Sylvia began meeting with journalists outside of the Pentagon in order to leak classified information.

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

Amazing how that works.

And I remember when the MSM went ballistic over it. FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSURESHIP, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS!1!1lll

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (mmrXZ)

10 They always speak in generalities instead of specific examples.

Trump lies . Google it !

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (Ti9vn)

11 Smell the Glove, that's interesting. And pathetic.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (U/Byj)

12 8 Sylvia's son Gavin was put on leave by the EPA for posting about the Charlie Kirk murder. Apparently he didn't like the flag being lowered
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (f8snw)
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What about Sylvia's Mother?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 29, 2026 06:29 PM (0bjKf)

13 What's the standard punishment in the USMC for this?
Keelhauling?
Please tell me it is Keelhauling.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Qugny)

14 My 30+ year boycott of Budweiser is paying dividends.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 06:29 PM (b99Hl)

15
Heh, I'd like to know how the Pentagon got wise to Sylvia.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:30 PM (mmrXZ)

16 Democrats only care about lies when a Republican is in the White House.

When it’s a Democrat lies are simply unpossible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:30 PM (6ydKt)

17 Yuengling for the win!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 06:30 PM (97NWC)

18 polynikes, exactly. It's a general disorder in this dumbed-down non-critical thinking society, but the Dems and other racist-totalitarians and featherweight nobodies like French now speak in no other way. Wild categorical assertion. Zero substantiation or elaboration. Because the sad low IQ (effectively) people who would ever glance at French's dull and dim undergraduate musings themselves "think" the same way.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 06:31 PM (U/Byj)

19 And this fucking communist commanded the 101st Air Assault Division. The same 'Screaming Eagles' that jumped into Normandy.

The rot runs deep. Too deep. I'm sure this fucking communist matriculated under Obama.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:32 PM (SpZgP)

20
The only one who notices David French is Ace.

He has no pull, leverage or believably on any point of the political spectrum, and the tired "I'm a conservative, but" shit he has peddled leftist crack for 20 years is an act that died with David Brooks.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Y8DZL)

21 When it’s a Democrat lies are simply unpossible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:30 PM (6ydKt)
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Exactly, nobody actually knows how Hunter's coke got into the White House.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e)

22 Drinking is down in the US including beer (especially since the deportations) . The beer companies of course will raise prices to reduce it even more. They are all MBA geniuses.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Ti9vn)

23 Blonde M. they have an operation monitoring leaks of consequence, investigate them back up the chain based on access and any other tidbits that point in a certain direction, concluding with polygraphs of solid targets.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (U/Byj)

24 These f**ks always throw around the, Trump lies about this, Trump lies about that, what exactly does Trump lie about?

Is it along the lines of, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (XV/Pl)

25 >>The only one who notices David French is Ace.

He has trouble performing when David is watching.

Posted by: Mrs David French at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (Qugny)

26 yeah, Iran is f'd either way. Their economy is in complete shambles.

As for raising beer prices, good luck brother. Kids aren't drinking anymore and demand is down so econ 101 to ya.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (n5tGW)

27 10 They always speak in generalities instead of specific examples.

Trump lies . Google it !
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (Ti9vn)

Have you seen the videos of "man-on-the-street" interviews where the interviewer invites a leftist to give specific examples of Trump doing something bad and the leftist invariably says, "There's so many examples; it's hard to think of just one!"

Posted by: Emmie at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (OlzlW)

28 The fucker needs to see the inside of Ft Leavenworth. For the rest of his fucking life.

As an example, if for no other reason.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:34 PM (SpZgP)

29 Blonde Morticia, the immigrant Chinese are remarkably loyal to the communist government. To them that is loyalty to China itself. You have to check carefully, if they are not displaying a Nationalist flag or symbol, they probably play for the other team.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:34 PM (RIvkX)

30 @12 Sylvia's Mother said a lot of stuff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 06:34 PM (f8snw)

31 Brewers start to feel the costs of prolonged war in Iran

Well, it did get them a World Series Title, so there's that.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 06:34 PM (GICSx)

32 >>As for raising beer prices, good luck brother. Kids aren't drinking anymore and demand is down so econ 101 to ya.

It's true. They are having a real hard time with the decrease in demand in that industry.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 06:35 PM (Qugny)

33 Turn this dikhead over to the enlisted men and see how long he survives after squealing like a piggie to journalists. Probably has a pipeline to the IRGC.

Better yet, hand him over to the Green Berets. I happen to know one high up the food chain.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 06:35 PM (hzuYO)

34 Lord knows how many of these fucking pud pulling communist cocksmokers are burrowed into our military like an al-Qaeda sleeper cell waiting for their moment to buddy-fuck the entire US for their own glory.

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2026 06:36 PM (oqH4h)

35 What about Sylvia's Mother?
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 29, 2026 06:29 PM (0bjKf)

Sylvia mother says - David French is a twit!

Posted by: Boswell at October 29, 2026 06:36 PM (j10i6)

36 If they didn't put Miley in the brig they ain't putting this guy IMO.

( wanted to say that out loud since maybe the opposite will happen like my sports betting)

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (Ti9vn)

37 Have you seen the videos of "man-on-the-street" interviews where the interviewer invites a leftist to give specific examples of Trump doing something bad and the leftist invariably says, "There's so many examples; it's hard to think of just one!"
Posted by: Emmie at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (OlzlW)
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That's because they don't engage their brain when somebody said Trump lied, and simply nod along to confirmation bias.

I saw a video about how you remember better when stress is involved, and that's really how you learn things. There has to be effort, and a modicum of stress.

If somebody is just feeding into the belief structure they planted in you. You're just nodding along, "Yeah, Trump lies--all the time." And the specifics pass them by.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (Fi81e)

38 Fucker deserves to be fragged.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (SpZgP)

39 Democrats only care about lies when a Republican is in the White House.

When it’s a Democrat lies are simply unpossible.
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Democrats only care about "affordability" when a Republican is in the White House. They're hell-bent on $8 a gallon gas when THEY are in the White House.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (TN0g+)

40 I want Hegseth to be Secretary of War for the next 10 years.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (8Uo7a)

41 The uncles that drank beer all day are almost all gone. They're gone because they drank beer all day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (b99Hl)

42 The West Point commie bastard from 10 years ago is getting his phd in some Arab bullshit at U of Chicago

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (enNUy)

43 Obama fired all sorts of generals.

It's only bad when conservatives do it.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (Fi81e)

44 Fry him in the same electric chair used for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (HD2n/)

45
First of all, Sylvia is no name for a general

b) I'm sure the Pentagon has been leaking to the press since the building's cornerstone was laid

3) I wonder if any of these leaks, past or present, resulted in US casualties

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (ZxPkt)

46 Sounds like treason. Sit him in Nidal Hasan's lap and get a twofer.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (GICSx)

47 I think Sylvia Plath said it best... "Get out you motherfucking commie bastard"

True literacy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 06:39 PM (n5tGW)

48 Have you seen the videos of "man-on-the-street" interviews where the interviewer invites a leftist to give specific examples of Trump doing something bad and the leftist invariably says, "There's so many examples; it's hard to think of just one!"
Posted by: Emmie at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (OlzlW)
=====

Yes, that guy on Watters called Jonny has done some.

Such a non sequitur.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:39 PM (RIvkX)

49 Democrats only care about "affordability" when a Republican is in the White House. They're hell-bent on $8 a gallon gas when THEY are in the White House.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (TN0g+)
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They told you 20% inflation over 4 years was not happening.

That's what I say to anybody who starts that "Affordability" crap with me.

Are you Pavlov's dog? Do you salivate just because they rang a bell?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Fi81e)

50
Retro topic:

I thought this girl said she was worried about here reputation which is why she called the cops and waiting a few years before she filed the suit.

I'm no expert but doing a Netflix documentary about your gangbang would only enhance the reputation of a pornstar, and not by much.

Is she going to be on OnlyFans next after just saying "Screw it" and becoming her reputation?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

There are selfie videos of this trollop speaking of her fashion sense (very loose paraphrasing here): "... girls say I am pretty ... I wear large silver hoops and a nose piercing and that always gets their attention ... I suffered with cankles for years ... now I have them under control and so I exercise in public and have returned to wearing shorts ..."

She's a dim 304. If all the Cornell sturm und drang was a teaser for something straight out of Netflix, there'll be lawsuits aplenty and, one hopes, arrests and trials for the "masterminds".

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (ixS3i)

51 They can get the Clydesdales to piss in the cans.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM

How would we tell the difference?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (JnkZq)

52 Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (ZxPkt)

The Pentagon Papers help lose a war and killed many.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Ti9vn)

53 The West Point commie bastard from 10 years ago is getting his phd in some Arab bullshit at U of Chicago
Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (enNUy)
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Unironically, no doubt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (RIvkX)

54 47 I think Sylvia Plath said it best... "Get out you motherfucking commie bastard"

True literacy.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 06:39 PM (n5tGW)

*********
Was someone else occupying her oven?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (hzuYO)

55 What about Sylvia's Mother?
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 29, 2026 06:29 PM (0bjKf)

Made a mistake marrying a man whose last name was "Sylvia". I bet li'l Brett got teased hard in school.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (88C+u)

56 Whatever happened to "loose lips sink ships?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (FZ29D)

57 ...Democrats only care about "affordability" when a Republican is in the White House. They're hell-bent on $8 a gallon gas when THEY are in the White House.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (TN0g+)

You're right of course, but the fact that this election is even close is what makes me lose confidence in the very concept of 'democracy'. People need to grow the fuck up.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (SpZgP)

58 Commissar Judge orders his return in
3,2.....

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 06:41 PM (Ia/+0)

59
Sylvia's mother says
Sylvia's fired...

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 06:41 PM (ixS3i)

60 Made a mistake marrying a man whose last name was "Sylvia". I bet li'l Brett got teased hard in school.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (88C+u)

Well, if you want to talk her out of it, the operator says it's another 10 cents for the next three minutes....

Posted by: Boswell at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (j10i6)

61 In case you missed it:

Demonic cutie-pie who read aloud a poem about getting sexually aroused by Charlie Kirk's murder and then basically threatening the death of the TPUSA guy debating her, gets INCINERATED online for her smug death-porn by having the domain for her full name turned into a forever-record of her evil:

https://isacasahuga.com/

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (HD2n/)

62 At a minimum he’s in violation of Article 134, maybe Article 90 as what he did is in direct violation of CiNC and SECWAR orders.

Adios to everything gained over all those years of service.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (vbdXu)

63 ***Sylvia began meeting with journalists outside of the Pentagon in order to leak classified information.

Sylvia failed three polygraphs which questioned him about leaking classified information.
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and it's up against the wall you sorry mother

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (Pee1E)

64 Someone needs to swing from the gallows.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (2GVsD)

65 First of all, Sylvia is no name for a general"

Supposedly played soccer...

And yeah, got promotions during the 3rd O'bumble's reign of error...

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (pfXMo)

66
One wonders (okay, that was bullshit) if David French still gets calls from young dimbulbs who think that he is David Lee Roth.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 06:42 PM (ixS3i)

67 Governor Abigail Spanberger
@GovernorVA
·
Follow
I’m proud to have the most talented, hardest-working cabinet in Virginia’s history. They are also the most diverse cabinet Virginia has ever seen.

6 outta 8 being black is not diverse

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 06:43 PM (/+uur)

68
In those days, there was no king in America, and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:43 PM (Fi81e)

69 Hmmm, I missed the last thread on daycare fraud. Maybe this one will be highlighted tomorrow when JD comes to town.
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For months, DFL candidate Abdi Daisane has been busy running for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. On paper, his St. Cloud daycare has been pretty busy, too.

Blooming Kids Child Care Center was first opened in 2018. The facility is licensed to serve up to 113 children and is scheduled for a license renewal in December.

According to records from the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee, Blooming Kids Child Care Center has received just over $7.29 million in Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) payments since 2018.

CCAP is a state-run program that subsidizes child care for low-income families. The program is one of several programs at the center of Minnesota’s ongoing fraud scandals.

Alpha News recently spoke with a former employee of a neighboring business of Blooming Kids Child Care Center. The worker told Alpha News, “I do not recall ever seeing children entering or leaving the facility.”

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 06:43 PM (kX27y)

70 gets INCINERATED online for her smug death-porn by having the domain for her full name turned into a forever-record of her evil:"

This is how to fight...

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 06:43 PM (pfXMo)

71 56 Whatever happened to "loose lips sink ships?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (FZ29D)

*********
His flappy lips look like he had Suri tribe plate lips that were sold to journalists.

Or his filler went flat during a lie.

Nasty looking traitor. I hit the auto "I hate him" button immediately.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 06:44 PM (hzuYO)

72 Governor Abigail Spanberger
@GovernorVA
·
Follow
I’m proud to have the most talented, hardest-working cabinet in Virginia’s history. They are also the most diverse cabinet Virginia has ever seen.

6 outta 8 being black is not diverse
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 06:43 PM (/+uur)
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In their mind, you might be correct.

It should be 8 out of 8.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 06:44 PM (FZ29D)

73 >The Pentagon Papers help lose a war and killed many.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Ti9vn)
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True, but that leak came from an employee of the Rand Corporation, Daniel Ellsberg

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

74 "Trump Hangs Three-Star General for Leaking to Press, Lying In Three Failed Polygraph Tests"

My preferred headline.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 06:45 PM (vbXSk)

75 ... the tired "I'm a conservative, but" shit he has peddled leftist crack for 20 years is an act that died with David Brooks.
Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 06:32 PM

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Piker.

Posted by: LIFELONG Republican who's voted GOP since 1948 but just can't anymore at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (NYInA)

76 I don't think the Brewers care one whit about the war. They just won the World Series. They have other interests just now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (5WPt1)

77 True, but that leak came from an employee of the Rand Corporation, Daniel Ellsberg

May his name live in infamy.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (SpZgP)

78 In other news, Archive Of Our Own is down. The "organization for transformative works" has a status-page which says they may be back in two weeks, maybe four.

Posted by: your fix of gay harry-potter pr0n at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (88C+u)

79 Sylvia's mother says, "Sylvia's busy
Too busy to come to the phone"

And the operator says, "Forty cents more
For the next three minutes"

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)

80 To me, the Propaganda Ministry is what keeps the Marxists going.

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (Ia/+0)

81 Aww, Red Baron put out a nice X re their harassed worker Walt:

https://tinyurl.com/4kenv6ap

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 06:47 PM (kX27y)

82
https://isacasahuga.com/

Wasn't the chant "Casahuga, casahuga, casa, casa, casahuga" the lead-in chant for "Hooked on a Feeling"?

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 06:47 PM (ixS3i)

83 "Whatever happened to "loose lips sink ships?"

This is much worse than "inadvertently" having loose lips (or pillow talk). This is deliberate leaking to undermine the chain of command.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 06:47 PM (vbXSk)

84 70 gets INCINERATED online for her smug death-porn by having the domain for her full name turned into a forever-record of her evil:"

This is how to fight...
Posted by: man

Unfortunately she's the typical wealthy nepo-baby communist, living in a $2 million house, which both parents pulling in major $$$ -- her mother in particular made a fortune in Soros cash being the lawyer for Occupy Wall Street. So, sadly, she's unlikely to suffer too much.

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 06:47 PM (HD2n/)

85 Whatever happened to "loose lips sink ships?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Say what now?

Posted by: Rep. Andrew J. May (D-KY) at October 29, 2026 06:48 PM (oQ+MP)

86 And the operator says, "Forty cents more
For the next three minutes"
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)

Well, getting Mrs. Avery to get that bitch back on the phone is worth it....

Posted by: Boswell at October 29, 2026 06:48 PM (j10i6)

87 Drunk thick necked dull Germans and Slavs and Pols wake up after night of street fighting, drinking, and debauchery to find out they have a baseball sports team in Milwaukee.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 06:48 PM (/+uur)

88 True, but that leak came from an employee of the Rand Corporation, Daniel Ellsberg
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

He copied them someone ? Another Rand employee?

What's mind blowing is the SC allowed it to be published by a 6-3 vote. Stolen classified papers .

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:48 PM (Ti9vn)

89 So, sadly, she's unlikely to suffer too much."

She's in Texas. She's not going to get a lot of applause...

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)

90 >>Well, getting Mrs. Avery to get that bitch back on the phone is worth it....

She's starting a new live without you, dammit!

Move on.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:49 PM (viF8m)

91 When character, honor and integrity are mocked - for generations - don't be surprised when traitors feel emboldened. And multiply.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:49 PM (SpZgP)

92 Hang the traitor army general from Trump’s victory arch.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 06:50 PM (U4vOu)

93 Move on.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:49 PM (viF8m)

I'll only keep her awhile! Come on!

Posted by: Boswell at October 29, 2026 06:50 PM (j10i6)

94 Trying to think of punishment that's not against rules or the UN or whatever is out there.

Put this flappy lipped traitor in panty hose, nude, with nipple tassles, high heels, and march him on the field at West Point for the half time show.

Then hang him by his lips to see how long they'll stretch before snapping like an old rubber band.

Tell the men to bring the rotten vegetable of their choice to see him off properly.

Of course, the old fashioned gallows would work for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 06:51 PM (hzuYO)

95 Hawaiian judge rules he can't be stripped of his clearance/it must be reinstated in 5... 4.... 3...

Posted by: RandomDave (who, me, cynical?) at October 29, 2026 06:51 PM (aJQbY)

96 OK, article was behind a paywall... so can someone tell me how a war in the Mid East, where they neither drink beer, nor export stuff to make beer...

Raises the price of beer? Now Ukraine? Where they grow lots of grain? That I can see... but... Iran?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 06:51 PM (mP0Kj)

97 I so a good one the other day that really fits me. Someone was wearing a T-Shirt that said............

"WHOF ARTED"....... Get it.. Reminds me of my situation

"WHOF ARTED"....... I got to be the funniest POTUS ever !!

Posted by: Blo Jiden at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (To0UR)

98 >>I'll only keep her awhile! Come on!

This is why she left you.

Forty cents. You buy the ticket or you get off the ride.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (viF8m)

99 She's in Texas. She's not going to get a lot of applause...
Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)
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Still plenty of leftoid retardation to go around on any university campus, even in Texas.

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (oqH4h)

100 Only thing crap media can say about Trump and Sylvia is that he referred to him as a woman. He was inferring that Sylvia is a pussy undeserving his rank or association with the US military.

Isn't passing secure information to adversaries treason?
When did we stop hanging traitors?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (Pee1E)

101 Forty cents. You buy the ticket or you get off the ride.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (viF8m)

Damn operator - *fishes into pocket*

Posted by: Boswell at October 29, 2026 06:53 PM (j10i6)

102 >>OK, article was behind a paywall... so can someone tell me how a war in the Mid East, where they neither drink beer, nor export stuff to make beer...

Egypt says wut?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)

103 https://isacasahuga.com/

That's gonna leave a mark. Can't wait for the liberal tears.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2026 06:54 PM (NtVYv)

104 Elle Sommer, RIP.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 06:55 PM (77rzZ)

105 88 True, but that leak came from an employee of the Rand Corporation, Daniel Ellsberg
Posted by: Don Black
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Rand Corp. is a government operation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:55 PM (Pee1E)

106 Isn't passing secure information to adversaries treason?
When did we stop hanging traitors?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (Pee1E)

I expect this is still on the table.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 06:55 PM (5WPt1)

107 57 ...Democrats only care about "affordability" when a Republican is in the White House. They're hell-bent on $8 a gallon gas when THEY are in the White House.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 06:37 PM (TN0g+)

You're right of course, but the fact that this election is even close is what makes me lose confidence in the very concept of 'democracy'. People need to grow the fuck up.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (SpZgP)

Yeah, I like checking out the crazy on CNN and MSNow.

It hasn't been as much as it was, but a few months ago, it was all cost of gas, cost of diesel. But no rending of clothes.

And no inconvenient historical comparisons.

340 million people in the US. CNN can only muster 700,000 and MSNow - 1.7 million. Fox isn't much better.

I think trust in the media is so low, most ignore it. AI did tell me that ratings for shows as 60 minutes will include people who fell asleep or left the room with the tv on.

I ask about ratings and subscribers. The NYT i think had 12 million and that's probably world wide since they are 'gold-standard.'

I'm thinking a lot of people are just trying to live their lives.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 06:56 PM (Sco7b)

108 She's in Texas. She's not going to get a lot of applause...
Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)
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Still plenty of leftoid retardation to go around on any university campus, even in Texas.
Posted by: ballistic
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Yep! Been by UT Austin lately? Or the thing that just happened at UTSA in San Antonio with the open mic chick?
You would think San Antonio would be more conservative with all the military bases... but nope!

Posted by: lin-duh at October 29, 2026 06:57 PM (VCgbV)

109 104 Elle Sommer, RIP.
Posted by: Bulg

Patrick Stewart, too.

...alright. Who's third?

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 06:57 PM (Y8DZL)

110 103 https://isacasahuga.com/

That's gonna leave a mark. Can't wait for the liberal tears.
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2026 06:54 PM (NtVYv)

Gonna get interesting when she decides she would like to apply for a job.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 06:57 PM (5WPt1)

111 Elke

A Shot in the Dark

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 06:57 PM (/+uur)

112 Elke Sommer, I mean.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 06:57 PM (77rzZ)

113
One of the worst characteristics of the US military officer corps is that so many of them think that once they get a star on their shoulder, they can pick and choose which orders they obey. That shit's been going on since the Conway Cabal against George Washington (although George, being a total badass, put an end to that shit). Ripley and McClellan during the Civil War, MacArthur in WWII and Korea, Thoroughly Modern Milley etc.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 06:58 PM (y9nCu)

114 Huh, daddy Casahuga is "a partner at Arthur D Little" in Houston. I'd thought they closed down after Cerberus bit them.
I'd pretend to be surprised this was the sort of family that raised a kid like this but I've never been a theater kid.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 06:58 PM (88C+u)

115
I think trust in the media is so low, most ignore it. AI did tell me that ratings for shows as 60 minutes will include people who fell asleep or left the room with the tv on.

It wasn't me. I mean, sure, I fall asleep in front of the television rather often after a long day of yard work, but I do not fall asleep in front of a television tuned to 60 Minutes.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 06:59 PM (ixS3i)

116 Rand is an NGO

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:59 PM (ZxPkt)

117 102 >>OK, article was behind a paywall... so can someone tell me how a war in the Mid East, where they neither drink beer, nor export stuff to make beer...

Egypt says wut?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)

Egypt in a War? missed that one.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 06:59 PM (mP0Kj)

118 tcn, she'll be first in line for a "job" in any manner of management-consultant or legal firms. She's got the "oppressed" last name, the connections, and (now) the profile.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 07:00 PM (88C+u)

119
I'd like to see her with a chinese audience.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
1h
🤣 LMAO! Kamala Harris just went cringe accent mode to black voters and it's worse than ever:

"Election tahm is a tahm to let 'em know — we too busy watchin' whatchu doin', to listen to whatchu' sayin!"

💀💀

It's just another sign she plans to run in 2028. Trying to get the perfect accent down hoping her gullible base will fall for it!

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 07:00 PM (kX27y)

120 >>George Washington (although George, being a total badass, put an end to that shit)

Well he was 6'8" and weighed a fucking ton.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

121 106 Isn't passing secure information to adversaries treason?
When did we stop hanging traitors?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:52 PM (Pee1E)

I expect this is still on the table.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 06:55 PM (5WPt1)

Then at least half of Congress and quite a good percentage of judges need to be lined up in front of a wall and shot...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK)

122
My, my, would you look for the sock before setting out!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:01 PM (ixS3i)

123 Unfortunately she's the typical wealthy nepo-baby communist, living in a $2 million house, which both parents pulling in major $$$ -- her mother in particular made a fortune in Soros cash being the lawyer for Occupy Wall Street. So, sadly, she's unlikely to suffer too much.
Posted by: zombie
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Don't think they are citizens and thus can be deported. Reports are that daughter is on a visa here which implies neither father nor mother are either (they call themselves world citizens in Mom's realtor page).

Reportedly Mom is now a realtor and is likely to get blowback for her side gig.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:01 PM (E4rtv)

124 RAND is an FFRDC -- federally funded research and development center. They're quasi-government, quasi-contractor.

Posted by: Beltway Elite at October 29, 2026 07:02 PM (hjsbd)

125 >>>George Washington (although George, being a total badass, put an end to that shit)

Well he was 6'8" and weighed a fucking ton.
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George Washington could throw a boat over a hedge
and shoot lightning bolts out of his arse

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 07:02 PM (ZxPkt)

126 Celebrities dropping like flys

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)

127
Well he was 6'8" and weighed a fucking ton.
Posted by: JackStraw

He saved the children, but not the British children.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:02 PM (ixS3i)

128 OMG you win
look up 'pedant' in the dictionary

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 07:02 PM (ZxPkt)

129 Then at least half of Congress and quite a good percentage of judges need to be lined up in front of a wall and shot...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK)

That has always been the case.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 07:03 PM (5WPt1)

130 I'd pretend to be surprised this was the sort of family that raised a kid like this but I've never been a theater kid.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Mom lists background as activist and her rotten fruit of the loin doesn't fall far from the tree. Send them back to Lula's Brazil.

Let them enjoy the fruits of communism up close.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:03 PM (E4rtv)

131
Don't think they are citizens and thus can be deported. Reports are that daughter is on a visa here which implies neither father nor mother are either (they call themselves world citizens in Mom's realtor page).

Point Nemo Needs Women!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:03 PM (ixS3i)

132 >>He saved the children, but not the British children.

I thought that was Brian Boitano?

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 07:03 PM (Qugny)

133 Don't think they are citizens and thus can be deported. Reports are that daughter is on a visa here which implies neither father nor mother are either (they call themselves world citizens in Mom's realtor page).

Reportedly Mom is now a realtor and is likely to get blowback for her side gig.
Posted by: whig

Yep. This could get funny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 07:04 PM (b99Hl)

134 I love Sec Hegseth

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 07:04 PM (hzuYO)

135 103 https://isacasahuga.com/

That's gonna leave a mark. Can't wait for the liberal tears.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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They're multi-millionaires.
When mom or dad sees this it will be pulled.
It should be saved and presented as often as possible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 07:04 PM (Pee1E)

136 126 Celebrities dropping like flys...

I aint's Dead Yet ..........

Posted by: Blo Jiden at October 29, 2026 07:04 PM (pL0ET)

137 George was closer to 8'

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 07:04 PM (ZxPkt)

138 >>Egypt in a War? missed that one.

Egypt has been making beer forever and been in or behind a number of wars. Egypt is the home of the Muslim Brotherhood that spawned most Islamic terrorist groups.

There was that unfortunate business with Israel where Egypt got their shit pushed in.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)

139 Regarding the Revolution:
"The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod—and henceforth these two conducted all the policy, negotiation, legislation and war."

Posted by: John Adams at October 29, 2026 07:05 PM (E4rtv)

140 Reports are that daughter is on a visa here...
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And over 18. DEPORT HER.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:05 PM (TN0g+)

141 Sounds like the Pentagon was an adult daycare.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 07:05 PM (Cqx++)

142 If the family can be deported to Brazil, they'll slide right into one of Lula's gated resort communities.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 07:06 PM (88C+u)

143 133 Don't think they are citizens and thus can be deported. Reports are that daughter is on a visa here which implies neither father nor mother are either (they call themselves world citizens in Mom's realtor page).

Reportedly Mom is now a realtor and is likely to get blowback for her side gig.
Posted by: whig

Yep. This could get funny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Send it to Homan
Send it to Musk
Send it to Homeland Security

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 07:06 PM (Pee1E)

144 Tmj in pure terror mode as all the polls and early data numbers show historical blue tsunami

5 more days until Armageddon for maga

lol

Sad!

Posted by: AOS cope at October 29, 2026 07:06 PM (NFh5a)

145 >>He saved the children, but not the British children.

The dude had two sets of testicles. Two!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:06 PM (viF8m)

146 TJM, you're stalker is back...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:06 PM (l3cgK)

147 George Washington (although George, being a total badass, put an end to that shit)

Well he was 6'8" and weighed a fucking ton.
Posted by: JackStraw at

He also saved the children. But not the British children.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2026 07:06 PM (YZ0Fo)

148
Oh, look! A butt buddy!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (ixS3i)

149 Arthur D Little sounds like the perfect company to conduct corporate espionage by bad actors.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (Ti9vn)

150 https://isacasahuga.com/
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The funny part is she has pictures and post saying she was going to UT Austin, hook 'em horns, but is going to UTSA instead. Lololol!!!🤣😂

Posted by: lin-duh at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (VCgbV)

151 They're multi-millionaires.
When mom or dad sees this it will be pulled.
It should be saved and presented as often as possible.

Posted by: Braenyard

Can't. Internet domain is bought, lot harder to remove than a simple request. And daughter unwittingly made herself into a public person under libel and slander laws. Sucks to be an idiot nepot spoiled 'world citizen' brat. And it will likely suck to be her parents in Texas shortly.

Posted by: John Adams at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (E4rtv)

152
Not you, BruceWayne

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (ixS3i)

153 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
1h
🤣 LMAO! Kamala Harris just went cringe accent mode to black voters and it's worse than ever:

"Election tahm is a tahm to let 'em know — we too busy watchin' whatchu doin', to listen to whatchu' sayin!"

💀💀
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She should train with Hillary (who will never be President).

Oh wait. Training would require *work* and Kamala is too much of a layabout drunk to actually *work*.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (TN0g+)

154 Price of diesel is too dam high. I know that Ukraine and Russia have wiped out a bunch of each others refineries. What I want to know is how many new refineries are under construction in American and when will they go online? And I realize world supply of diesel being lower is going to mean higher shipping prices so higher prices on everything, including beer, but the effect on beer should not be that big. We grow wheat, barley, and hops in this country.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (PV+Zw)

155 off sock.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:08 PM (E4rtv)

156 142 If the family can be deported to Brazil, they'll slide right into one of Lula's gated resort communities.

Posted by: 88C+u at
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Fine, let them slide like shit down a commode to Brazil.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 07:08 PM (Pee1E)

157
OK, article was behind a paywall... so can someone tell me how a war in the Mid East, where they neither drink beer, nor export stuff to make beer...

Egypt says wut?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)

Stella.... Ugh. We used to drink that piss when I was stationed there. The export stuff tasted a lot like Heineken, and was okay. The domestic though...

They'd reuse the big bottles, and if you could still read the paper label, they'd just leave it on. If you needed a new label, they'd just slap it on over the old ones. Getting a bottle with three stacked labels was common. When the chain of command finally cut us off from drinking the domestic, they claimed that it'd been fortified with formaldehyde. Don't know about that, but the hangover from that shit was absolutely shattering.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 07:08 PM (y9nCu)

158 Is what Sylvia did considered treason??? Serious question.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:08 PM (Gqar8)

159 Oh wait. Training would require *work* and Kamala is too much of a layabout drunk to actually *work*.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (TN0g+)

I don't know what you mean...she was always willing to get down on her knees to get the job done. Coordinating the mayoral staff of Willie Brown took time and effort.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:08 PM (l3cgK)

160 Damn I thought I'd get to it first didn't realize how far behind I was.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2026 07:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

161 I'm going to go out on a limb and say Reuters is lying. Saves time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 07:09 PM (sAmhv)

162
This week, from Netflix:

"Brett Sylvia, Talking Courage", starring MATT DAMON as 3 Star General Brett Silva, a man, a victim, a hero..."

"Nah. Put a chick in the role, make it lame, and make it gay."

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 07:09 PM (Y8DZL)

163 135 103 https://isacasahuga.com/
That's gonna leave a mark. Can't wait for the liberal tears.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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They're multi-millionaires.
When mom or dad sees this it will be pulled.
It should be saved and presented as often as possible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 07:04 PM (Pee1E)

Good, all of you found it.
Nice web-page.

So, how can the parents sue? And if it's an anonymous page owner and this is truthfully what the sub-human cunt said, what's the case.

And what about all the other pop-up pages. I'm guessing
https://isacasahuga69.com/ is still available. Will they have a new hobby?

Despite the stoicism lectures and this being out of my control, yeah I want this bitch to suffer.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:09 PM (Sco7b)

164 >>>Price of diesel is too dam high. I know that Ukraine and Russia have wiped out a bunch of each others refineries....
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Price of diesel is too damn high because of Wee Willy Clinton and his infernal refining regulations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 07:09 PM (Pee1E)

165 Schumer was in my home city today bitching about healthcare cuts . Didn't know he was coming. Of course in this leftist are no one asked him about the fraud being committed which if stopped would bring down everyone's cost. Scumbag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (f8snw)

166 Vote straight Republican in Texas, morons, and this Casahuga family (and inshallah, Arthur D Little) can get the justice from your state they deserve.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (88C+u)

167 57 d seats in play
55 banked
Maybe 260 house seats
250 banked

Bloodbath incoming

Tmj soiling himself in fear

lol

Sad!

Posted by: AOS cope at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (p4hAl)

168 154 Price of diesel is too dam high. I know that Ukraine and Russia have wiped out a bunch of each others refineries. What I want to know is how many new refineries are under construction in American and when will they go online? And I realize world supply of diesel being lower is going to mean higher shipping prices so higher prices on everything, including beer, but the effect on beer should not be that big. We grow wheat, barley, and hops in this country.
Posted by: PaleRider

Likely being bid up and will drop once market manipulations stop. Not a scarcity of oil, not really of refined goods. But I suspect some of it is due to the disruption abroad of oil for several months from the Persian Gulf, that disruption created a backlog demand to catch up for refined products.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (E4rtv)

169 17 Yuengling for the win!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Yup. Pretty much my go to beer anymore.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (sAmhv)

170 169 17 Yuengling for the win!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Yup. Pretty much my go to beer anymore.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (sAmhv)

Didn't the Germans found Yuengling?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:11 PM (l3cgK)

171 ...alright. Who's third?
Posted by: Auspex

[fingers crossed] Rosie! Rosie!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 07:11 PM (ndZc7)

172 >>Is what Sylvia did considered treason??? Serious question.

Kind of interesting that the DOJ is investigating Sylvia not the Pentagon.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)

173 Can't. Internet domain is bought, lot harder to remove than a simple request. And daughter unwittingly made herself into a public person under libel and slander laws. Sucks to be an idiot nepot spoiled 'world citizen' brat. And it will likely suck to be her parents in Texas shortly.
Posted by: John Adams at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks for the answer ahead of time.
Got Friday's Canadian LottoMax numbers?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 07:11 PM (Sco7b)

174 Yeah dipshit is probably a furriner larping as an idiot. Ridiculous numbers. Gaymondo adjacent is my guess. Same type of droppings.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)

175 Despite the stoicism lectures and this being out of my control, yeah I want this bitch to suffer.
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Same. I just wanted a quiet country where my economic prospects were reasonable, my constitutional rights absolute, and whatever taxes were taken from me were used for more or less what they said they were going to be used for. The other side basically said "Screw that--war!". So war it is. That little bitch wanted to be on the front lines--I hope she enjoys it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 07:12 PM (TN0g+)

176 But Lloyd Austin was totally competent, haters...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:12 PM (XMwZJ)

177 One of the many problems with this administration is that it lies with such regularity and frequency that you can't trust a syllable that comes from anyone.
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So, Dave, it should be very easy to offer up many examples, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (XeU6L)

178 Thanks for the answer ahead of time.
Got Friday's Canadian LottoMax numbers?
Posted by: Stateless
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Don't bet, all fixed. House always wins.

Lotteries are taxes based on intelligence.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)

179 There's like, a nood.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (MWfyi)

180 >>>I don't know what you mean...she was always willing to get down on her knees to get the job done. Coordinating the mayoral staff of Willie Brown took time and effort.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I think she was trained for this as a child, so much so that it's a natural reflexive response. There is no thought to it, there is no effort.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (Pee1E)

181
They'd reuse the big bottles, and if you could still read the paper label, they'd just leave it on. If you needed a new label, they'd just slap it on over the old ones. Getting a bottle with three stacked labels was common.

More than once I have been in the presence of someone who was chugging Co'Cola from its iconic glass bottle and discovered the cigarette filter and fag end tobacky droppings from its previous user, who used it for a makeshift ashtray.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (ixS3i)

182 @166 -- Done.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:13 PM (XMwZJ)

183 But Lloyd Austin was totally competent, haters...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 07:12 PM (XMwZJ)

He wore a mask and a face shield at the same time. What a pussy. .

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 07:14 PM (Ti9vn)

184 Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia
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I say that we go for a twofer at Hasan's event. I mean, we already have the troops formed up, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 07:15 PM (XeU6L)

185 Didn't the Germans found Yuengling?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

German immigrants who came to this country in the 19th Century. Unlike the current bunch of immigrants (mostly), they became part of the nation instead of apart of it. Yuengling is a fine beer. It's not the best but for the price, it's pretty good.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 07:15 PM (sAmhv)

186 Sylvia's Mother sez he is a goot boy!
And too busy to come to the phone...

Posted by: Dr. Hook at October 29, 2026 07:16 PM (EdP2u)

187 172 >>Is what Sylvia did considered treason??? Serious question.

Kind of interesting that the DOJ is investigating Sylvia not the Pentagon.
Posted by: JackStraw
=========
Espionage Act investigation is my guess. They are going after the rest of the pool and scuttlebutt on X is that includes Ms. Jennifer Griffin of Faux News. Some of the information included in leaks involved active operations in Iran which kicks it up a notch in seriousness. Iran is an enemy of the US now in open combat. Thus, death penalty for Espionage Act violations in War Time could apply.

Summary from Brave AI
"Criminal Penalties: Violations can result in heavy fines and imprisonment, with sentences ranging up to 20 years for obstructing military operations or causing insubordination, and the death penalty for conveying information to the enemy during wartime. "

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)

188 I haven't researched but supposedly the last diesel refinery in the U.S. was built 50 years ago. I imagine the Vallero refinery explosion and fire several months ago has domestic diesel supply constrained. The price of oil is not terribly high but gas and especially diesel prices are high enough to be hurting the economy.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (PV+Zw)

189 Summary from Brave AI
"Criminal Penalties: Violations can result in heavy fines and imprisonment, with sentences ranging up to 20 years for obstructing military operations or causing insubordination, and the death penalty for conveying information to the enemy during wartime. "

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)

And this is the technicality. What's happening WRT Iran is not a war in the legal sense as Congress has not declared it so.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (l3cgK)

190 188 I haven't researched but supposedly the last diesel refinery in the U.S. was built 50 years ago. I imagine the Vallero refinery explosion and fire several months ago has domestic diesel supply constrained. The price of oil is not terribly high but gas and especially diesel prices are high enough to be hurting the economy.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 07:18 PM (PV+Zw)

Gee, I wonder why diesel refineries haven't been built...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 07:19 PM (l3cgK)

191 Giving military secrets away, hopefully gets more than a boot out of the door

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)

192 I thought Trump was against criminal aliens.

The New York Times
@nytimes
Breaking News: President Trump and his aides helped the Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who faces multiple criminal investigations, enter the U.S., officials said.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 07:22 PM (ndZc7)

193 Well your in clownifornia Jim, but no newer refineries in Texas and Louisianna? We need to remove commie red tape strangling our energy businesses.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 07:24 PM (PV+Zw)

194 And this is the technicality. What's happening WRT Iran is not a war in the legal sense as Congress has not declared it so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Nope, read up on the Prize Cases, all that is necessary is for hostilities to exist which dealt with the undeclared Civil War actions of President Lincoln.

Justice Grier for the majority,
"Let us enquire whether, at the time this blockade was instituted, a state of war existed which would justify a resort to these means of subduing the hostile force.

War has been well defined to be, "That state in which a nation prosecutes its right by force."
The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary, to constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. "

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:25 PM (E4rtv)

195 You wouldn't know them. They're from out of town.

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
In Dearborn, Michigan, many Trump 2024 voters describe Abdul El-Sayed as an “America First” Senate candidate due to his opposition to unconditional military aid to Israel and focus on the domestic economy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (ndZc7)

196 jim,
Scotus precedent that war exists when hostile actions exist is pretty settled, it has not been applied AFAIK to the Espionage Act but has been to other actions of war such as blockades, lawsuits (force majeure clauses), detention and removal of aliens from nations where we are engaged in hostilities with, etc. etc.

So the fact that active hostilities existed when he leaked would be enough to put a noose around his neck. Whether they would do it or not, is another question.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:29 PM (E4rtv)

197 Price of diesel is too dam high. I know that Ukraine and Russia have wiped out a bunch of each others refineries. What I want to know is how many new refineries are under construction in American and when will they go online? And I realize world supply of diesel being lower is going to mean higher shipping prices so higher prices on everything, including beer, but the effect on beer should not be that big. We grow wheat, barley, and hops in this country.
Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2026 07:07 PM (PV+Zw)

I think the most recent Presidential EO on petroleum production and the defense production act indicates that Trump may be trying to force California to allow Valero to re-open their facilities.
He has done pretty much everything else, including Jones act waivers.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 07:29 PM (rbvCR)

198 Last gasps before lame duck.You can thank the Ace who is Spade retards for enabling Trump’s ridiculous betrayal of America First. Conservatives had it all, and then the losers who love to lose - the boomer neocons - fuked it up as usual.

Posted by: NickM at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (kSXpG)

199 Who was Gen. Silvia leaking to? I suspect one of the people was Jenn Griffin of Fox News.

Posted by: wferrin at October 29, 2026 07:36 PM (lCdHU)

200 Sucks to have your crypto at Binance
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The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
·
1h
BREAKING: Binance has been hacked with wallets across the Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON networks seeing outflows of -$5.7 billion.

The hack includes $1.45 billion worth of Bitcoin and $875 million worth of ETH.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)

201 Oh, I thought Stormfront trolls ended here when the SPLC pay stopped.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

202 Likely being bid up and will drop once market manipulations stop. Not a scarcity of oil, not really of refined goods. But I suspect some of it is due to the disruption abroad of oil for several months from the Persian Gulf, that disruption created a backlog demand to catch up for refined products.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:10 PM (E4rtv)

I am told that crude oil and diesel are priced at the commodity market level, not on the consumer level pricing, and a lot of the issues we are seeing now are reflecting both of the commodity traders owning the market and the Euros being really short of heating oil for the coming winter.
Supposedly the waiver on Russian oil and diesel is going to directly affect both markets, since it will kick some of the props out from under the commodity pricing and give additional supply to the consumers to modify the demand.
Venezuela ramping up production is going to be another disruptor for the pricing.
I am going to guess the waiver is calculated to last just as long as it takes Venezuela to meet and exceed that same volume for export allowed for the Russians.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (rbvCR)

203 98 Last gasps before lame duck.You can thank the Ace who is Spade retards for enabling Trump’s ridiculous betrayal of America First. Conservatives had it all, and then the losers who love to lose - the boomer neocons - fuked it up as usual.

Posted by: NickM at October 29, 2026 07:35 PM (kSXpG)

You need to see a shrink about your sever TDS. A by the way, GFY.

Posted by: BillB at October 29, 2026 07:55 PM (Gz/2A)

204 Oh, I thought Stormfront trolls ended here when the SPLC pay stopped.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

he's larping, sometimes he forgets which canned phrase he's supposed to use next.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 08:34 PM (uhVAy)

205 Scotus precedent that war exists when hostile actions exist is pretty settled, it has not been applied AFAIK to the Espionage Act but has been to other actions of war such as blockades, lawsuits (force majeure clauses), detention and removal of aliens from nations where we are engaged in hostilities with, etc. etc.

So the fact that active hostilities existed when he leaked would be enough to put a noose around his neck. Whether they would do it or not, is another question.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 07:29 PM (E4rtv)

The whole War Powers act is build around war-ish activities that aren't declarations of war. Can't see wiggling past that actual law.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 08:36 PM (uhVAy)

206 You wouldn't know them. They're from out of town.

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
In Dearborn, Michigan, many Trump 2024 voters describe Abdul El-Sayed as an “America First” Senate candidate due to his opposition to unconditional military aid to Israel and focus on the domestic economy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 07:28 PM (ndZc7)

Tons of MAGA rallies in blue-est Dearbornistan.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 08:38 PM (uhVAy)

Feds Raid "Adult Day Care" Centers In New York That Are Almost Entirely Fraudulent and Used to Steal Money from the American Taxpayer and Send It Back to... the Chinese Communist Party

NYC's biggest fraud scheme? Feds RAID adult day cares across the city

The feds raided at least two Brooklyn adult day cares on Oct. 20 as part of a sweeping probe into more than 100 sites suspected of Medicaid fraud involving everything from money laundering to kickbacks, officials said.
The crackdown is part of a monthslong "massive effort to combat fraud and abuse" involving taxpayer dollars and some of the state's most vulnerable people, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

Oh sure I'm certain she's right on top of widespread immigrant looting of the American taxpayer.

Video report here.

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
INSANE 🚨 100% of New York adult daycares that were audited WERE FRAUD
"We audited 15 of these -- There's no record of a single meal, activity, single hour of supervision"
ILLEGAL KICKBACKS were also reported with these adult daycares. How the scam works is the daycares will sign people up and offer them $1,000 per month cash
The adult daycare can bill about $120 per day to taxpayers. So they make about $3,600 per person and give the person $1,000 of it per month back as a kickback
So they pocket $2,600. The person with the Medicaid insurance gets $1,000
Taxpayers are being robbed blind

Audit: New York State is permitting B I L L I O N S in Democrat constituency groups' theft of taxpayer funds.

A new report examining New York state audits found billions of dollars in Medicaid payments lacking required verification, an estimated $11 billion in improper unemployment payments and widespread failures to enforce financial safeguards.
The report, produced by the State Financial Officers Foundation and OpenTheBooks.com, reviewed findings from the New York State Comptroller's Office between 2018 and mid-2026, identifying oversight problems involving Medicaid, unemployment insurance, local governments and affordable housing.
Among the largest findings, New York paid approximately $31.5 billion for Medicaid personal-care services between January 2021 and March 2023, but $14.5 billion -- roughly 46% -- lacked matching electronic records verifying when services occurred or how long they lasted.
A 2024 Comptroller audit found that the state had a system capable of blocking certain payments without the required Electronic Visit Verification records, but the feature was not activated.

Oh, you mean exactly the credit card zip code checker that could immediately block foreigners from donating to Democrats which ActBlue specifically disabled so that all the illegal money would flow in?

Isn't that odd that the same things keep happening, and it's all part of what prosecutors will one cay call "a common scheme or plan." Let foreigners loot the taxpayers, then take kickbacks from those same foreigners illegally donating to the very politicians who enabled their plunder.

...
Auditors separately flagged $21.3 million in potentially improper Medicaid payments, including visits billed while patients were hospitalized or lasting too briefly to qualify for reimbursement.
"This audit found a disturbing lack of oversight and failure to comply with the required service verifications," New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in the 2024 audit. "The state Department of Health needs to do a better job of protecting the integrity of these services and safeguard Medicaid funds."

Meanwhile, Democrat judges are absolutely insistent that illegal aliens' illegal votes for Democrats be counted.

Jennifer Van Laar:

Judge David Carter of the Central District of California ruled against the Department of Justice's emergency motion to require California and Los Angeles County election officials to sequester ballots returned by those on a list of 20,000 people the federal government had determined to be "likely noncitizens."
In a scathing 26-page order, Carter likened the federal government's effort to prevent illegal aliens from voting to efforts to keep black Americans or women from voting, and to Jim Crow-era laws like "poll taxes, literary tests, and other obstacles to prevent people from casting their vote."
In the introduction, he wrote:

Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch. In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too.

Now the woke judges are all about States' Rights. Sure.

INSANE 🚨 100% of New York adult daycares that were audited WERE FRAUD
�We audited 15 of these � There's no record of a single meal, activity, single hour of supervision�
ILLEGAL KICKBACKS were also reported with these adult daycares. How the scam works is the daycares will sign people up and offer them $1,000 per month cash
The adult daycare can bill about $120 per day to taxpayers. So they make about $3,600 per person and give the person $1,000 of it per month back as a kickback
So they pocket $2,600. The person with the Medicaid insurance gets $1,000
Taxpayers are being robbed blind
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 21, 2026

"Ma'am, this is fraud."
Dr. Oz confronts a New York City senior day care director during a surprise visit, questioning Medicaid billing records that appear to show more seniors receiving services than are actually present.
Dr. Oz presses the director over the discrepancies as federal investigators expand their crackdown on suspected fraud at senior care facilities across the city. The director disputes the concerns, but Oz isn't finished asking questions.
See what else investigators uncover during the surprise inspections: https://t.co/XXBgS4qi5W
@foxnewspolitics
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 20, 2026

Much of this post was spurred by this video by Actual Justice Warrior. He notes that many of the scammy "adult day care centers" are run by the Chinese.

And that they refused to enroll Nick Shirley's grandmother in their program, saying she "wouldn't be comfortable" there because she "doesn't speak the language."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:35 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (hG5L0)

2 Also,

@LeadingReport 3m
DHS confirmed 4,170 arrests of illegal immigrants across Texas in a 10-day statewide operation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (nEUC6)

3 I have one big question, why is the federal government funding garbage like this?

Federal $$$$ has no business being spent on this kind of stuff.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (I43vL)

4 Scratch a blue state....

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:39 PM (Fi81e)

5 On topic of Nick "Call Me Shirley" Shirley, O'Keefe III and his crew are now facing criminal charges of identity theft in Hennepin County.
Because they showed up that voting there is fraudable.
And have further shown up that it's illegal to prove it.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:39 PM (88C+u)

6
>>Judge David Carter of the Central District of California ruled against the Department of Justice's emergency motion to require California and Los Angeles County election officials to sequester ballots returned by those on a list of 20,000 people the federal government had determined to be "likely noncitizens."

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Back to the Ninth Circuit.

btw, another judge has disqualified the prosecuting attorney on that case, but the order is stayed -- for now.

Absolute war on the republic, on democracy, on justice.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:39 PM (mmrXZ)

7 >>>5 On topic of Nick "Call Me Shirley" Shirley, O'Keefe III and his crew are now facing criminal charges of identity theft in Hennepin County.

oh right I meant to cover that.

my brain is bad.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)

8 "This is fraud"
"I know, but . . ."

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (rbvCR)

9 I have one big question, why is the federal government funding garbage like this?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (I43vL)
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One word: Democrats.

Even if we are talking about accomplices with an "R" next to their name.

The Graft MUST FLOW!

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Fi81e)

10 my state yay.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (CWTWj)

11 Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. [shudders]

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Q8pAC)

12 How soon until New York drafts it's own Don't Say Shirley law?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:41 PM (Fi81e)

13
We the taxpayers are screwed everyday. Unfortunately it is not enjoyable.

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2026 05:41 PM (/QHx4)

14 NYC's biggest fraud scheme? Feds RAID adult day cares across the city

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Nice!!!

I knew they'd crack down on these Universities eventually. High damn time, if you ask me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 05:41 PM (BI5O2)

15 In a scathing 26-page order, Carter likened the federal government's effort to prevent illegal aliens from voting to efforts to keep black Americans or women from voting, and to Jim Crow-era laws like "poll taxes, literary tests, and other obstacles to prevent people from casting their vote."
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There is one key difference in Carter's attempt at argument by analogy. The examples he cites are where the federal government was interfering with the ability of AMERICAN CITIZENS to vote.

Illegal aliens have ZERO right to vote in ANY election in the borders of the United States.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:42 PM (FZ29D)

16 Why won't the welfare state just die already!?!

People would imagine huge riots, but there's probably 12 people legitimately on any government program

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:42 PM (Sco7b)

17 "Ma'am, this is fraud."

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Well, that's just like--yer opinion, man!

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e)

18 Good glad something is happening. But Raids Across the City headline is terrible, it was 2 raids.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (n5tGW)

19 I wonder how de Tocqueville would write of America nowadays?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e)

20 So California is in a state of Insurrection.

None of their representative should be seated in the new Congress.

The entire state is nothing but Fraud.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (+4Cf6)

21 I wonder how de Tocqueville would write of America nowadays?
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e)

By now he would have read Bastiat

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:44 PM (rbvCR)

22
If that illegal kickback scheme was your house, the doors and windows would stand open all day and looters would be swarming it.

If it was an operating system, every penny in your bank account would be sucked out and your neighbor could cruise your hard drive from the comfort of their living room.

If it was your body, you'd be using Handi-Wrap to keep your organs from falling out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:44 PM (mmrXZ)

23 Is all this fraud money in some way linked to vote manipulation and cheating? The timing seems to suggest yes.

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (SwyyQ)

24 Anybody see the great Apple TV series Bad Monkey?

Defrauding the federal government for medical supplies was central to the plot.

It's a good thing Obama put in the fix for Healthcare.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e)

25 Okay so states are allowing thousands, hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes. Judges have, improperly or not, blocked the votes from being sequestered or excluded. What is the actual next step in enforcement? Is there anything that can be done aside from allowing frauds to take power over citizens?

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (+W+Ln)

26 Good glad something is happening. But Raids Across the City headline is terrible, it was 2 raids.

Lessons to be learned:

If you are white, steal a car, 20 years in prison
If you are non-white, steal a car, instantly back on the streets
If you are a foreigner, steal an entire dealership, and nothing happens.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (+4Cf6)

27 "Democracy in America:"

WTF???!!!!!

Posted by: DeToqueville 2026 at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (Fi81e)

28 Okay so states are allowing thousands, hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes. Judges have, improperly or not, blocked the votes from being sequestered or excluded. What is the actual next step in enforcement? Is there anything that can be done aside from allowing frauds to take power over citizens?

Texas Secretary of State declares by fiat that every race in this election was won by a Republican. No election necessary.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (+4Cf6)

29 I used to pay for a legitimate adult day care participant ( WC brain injury ) but he continued to runaway after being dropped off by his daughter.

Man I hated my job .

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (Ti9vn)

30 Hochul knew. She was also up to her eyes in fraud in the new state contract for home health aids. The NY Post reported and the Feds should be all over it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (f8snw)

31 The FBI is Racist Against.... Against.... Against......

Well, someone that is related to or works for TRUMP !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (jGtoG)

32 The Democrats really believe in "Our graftocracy".

Posted by: DeToqueville 2026 at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (Fi81e)

33 24 Anybody see the great Apple TV series Bad Monkey?

Defrauding the federal government for medical supplies was central to the plot.

It's a good thing Obama put in the fix for Healthcare.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e)

That was a good one.

Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (pe2q3)

34 It's all redundant and obvious and yet somehow needs to be noted. Behold the arrogance and illiteracy of yet another idiotic federal judge. The federal government going through an open, painstaking, completely documented process of identifying a small number of the almost certainly yuuuuge number of *ineligible voters voting* in CA this cretin likens to racial bars to voting.

Again, as is my annoying habit only because it is obviously the larger key point - imagine the degradation of the electorate, civic culture, judiciary etc that would treat this judge's absurd statement as anything other than the spittle-flecked rantings of a homeless addict on the street corner.

Oh yeah yeah process will give another bite at the apple. We're far past where that is any solace. The damage done to the country and society by unaccountable lawless power mad racist and totalitarian judges has long since passed the point where undergraduate awe and worship of the process is anything but pathetic.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (U/Byj)

35 >>>Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. [shudders]
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Q8pAC)

Is the popularity real? It feels astroturfed. Here in Northern California the WNBA is getting tons of hype. Way more than men's basketball.

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (SwyyQ)

36 identifying oversight problems involving Medicaid, unemployment insurance, local governments and affordable housing.

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

Funny how there are not enough bureaucrats for any function but verifying fraud is fine, no need for more staff.

Posted by: Decaf at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (ZNpJk)

37 Yokel Hochul cares about fraud now ?

Sheesh

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2026 05:49 PM (NtVYv)

38 "Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. "

Witches got ball?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 05:49 PM (MWfyi)

39 >>Judge David Carter of the Central District of California ruled against the Department of Justice's emergency motion to require California and Los Angeles County election officials to sequester ballots returned by those on a list of 20,000 people the federal government had determined to be "likely noncitizens."

Sounds like aiding and abetting election fraud, and accessory to commit election fraud before, during and after the fact. Arrest that man in the black dress.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:50 PM (ZW710)

40
I wonder how de Tocqueville would write of America nowadays?
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e)

By now he would have read Bastiat
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:44 PM (rbvCR)

he'd be riding one of Bastiat's "Negative Railroads". Bastiat was one of the original anti-Socialists. He fought the idea that adding stops on a railroad improves it by conceiving a railroad that is all stations and no rail which must be the bestest ever.

De Toqueville did wonder what would happen when American institutions started granting themselves money...

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:50 PM (uhVAy)

41 Let foreigners loot the taxpayers, then take kickbacks from those same foreigners illegally donating to the very politicians who enabled their plunder.

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What a perfect self-sustaining economy.

If all the fraud were eliminated the budget could be halved and the national debt paid off in a couple of years. Why don't we try that?

Posted by: Decaf at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (ZNpJk)

42 >>>Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. [shudders]
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Night of the Flying Green Dildo

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (ZW710)

43 I pay my taxes, well the federal government takes my taxes out of my checks before I ever see a dime but I pay them. And I read stories like this almost every single day.

Fraud, grift and outright theft of taxpayer $$$ and I think, why does the federal government get to skim the top 32% off of all my income to hand it to these somaliis and other people stealing our money.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (I43vL)

44 >>>Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. [shudders]
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Q8pAC)

Is the popularity real? It feels astroturfed. Here in Northern California the WNBA is getting tons of hype. Way more than men's basketball.
Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (SwyyQ)

There is no popularity for it. It's all a scam. When Clarke isn't playing interest is less than nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (uhVAy)

45 "Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. "
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It's not like a neon green dildo can come flying out of the screen.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (Fi81e)

46
>>A 2024 Comptroller audit found that the state had a system capable of blocking certain payments without the required Electronic Visit Verification records, but the feature was not activated.

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

That requirement was an outlier. Ignore it.

Posted by: Sunny Balwani, cybersecurity czar at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (mmrXZ)

47 Broad + Liberty

'Home Care firm tied to ex-Upper Darby Treasure drew about $85.million from Medicaid plans.' The township can't find its business registration.

Oh these PA businesses and their fathom registrations! 😂
And that's SO Delco!

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (NFX2v)

48 Things like this widespread fraud really bug me in the way they don't attack it. Cut off all of the adult daycares in NYC. Just don't pay. Make them sue to get it back on, and then make them bring receipts to court. It just doesn't make sense to go after one by one. But that's the govt for you.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (n5tGW)

49 Sounds like aiding and abetting election fraud, and accessory to commit election fraud before, during and after the fact. Arrest that man in the black dress.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:50 PM (ZW710)
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Judges SHOULD be arrested for aiding and abetting criminal activity based on their own actions.

They let murderers wander freely in the streets.

By any reasonable standard, the judge is responsible for the criminal actions of that individual if the judge was in a position to prevent it from happening.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (FZ29D)

50 De Toqueville did wonder what would happen when American institutions started granting themselves money...
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:50 PM (uhVAy)

And my point was that Bastiat sort of answered that question answered that question, so De Toqueville could move on to other questions.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (rbvCR)

51
If all the fraud were eliminated the budget could be halved and the national debt paid off in a couple of years. Why don't we try that?
Posted by: Decaf

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

It just kills me to think of the prosperity and freedom we've missed out on thanks to this evil grift.

Posted by: Sunny Balwani, cybersecurity czar at October 29, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)

52 This is perhaps the most perfect example of recent government corruption. There was a big outcry: women need more daycare centers! There was a solution: the federal government will fund and encourage creation of daycares!

And fraudsters immediately took it and made it work for themselves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:53 PM (TMNW7)

53 Judges SHOULD be arrested for aiding and abetting criminal activity based on their own actions.

They let murderers wander freely in the streets.

By any reasonable standard, the judge is responsible for the criminal actions of that individual if the judge was in a position to prevent it from happening.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (FZ29D)
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This is all part of "Bright Ideas" governance.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:53 PM (Fi81e)

54 @48 the Feds did that to Medicaid fraudsters in Cali. 500 or so and none complained about the cut off. Obvious fraud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:53 PM (f8snw)

55 Fraud, grift and outright theft of taxpayer $$$ and I think, why does the federal government get to skim the top 32% off of all my income to hand it to these somaliis and other people stealing our money.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (I43vL)
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And then government has the gall to demand more and more money for essential services like schools, first responders, and healthcare, even as they shovel that money out the back door to these fraudsters.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:54 PM (FZ29D)

56 "It's not like a neon green dildo can come flying out of the screen.
Posted by: Axeman"

Dildovision. Perfect format for a jump scare.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 05:54 PM (MWfyi)

57 Should's got nothing to do with it.

Posted by: DC at October 29, 2026 05:54 PM (Fi81e)

58 Imagine real reporters digging into stories like this.

And then Ed Asner killing the stories because they hurt the Dems.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 05:54 PM (Sco7b)

59 47. Addendum

In addition, all three shareholders New Hope Home Care lists in its application to the state — Sayduzzaman, Kutubul Alam and Mst Hosneara — are named in federal tax liens totaling about $357,000.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 05:55 PM (NFX2v)

60 Kara Swisher wants to prosecute Edward "Big Balls" Coristine
x.com WesternLensman/status/2115894434336313569

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:55 PM (88C+u)

61 Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. [shudders]
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (Q8pAC)

Is the popularity real? It feels astroturfed. Here in Northern California the WNBA is getting tons of hype. Way more than men's basketball.
Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (SwyyQ)

There is no popularity for it. It's all a scam. When Clarke isn't playing interest is less than nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM

When we lived in connecticut the mohegan sun casino sponsored a wnba team, IIRC they were called the connecticut suns. They had a big arena in the casino where they would play.

Other than playoffs they never filled half of the seats they put out, plus they were handing out free tickets like mad. If you were at the casino when they were playing a game you would be handed free tickets if you wanted them and still over half of the seats were empty.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (I43vL)

62 Wait until you see what the seats do!

Posted by: Saleman for Dildovision at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (MWfyi)

63 Ace -
Now the woke judges are all about States' Rights. Sure.

Look how quick they react when a state wants to lock up illegals or limit abortion or trans surgeries. Then States Rights are dead

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (uhVAy)

64 We'll never get correct rulings in states like New York and California until the GOPe does away with the "blue slip courtesy".

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

65
How long before Letitia James, Kathy Hochul, and Zohran claim credit for these busts? I just can't hate these bastards enough.

Posted by: Sunny Balwani, cybersecurity czar at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (mmrXZ)

66 Trump needs to start calling blue state leaders illegitimate. Get ahead of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (viF8m)

67
If Leftists cared about the poor like they say they do, they'd be the first and loudest ones to denounce this theft. That they're not tells you everything you need to know about their "compassion".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:57 PM (eRlcH)

68
I can't wait for the FBI op against Venezuelan fraudsters

Operation RICO Suave

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 05:57 PM (y9nCu)

69 Reason number 9,328 why the Democrats will fight tooth and nail to take power back.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (PKL0q)

70 Things like this widespread fraud really bug me in the way they don't attack it. Cut off all of the adult daycares in NYC. Just don't pay. Make them sue to get it back on, and then make them bring receipts to court. It just doesn't make sense to go after one by one. But that's the govt for you.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:52 PM (n5tGW)

the judge would just order them to resume payments by fiat.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)

71 There was a country that gave birth to Modern America. And one day Modern America said to its Father Country, "I cannot wait for you to die off, give me my inheritance now."

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (Fi81e)

72 The Nightmare on Dildo Street.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (b99Hl)

73 If Leftists cared about the poor like they say they do...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They do care about the poor...just not the poor of this country.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:59 PM (ZW710)

74 We'll never get correct rulings in states like New York and California until the GOPe does away with the "blue slip courtesy".
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)
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Indeed, that was a custom for a simpler time.

Now it just perpetuates an ideology.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:59 PM (Fi81e)

75 The chy knee branch of fraud.

I see now!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 06:00 PM (hzuYO)

76 If Leftists cared about the poor like they say they do...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They do care about the poor...just not the poor of this country.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:59 PM (ZW710)

No, they care about their poor cousins or selfs who get jobs and kickbacks aplenty. Plus jobs 'monitoring' the system so that nobody else does.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 06:00 PM (uhVAy)

77 And then appeal the judges decision, and keep going, drag it on and on. This is what the left does and it is pretty damn effective. And if you lose all the way, reinstate it for a day, and then find a new reason to unfund it again.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 06:01 PM (n5tGW)

78 >>DOJ issues new wave of subpoenas in Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola's alleged 'Dan Sullivan' trickery

>>Sources told ABC News that DOJ prosecutors are probing "whether the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to include Dan J. Sullivan's name on the ballot could violate potential federal conspiracy statutes."

https://tinyurl.com/64x7rdjw

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:01 PM (viF8m)

79 Out: Why rob banks? That's where the moneys at.

In: Government Fraud? That's where the moneys at.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 06:01 PM (mP0Kj)

80 If Leftists cared about the poor like they say they do...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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They have some sympathy for the poor--but most of it is performative.

The "poor" is a weapon to wield against people who blink on "helping the poor".

Just like when Republicans would not turn racial advocacy into blanket pandering, the Democrats gained control of the minorities.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:02 PM (Fi81e)

81
the judge would just order them to resume payments by fiat.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)

Fuck you, your honor. You can't force them to sign a check. And no one in their right mind wants a little shitbox car made by Italian Commies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 06:03 PM (y9nCu)

82 Wankers.

Posted by: Horrible Hanibal at October 29, 2026 06:03 PM (lTjTD)

83 Just like when Republicans would not turn racial advocacy into blanket pandering, the Democrats gained control of the minorities.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:02 PM (Fi81e)

Then started manufacturing even more minority minorities to exploit.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)

84 Lightworker tries to walk back Cheescake Factory diss.

https://tinyurl.com/ppws29vb

Sure, Barry. *rolls eyes*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (B0NCh)

85 In a scathing 26-page order, Carter likened the federal government's effort to prevent illegal aliens from voting to efforts to keep black Americans or women from voting, and to Jim Crow-era laws like "poll taxes, literary tests, and other obstacles to prevent people from casting their vote."

Yeah, who CARES if we have non-citizens voting, right? Right?

Posted by: Apocalypto at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (l3cgK)

86
Things like this widespread fraud really bug me in the way they don't attack it. Cut off all of the adult daycares in NYC. Just don't pay. Make them sue to get it back on, and then make them bring receipts to court. It just doesn't make sense to go after one by one. But that's the govt for you.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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Trump should set up Entitlement Courts like Immigration Courts that answer to him -- or HHS or whoever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 06:05 PM (l3cgK)

88
So many ~~people~~ Democrats need to go to jail or perhaps exile...

...maybe we can send all the thieves stealing from the American taxpayers to the Sudan for life.

That seems fair.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 06:05 PM (YSUhf)

89 In a scathing 26-page order, Carter likened the federal government's effort to prevent illegal aliens from voting to efforts to keep black Americans or women from voting, and to Jim Crow-era laws like "poll taxes, literary tests, and other obstacles to prevent people from casting their vote."

Yeah, who CARES if we have non-citizens voting, right? Right?
Posted by: Apocalypto at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (l3cgK)
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This is that expanding brain death that they have been successful and spreading. Yeah, it could be LIKE that, it could have ELEMENTS of that effort.

But from the time that the Democrats started that shit, blacks WERE AMERICAN CITIZENS!

It affirms why there should have been no barriers for black people to vote!

It can't be leveraged on to non-citizens!!

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (Fi81e)

90 In a scathing 26-page order, Carter likened the federal government's effort to prevent illegal aliens from voting to efforts to keep black Americans or women from voting, and to Jim Crow-era laws like "poll taxes, literary tests, and other obstacles to prevent people from casting their vote."
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Judges don't live in their court rooms.

They go home at night, wherever home might be...

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

91 The judge said the federal government’s request risked disrupting California’s election and undermining public confidence in the democratic process.

Does California have a fine for false accusations of this nature?

Non-citizens can't vote. This is just more of him setting the stage to claim "election fraud" and usher in J6 around the country.

When you have zero shame, you keep going with this nonsense in the hopes of eventually getting a favorable/incompetent judge to side with you. All it takes is one to open the floodgates.

Who could have imagined the party of pedophiles and rapists, would not understand the word no.

Its a republican practice to cheat elections. Never forget Jeb Bush disenfranchised black voters in Florida for his brother George against Al Gore.

Despite that, Al Gore still won and the election was stolen.

And trump and Republicans set up a fake elector scheme in 2020 to rig the elections. They also allow musk to make up fake lotterys to buy votes for trump. Cheaters gotta cheat

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (6nZo9)

92 There are people - loud people - holding public forums, speaking in Philly Council - about the poor, about corruption, parental responsibilities, housing, etc. & they're passed over in elections, mics cut off in Philly Council.

Kathy Barnett ran against US Rep Madeleine Dean years ago - during the 1st Trump Administration & she couldn't get the high level political endorsements.

John Allante McAuley continuously steps up in Philly & is working with Flip Philly Red.

Btw, all parties are Black & all are worth listening to.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (NFX2v)

93 How many investigations has the FIB opened today? 10,20,50?

Posted by: Horrible Hanibal at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (lTjTD)

94 Jim Crow-era laws like "poll taxes, literary tests, and other obstacles to prevent people from casting their vote."

Yeah, who CARES if we have non-citizens voting, right? Right?
Posted by: Apocalypto at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (l3cgK)

So, at the Founding of this country, our Founding Father's put limits on who could vote... Poll taxes... the works.

But the Jim Crow era is from 1867 to the 1960's...

/looks confused

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (mP0Kj)

95 >>@benjaminpenn
·
2h
>>SCOOP: Trump DOJ has directed California's US attorneys to start criminally subpoenaing state & local officials over their roles facilitating allegedly unlawful voting. Prosecutors in LA & elsewhere expected to start issuing grand jury subpoenas today

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:08 PM (viF8m)

96 We are either going to have to impeach and convict some judges or we aren’t going to have a republic.

A system where petty black-robed tyrants exercise ideological control based on their own whims and imagined moral superiority cannot last.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

97 Trump should set up Entitlement Courts like Immigration Courts that answer to him -- or HHS or whoever.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)

Trump should hire a few thousand independent investigators and keep generating evidence for future fraud charges, and prosecute the state workers who are supposed to be doing that job.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

98
Non-citizens can't vote. This is just more of him setting the stage to claim "election fraud" and usher in J6 around the country.

Sure Trump wants another Jan 6th...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 06:08 PM (+gK6I)

99
Autism.Child Day Care. Adult DayCare. Medicare. Clinic Billings.
Schools. Our national debt could be eliminated if we cut off all the grifters/theft.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 06:09 PM (OkYzo)

100 Just learning that Patrick Stewart has passed away.

Guess I will never get a chance to ask him how he felt about the movie Life Force.

Gurney Halleck he will always be.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 06:09 PM (2GVsD)

101 Judges don't live in their court rooms.

They go home at night, wherever home might be...
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (TN0g+)
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What a fucking moron, though.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:10 PM (Fi81e)

102
Things like this widespread fraud really bug me in the way they don't attack it. Cut off all of the adult daycares in NYC. Just don't pay. Make them sue to get it back on, and then make them bring receipts to court. It just doesn't make sense to go after one by one. But that's the govt for you.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

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Okay, I have another idea. Cut off the daycares and tell them to go to their elected state officials for their money. State officials, those nonpareils of efficiency and responsiveness, must forward their requests to HHS officials. HHS officials will audit the requests on a quarterly basis and if irregularity exceeds 4%, the whole budget is denied. Lather rinse repeat until your state officials learn how to submit a proper request.

Just spitballin' here, that's how it would go in the real world.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:10 PM (mmrXZ)

103 RIP Elke Sommer

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:10 PM (ZxPkt)

104 Yeah, who CARES if we have non-citizens voting, right? Right?
Posted by: Apocalypto at October 29, 2026 06:04 PM (l3cgK)

If fraud starts flipping Blue states, suddenly they will be *very* interested in stopping it.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)

105 98. Sure Trump wants another Jan 6th...
Posted by: It's me donna

Pelosi and Schumer certainly do.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 06:11 PM (NFX2v)

106 Pelosi will bring the wine and Schumer the burgers for the next Jan 6 cook-off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 06:12 PM (2GVsD)

107 98. Sure Trump wants another Jan 6th...
Posted by: It's me donna

Pelosi and Schumer certainly do.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 06:11 PM (NFX2v)

Pelosi just wants vodka pudding these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 06:12 PM (uhVAy)

108 99. Posted by Frank Barone

And citizens in need might get necessary help.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 06:13 PM (NFX2v)

109 96 We are either going to have to impeach and convict some judges or we aren’t going to have a republic.

A system where petty black-robed tyrants exercise ideological control based on their own whims and imagined moral superiority cannot last.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

This is all Congresses fault. They have the Constitutional DUTY to write rules for the Courts, but delegated that authority to the Supreme Court, via law, in 1934... they have the authority to fix all this shit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 06:14 PM (mP0Kj)

110 > I have one big question, why is the federal government funding garbage like this?

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 06:14 PM (ZxPkt)

111 "How the scam works is the daycares will sign people up and offer them $1,000 per month cash"

Where do I sign up? Cripes, I feel like such a chump missing out on all these in-plain-sight fraud opportunities.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 06:14 PM (Jr5Lq)

112 Okay, I have another idea. Cut off the daycares and tell them to go to their elected state officials for their money. State officials, those nonpareils of efficiency and responsiveness, must forward their requests to HHS officials. HHS officials will audit the requests on a quarterly basis and if irregularity exceeds 4%, the whole budget is denied. Lather rinse repeat until your state officials learn how to submit a proper request.

Just spitballin' here, that's how it would go in the real world.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:10 PM (mmrXZ)

Daily biometric scans and a ton of other crap tough to fake done daily. Iris scans. Fingerprints. Daily.

Don't want to do it. Don't take government dollars.

On a student visa and not showing up in class. Your neck collar explodes with what few brains you had...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 06:14 PM (Sco7b)

113
SCOOP: Trump DOJ has directed California's US attorneys to start criminally subpoenaing state & local officials over their roles facilitating allegedly unlawful voting. Prosecutors in LA & elsewhere expected to start issuing grand jury subpoenas today
Posted by: JackStraw

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The pizza delivery metric should be studied. Lotta people staying late tonight to see what they can delete and to coordinate their responses as to ignorance, innocence, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:15 PM (mmrXZ)

114 >>Autism.Child Day Care. Adult DayCare.

This is pretty much what Ace provides, here at the HQ.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 06:15 PM (Qugny)

115
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Posted by: Don Black

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PROMOTE the general welfare, not PROVIDE it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:16 PM (mmrXZ)

116 Just when you thought bears couldn't be any more dangerous...

http://tiny.cc/6bvc101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 06:16 PM (mkw2N)

117 This is all Congresses fault. They have the Constitutional DUTY to write rules for the Courts, but delegated that authority to the Supreme Court, via law, in 1934... they have the authority to fix all this shit...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 06:14 PM (mP0Kj)

I won’t hold my breath for Congress to fix anything anytime soon.

We are at the Judges Gone Wild part of the show because that’s all the Dems have left to exercise power nationally.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:17 PM (6ydKt)

118 can we PLEASE get the Dems back in power so we can quit hearing about massive fraud every freaking day? It's getting quite tiresome.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at October 29, 2026 06:18 PM (ZsOeQ)

119 Much of this post was spurred by this video by Actual Justice Warrior. He notes that many of the scammy "adult day care centers" are run by the Chinese.
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Love AJW.

Tell me the CCP is not involved. Go ahead and try.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:18 PM (RIvkX)

120 an estimated $11 billion"

There's a reason I don't comment much on these threads.

Has something to do with spending down my retirement to cover additional costs of elderly parents (one disabled retired Veteran), both having been diagnosed with severe dementia...
And a wife with cancer. But I stupidly worked, built up reserves and such. F.... me.

$11 Billion Dollars.

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 06:18 PM (pfXMo)

121 "Just when you thought bears couldn't be any more dangerous...

http://tiny.cc/6bvc101"

Bears: please don't give the corvids any similar ideas.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 06:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

122
Daily biometric scans and a ton of other crap tough to fake done daily. Iris scans. Fingerprints. Daily.

Don't want to do it. Don't take government dollars.

Posted by: Stateless

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I was thinking along those lines, actually. We've got the technology. Violations would ping in real time, generate a Notification to rectify the situation within X minutes/hours, if that's not satisfied, the fines (extracted directly from your operating budget) begin. Further failure gets you a court summons.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:20 PM (mmrXZ)

123 The nice thing about the "Rule of Law" and being its enforcers is that it's kind of an a la carte deal!

Posted by: Everything The Government Touches at October 29, 2026 06:20 PM (CHst0)

124 This is pretty much what Ace provides, here at the HQ.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 06:15 PM (Qugny)
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But too few pudding cups.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:20 PM (RIvkX)

125 Day Care Centers ***Steal Money from the American Taxpayer and Send It Back to... the Chinese Communist Party***
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No, they didn't indoctrinating the marks while they were at it.
.
Fucking Chinese

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:20 PM (Pee1E)

126 People dropping like flies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 06:21 PM (b99Hl)

127 Nood .mil

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

128 >>The pizza delivery metric should be studied. Lotta people staying late tonight to see what they can delete and to coordinate their responses as to ignorance, innocence, etc.

Sounds like the DOJ is going all in.

Best way to fight against the coming color revolution is to attack them first.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:22 PM (viF8m)

129 can we PLEASE get the Dems back in power so we can quit hearing about massive fraud every freaking day? It's getting quite tiresome.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at October 29, 2026 06:18 PM (ZsOeQ)
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David French, is that you?!

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:23 PM (Fi81e)

130 ...federal judge ruled on Oct. 29 that the government’s attempt to limit who can qualify for an exception to new Medicaid work requirements was illegal, ...
...
The new requirements are that individuals aged 19 to 64 must work, volunteer, or train for at least 80 hours each month, or attend school, to receive Medicaid coverage. Exceptions beyond being medically frail include being pregnant and being parents of children of certain ages.
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Fucking Obama
Fucking, Obama

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:23 PM (Pee1E)

131 114 >>Autism.Child Day Care. Adult DayCare.

This is pretty much what Ace provides, here at the HQ.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 06:15 PM (Qugny)

I must admit I’m highly disappointed in the tv channel selection and the snacks.

Watching Columbo all day and eating handfuls out of a box of Kaboom is not how I wanted to spend my afternoons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)

132 Someone please sit down and discover how these funds are laundered and transferred to ActBlu for campaign distribution. The only way ActBlu continues to break quarterly records (while simultaneously refusing to answer questions under oath) is if they have a pipeline to questionable funds....and this process fits the bill.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 06:24 PM (dIske)

133 These types of Medical scams have been happening at least since I started my career which was over 40 years ago.

It's that immigrants and foreign adversaries are the main players these days.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 06:24 PM (Ti9vn)

134 Would be great to know where this situation stands (DOJ letter to "sanctuary" jurisdictions August 2025):

https://tinyurl.com/4ntsk7vc

Posted by: rhomboid at October 29, 2026 06:24 PM (U/Byj)

135
Tell me the CCP is not involved. Go ahead and try.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

Huh. You think those fucking ayis and ges would give a dime to the CCP now that they're citizens? That's what's cool about America! You don hav peh chy-na now, you ameriken. Ameriken giv you money, you keep.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 06:24 PM (mmrXZ)

136 118 can we PLEASE get the Dems back in power so we can quit hearing about massive fraud every freaking day? It's getting quite tiresome.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at October 29, 2026 06:18 PM (ZsOeQ)

I know people who are influenced by their desire to not be bothered with annoying stuff like that, so they vote D. They never take a step back and analyze what they are reacting to.

Posted by: Emmie at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM (OlzlW)

137
We are at the Judges Gone Wild part of the show because that’s all the Dems have left to exercise power nationally.

Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Fucking, Judges

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:26 PM (Pee1E)

138 More fun.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: US GDP growth just BEAT the experts' expectations at +3.4% in the 3rd quarter, right before the midterms

IT'S HAPPENING! 🇺🇸

President Trump's major investment wins will start to show results and it only gets better from here.

Vote red to keep it going, the socialists will reverse all of it!

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

139
In more cheerful news, the prestigious Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is going out of business after partners flee for other firms.

https://tinyurl.com/2ycnsua6

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 06:27 PM (eRlcH)

140 Fraud in NY and CA.

Who'd a thought?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 06:27 PM (Pee1E)

141 132 Someone please sit down and discover how these funds are laundered and transferred to ActBlu for campaign distribution. The only way ActBlu continues to break quarterly records (while simultaneously refusing to answer questions under oath) is if they have a pipeline to questionable funds....and this process fits the bill.
Posted by: Orson
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I think the Feds have already opened investigations--ActBlue is now a honey trap I suspect.

Same as the general that got canned, you put out juicy info that is provably false and see who leaks it.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (E4rtv)

142 🚨 BREAKING: US GDP growth just BEAT the experts' expectations at +3.4% in the 3rd quarter, right before the midterms
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 06:26 PM (E4rtv)

So, the eventual revised figure.....5%.
You know it may be...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (Sco7b)

143 Today I early-voted in The Great State of Texas. Voted for Paxton and every other Republican.

I went to the polling place at 10:30. No line. I've been early-voting around 10:30 am Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday for several cycles now. Always no line or a short line. My reasoning: The people who vote after dropping kids off at school along with people getting there early hoping to beat the lines are done and gone. People sneaking away from work to vote then go to lunch haven't started arriving yet.

A commenter said yesterday early voting in my county, Harris (Houston) is down compared to 2022. Maybe that was more of factor producing no line today than my time of day reasoning. Go Paxton! Go TRUMP!!!!

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (5rh/l)

144 they vote D. They never take a step back and analyze what they are reacting to.

Posted by: Emmie at October 29, 2026 06:25 PM (OlzlW)
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They fit in pretty well with most Democrat voters then.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 06:28 PM (Fi81e)

145 Daily biometric scans and a ton of other crap tough to fake done daily. Iris scans. Fingerprints. Daily.

Don't want to do it. Don't take government dollars.

On a student visa and not showing up in class. Your neck collar explodes with what few brains you had...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 06:14 PM (Sco7b)

You hardly need to do that with the mountains of obvious fraud. By the time you get to needing daily checkups the Democrats will be dead from lack of funding.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 06:30 PM (uhVAy)

146 FWIW, Seth Keshel on TX. He correctly called the states and EV totals in 2024.
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Seth Keshel
@RealSKeshel
Red counties in Texas are slowly and steadily on track to almost unanimously clear their 2022 midterm turnout, some by 30% or more or up to presidential.

None of the big four blue counties appear to be on track to hit their presidential counts, which is where I factored them during my worst case analysis. Travis needs to hang 200k votes in the last two days of EV + ED to get there. And they had 103% of previous presidential turnout in 2018.

Talarico still on pace to lose 40k or more of O’Rourke margin in El Paso.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 06:33 PM (E4rtv)

147 Gref,
Harris County voter turnout is more like normal midterm elections as one of the 4 counties mentioned above. Why I posted.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 06:35 PM (E4rtv)

148 Some of you might have seen the viral video of the guy working to stock shelves and some asshole "influencer" or whatever trying to punk him with a video. Here's the response from his employer.

Follow the link for the best part.

>>@redbaronpizza

>>He’s still here. He’s got a fan club.
Including us.

https://tinyurl.com/b9xdryef

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 06:35 PM (viF8m)

149 Internet Rallies and Raises Over $300,000 for Red Baron Worker Who Snapped While Being Harassed by Influencer in Viral Grocery Store Video

GatewayPundit.
Good for him.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 06:38 PM (Sco7b)

150 Nood.
General

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Sco7b)

151 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2026 06:07 PM (6nZo9)

https://youtu.be/LQCU36pkH7c

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 06:53 PM (l3cgK)

152 Billions in fraud?
But my gas is $6/gallon!!!

Posted by: UncleJefe at October 29, 2026 06:54 PM (DzC+b)

153 I'm a Senior. I need daycare. Where my check?

Posted by: No Speak Chinee, Though at October 29, 2026 06:55 PM (EdP2u)

O Captain: Patrick Stewart Dead at 86

He's been looking more and more frail for years.

Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles following "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia," longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak announced.
"He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all," Bush Novak wrote. "We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace."

Please feel free to use this thread to talk about off-topic stuff, like movies or shows or books you'd recommend. I had not planned a mid-day entertainment thread, so I have not much to add here. I wasn't a fan of Star Trek: TNG or Stewart for that matter, but I know that many people were.

As everyone always points out, he was one of the first knights to declare for Arthur in Excalibur. Which, as everyone also always says, was filled with no-name actors who would soon become big names: Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson, for example. Plus Helen Mirren and the great Nicole Williamson, who had previously dated and absolutely loathed each other and had to be cajoled into working together. But I think they were already kinda well-known, and they didn't become big stars like Byrne and Neeson.

So here's what I'm watching: Elementary, again, and Person of Interest, this time, for the third time.

Both shows are good but Person of Interest continually surprises me with how many genuinely good moments it has and how much smart science fiction stuff. It was commenters who recommended it to me, ten or twelve years ago. I think maybe Garrett said it was "Daredevil in a business suit," which is semi-accurate, but actually downplays how good it is.

If you don't know the premise: An ultra-reclusive computer genius with the fake name "Harold Finch" created an artificial super-intelligence after 9/11 to scan all of the trillions of megabytes of data being hoovered up to find the actual terrorists and their plots. But the ASI, called "The Machine," was too good at its job and didn't just find terror plots, but any kind of premeditated crime like kidnapping and murder. It began alerting the government to these threats, but the government wanted to limit what The Machine did, largely because the entire scheme was unconstitutional and illegal and they didn't want to have to explain how they're suddenly showing up at murder scenes before the murder is committed. They can tell some lies to explain how they foil the occasional terrorist attack, but they don't want to like 1,500 times a year about the murders they thwart.

So they declare all non-terrorism-related threats "irrelevant" and ignore them.

But Harold Finch is haunted by these preventable murders that he could stop but doesn't. So he uses the backdoor he built into the computer to tell it to send him the social security numbers, and only the social security numbers, of people The Machine predicts are either going to be the victim of serious violence, or the perpetrator.

And because he's a pencil-necked geek, he recruits a special forces ex-terrorist-hunter with the pseudonym "John Reese" to be the strongman of the team and actually deal with the threats.

So the premise is: This is a murder mystery show, but we enter the murder mystery before murder happens, and if we can figure out who is being threatened and by whom, we won't just solve the murder, we'll prevent the murder.

It's a great premise.

Many shows would just take this premise and run with it, ignoring the background story of how this is even possible.

But Person of Interest takes it to the next level and also features stories about The Machine itself, and specifically, dangerous foreign nations who have figured out that America now has an ASI and want to seize it for themselves.

Most episodes are about stopping murders and kidnappings, but a fair number are about the fight to keep The Machine secret and safe from the very dangerous people who would like to hijack it.

And the sci-fi and legal framework is solid. For example, the reason the government says it's legal to scan everyone's emails and bank statements is that it's just a computer looking, and it doesn't count as a "search" until a human sees the information. (That's why Finch's machine only supplies social security numbers -- the humans have to do the real digging themselves.)

The point is: this isn't just something they made up for the show. This is the real-world government legal position on the use of computers and artificial intelligence to search and analyze records.

The show doesn't treat you like a moron (mostly). For example, we'll see a POV shot from Reese, where he looks down at a man's pantleg and there's a slight bulge at his ankle. He doesn't say "ankle gun" to the audience. The show relies on you having seen the bulge yourself, so you know why Reese reaches for the man's ankle after punching him in the gut.

And it has a lot of espionage stuff too. It's basically a mix of your four favorite genres: Mystery/detective, spy action-adventure, science-fiction, and street-level superhero.

Highly recommended, including for a rewatch, if you haven't seen it again. It holds up.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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Posted by: GF at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (e5z5/)

2 ok

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (CWTWj)

3 RIP, Captain

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (U4mZc)

4 was he one of those nice celebrities? i don't know

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)

5 Please feel free to use this thread to talk about off-topic stuff, like movies or shows or books you'd recommend.

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A movie?

What is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (pfZGz)

6 Sad day. But he was 86, so not surprising.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (zjgNU)

7 Song Sung Blue. Authentic, credible. well written.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 04:33 PM (hxMfc)

8 Afternoon.

Koenig.

Stewart.

Who will be number three?

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (dpXJq)

9 Patrick Stewart was wasted on Star Trek.

The plot was just...ugh.

ToS had issues but it was FUN. TNG was just kind of boring.

Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

10 AP claims Iran hasn't tried to repair the nuclear stuff we wrecked.
So is AP getting Intel from that General that got 'canned'?

Inside baseball: Leak stuff to see who tells others.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (Wt1Rs)

11 >>Please feel free to use this thread to talk about off-topic stuff

As opposed to the other Threads.

Where we feel free to talk about off-topic stuff.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (Qugny)

12 Carry on, Captain.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (wVcYX)

13 Don't forget Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in "I, Claudius"

Posted by: museisluse at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (GcqYB)

14 >>Song Sung Blue

Neil Diamond could write a tune.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (Qugny)

15 A movie?

What is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (pfZGz)

I gotchu fam.

It's a bunch of pictures and sound on a big screen used to tell a story, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (zjgNU)

16 He was professor X, too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (l3cgK)

17 How does it determine between someone with an SSN and someone who is illegally working under an SSN?
I mean, the state of Oregon Department of Revenue and Department of Human Services Employment Division apparently can't figure this one out and they have all the databases.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (rbvCR)

18 Person of Interest was great

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (B1+sW)

19 My wife, God rest her soul, LOVED "Person of Interest"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)

20 Patrick Stewart will always be remembered for his performance in Excalibur.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (pfZGz)

21 BRAVE CAPTAIN

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Upwj_YXpLk0

Posted by: fIREHOSE at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (Qugny)

22 Has he boldly gone where no one has gone before?
Posted by: tcn in AK

He's gone where pretty much everyone goes.
Posted by: rickb223

Counselor Troi?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (ndZc7)

23
I never went beyond the OG Star Trek. The t.v. show and the movies with the original cast, that's it.

Some scary bald guy as the male lead? Gack. He made a more plausible MacBeth tricked out in Nazi art direction.

All the same, RIP and condolences to his loved ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)

24 a gnat can be seen buzzing around quasimodo in 'hunchback of notre dame'. just saying

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (CWTWj)

25 Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

But it was a teachable moment for Wesley, so it is to the good.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (rbvCR)

26 >>:How does it determine between someone with an SSN and someone who is illegally working under an SSN?

SSN fraud comes up in the show a few times. For example, in one case, two people are associated with the same SSN because one is an identity thief, but they don't know who is who.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

27 I liked Patrick Stewart in Dune. I liked the movie Dune in general. "Usl, we have wormsign the likes of which God has not seen."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (hxMfc)

28 Oh boy. A Star Wars thread. Later, nerds. BBL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (BI5O2)

29 27 I liked Patrick Stewart in Dune. I liked the movie Dune in general. "Usl, we have wormsign the likes of which God has not seen."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (hxMfc)

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It's like Twin Peaks: Desert edition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)

30 TNG was best when it didn't follow the formula (which, as 18-1 notes, existed).
I might go watch Yesterday's Enterprise again. Alternate-reality where Picard helms a warship. Third season is where TNG starts arising from the bullshit of the first season and the writers-strike of the second [although I do like the ep where Riker is an officer for the Klingons]

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (88C+u)

31 Nicol Williamson

loved that dude

anyway, sad news. he had a good run tho

watching Dark Matter season two which is pretty much terrible. season one was great! it didn't need a second season.

Carrie was good I thought, but again, not excited about the continuation into a second season there either. not sure why I guess bc King and Flanagan are best bros now

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (qBivk)

32 "May the Force be with you , Harry."
-Patrick Stewart in The Lord of the Rings

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)

33 "Person of Interest" is fun. It's a great workout show because there is just enough action to keep it distracting. And there are a bunch of episodes which don't feel repetitive, and that is a credit to the writing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (k5CNB)

34 RIP
Thanks for the good Star Trek memories.

Still not watching Picard.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)

35 Back to Red Baron Man - thought this was a good psych-focused explanation of what happened, especially from a working man's POV:

https://tinyurl.com/4m4w43df

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (kX27y)

36 re 7: ella anderson. she was in dan schneider's last show on nikteen

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (CWTWj)

37 As everyone always points out, he was one of the first knights to declare for Arthur in Excalibur. /i]

OPutside of Star Trek, that's what I remember him for, along with 'Gurney Halleck' in Dune (1984).
And of course, Professor Xavier, in X-Men, which he did a really fine job with.

I liked Stewart in some other things as well.
His Ebeneezer Scrooge wasn't bad, and he did that Moby Dick movie I watched once.

I'm glad he got a chance to do the Picard series, even if the first and second season pretty much sucked, the third season was a nice little reunion show of TNG, so I enjoyed it.

Sucks about Stewart's politics, but he was a Brit, so you get what you get.

RIP Captain.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)

38
Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert

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Some innocent pedestrian in the path of Shatner's Lambo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (mmrXZ)

39 dammit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)

40 The problem with PoI is the secondary characters are cardboard and annoying clichés. The first season nails the spot well, but the successive seasons are just more CBS crimetime stuff. Elementary did a better job avoiding that weekly bad guy, solve the crime, IMHO.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (nEUC6)

41 34 RIP
Thanks for the good Star Trek memories.

Still not watching Picard.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)

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Season 3 is good!

Season 1 sucks, and I never watched season 2.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (pfZGz)

42 was he one of those nice celebrities? i don't know
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)

I honestly don't know, but my two favorite Patrick Stewart moments:

The Ice Bucket Challenge (some time in the 2010s?): All the other celebrities get doused by ice or what not. He gets a bucket of ice next to a really nice chair and writes a check for whatever the cause was supposed to be. Then pours himself some alcohol. Because the point was raising money.

Telling about his time on the set of Dune, where he meets Sting and unintentionally humbled him because he honestly had no idea who Sting was. Absolutely hilarious.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (zjgNU)

43 8 Afternoon.

Koenig.

Stewart.

Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (dpXJq)

Elke Summers died yesterday... real bombshell in her prime.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (mP0Kj)

44 locutus of mort

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (oY6Yp)

45 42 Telling about his time on the set of Dune, where he meets Sting and unintentionally humbled him because he honestly had no idea who Sting was. Absolutely hilarious.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (zjgNU)

========

"Oh, you're in a police band!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (pfZGz)

46 LB dementia is probably the worst kind you can have, it kills you pretty quickly, 5-7 years tops. Mimics Parkinsons, you have hallucinations, etc etc. A good friend had it and lasted just 5 years.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (kX27y)

47 There's an outtake where Patrick Steward, as Captain Picard, farts while on the bridge...pretty funny. Can't find it now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (l3cgK)

48
Koenig.

Stewart.

Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert

We're looking at you, Wesley.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Cqx++)

49 For anyone using Proton, this story might interest you.

In internal communication, an employee noted they weren't doing penetration testing (checking to see how easily it can be hacked) and pleaded for time to do it before release. The CEO said that's bullshit and loser thinking.

Proton bills itself as a service for those who are interested in security and anonymity. Apparently the CEO doesn't have the mindset to maintain that illusion.

http://tiny.cc/u8vc101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (mkw2N)

50 Oh...Ace, you mention Helen Mirren! She is in a cable show called Mobland, which is rock solid. Well worth a watch. Great character actors, adequate plot, and it's a Guy Richie show, so it has good dialogue.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (k5CNB)

51 9 Patrick Stewart was wasted on Star Trek.

The plot was just...ugh.

ToS had issues but it was FUN. TNG was just kind of boring.

Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

Worf was badly mistreated in TNG IIRC.

DS9 treated his character better.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (oPFtC)

52 Stewart, not Steward...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)

53 Was he in Prometheus?

*ducks for cover*

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (FMZSx)

54 4 was he one of those nice celebrities? i don't know
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)

He was kind of a prick on the Sopranos. Oh wait. No, that was Ben Kingsley. Never mind.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (8mulE)

55 I mentioned this the other day and got willowed, so since this is sorta a movie thread, I'll state it again.

A movie based on the country music song, Ol' Red, has been green-lit. Pre-production starts early next year with filming to follow.

There have been many threads on Reddit over the years asking opinions on which songs would make great movies and Ol' Red is almost always one that is mentioned, multiple times, even.

No idea who is going to star in it, and you won't find this being reported on the internet movie sites yet, but my information comes from a source about as close to the horse's mouth as one can get.

Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (J4Dwc)

56 Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard as King Richard in Robin Hood: Men In Tights.

Nicely done comedic turn.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (wVcYX)

57 SSN fraud comes up in the show a few times. For example, in one case, two people are associated with the same SSN because one is an identity thief, but they don't know who is who.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

Even Skynet can't deal with Identity theft. We're all gonna die!

youtu.be/xSC910M-yyM

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (rbvCR)

58 I'd say he died a chump captain, and not a heroic death in battle as an Admiral like me, but he DID get promoted to admiral, but you'd have to watch the embarrassing sequel series Picard to know that...and I died my hero's death in the equally embarrassing "The Last Jedi" sequel, so...the lesson is let awesome franchises fade away in glory.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (6nZo9)

59 re 29: you mean the new one? i saw the '80s version a couple of times before i figured out what was going on

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (CWTWj)

60 shit, sock off

Posted by: one hour sober at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (J4Dwc)

61 Shaka, when the walls fell.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (rcY3Z)

62 >>>The problem with PoI is the secondary characters are cardboard and annoying clichés. The first season nails the spot well, but the successive seasons are just more CBS crimetime stuff.

i don't think I agree. Fusco and Carter are good, and then Elias is interesting, and when they add Root at first she's amazing, though then she turns into a lesbian ninja cartoon, but that's only towards the end. Shah is mostly good though I guess you can say she's the standard girl badass. I think she's better than that, thoujgh.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (1wjle)

63 Stewart also had a role as Karla in the original "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".

Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)

64 Stewart was in a movie with Mel Gibson called Conspiracy Theory. So-so reviews but I thought it was a good exercise in paranoia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (f8snw)

65 I never watched much of TNG, but I do appreciate how they avoided the OT's error in having the entire top brass of the ship - Captain, First Officer, Chief Medical, and sometimes top Engineer on a risky planet at the same time with about three security grunts going with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

66
I had not planned a mid-day entertainment thread

__________

You and Stanley Diamond just wanted to bust his balls but you went too far and killed him, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (eRlcH)

67 This is the role he was truly born to play:

https://youtu.be/C1IRqqp8vHw

Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (eGnYg)

68 And the sci-fi and legal framework is solid. For example, the reason the government says it's legal to scan everyone's emails and bank statements is that it's just a computer looking, and it doesn't count as a "search" until a human sees the information. (That's why Finch's machine only supplies social security numbers -- the humans have to do the real digging themselves.)

The point is: this isn't just something they made up for the show. This is the real-world government legal position on the use of computers and artificial intelligence to search and analyze records.
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Man, I hope the humans never have to lie to a FISA judge.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)

69 Well, hell. The final Picard Maneuver.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (2WIwB)

70 58 I'd say he died a chump captain, and not a heroic death in battle as an Admiral like me, but he DID get promoted to admiral, but you'd have to watch the embarrassing sequel series Picard to know that...and I died my hero's death in the equally embarrassing "The Last Jedi" sequel, so...the lesson is let awesome franchises fade away in glory.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (6nZo9)

You'd think you'd fade away in a bad transporter accident, but that's not what happens...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)

71 "Oh, you say you've played with Copeland? Fanfare for the Common Man is a beautiful work, isn't it?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (aKiSo)

72 My earliest recollection of Stewart was in Dune.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (m6fGY)

73 It's like Twin Peaks: Desert edition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)

It was what Eraserhead would have been with a budget and editorial control

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)

74 He was a very versatile actor with a wonderful
Voice. I saw him, as Macbeth with the RSC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (JrHfD)

75 I met Patrick Stewart before he was PATRICK STEWART. It was 1980 and he and his then-wife were giving lectures around CSUN, where I was a theater student. I had a lot of free time that day, so I followed him around from venue to venue. At the last venue, a seminar room, we found it was locked and someone had to get the key. So he and I were sitting on the hallway floor waiting, and he asked me if I was an actor. I shrugged and said, "Such as I am.". He smiled and said, " Such as any of us are."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (amcLV)

76 Man, I hope the humans never have to lie to a FISA judge.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)

Seems impossible, doesn't it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)

77 Patrick Stewart was really funny in an episode of the Ricky Gervais show "Extras." Was obsessed with nude women whose clothes fall off.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (PSEDc)

78
Stewart also had a role as Karla in the original "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)

__________

His finest role. No lines at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (eRlcH)

79 73 It's like Twin Peaks: Desert edition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)

It was what Eraserhead would have been with a budget and editorial control

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)

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Well, Eraserhead, Lynch had total control. Spent a year in editing because it was an independent film he'd mostly self-financed over a five year shoot.

He did not have any editorial control over Dune and was contractually obligated to turn in an edit no more than 2 hours and 17 minutes long.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (pfZGz)

80 72 My earliest recollection of Stewart was in Dune.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (m6fGY)

He was also a ghost (of a cowardly man)...don't remember the name of the show...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (l3cgK)

81 At Stewart's wake everyone shout say "Shut up , Wesley"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (f8snw)

82 Worf was badly mistreated in TNG IIRC.

DS9 treated his character better.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (oPFtC)

Not as bad as Tasha Yar getting killed by the tar baby.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

83 82 Not as bad as Tasha Yar getting killed by the tar baby.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

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Denise Crosby had a movie career to pursue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (pfZGz)

84 Because it's an open thread by my love, Ace the Great, I'm going to post a blues song I love. Not because I have the blues, just the doldrums.

Things are looking up as I now don't have to cook dinner, which leaves me more time to do the dreaded chores that are going away soon. I love to cook when there is not stuff to do.

My dude is a blues acoustic man by hobby and innate talent. Taught himself piano and guitar as a teen, and hardly reads music. Probably due to being a math genius. He can hear a song and play it on the piano.Not how he made his money to provide for us, as that involved computers and stuff I don't understand at all.

I don't have the blues (just the procrastination), but I love the guitar on this song as well as the entire song. He introduced this to me on a car drive up the mountains many years ago.

He's a walking juke box. We hear a song in the movies and I ask who did that...and he knows.

He's a big Moron but just hasn't met you...after all he married me, and God help him, he's stuck with me.

Still Got the Blues
Alvin Moore

https://tinyurl.com/282r98d6

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (hzuYO)

85 I've faded on Dark Matter too in season 2, just too slow a burn. So I am back on Slow Horses, I really like all the characters.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (n5tGW)

86 I've never seen any Star Trek

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (enNUy)

87 As far as movies, I am looking forward to seeing "I play Rocky" about Sylvester Stallone writing the script and fiercely advocating to play the role.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (JrHfD)

88 The least they can do is give him one of those photon torpedo caskets.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (rcY3Z)

89
My earliest recollection of Stewart was in Dune.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (m6fGY)

_________

As Sejanus in I, Claudius.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (eRlcH)

90 how they avoided the OT's error in having the entire top brass of the ship - Captain, First Officer, Chief Medical, and sometimes top Engineer on a risky planet at the same time with about three security grunts going with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

They don't really have to worry until after someone kills Guy.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (88C+u)

91 Don't forget Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in "I, Claudius"
Posted by: museisluse at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (GcqYB)

Oh, yes, he did such a wonderful job in that role. That was one character I was happy to see die.

He also played Ebenezer Scrooge in one of my most favorite versions of A Christmas Carol. I just loved him.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (ZgwKJ)

92 Stewart also had a role as Karla in the original "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)

I thought it was in Smiley's People.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (p3pWU)

93 92 Stewart also had a role as Karla in the original "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)

I thought it was in Smiley's People.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (p3pWU)

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Karla makes no appearance in Tinker Tailor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (pfZGz)

94 I'm just curious. I just got back from shopping and aside from occasionally needing milk, bananas and oranges, I'm set to January.

Toilet paper here, all of them, have this stupid thing where they have on the package "30 = 62" meaning you're buying 30 rolls of toilet paper, but the value is so great, it's like buying 62 rolls!

Like how blue states count Dem votes.

Is that a US thing too?

100 small KitKat, Aero, CoffeeCrisp and Canadian Smarties were $12.99 Canadian. Not too bad.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)

95 As Sejanus in I, Claudius.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (eRlcH)

It didn't age well, but I remember when it came out it was fantastic!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (k5CNB)

96 You'd think you'd fade away in a bad transporter accident, but that's not what happens...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Aye laddy. The possibilities are endless with a little know-how.

Posted by: Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott, surviving into the future in the transporter buffer at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (6nZo9)

97 82 Worf was badly mistreated in TNG IIRC.

DS9 treated his character better.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (oPFtC)

Not as bad as Tasha Yar getting killed by the tar baby.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

To be fair, he failed miserably on TNG as Security Chief...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (l3cgK)

98 Still Got the Blues ... is that a Gary Moore cover?
Or, a different song by the same name?

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Qugny)

99
Denise Crosby had a movie career to pursue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (pfZGz)

___________

Yeah, great decision there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (eRlcH)

100 Well, Eraserhead, Lynch had total control. Spent a year in editing because it was an independent film he'd mostly self-financed over a five year shoot.

He did not have any editorial control over Dune and was contractually obligated to turn in an edit no more than 2 hours and 17 minutes long.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (pfZGz)

I've told my wife that Dune is a great movie that spent a good amount of time world-building, developing backstory and characters... and then had to finish the last half of the book in half an hour at the end.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (zjgNU)

101 >>>82 Worf was badly mistreated in TNG IIRC.

I saw people note that they did the same thing with Worf that they did with Superman on Justice League.

Whenever they wanted to prove that a new villain was tough and powerful, they'd have him come in and immediately one-shot and rag-doll Worf (and Superman).

I know the writers of Justice League realized that after they'd done this 20 times, they had inadvertently turned Superman into "the guy who immediately goes down in a fight."

and then I saw a compilation of Worf being used the same way, as the object that gets smashed to prove the new threat is serious.

(Kind of the same problem the Leonardo DiCaprio character had in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. )

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (1wjle)

102 Oh, yes, he did such a wonderful job in that role. That was one character I was happy to see die.
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After being brutally told his children had been murdered. Could almost feel sorry for him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (amcLV)

103 Best line in PofI is when Reese says (to his ex-wife's new husband) that she was from Puyallup. CavIeizel letting his WA roots show.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB)

104 100 I've told my wife that Dune is a great movie that spent a good amount of time world-building, developing backstory and characters... and then had to finish the last half of the book in half an hour at the end.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (zjgNU)

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Pretty much.

The last 45 minutes is incoherent. But some people farkin' love it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (pfZGz)

105 ToS had issues but it was FUN. TNG was just kind of boring.

Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

Like TOS, there were some very good TNG episodes. But with more than double the numbers of seasons/episodes as TOS, they can get lost.

One of TNG's problems was giving everyone and their dog spotlight time. No one gives a rat's hindquarters what Cabin Boy Wesley is up to.

Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (pe2q3)

106 I thought it was in Smiley's People.
Posted by: dantesed
You are correct. I tend to lump those shoes into one long series.

Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (lJ0H4)

107 RIP
Thanks for the good Star Trek memories.

Still not watching Picard.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)

The best way is to watch Youtube videos of internet folks trashing it. You see clips, its abridged and you get jokes too.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

108 I always thought Next Generation was pretty bad, very inferior to the original series, despite having a much better budget. But Patrick Stewart was a very good actor and I liked him in a lot of other stuff.

He was great in Excalibur and I, Claudius, and of course Dune.

The story goes that he was so stiff and formal an actor, so professional that he had a hard time with Star Trek's themes and the other actors until he learned to loosen up and just have fun.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (TMNW7)

109 TNG is what you'd get if you gave the EU a post-scarcity economy and FTL travel

Unfortunately a post-scarcity economy has never and will never exist and who knows if FTL is possible

I can just imagine the protests against dilithium crystals thought, now that would be funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

110 Patrick Stewart was in I, Claudius. He played Sejanus.

Wow, an Ace post on Person of Interest and Elementary - but mostly PoI.

Absolutely one of my favorite TV series ever. Fantastic cast from top to bottom. Even though the last season was truncated, the series finale was one of the best I've seen.

Created by Christopher Nolan's brother.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (p61JE)

111 "The Inner Light" and the first Borg episodes and the movie were probably his best episodes by the way.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

112
Karla makes no appearance in Tinker Tailor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (pfZGz)

__________

When Smiley is recounting for Guillam his interrogation of Karla in Delhi.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (eRlcH)

113 One of TNG's problems was giving everyone and their dog spotlight time. No one gives a rat's hindquarters what Cabin Boy Wesley is up to.

Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (pe2q3)

Wasn't there rum, the lash, and sodomy on board the Enterprise?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (l3cgK)

114 Some scary bald guy as the male lead? Gack. He made a more plausible MacBeth tricked out in Nazi art direction.

All the same, RIP and condolences to his loved ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)

Picard was the intellectual's captain.
He really tried to avoid violence unless necessary but he did get pissed off enough a few times where he turned into a madman.

Picard was a very human ST captain.

One of his best episodes, and one of Stewart's best job acting, was an episode where he returned home to France, "Family", to be with his brother and his wife & son after the Borg had transformed Picard into 'Locutus of Borg'. Picard at that point was considering leaving Starfleet, but decided not to after a fight with his brother in the family wine vineyard over Picard being afraid to get back to his life again and head back to Enterprise.

It's a very powerful episode, but it's definitely not Captain Kirk.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

115 64 Stewart was in a movie with Mel Gibson called Conspiracy Theory. So-so reviews but I thought it was a good exercise in paranoia
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (f8snw)

I forgot about that movie. I agree, it was pretty good. Julia Roberts was also good in that one, and Mel did well in a quirky change of pace character.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (8mulE)

116 >>>103 Best line in PofI is when Reese says (to his ex-wife's new husband) that she was from Puyallup. CavIeizel letting his WA roots show.

Oh I didn't know that. I just saw that episode this past week.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle)

117 >>One of TNG's problems was giving everyone and their dog spotlight time. No one gives a rat's hindquarters what Cabin Boy Wesley is up to.

They had to travel the Galaxy looking for the one Pedophile who would take Wesley off their hands.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (Qugny)

118 Denise Crosby had a movie career to pursue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

David Crosby >>>>> Denise Crosby (talent, successful career choices)

Denise Crosby >>>> David Crosby (looks, sobriety)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (6nZo9)

119 One of TNG's problems was giving everyone and their dog spotlight time. No one gives a rat's hindquarters what Cabin Boy Wesley is up to.

Well for the record I like watching a cabin boys hindquarters

Posted by: Bill Kristol at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

120 I'm sure this has been done before, but what about this for a show idea: A crime drama. Starts off standard. Detective solves crime. Yay. Then as the season progresses, you start to notice that the solutions to the crimes are getting sloppier and sloppier, with bigger holes, and even the judges and lawyers are starting to realize the guy is slipping and they can't even prosecute his shit anymore. Then it turns out the detective had been the murderer all along. And probably also a drunk. They always have to be a drunk, for some reason. I don't know why.

yeah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (aKiSo)

121 One of TNG's problems was giving everyone and their dog spotlight time. No one gives a rat's hindquarters what Cabin Boy Wesley is up to.

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They had 25 episodes a season for 7 seasons to make!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (pfZGz)

122 The only question that Weird Al thought was hard is if he liked Kirk or if he liked Picard

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (88C+u)

123 They had to travel the Galaxy looking for the one Pedophile who would take Wesley off their hands.

/Golf clap

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

124 That one episode where he was just an ordinary crewman nobody because of a single moment's choice in his youthful past. (Q's doing?) Yes he got to go back and re-live that moment and make the other choice that led to him being a starship captain instead. And he chuckles at himself in knowing as the camera fades out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (wVcYX)

125
This is the role he was truly born to play:

https://youtu.be/C1IRqqp8vHw
Posted by: tankdemon

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That's hilarious. I remember that movie.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (mmrXZ)

126
The Shat outlived him. Kirk beats Picard.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (w6EFb)

127 It's a very powerful episode, but it's definitely not Captain Kirk.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

"Strange New Worlds" series seemed to chip away at Kirk...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (l3cgK)

128 46 LB dementia is probably the worst kind you can have, it kills you pretty quickly, 5-7 years tops. Mimics Parkinsons, you have hallucinations, etc etc. A good friend had it and lasted just 5 years.
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (kX27y)

Robin Williams committed s**cide so he wouldn't have to go through it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (p61JE)

129 Ciaran Hinds was also in Excalibur.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (/OKHJ)

130 124 That one episode where he was just an ordinary crewman nobody because of a single moment's choice in his youthful past. (Q's doing?) Yes he got to go back and re-live that moment and make the other choice that led to him being a starship captain instead. And he chuckles at himself in knowing as the camera fades out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (wVcYX)

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And he never threw a punch again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (pfZGz)

131 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)

132 But I think they were already kinda well-known, and they didn't become big stars like Byrne and Neeson

Mirren was well-known in England but pretty unknown in the USA. She was in a mobster movie called The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins that I recommend.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (TMNW7)

133 129 Ciaran Hinds was also in Excalibur.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (/OKHJ)

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Much like Alexander, all of Ireland is in both movies in different decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (pfZGz)

134 Honestly the unsung talent here is Norm Crosby.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (rcY3Z)

135
One of his best episodes, and one of Stewart's best job acting, was an episode where he returned home to France, "Family", to be with his brother and his wife & son after the Borg had transformed Picard into 'Locutus of Borg'. Picard at that point was considering leaving Starfleet, but decided not to after a fight with his brother in the family wine vineyard over Picard being afraid to get back to his life again and head back to Enterprise.

Isn't the federation some sort of socialist by this point? How does anyone get to own a vineyard?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (sKqQm)

136 Toilet paper here, all of them, have this stupid thing where they have on the package "30 = 62" meaning you're buying 30 rolls of toilet paper, but the value is so great, it's like buying 62 rolls!

Like how blue states count Dem votes.

Is that a US thing too?

100 small KitKat, Aero, CoffeeCrisp and Canadian Smarties were $12.99 Canadian. Not too bad.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)

Single ply versus double ply. So you usually need almost double the sheets each use, but you can save a little unless you gauge by volume.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (uhVAy)

137 >>>123 They had to travel the Galaxy looking for the one Pedophile who would take Wesley off their hands.

i don't even know the context or get the reference but: LOL

i just like the thought of Wesley being marooned with a space pedophile

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)

138 Awww, man.

Ian McKellan looks pretty frail too.

RIP, Captain Picard- even if you were a flaming left tardy in real life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (zZu0s)

139 Person of Interest is one of my favorite shows ever. Great premise, acting, and story arcs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (FZ29D)

140 137 i just like the thought of Wesley being marooned with a space pedophile

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)

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He's in a crowd shot in Star Trek Nemesis!

So, I guess the pedo got tired of him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (pfZGz)

141 131 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)

You can view some James Talarico ads?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (l3cgK)

142 >>>131 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

Backrooms is good. I want to do a review for tomorrow but I have to watch Obsession to review both.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (1wjle)

143 i just like the thought of Wesley being marooned with a space pedophile
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)

Its real. The Traveler was pretty creepy. After Wesley washed out of starfleet for being a lying little bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (zZu0s)

144 LB dementia is probably the worst kind you can have, it kills you pretty quickly, 5-7 years tops

It took my mom in about 6 years and it destroyed me to watch what happened to her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (TMNW7)

145 Mirren was well-known in England but pretty unknown in the USA. She was in a mobster movie called The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins that I recommend.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (TMNW7)

The Cook the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover is the best of Helen Mirren. She's so good and so brutal at the end.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (ZgwKJ)

146 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

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Forrest Gump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (pfZGz)

147 Stewart was in an episode of a Ricky Gervais series called 'Extras'. He played himself, but would talk bout wishing he had Professor X's telekinetic powers to make women's clothes fall off.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (7cwvz)

148 A Christmas Carol - his one-man stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic

Posted by: Bluto at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (SyJlc)

149 122 The only question that Weird Al thought was hard is if he liked Kirk or if he liked Picard
Posted by: 88C+u

Because Janeway sucks? Or he's sexist AND racist (sorry Cisko)?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (6nZo9)

150 Robin Williams committed s**cide so he wouldn't have to go through it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (p61JE)

Can't blame him. He died at his home in Tiburon (Paradise Cay) and his ashes were scattered in the Bay.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (kX27y)

151 > Kind of the same problem the Leonardo DiCaprio character had in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

I liked that part of the movie. It's an interesting conversation about realistically examining your position and your options. Sure, you're in Hollywood and appearing on TV and movies. But you're the "heavy" and you're always going to lose. The audience knows you, but will always associate you with the losing position. Why not go to Italy, make some money, be the winner for a bit, and enjoy the break?

The conversation feels real, and it does a good job painting the picture for the audience. This is a journeyman actor who is on the way out.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:54 PM (mkw2N)

152
Kirk > Sisko > Picard > Janeway. I don't know where I'd put Archer in there. But still less than Kirk, of course.

After that, well they started ruining the whole franchise.

I think in one of those last ones, they had Seven of Nine become the Captain of the latest Enterprise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:54 PM (w6EFb)

153 I'm sure this has been done before, but what about this for a show idea: A crime drama. Starts off standard. Detective solves crime. Yay. Then as the season progresses, you start to notice that the solutions to the crimes are getting sloppier and sloppier, with bigger holes, and even the judges and lawyers are starting to realize the guy is slipping and they can't even prosecute his shit anymore. Then it turns out the detective had been the murderer all along. And probably also a drunk. They always have to be a drunk, for some reason. I don't know why.

yeah.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (aKiSo)

That's Murder She Wrote.

Say...why is this writer always stumbling on all these murders in proximity to her nieces and nephews?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

154 Its real. The Traveler was pretty creepy. After Wesley washed out of starfleet for being a lying little bitch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

That's not an issue if you have the right oppression points.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (6nZo9)

155 Person of Interest is one of my favorite shows ever. Great premise, acting, and story arcs.

That was well written. The characters acted like they should have in their situations and did what they reasonably should in their situation with their abilities. Its so frustrating watching 99% of shows where people don't do things they ought to because it would harm the story the writer wanted to tell.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (TMNW7)

156
It's a very powerful episode, but it's definitely not Captain Kirk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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I might have been able to watch him if it hadn't been for the rest of the crew. Looked like Lost in Space meets Star Trek.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (mmrXZ)

157 Lewy Body can get nasty, lots of personality distortion, emotional dysfunction, aggression.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (RIvkX)

158 111 "The Inner Light" and the first Borg episodes and the movie were probably his best episodes by the way.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

Exactly.
It's a very interesting and sad episode.
He carried that flute, or whatever it was, with him for the rest of the series.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (6ydKt)

159 /dbag sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (RIvkX)

160 31 watching Dark Matter season two which is pretty much terrible. season one was great! it didn't need a second season.

Yeah, pretty disappointed myself. It just seems to meander around. It introduces "mysteries" that are not very mysterious, the resolution of which is sorta boring. Doesn't help that it hops around between different versions of the same character and keeps introducing new characters.

Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (fR677)

161 >>>That was well written. The characters acted like they should have in their situations and did what they reasonably should in their situation with their abilities. Its so frustrating watching 99% of shows where people don't do things they ought to because it would harm the story the writer wanted to tell.

most of what they do with hacking is stuff you actually could do with hacking.

Hacking is not magic.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (1wjle)

162 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)

Primal Fear is creepy.

The Ring and those style of movies are not outright gory.

8mm

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

163 Excalibur. Richard Bucket... I mean, Bouquet, was in it, too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (Izpxn)

164 When Smiley is recounting for Guillam his interrogation of Karla in Delhi.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (eRlcH)
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The Alec Guiness production is the best "Tinker, Tailor".

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)

165 I had a GF that looks like a young Helen Mirren. She took it as an insult for some reason which I don't get.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

166 There is rumor that Bond is narrowed down to 3 actors. And one sekret actor! Jacob Elordi, James Norton, Jack Lowden. They are supposed to announce by the end of the year.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (AKptf)

167 Phil McCracken, Scottish Therapist
vimeo.com/611368124

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (88C+u)

168 146 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

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Forrest Gump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (pfZGz)

Which does have the most evil Villain of all time in it.... Jenny.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)

169
All in all, TOS aside, my favorite characters of the whole thing were Elim Garak from DS9 and The Doctor from Voyager.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (w6EFb)

170 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

Something This Way Comes, you can watch with kids

The Wailing it's Korean.

Prince of Darkness, I always thought that was really creepy and I liked the premise that everybody had the same Dream

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Ql60S)

171 I'm sure this has been done before, but what about this for a show idea: A crime drama. Starts off standard. Detective solves crime. Yay. Then as the season progresses, you start to notice that the solutions to the crimes are getting sloppier and sloppier, with bigger holes, and even the judges and lawyers are starting to realize the guy is slipping and they can't even prosecute his shit anymore

The way I would write this (we've talked about it before here) is to have it run exactly like an Agatha Chrsitie-type adventure. She comes up with this complicated solution that makes the police detective with a simpler answer look foolish and nails someone. But after a few books, the detective eventually proves she's killed all of those people and framed others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (TMNW7)

172 Kirk > Sisko > Picard > Janeway. I don't know where I'd put Archer in there. But still less than Kirk, of course.

After that, well they started ruining the whole franchise.

I think in one of those last ones, they had Seven of Nine become the Captain of the latest Enterprise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

In some of the movies, they had characters promoted to Captain of other ships. Sulu and Worf come to mind. Future zombie Bill Kristol would be applying for cabin boy from the grave for the position on Sulu's ship.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (6nZo9)

173 Best line in PofI is when Reese says (to his ex-wife's new husband) that she was from Puyallup. CavIeizel letting his WA roots show.

Oh I didn't know that. I just saw that episode this past week.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle)

***

He's from Mount Vernon but I suspect they used Puyallup in the show just to have someone say it properly. My neighbor went to school with him.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (2WIwB)

174 Single ply versus double ply. So you usually need almost double the sheets each use, but you can save a little unless you gauge by volume.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (uhVAy

Maybe that's it. I think it's size of the rolls. Still stupid.

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The animated Superman series around the same time as Batman was actually really good. Superman would really get knocked around and actually had to use his brains to defeat some enemies.

And considering there was a Holodeck, it was amazing we ever saw Wesley at all. Teenage boy with a holodeck. See you when I'm 75.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Sco7b)

175 I might have been able to watch him if it hadn't been for the rest of the crew. Looked like Lost in Space meets Star Trek.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (mmrXZ)

You probably wouldn't have liked it.
The first three, and into four, seasons, had some moments but were not that great.
The last three and half seasons are really good sci-fi.
And then things got better with DS9.

The rest are so-so to ughh.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (6ydKt)

176 I just re-watch Memento for the first time since it came out. Still good.

I'll try Backrooms, looks promising.

I did like 8MM. That might be a good re-watch.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (n5tGW)

177 >>The Traveler was pretty creepy.

Well, he was on the list.

That's why he had to keep traveling.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Qugny)

178 Some scary bald guy as the male lead? Gack. He made a more plausible MacBeth tricked out in Nazi art direction.

I didn't like that production the first time I saw it but it kinda grew on me.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (vTZFs)

179 Lots of scary movies out there but not Halloween theme, more historical recreation

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

180 how they avoided the OT's error in having the entire top brass of the ship - Captain, First Officer, Chief Medical, and sometimes top Engineer on a risky planet at the same time with about three security grunts going with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

They don't really have to worry until after someone kills Guy.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (88C+u)

Stewart was a competent actor, I'll give him his due. But did he ever get five curtain calls for his portrayal as Richard III?

Posted by: Sir Alexander Dane at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (wVcYX)

181 yeah.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (aKiSo)

That's Murder She Wrote.

Say...why is this writer always stumbling on all these murders in proximity to her nieces and nephews?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

Yup, being a relative of Jessica Fletcher is a death sentence.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)

182
Which does have the most evil Villain of all time in it.... Jenny.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)

__________

Thought that title went to Rose in Titanic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (eRlcH)

183 Oh, serious scary movie recommendation:

The Woman in Black.

Starring Harry Potter.

It's one of the first Hammer productions after it came back from the dead in the late 2000s, and it's just gothic horror fun. Genuinely my favorite Hammer film of them all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (pfZGz)

184 There is rumor that Bond is narrowed down to 3 actors

I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

185 Avery Brooks sucked. He was terrible.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (AKptf)

186 176 I just re-watch Memento for the first time since it came out. Still good.

I'll try Backrooms, looks promising.

I did like 8MM. That might be a good re-watch.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (n5tGW)

If you watch each scene backwards, that is, last scene first until first scene last, you still get a coherent movie...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (l3cgK)

187 All in all, TOS aside, my favorite characters of the whole thing were Elim Garak from DS9 and The Doctor from Voyager.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I just saw recently the actor that played Garak was the same guy that played "Scorpio" in the first Dirty Harry movie. He's really good.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (6nZo9)

188 I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

what makes you think that ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (AKptf)

189 >>>The Woman in Black.
Starring Harry Potter.

yes that is very good.

I have heard that the 1989 British TV version is even better, though it doesn't have the super-atmospheric sets and lighting of the Harry Potter version.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle)

190 184 There is rumor that Bond is narrowed down to 3 actors

I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

=======

Final filmed auditions were done in the last week or so. Decision is very likely made at this point, but it was probably made in the last few days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (pfZGz)

191 >>> The Wailing it's Korean.>>>

Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

192 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

The Babadook
Black Phone (but not Black Phone 2)
Smile
The Witch
Heredity

oh and not really horror, but if you haven't seen it check out Frailty.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

193 184 There is rumor that Bond is narrowed down to 3 actors

I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

Not enough ugly handicapped lesbians of color?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (l3cgK)

194
Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

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

There are tons that aren't slasher but the endings are almost always silly.

The Conjuring
Hereditary
The Black Phone

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (mmrXZ)

195
TNG is such an awful series it's not even funny.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (eRlcH)

196 Late to this but he did one of my favorite Ebenezer's in A Christmas Carol

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+gK6I)

197 189
yes that is very good.

I have heard that the 1989 British TV version is even better, though it doesn't have the super-atmospheric sets and lighting of the Harry Potter version.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle)

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I've never seen the TV version, but that HP version is just dripping with dark atmosphere.

And, it's well lit at the same time.

Also, the director and writer, James Watkins, just released Clayface, which is supposed to be pretty good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (pfZGz)

198 182
Which does have the most evil Villain of all time in it.... Jenny.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)

__________

Thought that title went to Rose in Titanic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (eRlcH)

Ewww.... that is a toss up.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (mP0Kj)

199 >> the actor that played Garak

Andrew Robinson, and he did indeed do a damn fine job with the Garak character. That was a truly Interesting character.

You'll see Robinson in a lot of the older shows, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, etc, etc, running on MeTV. He could play a good creepy villain type.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

200 I'm watching Enterprise now, while doing my project.

Very fun show. In terms of Captains Archer was up there because everything was new. They were hesitant to use the transporters unless it was an emergency.

And they made it a point to expose as much of Jolene Blalock as they could.

And that was a good thing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)

201 143 i just like the thought of Wesley being marooned with a space pedophile
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)

Its real. The Traveler was pretty creepy. After Wesley washed out of starfleet for being a lying little bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (zZu0s)

The Traveler was some kind of alien that could manipulate space, time, and warp fields with his mind.
Supposedly he recognized this same gift in Wesley and offered to take him to train him, kinda like a Jedi as far as I could understand.

Wesley agreed and he was gone after that episode.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (6ydKt)

202 Stewart was a competent actor, I'll give him his due. But did he ever get five curtain calls for his portrayal as Richard III?
Posted by: Sir Alexander Dane

Say the line! Say it!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (TMNW7)

203 "Midsommar" is divisive, but it is one of the best films at creating an air of persistent, oppressive *dread.*

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)

204 I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)

Personally I am excited about watching the next black, gender-neutral Daniel Craig.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (rbvCR)

205 Weapons

I thought that movie was really good, a whole class of kids disappears except the teacher and 1 student.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (Ql60S)

206 I enjoyed TNG when they stuck to classic SciFi themes. Exploration, problem solving, perseverance, unknown threats, and situations were all fun things for the characters to experience, explore, and overcome. But I could never fully embrace the concept because I simply don't understand why anyone would choose to be a secondary character on a star ship. You can go find any life you want.

If you want to be a big fish in a small pond, you can find a sparsely populated, beautiful planet and thrive. You ship in a replicator and a nearly endless power unit and you're all set for life.

If you have political aspirations, go do that. If you want to create, go do that. If you want to be a hedonist, go do that.

But why would you bust your butt to get into Starfleet academy only to end up a third tier night shift maintenance man? All of the work, danger, no pay, isolation, etc. for what benefit? You get a small bunk, a small job, and no recognition. The best part of your day is Troi walking by and you get a glimpse of her butt. Why would you live that life?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (mkw2N)

207 203 "Midsommar" is divisive, but it is one of the best films at creating an air of persistent, oppressive *dread.*

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)

=======

Dolley hated me for getting her to watch that.

I enjoyed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pfZGz)

208 Final filmed auditions were done in the last week or so. Decision is very likely made at this point, but it was probably made in the last few days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (pfZGz)

Elordi is too pretty. Maybe Lowden or Norton.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (AKptf)

209 "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia,"

Poignant?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (sAmhv)

210 191 >>> The Wailing it's Korean.>>>

Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

Have you seen Exhuma (also Korean horror)?

Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pe2q3)

211 The Doctor from Voyager had a great line in First Contact
Beverly: thirty Borg are coming through the door, delay them
Doctor : I'm a doctor not a doorstop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (f8snw)

212 208 Elordi is too pretty. Maybe Lowden or Norton.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (AKptf)

=

Elordi is also like 9 feet tall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pfZGz)

213 Weapons

I thought that movie was really good, a whole class of kids disappears except the teacher and 1 student.

I liked the build up but the ending was underwhelming

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm)

214 what makes you think that ?

Because there's almost no interest in James Bond any more and its what I would do to try to generate buzz

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (TMNW7)

215 I can tell you about a movie I don't want to see: "You can see everything" about the crooked woman Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos ( ?) company. It's gotten good reviews but I think she was a terrible fraudster.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (JrHfD)

216 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

The original 80s Fright Night is fun, and not too scary or gory. I recall a 2009 movie called The Hole that was very creepy, but not so gory. Or you could say "fuck normality" and watch "Rubber". It isn't scary, but does have gore. And it's made by a crazy Frenchman.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (6nZo9)

217 >>>205 Weapons
I thought that movie was really good, a whole class of kids disappears except the teacher and 1 student.

oh yeah that one's great. Big recommendation, no caveats.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (1wjle)

218 LO F'n L.

🚨BREAKING: Jane-Michelle Arc, a biological male from the San Francisco area who identifies as a woman, left the United States for the Netherlands and applied for asylum, citing fears about the political climate and personal safety.

He arrived at the Ter Apel asylum registration center, the main entry point for asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The facility has long struggled with severe overcrowding and repeated security problems. The Netherlands Red Cross recently paused some outdoor services at the site after a rise in violence that local authorities linked to a disruptive group inside the center.

Conditions at Ter Apel have been difficult, with ongoing reports of tension, limited safety, and strained resources.

According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)

219 Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

has anyone seen Hope? Is it worth watching?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)

220 13 Don't forget Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in "I, Claudius"

Posted by: museisluse at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (GcqYB)

---

Little-known fact: In that same production, Jonathan Frakes played his younger brother, Hughjanus.

Posted by: From The Folks Who Brought You at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (3VDCT)

221 195
TNG is such an awful series it's not even funny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (eRlcH)

NO Vaccine for you!!!

Posted by: The Space Wakandans at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (brIJB)

222 >>>he original 80s Fright Night is fun, and not too scary or gory.

one of my favorite 80s horrors, along with The Thing.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (1wjle)

223 Henry Cavill would be a good Bond

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (f8snw)

224 Started watching ST:TNG when it first aired, but fell off fairly quickly -- think it was seeing an episode that was just a meh rewrite of an episode from the original series that did it. Saw the movies, though, and liked Stewart well enough but haven't seen him in much else besides Dune.

Ciaran Hinds -- there's a strange little flick called The Eclipse, with Hinds, Aidan Quinn, and Iben Hjelje. A sorta kinda ghost story maybe set around a small literary festival in Ireland. Worth a watch.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (q3u5l)

225 The Traveler was some kind of alien that could manipulate space, time, and warp fields with his mind.
Supposedly he recognized this same gift in Wesley and offered to take him to train him, kinda like a Jedi as far as I could understand.

Wesley agreed and he was gone after that episode.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (6ydKt)

And now he uses his amazing powers to travel to every nerd convention...

Although gotta admit his wife is pretty hawt.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (mP0Kj)

226
There is rumor that Bond is narrowed down to 3 actors. And one sekret actor! Jacob Elordi, James Norton, Jack Lowden. They are supposed to announce by the end of the year.
Posted by: runner

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

Your name must begin with "Ja" to be considered for this part!

Posted by: Purist Casting Director at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (mmrXZ)

227
According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)

__________

Only if he pledges personal allegiance to Trump.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (eRlcH)

228 I forget where I heard this, but someone said Oliver Platt should be the new Bond.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (PSEDc)

229 223 Henry Cavill would be a good Bond

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (f8snw)

========

He's over 40 now.

Amazon wants 25-30 or so, so they can last at least 15 years of grueling, physical shoots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (pfZGz)

230 And they made it a point to expose as much of Jolene Blalock as they could.

And that was a good thing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)

I would volunteer for every away mission with T'Pol just so we'd be stuck in the observation room for a night rubbing anti-bacterial gel all over each other.

No wonder Trip lost his mind for her.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (6ydKt)

231 The Wailing it's Korean.>>>

Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

Have you seen Exhuma (also Korean horror)?
Posted by: Tribble Monger

Train To Busan.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (NMvV5)

232 But why would you bust your butt to get into Starfleet academy only to end up a third tier night shift maintenance man? All of the work, danger, no pay, isolation, etc. for what benefit? You get a small bunk, a small job, and no recognition. The best part of your day is Troi walking by and you get a glimpse of her butt. Why would you live that life?
===
Because it was a totalitarian society that drafted your ass. They had to, because otherwise everyone would just fuck off and do whatever. The whole thing is totalitarian utopianism.

Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (anL5R)

233 I don't care for horror but I did like Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness (both John Carpenter) and The Frighteners. Which probably doesn't technically count as horror but was really good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (TMNW7)

234 Henry Cavill played a similiar role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

235 If Lowden gets Bond then what happens to Slow Horses?

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (enNUy)

236 207 203 "Midsommar" is divisive

Pretty movie.
Boring as crap, but pretty.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)

237 Henry Cavill would be a good Bond

==

age...

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (AKptf)

238 Thought that title went to Rose in Titanic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (eRlcH)

Ewww.... that is a toss up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (mP0Kj)

Rose screwing her own husband and kids out of the diamond, and bilking the salvage company as well to jump overboard takes the giddy biscuit.

Would have been a good epilog to have her body rise up and be found and recovered.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

239 Jean-Luc est mort?

*doffs beret*

*takes respectful draw off Gauloise*

C'est la vie.

Posted by: The French at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (KRh8R)

240 I saw people note that they did the same thing with Worf that they did with Superman on Justice League.

Whenever they wanted to prove that a new villain was tough and powerful, they'd have him come in and immediately one-shot and rag-doll Worf (and Superman).

I know the writers of Justice League realized that after they'd done this 20 times, they had inadvertently turned Superman into "the guy who immediately goes down in a fight."

and then I saw a compilation of Worf being used the same way, as the object that gets smashed to prove the new threat is serious.
Posted by: ace

It's such a trope that TVTropes calls it "The Worf Effect."

And illustrates it with a panel from a Superman comic.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcswhae

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (VHUov)

241
During the last season of Voyager, there was an episode where the Doctor had to hide in Seven of Nines "brain implants" or something. So, he took over body at times, and hilarity ensued. Jerry Ryan did a hell of a job of channeling the Doctor's character.

And she gave one of the funniest lines to the Doctor, "You became sexually aroused in my body!".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (w6EFb)

242 233 I don't care for horror but I did like Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness (both John Carpenter) and The Frighteners. Which probably doesn't technically count as horror but was really good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (TMNW7)

I like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp but it is gory

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (+gK6I)

243 > Avery Brooks sucked. He was terrible.

OMG, I thought I was the only one! Whenever he tried to act passionate or excited about something, all I could see is, "Community Theater." It was just so amateurish.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (mkw2N)

244 According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)

__________

Only if he pledges personal allegiance to Trump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

F that. Sorry. No takebacks. Remember, the US isn't safe. That was the whole point of leaving. LOL

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (NMvV5)

245 Nobody has mentioned Minority Report yet.

Precrime? Solving murders before they happen?

Zombie PKD is disappoint.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (brIJB)

246 223 Henry Cavill would be a good Bond

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (f8snw)

I'd probably watch it if they chose him.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)

247 And considering there was a Holodeck, it was amazing we ever saw Wesley at all. Teenage boy with a holodeck. See you when I'm 75.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Sco7b)

I had a pretty good time on the HoloDeck.

A dwarf Riker was my best creation.

Posted by: Lt. (jg) Reginald Barclay at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (wVcYX)

248
TNG is such an awful series it's not even funny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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

Thank you. I'm going to quit equivocating about it.

Posted by: Purist Casting Director at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (mmrXZ)

249 Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)

Gonna watch HOPE tonight looks really good an alien invasion at a small Korean Village.

We just watched THE EAST PALACE the King has a curse placed on him that will end him and all his children.

Still like KINGDOM good show

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (Ql60S)

250 >>>Primal Fear is creepy.

I liked that one. Laura Linney's "But that's just me" schtick was pretty funny.

The whole cast was pretty good:
Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Edward Norton

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (8mulE)

251
Saw a creature feature on Prime titled, "Hungry".

About a group of tourists in the Louisiana swamps to see gators and instead run afoul of a very territorial hippo or two.

I'm not going to tell you that it's a great movie but it is a very entertaining one. Well worth a watch.

There will be chomping!

BONUS! You get a minor history lesson. The story's premise is based on a 1910 Congressional Bill to introduce hippos into Louisiana to alleviate a meat shortage. In reality the bill didn't pass. In the movie hippos were brought in anyway.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (YSUhf)

252 I never watched TNG believing there is only one true Star Trek, TOS.But...I doff my cap, bow my head, and say RIP, Captain.

Currently I've been binge-watching Breaking Bad on DVDs which is quite a change for a guy who usually only watches light-hearted comedy or movies in B&W with John Wayne in them.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (QGaXH)

253 Cavill would be around the same age ass Roger Moore when he started Bond but yeah, they want to go younger. I heard a rumor that they are looking at making them period pieces as well which would definitely be MY choice, but I dunno how well Gens Z and Alpha would dig the 60s

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (TMNW7)

254 Jack Lowden ! He is young, physically can handle the role, good timing.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (AKptf)

255 >>> I like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp but it is gory

i really like that movie, despite it being too Burtony and Deppy at times.

The sets look like paintings in a storybook.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)

256 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

'1408' - Even if it stars John Cusack
'Oculus'
'Dog Soldiers'

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (LNmRB)

257 I've seen or avoided a lot of the more well known ones, but I've got some great new candidates. Thanks!

May have to watch some on election night too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW)

258 Conditions at Ter Apel have been difficult, with ongoing reports of tension, limited safety, and strained resources.

According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)

No, still too dangerous here. Better to stay with your Muslim friends in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

259 Henry Cavill played a similiar role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

He would be perfect as a post war Tommy Hambledon. Which series never seemed to have any films made from it.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)

260 I also like the Brothers Grimm with Matt Damon

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (+gK6I)

261 but I dunno how well Gens Z and Alpha would dig the 60s

It would be funny to have Bond investigating a gay MI5 officer and getting him fired for hiring Russian rent boys.

Of course that get's you a PM role in Britain now...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

262 I don't care for horror but I did like Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness (both John Carpenter) and The Frighteners. Which probably doesn't technically count as horror but was really good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (TMNW7)
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Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness are among my favorite horror movies.

Both are genuinely disturbing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (FZ29D)

263 I like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp but it is gory

The Brothers Grimm is kind of related, its not gory but it is pretty spooky. Not Gilliam's best work but its pretty solid

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (TMNW7)

264 Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (anL5R)

Dude, I already told you I liked the show, you don't have to sell it to me.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (88C+u)

265 Loved him on American Dad. His voice acting was the best and the stuff they would have him say was hilarious!

Posted by: Zach John Galt at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (9sQ2j)

266 I also like the Brothers Grimm with Matt Damon

*high five*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (TMNW7)

267 The Autopsy of Jane Doe

kinda decent. It had its moments.

The main actress, playing a corpse, is all kinds of naked for almost the whole movie.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (1wjle)

268 >> I like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp but it is gory

Never understood why the Muppets never did that one.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (Qugny)

269 But why would you bust your butt to get into Starfleet academy only to end up a third tier night shift maintenance man? All of the work, danger, no pay, isolation, etc. for what benefit? You get a small bunk, a small job, and no recognition. The best part of your day is Troi walking by and you get a glimpse of her butt. Why would you live that life?
Posted by: bonhomme

So, like being stateside in any branches of the US military?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (nEUC6)

270 266 I also like the Brothers Grimm with Matt Damon

*high five*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (TMNW7)

Yup

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (+gK6I)

271 Oculus:

I watched that because of Karen Gillan and it was really kind of meh.

1408:

Had a big curveball I wasn't expecting

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

272
According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223

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

Oh yeah, I've been watching those people on TikTok and he's one of the early ones.

I'm pretty sure he was denied asylum because the claim was blatantly idiotic -- OMG THEY'LL KILL ME IN TRUMP'S AMERICA. Then he wound up in that lousy camp.

Some of those "escapees" are plain airheads and others are mentally ill.

Posted by: Purist Casting Director at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (mmrXZ)

273 It's still kind of gory, not as bad as other stuff, but 'Eden Lake' is actually pretty disturbing.

A couple at a deserted beach.
Feral teenagers.

Feral as in just crappy inner city, heartless things ...but white and English. It's creepy because you can easily see that happening.

Easily.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (Sco7b)

274
Another good Doctor-channeling-Bones line was, "I'm a doctor, not a battery!" when they had to use his mobile emitter thingy as a power source.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (w6EFb)

275 1408:

Had a big curveball I wasn't expecting

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
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Samuel L. Jackson as the hotel manager?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (FZ29D)

276 The Conjuring is great.

There's a movie that's like the Pulp Fiction of horror, with four separate stories that cross into each other like Bruce Willis crossed into John Travolta's story.

Trick r' Treat -- gory, but not like extreme gore that makes you uncomfortable, more the gore that just gives you a jolt and then a laugh

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (1wjle)

277 Koenig.

Stewart.

Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (dpXJq)

Elke Sommers, Barbara Barrie and Susan St. James are very recent celebrity deaths but I guess you could count them as the three before Koenig.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (iIyc0)

278 232 But why would you bust your butt to get into Starfleet academy only to end up a third tier night shift maintenance man? All of the work, danger, no pay, isolation, etc. for what benefit? You get a small bunk, a small job, and no recognition. The best part of your day is Troi walking by and you get a glimpse of her butt. Why would you live that life?
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Because it was a totalitarian society that drafted your ass. They had to, because otherwise everyone would just fuck off and do whatever. The whole thing is totalitarian utopianism.

Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (anL5R)

They didn't draft anybody on ST, lol.

It was a prestigious thing to be in Starfleet.
They were exploring the galaxy.

As for their economic system, yeah, that was TV magic, and they contradicted themselves over and over as the shows went on.

Their economic system in TNG was basically the replicator.
Without that thing the entire system fell apart.

And as for recreation for maintenance crew, they could date and have sex with real people on the crew or in the HoloDecks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

279 Mirren was well-known in England but pretty unknown in the USA. She was in a mobster movie called The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins that I recommend.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (TMNW7)

+1 for The Long Good Friday. Bob Hoskins gives a terrific performance, with one of the best acting jobs ever in my book in the very last scene. He doesn't speak in that scene. He gives the viewer a progression of facial expressions with accompanying body language, showing a range of emotion, that viewers will immediately understand and can sympathize with. I won't give any spoiler beyond that.

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (5rh/l)

280 >>The best part of your day is Troi walking by and you get a glimpse of her butt. Why would you live that life?

You might get lucky and meet her going the opposite direction in a Jeffries Tube?

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Qugny)

281 I'm pretty sure he was denied asylum because the claim was blatantly idiotic -- OMG THEY'LL KILL ME IN TRUMP'S AMERICA. Then he wound up in that lousy camp.

Some of those "escapees" are plain airheads and others are mentally ill.

Refugees in the long ago: They will kill me for my race/religion if I go back home

Refugees now: They won't get him go into the women's locker at the gym. Its literally genocide!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (sKqQm)

282 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

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

Reanimator.

Posted by: Dr. Herbert West at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (wVcYX)

283 my favorite trivia about The Conjuring is taht it's rated R despite not having any profanity, or any sex, or any nudity, or even any gore.

It's rated R for one thing: "Terror." That's what it says on the rating certificate.

also good: The Others.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (1wjle)

284 Have you seen Exhuma (also Korean horror)?
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pe2q3)

has anyone seen Hope? Is it worth watching?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)

No Spoilers gonna watch it tonight, set up the projector outside and watch it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (Ql60S)

285
The 2nd season of "The Terminal List" is now showing on Prime.

When we left our hero at the end of Season One, he sailed off to die at sea from a brain tumor.

Surprise! he didn't die and now has been roped into a mission to stop a new Al-Queda terrorist cell.

The once the show actually gets going. It has some spectacular action, very fun, tense watch, buuuuuut it takes you around 4 episodes to get there.

If you can put up with the slow plot mechanics, you'll have a great time.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (YSUhf)

286
Oh lord sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (mmrXZ)

287 Patrick who?

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (MWfyi)

288 @251 check out the real story about cocaine hippos in Columbia. Amazing story and an environmental mess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (f8snw)

289 Marco feeding baby Obama cheesecake:

https://tinyurl.com/k4t7s9ba

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (kX27y)

290 >>also good: The Others.

I read that as 'The Otters' and immediately thought, 'Oh, won't Nurse be pleased!'.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (Qugny)

291 Samuel L. Jackson as the hotel manager?

Somebody gotta get these damn [spoilers] outta my damn hotel!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (sKqQm)

292 Avery Brooks sucked. He was terrible.

OMG, I thought I was the only one! Whenever he tried to act passionate or excited about something, all I could see is, "Community Theater." It was just so amateurish.
------

How could he go from frickin' HAWK, badass on Spencer for Hire...to that flouncing "Captain" of the Enterprise on a show that shouldn't have ever been called "Star Trek" in any way, shape, or form?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (TN0g+)

293 The once the show actually gets going. It has some spectacular action, very fun, tense watch, buuuuuut it takes you around 4 episodes to get there.

If you can put up with the slow plot mechanics, you'll have a great time.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (YSUhf)

Yes... I read all the books so I'm impatient..

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (+gK6I)

294 The Others was good.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (sKqQm)

295 >>>Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?

Dead Heat.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)

296 288 @251 check out the real story about cocaine hippos in Columbia. Amazing story and an environmental mess
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Pablo Escobar chuckles in hell.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (b99Hl)

297 Probably my favorite overlooked horror film is Deadgirl. It asks a question nobody asked: Can zombies consent and what if they don't?

Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (pe2q3)

298 The replicator (or "duplicator") was noted as a problem for global economics as long ago as George O Smith in "Special Delivery".
Smith solved it with an irreplicable substance. DS9 had latinum, a liquid at room-temperature but could be encased in some noble metal that wouldn't alloy itself with it. This tended to be gold.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)

299 How could he go from frickin' HAWK, badass on Spencer for Hire...to that flouncing "Captain" of the Enterprise on a show that shouldn't have ever been called "Star Trek" in any way, shape, or form?
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (TN0g+)
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Babylon 5 >>> Deep Space 9

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (FZ29D)

300 RIP to Stilgar and all the other great roles Sir Patrick did. He was a legend.

Posted by: Brometheus at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (2/cZo)

301

has anyone seen Hope? Is it worth watching?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)

"Hope" is not good. Surprising, given who wrote and directed it, but it is.

Once you get to the end, you'll be rolling your eyes and muttering "Oh, fuck you "Hope"!!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (YSUhf)

302 Highly recommended, including for a rewatch, if you haven't seen it again. It holds up.

I caught Person of Interest first run from about mid season three to the end. I'm trying to work my way from the beginning to that point now. Hopefully Amazon will continue to keep it on Prime until I can finish. >8^O

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (iIyc0)

303 Brooks / Sisko was only the captain when he took the runabout. Usually he was the commander of a station.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (88C+u)

304 @251 check out the real story about cocaine hippos in Columbia. Amazing story and an environmental mess
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (f8snw)

Made worse by Judges in Bogotá whose contact with wildlife management is they once fed a chicken and sometimes cucarones fly in their windows when they leave them open in the morning.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (rbvCR)

305 By the way, Garak, Andrew Robinson starred in the first 'HellRaiser'.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (Sco7b)

306 Odd thing about Heredity - there are people in our real world trying to summon the uh, focus, of the movie in real life.

You can find all sorts of videos of it on the internet...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)

307 Patrick Stewart was Karla in Smiley's People

Just thought I’d throw that out there 🤷‍♂️

Posted by: browndog rounding the bases at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (LqJAf)

308
Picard season 3 was excellent. It is essentially a send off for the TNG crew instead of that abomination Star Trek: Nemesis

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (OkYzo)

309 300 RIP to Stilgar and all the other great roles Sir Patrick did. He was a legend.
Posted by: Brometheus at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (2/cZo)

He was Guerney wasn't he ? At least in the original

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (+gK6I)

310 >>>
I caught Person of Interest first run from about mid season three to the end. I'm trying to work my way from the beginning to that point now.

definitely do, the first two seasons are great. the later seasons actually sag a little.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (1wjle)

311 Hellraiser is one of those series that is all over the place. Some are good some are terrible, some are gory some are not, and so forth...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (sKqQm)

312 298 The replicator (or "duplicator") was noted as a problem for global economics as long ago as George O Smith in "Special Delivery".
Smith solved it with an irreplicable substance. DS9 had latinum, a liquid at room-temperature but could be encased in some noble metal that wouldn't alloy itself with it. This tended to be gold.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)

Yes, that's what mean, by the time DS9 was on you'd hear about gold-pressed latinum every episode.

Mostly because of the Ferengi but the humans weren't above using it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

313 Elementary would film around where I live and actually rented a warehouse from my company to film a boxing/fight scene.

I met Lucy Liu. Unlike a lot of actors, she looks just as good in person. Seemed really cool too.

She’s tiny, tho.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Q8pAC)

314 Nobody has mentioned Minority Report yet.

Precrime? Solving murders before they happen?

Zombie PKD is disappoint.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (brIJB)

Almost the premise of a Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett) story about a dude trying to get away with murder in a world where the cops could look back in time after the murder looking for clues. Has a twist ending. Called Private Eye.

Alfred Bester's Demolished Man was a murder investigation where the cops are telepathic but have to find real world evidence. Another twist at the end.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (uhVAy)

315 > So, like being stateside in any branches of the US military?

No. We're not in a "post scarcity" world. If your choice is working in the local factory, working a farm, or military, lots of young guys will choose military. You get the GI bill. You get a good disposable income. You might get to play will expensive guns. For many decades, the US military was a pretty good option compared to some of the alternatives.

What's the sales pitch in Star Trek in a post scarcity world? You can go anywhere and do anything and you choose that?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (mkw2N)

316 >>>Hellraiser is one of those series that is all over the place. Some are good some are terrible, some are gory some are not, and so forth...

Angels to some, demons to others.

(I got that joke from a commenter.)

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (1wjle)

317
Refugees now: They won't get him go into the women's locker at the gym. Its literally genocide!
Posted by: 18-1

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

One of the mentally ill ones is a woman who's -- I can't remember, something like "trans nonbinary." She's got 2 gender things going on, and somehow she has a partner.

Anyway, she's been on her channel sobbing hysterically as she throws away or gives away or sells all her stuff, leaves her office that she'd painted and decorated just so, says farewell to her family, because the Trans Krystallacht is coming. She just doesn't know what form it will take.

She makes it to Canada and immediately starts begging her followers for free or below-market rent, Must Have! a separate room for her office and allow a large dog.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (mmrXZ)

318 Renaimator is actually a good movie but it has one particular scene in it that went way WAY beyond any sane limits of decency and sanity which would probably be pretty horrifying for women in particular

Some of those "escapees" are plain airheads and others are mentally ill.

Well the ones that are trannies are by definition mentally ill

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (TMNW7)

319
Patrick Stewart was my second favorite Ebanezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. George C Scott is my number one Scrooge.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (OkYzo)

320 so... the first Final Destination movie is good. It's got such a simple but strong premise they basically remade the movie seven times and it made money every time. (Maybe not at part 5 or 6)

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (1wjle)

321 Caught one on Amazon a few days ago called Haunted, with Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale. Worth a watch, though not up to The Legend of Hell House or the 1963 Haunting.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (q3u5l)

322
Here's the clip where Seven of Nine is made captain of the Enterprise:

https://t.ly/yfxAV

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (w6EFb)

323 Kirk was my favorite captain but Picard was great. I’m glad they made TNG

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (M+uMR)

324 RIP.

I thought TNG was inferior to the original series, but Stewart was an able actor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (fzlJX)

325 She's got 2 gender things going on, and somehow she has a partner.

Yeah I was talking to my aunt and she mentioned about this guy she knew who had a son born with no legs and no arms. He met a girl and married her.

I contemplated the pistol i have by the bed

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (TMNW7)

326 Person of Interest is also a chance to watch Sarah Shahi. And you always want to watch her, just in case some leg shows or a scene requires a swimsuit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 05:20 PM (BFjnM)

327 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM

I'm partial to The Changeling, with George C. Scott and his then-wife. Early 80s atmospheric haunted house flick.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 05:20 PM (raF1/)

328 Nicol Williamson and Helen Mirren?

PARTY FOUL. Disproportionately attractive lady.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (Q8pAC)

329 (I got that joke from a commenter.)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (1wjle)

That would be me. *preens*
I believe the actual quote is reversed, because the Hell Priest is teasing Kristie at the time, because he's a sadist, and maybe even the god of sadists.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (88C+u)

330 definitely do, the first two seasons are great. the later seasons actually sag a little.

The second season is a bit downhill and I never watched any others, but its still a good 2 seasons. Caviezel was very effective and convincing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (TMNW7)

331 I never even once watched Patrick Stewart in Star Trek. Maybe I should, I don't know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (BFjnM)

332 Patrick Stewart was also in the movie Lifeforce.

Posted by: I just watched it for the plot, yeah that's it, that's the ticket at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uWVZa)

333 The replicator (or "duplicator") was noted as a problem for global economics as long ago as George O Smith in "Special Delivery".
Smith solved it with an irreplicable substance. DS9 had latinum, a liquid at room-temperature but could be encased in some noble metal that wouldn't alloy itself with it. This tended to be gold.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)

There was a pretty funny series of stories by John Brunner about a future "Consumer Reports" review of futuristic products. One was 'automatic twin-tube wishing machines' that could produce anything. One of the 'tubes' was the moderator that limited illegal or immoral wishes but one incident with a single tube model was a family on a planet whose 5 year old son, angry at being sent to his room started producing nuclear armed robots 3 meters high and took over the planet.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)

334 Yeah the biggest problem is had eith Sisko was the stage talking. Like James Earl Jones Darth Vader.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

335 From Yahoo News, TV ratings so not totally out of entertainment field.

"Fox News is suffering a catastrophic drop in viewership, which has plunged to historic lows just before the midterm elections, according to new data.

Preliminary Nielsen ratings obtained by Status ahead of their official release show that the Trump-friendly juggernaut is on track to post its lowest-rated month in total day viewers since December 2023, averaging just 1.1 million total viewers throughout October 2026. However, last year's ratings were buoyed by huge stories, including the Gaza ceasefire and the hostage release.

Among the key 25-54 demographic coveted by advertisers, the outlet is headed for its lowest-rated month in a quarter-century, averaging a paltry 98,000 viewers. It places third in that group, and fifth among 18-49 demos.

Advertisement
The collapse represents a brutal 27 percent drop in total viewers and a 32 percent dive in the 25-54 demographic compared to last October.'

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (E4rtv)

336 THE CAR, such a dumb movie and i enjoy it.

Salem's LOT the 1979 tv version is the best

Stake Land, a indie movie about a vampire apocalypse

Them, Giant Ants

Tremors, love this dumb movie and I love Burt which is why I love the sequel more Burt

Ghost in the Cell a ghost starts to kill inmates and Guards gonna watch this after HOPE tonight.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Ql60S)

337 >>one of my favorite 80s horrors, along with The Thing.

True story. I played in a company softball league when I first got out of school. After one game we went over to one of my teammates apartment to watch The Thing.

His former roommate showed up with his girlfriend and they brought a literal plastic garbage bag full of this new cheese popcorn thing they invented. It was delicious. A bunch of us powered through the whole bag.

They decided to take their popcorn idea and make it into a company. They called it Smartfood.

Now every time I eat Smartfood I watch the dog. Just in case.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (viF8m)

338 They’ll never pick Cavill for Bond, he’s too associated with Superman.

They need to go to the tongue in cheek Roger Moore era Bond again.

You already did grounded, gritty Bond.

Basically a slightly more serious Austin Powers version.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (XV/Pl)

339
We also saw "Clayface".

Fun movie. You will have a good time. Well, acted, directed, written, all good stuff.

Gory enough with some body horror to make a good Halloween flick, but not extreme.

The best of the comic book villain origin movies.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (YSUhf)

340 "Eight Billion Genies" is a comic series where genies come to Earth to grant every human, no matter how old or young, one wish.
Naturally the planet is immediately plunged into a hellspace where nine year old boys are riding flying dinosaurs and jetplanes.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (88C+u)

341 Patrick Stewart was also in the movie Lifeforce.
Posted by: I just watched it for the plot, yeah that's it, that's the ticket at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uWVZa)
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There was someone else in that movie other than the atomic hot alien vampiress bitch who was naked the whole movie?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Q8pAC)

342 Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM

I'm partial to The Changeling, with George C. Scott and his then-wife. Early 80s atmospheric haunted house flick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 05:20 PM (raF1/)

I always recommend Nefarious. The scariest and most real of all horror movies.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (lCppi)

343 RIP.

I thought TNG was inferior to the original series, but Stewart was an able actor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (fzlJX)

I used to call it "The Love Boat" because of all the similarites - bald captain, black bartender, kids on the ship, and "Julie the Cruise Director" Troi.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

344 I'm not big on horror films, but I remember being scared the first time I saw "The Haunting" from the Shirley Jackson novel with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom, and I still thought it was scary years later when I saw it again. Terrific performances too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (JrHfD)

345 Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (YSUhf)

Better than the first "Joker"?

Posted by: pity about the sequel at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (88C+u)

346 Any truth to the rumor that Gates McFadden is a guy?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (LOvBA)

347 I have never watched it but my brother really liked the first Phantasm movie. Its kinda gory though I think.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (TMNW7)

348 323 Kirk was my favorite captain but Picard was great. I’m glad they made TNG
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (M+uMR)

I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.

Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)

349 Preliminary Nielsen ratings obtained by Status ahead of their official release show that the Trump-friendly juggernaut is on track to post its lowest-rated month in total day viewers since December 2023, averaging just 1.1 million total viewers throughout October 2026. However, last year's ratings were buoyed by huge stories, including the Gaza ceasefire and the hostage release.

***

"Trump friendly"? I think they haven't watched Fox lately.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (lCppi)

350
Naturally the planet is immediately plunged into a hellspace where nine year old boys are riding flying dinosaurs and jetplanes.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (88C+u)

_________

??????

Sounds perfectly wholesome to me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (eRlcH)

351
Marco feeding baby Obama cheesecake:

https://tinyurl.com/k4t7s9ba
Posted by: beckster

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Hah. Baby oddly satisfied with the thing he was crying about.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:26 PM (mmrXZ)

352 The 25-54 demographic doesn't watch broadcast or cable news.

They stream everything they want.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:26 PM (LOvBA)

353 There was someone else in that movie other than the atomic hot alien vampiress bitch who was naked the whole movie?

That is my recollection of the movie as well. I am sure there were other people in that movie but its like how the sun blots out all the stars in the sky.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:26 PM (TMNW7)

354 It was a prestigious thing to be in Starfleet.
* * *
Ha ha ha ha ha

In a society with replicators FREE EVERYTHING and nobody has to make anything or pay for it.

People were motivated to go into space for years, at risk of life, and take orders . . .
because of they could have holodeck sex. RIIIIIGHT. Cause sex simulations or the real thing would only be available on a space ship.

Naw bro. You can't have all that they had in a free society. Utopia is fake and gay. Those people were all under orders.

Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (anL5R)

355 But the ASI, called "The Machine," was too good at its job and didn't just find terror plots, but any kind of premeditated crime like kidnapping and murder.

Here's the problem I'd have with the show:

90+% of murders are just gang members and streets criminals shooting at each other randomly with their Glocks held sideways, often hitting bystanders.

Drivebys.

Fentanyl-addict liquor-store robberies gone bad.

Low-IQ pimps flying into a rage and killing their street hookers.

Etc. etc. etc.

And most of the remaining 10% of murder are semi-spur of the moment domestic violence flipouts.

Which leaves us with maybe 1%-2% of murders at most[/b[ that are premeditated Agatha-Christie-style planned murders. They're actually comparatively rare.

But in the show, it is depicted that all these thousands of murders can be "predicted" because they're "planned ahead of time." Nuh-uh. In the real world, it ain't like that.

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (HD2n/)

356 "Trump friendly"? I think they haven't watched Fox lately.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (lCppi)

Which is why I think the numbers are down.. Their polls are outrageous and with the exception of a couple, not as Trump friendly as they used to be...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (+gK6I)

357 Ugh unbold.

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (HD2n/)

358 SHUT UP, WESLEY!!

Posted by: Zombie Jean-Luc Picard at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)

359 THE CAR, such a dumb movie and i enjoy it.

Got that bad boy on DVD.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (iIyc0)

360 Funny, Khan remembers Chekov, yet Chekov was NOT in "Space Seed."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)

361 My wife is campaigning to make Benjamin Wainwright, who plays Detective Jules Maigret in the Amazon Prime series "Maigret" as the new Bond. So far I'm the only recipient of her campaigning, but you never know, she might put up a lawn sign or something.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 05:28 PM (9bQjB)

362 (anL5R)

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: anon to anon at October 29, 2026 05:29 PM (88C+u)

363 One of the greatest all time usenet groups was

alt.sf.startrek.wesly.crusher.die.die.die

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Fi81e)

364 323 Kirk was my favorite captain but Picard was great. I’m glad they made TNG
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (M+uMR)

I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)

I was there and disagree. Kirk was Kirk even before the movie was out, and the trinity of him, McCoy and Spock let them do humor, action, tension, anything. Wrath was just the apex of the TOS arc.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:30 PM (uhVAy)

365 If you like your Halloween treats in bite-sized portions, you could do a lot worse than revisiting The Ray Bradbury Theater. Quite a few of those episodes make perfect Halloween viewing.

My own favorite from the series isn't exactly a ghost or horror story; it's "The Town Where No One Got Off," with Jeff Goldblum. Worth a look if you haven't seen it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:30 PM (q3u5l)

366 Funny, Khan remembers Chekov, yet Chekov was NOT in "Space Seed."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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A friend of mine theorized that Chekhov was always using the restroom when Khan needed to use it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)

367 Naw bro. You can't have all that they had in a free society. Utopia is fake and gay. Those people were all under orders.

Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (anL5R)

There is an entire episode on TNG of Wesley applying to get into Starfleet.

They have to take be recommended, like West Point, and admitted after testing and other procedures.

They modeled Starfleet after the U.S. Navy/Air Force, not the Kriegsmarine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)

368 Its a horror movie but not really the kind you think of

The Ghost and the Darkness. Val Kilmer Michael Douglas

Will. scare. you.

Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)

369 Funny, Khan remembers Chekov, yet Chekov was NOT in "Space Seed."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)

Yes, but he could have been on the ship on a different watch and interacted. A starship runs for 24 hours.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)

370 "Midsommar" is divisive, but it is one of the best films at creating an air of persistent, oppressive *dread.*
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)

Good movie, but "The Wicker Man"ishness of it robs it of a lot of tension.

I suggest you pair "Midsommar" with "The Menu" for a Flambe' Horror Saturday Night.

In certain ways they are mirrors of each other.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (YSUhf)

371
Yep, he's James Muthatfuckin' Tiberius Muthatfuckin' Kirk, by God.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (w6EFb)

372 My painting in memory of Patrick Stewart. See nic.

I also have a painting of a 'Dune' but thought this more appropriate 😃

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (Ti9vn)

373 Monstrum Ancient Korea, 1506. The tyrannical King Yeonsan-gun of Joseon is overthrown by his half-brother Jung-jong, whose reign begins with a blood bath. Over the years, traitors plot against him, sinking the kingdom into chaos. In 1528, frightened rumors come to royal palace, regarding a mysterious creature, known as Monstrum by the peasants.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (Ql60S)

374 One of the greatest all time usenet groups was

alt.sf.startrek.wesly.crusher.die.die.die
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Fi81e)

I visited that a few times.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (uhVAy)

375 Knowing with Nick Cage is scary

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (+gK6I)

376 Funny, Khan remembers Chekov, yet Chekov was NOT in "Space Seed."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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Standard dodge: There were more people on ship than were shown in the scenes.

Otherwise, it's a well known gaffe.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)

377 Late to this but he did one of my favorite Ebenezer's in A Christmas Carol
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+gK6I)

Ditto

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (2WIwB)

378 268 >> I like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp but it is gory

Never understood why the Muppets never did that one.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (Qugny)

Gory? Pikers.

Posted by: Apocalypto at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

379 Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (YSUhf)

Better than the first "Joker"?
Posted by: pity about the sequel at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (88C+u)

Yes.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (YSUhf)

380 (88C+u)
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You aren't the boss of me.

Posted by: MOM!!!!! He's doing it again at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (anL5R)

381 Yep, he's James Muthatfuckin' Tiberius Muthatfuckin' Kirk, by God.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (w6EFb)
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Indeed. The greatest of all starship captains.

Because.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi81e)

382 Funny, Khan remembers Chekov, yet Chekov was NOT in "Space Seed."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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A friend of mine theorized that Chekhov was always using the restroom when Khan needed to use it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)

I can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)

383 Reuters does the World Series.

Reuters
@Reuters
Brewers start to feel the costs of prolonged war in Iran

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (ndZc7)

384 Very effective use of Beethoven's Symphony No 7 in A Major (Allegretto) in Knowing.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (iIyc0)

385 I can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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This guy gets it!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (amcLV)

386 Standard dodge: There were more people on ship than were shown in the scenes.

Otherwise, it's a well known gaffe.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)

TOS Enterprise had 430 crewmen. Obviously we never see all of them in a show.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

387 Its a horror movie but not really the kind you think of

The Ghost and the Darkness. Val Kilmer Michael Douglas

Will. scare. you.
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)

One of my favorite movies.

Somewhere in the Top 20.

Wish they would release a 4K version of it.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (YSUhf)

388 Which leaves us with maybe 1%-2% of murders at most that are premeditated Agatha-Christie-style planned murders. They're actually comparatively rare.

From cops I know and have read about say the hardest murder to solve is the passing through. Two guys get in a fight or just road rage, or some crazy shoots someone as they pass through town and are in another state by the time the body is found.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (TMNW7)

389 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (hG5L0)

390 Kirk was bad ass competent but he was also a lucky MF.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (Ti9vn)

391 Funny, Khan remembers Chekov, yet Chekov was NOT in "Space Seed."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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Standard dodge: There were more people on ship than were shown in the scenes.

Otherwise, it's a well known gaffe.
-----

On the Andy Griffith show the traveling band with the last name "Fleet" shows up three times, across 3 different seasons. For 2 of those seasons it "Bobby Fleet", and for the 3rd its "Freddy Fleet" (or vice versa--can't recall).

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:36 PM (TN0g+)

392 A friend of mine theorized that Chekhov was always using the restroom when Khan needed to use it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)

I can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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Uh, oh. I just had a thought experiment flash through my brain.

Most spaceships in science fiction television/movies have artificial gravity, right? (keeps budgets down)

So do they have standard toilets like we do here on Earth?

What happens when someone is using it and the artificial gravity fluctuates because of a technology glitch?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:36 PM (FZ29D)

393 There is an entire episode on TNG of Wesley applying to get into Starfleet.

They have to take be recommended, like West Point, and admitted after testing and other procedures.

They modeled Starfleet after the U.S. Navy/Air Force, not the Kriegsmarine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)
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One of the places that TNG was "Beyond Stupid".

I'm definitely a TOS guy. I managed a season of TNG, while Roddenberry was alive that the script rules said "No arguments".

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

394 You heard it here first....I'm looking forward to checking out a Documentary that's opening countrywide. It's a Justin Folk film (he did "What is a Woman" and "Am I Racist." Those Matt Walsh films....which I had no ambition to see).

But, his most recent offering is different. It's about the Israeli scheme to have Hezbollah carry exploding pagers.

It is aptly and hilariously entitled:

" PAGING HEZBOLLAH "

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)

395 They modeled Starfleet after the U.S. Navy/Air Force, not the Kriegsmarine.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)

Navy really. They don't have any 'fighters' just shuttles i the TOS, though the wargame Starfleet battles introduced "Carriers"

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:37 PM (uhVAy)

396 can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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Chekov didn't have a square to spare in the next stall.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)

397 Scariest thing for Halloween? Watch a WNBA game. [shudders]

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Q8pAC)

398 The Ghost and the Darkness is a dynamite flick. Cast is good, with great script by William Goldman.

There's a point at the end where they talk about the Tsavo Lions exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, saying that even in that glass case, they'll scare you. Been there and seen that, and they do.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (q3u5l)

399 Knowing with Nick Cage is scary

That is a good one, another of his that came out around that time was Next which I thought was really well done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (TMNW7)

400 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (TMNW7)

Flock cameras have helped solve those.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Ti9vn)

401 Probably willowed by now, but would also vote for Henry Cavill

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Ia/+0)

402 I can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)

Shades of the Jim the Vampire (Mark Hamill) episode (S2.6) in What We Do in the Shadows. Something about Jim and Lazlo Cravensworth having once been a thing until Lazlo left a deuce in the crapper in 1868.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (iIyc0)

403 I don't think anyone has ever had a "poignant" encounter with Lewy body dementia.

Posted by: The_Hoser at October 29, 2026 05:39 PM (3VDCT)

404
If Lowden gets Bond then what happens to Slow Horses?
Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (enNUy)

I just finished binge-watching Season 5, and I think they're setting up a possible ending for River in S6, just in case. Final S5 episode, he tells Louisa that he's leaving MI5. And Diana definitely said that she didn't want him back from Slough House, despite Lamb going to bat for him to return to regular service.

I'm starting S6 tonight, so I'm wondering where it's going from here.

As for Lowden, I think he'd make a pretty decent mid-level Bond, and he's the right age. Needs some creatine and gym time though, but if Amazon throws money at him, he'll put in the work.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (y9nCu)

405 Most spaceships in science fiction television/movies have artificial gravity, right? (keeps budgets down)

So do they have standard toilets like we do here on Earth?

What happens when someone is using it and the artificial gravity fluctuates because of a technology glitch?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:36 PM (FZ29D)

In theory they could use the transporter to beam the poo out, but in the printed plans to the enterprise there were bathrooms in the cabins and toilet-equivalents. Never shown on camera.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

406 What happens when someone is using it and the artificial gravity fluctuates because of a technology glitch?

The only time I know of it ever came up was in Undiscovered Country with the CGI blood droplets

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:41 PM (TMNW7)

407 Kirk was bad ass competent but he was also a lucky MF.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (Ti9vn)

Luck is a business requirement for military commanders.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

408 >>>Knowing with Nick Cage is scary

oh yeah, good movie.

also one of those movies that Nick Cage picked that few others would. Alas, there's a reason for that; it bombed.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (1wjle)

409 The toilet probably has a little phaser in it that vaporizes the waste.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 05:46 PM (MWfyi)

410
There's a point at the end where they talk about the Tsavo Lions exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, saying that even in that glass case, they'll scare you. Been there and seen that, and they do.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (q3u5l)

Yep, seen 'em too. As Goldman noted in one of his books, the taxidermist did a good job of making them look downright evil.

The really scary part is that they're about 3/4 size from when they were alive, based on the old photos.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 05:46 PM (y9nCu)

411 Don't stick your hand down there.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (MWfyi)

412 I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)

Nah, he's a mensch in TOS.

Court Martial
Obsession
Ultimate Computer
Balance of Terror
Arena
And more!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)

413
Luck is a business requirement for military commanders.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

Posted by: Napoleon Boney at October 29, 2026 05:49 PM (y9nCu)

414
I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)

Nah, he's a mensch in TOS.

Court Martial
Obsession
Ultimate Computer
Balance of Terror
Arena
And more!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)

Hell no, fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: The Gorn at October 29, 2026 05:50 PM (y9nCu)

415 Luck is a business requirement for military commanders.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

This. Caesar was the luckiest asshole in history, but it is like he bent reality to his will.

Odd how that happens with the greats. Caesar, Napoleon, Lee. Until they aren't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

416 Got an impulse to binge-watch all the ST movies with Shatner or Stewart. Which would really cut in on other movie/reading plans for the week. Will take two aspirin and wait for that impulse to pass...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:54 PM (q3u5l)

417 408 >>>Knowing with Nick Cage is scary

oh yeah, good movie.

also one of those movies that Nick Cage picked that few others would. Alas, there's a reason for that; it bombed.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (1wjle)

There’s a clip going around of Nick Cage plsying John Madden in an upcoming Prime bio-flick.

Somebody commented that Cage’s Madden impression is 10% Jimmy Stewart and 90% Nick Cage, which is a dead-on description.
It looks like an SNL skit with Cage in a fat suit, doing the cold opener waiting on him to say And Tonight Live From New York.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt)

418 98 Still Got the Blues ... is that a Gary Moore cover?
Or, a different song by the same name?
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Qugny)
*****
Gary Moore wrote it and sang this song.
Love his voice and guitar. I'm fascinated with musicians who used to travel to the Delta of Mississippi to see blues singers at the origins. Or who grew up listening to albums. I had no idea of the connection til the last decade.

Gary Moore was Irish, loved blues but never went to MS. Tin Lizzy to the blues.
https://tinyurl.com/fnbjazec

The singers of note who traveled there to work with singers: Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top). Eric Clapton made and album with BB King.

Others were influenced by Blues Revival, such as Jimmy Page and the Rolling Stones, growing up listening to their music. Some learned from blues/jazz singers/guitarists touring in the UK like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and BB King. Kim Simmons of Savoy Brown also grew up listening to R&B.

Marc Cohen visited, and I love this song:
Walking in Memphis (there really was a Muriel)
https://tinyurl.com/4mdu937e

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (hzuYO)

419 I'm starting S6 tonight, so I'm wondering where it's going from here.
==
Oh its good.

Lamb gets into "you fk wif my joes and I'll do you" mode.

Posted by: MOM!!!!! He's doing it again at October 29, 2026 06:19 PM (anL5R)

420 Well that explains it...
So he uses the backdoor he built into the computer to tell it to send him the social security numbers, and only the social security numbers, of people The Machine predicts are either going to be the victim of serious violence, or the perpetrator.
Illegal immigrants don't have SSN's so that's why they're not caught!

Posted by: MikeInFairfax at October 29, 2026 06:20 PM (g+rzE)

421 We watched Person of Interest mostly because Jim Caveizel and I went to high school together (for a year, we didn't have classes together but still). But it was really good and how CBS treated it at the end was egregious. It wasn't a CBS property, it was a WB production and CBS wanted to own shows with a syndication back end they didn't get with that. PoI hasn't done well in syndication for some reason, though.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at October 29, 2026 06:22 PM (gUs21)

422 Haven't seen Person of Interest but it seems close to Minority Report.

ST was well into to going off the rails when they started sneaking in 'Representation' shit like the Maquis, and Movie 6 with Redneck Tech. That's about when I bailed. Used to call one show DS-90210, and didn't make it through Capt'n Mrs. Columbo. Skipped Star Trek / The Tiny Toons and Star Trek / Below Decks With Matt Groening. Critical Drinker slew the Starfleet Academy series, where it looked like no one could run a 440. DS-9 had to add the Jem Haddar to work in combat action because they were losing viewers to the much more ass-kicking Babylon-5.

Posted by: Cranston Snord at October 29, 2026 08:04 PM (GKbV6)

423 As someone wittily wrote elsewhere, "Shaka when the walls fell."

Posted by: Lex at October 29, 2026 08:42 PM (y4H1r)

424 Russian barbarism is nothing new: the mass rapes committed by Stalin’s drunken Red Army as they marched their way across Europe at the end of the Second World War illustrate this.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that when he went to occupied Berlin, General Patton was quoted in The National Guardsman as remarking: “I think we’ve been fighting the wrong people all this time...”
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Russia has a smaller economy than Italy, and yet devotes a huge percentage of it's fruits to their military and the war in Ukraine. It's always something with Russia.

Bewildering.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:24 AM (I4gbT)

425 Oops- wrong thread!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 30, 2026 08:26 AM (I4gbT)

DOJ "Aggressively Investigating" Democrat Plot to Defraud the Voters of Alaska as Mary Peltolta Continues Lying About Her Role in the Election Interference

Yesterday I mentioned a NYT report that establishes that, despite a year of lying about it, Democrat Congresswoman Mary Petolta, now running for Senate (and endorsed by "Republican" swamphag Lisa Murkowski), is behind running a man called "Dan Sullivan" to siphon votes away from the real Dan Sullivan, the incumbent Republican.

The New York Times: Yes, the shifty Democrat socialist whore Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.

Operatives aligned with Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates in an effort to dilute support for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Alaska's crowded ballot, according to The New York Times.
The effort, internally dubbed the "ballot composition project," included an early directive to a Peltola staffer in the summer of 2025: find as many people named Dan Sullivan as possible in the state.
The goal, the report says, was to land another Dan Sullivan on the ballot to create confusion and siphon votes from the incumbent.
...
The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.
This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state's Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state's unusual, four-person ballot.
The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.
The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola's team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent's support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.

Despite being busted by the leftwing New York Times, whose report is based on inter-campaign emails and other documentary evidence, Mary Peltola continues to insist that she didn't Knowingly Know what her entire campaign Doingly Did.

Boy Democrats sure get a lot of mileage out of that "defense," huh?

Her campaign put out this lie:

"The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign. Like Mary, our campaign is focused on lowering costs and fixing the rigged system in D.C. and did not recruit any candidates into the race," the Peltola campaign said in a statement to NewsNation affiliate The Hill.
The DSCC also told The Hill in a statement it had "no involvement" in recruiting the other Sullivan. Peltola's campaign did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.

She's also getting mileage out of the Democrats' other "defense" -- we shouldn't be talking about my election interference. conspiracies to defraud the government, or family stocked foundation to roof with Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, we should just focus on affordability (for which I have no plan except claiming Trump Did It.

Now comes word that the DOJ has in fact launched a criminal investigation, and that the subpoenas are flying like crows towards peanuts:

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
1h
BREAKING: Colleague @davidspunt reports via two sources familiar that there is an ongoing DOJ "aggressive criminal investigation" into Daniel J. Sullivan appearing on the ballot for US Senate in Alaska, and the investigation has intensified in the wake of the bombshell NYT report today.
DOJ sources tell David that multiple grand jury subpoenas will be issued in the coming hours and days, and there are preservation orders to cell phone companies that are being prepared regarding text messages and emails that may build a timeline for how Daniel J. Sullivan was placed on the ballot.
The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alaska and federal prosecutors are interested in potential charges relating to the depravation of rights of Alaska voters. The investigation is expected to go beyond Election Day and has been underway for several months.

Reportedly -- according to Mark Halperin -- the Democrat lawyer/fixer who quaterbacked this criminal conspiracy to defraud the voters of Alaska is...

the guy who attempted to defraud the voters of all America by quaterbacking Hillary Clinton's RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION hoax:

John Reese - Person of Interest
@Rickisback_ON_X
Just In: Per Mark Halperin on Megyn Kelly, the Marc Elias law firm was involved in the fake Dan Sullivan Candidate search in the Alaska Senate race.

🚨Mary Peltola in August:
�It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!� https://t.co/oemOFQJxKZ
— Senate Republicans (@NRSC) October 28, 2026

Marc Elias's name just landed in the "second Dan Sullivan" scandal.
The New York Times reports that Peltola aides, DSCC staffers and the CAMPAIGN'S LAWYERS helped push a retired teacher named Daniel J. Sullivan to run against Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Peltola's lawyers in Alaska?
Elias Law Group, which is now fighting Trump's DOJ to make sure the result gets certified.
Mark Halperin says Elias's firm was involved in the search. That's his claim, and the firm didn't respond to Reuters.
Peltola's ex-campaign manager said Peltola was "definitely aware."
Peltola and the DSCC deny it. Alaska, vote for the REAL Dan Sullivan. 🇺🇸
— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) October 28, 2026

Imprison this smug fat lawless insurrectionist.

No One Is Above the Law.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM

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1 THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

2 2

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (B1+sW)

3 the gnat is hat

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (CWTWj)

4 The Democrats one principal is: whatever it takes to win.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (zjgNU)

5 When it comes to voting this on one effed up State.

Posted by: Bosk at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (VMFAF)

6 The Left lie as easy as they breath. The ends justify the means let them sleep like a baby.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 03:23 PM (Ti9vn)

7 I don’t wanna put too much emphasis on polling and betting odds, but what I’m seeing is the Democrat is likely to pick this one up?

Is Alaska really that stupid? I would think this would really alienate a ton of voters this whole scheme by democrats

Some left-wing judge ordered his name back on the ballot, even though it was obvious with this whole scam was

Posted by: Maroon at October 29, 2026 03:24 PM (1Le5F)

8 A soft, furry thumb.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 03:24 PM (zZu0s)

9 Mary Peltola in August:

“It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!”

(but it ain't so sharrup h8er)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:25 PM (CWTWj)

10 Just go the bruce Willis or Patrick Stewart route guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 03:25 PM (zZu0s)

11 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 03:25 PM (KRh8R)

12 This is so underhanded.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:25 PM (hVPzc)

13 re 6: and when they stop breathing they still vote

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:26 PM (CWTWj)

14 Elias deserves to be on the first 2 or 3 Pinochet flights.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 03:26 PM (wOO3z)

15 Quick, someone find a schoolteacher in Alaska called Stupid Ugly Cunt to get on the ballot!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:26 PM (aKiSo)

16 Can the state of Alaska refuse to seat her if this does end up working ?

Posted by: Maroon at October 29, 2026 03:27 PM (1Le5F)

17 Just go the bruce Willis or Patrick Stewart route guys.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 03:25 PM (zZu0s)

....what route is that?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 03:27 PM (zjgNU)

18 Some left-wing judge ordered his name back on the ballot, even though it was obvious with this whole scam was
Posted by: Maroon

I think we'll wake up one day and find out that the CCP has been bankrolling every election in the PNW and AK for the past 10 years.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 03:27 PM (nEUC6)

19 You can't fool the Eskimos.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 03:27 PM (UjdFS)

20 CNN is covering this now.

I'm thinking the NYT reported on this to download.

Meanwhile MSNow pushed two more Senate races to the Dems. And they were interviewing the staunchest of Trump suppirters, people that would take a bullet for him who now say he sucks.

And voting is so racially polarized. And blacks suffer not being able to get away from work to vote.

Fox -Vance soeaking in Texas now.

CBC - demonstrators protest layoffs at a steel plant. I told you, pay them in unicorn stickers if there isn't enough money. Scatch and Sniff one's are equal to10.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 03:28 PM (Sco7b)

21
"Ha Ha! It's just a goof! The merry pranksters are just slagging the normies! Let's just all have a good laugh!

Until after the election, when we get serious about silencing people permanently."

-Your DNC Public Servants

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 03:28 PM (Y8DZL)

22
I want to say something about a lamp pole and a decoration of some kind with Elias being crucial in the Minecraft simulation..

I should pass..

and understand if this comment gets edited.

Posted by: Blanco at October 29, 2026 03:28 PM (sW/8y)

23 Why is it republicans never can pull off dirty tricks of their own ?

Say what you will about this, but if they get an easy senate seat out of it, probably worth it

Posted by: Maroon at October 29, 2026 03:28 PM (1Le5F)

24 NYT reported to downplay this.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)

25 >>Can the state of Alaska refuse to seat her if this does end up working ?

The Senate can refuse to seat her.

That is if we had a Senate Majority Leader with a pair of functional balls.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:29 PM (viF8m)

26 With how retarded voters are this will work.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 03:29 PM (enNUy)

27 I'm sure Murkowski is upset because she was hoping to endorse Peltola

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:29 PM (f8snw)

28 "You can't fool the Eskimos."

But you can bribe them with federal and state kickbacks.

Posted by: Bosk at October 29, 2026 03:29 PM (VMFAF)

29 iirc Murkowski has endorsed Sullivan for Senate and the Democrat candidate for governor. Not Peltola.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:30 PM (RIvkX)

30 "It worked, didn't it?"

Posted by: Harry Reid at October 29, 2026 03:30 PM (LbUS+)

31 I think I saw the odds at like 74% the dem wins in Alaska

Disgusting, but doubt anyone will do anything

Posted by: Maroon at October 29, 2026 03:30 PM (1Le5F)

32 Can we hope Murkowski is involved and she gets to be sent off to a gulag, too?

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 03:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

33 It is to laugh. FWIW Gov. Dunleavy is also having Alaska state govt. investigate. Yesterday, even Murcow the creep turned on Peltola over the cheat.
=====
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
23m
🚨 NOW: Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces there will be a FOLLOW-UP with voters who cast their ballot for the fake Dan Sullivan, to see if they meant to vote for the REAL Sen. Dan Sullivan

If enough voters were duped, this should be allowed to FLIP the race in the GOP Senator's favor if Peltola's scheme steals the seat!

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:30 PM (E4rtv)

34 I saw Dan Sullivan open for Dan Sullivan at the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1967.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (YcOeP)

35 Something is going on at the NYT. The are doing actual reporting lately.

This is off brand for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (viF8m)

36 Do lots of people in Alaska know about this , or it's covered up by "Pravda American Style" as well? Because of if I were a someone from Alaska and looked at my ballot and it had the candidates with the same names ,I'd say "What the heck?!!" and ask for clarification from an election official. I have to give a backhanded compliment to the people on the woman's campaign who thought this clever crookedness up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (JrHfD)

37 35 Something is going on at the NYT. The are doing actual reporting lately.

This is off brand for them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29

They don’t want Elon to buy them?

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

38 Whatever. *flexes*

Posted by: RAWMUSLGLUTES at October 29, 2026 03:33 PM (88C+u)

39 Nothing will happen. The election is lost. The Democrats will take over and jail all those who called for Mark Elias to be punished. Mark Elias will laughingly laugh as he strolls down the cell block of all those wrongfully imprisoned for trying to protect electoral integrity.

Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill at October 29, 2026 03:33 PM (anL5R)

40 Democrat socialist whore Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.

We'd like a few words with this "Dan Sullivan" guy.

Posted by: The Zombie Five Sullivans at October 29, 2026 03:33 PM (raF1/)

41 How many ads did this Other Guy's campaign cut? How much air time did they buy?

How much of his campaign funding can be traced directly to Peltola's campaign?

Is there any indication at all that this Other Guy is running an actual campaign beyond getting a slot on the ballot?

(To be honest, if you're so damn stupid you can't figure out to vote for the guy with the R next to his name and not the other guy, then your vote shouldn't count anyway and you should just stay the fuck home. But ammunition is ammunition so fuck 'em.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:33 PM (aKiSo)

42 I have to give a backhanded compliment to the people on the woman's campaign who thought this clever crookedness up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (JrHfD

Is the point of it the cleverness or lack of scruples required to pull it off? I'm pretty sure the average 11 year old could come up with it.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:34 PM (hVPzc)

43 So now it's a crime to be named Dan Sullivan?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:34 PM (ndZc7)

44 I saw Dan Sullivan open for Dan Sullivan at the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1967.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (YcOeP)

I saw him win the 1985 Indy 500

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 29, 2026 03:34 PM (/OKHJ)

45 The saddest thing is you just know they were high and watching 'The Simpsons' episode with the two alien candidates with reversed names.

And a brilliant plan was born.

Wow. MSNow is reporting on this now.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (Sco7b)

46 35 Something is going on at the NYT. The are doing actual reporting lately.

This is off brand for them.

Pod people?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (Riz8t)

47 Is there a way the FBI can find child porn on this stand in Sullivan's computer?

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (enNUy)

48 No relation.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (hVPzc)

49 >>They don’t want Elon to buy them?

No idea. But the NYT dropping a bomb like this on Democrats less than a week before the election is beyond shocking.

This appears to be an actual criminal conspiracy to defraud voters. Pretty wild.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (viF8m)

50 Some left-wing judge ordered his name back on the ballot, even though it was obvious with this whole scam was
Posted by: Maroon
======
Actually a trial judge chucked him off the ballot and the Alaska Supreme Court ordered him back on. Now they have had their faces rubbed in this shitty decision and are likely to screw Peltola and her lawyers for lying to the court. Fake Sullivan may be in trouble too.

Hopefully this will put a curtain on the whole RCV shitshow voting procedures in Alaska and elsewhere now. It is a bullshit procedure guaranteed to be gamed to benefit losing candidates that can suddenly win.

Scotus should have killed this RCV scheme and the stupid all party blanket primaries as well which are equally susceptible for rigging.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)

51 So now it's a crime to be named Dan Sullivan?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:34 PM (ndZc7)

We are all Dan Sullivan now...

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (08OqX)

52 I'm Dan Sullivan!

Posted by: Spartacus at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (hVPzc)

53 remember years ago maybe 2006 when people wrote in names like moocowski and a judge ruled they were votes for murkowski

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (CWTWj)

54 Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:34 PM (hVPzc

I think it is a complete lack of scruples, but I don't think an 11 year old would think of it. They might think of putting fake white powder in an envelope and sending it to some classmate they really didn't like.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 03:37 PM (JrHfD)

55 Lock up Marc Elias!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 03:37 PM (4KUe5)

56 We are all Dan Sullivan now...
Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (08OqX)

I most certainly am not!

Posted by: Daniel E. Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:37 PM (zjgNU)

57 remember years ago maybe 2006 when people wrote in names like moocowski and a judge ruled they were votes for murkowski

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (CWTWj)

That was different. She's a Democrat.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:37 PM (hVPzc)

58 35 Something is going on at the NYT. The are doing actual reporting lately.

This is off brand for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (viF8m)

I really think they knew this was coming out and printed the story to get ahead of the curve.

And to omit a lot of the worst things hoping the worst wouldn't come out.

MSNow's magical crystal ball shows her up by 2.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 03:37 PM (Sco7b)

59 remember years ago maybe 2006 when people wrote in names like moocowski and a judge ruled they were votes for murkowski
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (CWTWj)

It's always the judges. Shakespeare had it right.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (zjgNU)

60 Willowed:

@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: The DOJ’s “Operation Ghostbusters” has flagged 830,840 potentially fraudulent federal student aid IDs, tied to nearly $130 million, in a scheme that allegedly used stolen American identities to enroll fake “ghost students” and send the aid money to Kenya.

5 charged, $32M+ in confirmed losses so far, $750K+ in crypto seized, and DOJ estimates the total fraud since 2021 at well over $200 million.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Trying to figure out how this would work.

So... if it's federal student aid, it has to be disbursed through a university. The university gets its cut (tuition, fees) before the remainder is ever given to the student, after classes start.

If the student withdraws from the university before the drop deadlines... I don't know if that money is refunded to the student or handed back to the Feds. Probably refunded to the student.

So I guess they wouldn't need the willing cooperation of a university, or they could have made up their own school.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (vJrRc)

61 >>>It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate.

Maybe so, but it's not. Politicians are legally allowed to lie to the public. Always have been. Unless they lie under oath - perjure themselves - they are in the clear. The only punishment possible is at the ballot box.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (8mulE)

62 Dan Sullivan is right!

Posted by: Howard Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (LbUS+)

63 I still am betting on Talarico taking TX. I'm not hearing Texas repubs having any sense of urgency at all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (W2Pud)

64 49 >>They don’t want Elon to buy them?

No idea. But the NYT dropping a bomb like this on Democrats less than a week before the election is beyond shocking.

This appears to be an actual criminal conspiracy to defraud voters. Pretty wild.
Posted by: JackStraw
=====
Speculation on X is that the scheme originated at the DSCC which means Democrat sitting senators are possibly at risk from an investigation. With Elias involved, that makes it a national scheme, not just a local story.

So they detonated the landmine to blow up Peltola to save the rest of it. Possibly Dems have already given up on that race anyway from stats. Peltola is supposedly running well behind what is necessary for Dems on Rez voters.

Blowback may also sink the Democrat candidate for AK Governor and right now all the pols in AK are running away from this stinkbomb.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (E4rtv)

65 BREAKING: The DOJ’s “Operation Ghostbusters” has flagged 830,840 potentially fraudulent federal student aid IDs, tied to nearly $130 million, in a scheme that allegedly used stolen American identities to enroll fake “ghost students” and send the aid money to Kenya.
-------

130 million? Pikers.

Posted by: Low IQ Somalians at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (hVPzc)

66 Bob Dole's not Dan Sullivan, Bob Dole's Bob Dole.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (f8snw)

67 It wasn't even an original freaking idea. It was played out on season 5 of Fargo.

Sherriff Roy Tilman wound up in an election against 4 other Roy Tilman look alikes. Who were paid to legally change their name to Roy Tilman in advance and enter the race.

Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill at October 29, 2026 03:39 PM (anL5R)

68 Call me Sully.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:39 PM (RIvkX)

69 63 I still am betting on Talarico taking TX. I'm not hearing Texas repubs having any sense of urgency at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Doubtful, GOP voters are now coming out. The Democrat hijinks around mail and early voting problems have spooked GOP into voting late on Early Voting and voting on Election Day. In Texas, traditionally vote has been nearly 60-40 R v. D on election day.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:40 PM (E4rtv)

70 I'm suddenly feeling not too bad about ERECTION DAY.

EV numbers not great but seem to be a real let down for the commies so the signal could be interpreted as positive for us. I live in IL but will vote with all of my might, same with my wife and neighbors. Pretty sure we only have one commie maybe two in the 'hood.

Texas looks red as ever.

Posted by: GigantorX at October 29, 2026 03:40 PM (B67e/)

71 Ratfucking is still legal.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 03:40 PM (8mulE)

72 NYT reported to downplay this.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart

Old news. Let's move on.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 03:40 PM (ndZc7)

73 You all may be laughing but as the ultra serious person that everyone knows I am, I don't think it's funny at all.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:40 PM (hVPzc)

74 Well *I* think it's funny.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (hVPzc)

75 re 45: there was a futurama episode in which the race for world president was jack johnson vs john jackson (both jfk knock offs) vs richard nixon's head in a jar. spoiler alert: nixon won

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (CWTWj)

76 It's not illegal Unless money changed hands. That would make it illegal.

Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (fzmBj)

77 Another win for rank voting in Alaska.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (NnhvP)

78 Sweet. From GatewayPundit.

FAFO.

Kirk, of course, was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University in September 2025.

Collins posted the video and said he would pray for her.

Now, someone has registered the domain IsaCasahuga.com and published her information and the poem’s full text so the record of what she said remains permanently available, including to potential future employers.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (Sco7b)

79 So, the DHS has now been hacked. How is it possible that we can’t seem to secure the Department of Homeland Security? Yet, no one will ever lose their job.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (m6fGY)

80 I don't even have an opinion.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (hVPzc)

81 With jungle primaries here in WA State, we can't get a conservative ON THE FREAKING BALLOT. Don't give away your red state by not showing up. These bastards will take over and change the rules and you will NEVER EVER see light again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

82 They've got her on tape. But what about the judge?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (Pee1E)

83 63 I still am betting on Talarico taking TX. I'm not hearing Texas repubs having any sense of urgency at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (W2Pud)

Kill yourselves now, while there's still time!

Posted by: I'm an expert on a state I don't live in at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (r+QM9)

84
Trying to figure out how this would work.

Posted by: FeatherBlade

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

Similar operation with California community colleges, except I heard it was North Koreans who would enroll through VPNs, get student loans, etc. All thanks to COVID's online classes. It's rumored that legit students couldn't get into some classes because they were so full of fake students.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (mmrXZ)

85 I really think they knew this was coming out and printed the story to get ahead of the curve.

And to omit a lot of the worst things hoping the worst wouldn't come out.

MSNow's magical crystal ball shows her up by 2.
Posted by: Stateless

Polling in AK is worthless more or less due to RCV voting and how it works. Plus you can refuse to put any other votes in your ranking which makes the second and third rounds where you add in second and third ranked choices difficult to predict. That is why RCV is junk as a voting standard.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (E4rtv)

86 73 You all may be laughing but as the ultra serious person that everyone knows I am, I don't think it's funny at all.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:40 PM (hVPzc)
74 Well *I* think it's funny.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan

That's just like you, Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (Riz8t)

87 But the NYT dropping a bomb like this on Democrats less than a week before the election is beyond shocking.
==
Somebody inside Justice slipped them the news that there was an absolute bomb going to go off that was going to suck in a lot of party members. They blew it up before other people got involved/snagged on the phone/text logs which were being accumulated by the FBI...

Posted by: its no like anyone at the NYT does any work - they just answer the phone and go to lunch at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (anL5R)

88
I shan't believe that Dim shitbag lawyer Marc Elias is involved in this, I simply shan't.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Deport! Deport! Deport! at October 29, 2026 03:43 PM (ixS3i)

89 willowed:
204 >>>To say that there were as many socialists in the United States in the 1960s as the 2020s is idiocy, and the reason we have so many more socialists today is because, once again, by the 1990s the educators of America let the freak flag fly and turned the brainwashing machine up to 11.

The result is the DSA doing a hostile takeover of the Democrat party, something they tried and failed to do in the 1960s - 1970s because only the most radical people in the most radical cities would vote for a socialist in a primary.

Posted by: SpeakingOf
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FDR got the ball rolling in govt. schools. Side effects of WWII was a great relaxation (sigh of relief) all is well, and the GI bill. College professors subtly insinuating socialism to new masses of students.
Each successive graduating class a tiny bit more to the left than its predecessor. Each new batch of professors more left than before. Then, by the late sixties expressing itself en mass and embraced passively, reproduced exponentially and metastasized into the monster it is today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:43 PM (Pee1E)

90 re 63: senator beto agrees

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:43 PM (CWTWj)

91 Somebody inside Justice slipped them the news that there was an absolute bomb going to go off that was going to suck in a lot of party members. They blew it up before other people got involved/snagged on the phone/text logs which were being accumulated by the FBI...

Soooo... a firebreak.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)

92 That's just like you, Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (Riz8t)

Hey what time do you get off

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:43 PM (hVPzc)

93 Alaska is still playing 3 Card Monte in elections?

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 03:44 PM (Ia/+0)

94 >>Speculation on X is that the scheme originated at the DSCC which means Democrat sitting senators are possibly at risk from an investigation. With Elias involved, that makes it a national scheme, not just a local story.

I remember reading a while ago that Schumer personally recruited Petola. Every single Democrat in DC knew the Russia collusion shit was a lie. They knew the Ukraine phone call was a lie. They knew all the lawfare against Trump was a lie. They knew this fraud was done intentionally by their party.

I can absolutely understand being pissed at the do nothings in the Republican Senate. I can't understand for the life of me being angry enough about it to not vote against actual criminals who would throw any or all of us in prison for no reason if they could. We are about a tick away from being Brazil. I will crawl to vote against them if I have to.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:44 PM (viF8m)

95 77 Another win for rank voting in Alaska.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

An initiative to kill RCV for 2028 and after is being voted on in the same election. This might get it over the top and a controversial 2024 initiative vote appeared to end it until suddenly enough votes were found to continue it. Murcow is the reason it failed in 2024. Not sure she has much to argue about keeping it now this stinkbomb has blown up and thrown brown fecal matter around.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)

96 Given the amazing amounts of meth and booze consumed by most Alaskans, this stunt will probably work.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 29, 2026 03:45 PM (zzQi9)

97 @70

>>I'm suddenly feeling not too bad about ERECTION DAY.

The only turd in the pucnhbowl I can see is that the Donks gerrymandering in Cali is probably going to net them 5 extra donk seats.

Can the GOP redistricting offest that? Perhaps, but it's already a knife edge and I don't really see the GOP picking up donk seats.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 03:45 PM (XV/Pl)

98 Dammit Gump, you should have let me die!

Posted by: Lt. Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:45 PM (YcOeP)

99 I'm telling you the shots made everyone retarded.

Posted by: Max Power at October 29, 2026 03:45 PM (SwyyQ)

100 Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:44 PM (viF8m

Amen, brother!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 03:45 PM (JrHfD)

101 Didn't RCV just "win" in Maineistan?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:46 PM (hVPzc)

102
WUT?

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 03:46 PM (ixS3i)

103 Perp walk Murk.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 03:47 PM (TN0g+)

104
Je Suis Dan Sullivan!

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:47 PM (BI5O2)

105 dsa wants ranked choice voting for all elections. tells you a lot about both

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 03:47 PM (CWTWj)

106
Cue the Spidermen arranged in a circle and pointing at one another meme...

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (ixS3i)

107 I'm Dan Sullivan and I do not approve of that Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (Q5/G0)

108 How's it looking in the Carolinas? Has the influx had any sway?

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (enNUy)

109 There is no Dan Sullivan. There is no Dan Sullivan. There is no Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (hVPzc)

110 Could make hay, though, in a last minute campaign ad drop.

"This woman actually thinks you're retarded."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (aKiSo)

111 I can absolutely understand being pissed at the do nothings in the Republican Senate. I can't understand for the life of me being angry enough about it to not vote against actual criminals who would throw any or all of us in prison for no reason if they could. We are about a tick away from being Brazil. I will crawl to vote against them if I have to.
Posted by: JackStraw

Eh, a lot of blackpillers want a boogaloo to begin right now and want to burn the place down. Same with the lefty version of modern Fire Eaters aka DSA types.

But in truth, only a sociopath WANTS to accelerate political crises into a hot Civil War because once they start, it is hard to finish without a bloodbath. And the US has nukes galore and we might just see the first civil war with nukes being used on the homeland. For that reason alone, pushing a domestic hot civil war only benefits our outside enemies.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)

112 There's a lot of us here today.

It's a real Dans party!

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (BI5O2)

113 We are about a tick away from being Brazil.

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The country or the movie?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 03:49 PM (ndZc7)

114 Marc Elias, Hey! We didn't break any law.
We were hired to find a man. OK? We found him.
We were hired to help a man register as a candidate. OK?
We did that.
That is what we do. We assist people, that's what lawyers do.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:49 PM (Pee1E)

115
Perp walk Murk.
Posted by: Crusader

Chain her to a piling in Cook Inlet and let the tide do the dirty work.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 03:49 PM (ixS3i)

116 >>> 63 I still am betting on Talarico taking TX. I'm not hearing Texas repubs having any sense of urgency at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 03:38 PM (W2Pud)

How much?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 03:49 PM (jb8Ss)

117 Et tu, Dan Sullivan?

Posted by: Julius Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:50 PM (LbUS+)

118 Danscovery is gonna be a bitch!

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:50 PM (hVPzc)

119 Why is Alaska politics so weird?

I hope this GOP woman wins, it is concerning that Murky supports her. But whatever!

I'm still tired from yesterday's wacky day altho I slept well. Not that anyone cares as I bark at the moon, which reached it's peak and is a Waning Gibbous. Not to be confused with Raylon Givens of Justified, whom I happen to love. Where am I?

I have the doldrums. Now I wonder if the Dims had any humor or IQ to use this against Robert Dole in the campaign against him. Because my brain is a map of tangents firing off sparks of almost connecting synapses under a bath of CFS.

This acryonm is not to be confused with chronic fatigue syndrome...which I don't think I have unless faced with chores I don't want to do, or most days due to procrastination.This should not to be confused with predestination. Altho it is true that I was predestined to be a procrastinator.

Or container freight station, clean fuel standard, or creative financial standard.

Need to do some dreaded chores. Start dinner. Dude arrived home & girls flirted with him today, he reports. I widened the door for his ego.

We both still got it.

Help me
Tom Petty
https://tinyurl.com/mt4787tm

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:50 PM (hzuYO)

120 So the woman making you decide between Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan is a bona fide member of the Yupik tribe?

djever feel like they're just straight up screwing with us?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 03:50 PM (r7+Q7)

121 This is off brand for them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:32 PM (viF8m)

The Donks aren't going to win on Tuesday. The Olde Gray Whore is trying to not get caught too far on one side of the fence when the bill comes due.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at October 29, 2026 03:51 PM (U4mZc)

122 That's just like you, Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (Riz8t)

Hey what time do you get off

Posted by: Dan Sullivan

That's kind of personal. What are you wearing?

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

123 When you can snatch the pebble from my hand only then will you be the real Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:51 PM (hVPzc)

124 So now it's a crime to be named Dan Sullivan?
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His name is my name too!

Posted by: John J J S at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (TN0g+)

125 I'm Dan Sullivan and I do not approve of that Dan Sullivan.
Posted by: Dan Sullivan

Splitter!

Posted by: Dan Sullivan, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (ndZc7)

126 Actually a trial judge chucked him off the ballot and the Alaska Supreme Court ordered him back on. Now they have had their faces rubbed in this shitty decision and are likely to screw Peltola and her lawyers for lying to the court.

Not to get all Clintonesque but is it really lying to the court if they know you're lying but just want to go along with it?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (vTZFs)

127
Good work -

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
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19m
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that ICE just finished a 10-day statewide operation in Texas that resulted in the arrests of 4,170 illegal aliens, an average of 400+ per day and some of the largest daily numbers the agency has ever seen for a single state.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin will hold a press conference in Dallas, TX at 4pm ET to announce the operation, which was called Lone Star Mission, and he will reveal some of the most egregious illegal aliens arrested during the operation.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (kX27y)

128 I shoulda run...

Posted by: San Dullivan at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (Q5/G0)

129 Let he among you who has never been Dan Sullivan now be Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (Riz8t)

130 Given the news that DSA operatives are fouling the jury pools to keep any leftist/socialist/communist wrongdoing from ever being successfully prosecuted - I'm beginning to think that we're going to need to take more dramatic measures in order to preserve our republic unfortunately.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (WYStd)

131 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:50 PM (hzuYO

Wow! Are you on pred again?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (hVPzc)

132
We can Dans if we want to.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:53 PM (BI5O2)

133 the arrests of 4,170 illegal aliens, an average of 400+ per day and some of the largest daily numbers the agency has ever seen for a single state.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin will hold a press conference in Dallas, TX at 4pm ET to announce the operation, which was called Lone Star Mission, and he will reveal some of the most egregious illegal aliens arrested during the operation.
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (kX27y)

*********
ALL RIGHT! MORE!

GET OUT!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:53 PM (hzuYO)

134 These are not the Dan Sullivans you're looking for...

Posted by: Obi Juan at October 29, 2026 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

135 But in truth, only a sociopath WANTS to accelerate political crises into a hot Civil War because once they start, it is hard to finish without a bloodbath. And the US has nukes galore and we might just see the first civil war with nukes being used on the homeland. For that reason alone, pushing a domestic hot civil war only benefits our outside enemies.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)

I don't think any entity in history has had a civil war much like what we would be entering. Most civil wars are peasant vs peasant. We happened to have one that was American vs American, but it was still a damned nightmare.

This mess shaping up now though is basically Cowboys and Terrorists. And terrorists can't win a war, they can only fuck up someone else's Peace. Once the limiting agent is gone to keep the Cowboys from killing the Terrorists outright, no "rules of engagement" or "Fwendsh acwosh the aisle", then they'll flee into the woodwork and let America breath free for a couple generations until they're inevitably back once again. Maybe as commies. Maybe as rugfuckers. Maybe as something not yet invented. Who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:53 PM (aKiSo)

136 Quakers? Ya never know. (Trouble in the East)

Over in NJ. - South Jersey, that is - in 2024, Dems made up names of people allegedly running for certain local offices (vs. Governor) so they could raise funds for their side. It worked.

And even at the very top of NJs political heap, there's Mikey Sherril.

As bad as PA is, NJ & VA are the gurus. Where is Alaska's?

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 03:53 PM (NFX2v)

137 Posted by: Defenestratus at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (WYStd)

It gets worse when you know the DSA is a DNC op.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:53 PM (hVPzc)

138 99 I'm telling you the shots made everyone retarded.

working as intended

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (oY6Yp)

139 There are actually THREE of them.

Daniel S. Sullivan: legit R, current Senator

Daniel A. Sullivan: legit R, former Anchorage mayor. Not running for anything this time. Has endorsed Daniel S. A bit of a prick, based on my personal interactions with him, but not fake.

Daniel J. Sullivan: fake D-controlled ringer

Moral: if your name is something like Sullivan, name your kid Marmaduke or whatever if you think he might go into politics.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (qlLNh)

140 I’m Dan Sullivan and I approved this message.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (Cv/v8)

141 Why is Alaska politics so weird?

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Brain freeze?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (ndZc7)

142 The only turd in the pucnhbowl I can see is that the Donks gerrymandering in Cali is probably going to net them 5 extra donk seats.

Can the GOP redistricting offest that? Perhaps, but it's already a knife edge and I don't really see the GOP picking up donk seats.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Becerra's flacid imitation of Joe Biden is hurting turnout in CA versus Hilton. Kliley who went technically independent but caucuses with the GOP is in a close race and might win. Daladao is also in a close race. Dunno about the Issa seat. That were several flips the Dems counted on in CA.

CA also has the gerrymander problem of when you maximize seats, you spread your voters too thin making a turnout more important in a marginal race.

Blake's stronger run in NY is shoring up Lawler and the candidate (Constantino I think) running for Stefanik's seat there in particular.

The importance of good GOP candidates for top line races like governor in blue states like NY and CA have downballot turnout effects for GOP in those states win or lose.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (E4rtv)

143
“This is just another distraction, it’s another diversion. Every day, it’s some, you know, new, look over here moment.

Note Dan Sullivan, registered Republican, incumbent, voted for this war in Iran 14 times.”

This is all stuff just to sell newspapers. Nobody at The New York Times cares about affordability in Alaska.”

-- Mary Peltolta (D-AK)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (0sNs1)

144 141 Why is Alaska politics so weird?

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Brain freeze?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Two words, Eskimos and oil.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (E4rtv)

145 You take the blue Dan Sullivan, wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red Dan Sullivan and I show just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (LbUS+)

146 Another Trekkie gone - 86 year old Patrick Stewart.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (kX27y)

147 Reportedly, Patrick Stewart has died.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (ExV1e)

148 >>The Donks aren't going to win on Tuesday. The Olde Gray Whore is trying to not get caught too far on one side of the fence when the bill comes due.

Maybe. But don't forget the New York Times won Pulitzers for their "reporting" on the Russia collusion hoax, something they knew all along was a lie because they were part of it.

This is only a little less surprising than garrett claiming he now likes girls.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (viF8m)

149 Has the Somali pirate meme been updated yet?

"Look at me. I am the Dan Sullivan now."

Posted by: Doof at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (h4J+2)

150 99 Dan Sullivans
In every one a Dan Sullivan
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a Dan Sullivan
I think of you, and let it go

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

151 When they made me they didn't break the mold.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (hVPzc)

152 It's time to Dans!

Posted by: Deter Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (YcOeP)

153 The importance of good GOP candidates for top line races like governor in blue states like NY and CA have downballot turnout effects for GOP in those states win or lose.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM

Pffft.

Posted by: GOPe at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (0sNs1)

154 RIP Patrick Stewart.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 03:56 PM (Jr5Lq)

155
How's it looking in the Carolinas? Has the influx had any sway?
Posted by: NCKate

In the cities, sure -- the RTP area, Charlotte and Asheville.

It is the usual city / country split.

Why do you thing that Slow Joe and his minions were moving all the best and brightest who came here illegally into rural areas in the dead of night? Demographic homogenization, as it were.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 03:56 PM (ixS3i)

156 >>>We are about a tick away from being Brazil. I will crawl to vote against them if I have to.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Buddy's older brother has cancer, tubes coming out of his back into retaining bags and more; Said, he's going in to vote if they have to haul him in an ambulance and roll him in on a gurney.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:56 PM (Pee1E)

157 Engage!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 03:56 PM (W2Pud)

158 139 There are actually THREE of them.

Daniel S. Sullivan: legit R, current Senator

Daniel A. Sullivan: legit R, former Anchorage mayor. Not running for anything this time. Has endorsed Daniel S. A bit of a prick, based on my personal interactions with him, but not fake.

Daniel J. Sullivan: fake D-controlled ringer

Moral: if your name is something like Sullivan, name your kid Marmaduke or whatever if you think he might go into politics.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Easy, if real Senator Sullivan wins in AK, he changes his first name to Senator. As in the earlier thread, we now have a General Admiral USA. So why not Senator Sullivan who is a senator.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:56 PM (E4rtv)

159 Voters of Alaska as Mary Peltolta Continues Lying About Her Role in the Election Interference
________________________

See!? See!? If her name was 'Mary Jones', she would NEVAH have been accused of this. Maybe whorin', but not this …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (ayRl+)

160
DSA

Dan Sullivan Association

How deep does this rabbit hole go???

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (hVPzc)

161 I recall Bob Ferguson, the weasely Attorney General of WA state threatening to prosecute 2 other Bob Ferguson's of misleading the voters if they didn't bow out of the Governor's race in 2024. They obliged.

Posted by: Rex B at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (K5RqX)

162 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:56 PM (Pee1E)

That's determination. God bless him!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (xz+xK)

163 142
The importance of good GOP candidates for top line races like governor in blue states like NY and CA have downballot turnout effects for GOP in those states win or lose.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (E4rtv)

========

Long story short:

Probably not enough.

All estimates of the House assume CA maxes out for Dems. GOP could have gotten 5 or so more seats from redistricting in certain places that would have probably gotten them right to a fairly certain, and very bare, majority.

So, it'll be down to like a dozen coinflips to see who manages a caucus with a majority of about 5 or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (pfZGz)

164
RIP Patrick Stewart.
Posted by: gp

James Tiberius Kirk prevails yet again!

Now for that dolt, Sulu to shove off.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan... not that Dan Sullivan, the other one at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (ixS3i)

165 This is only a little less surprising than garrett claiming he now likes girls.
==
And if you don't think there's an ulterior motive for both, you'd better think again!

Posted by: Garrett's Hairdresser at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (anL5R)

166 147 Reportedly, Patrick Stewart has died.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 03:55 PM (ExV1e)

Yeah, I'm seeing headlines to that effect now. RIP Captain Picard.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (oPFtC)

167 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (ccf/V)

168 113 We are about a tick away from being Brazil.

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The country or the movie?

yes

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM (oY6Yp)

169 It's almost winter. We'll be Dans-ing in the Dark.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:58 PM (BI5O2)

170 No relation.
Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 03:35 PM (hVPzc)

Me neither.

Posted by: San Dullivan at October 29, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)

171 "There are five lights" … izzat a true statement?

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 03:58 PM (ayRl+)

172 Marc Elias's name just landed in the "second Dan Sullivan" scandal.

I have no idea why this would be fitting in any way, shape or form........

Possibly NSFW.

https://youtu.be/ZmgNZHCoPWI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 03:58 PM (ccf/V)

173 RIP Patrick Stewart.
Posted by: gp

Make it so.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 03:58 PM (ndZc7)

174 Maybe as commies. Maybe as rugfuckers. Maybe as something not yet invented. Who knows.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Problem is, can you honestly claim that leftists would not nuke other Americans? Swallwell and some others have already threatened it. Once that starts, Whoa Nelly, it doesn't stop with just one.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv)

175 Oh man.

I really enjoyed Next Generation.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 29, 2026 03:59 PM (qjkZ2)

176 The Borg finally got him?

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

177 131 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:50 PM (hzuYO

Wow! Are you on pred again?
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (hVPzc)

********
Ha! Nope! I wrote that as a wahoo of trailing thoughts as one thing led to another. Thankfully I am a real calm person on the surface and not a lunatic as I portray. I'm must messing around.

Rambling, killing time, getting ready to tackle the mess of my "sewing room." Which is currently a warehouse of Christmas gifts for our grands. And piles of clothes from cleaning closets.

A lot of sewing does not get done in there.

I am going to sort and get this done! Then do some other stuff and wrap like a lunatic in a week or so and be done. I have roses to prune and I want this all done as well.

Note: I rarely wrap Christmas gifts til a week prior to Christmas after they've lurked in a room (for months) we have to lock if they visit.

This year I will be Martha Stewart on acid.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:59 PM (hzuYO)

178 Moral: if your name is something like Sullivan, name your kid Marmaduke or whatever if you think he might go into politics.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

And now we're supposed to sing the praises of parents who named their kid Jamantalouisis?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (nEUC6)

179 OT Breaking: Patrick Stewart died. 86 years old.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (tOcjL)

180 We are about a tick away from being Brazil.

===

The country or the movie?

===

yes
Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 03:57 PM

What about me? I'm a smoov operator.

Posted by: The Wax at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (0sNs1)

181 Who or what is going after Star Trek actors?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (Sco7b)

182 With that Captain dead, I can finally grow out my goatee again.

Posted by: Dan Sullivan at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (BI5O2)

183 in the future, everyone will be dan sullivan for 15 minutes.

Posted by: andy warhol at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (oY6Yp)

184 79 So, the DHS has now been hacked. How is it possible that we can’t seem to secure the Department of Homeland Security? Yet, no one will ever lose their job.
Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (m6fGY)

Yesterday, I had a colleague develop an entire eCommerce website, from nothing other than a bunch of scanned PDFs of parts catalogs from the 90's and early 2000's ... in an hour. It's fully functional, graphically sharp and modern, and capable of accepting live orders right now.

He used a network of AI agents. He owns his own software company - except he has no employees. He has an org chart made up of solely AI agents - at the top is an AI Agent called "Chief of Staff" which coordinates all of the subordinate AI Agents. All of them. Claude, Grok, OpenAI... multiple accounts on each platform. Each working independently but coordinated by a literally agent org-chart.

Imagine someone using a system like that to compromise systems. Nothing is safe anymore. I'm actually contemplating taking all of my money out of the bank and burying it under a rock in the back yard.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (WYStd)

185 Who or what is going after Star Trek actors?
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:00 PM (Sco7b)

KKKKAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNNN!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 04:01 PM (ccf/V)

186 Elke Sommer also passed away.

Dropping like flies now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 04:01 PM (PSEDc)

187 OT What is the name of the university in Texas that had some deranged woman issuing death threats against conservative students? Somebody had a story on it earlier today, but not surprisingly I'm having trouble locating anything on "gurgle" about it. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:01 PM (JrHfD)

188 Yeah, I'm seeing headlines to that effect now. RIP Captain Picard.
Posted by: Thrawn

Post is saying he had Alzheimer's and Lewy Body dementia.

Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:02 PM (lJ0H4)

189 > Reportedly, Patrick Stewart has died.

Aw. That one hurts. I enjoyed his work.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:02 PM (mkw2N)

190 Elke Sommer wasn't in any Star Trek movies, was she?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:02 PM (aKiSo)

191 The fact that the GOP is talking about how I'm literally eating a baby is just another distraction from the issues voters really care about, like the war in Iran!

Posted by: Mary Peltola, while eating a delicious baby at October 29, 2026 04:02 PM (Ovx+P)

192 181 Who or what is going after Star Trek actors?

the remaining actors should reverse the polarity of their tachyon fields.

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 04:02 PM (oY6Yp)

193 "There are five lights" … izzat a true statement?
-----

Kirk would have never broken. I've given that episode a lot of thought. Kirk would have turned the game, and insisted there were only three, and Gul Madred had become so absorbed that he had lost his hold on reality.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:02 PM (TN0g+)

194 This is making the rounds - poor man eeking out a living gets pranked by idiots pretending to take money out of his phone and he loses it:

https://tinyurl.com/5m7bdr26

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:03 PM (kX27y)

195 RIP Patrick Stewart

It's OK.

Q shifted him to an alternate reality where he owns a vineyard.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2026 04:04 PM (YcOeP)

196 187 OT What is the name of the university in Texas that had some deranged woman issuing death threats against conservative students? Somebody had a story on it earlier today, but not surprisingly I'm having trouble locating anything on "gurgle" about it. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:01 PM (JrHfD

I posted above.

GatewayPundit has an update. Someone bought the address for her name and has posted the poem, video and information about her. Nice website too. I'm sure future potential employers will learn a lot.

Her degree is in international relations and diplomacy. I really hooe bad things happen to her.

She's cute but a pretty vile sub-human. Even for a dem.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:04 PM (Sco7b)

197 well, there's that

@ConwayShow
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7m
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 04:04 PM (nEUC6)

198 OT What is the name of the university in Texas that had some deranged woman issuing death threats against conservative students? Somebody had a story on it earlier today, but not surprisingly I'm having trouble locating anything on "gurgle" about it. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:01 PM

UTSA (University of Texas San Antonio) I believe.

Fun fact: San Antonio is where Fritos were invented.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 04:04 PM (0sNs1)

199 Long story short:

Probably not enough.

All estimates of the House assume CA maxes out for Dems. GOP could have gotten 5 or so more seats from redistricting in certain places that would have probably gotten them right to a fairly certain, and very bare, majority.

So, it'll be down to like a dozen coinflips to see who manages a caucus with a majority of about 5 or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't see a contradiction. GOP has to hold as many of these seats they already have to versus the ones they lost. Bad candidates for governor in CA and NY make it harder to hold seats like Stefanik's in NY or Issa's in CA.

It is a turnout game now as polling and prediction markets are going to give way to facts on the ground as to votes outstanding, votes remaining, holding serve on ticketsplitting, etc.

Watching blue tsunami dreams die bit by bit with each new voter drop and the Dems version of Steiner will come is that yutes under 40 will storm the polls in the last of EV or Election Day. Which contradicts all past history of their voting behavior.

Ohio has voters under 40 at about 12 percent of votes so far. Overwhelmingly Gen X and Boomers voting.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

200 Long story short:

Probably not enough.

All estimates of the House assume CA maxes out for Dems. GOP could have gotten 5 or so more seats from redistricting in certain places that would have probably gotten them right to a fairly certain, and very bare, majority.

So, it'll be down to like a dozen coinflips to see who manages a caucus with a majority of about 5 or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson

==

At this point, I'm most concerned with keeping the Senate.

I feel pretty certain the house is gone, but it will be worth nothing with a slight dem majority if we can keep the Senate.

I've never felt worse about a midterm election than this one, genuinely have no idea whats going to happen.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (nNQCB)

201 Every time a baby seal gets clubbed, another Dan Sullivan gets its wings.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS)

202 Shatner!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (RIvkX)

203 RIP Patrick Stewart

It's OK.

Q shifted him to an alternate reality where he owns a vineyard.
-----

I've heard the economics of vineyards fluctuate wildly...

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (TN0g+)

204 There was an Eddie Murphy movie where he, having the same name as a recently deceased politician, ran on the name...

https://youtu.be/SfOSA34yjuI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (l3cgK)

205 Her degree is in international relations and diplomacy. I really hooe bad things happen to her.

She's cute but a pretty vile sub-human. Even for a dem.
Posted by: Stateless

What is more diplomatic than a poem about celebrating a political assassination. She will do well in a post in Afghanistan.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

206 175 Oh man.

I really enjoyed Next Generation.

me too, except for the occasional love boat seasons.

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 04:06 PM (oY6Yp)

207 At this point, I'm most concerned with keeping the Senate.

I feel pretty certain the house is gone, but it will be worth nothing with a slight dem majority if we can keep the Senate.
-----

We'll keep both...and do little to nothing with it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:06 PM (TN0g+)

208 Today on the Campaign trial Mary is sharing recipes

"There is nothing as tender and succulent as a spring born baby. Slowly Roasted over a wood fire and served with potatoes it makes a hearty and satisfying fare."
- Mary Peltota

Posted by: Emails from the Peltota Campaign at October 29, 2026 04:06 PM (anL5R)

209 RIP Patrick Stewart

First Chekov now Picard.

Also lost Elke Sommer and Barbara Barrie

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 29, 2026 04:06 PM (Oq/TM)

210 Star Trek universe is getting hit hard! Captain Jean-Luc Picard is gone...

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (AKptf)

211 We'll keep both...and do little to nothing with it.
Posted by: Crusader

==

I would be thrilled with that prospect

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (nNQCB)

212 Lying is fundamental to both communism and islam. At this point, the Republicans need to stop playing the whole we can work together game and straight up start with the default position of whatever the democrats say or do is a lie, bad for the country, or evil in general. They should vote and act accordingly. Any republican that wants to play nice with the democrats should be told to gtfo and never run for any public office ever again. It will, however, be up to the voters to hold them accountable to this.

Posted by: theitguy2 at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (v9ncW)

213 198 Fun fact: San Antonio is where Fritos were invented.

i was under the impression that fritos were, like mathematics, the heart of one of those "was it invented or discovered" conundra.

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (oY6Yp)

214
When you're getting your election strategy from a shitty early 90s Eddie Murphy movie, you have some serious problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Distinguished_Gentleman#

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (y9nCu)

215 Imagine someone using a system like that to compromise systems. Nothing is safe anymore. I'm actually contemplating taking all of my money out of the bank and burying it under a rock in the back yard.
Posted by: Defenestratus
========
Paper is going to make a return as internet becomes a low trust environment.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

216 203 RIP Patrick Stewart

It's OK.

Q shifted him to an alternate reality where he owns a vineyard.
-----

I've heard the economics of vineyards fluctuate wildly...

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (TN0g+)

Captain Kirk outlived Captain Picard...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK)

217 This is making the rounds - poor man eeking out a living gets pranked by idiots pretending to take money out of his phone and he loses it:

https://tinyurl.com/5m7bdr26
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:03 PM (kX27y)

I'da settled for him beating the shit out of the kid AND his crackhead teammate standing with him.

The ONLY way these f*cktards will learn is physically induced brain damage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (ccf/V)

218 We'll keep both...and do little to nothing with it.
===
*chuckles*

This guy, he gets the real problem.

Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill at October 29, 2026 04:07 PM (anL5R)

219 Aw man. I know Stewart wasn't on our side but Picard was one of the great characters.
RIP.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM (88C+u)

220 > This is making the rounds - poor man eeking out a living gets pranked by idiots pretending to take money out of his phone and he loses it

1. I hate prank YouTubers
2. Don't mess with people
3. You never know what people are going through, don't add to their stress

That said, his reaction seems out of proportion to the offense. The guy claims he was able to take a small amount of money off the guy's phone. Then he confesses it's a prank. Laugh a little and move on. It's not that serious.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM (mkw2N)

221 76 It's not illegal Unless money changed hands. That would make it illegal.
___

How about lying to the court?

Posted by: Sullivan's Travels at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM (Ovx+P)

222 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:59 PM (hzuYO)

Brit Lass doesn't have a sewing room she has a fabric collection room. I could do a very convincing imitation of you on prednisone, but only because it's roughly what I write like normally.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM (hVPzc)

223 RIP Patrick Stewart

First Chekov now Picard.

Also lost Elke Sommer and Barbara Barrie
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 29, 2026 04:06 PM (Oq/TM)

Yet, the dick sucking, America hating flamboyant fag still prances........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM (ccf/V)

224 If Stewart had dementia he hid it well in the third season of Picard.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (88C+u)

225 I've heard the economics of vineyards fluctuate wildly...
Posted by: Crusader

LOL, ISWYDT

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (YcOeP)

226 Republicans need to stop playing the whole we can work together game and straight up start with the default position of whatever the democrats say or do is a lie, bad for the country, or evil in general. They should vote and act accordingly.
-----

END the blue slip "courtesy".

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (TN0g+)

227 > 120 So the woman making you decide between Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan is a bona fide member of the Yupik tribe?

They're a type of Eskimo (not, repeat NOT "Inuit"), and don't usually use the word "tribe", so as to avoid being confused with Indians/"Native Americans". I think the feds may use "tribe".

Alaska has two major types of Eskimo, Yupik and Iñupiat.

The Iñupiat are fairly close to the Canadian Inuit, but don't usually call themselves that.

The Yupik do NOT like being called "Inuit".

The languages are in the same family, but quite distinct.

Historically the two groups did not get along.

At all.

Calling a Yupik "Inuit" is sort of like insisting that a Spaniard is "French" just because they both speak a Romance language... in other words, it's the kind of thing that might get your ass kicked.

Stupid white Canadians have spread the idiocy that all Eskimos are "Inuit". Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Both groups also hate being called "Indians" and the Alaska Indian tribes (there are a bunch of them) detest being called "Eskimos" with the burning fury of a thousand suns.

Unless you're SURE what an Alaska Native is, it's safest to just use the word "Native".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (qlLNh)

228 RIP Captain Picard. After Chekhov
Will the third be Kirk or Sulu?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (f8snw)

229 200
At this point, I'm most concerned with keeping the Senate.

I feel pretty certain the house is gone, but it will be worth nothing with a slight dem majority if we can keep the Senate.

I've never felt worse about a midterm election than this one, genuinely have no idea whats going to happen.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 04:05 PM (nNQCB)

========

To take the Senate, Democrats need very ahistorical things that didn't even happen in 2018 happen in an environment far less Democrat than 2018. several of them. At once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:10 PM (pfZGz)

230 I'm actually contemplating taking all of my money out of the bank and burying it under a rock in the back yard.
Posted by: Defenestratus at

It will not be safe there. Too obvious. It needs to be under a rock in my backyard. For security.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 04:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

231 Stewart was great friends with Ian McKellen. He's 87.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:11 PM (f8snw)

232 223 Yet, the dick sucking, America hating flamboyant fag still prances........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM

You can bet Shatner is doing everything possible to outlive Taikgay. I think he hates that little fa**ot.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 29, 2026 04:11 PM (Oq/TM)

233 Kirk outlasting Picard I wouldn't have bet on.

Hoping he gets beamed up to the good place.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)

234 Re: 197

Thanks for the info, Stateless.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:12 PM (JrHfD)

235 224 If Stewart had dementia he hid it well in the third season of Picard.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (88C+u)

Lucidity comes and goes with dementia...and fil___ for season 3 ended March of 2022. So, a while go.

More interesting is if he's filmed speaking in Doomsday this December, or just sitting in a chair cameo (I suspect the latter)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL)

236 The fake polling SEEMS like a Democrat GOTV operation but it's impossible to know because we have a lot of fake elections.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 04:12 PM (hVPzc)

237 4chan is playing the Inner Light theme
/tv/thread/224000624

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:12 PM (88C+u)

238 > Yet, the dick sucking, America hating flamboyant fag still prances........

He's 89. He's not long for this life.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:12 PM (mkw2N)

239 Agents. All of them. Claude, Grok, OpenAI... multiple accounts on each platform. Each working independently but coordinated by a literally agent org-chart.

Imagine someone using a system like that to compromise systems. Nothing is safe anymore. I'm actually contemplating taking all of my money out of the bank and burying it under a rock in the back yard.

Posted by: Defenestratus
---

Last night Musk retweeted a comment

Person created a grok purchasing agent that shopped for a product and banned from Amazon for being a bot. It then went to another site and purchased the product at a lower price.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 04:12 PM (Pee1E)

240 She's also getting mileage out of the Democrats' other "defense" -- we shouldn't be talking about my election interference. conspiracies to defraud the government, or family stocked foundation to roof with Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, we should just focus on affordability (for which I have no plan except claiming Trump Did It.

This is why I think the Dems are going to do way more poorly then the polls are claiming.

They are running on the fact the price of things hasn't declined enough from Biden's peaks by...running on Biden's policies.

Yes yes LIVs...but really if you are a LIV you are going to vote for the guy that doubled the cost of everything versus the guy that cut your costs by a few percent?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

241 It must be wild if you're Lakota or Cherokee or something and you wind up moving to Alaska...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (aKiSo)

242

I'm suddenly feeling not too bad about ERECTION DAY.

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

Me too !

Posted by: Dan Penis Sullivan at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (NtVYv)

243 Okay, not sure why filming was blanked out...unless I fat fingered that...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

244 232 223 Yet, the dick sucking, America hating flamboyant fag still prances........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM

You can bet Shatner is doing everything possible to outlive Taikgay. I think he hates that little fa**ot.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 29, 2026 04:11 PM (Oq/TM)

That little faggot, he's a millionaire.

Posted by: Dire Straits at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (l3cgK)

245 Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, dead. 86

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (GOqYK)

246 Elke Sommer was one of the first women who made Young Rodrigo get a funny feeling in his naughty bits.

I didn't know quite what was going on, but was instantly 100% certain that she'd be suitable for whatever that turned out to be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (qlLNh)

247 I first saw Elke Sommers in an Inspector Clouseau movie, A Shot In the Dark. She was hot. Hot! HOT!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (ndZc7)

248 Damned dirty Democrats.

Every day, something new and disgusting.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (JCLJi)

249 237 4chan is playing the Inner Light theme

Posted by: 88C+u
--

Inner Thigh theme is better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (Pee1E)

250 It must be wild if you're Lakota or Cherokee or something and you wind up moving to Alaska...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (aKiSo)

Half breed, is all I ever heard

Posted by: Cher's saggy ass at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (NtVYv)

251 So which ones live in igloos, because would be cool.
Get it?

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (UjdFS)

252 >>>Calling a Yupik "Inuit" is sort of like insisting that a Spaniard is "French" just because they both speak a Romance language... in other words, it's the kind of thing that might get your ass kicked.

The Spanish term for "asian" is "Chino" or Chinese.
This pisses off my wife, who is Korean.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (rbvCR)

253 Jean-Luc RIP

Posted by: WisRich at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

254 Can't worry about the election, hope it comes out better, go from there if not.

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

255 Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

The letters IMG

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (hVPzc)

256 Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, dead. 86
Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (GOqYK)

SPOOOOOOOK !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (NtVYv)

257 At this point, I'm most concerned with keeping the Senate.

I feel pretty certain the house is gone, but it will be worth nothing with a slight dem majority if we can keep the Senate.

I've never felt worse about a midterm election than this one, genuinely have no idea whats going to happen.
Posted by: Sharpie

Senate is probably GOP 52-54 seats. House is about a dozen or so. Seth Keshel has it at about GOP at about 212-213, Dems at 210-2011, tossups at 11-13. As TJM said, flip a coin but no sign of massive Dems gains in votes cast so far. Election will be older and whiter electorate as young people are just not showing up and have at best 2-3 days of EV left and Election Day which is always predominately GOP as much as 60-40 in places like Ohio.

Contest becomes a math race to chase votes--Dems voted early as they tend to do via mail or first EV days, then GOP catches up with later days of EV and Election Day being dominated by GOP votes. So you get into the weeds of low propensity, primary voting or not, past presidential voting or not, past midterm voting or not, etc.

GOP is running a much better turnout model this year than previous and focusing on rural voter turnout

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

258 The NYT is reporting...

The chief executive of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority has abruptly resigned after a recent state report that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (ExV1e)

259 Captain Sulu almost got a movie or television series (I've forgotten which) after one of the movies.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (TN0g+)

260 Patrick Stewart tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/bdyz99k6

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (dpXJq)

261 222 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:59 PM (hzuYO)

Brit Lass doesn't have a sewing room she has a fabric collection room. I could do a very convincing imitation of you on prednisone, but only because it's roughly what I write like normally.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 04:08 PM (hVPzc)

*******
I admit to like a play on words. I think I'd have been hauled off a long time ago if I acted like I thought.

So far, my thought bubbles are hidden in airports and in public. God help me if AI figures this out and I'm lassoed and hauled in for reprogramming.

What's bad is that my dude and sons know in advance what I'm thinking in public and try to stay ahead of it.

Baby son and I could not sit next to each other in church for many years due to reading thoughts in our eyes. He's the most like me whose DNA was passed down from my father.

Our eldest granddaughter is his little clone and is the same way. Her laugh is mine and we are in bad shape if something happens in church now. Where we do try to behave (my late father's instruction to me until he died. It was all he asked of me was to try to behave).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (hzuYO)

262 > The Spanish term for "asian" is "Chino" or Chinese.
This pisses off my wife, who is Korean.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:14 PM (rbvCR)

I believe it's Argentina where they call anyone with Middle Eastern ancestry a "Turk".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (qlLNh)

263 That said, his reaction seems out of proportion to the offense. The guy claims he was able to take a small amount of money off the guy's phone. Then he confesses it's a prank. Laugh a little and move on. It's not that serious.
==
disagree. strongly. this kid is fortunate the guy didn't beat his ass. You "prank" somebody you an offering an invitation to a rejoinder which may take many forms.
Guy was dead bang on: Working his ass off for every dollar, and some slacker says I just stole 10 from you ha ha. Just kidding. How does he know what's the truth?
A lot of guys would have collared the little shit and called the cops to sort it out. Certain demographics would have beat him unconscious and taken his wallet.

Posted by: I'm not Wyatt Earp but you don't let shit heads get away with shitheaditry at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (anL5R)

264
Captain Picard gone. Sad.

Kirk is going to outlive everyone.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (OkYzo)

265 GOP is running a much better turnout model this year than previous and focusing on rural voter turnout
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

******
Thank you! Cheers!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (hzuYO)

266 Unless you're SURE what an Alaska Native is, it's safest to just use the word "Native".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (qlLNh)

Bernadette is Aleut. So, yeah, Native. She's also Wally Hickel's granddaughter, which makes her Alaskan royalty, politically. She doesn't brag on any of that. She just gets to work.

And BTW, there are Yupik and Cupik. They are not the same. The Athabaskans chased the Yupiks out of the area that is now Eklutna a few hundred years ago, so they went into Cupik land farther west. Yupiks and Cupiks know the difference, but nobody else can keep them straight.

Meanwhile JKT and Murkowski dress up like Natives to pander. I can't figure out why that is any different than wearing blackface, honestly. Both are whiter than a halibut belly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (5WPt1)

267 233 Kirk outlasting Picard I wouldn't have bet on.

Hoping he gets beamed up to the good place.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)
--------

Data, Engage.

Posted by: WisRich at October 29, 2026 04:17 PM (G0vdT)

268 https://tinyurl.com/3ec23r5e

More on Walt, the now famous Red Baron worker.

Pub
@PubWanghaf
I’ve been red pilled, black pilled, white pilled, clear pilled. All the pills.

I don’t even know which one this is, but it’s one of the strongest ones I’ve had in a long long time. The desperation in his voice. You can see the sight of his kids in his eyes when he says he’s supposed to be home with them. You can see the math he’s doing in his head as he calculates how much money he has left, and how much he needs for his mortgage, and when it’s due.

What the hell is the American dream anymore? Is this what it’s about? Is there anyone who would say this guy isn’t working his ass off? For what? So that 25% of his income can go to a government that wastes it on a bunch of shit he didn’t vote for? Subsidizing the food he stocks grocery stores with for people who don’t work a 1,000th of how hard he works to buy groceries with EBT cards that he pays for, which then drives up the cost of groceries for him and his family that he pays for out of his paycheck because he’s doing it the right way.

This entire system is shit. It’s shit. There is no nicer way to put it. It is dog. shit.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:17 PM (kX27y)

269 To take the Senate, Democrats need very ahistorical things that didn't even happen in 2018 happen in an environment far less Democrat than 2018. several of them. At once.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

It really doesn't take much of a shift to produce that result. If say like 1-2% shifts in the wrong direction, they just start sweeping these races.

1994 wasn't supposed to happen either and it did.

It just feels like there is a huge amount of discontent and anger.

About the only silver lining I've seen is minority and young turnout seems low energy so far.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 04:17 PM (nNQCB)

270 Well now I've learned how to insult Eskimos, so a good day. Off to happy hour.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 29, 2026 04:17 PM (bX16E)

271 > Found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants.

Considering how many taxpayer billions have been stolen for that boondoggle, that's the equivalent of being busted for bringing home a pad of post-it notes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:17 PM (qlLNh)

272 Kirk is going to outlive everyone.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (OkYzo)
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Him and Keith Richards look at each other and just shrug.

Posted by: WisRich at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (G0vdT)

273 The chief executive of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority has abruptly resigned after a recent state report that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Aw shit, I'm never gonna get to Bakersfield, am I?

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (UjdFS)

274 Alaska is another dick measuring contest.
Democrat dick always wins.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Wt1Rs)

275 that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants.

Posted by: I used to have a
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Were they pretty?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Pee1E)

276 260 Patrick Stewart tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/bdyz99k6
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (dpXJq)

Has he boldly gone where no one has gone before?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (5WPt1)

277 Then he confesses it's a prank. Laugh a little and move on. It's not that serious.
Posted by: bonhomme

Theft is murder by inches. Every dollar you steal from someone else is you taking the portion of that persons life that they spent to earn that money.

And if your finances are already strained, even that little bit of extra stress might be too much.

Also Proverbs 26:18-19 "Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death is one who deceives their neighbor and says, 'I was only joking!'"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (vJrRc)

278 Well now I've learned how to insult Eskimos, so a good day. Off to happy hour.
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Did you know they have 6 words for snow?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (TN0g+)

279 Open secrets -

Alaska — 2026 U.S. Senate Race

Outside Spending
Which candidates outside groups supported or opposed in this race, and which groups spent the most, in the 2026 cycle.

Like Ballopedia, always interesting and accessible data. 👍🏼

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (NFX2v)

280
Unless you're SURE what an Alaska Native is, it's safest to just use the word "Native".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:09 PM (qlLNh)

Or "Drunk Passed Out In The Snow On A Spenard Road Sidewalk"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (y9nCu)

281 Patrick Stewart tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/bdyz99k6
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:15 PM (dpXJq)

Has he boldly gone where no one has gone before?
Posted by: tcn in AK

He's gone where pretty much everyone goes.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (NMvV5)

282 269 It really doesn't take much of a shift to produce that result. If say like 1-2% shifts in the wrong direction, they just start sweeping these races.

1994 wasn't supposed to happen either and it did.

It just feels like there is a huge amount of discontent and anger.

About the only silver lining I've seen is minority and young turnout seems low energy so far.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 04:17 PM (nNQCB)

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Actually, for Senate races, it takes a whole lot more of a shift for that to happen.

Senate races drive up turnout to reflect overall PVI of the state.

Which is why no state has gone 10+ one party in the presidential to the other party winning the senate race in the next midterm since 2006 (2006 was a VERY bad GOP year, and Tester got in in Montana).

Didn't happen in 2010, 2014, or 2018, all wave years.

And that's what needs to happen to get KS, IA, OH, TX, and AK to flip.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (pfZGz)

283 Perhaps one of the freebie antenna stations will pick up ST NG reruns. I'd like to see the whole series again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 04:20 PM (W2Pud)

284 274 Alaska is another dick measuring contest.
Democrat dick always wins.
Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Wt1Rs)

Let's be clear: Democrats are bigger dicks by far than anyone else, but their actual dicks are not always in evidence, unless they are wearing dresses.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:20 PM (5WPt1)

285 Elias was working on behalf of a tribe, not the AK tribe, so he can't be indicted.

Posted by: Jeff E at October 29, 2026 04:20 PM (+yk26)

286 that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants.

Posted by: I used to have a
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Were they pretty?
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I don't know.

Posted by: Kentanji, Supreme Overlord of Supreme Justice at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (TN0g+)

287 Maybe the High Speed Train hasn't hired enough lesbians?

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (Wt1Rs)

288 Or "Drunk Passed Out In The Snow On A Spenard Road Sidewalk"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (y9nCu)

Fourth Avenue outside the Alaska Bar.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (5WPt1)

289
285 Elias was working on behalf of a tribe, not the AK tribe, so he can't be indicted.

Posted by: Jeff E at October 29, 2026 04:20 PM (+yk26)

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He's a Cleveland fan!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (pfZGz)

290 They should just count all Dan Sullivan votes for the GOP dude.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (uhVAy)

291 >>Patrick Stewart tits up.

He went into the Four Lights?

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (Qugny)

292 Well now I've learned how to insult Eskimos, so a good day. Off to happy hour.
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Did you know they have 6 words for snow?
Posted by: Crusader
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and they are not real fond of Klondike bars?

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (UjdFS)

293 The President of the European Central Bank suddenly announced she's stepping down. Watch the video, it's strange as hell. She's got a bandage across her face and the whole video has a hostage feeling to it. I have a feeling something bad happened behind the scenes and she had no choice in her resignation.

http://tiny.cc/87vc101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (mkw2N)

294 > Athabaskans chased the Yupiks out of the area that is now Eklutna a few hundred years ago

Closer to a genocide than a chase, as I've heard it, and it happened long before Whitey came on the scene.

Then there was the charming habit the Tlingit had of enslaving other tribes. They used to run slave raids as far south as California. They even enslaved a few white sailors as I recall.

The last slaves freed in what is now the United States were the ones held by the Tlingit, who became free when the Alaska purchase from Russia became finalized on October 18, 1867, more than two years after the U.S. Civil War ended.

So put that in "Juneteenths" pipe and smoke it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (qlLNh)

295
Working his ass off for every dollar, and some slacker says I just stole 10 from you ha ha.

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In for a penny, in for a pound.

Even if the penny is imaginary. Don't even pretend to steal from me. If you steal from me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

More importantly, there's a whole genre of these little shits who torment service workers for $$$. It's disgusting. I encountered it first about 7 years ago. Some fuckstick called Jack Doherty. My stepdaughter was watching it on YouTube. All that stuff is forbidden in my house ever since.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (BI5O2)

296 284 274 Alaska is another dick measuring contest.
Democrat dick always wins.
Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Wt1Rs)

Let's be clear: Democrats are bigger dicks by far than anyone else, but their actual dicks are not always in evidence, unless they are wearing dresses.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:20 PM (5WPt1)

Yeah, but they get to measure from head to toe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (aKiSo)

297 A lot of guys would have collared the little shit and called the cops to sort it out. Certain demographics would have beat him unconscious and taken his wallet.
Posted by: I'm not Wyatt Earp but you don't let shit heads get away with shitheaditry at October 29, 2026 04:16 PM (anL5R)

Honestly that would have been the right response. Make the scene and call security that he said this was a robbery. He's literally on tape saying that. "No it's just a prank bro." Which statement was the lie? Let a court decide.
Asshole needs to be in jail calling his lawyer and begging his cellmates not to take his shoes from him.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (88C+u)

298 Don't hear too much on the hustings about the price of gas lately.

The Russians have already sent tankers filled with diesel to the East Coast.

Netanyahu survives for another day.

Dems got caught doing Dem things, bigly.

I like conservative chances on Tuesday.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

299 Prediction:

D wins

that guy here who says nothing ever happens will be right again

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:23 PM (Wt1Rs)

300 I don't know about the senate, can't really read it other than the dems have some real wackadoodles running.

As for the house, dems only need a 3 pickup which doesn't feel out of reach for a midterm. I don't know how the re-districting war ultimately came out, but with 90%+ re-election rates, it probably won't be a big majority for the dems. But it will still get them committees and DSA shenanigans up the wazoo.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:23 PM (n5tGW)

301 > Or "Drunk Passed Out In The Snow On A Spenard Road Sidewalk"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (y9nCu)

Spenard Road never was a big Native hangout. Mostly drunken white people there.

You're probably thinking of Fourth Avenue.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 04:23 PM (qlLNh)

302 Imprison this smug fat lawless insurrectionist.

No One Is Above the Law.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM

Right.
Elias has it coming with all the shit he's pulled over the past decade alone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:23 PM (6ydKt)

303 Patrick Stewart tits up.

He went into the Four Lights?
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There are only three, Gul Madred. You've been here so long...and obsessed with power so intensely...that you lost your grip on...what's going on around you. Go ahead...take a look...there are three.

Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (TN0g+)

304 Then there are the Haida, in Southeast AK. Nobody knows where they came from. They are most related to Pacific Islanders, particularly from the far south Pacific, and their language has no relation to that of any other tribe in AK. Mystery people. Kinda cool.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (5WPt1)

305 @BlackLabelAdvsr
Can confirm. I live in Collin County.

Paxton by 8+ and Abbott by 15+ incoming.

Talarico continues to cancel events and TV ads. They know it’s over.

The Calvary has arrived. Most of us show up on Election Day.

Blue wave cancelled folks!

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Just a rando dude on X, but, you know...early vote is not D friendly in Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (pfZGz)

306 W The Actual F?

@Channel6ixNEWS 5h
Turns out Jane Does fake rape allegations were just a covert ad for a Netflix documentary

She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (nEUC6)

307
Fourth Avenue outside the Alaska Bar.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (5WPt1)

That was actually my first thought, but I couldn't remember if it was on Fourth or Fifth Avenue. It's been over 30 years since I was stationed at Ft Rich, and my memory isn't as sharp as it used to be.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (y9nCu)

308 Damn, Patrick Stewart and Walter Koeing in one week.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (6ydKt)

309 293 The President of the European Central Bank suddenly announced she's stepping down. Watch the video, it's strange as hell. She's got a bandage across her face and the whole video has a hostage feeling to it. I have a feeling something bad happened behind the scenes and she had no choice in her resignation.

http://tiny.cc/87vc101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (mkw2N)
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I just saw that. Why put out a video with the bandage in the middle of her face? Why not just put out a statement?

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (kX27y)

310 Turns out Jane Does fake rape allegations were just a covert ad for a Netflix documentary

She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Everyone she's accused needs to sue Netflix too.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (vJrRc)

311 All that stuff is forbidden in my house ever since.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (BI5O2)

There are ways to do this kind of stuff and still get your clicks for it. Prank the guy, then prank him again before he realizes what's going on but now he's actually $10 up, and you go on your merry prankster way while he's still wondering what the heck just happened and $10 richer. You get your fun. He's no worse off. Audience thinks it's great. Everyone's happy.

Don't just piss a guy off and say "LOL" and demand he just be cool with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:26 PM (aKiSo)

312 The President of the European Central Bank suddenly announced she's stepping down. Watch the video, it's strange as hell. She's got a bandage across her face and the whole video has a hostage feeling to it. I have a feeling something bad happened behind the scenes and she had no choice in her resignation.

http://tiny.cc/87vc101
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Skin cancer surgery.

Posted by: Remain calm at October 29, 2026 04:26 PM (anL5R)

313 Dirty? yes.... but what law does this actually break?

It looks like to get on the ballot in Alaska you only need to sign a petition yourself, and put up $100 filing fee?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:26 PM (mP0Kj)

314 Has he boldly gone where no one has gone before?
Posted by: tcn in AK

He's gone where pretty much everyone goes.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (NMvV5)

7th level of Hell?

Dude, come ooooonnnn!

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:27 PM (dpXJq)

315
Perhaps one of the freebie antenna stations will pick up ST NG reruns. I'd like to see the whole series again.
Posted by: nurse ratched

It's on the Heroes and Icons channel every day.

tvstationsnearme.com/station/WA/KFFV

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 04:27 PM (Cqx++)

316 With jungle primaries here in WA State, we can't get a conservative ON THE FREAKING BALLOT. Don't give away your red state by not showing up. These bastards will take over and change the rules and you will NEVER EVER see light again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 03:41 PM (W2Pud)

When it looked like the LA Mayor race was gonna go GOP, there was suddenly huge concern about dumping Jungle primaries down here in CA.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:28 PM (uhVAy)

317 @305 good post but he spelled cavalry wrong. Hope the Republicans don't end up on Calvary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:28 PM (f8snw)

318 > More importantly, there's a whole genre of these little shits who torment service workers for $$$. It's disgusting. I encountered it first about 7 years ago. Some fuckstick called Jack Doherty.

A crypto casino signed a sponsorship deal with Doherty. Doherty didn't read the contract carefully. The contract bars Doherty from posting online for six months. The leadership of Shuffle.com (the casino) confirmed they did it on purpose to block him from posting.

It's hilarious.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:28 PM (mkw2N)

319 She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 04:24 PM (nEUC6)

I thought this girl said she was worried about here reputation which is why she called the cops and waiting a few years before she filed the suit.

I'm no expert but doing a Netflix documentary about your gangbang would only enhance the reputation of a pornstar, and not by much.

Is she going to be on OnlyFans next after just saying "Screw it" and becoming her reputation?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:28 PM (6ydKt)

320 I just saw that. Why put out a video with the bandage in the middle of her face? Why not just put out a statement?
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (kX27y)

To make the other "aristocrats" be aware that the people with real power have power over them both body and soul, is my guess.

Or maybe she had an accident with her exercise bands who didn't get a good return on a guaranteed investment.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:29 PM (rbvCR)

321 ECB Legarde inheirited Whorehouse Harry's exercise machine and she too fell victim to its defect.

At first i thought it was a lighting issue....but then it was a bandage. GF DV?

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:29 PM (Wt1Rs)

322 Damn, Patrick Stewart and Walter Koeing in one week.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (6ydKt)

They go in threes.

Who's next?

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (dpXJq)

323 313 Dirty? yes.... but what law does this actually break?

It looks like to get on the ballot in Alaska you only need to sign a petition yourself, and put up $100 filing fee?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:26 PM (mP0Kj)

It breaks whatever law you can get a judge to say it broke, and probably a few others they haven't written yet.

These aren't people. Laws are irrelevant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (aKiSo)

324 The contract bars Doherty from posting online for six months. The leadership of Shuffle.com (the casino) confirmed they did it on purpose to block him from posting.

It's hilarious.
Posted by: bonhomme

Hopefully the contract also includes provisions that they don't pay him unless he runs their ads on his channel

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (vJrRc)

325 That is why RCV is junk as a voting standard.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:42 PM (E4rtv)

Worse than junk - violates one man one vote as a flake voting on a minor party can vote over and over trying to push someone over the top.

Also massively susceptible to fraud, and encourages minor parties bundling their adherents for sale to other parties for power later. All electoral evils.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (uhVAy)

326 nood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (pfZGz)

327 Hope the Republicans don't end up on Calvary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:28 PM (f8snw)

Skull throne, skull mountain, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (aKiSo)

328 Patrick Stewart was in the I, Claudius miniseries.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (p3pWU)

329 I just saw that. Why put out a video with the bandage in the middle of her face? Why not just put out a statement?
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (kX27y)

To make the other "aristocrats" be aware that the people with real power have power over them both body and soul, is my guess.

Or maybe she had an accident with her exercise bands who didn't get a good return on a guaranteed investment.
==
Or, she just had minor skin cancer surgery. Like it says in the news.

Posted by: But you do you - ITS A CONSPIRACY at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (anL5R)

330 This may not be illegal, but it is fucking scummy as hell. And I should say that Peltola has made a huge stink about how she is going to bring honesty to Washington, and blah blah integrity.

She's clearly full of shit.

Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:33 PM (fR677)

331 Has he boldly gone where no one has gone before?
Posted by: tcn in AK

He's gone where pretty much everyone goes.
Posted by: rickb223

Counselor Troi?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 04:33 PM (ndZc7)

332 Although i never new until recently that the fancy science word for a skull without a jaw attached is apparently a "calvarium".

That's kinda fascinating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:33 PM (aKiSo)

333 I watched the entire series of ST: NG when it was still on Netflix about 10 or 15 years ago, along with every other ST series except TOS, because I ran out of time and patience, but I'd already seen a lot of TOS before then.

The episodes were much better without commercials.

I enjoyed Picard most of the time, and TNG.
DS9 is still a pretty good ST show and probably the best for me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:33 PM (6ydKt)

334 286 that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants.

Posted by: I used to have a
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Were they pretty?
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I don't know.
Posted by: Kentanji, Supreme Overlord of Supreme Justice at October 29, 2026 04:21 PM (TN0g+)

Well... one of them was my Older Brother, now a retired Accountant who worked on that project for YEARS.

He was paid to travel from San Diego to Sacramento every 2 weeks for a couple of years, to have some meeting with the Governor. He literally drove past our home town every 2 weeks... and would not even stop off for a cup of coffee... Mom was NOT amused when she found out.

Note... this was all way over 5 years ago... so the Calif Statute of Limitations is long gone, even on debt is they tried to claw back the money.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (mP0Kj)

335 328 Patrick Stewart was in the I, Claudius miniseries.
Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (p3pWU)

he played the devilish Sejanus.

Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (fR677)

336 Turns out Jane Does fake rape allegations were just a covert ad for a Netflix documentary

She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Everyone she's accused needs to sue Netflix too.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (vJrRc)

especially the two (?) who she admits she got the names wrong in her accusation.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

337 328 Patrick Stewart was in the I, Claudius miniseries.
Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (p3pWU)

he played the devilish Sejanus.
Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (fR677)

Watching him explain to his lover how cool it would be to marry her daughter and not her is hilarious as they plot against the emperor Tiberius.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

338 >>> 25% of his income can go to a government that wastes it on a bunch of shit he didn’t vote for? Subsidizing the food he stocks grocery stores with for people who don’t work a 1,000th of how hard he works to buy groceries with EBT cards that he pays for, which then drives up the cost of groceries for him and his family that he pays for out of his paycheck because he’s doing it the right way.

This entire system is shit. It’s shit. There is no nicer way to put it. It is dog. shit.

Posted by: beckster
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Our society, culture and economy will not stabilize until
we stop paying people not to work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (Pee1E)

339 It looks like to get on the ballot in Alaska you only need to sign a petition yourself, and put up $100 filing fee?
Posted by: Romeo13

Yeah but in their RCV primary, you have to get at least in the top four of vote getters to proceed to the general election. Last time I checked, TN was the easiest to get on the general presidential ballot required a small number of petition signers and very lenient standards. One election, I think they had over thirty or so candidates for President.

And remember, if you do this, you can have a great line on your resume--presidential candidate in 20xx.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (E4rtv)

340 5 When it comes to voting this on one effed up State.
Posted by: Bosk at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (VMFAF)

Well, two things mess it up:

1) Sarah Pallin. Every two-bit huckster now thinks they can launch a national campaign from Alaska.

2) Lots of money sloshing around a small population - oil money, green money. Environmentalists use Alaska to bulk up their coffers by opposing stuff. We are also a "cheap date", only one large metro area with half the population, meaning you can get a lot of eyeballs to see your ads for very little money. We also have a initiative process, whereby the constitution can be changed via vote of the people. Spend a few bucks, and change it.

Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (fR677)

341 For anyone using Proton, this story might interest you.

In internal communication, an employee noted they weren't doing penetration testing (checking to see how easily it can be hacked) and pleaded for time to do it before release. The CEO said that's bullshit and loser thinking.

Proton bills itself as a service for those who are interested in security and anonymity. Apparently the CEO doesn't have the mindset to maintain that illusion.

http://tiny.cc/u8vc101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (mkw2N)

342 336 Turns out Jane Does fake rape allegations were just a covert ad for a Netflix documentary

She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Everyone she's accused needs to sue Netflix too.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 04:25 PM (vJrRc)

especially the two (?) who she admits she got the names wrong in her accusation.
Posted by: Oldcat
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AN orgy of people turns into an orgy of lawyers suing everyone. Kind of like the Spiderman meme where everyone is point fingers at everyone else in the circle. Fitting end to a sad sex farce.

Moliere would have literally written a classic comedic farce with this storyline. So would several of the Romans like Juvenal.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (E4rtv)

343 Turns out Jane Does fake rape allegations were just a covert ad for a Netflix documentary

She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Everyone she's accused needs to sue Netflix too.
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Wait wut? Is this for real? What was she "filming"??? You mean this whole thing is a viral marketing stunt perpetrated by a pyschopath and facilitated by a giant corporation who has Susan Rice as a board member?

Posted by: But you do you - ITS A CONSPIRACY at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (anL5R)

344 Gas in se Pa has been going up a bit last two weeks, $4.45 give or take a bit

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (Ia/+0)

345 339 It looks like to get on the ballot in Alaska you only need to sign a petition yourself, and put up $100 filing fee?
Posted by: Romeo13

YEP. And, OPEN PRIMARY, so independents get to vote for the R and Ds nominees. Rs are stupid, so they just let anyone run. Ds push anyone out of the race but their preferred candidates. Oh and 60% of the state is registered independent. Then they added ranked choice voting - so you have four Rs on the ballot, and one D. D gets 100% of the D vote (maybe 20%), then the ranked choice bullshit covers the rest. Rs all split the vote. It's never just a two-way contest.

Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (fR677)

346 patrick stewart has left the bridge

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (jrgJz)

"Illinois Man" of No Apparent Political Leaning Sends Hoax Anthrax Letters to Four Members of Congress; Quickly Arrested by the FBI

At least on political affiliation the leftwing Democrat Propaganda Media is willing to report.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A 37-year-old Illinois man is charged with sending threatening letters to members of Congress containing a white powder, including one with a note reading "HAH enjoy the gift," according to federal court records.
The criminal complaint unsealed Monday claims Matthew Ungelsbee sent at least four plain white envelopes with a powdery substance to elected officials in Chicago. They were postmarked in Springfield, Illinois, on Oct. 19 and had Unglesbee's name handwritten in the return address section.
Unglesbee, of Quincy in southwestern Illinois, is charged with mailing threatening communications and perpetrating a hoax...
FBI agents interviewed Unglesbee at his home on Sunday and he told them all the letters contained salt, court records show. He claimed he'd sent the letters after hearing someone talk about similar mailings in the news earlier this month.
Testing confirmed the white substance was not dangerous. The records did not identify the substance.
A motive was unclear. But Unglesbee said he knew the congress members would "take it serious" because the powder might be perceived as anthrax, which he knew was dangerous and could prompt a response by hazmat teams, according to the complaint.
"Unglesbee claimed he was joking but recognized the recipients would not know he was joking and could perceive it as a threat," the complaint stated.
...
The investigation began after an anonymous tipster reported overhearing Unglesbee in a restaurant talking about mailing a suspicious substance to members of Congress. The tip was received Oct. 16, and the FBI tracked Ungelsbee down after the envelopes arrived at the congressional offices days later.

The failure to state his political affiliation is interesting because you know if he were a Republican, it would be mentioned in the first paragraph. And the second paragraph. And the third paragraph. And then it would be missing from most of the fourth paragraph but make a last-minute 11th hour appearance in the last sentence.

But there's no mention of any party registration.

This guy says that your suspicions about that are completely accurate:

Matt Robinson
@mattrobinson

Registered Democrat Facing Federal Charges After Mailing Hoax White Powder to Multiple Members of Congress
A 37-year-old Quincy, Illinois man identified as Matthew Unglesbee faces federal charges for allegedly mailing threatening letters containing a suspicious white substance to multiple Illinois members of Congress. Reports indicate that Unglesbee is a registered Democrat in Adams County, Illinois.
The federal investigation initiated after the FBI received an anonymous tip from an individual who overheard Unglesbee discussing the letters at a restaurant. In videos published to social media prior to his arrest, Unglesbee spoke explicitly to fellow Democrats, saying, "Let's flip the House and the Senate Democrat" and urging people to vote to change policies. Despite these statements, his specific actions targeted Democratic congressional offices, creating severe disruptions that prompted emergency law enforcement and hazardous materials responses. Envelopes were delivered to the offices of Senator Tammy Duckworth, Representative Mike Quigley, Representative Jan Schakowsky, and Representative Brad Schneider. Subsequent laboratory analysis determined that the enclosed white powder consisted of harmless table salt, accompanied by handwritten notes reading "Haha" or "Ha enjoy the gift".
During interviews with federal investigators, Unglesbee reportedly admitted to sending the items as a copycat action. He acknowledged that recipients would likely perceive the substance as dangerous materials like anthrax and experience concern for their personal safety. Court records show that Unglesbee has an extensive criminal background, including previous convictions for child sexual assault, impersonating law enforcement, and threatening a local police chief. He is currently listed as a registered sex offender.

Registered Democrat Facing Federal Charges After Mailing Hoax White Powder to Multiple Members of Congress
A 37-year-old Quincy, Illinois man identified as Matthew Unglesbee faces federal charges for allegedly mailing threatening letters containing a suspicious white substance to multiple Illinois members of Congress. Reports indicate that Unglesbee is a registered Democrat in Adams County, Illinois.
The federal investigation initiated after the FBI received an anonymous tip from an individual who overheard Unglesbee discussing the letters at a restaurant. In videos published to social media prior to his arrest, Unglesbee spoke explicitly to fellow Democrats, saying, "Let's flip the House and the Senate Democrat" and urging people to vote to change policies. Despite these statements, his specific actions targeted Democratic congressional offices, creating severe disruptions that prompted emergency law enforcement and hazardous materials responses. Envelopes were delivered to the offices of Senator Tammy Duckworth, Representative Mike Quigley, Representative Jan Schakowsky, and Representative Brad Schneider. Subsequent laboratory analysis determined that the enclosed white powder consisted of harmless table salt, accompanied by handwritten notes reading "Haha" or "Ha enjoy the gift".
During interviews with federal investigators, Unglesbee reportedly admitted to sending the items as a copycat action. He acknowledged that recipients would likely perceive the substance as dangerous materials like anthrax and experience concern for their personal safety. Court records show that Unglesbee has an extensive criminal background, including previous convictions for child sexual assault, impersonating law enforcement, and threatening a local police chief. He is currently listed as a registered sex offender.
— Matt Robinson (@mattrobinson) October 27, 2026

Now that the FBI is investigating actual crimes instead of Trump, his lawyers, and his campaign manager, and his campaign manager's lawyers, it's actually making some important arrests.

The Canton Police Department in Georgia said Tuesday that three people have been arrested in connection to a foiled plot to shoot up a school next year after the FBI reportedly spotted social media posts regarding the plot.
The FBI notified Cherokee High School in Canton of the plot after seeing "threatening social media posts," and the school notified local police, according to the Associated Press. Cherokee was the alleged intended target of the shooting, which arrest warrants claimed was scheduled to take place next August.
The arrest warrants identified two of the suspects as 17-year-old Shane Keith Taylor and 21-year-old Michael Brandon Terry, who allegedly reached an agreement with an unidentified juvenile suspect to provide weapons and had planned outfits and discussed buying body armor, video cameras and combat boots. Taylor is considered an adult under Georgia law.
It is not clear how the suspects know each other, and the third suspect, who is still a minor, has not been identified. However, he was arrested on Oct. 20 and is tied to the town.
Cherokee County School District Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis reassured parents in a video message that local and federal law enforcement had successfully disrupted the plot, but acknowledged the terror of the planned attack.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM

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1 THE BLADE IS BACK AND SHARPER THAN EVAH!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (e5z5/)

3 e5yvh5e6ybhv5

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (mmrXZ)

4
I thought that was going to happen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (mmrXZ)

5
Illinois man should have flown to DC and dropped his threats into a mailbox there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:11 PM (mmrXZ)

6 Unglesbee?

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

7
Do be a do bee
Don't be an Unglesbee

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

8 I read he put his return address on the envelope

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 02:13 PM (B1+sW)

9 >>>8 I read he put his return address on the envelope

yup.

Gotta be a Democrat.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 02:14 PM (1wjle)

10 Go Blade!
Morticia, get evaluated, please.

Posted by: Concerned Viewer... at October 29, 2026 02:14 PM (EdP2u)

11 Illinois man should have flown to DC and dropped his threats into a mailbox there.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:11 PM (mmrXZ)

They would have never tracked him down if he had wandered around DC at 2 in the morning with a limp and a backpack.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 02:14 PM (rbvCR)

12 8 I read he put his return address on the envelope

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 02:13 PM (B1+sW)

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I've read from the trolls that Democrats are Democrats and not Republicans because Democrats are smart and Republicans are dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:14 PM (pfZGz)

13
This guy looks like a total idiot wanting to flip the House and Senate Democrat and then sending the threats to Dem Senators.

Now if he'd sent threats to GOP legislators and said he wanted to flip the House and Senate conservative, that would make sense.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:14 PM (mmrXZ)

14 >>>I've read from the trolls that Democrats are Democrats and not Republicans because Democrats are smart and Republicans are dumb.

yup. They're all top intellectuals. They also all seem to think they're celebrities.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (1wjle)

15 I googled this guy. Yikes. Looks like a stone-cold pedophile-looking weirdo basement-dwelling commie incel. His browser history would probably make Ed Gein gag.

"All four letters were marked with Unglesbee’s name and return address, according to the complaint."

He's a genius too!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

16 14 >>>I've read from the trolls that Democrats are Democrats and not Republicans because Democrats are smart and Republicans are dumb.

yup. They're all top intellectuals. They also all seem to think they're celebrities.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (1wjle)

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It's impossible for smart people to be Republicans because Democrats dominate academia, don'tchaknow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (pfZGz)

17
Morticia, get evaluated, please.
Posted by: Concerned Viewer...

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I absolutely knew it would happen, because I had just finished typing something brilliant in the previous thread when I hit refresh and saw I was sitting at the top of a new one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (mmrXZ)

18 register sex offended as well as a dem hoaxer.

But that is worth burying, right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (NnhvP)

19 White dude.. Of course they release his name and face to the news.

Posted by: Blanco at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (sW/8y)

20 They were postmarked in Springfield, Illinois, on Oct. 19 and had Unglesbee's name handwritten in the return address section.

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Just gonna guess that this guy isn't the president of the local chapter of MENSA.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (2UnvF)

21 15 Looks like a stone-cold pedophile-looking weirdo basement-dwelling commie incel.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (odBC9)

22 "He is currently listed as a registered sex offender." Party affiliation is making a last-minute 11th hour appearance in the last sentence of that post.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 29, 2026 02:17 PM (lfNXu)

23 This loser seems so fucking stupid to have included his actual return address on the envelopes that I suspect the Dems will claim it wasn't him, it was some MAGA terrorist, because nobody could be that dumb.

Yes, people are that dumb. They're called "Democrats."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

24 Just gonna guess that this guy isn't the president of the local chapter of MENSA.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (2UnvF)

WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE "MENSA" IS SPANISH FOR "STUPID"

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBURGER at October 29, 2026 02:19 PM (rbvCR)

25 I read somewhere that this dumbass put his real return address on the envelopes he sent to the congress critters.

At that point you have to wonder if he is, in fact, retarded.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:19 PM (6ydKt)

26 I read somewhere that this dumbass put his real return address on the envelopes he sent to the congress critters.

--

Didn't Jerry Springer pay a hooker with a personal check? Not too bright.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 02:20 PM (qBdHI)

27
Court records show that Unglesbee has an extensive criminal background, including previous convictions for child sexual assault, impersonating law enforcement, and threatening a local police chief. He is currently listed as a registered sex offender.

Oh, so he IS a registered Democrat.

I'm really interested in which Donkey politician he worked for.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 02:21 PM (y9nCu)

28 yup. They're all top intellectuals. They also all seem to think they're celebrities.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 02:15 PM (1wjle)
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Down for the cause and heroes in their own minds. I wonder if he knew James Hodgkinson.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 02:21 PM (rj6Yv)

29 I see I wasn’t alone in reading that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

30
I read somewhere that this dumbass put his real return address on the envelopes he sent to the congress critters.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

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It's in the content. The reporter looks like he can barely contain his laughter.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:21 PM (mmrXZ)

31
In that video clip, he looked like a typical focus grouper.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:23 PM (mmrXZ)

32 "Court records show that Unglesbee has an extensive criminal background, including previous convictions for child sexual assault, impersonating law enforcement, and threatening a local police chief. He is currently listed as a registered sex offender."

A 3-strikes law with some teeth in it could have prevented this.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:24 PM (fzlJX)

33 It's in the content. The reporter looks like he can barely contain his laughter.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:21 PM (mmrXZ)

I have now watched the video clip.

This guy actually does sound retarded.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

34 Another fine upstanding member of the Democrat party!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 29, 2026 02:25 PM (Q/FnY)

35 Re: 80s mystery click - was peak Chrissie Hynde attractive? I'm thinking of her slinking around in the waitress outfit in the Brass In Pocket video.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2026 02:25 PM (JzUSu)

36 >> was peak Chrissie Hynde attractive?

Yes.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 02:27 PM (Qugny)

37 Maybe he wants to be in a jail cell with Bubba and Leroy.
Good way to get there.

Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 02:27 PM (fzmBj)

38 Sheesh, and you guys say I'm stupid.

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at October 29, 2026 02:27 PM (Riz8t)

39
*shrugs*

Republican Congresscritters.

Do. Not. Care.

They do nothing for me. They hate me. They love Democrats. If Democrats want to kill them, that's their gay little lover's quarrel, and they can leave me right of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 02:27 PM (BI5O2)

40 >> I read he put his return address on the envelope

I wouldn't be surprised to hear he included a Donation Check.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 02:28 PM (Qugny)

41 35 Re: 80s mystery click - was peak Chrissie Hynde attractive? I'm thinking of her slinking around in the waitress outfit in the Brass In Pocket video.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2026 02:25 PM (JzUSu)

She definitely wasn’t the most gorgeous rockstar chick of the 80s but she wasn’t hideous and she has a great voice.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

42 Matthew Uglybee is apparently retarded based on is lame video.

The newscaster said "it is very hard to identify who mailed the letter." No it's really not with all the cameras floating around and an ID quickly given from the box it was posted from. Which is why I don't post stuff like flaming dog turds to Congress (I also don't want to fool with flaming dog turds, even on a bad day).

I guess, in his fabulous thinking (say this like you need an adenoidectomy) he thought, "Duh, if I send this to Dims they will think a MAGA sent it!" Der! *cuts a squirrel killer*

I doubt it sent people flying to ED's like the real anthrax wahoo of 2001. The ED where I worked finally posted a sign at triage that said, "These are the symptoms of anthrax (listed them). You probably were never exposed, however, we will see you once you've been triaged." This is paraphrased, but I'm telling you that there were a LOT of people coming to the ED scared...and we were over 2hrs away. Probably a lot of gheys showed up thinking, "monkeypox" when it was a zit.

Granted it was 2001 and we were all waiting post 9/11 for the other shoe to fall.

Thanks for the video of the dunderhead, Ace.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 02:29 PM (hzuYO)

43 That may not be a good picture of him, but its the only known one of him without a dick in his mouth. And that includes his drivers license and work ID.

Posted by: Wally at October 29, 2026 02:29 PM (2QvrQ)

44 Unglesbee's is the knock version of Applebee's in the Czech Republic.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 29, 2026 02:30 PM (SUQyq)

45 See? Voting does nothing."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:03 PM (pfZGz)

Let's at least acknowledge Trump is a major multigenerational outlier.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 02:30 PM (hVPzc)

46 It's in the content Now you tell me

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 02:30 PM (B1+sW)

47 Surprised? No?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:30 PM (wOO3z)

48 Registered sex offender and democrat. I know, redundant...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 29, 2026 02:30 PM (XMwZJ)

49 In that short video clip, where this creep tells people to "vote democrat," he seems clearly retarded.

I don't mean that as a slur or insult. He seems literally medically retarded, like he's so slow he's having trouble forming words to speak.

But ... fuck him.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

50 was peak Chrissie Hynde attractive?"

Well... no Lita Ford.

Posted by: man at October 29, 2026 02:32 PM (pfXMo)

51 I don't mean that as a slur or insult. He seems literally medically retarded, like he's so slow he's having trouble forming words to speak.

But ... fuck him.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

Either that or he’s done a lot of hard drugs and his brain is fried.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:32 PM (6ydKt)

52 Oh, he was threatening Democrats as a false flag. Ha!

Still. Don't. Care.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

53 Trying to start CWII

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)

54 @49.
"But...fuck him."

They will.

Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (fzmBj)

55 Re: 80s mystery click - was peak Chrissie Hynde attractive? I'm thinking of her slinking around in the waitress outfit in the Brass In Pocket video.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2026 02:25 PM (JzUSu)

______

She never did anything for me. Not ugly or unattractive, just average. Which is not a good thing in a decade known for scorching hotties.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

56 It’s Illinois, so he’ll get a slap on the wrist. The crazy politically that he is, the greater the chances are that he won’t be held accountable. It it was Washington DC they’d prosecute Trump, or some perceived conservative supporter for antagonizing him.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (m6fGY)

57
Gotta get most of them out of here - Feds are also doing raids in Rochester MN today, big Somali community. Tomorrow should be interesting with JD Vance and crew in St. Cloud.......

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Campaign event for Ilhan Omar at the Safari Restaurant whose owner was just sentenced to 30 years in prison for the $250 million feeding our future fraud scheme

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (kX27y)

58 Lita Ford was pretty hot, but I can only remember her having like one hit song.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (6ydKt)

59 In two years Mike will run for Congress as a Dim. He seems like a perfect fit with a sexual predator background and so dim his head thuds like a ripe melon.

We are in good hands!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 02:35 PM (hzuYO)

60 His real name is Daniel X. Sullivan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 02:36 PM (Cqx++)

61
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Campaign event for Ilhan Omar at the Safari Restaurant whose owner was just sentenced to 30 years in prison for the $250 million feeding our future fraud scheme

I'll have the zebra brisket. Thanks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:36 PM (wOO3z)

62 Lita Ford was pretty hot, but I can only remember her having like one hit song.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (6ydKt)

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She was smoking hot in the video with Ozzy.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 29, 2026 02:37 PM (2UnvF)

63 Paul's real name is Dan Sullivan. Dan Dickinmouth Sullivan.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 02:37 PM (hVPzc)

64 Lita Ford was pretty hot, but I can only remember her having like one hit song.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (6ydKt)
________

She kinda flew under the radar after the runaways, but she's got some solid songs, all available on itunes or whatever the google version is. I downloaded a few.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

65 Schakowsky is retiring. Her husband is Dem scumbag Robert Creamer, a political operative with zero scruples. I would have lost no sleep if he got anthrax. Or anal warts. Or crotch rot...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:37 PM (f8snw)

66 Lita Ford was a 1.

Also did a duet with Ozzy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:37 PM (wOO3z)

67 60 His real name is Daniel X. Sullivan.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 02:36 PM (Cqx++)

Quick.. See if he wants to run in Alaska we could use another one...

Posted by: Mary Peltola who has nothing at all to do with this at October 29, 2026 02:38 PM (+gK6I)

68
Sounds like he wanted to get caught.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 29, 2026 02:38 PM (4Aqsh)

69 Let's at least acknowledge Trump is a major multigenerational outlier.

What does that say about our society? I never thought that I’d hear socialism (Marxism) spoken about so openly positive by such a large portion of our country.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 02:39 PM (m6fGY)

70 By the late 80s I mostly had a flame for Susanna Hoffs for while.

There’s no other possible reason I actually bought The Bangles CDs other than her.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:39 PM (6ydKt)

71 I'll have the zebra brisket. Thanks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:36 PM (wOO3z)

Chef carving zebra roast: "White meat or black?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:40 PM (fzlJX)

72 Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still good looking

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:41 PM (f8snw)

73 "The arrest warrants identified two of the suspects as 17-year-old Shane Keith Taylor and 21-year-old Michael Brandon Terry, who allegedly reached an agreement with an unidentified juvenile suspect to provide weapons and had planned outfits and discussed buying body armor, video cameras and combat boots." -- Misty Severi, Just The News

Seriously? You don't need combat boots to shoot up a school; tennies would work just fine. Ditch the flip-flops, sure. But to say, "Oh no Chuck Taylors aren't good enough, I need combat boots for traction on.. uh.. pavement and manicured lawns," you're just trying to look cool. And if that's your real goal, you could just get the boots and not shoot anyone; it's perfectly allowed.

Posted by: SciVo at October 29, 2026 02:41 PM (ke3zm)

74 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:42 PM (ccf/V)

75 I might have to listen to some Runaways if I can remember to.

I like Joan Jett, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:42 PM (6ydKt)

76 never thought that I’d hear socialism (Marxism) spoken about so openly positive by such a large portion of our country.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 02:39 PM (m6fGY)

Once the Obama admin turned the country into one giant college campus it was only a matter of time.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 02:42 PM (hVPzc)

77 Lita Ford was a 1.

Also did a duet with Ozzy.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:37 PM (wOO3z)

Where he sings "Heaven, is in the palm of my hand....and it's waiting here for you....."

*grabs crotch*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:42 PM (ccf/V)

78 During interviews with federal investigators, Unglesbee reportedly admitted to sending the items as a copycat action. He acknowledged that recipients would likely perceive the substance as dangerous materials like anthrax and experience concern for their personal safety. Court records show that Unglesbee has an extensive criminal background, including previous convictions for child sexual assault, impersonating law enforcement, and threatening a local police chief. He is currently listed as a registered sex offender.

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So, a typical Democrat.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 02:43 PM (uhVAy)

79 Sounds like he wanted to get caught.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 29, 2026 02:38 PM (4Aqsh)

He put his actual return address......I'd say yeah, he's looking for some attention.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:44 PM (ccf/V)

80 He may or may not be retarded.

Until about 10 years ago, I never encountered adult rhotacism (baby talk) in people of otherwise normal intelligence. Since that time, I started seeing it both on the internet, and with young adults and teenagers in meatspace.

Speech therapists notice it too, and treat it as some big mystery. I think it's obviously of a piece with the general loss of ability in younger people to hold normal conversations, maintain eye contact, follow nonverbal social cues, and so forth - they're regressing in communication skills because of the phones.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

81 73 Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still good looking
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:41 PM (f8snw)

She has some enticing eyes.
Surprised Hollywood never tried to get her into acting like Madonna.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

82 I read he put his return address on the envelope

**

I suspect familial ties to Jasmine Crocket or a box of rocks.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 29, 2026 02:45 PM (8C1eU)

83 Re: 80s mystery click - was peak Chrissie Hynde attractive? I'm thinking of her slinking around in the waitress outfit in the Brass In Pocket video.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2026 02:25 PM (JzUSu)

______

She never did anything for me. Not ugly or unattractive, just average. Which is not a good thing in a decade known for scorching hotties.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

her voice was great though

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 02:46 PM (uhVAy)

84
She has some enticing eyes.
Surprised Hollywood never tried to get her into acting like Madonna.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

Madonna, who doesn't really have much enticing whatsoever........likely sucked and f*cked her way into whatever she wanted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)

85 Until about 10 years ago, I never encountered adult rhotacism (baby talk) in people of otherwise normal intelligence. Since that time, I started seeing it both on the internet, and with young adults and teenagers in meatspace.
____

I started noticing it recently on calls with customer service types. At first I thought it was AI. It's quite creepy.

Posted by: Vilano Man at October 29, 2026 02:48 PM (Ovx+P)

86 Until about 10 years ago, I never encountered adult rhotacism (baby talk) in people of otherwise normal intelligence. Since that time, I started seeing it both on the internet, and with young adults and teenagers in meatspace.
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F*cking millennials.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:48 PM (ccf/V)

87 I read somewhere that this dumbass put his real return address on the envelopes he sent to the congress critters.

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Didn't Jerry Springer pay a hooker with a personal check? Not too bright.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 02:20 PM (qBdHI)

he wasn't a Democrat at the time since I think at that time there was no Democrat party in Cincinnati - Republicans and Charterites. Pretty wierd.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)

88 They were postmarked in Springfield, Illinois, on Oct. 19 and had Unglesbee's name handwritten in the return address section.

Dumbass.

Posted by: Jussie Smollet at October 29, 2026 02:49 PM (jb8Ss)

89 She never did anything for me. Not ugly or unattractive, just average. Which is not a good thing in a decade known for scorching hotties.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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She wouldn't have been out of place on the Munsters.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2026 02:49 PM (JzUSu)

90 This guy clearly not a rocket scientist or brain surgeon… more like severely retarded. He put his name a return address on the envelopes? Okay… that’s one way to go

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 02:49 PM (znwa7)

91 F*cking millennials.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:48 PM (ccf/V)

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Named Todd

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (2UnvF)

92 there's a movie or video of a young Susanna Hoffs frolicking around in her underwear...amazing. **Boing**

Posted by: dananjcon at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (8C1eU)

93 Madonna, who doesn't really have much enticing whatsoever........likely sucked and f*cked her way into whatever she wanted.
Posted by: Sponge

"Material Girl" came on over a store music rotation the other day and I was amazed how biggly it sucked.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (Y8DZL)

94 Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still good looking
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:41 PM (f8snw)

She has some enticing eyes.
Surprised Hollywood never tried to get her into acting like Madonna.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:45 PM (6ydKt)
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They did. The Allnighter. She just didn't take off.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

95 77 never thought that I’d hear socialism (Marxism) spoken about so openly positive by such a large portion of our country.

Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 02:39 PM (m6fGY)

If you had gone to school from the 90s to today, you’d understand better.

They’ve been brainwashing the rug rats for thirty years and the results are obvious.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:51 PM (6ydKt)

96 Surprised Hollywood never tried to get her into acting like Madonna.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:45 PM

She was in some movie, not remembering title off hand

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Ia/+0)

97 @81.
He's looking for some attention.

Well, he made the AOS.

Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (fzmBj)

98 90 They were postmarked in Springfield, Illinois, on Oct. 19 and had Unglesbee's name handwritten in the return address section.

Dumbass.
Posted by: Jussie Smollet at October 29, 2026 02:49 PM (jb8Ss)

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lol

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iOpI2)

99 Next August? When school isn't back in session, yet? Wut?

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (kU0PQ)

100 Madonna, who doesn't really have much enticing whatsoever........likely sucked and f*cked her way into whatever she wanted.
Posted by: Sponge

"Material Girl" came on over a store music rotation the other day and I was amazed how biggly it sucked.
Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (Y8DZL)
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The only interesting part of the song is at the end, when she's now rich from her golddigging and is now herself the target of golddiggers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

101 He's looking for some attention.

Well, he made the AOS.
Posted by: Case at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (fzmBj)

Slow news day

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 02:53 PM (+gK6I)

102 They did. The Allnighter. She just didn't take off.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

Damn, I’ll have to watch that, never heard of it.
Only drawback is it has John Cussack in it, too.

Madonna sucked all of the oxygen out of the room back then, I don’t think other singers had a chance with her around.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:53 PM (6ydKt)

103 And now Madonna wears a diaper.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:53 PM (wOO3z)

104 A copycat? How many years later?
Dude is slow on the uptake.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (kU0PQ)

105
The only interesting part of the song is at the end, when she's now rich from her golddigging and is now herself the target of golddiggers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

The only thing she ever did that entertained me was on The Tonight Show where she was being interviewed by Jay Leno and he asked her what she meant by "Rita Hayward gave good face."

"Well, it's not like giving good head or anything....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (ccf/V)

106 Grunblig bloopdrug fligfliv

Posted by: Howdy at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Uytv8)

107 There’s a lot going on in these comments about very unrelated topics! This one might be a bit tricky in our musical.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

108 "...and had Unglesbee's name handwritten in the return address section."

Just a desperate cry for help? He will surely get the counseling he needs for the next 3-5 years.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 02:55 PM (vbXSk)

109
That mention of Robert Creamer got me to chatbotting. RIGHT, he was one of James O'Keeffe's early hits! Another guy who went down with him was pathetic dweeb Scott Foval, who was just getting into political activism -- paid by the DNC through Bob Creamer -- and whose life crashed and burned pretty much like Monica Lewinsky's.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:55 PM (mmrXZ)

110 There’s a lot going on in these comments about very unrelated topics! This one might be a bit tricky in our musical.
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

Musical?

You've been there for Karaoke night, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:56 PM (ccf/V)

111 Madonna, who doesn't really have much enticing whatsoever........likely sucked and f*cked her way into whatever she wanted.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)

The only film I really liked her in was A League of Their Own and that was probably because the part fit her well and she wasn’t in the lead role.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:56 PM (6ydKt)

112 They did. The Allnighter. She just didn't take off.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

Damn, I’ll have to watch that, never heard of it.
Only drawback is it has John Cussack in it, too.

Madonna sucked all of the oxygen out of the room back then, I don’t think other singers had a chance with her around.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:53 PM (6ydKt)
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It's ... terrible. But if you like her, it might be worth it. So cheesily 80s ....

Joan Cusack! She plays a roommate or something.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

113 106 And now Madonna wears a diaper.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:53 PM (wOO3z)

1988 Madonna would make fun of current year Madonna.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 02:56 PM (H67ia)

114
He should have sent them in ballot envelopes, they would have been protected and delivered.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 02:57 PM (OkYzo)

115 113 There’s a lot going on in these comments about very unrelated topics! This one might be a bit tricky in our musical.
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

Musical?

You've been there for Karaoke night, right?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:56 PM (ccf/V)

As with everything I do, we can worry about details later.

Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 02:57 PM (ZdaMQ)

116
As with everything I do, we can worry about details later.
Posted by: Piper at October 29, 2026 02:57 PM (ZdaMQ)

Heh.....details......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:58 PM (ccf/V)

117 Yum yum yum

Posted by: Howdy...I like to eat my own poop at October 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Uytv8)

118 The only interesting part of the song is at the end, when she's now rich from her golddigging and is now herself the target of golddiggers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

The only thing she ever did that entertained me was on The Tonight Show where she was being interviewed by Jay Leno and he asked her what she meant by "Rita Hayward gave good face."

"Well, it's not like giving good head or anything....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (ccf/V)
______

And yea, like she wrote those lyrics anyway ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

119 If at first you don't succeed . . .

Incredibly beautiful video of a bald eagle fishing.

https://tinyurl.com/23jhdeev

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (ndZc7)

120
The only thing she ever did that entertained me was on The Tonight Show where she was being interviewed by Jay Leno and he asked her what she meant by "Rita Hayward gave good face."

"Well, it's not like giving good head or anything....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM

I liked early Madonna's music. I like Into the Groove and Crazy for You and Gambler.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (H67ia)

121 Of course, he's a Democrat because he was stupid enough to put his name on the return address.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (eS0lA)

122 The Allnighter was pretty bad.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (f8snw)

123 We're doing a musical? That can't be good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (wOO3z)

124 Those damn kids and their Socialism. Before you know it ... they'll just delete people that point out their own Hypocrisy.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 29, 2026 03:01 PM (nbmFO)

125 Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still good looking
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:41 PM (f8snw)

She's got great jeans.

Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (4RzeP)

126 We're doing a musical? That can't be good.

Ace out front on his Vespa shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

127 Social Security passed out the first checks in 1940.

The Top Tax Rate was 91% in 1963.

Some of you ... yeah, Boomers ... absolutely kill me.
Posted by: Howdy at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Uytv

First off, I’m not a Boomer by about a decade and a half.

Second, no matter how high taxes were or old people getting a pension, our public schools and universities went full leftwing starting in the 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union, Bill Ayers, among hundreds of thousands of other ‘educators’ across the world, made it their missions to turn Millennials, and every generation afterwards, into full-fledged socialists from kindergarten on up.

And it worked brilliantly.

Nobody was getting participation trophies in the 1960s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (6ydKt)

128 The Allnighter was pretty bad.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (f8snw)

Can you blame a woman's acting career not taking off because she was given a roll in a shit movie that didn't relate with anyone?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (ccf/V)

129
He is currently listed as a registered sex offender.

___________

Your archetypical registered Democrat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 03:03 PM (eRlcH)

130 Madonna wearing a diaper > Madonna shitting onstage

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:03 PM (f8snw)

131 Those damn kids and their Socialism. Before you know it ... they'll just delete people that point out their own Hypocrisy.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 29, 2026 03:01 PM (nbmFO)

I believe that is known as a 'wrecker' or 'Counter revolutionary'.

You see them keeping the terms around. Some wide eyed doe reading communist history (a small bit, before all the murders happen) and thinks 'yeah! I like that word!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

132 128 The Allnighter was pretty bad.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:59 PM (f8snw)

Can you blame a woman's acting career not taking off because she was given a roll in a shit movie that didn't relate with anyone?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM

She must not have wanted to be in movies because her husband is Jay Roach.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 03:04 PM (H67ia)

133 Can you blame a woman's acting career not taking off because she was given a roll in a shit movie that didn't relate with anyone?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (ccf/V)
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Not really, no.

Posted by: Klinton Spilsbury at October 29, 2026 03:04 PM (amcLV)

134 The only thing she ever did that entertained me was on The Tonight Show where she was being interviewed by Jay Leno and he asked her what she meant by "Rita Hayward gave good face."

"Well, it's not like giving good head or anything....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 02:54 PM

The reason she was popular - for some version of popular - was because she just said the obvious.

Mel Brooks did. More shocking, really. And the friggin' 80s and 90s went on a mini-version of now and tried to stop that. PMRC and all that.

Madonna got credit for at least saying, bluntly, what we were all thinking.

Its really dumb. The generation that spent it's entire youth high and screwing suddenly became prudes as soon as they found themselves in charge.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 29, 2026 03:04 PM (nbmFO)

135 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

136 Susanna Hoffs is 67 and still good looking
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:41 PM (f8snw)

She's got great jeans.
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (4RzeP)

I also suspect Ms Hoffs realizes that just enough is good with plastic surgery. If (and I am not sure) she uses it, her surgeon is a master of the craft.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

137 My first social security check is due in about a month. Wonder what to waste it on...?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (RIvkX)

138 Virginia AG Jay Jones: AR-15s are not protected by the second amendment because they're not "arms."

https://tinyurl.com/zb5hu3u8

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Well, points for originality.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (ndZc7)

139 Ahhh Joan not John Cussack.

She’s not as bad as her brother, but I’ve never said “I gotta go see this Joan Cussack movie today” in my entire life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (6ydKt)

140 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
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Fuel cost went from $1,800 to $8,000

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:07 PM (RIvkX)

141 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
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Was talked about at some length yesterday. I suggested ace make a post about it, as the schadenfreude is so delicious I wet my pants.

The cruise literally told these TDS losers to "get the fuck off the boat" and dumped them in some shithole, without any way to get home.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

142 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)
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Would have been funnier if it had been Haiti, but I'll allow it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 03:07 PM (amcLV)

143 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

From Airplane!

Jack Kirkpatrick: Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 03:08 PM (qx7Zg)

144 I had to do a double take on this. Picture has his name tape as admiral along with the US Army tape on uniform. General Admiral of the USA.
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Emma 🇺🇸
@Emmaiid11
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17h
🚨BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has nominated Lt. Gen. Kevin Admiral, a Black three-star general, to lead U.S. Army Europe and Africa and serve as commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command.

Admiral currently commands III Armored Corps at Fort Hood, Texas.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:08 PM (E4rtv)

145 Nobody was getting participation trophies in the 1960s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 03:02 PM (6ydKt)

Pick up a history book.

The best educated scientific minds of the Western World collectively came "this close" to stopping the work on the original Atomic Bomb. Why ?

Because, in their minds, 100K to 1Million American GIs killed and wounded would have been "better". And after ? Its a fact. American Academia leaked that shit as fast as possible to the Soviets. Because "it would be fair".

Slick ... the 60's WAS NOT some generation of stiff-necked, All-American shit. Not by a long shot. Never has been.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 29, 2026 03:09 PM (nbmFO)

146 First, it was Florida man, so I left there and moved here.

WTF?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 29, 2026 03:09 PM (PKL0q)

147 Fuel cost went from $1,800 to $8,000
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:07 PM (RIvkX)

So? Anchor in the lagoon offshore of Gilligan's Island. Run the air conditioning off solar panels.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (fzlJX)

148 Virginia AG Jay Jones: AR-15s are not protected by the second amendment because they're not "arms."

https://tinyurl.com/zb5hu3u8

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Well, points for originality.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (ndZc7)

Didn't he also argue in the amicus brief that machine guns (er, machineguns) are in common usage?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (qx7Zg)

149 137 My first social security check is due in about a month. Wonder what to waste it on...?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (RIvkX)

Hookers and blow?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

150 Kind of nice outside, going to take a bike ride

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

151 We're doing a musical? That can't be good.
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It's much better than Cats. Go see it again and again.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (hVPzc)

152 @44 General Admiral? Better than Major Major I guess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:11 PM (f8snw)

153 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

That shit might be worth losing the House over

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (hVPzc)

154 🚨BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has nominated Lt. Gen. Kevin Admiral, a Black three-star general, to lead U.S. Army Europe and Africa and serve as commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command.

Admiral currently commands III Armored Corps at Fort Hood, Texas.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:08 PM (E4rtv)
==

Roger Roger!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

155 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

Where are guys getting info that it was an anti-Trump cruise? Wikipedia sez they had booked most of the suites by early 2024.

Posted by: far cry at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (4RzeP)

156 "Material Girl" came on over a store music rotation the other day and I was amazed how biggly it sucked.
Posted by: Auspex
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The video is what made the song a hit. Back in the days when a popular MTV video was a guaranteed chart hit. Throwback to MGM song and dance numbers.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (E4rtv)

157 Hookers and blow?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (6ydKt)
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And ammo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

158 Did Pam Blondi have this file on her desk too?

Posted by: Worthless Bitch at October 29, 2026 03:13 PM (JAh4c)

159 Do be a do bee
Don't be an Unglesbee
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

Too bad he didn't try to run. Bodycam footage could have been called, "Flight of the Unglesbee", featuring appropriate musical accompaniment ..

https://youtu.be/ZE_xEboF2u8?t=12

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 29, 2026 03:13 PM (08OqX)

160
Where are guys getting info that it was an anti-Trump cruise? Wikipedia sez they had booked most of the suites by early 2024.

Posted by: far cry at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (4RzeP)

Forget it. We're rolling.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:13 PM (hVPzc)

161 Well, at least it's not a lynching hate crime hoax.

Mexican woman pleads guilty to lying about ICE kidnapping to stir up trouble

RT Intl
@RT_on_X
LA illegal immigrant pleads GUILTY to faking ICE KIDNAPPING

Last year, protests erupted after Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon claimed masked men snatched her at gunpoint & tried forcing her to self-deport

Meanwhile, she was hiding in Bakersfield as activists demanded her release

https://tinyurl.com/3mkntv6e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:14 PM (ndZc7)

162 Where are guys getting info that it was an anti-Trump cruise? Wikipedia sez they had booked most of the suites by early 2024.
Posted by: far cry at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (4RzeP)

One would expect Wikipedia would edit out any references that might reflect badly on anti-Trump types.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 03:14 PM (fzlJX)

163 "The Unglesbee Directive" was a lesser known Ludlum novel.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 03:14 PM (PSEDc)

164 BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has nominated Lt. Gen. Kevin Admiral, a Black three-star general, to lead U.S. Army Europe and Africa and serve as commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command.
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Sounds like landlocked Hungary run by Admiral Horthy. I had a Sergeant Sargent as a drill sergeant.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 29, 2026 03:15 PM (Fv808)

165 Clancyism seems to be spreading even to killing other people's kids. If you have kids, get them off social media for their own mental health.
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Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
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19h
UC San Diego PhD student told police that she had the urge to murder children after beating her friend's newborn baby to death.

Nicole Virzi has pleaded guilty to murdering her friend's 6-week-old baby and injuring his twin brother.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

166 General Admiral? Lololol.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (BI5O2)

167 150 Kind of nice outside, going to take a bike ride
Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

Cool, Skip.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (odBC9)

168 I'm still laughing at a news story in the Milwaukee area. With the Brewers winning the World Series, evidently a lot of fans are visiting Bob Uecker's grave site.

https://tinyurl.com/yz9try4v

When you get to the photo of the gravestone, look closely. Somebody thought he needed a beer.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (qx7Zg)

169 Heh. The Canucks have been left at the altar. The EU has abandoned plans to offer Canada "associate status ' after Italy, Germany and others balked. Canada to come back to us with Garvin hand in 3,2,.....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (f8snw)

170 I had a Sergeant Sargent as a drill sergeant.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 29, 2026 03:15 PM (Fv80

My aunt's first husband was named Sargent. An NCO in Vietnam.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (PSEDc)

171
Fuel cost went from $1,800 to $8,000
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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Reportedly, the company was a skeevy operator before that. Ref flags. Bad communication with clients and whatnot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (mmrXZ)

172 Just saw that the company offering a 4 year cruise for people who wanted to escape Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia. Heart of stone not to laugh and all that.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

Where are guys getting info that it was an anti-Trump cruise? Wikipedia sez they had booked most of the suites by early 2024.
Posted by: far cry at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (4RzeP)
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The ship just goes around and around and passengers get on and off as their cruises end. The ship was promoting a "get away from Trump" trip at the end of 2024.

"The "Skip Forward" Package: Launched in late 2024 shortly after Donald Trump won his second presidential term, the cruise marketed itself as a multi-year floating home or escape package for Americans looking to leave the country."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

173 UC San Diego PhD student told police that she had the urge to murder children after beating her friend's newborn baby to death.
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You can't only beat just one.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:17 PM (hVPzc)

174 Too bad he didn't try to run. Bodycam footage could have been called, "Flight of the Unglesbee", featuring appropriate musical accompaniment ..

https://youtu.be/ZE_xEboF2u8?t=12
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 29, 2026 03:13 PM (08OqX)

Hah! I was expecting Yakety Sax.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 03:17 PM (fzlJX)

175 158 Did Pam Blondi have this file on her desk too?
Posted by: Worthless Bitch at October 29, 2026 03:13 PM (JAh4c)

Yes. As well as one of the things Bongino will never get over.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 03:18 PM (Ae6Br)

176 We're doing a musical? That can't be good.
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It's much better than Cats. Go see it again and again.
Posted by: ...

We could a musical about Trump's intemporate language and call it Pussy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:18 PM (ndZc7)

177 Another rectification of wrongs.

Emma 🇺🇸
@Emmaiid11
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15h
🚨BREAKING: President Trump PARDONED Bevelyn Williams, the pro-life advocate sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for her actions outside a Manhattan abortion clinic. Her conviction under the FACE Act came from preaching, praying on the sidewalk, and blocking access to the entrance during a protest in which a staff member claimed a hand injury.

Williams had served only a few months of that sentence when the pardon was issued. The clemency also freed 22 other activists convicted under the same law for similar protests at abortion clinics — cases where prayer and direct efforts to prevent abortions were treated as federal crimes punishable by years in prison, while attacks on pregnancy resource centers went largely unprosecuted.

The pardon makes clear that defending the unborn should not be a jailable offense. Religious expression and peaceful opposition to abortion should be protected, not singled out for federal prosecution.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv)

178 Mexican woman pleads guilty to lying about ICE kidnapping to stir up trouble ...

Is she here legally?
Double the number of ICE, double the number of deportees.
More than that; Troublesome Judges, lawfare can work both ways.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:19 PM (Pee1E)

179 I also suspect Ms Hoffs realizes that just enough is good with plastic surgery. If (and I am not sure) she uses it, her surgeon is a master of the craft.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)
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Some of us manage quite well without injections, Botox or the knife.

I didn't know the cruise dump in Cambodia was to escape President Trump! I might read about it now vs scanning headlines.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 03:19 PM (hzuYO)

180 Fuel cost went from $1,800 to $8,000
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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Reportedly, the company was a skeevy operator before that. Ref flags. Bad communication with clients and whatnot.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (mmrXZ)
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Most of these ultra-long cruises are. Mostly underfunded start-ups and long shots. This ain't the first time this happened.

I'll bet the cruise was on very thin ice from the beginning.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

181 You can't only beat just one.
Posted by: ...
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You've been infected with English sense of black humor.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

182 Less filling! Tastes great!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 03:19 PM (wOO3z)

183 UC San Diego PhD student told police that she had the urge to murder children after beating her friend's newborn baby to death.

Sounds like she had the urge before.
If something like that happened to my child (i don't have one, but if), there wouldn't be a perp to arrest.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 29, 2026 03:20 PM (Fv808)

184 166 General Admiral? Lololol.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Well, tanks are kind of a land ship I guess.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)

185 Buying crypto with taxpayer's money should be a capital crime.

@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: The DOJ’s “Operation Ghostbusters” has flagged 830,840 potentially fraudulent federal student aid IDs, tied to nearly $130 million, in a scheme that allegedly used stolen American identities to enroll fake “ghost students” and send the aid money to Kenya.

5 charged, $32M+ in confirmed losses so far, $750K+ in crypto seized, and DOJ estimates the total fraud since 2021 at well over $200 million.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (nEUC6)

186 Roger Roger!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

What's our vector, Victor?

Posted by: Captain Oveur at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (zZu0s)

187 You've been infected with English sense of black humor.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

Would you believe it goes back before her. What do you think the attraction was?

It certainly wasn't my wallet. Or anything else really. And I use the word attraction loosely.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (hVPzc)

188 When you get to the photo of the gravestone, look closely. Somebody thought he needed a beer.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Tell me it was a can of Milwaukee's Best. Lie if you must.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)

189 Didn't he also argue in the amicus brief that machine guns (er, machineguns) are in common usage?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Yes, he's a double threat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7)

190 173 UC San Diego PhD student told police that she had the urge to murder children after beating her friend's newborn baby to death.
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Did her thesis on......depression
.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (Pee1E)

191 Trump went bankrupt and forced all the passengers to disembark in Cambodia

They'll work harder with a gun in their back for a bowl of rice a day.

Posted by: Some lyric I heard once at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (LbUS+)

192 nood

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (B1+sW)

193 Tell me it was a can of Milwaukee's Best. Lie if you must.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)

Miller Lite from his old commercials.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (wOO3z)

194 At least half of our national debt is due to fraud.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:23 PM (f8snw)

195 Would you believe it goes back before her. What do you think the attraction was?

It certainly wasn't my wallet. Or anything else really. And I use the word attraction loosely.
Posted by: ...
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Ah, you were an Englishman trapped in an American body. TransAmerican so to speak. A copy of the Constitution will clear that problem right up.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:23 PM (E4rtv)

196 President Trump PARDONED Bevelyn Williams, the pro-life advocate sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for her actions outside a Manhattan abortion clinic.
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Imagine it takes a heathen like Trump to effect this. God is weird.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:23 PM (hVPzc)

197 ...tied to nearly $130 million, in a scheme that allegedly used stolen American identities to enroll fake “ghost students” and send the aid money to Kenya.
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Obama sending money to his family?

No. He's to chickenshit to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:24 PM (Pee1E)

198 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:23 PM (E4rtv)

I knew I was a trans!

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 03:24 PM (hVPzc)

199 Miller Lite from his old commercials.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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So Milwaukee's Worst so to speak. Nasty stuff.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:24 PM (E4rtv)

200 UC San Diego PhD student told police that she had the urge to murder children after beating her friend's newborn baby to death.
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Execute her.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 03:24 PM (vJrRc)

201 Did her thesis on......depression
.

Posted by: Braenyard

Well, she can join the California Penal League to complete her education soon.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:26 PM (E4rtv)

202 Slick ... the 60's WAS NOT some generation of stiff-necked, All-American shit. Not by a long shot. Never has been.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 29, 2026 03:09 PM (nbmFO)

Oh, I got a history expert who wants to dunk on Boomers and still calls people Slick.

Let’s see, history Biff. Socialism in its most basic form has been around for oh, about three hundred years, Marxism around 180 years.

Due to Fabianism it has slowly crept into every government on the planet over that time.

Were the 1960s as socialist as the 1860s?
In Europe maybe, but mot in the USA.

To say that there were as many socialists in the United States in the 1960s as the 2020s is idiocy, and the reason we have so many more socialists today is because, once again, by the 1990s the educators of America let the freak flag fly and turned the brainwashing machine up to 11.

The result is the DSA doing a hostile takeover of the Democrat party, something they tried and failed to do in the 1960s - 1970s because only the most radical people in the most radical cities would vote for a socialist in a primary.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 03:27 PM (6ydKt)

203 My first social security check is due in about a month. Wonder what to waste it on...?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026

Go to a casino, throw it on a bet

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)

204 >>>To say that there were as many socialists in the United States in the 1960s as the 2020s is idiocy, and the reason we have so many more socialists today is because, once again, by the 1990s the educators of America let the freak flag fly and turned the brainwashing machine up to 11.

The result is the DSA doing a hostile takeover of the Democrat party, something they tried and failed to do in the 1960s - 1970s because only the most radical people in the most radical cities would vote for a socialist in a primary.

Posted by: SpeakingOf
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FDR got the ball rolling in govt. schools. Side effects of WWII was a great relaxation (sigh of relief) all is well, and the GI bill. College professors subtly insinuating socialism to new masses of students.
Each successive graduating class a tiny bit more to the left than its predecessor. Each new batch of professors more left than before. Then, by the late sixties expressing itself en mass and embraced passively, reproduced exponentially and metastasized into the monster it is today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:39 PM (Pee1E)

205 @44 General Admiral? Better than Major Major I guess
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 03:11 PM (f8snw)

We had TWO Major Paynes when I was at the Academy. One was a Marine officer, the other was Air Force. And, one of them was absolutely a pain.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 03:44 PM (kU0PQ)

206 Wait! Whut's THIS … ? "Registered Democrat Facing Federal Charges After Mailing Hoax White Powder to Multiple Members of Congress" … ?

Oh, the hell you say! Why, we all know that a Commucrat would NEVAH do such a thing! He'd send a hit man who could take the fall for him. This is 'Amachoor Our' …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 03:47 PM (ayRl+)

207 To say that there were as many socialists in the United States in the 1960s as the 2020s is idiocy, and the reason we have so many more socialists today is because, once again, by the 1990s the educators of America let the freak flag fly and turned the brainwashing machine up to 11.

I wonder how they learned to Time Travel. To influence Reagan to sign EMTALA ... and encode the idea of the Right to Health Care into Federal Law.

I wish I could have grown up in Alternate America 60s. Where the cars were cool and 'Nam wasn't happening and Andy Griffith was the town cop everywhere.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 29, 2026 03:54 PM (Bgv8z)

208 REAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has nominated Lt. Gen. Kevin Admiral, a Black three-star general, to lead U.S. Army Europe and Africa and serve as commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command.

Admiral currently commands III Armored Corps at Fort Hood, Texas.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:08 PM (E4rtv)
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Roger Roger!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

He will be working with Admiral Kevin General.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:13 PM (uhVAy)

209 Clancyism seems to be spreading even to killing other people's kids. If you have kids, get them off social media for their own mental health.
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Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
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UC San Diego PhD student told police that she had the urge to murder children after beating her friend's newborn baby to death.

Nicole Virzi has pleaded guilty to murdering her friend's 6-week-old baby and injuring his twin brother.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

Interesting how evasive they are about the sex of the child she murdered.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

210 I knew his political registration the minute I read that he put his own name in the return address section.
Anybody that stupid has to.be a Democrat.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (EuPh7)

211 I haven't read all the comments and so this may have been mentioned, but how do I know the person who wrote this is an asshole from Chicago?

There is NO FUCKING WAY Quincy is in southwestern Illinois, "downstate." It's almost right in the center from north to south.

But of course to the tax-sucking, Pritzker ball-lickers, anything south of Cook County is downstate.

As I have repeatedly advocated:

1) Separate Cook County in its entirety from the rest of Illinois.
2) Shove it 50 miles out into Lake Michigan.
3) No contact.

If it's so great, let them grow their own food and fund themselves. They'll come crying back in three weeks to the rest of us poor hayseeds and white trash.

Posted by: The_Hoser at October 29, 2026 06:31 PM (3VDCT)

Madison Cornbread Is the Latest Beneficiary of Corrupt DC Democrat Jury Nullification

Democrats have been rigging juries for decades, refusing to convict any Democrat politicos and throwing the absolute book out of any poor Republicans caught in James Comey's dragnet.

Madison Cornbread is the latest Democrat partisan let off the hook by No One Is Above the Law DC juries:

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Breaking news: A grand jury rejected the DOJ's attempt to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Trump's actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter.

Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
18h
This is why they took the case with the 2 FBI Agents before a Magistrate judge yesterday.
The DC Grand Juries are going to nullify any noteworthy case they hear.

Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
Oct 28
One of the most important priorities of the past two years should have been to break Washington DC's monopoly over the adjudication of virtually anything that can be connected to the capital, however remotely.
The system is totally dysfunctional and fundamentally unfair, whereby anyone who is not a Democrat has no chance of receiving a fair hearing, let alone justice, while Democrats themselves are completely shielded from accountability.
That was painfully clear during Trump's first term, became even more glaring with the January 6 prosecutions, and was illustrated yet again by travesties such as the grotesque $1 million judgment against Mark Steyn for criticizing climate change "research." The constitutional promise of a fair trial and jury of one's peers is completely meaningless in DC for anyone who is not on the far left.
None of this is new. Many of us have been warning about this problem for years and proposing various ways to address it. Yet, predictably, absolutely nothing has been done, and nothing will be done.

Skeptical Stoic
@StoicSkeptic

In case you want to know how bad things really are...
For the last several years, left-wing activist groups have hosted information and training sessions for prospective jurors in DC. This is part of an organized effort to nullify the DC jury pool in order to give Democrats and their allies in DC de facto immunity for politically motivated crimes while subjecting anyone they suspect of being a political opponent to a "guilty until proven innocent" standard.
It's a complete perversion and total inversion of what the justice system in this country is supposed to be, but Democrats care more about protecting Democrats and hurting Republicans than they care about the justice system, let alone the country.
No doubt Democrats and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) would be wailing like banshees on crystal meth if the situation were reversed.

The DSA is hosting "trainings" where they teach their communist insurrectionists to vote against the clear weight of evidence in favor of the left and always against the right.

The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced it is investigating "left-wing activist groups in the District of Columbia" who allegedly provide jury nullification initiatives to teach potential jurors how to influence the outcomes of criminal cases and acquit criminals.

"Free DC, in coordination with Harriet's Wildest Dreams, has held jury nullification training sessions to instruct potential jurors in how to navigate juror vetting and subvert lawful prosecutions in the District of Columbia," wrote House Oversight Chairman James Comer. "Leaders at these public sessions brazenly declared radical intentions. At an August 12 training, Qiana Johnson, who serves on the Board of Harriet's Wildest Dreams and is a 'conductor of legal defense' for the organization, told attendees, '[y]ou have this superpower, and that superpower is you are able to nullify that goddamn jury. In conducting these trainings, your organization is blatantly facilitating the violation of the constitutional right to an impartial jury and undermining the rule of law in the District."

In a letter to Free DC Executive Director Keya Chatterjee and Harriet's Wildest Dreams Board Member and Former Co-Conductor Qiana Johnson, Comer raised concerns that "they are training activists to conceal their biases during jury selection, infiltrate juries, and acquit criminals based on political agendas rather than the law and evidence. Chairman Comer is requesting all documents and communications related to their jury nullification training sessions, coordination with outside partners, and funding."

The Oversight Committee added in a new release that, "these sessions instructed activists to falsely present themselves as unbiased and conceal their ties to prison abolitionist groups during jury selection. Free DC has also publicly touted its juror training efforts as a source of power to halt prosecutions. Free DC is fiscally sponsored by organizations financed by left-wing dark money groups that also support other entities conducting jury nullification workshops."
"It is clear that the position of Free DC and Harriet's Wildest Dreams is that potential jurors should not make decisions impartially based on applying the law as instructed to the facts presented before them in the case, but based on their subjective, personal beliefs and activist agendas."

But not a single Republican will propose a law granting prosecutors or defendants the right to change venues in politically-sensitive cases in venues where the last election went by more than 58% (say) for one party.

Republican corporate clockpunchers continue living in fantasy, high on nostalgia for a country that stopped existing by 2008.

Now they're escalating, preparing How To Guides for jury corruption.

The plan reaches into GRAND JURIES.
It describes educating community members to:
�reject improper prosecutions when serving on grand juries�
For investigations used to pressure unlawful compliance, it prescribes immediate framing as intimidation aimed at overturning an election.
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) October 28, 2026

Extremely related: Apparently a whistleblower came forward to offer his personal knowledge that James Comey did in fact Knowingly Know he was conspiring to violate the Espionage Act.

The whistleblower says he knows this for a fact, because he was one of the people Comey asked to illegally leak classified information to the press.

Erikaaa
@ErikaCA47

The charges filed against James Comey are OOF. 🤯

It appears as if a whistleblower (Individual #1) has come forward.

The complaint alleges Comey was part of a group conspiracy with others (some known! 👀 to knowingly violate the Espionage Act.

James Comey apparently directed the group to solicit the whistleblower (individual #1) to disclose national security defense information to a reporter for NATIONAL NEWS PUBLICATION.

The charges filed against James Comey are OOF. 🤯
It appears as if a whistleblower (Individual #1) has come forward.
The complaint alleges Comey was part of a group conspiracy with others (some known! 👀 to knowingly violate the Espionage Act.
James Comey apparently directed the group to solicit the whistleblower (individual #1) to disclose national security defense information to a reporter for NATIONAL NEWS PUBLICATION.
Yikes. 😬
— Erikaaa (@ErikaCA47) October 26, 2026

Before Nothing Will Happen Guy gets here: Nothing Will Happen.

Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system in DC, where 99% of political trials and grand juries are held.

Update:

>>>Honestly asking, but what exactly do you do here? They are trying to prosecute, but unless we change who lives in DC, seems a hard problem to solve.
I literally just said: People are allowed to ask for changes of venues if the local juries can be shown to be overly prejudiced against the defenders. Trials for notorious murderers are routinely held a few counties away from the scenes of the crimes for this reason.
What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

Comments

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1 It's okay, she's allowed to lie to us.

Posted by: Congress at October 29, 2026 01:11 PM (Fi81e)

2 Any Democrat living in the DC area is essentially walking around with a "pardon for life" and they know it.

Deep state antics will have no consequences.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 01:11 PM (iZHgT)

3 First?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

4 Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system in DC, where 99% of political trials and grand juries are held.
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The only ceiling on hating the Republicans enough, is how much you hate the Democrats and media--but I repeat myself.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (Fi81e)

5 Before Nothing Will Happen Guy gets here: Nothing Will Happen.

In this case, Nothing Will Happen Guy is on point.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)

6 Ain't nothing gonna happen to any democrat, only Republicans get arrested for bs. The country is just about lost.

Posted by: Bob at October 29, 2026 01:13 PM (8fcNE)

7 It struck me cold today:

All the people that Trump is running around boosting could feel that Trump has to do this to receive slightly less resistance in Congress.

They could actually feel they owe him nothing.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (Fi81e)

8 Might be time to Heinleinize the DMV. Central Maryland, DC, and northern Virginia can serve on juries or grand juries only if they are honorably discharged veterans.

Posted by: a world that works at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (88C+u)

9 That's it. I'm unionizing.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen Guy at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (Fi81e)

10 News of this jury tampering "training" makes me want to *types deletes.*

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to just live her life at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (Wt5PA)

11 Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system in DC, where 99% of political trials and grand juries are held.
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I take strong exception to this characterization of Republicans as do-nothings. On the contrary, they have actively aided and abetted the commies at every turn.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (hVPzc)

12 I'm beginning to think the left is better at this game than we are

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

13
Yup, this has gotten to be a structural flaw. Democrat politicians and officials operating in DC are literally immune from prosecution. Is there any way to remedy this? I don't know the legal or constitutional foundation for prosecuting a federal crime in the state or district where it was committed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (mmrXZ)

14 emmett till's killers were properly set free by a jury

Posted by: Paul at October 29, 2026 01:16 PM (x+6zT)

15 As much as we give Putin shit about pushing his opposition out of windows, it occurs to me that might be a pretty effective method.

I mean...moreso than seeking 'Justice' in our system.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:16 PM (Qugny)

16 >>>Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system in DC, where 99% of political trials and grand juries are held.

Listen Sonny, just what do you think those thumbs are for?
--RINOs

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 01:16 PM (8mulE)

17 Do you wear a Nehru jacket with Madras pants?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:16 PM (rbvCR)

18 They could actually feel they owe him nothing.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (Fi81e)

It's not about what is owed. It's about who pays more for less.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:17 PM (hVPzc)

19 >>>15 As much as we give Putin shit about pushing his opposition out of windows, it occurs to me that might be a pretty effective method.

>>>types *deletes*

wait until you see the See You Next Cunt in tomorrow's week in woke.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:17 PM (1wjle)

20 >>Yup, this has gotten to be a structural flaw. Democrat politicians and officials operating in DC are literally immune from prosecution. Is there any way to remedy this?

Yes. To a degree...

There is no reason DC needs to have an independent circuit court.

Not that Maryland and Virginia won't cover their 6.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:17 PM (Qugny)

21 Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system in DC, where 99% of political trials and grand juries are held.

==

Honestly asking, but what exactly do you do here? They are trying to prosecute, but unless we change who lives in DC, seems a hard problem to solve.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 01:18 PM (bRUin)

22
Did Cassidy Hutchinson even bother hiring a defense team, or did she go with a public defender? Good way to save money in that town.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:18 PM (mmrXZ)

23 Paul Manafort was not of the Body.

They wanted to tag on witness tampering for trying to contact old colleagues to see what they would likely say.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:18 PM (Fi81e)

24 My understanding is that judges really approve of jury nullification, and merely nod approvingly when it is alleged or conspired to be done.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:18 PM (rbvCR)

25 Democrats and their co conspirators know that undermining the judicial system is key to gaining a maintaining power. Forever. Look at every corrupt country, and most in Latin America that have escaped the communist left. In almost every case they corrupted the judiciary.

The judiciary is the weak link in our republic. I do t know how many times those alleged and under oath pledging to protect it will watch the judiciary destroy it without any attempt to intervene. There is a point at which people sense it is slipping away and take matters into their own hands. That’s just history.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 01:19 PM (0cp4g)

26 No change of venue options?

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 01:19 PM (lCppi)

27 We're about to see the full weight of leftist coming down on James O'Keefe in Minnesota for showing how easy it is to fraudulently vote.

He's probably going to get 10 years.

Meanwhile the DOJ can't even file proper paperwork against James Comey.

This is the 3rd paperwork, maybe more "mishap" from these chuckleheads.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 01:19 PM (XV/Pl)

28 >>>Honestly asking, but what exactly do you do here? They are trying to prosecute, but unless we change who lives in DC, seems a hard problem to solve.

I literally just said: People are allowed to ask for changes of venues if the local juries can be shown to be overly prejudiced against the defenders. Trials for notorious murderers are routinely held a few counties away from the scenes of the crimes for this reason.

What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (1wjle)

29 >>My understanding is that judges really approve of jury nullification, and merely nod approvingly when it is alleged or conspired to be done.

No. Nullification is loathed by the Judiciary...unless you are talking about Leftist Judges who are otherwise cornered by precedent.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (Qugny)

30 13
Yup, this has gotten to be a structural flaw. Democrat politicians and officials operating in DC are literally immune from prosecution. Is there any way to remedy this? I don't know the legal or constitutional foundation for prosecuting a federal crime in the state or district where it was committed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (mmrXZ)

The rememdy is to pass a law that closes the DC district court (aka where normal federal crimes go) and to state that all federal felony crimes that used to be tried in DC district court will now be tried on a rotating basis in any of the other district courts in the US through a lottery assignment system.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (tOcjL)

31 Sidebar item:
[Song title]
Don't breathe down my neck, no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Don't fill me with pride no
I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide

The last line gave it away for me. Had to be the Pretenders doing the Cuban Slide. Except... They had two songs with "Cuban Slide" in the lyrics and I had the wrong one.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (8mulE)

32 The Lord knows that many venial corruptions will capsize any well-intentioned system.

Because various men will think they have a better idea and can maintain the system by themselves.

Lately, Mankind has been turning in donuts.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Fi81e)

33 Before Nothing Will Happen Guy gets here
......

He's always here. He's just plumb wore out.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (UjdFS)

34 I suspect the DC juror problem is actually deeper and more insidious than the simple fact that DC is deep deep blue.

Even if you're pulling from a deep blue jurisdiction, the odds are you'll get at least some jurors who aren't blue or who at least will vote fairly.

I think what is really going on is juror manipulation so that only the most viciously partisan blue-fuck fuckers get seated on these GJs.

Just like every single politically-charged case somehow always randomly ends up with the same hard-left partisan judge, I'll bet that the juror selection system is just as corrupt.

Count on it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

35
Oh, I read some more content and found this:

>>Many of us have been warning about this problem for years and proposing various ways to address it. Yet, predictably, absolutely nothing has been done, and nothing will be done.

So there are ways to address it, but the same lobotomy patients who have brought us complete inaction on the SAVE Act have dropped the ball.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)

36 >>>The last line gave it away for me. Had to be the [x] doing the Cuban Slide. Except... They had two songs with "Cuban Slide" in the lyrics and I had the wrong one.

huh. I did not know that.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)

37 This is how you get street justice, no?

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 01:22 PM (enNUy)

38 it's a great song. Good driving song. Good punching song.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)

39 For the last several years, left-wing activist groups have hosted information and training sessions for prospective jurors in DC.
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It sounds like "jury tampering", but it's not, because you would have to be able to convict a Democrat in DC, in order to seal that point.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:22 PM (Fi81e)

40 Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 01:23 PM (RIvkX)

41 He's always here. He's just plumb wore out.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (UjdFS)

Wait...

The Nothing Will Happen guy is The Chicken???

Suddenly everything makes sooooo much sense

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:23 PM (hVPzc)

42 >>it's a great song. Good driving song. Good punching song.

The Pretenders eponymous LP is as good as The Cars eponymous LP.

That 77-81 window is just stacked with amazing first efforts.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:24 PM (Qugny)

43 What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (1wjle)

Singapore did away with jury trials because none of the minority groups would convict someone from "their" side.

it may be that jury trials must turn into merely a question of whether the facts are correct and founded, and if the logic is reasonable, not on guilt.
The one trial I had to sit through was really long on pathos, involving a serial wife beater who's victims were doing meth along with the defendant, and not so long on actual evidence which both parties actively participated in destroying.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

44 I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide
__________

I dunno, sounds kinda gay

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

45 >>>The Pretenders eponymous LP is as good as The Cars eponymous LP.

oh really? I never listened to it.

I had a question a year ago: WHo's better, the Police or the Cars?

I think it's probably the Police overall but it's close.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:25 PM (1wjle)

46 think it's probably the Police overall but it's close.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:25 PM (1wjle)

I think for anyone who doesn't hate The Police it's The Police.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (hVPzc)

47 i mean I never heard the Pretenders' eponymous album. I have heard the Cars' eponymous album. (Everyone has, almost every song was a hit or played in movies.)

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (1wjle)

48 The rememdy is to pass a law that closes the DC district court (aka where normal federal crimes go) and to state that all federal felony crimes that used to be tried in DC district court will now be tried on a rotating basis in any of the other district courts in the US through a lottery assignment system.
Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (tOcjL)

so . . . Following current protocol on random assignments, Boasberg miraculously gets them all?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)

49 >>I think it's probably the Police overall but it's close.

I'd go with Ocasek and the boys...because, fuck Sting.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (Qugny)

50 47 Everyone has, almost every song was a hit or played in movies.)

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (1wjle)

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A movie?

What is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (pfZGz)

51
What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.
Posted by: ace

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

Come to think of it, yes, prosecutors could have been asking to transfer the venue all this time? Probably very hard to get on the basis that "based on prior verdicts, the jurors in this town clearly are biased hacks," so the political affiliation rule might work. How do you do it? Voter registration records?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (mmrXZ)

52 huh. I did not know that.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:22 PM (1wjle)

The other one was actually titled Cuban Slide, but it was initially released as a B side only (on 2 different singles). It was later released as a bonus track on rereleases of some of their earlier albums and in box sets, etc.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (8mulE)

53 49 I'd go with Ocasek and the boys...because, fuck Sting.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (Qugny)

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Sting?

Oh, you mean Feyd Rautha, nephew to the Baron Harkonnen. The one with the metal underwear.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (pfZGz)

54 What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (1wjle)

====

That's like expecting Justice Kagan to recuse herself from ruling on cases in which she played a policymaking role.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (RIvkX)

55 34 I suspect the DC juror problem is actually deeper and more insidious than the simple fact that DC is deep deep blue.

Even if you're pulling from a deep blue jurisdiction, the odds are you'll get at least some jurors who aren't blue or who at least will vote fairly.

I think what is really going on is juror manipulation so that only the most viciously partisan blue-fuck fuckers get seated on these GJs.

Just like every single politically-charged case somehow always randomly ends up with the same hard-left partisan judge, I'll bet that the juror selection system is just as corrupt.

Count on it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

Also, not everyone can hold-fast to their guilty or not guilty opinion in the face of unending streams of harassment from hardcore leftist jurors in the jury room. Especially harassment from spittle-throwing harridans as on the Lindsay Clancy jury.

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (5rh/l)

56 Just like every single politically-charged case somehow always randomly ends up with the same hard-left partisan judge, I'll bet that the juror selection system is just as corrupt.

Count on it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)
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As long as everyone plays the role they are assigned, the outcome can never be in doubt.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (FZ29D)

57 I'd go with Ocasek and the boys...because, fuck Sting.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:26 PM (Qugny)

See??

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (hVPzc)

58 I think the Cars got a little too pop-oriented with the album with "Magic" on it, and then I think they had a poor album after, which brings down their average.

As far as first album, the Cars win.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (1wjle)

59 The Police spawned solo Sting which is times infinity worse than any yacht rock thought about being.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (enNUy)

60 All requests for changes of venue for January 6th were DENIED by DC JUDGES!

DC is a COOKED venue.

The Democratic party is the party of the willful.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (Fi81e)

61 The Curse of Awareness

https://youtube.com/shorts/uR_NhT-AZCc

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (dK+Kv)

62 If you ever want to have a good time, find a music forum and Search for: Best Female Bassist of All-Time.

Go into that Thread and enter: STING

Then sit back and enjoy the replies

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (Qugny)

63 So Madison Cornbread won't be convicted and later pose naked for cash. Darn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (f8snw)

64 Comey's middle name is "Brien?"

That explains a lot.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (0MjtC)

65 But I like The Police.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (enNUy)

66 >>>A movie?
What is it?

are you kidding?

the most replayed scene in all of early 80s cinema.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (1wjle)

67 How do you do it? Voter registration records?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (mmrXZ)

Race hustlers would block that and the Kavanaughs of the world would fold

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (hVPzc)

68 Was never a fan of The Police, but damn, Stewart Copeland is a helluva drummer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 01:29 PM (PSEDc)

69 66 >>>A movie?
What is it?

are you kidding?

the most replayed scene in all of early 80s cinema.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (1wjle)

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This is incorrect application of Airplane! quotations.

Be better, ace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:29 PM (pfZGz)

70 Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (1wjle)

Phoebe Cates I'm guessing but I didn't realize that scene had audio

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:30 PM (hVPzc)

71 but sting made me laugh in an industry-only show for their reunion tour. He came out and said, "Before we get started, I'd like to introduce the band. Andy, this is Stewart, Stewart, this is Andy."

(They all hated each other. Well, everyone hated Stewart Copeland.)

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 01:30 PM (1wjle)

72 "Fuck tha police!"

-- NWA

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

73 >> Was never a fan of The Police, but damn, Stewart Copeland is a helluva drummer.

He is. And he is almost as equally as insufferable as Sting. But he is a helluva drummer.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:30 PM (Qugny)

74 51
What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.
Posted by: ace

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

Come to think of it, yes, prosecutors could have been asking to transfer the venue all this time? Probably very hard to get on the basis that "based on prior verdicts, the jurors in this town clearly are biased hacks," so the political affiliation rule might work. How do you do it? Voter registration records?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (mmrXZ)

In my recollection, the last time a national news-level trial had a change of venue motion granted was so long ago I cannot recollect it.

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 01:30 PM (5rh/l)

75 72 "Fuck tha police!"

-- NWA

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

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So, that song was actually about a beef with another band, not a social commentary about the black man's relationship with authority...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:31 PM (pfZGz)

76 Saw The Pretenders at the Bearsville Theater in the early 90s. It was the warm up show for their world tour. Only about a hundred people at invitation only event. Awesome show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (f8snw)

77 Yay, a Madison Cornbread thread!

Thanks for the nood, Y'all.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

78 The Son of God was largely murdered by corrupting the law. Both God’s law and Roman Law.

This story is as old as time.

“ They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

2 Peter 2:19

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (rmAcl)

79 What I am proposing is a rule that recognizes, in cases involving political figures, that having a jury pool that is 58% or more tilted to one party counts as "overly prejudiced" and removal to a more balanced venue is authorized.
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Don't come to Multnomah County.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (amcLV)

80 68 Was never a fan of The Police, but damn, Stewart Copeland is a helluva drummer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 01:29 PM
Me neither, but my hawt girlfriend at the time was a big fan, and well, you know how that goes.

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (Ll/EU)

81 77

Thanks for the nood, Y'all.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

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Comment 251 from Archimedes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (pfZGz)

82
So it's a foregone conclusion that Comey will skate. The dude should save money. Just blow off expensive lawyers and present his case by reading passages from his book.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:33 PM (mmrXZ)

83 This is exactly why nothing will happen is a thing. J6 people got 5 years prison for parading. Long before any DSA group had seminars.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 29, 2026 01:33 PM (CcqV9)

84 80 Me neither, but my hawt girlfriend at the time was a big fan, and well, you know how that goes.

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (Ll/EU)

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You challenged her tastes at the risk of ending the relationship because you stand by what you believe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:33 PM (pfZGz)

85 Yay, a Madison Cornbread thread!

Thanks for the nood, Y'all.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)
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Cornbread is just so...southern. Ew.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton, CT at October 29, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)

86 Hillary seemed to have an efficient plan that did not require a jury. Poor Seth Rich.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 01:34 PM (vbXSk)

87
How do you do it? Voter registration records?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (mmrXZ)

Race hustlers would block that and the Kavanaughs of the world would fold
Posted by: ...

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

I think the lottery of rotating venues would be best. And perhaps don't restrict this to trials of "political figures." That category could be adjusted in width to fit anyone's needs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:35 PM (mmrXZ)

88 And if you think the people who made the word "insurrection" a thing didn't know they had DSA plus 5 or so million illegal fighting age men in their back pocket, I've got some nice oceanfront property for you.

Like when they accused Trump of the phony classified info stuff while already knowing about Biden's vette.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:36 PM (hVPzc)

89 I mean, Sting wrote all the songs and had a pretty successful solo career.

I would say Andi Summers was more essential than Stewart Copeland to the overall sound of The Police.

Copeland was a great drummer though but you could have gotten any number of drummers to fill in for him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 01:36 PM (XV/Pl)

90 Dems: In the South, no black man could get justice. In DC and NYC, no conservative can get justice.

Not much has changed after over 160 years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:37 PM (l3cgK)

91 ZZzzzzzz....

Posted by: John Thune at October 29, 2026 01:37 PM (wOO3z)

92 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at October 29, 2026 01:37 PM (jtrvQ)

93 The DSA is hosting "trainings" where they teach their communist insurrectionists to vote against the clear weight of evidence in favor of the left and always against the right.

"Yeah? So?"

- - - - Those 11 Jurors In That One Case

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:38 PM (PQb8B)

94 Was never a fan of The Police, but damn, Stewart Copeland is a helluva drummer.

They're one of those 80s bands where I hated them at the time but I appreciate them now. Copeland and Summers are amazing players.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 01:38 PM (2ocoG)

95 You could make a rule just for D.C., which after all is unique, that either the defense or the prosecution can have proceedings removed to the jurisdiction of the defendant's residence. This cannot possibly violate their right to a jury of their peers, even for Democrats that might prefer a jury of rabid partisans.

Posted by: SciVo at October 29, 2026 01:38 PM (ke3zm)

96
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that

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

Hell, that's so obvious it's in the content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:39 PM (mmrXZ)

97 I think the lottery of rotating venues would be best. And perhaps don't restrict this to trials of "political figures." That category could be adjusted in width to fit anyone's needs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:35 PM (mmrXZ)

I would say have Dems tried in Rep districts and Reps tried in Dem districts, but those who follow the laws might let off the Dems, while the lawless urban wilds of the Dem strongholds would convict every Rep no matter what the charge...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:39 PM (l3cgK)

98 Funny how we only see Trump judges in DC cases as the lone desent in a 3/2 decision.
DC should have to draw for grand juries from across the country. Housing, travel and per diem paid for by whoever is bringing the case until resolution.
Also of note that like 1/5 of DC is illiterate.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 01:39 PM (Ae6Br)

99 You could move your partisan percentage number from 58% to 75% and still get these kangaroo court prosecutions moved out of DC.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 01:39 PM (EuPh7)

100 We need a SSDD Guy

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 01:39 PM (enNUy)

101 You have to understand what the enemies of our republic want more than anything is chaos. They want division. They want intolerance and violence. That all leads to an inevitable breakdown in society that allows them to seize power by any means necessary.

Understand this basic fact, and everything makes sense.

Do not let division take root in your heart. Fight the good fight only when the need arises, and when necessary. “Love your neighbor as yourself”.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 01:40 PM (rmAcl)

102 Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system
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I have hemorrhoids! They itch like crazy! Besides, we are sooper-busy, with trying to rein in the President and getting re-elected! And, our social schedules take up a lot of time!

Posted by: John Thune at October 29, 2026 01:40 PM (3dxnp)

103 98 Funny how we only see Trump judges in DC cases as the lone desent in a 3/2 decision.
DC should have to draw for grand juries from across the country. Housing, travel and per diem paid for by whoever is bringing the case until resolution.
Also of note that like 1/5 of DC is illiterate.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 01:39 PM (Ae6Br)

Um...how is 3-to-2 a lone dissent?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

104 I think what is really going on is juror manipulation so that only the most viciously partisan blue-fuck fuckers get seated on these GJs.

Just like every single politically-charged case somehow always randomly ends up with the same hard-left partisan judge, I'll bet that the juror selection system is just as corrupt.

Count on it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Yep. the Clerks of the US Courts are dirty in some jurisdictions.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:41 PM (E4rtv)

105 Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 01:40 PM (rmAcl

Thanks for your post, Marcus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 01:41 PM (xz+xK)

106 102 Republicans have sat around with their thumbs up their assholes while Democrats have subverted the entire legal system
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I have hemorrhoids! They itch like crazy! Besides, we are sooper-busy, with trying to rein in the President and getting re-elected! And, our social schedules take up a lot of time!

Posted by: John Thune at October 29, 2026 01:40 PM (3dxnp)

Youze guys seem to enjoy having a thumb up yer ass as much as Lindsey Graham did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)

107 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 01:41 PM (xz+xK)

Thanks and God Bless you and all here.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 01:42 PM (rmAcl)

108
Seems like the obvious reaction would be to charge each offense individually, let the DC Grand Jury waste time nullifying that charge, then file another charge for an offense that happened at the same time. Rinse and repeat.

Gum up the works with a bunch of separate charges, rather than trying to get indictments all at once.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 01:44 PM (y9nCu)

109 Talafreako rallies are amazing.

https://tinyurl.com/2sc3txxr

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 01:44 PM (wgnaQ)

110 I saw See You Next Cunt open for El Gato at The Curtain Club in '94.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:44 PM (PQb8B)

111 Cooper Pratt on winning 2026 WS at 22 years old

https://youtube.com/shorts/LaaWtnjWUEw

"I owe it all to my heavenly father."

Is it just me noticing more, or are more and more of these instances occurring more frequently?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 01:44 PM (dK+Kv)

112 Just ate the last banana. Don't have much to live for now.

Posted by: Out Of Ideas at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

113 Some like to say “ the process is the punishment” - I am holding out for “ the punishment is the punishment”.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (ICyGW)

114 Um...how is 3-to-2 a lone dissent?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

My thumbs are cold and I hit post before I proof read it.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (Ae6Br)

115 Youze guys seem to enjoy having a thumb up yer ass as much as Lindsey Graham did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)

That dude must have been awash in pussy. You DARE suggest otherwise!!

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (hVPzc)

116
112 Just ate the last banana. Don't have much to live for now.

Posted by: Out Of Ideas at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

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How could you afford bananas when you had to pay $7 to genocide Gaza at the same time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (pfZGz)

117
>>The DSA is hosting "trainings" where they teach their communist insurrectionists to vote against the clear weight of evidence in favor of the left and always against the right.

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Since when do DC jurors need training in acquitting Democrats? Here's the Soros-level penetration:

how to navigate juror vetting and subvert lawful prosecutions in the District of Columbia,"
......
"they are training activists to conceal their biases during jury selection, infiltrate juries

Anyway, Comer is doing something, but I suppose it will take a DC jury that has probably been fucked with to convict a Democrat organization of fucking with DC juries. Fox, please guard henhouse from foxes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (mmrXZ)

118
Is it just me noticing more, or are more and more of these instances occurring more frequently?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

No and Yes

Posted by: John Thune at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (wOO3z)

119 There could also be bias/corruption in how the grand jury (and all juries) pool is selected. I'd heard rumors of this during the 2020 election crap.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (vbXSk)

120 But simply put, Ace's solution does not work. US Constitution trumps statutes.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, . . ., by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, . . .
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This was put into the Bill of Rights due to the British taking Americans beyond the colonies to either Halifax for trial or even to London to prevent pro Americans in the colonies from being able to acquit on the jury.

Easiest way by statute is to abolish DC or restrict it just to the Mall and Capitol so that most crimes by bureaucrats, etc. would be tried elsewhere. Cede the rest of it to Maryland.

Although, I suppose you could create a new capital district in some other place and then return the lands to Maryland of the existing DC. Keep the old buildings as a federal national historic monuments with ceremonial meetings only like Independence Hall.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

121 off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (wOO3z)

122
Speaking of blessings.

I am blessed my husband has put up with me for 49 years as of today.

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (/QHx4)

123 Fine, during jury questioning both on paper and in person DIRECT questioning on the issue of jury training, jury nullification, association with groups like Harriets etc.

yes they can lie but you preserve the issue for appeal if you ever find out.

Sometimes you just ask them and they rat themselves out.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (Wt1Rs)

124 116
112 Just ate the last banana. Don't have much to live for now.

Posted by: Out Of Ideas at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

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How could you afford bananas when you had to pay $7 to genocide Gaza at the same time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (pfZGz)

And don’t get me started on the Arugula prices!!!!

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (ICyGW)

125
Um...how is 3-to-2 a lone dissent?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

Are you actually ASKING us to do math? Perfidious bastard!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 01:47 PM (y9nCu)

126
Copeland was a great drummer though but you could have gotten any number of drummers to fill in for him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 01:36 PM (XV/Pl)

There was a Neil Peart tribute gathering not long ago where various drummers got together and attempted some Peart drumming.

All involved said that the best of all of them attempting was Copeland.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:47 PM (PQb8B)

127 120
Although, I suppose you could create a new capital district in some other place and then return the lands to Maryland of the existing DC. Keep the old buildings as a federal national historic monuments with ceremonial meetings only like Independence Hall.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

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Decentralizing DC offices could do some good as well.

State gets moved to Oklahoma.

Treasury gets moved to Kansas.

The only federal employees in DC end up being elected officials and staff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:47 PM (pfZGz)

128 Is it just me noticing more, or are more and more of these instances occurring more frequently?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Unsettled times lead to faith. Easy times lead to falling from the path.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (E4rtv)

129 As crooked as the DC juries are i betcha they are taken bribes.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (Wt1Rs)

130 Happy Anniversary Four Seasons.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (wOO3z)

131
Talafreako rallies are amazing.

https://tinyurl.com/2sc3txxr
Posted by: Huck Follywood

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If only, but that looks like a campaign staff warmup. In fact, the OG admitted as much.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (mmrXZ)

132 Is it just me noticing more, or are more and more of these instances occurring more frequently?

Young men becoming religious has been a trend for like 2-3 years now. JD Vance mentioned his neighbors were shocked when their son went to college and returned a baptized Catholic. I imagine God looks pretty good when you're on campus with today's 65/35 ratio of Lucy Craigs to dudes.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)

133 Sting?

Oh, you mean Feyd Rautha, nephew to the Baron Harkonnen. The one with the metal underwear.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (pfZGz)

It looked more like a metal diaper. Those Harkonnens were an odd bunch.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 29, 2026 01:49 PM (9ZFZd)

134 Decentralizing DC offices could do some good as well.

State gets moved to Oklahoma.

Treasury gets moved to Kansas.

The only federal employees in DC end up being elected officials and staff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey I don't want those state department bastards here!

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2026 01:50 PM (YZ0Fo)

135 My study of case law on jury venue is that it is practically impossible to move venue. It's always good to ask because it preserves the issue for appeal.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 01:50 PM (Wt1Rs)

136 Speaking of blessings.

I am blessed my husband has put up with me for 49 years as of today.

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (/QHx4)

Congratulations to you both.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 01:51 PM (dK+Kv)

137 Decentralizing DC offices could do some good as well.

State gets moved to Oklahoma.

Treasury gets moved to Kansas.

The only federal employees in DC end up being elected officials and staff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Agree. Frankly I prefer Congress to be distributed back to their home states or at least the House.

But an easy fix for Congress on committee hearings with witnesses that tell Democrat lies is to hold the committee meetings out of DC. Well within the rules and has been done on occasion already. Having committee fact finding committees meeting outside the Beltway is a lot more 'inclusive' than having the same tired interest group reps spout off canned talking points.

In a government of 300 million plus, we have to reduce the distance (and thus insulation) between our decision makers and common citizens.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:51 PM (E4rtv)

138 I am blessed my husband has put up with me for 49 years as of today.
Posted by: four seasons

Pozdravlyayu! ("Congratulations!")

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

139 @126

>>All involved said that the best of all of them attempting was Copeland.

This was not a dig on Copeland, he's a phenomenal drummer it's just that Sting and Andi where more essential to the overall sound.

And the reason is that Copland and Peart had a similar high hat forward style.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 01:52 PM (XV/Pl)

140
But simply put, Ace's solution does not work. US Constitution trumps statutes.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, . . ., by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, . . .

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Okay, that's where I was asking about constitutional restrictions.

So TJM suggests we move a few departments. I suggest sending DOJ to Florida.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:52 PM (mmrXZ)

141 Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (/QHx4)

Hi fs!!! Congrats! Hope you are doing ok

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:52 PM (hVPzc)

142 Is it just me noticing more, or are more and more of these instances occurring more frequently?
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Yes and of course

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:53 PM (hVPzc)

143 55
Also, not everyone can hold-fast to their guilty or not guilty opinion in the face of unending streams of harassment from hardcore leftist jurors in the jury room. Especially harassment from spittle-throwing harridans as on the Lindsay Clancy jury.
Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (5rh/l)

There is zero chance of Clancy getting an impartial jury in Mass. - and probably anywhere in New England.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (N39Ws)

144 135 My study of case law on jury venue is that it is practically impossible to move venue. It's always good to ask because it preserves the issue for appeal.
Posted by: torabora
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It is typically viewed as a defendant's right under the Sixth, not a government power (governments cannot have 'rights' technically). A few obiter dicta decisions resting on something else allow government to have a 'fair trial' guarantee but not on change of venue.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (E4rtv)

145 Young men becoming religious has been a trend for like 2-3 years now. JD Vance mentioned his neighbors were shocked when their son went to college and returned a baptized Catholic. I imagine God looks pretty good when you're on campus with today's 65/35 ratio of Lucy Craigs to dudes.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)

I had mentioned before, but last year in the oldest's undefeated Spring baseball season, they had taken it upon themselves to pray before their games. Only a few of the 12-14 were home schooled with a religious curriculum AFAIK.

Just noticing these things gives me glints of hope.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (dK+Kv)

146 I am blessed my husband has put up with me for 49 years as of today.
Posted by: four seasons

Wow. Congrats!

There was a time in this country, when you made it 50 years of marriage, the President sent you a letter of congratulations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (PQb8B)

147 obiter dicta
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Wasn't he president recently?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (hVPzc)

148 What about having one Congressman always logging into committee hearings from another state through video conferencing specifically for the lying to Congress issue?

Say, Florida House member is on Zoom from Florida, witness lies to Congress, bring charges against the liar in Florida?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (pfZGz)

149 143 55
Also, not everyone can hold-fast to their guilty or not guilty opinion in the face of unending streams of harassment from hardcore leftist jurors in the jury room. Especially harassment from spittle-throwing harridans as on the Lindsay Clancy jury.
Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (5rh/l)

There is zero chance of Clancy getting an impartial jury in Mass. - and probably anywhere in New England.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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Eh, passions fade as the next big thing comes about. Leftists have no compunction about abandoning people who are no longer useful to the cause.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:55 PM (E4rtv)

150 148 What about having one Congressman always logging into committee hearings from another state through video conferencing specifically for the lying to Congress issue?

Say, Florida House member is on Zoom from Florida, witness lies to Congress, bring charges against the liar in Florida?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yep. that would work.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:55 PM (E4rtv)

151 I literally just said: People are allowed to ask for changes of venues if the local juries can be shown to be overly prejudiced against the defenders. Trials for notorious murderers are routinely held a few counties away from the scenes of the crimes for this reason.
________

Note that those kind of rules are designed to favor the defendant, so he or she gets a fair trial.

The history of how criminal law got written is based on the idea that defendants should be protected from bias and hang-em-high juries.

It wasn't contemplated that one day juries would be so biased against the prosecution that it would be the prosecutor who wants to change venue.

But that day is here.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

152
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, . . ., by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, . . .

What does it say about not being able to assemble an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:56 PM (PQb8B)

153 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:55 PM (E4rtv)

YES! We should get a meme going that she is a registered Republican and ultra MAGA. Bye bye baby!

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:56 PM (hVPzc)

154 151 Note that those kind of rules are designed to favor the defendant, so he or she gets a fair trial.

The history of how criminal law got written is based on the idea that defendants should be protected from bias and hang-em-high juries.

It wasn't contemplated that one day juries would be so biased against the prosecution that it would be the prosecutor who wants to change venue.

But that day is here.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

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Same thing with the speedy trial.

So, people screaming about Tyler Robinson's trial not happening for years? Why don't prosecutors just try the case? Well, for the same reason that Trump's cases took forever: the defendant was asking for delays.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:56 PM (pfZGz)

155
an easy fix for Congress on committee hearings with witnesses that tell Democrat lies is to hold the committee meetings out of DC.

Posted by: whig

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How far out? Seems to me it would have to be a plane ride at a minimum.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:57 PM (mmrXZ)

156 Posted by: four seasons

Congratulations! Are you doing anything to celebrate?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 01:57 PM (JrHfD)

157 150 Say, Florida House member is on Zoom from Florida, witness lies to Congress, bring charges against the liar in Florida?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yep. that would work.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:55 PM (E4rtv)

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Call me, Mike Johnson.

I'm spinning gold here!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:57 PM (pfZGz)

158
Juries?

One in L.A. freed O.J. when obviously guilty and one in Las Vegas sent him to prison on dubious grounds.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 01:57 PM (Y8DZL)

159 116
112 Just ate the last banana. Don't have much to live for now.

Posted by: Out Of Ideas at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

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How could you afford bananas when you had to pay $7 to genocide Gaza at the same time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (pfZGz)

If I pay for 10 bananas do I get one free genocide?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 01:57 PM (l3cgK)

160 Also, not everyone can hold-fast to their guilty or not guilty opinion in the face of unending streams of harassment from hardcore leftist jurors in the jury room. Especially harassment from spittle-throwing harridans as on the Lindsay Clancy jury.
Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 01:27 PM (5rh/l)

There is zero chance of Clancy getting an impartial jury in Mass. - and probably anywhere in New England.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (N39Ws)
_____

Clancy case is yesterday's news. Disappeared overnight. Same with all the mischegas over doxxing and sliming the one hero juror.

It was all an op.

I suspect she'll end up quietly taking a plea to a lesser offense and nobody will give a shit about it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

161 One in L.A. freed O.J. when obviously guilty and one in Las Vegas sent him to prison on dubious grounds.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 01:57 PM (Y8DZL)

Didn't he threaten someone with a gun and take property he claimed was his?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:58 PM (PQb8B)

162
Decentralizing DC offices could do some good as well.

State gets moved to Oklahoma.

Treasury gets moved to Kansas.

The only federal employees in DC end up being elected officials and staff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026

I like this idea and I know it will never happen and I've no idea how we fix this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 01:59 PM (H67ia)

163 Wasn't he president recently?
Posted by: ...

Arguably Scotus belching out dicta causes all sorts of problems in effect because some idiot judges end up quoting and relying upon it for decisions.

See Footnote 4 of Carolene Products case (United States v. Carolene Products Co. (193

. Case involved skim milk regulations but footnote 4 told judges that Scotus was going to ignore cases involving economic regulations in favor of 'civil rights' cases instead. The noxious bleatings that claimed they would focus on the problem that insular minorities had instead warped Scotus and federal jurisprudence all the way up to today.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:59 PM (E4rtv)

164 Just ate the last banana. Don't have much to live for now.

Posted by: Out Of Ideas at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

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How could you afford bananas when you had to pay $7 to genocide Gaza at the same time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:45 PM (pfZGz)

"Where's the rice?"

- - - - - - Somalians

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:59 PM (PQb8B)

165 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

The "impartial jury" seems to be a major issue...in Dem country, no jury is impartial.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 02:00 PM (l3cgK)

166
This was put into the Bill of Rights due to the British taking Americans beyond the colonies to either Halifax for trial or even to London to prevent pro Americans in the colonies from being able to acquit on the jury.

Posted by: whig

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Tsshhh. So now we can't prevent anti-Americans from being able to acquit. Another backfire, like the 14th.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:00 PM (mmrXZ)

167 Some of the time when Caleb Hammer speaks only dogs can hear him. My speaker blew.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 02:00 PM (enNUy)

168 162 I like this idea and I know it will never happen and I've no idea how we fix this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 01:59 PM (H67ia)

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One department has been moved out. BLM or something.

Bunch of bureaucrats quit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:01 PM (pfZGz)

169 If only, but that looks like a campaign staff warmup. In fact, the OG admitted as much.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (mmrXZ)

That video needs the addition of little thought balloons depicting visions of hairy man ass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:01 PM (fzlJX)

170 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:59 PM (E4rtv)

Crazy

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 02:01 PM (hVPzc)

171 147 obiter dicta
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Wasn't he president recently?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (hVPzc)

Sounds like what docs do when they invert a dick into a "pussy"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 02:01 PM (l3cgK)

172 Cornbread is just so...southern. Ew.
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton, CT at October 29, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)

Please, journeycakes is southern. Put sugar in it and you can't find a more Connecticut dish unless you like pie for breakfast.

Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Kline at October 29, 2026 02:01 PM (rbvCR)

173 All I have to do is vote huuuuurrrrderrrr! That'll beat the corruption!

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 29, 2026 02:02 PM (SUQyq)

174 "The "impartial jury" seems to be a major issue...in Dem country, no jury is impartial." Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Democrats practice their own version of taqiyya. Lying is perfectly fine ... protect corrupt Dems, convict innocent Republicans, especially conservatives.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 02:02 PM (vbXSk)

175 173 All I have to do is vote huuuuurrrrderrrr! That'll beat the corruption!

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 29, 2026 02:02 PM (SUQyq)

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"Voting does nothing."

*voting leads to Trump winning and so many deportations that the population of the US declines, outright declines, for the first time in literally 60 years*

"See? Voting does nothing."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:03 PM (pfZGz)

176 169 If only, but that looks like a campaign staff warmup. In fact, the OG admitted as much.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:48 PM (mmrXZ)

Talafreako has had some pretty good crowds... No doubt bussed in, but the optics are good

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 02:03 PM (+gK6I)

177
I like this idea and I know it will never happen and I've no idea how we fix this.
Posted by: CaliGirl

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I think we moved Agriculture to Colorado. (Ugh)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:04 PM (mmrXZ)

178 @163 wasn't Citizens United a big deal due to the dicta? As I recall that's where Scalia caused the left to go nuts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 02:04 PM (f8snw)

179 174 "The "impartial jury" seems to be a major issue...in Dem country, no jury is impartial." Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Democrats practice their own version of taqiyya. Lying is perfectly fine ... protect corrupt Dems, convict innocent Republicans, especially conservatives.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 02:02 PM (vbXSk)

And eventually, knowing what will happen in court, criminals get no trial by jury, but punishment by vigilantes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 02:05 PM (l3cgK)

180 The Cars and The Police are so different when it comes to sound it’s hard to choose which band I like more.

If you made me choose, I’d have to go with The Cars for best hits overall, but The Police have a few songs that I love.

And The Cars are American so there’s another edge.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:05 PM (6ydKt)

181 Broken glass? Walz and Co. are going to be big mad......

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
53m
🚨 BREAKING: US federal agents across several agencies are raiding multiple sites across the Twin Cities in MN RIGHT NOW in an apparent fraud investigation ahead of JD Vance's visit tomorrow

THIS site has BROKEN GLASS, and it's LICENSED by the State of Minnesota! 🤯

HHS OIG, FBI, IRS and the Medicaid Control Unit are involved

HERE WE GO! JD VANCE comes to MN TOMORROW.

One of the recent targets is Iska Inc. in St. Louis Park, a disability therapy and social services agency. Agents were spotted outside with a front window smashed in

Tomorrow, JD Vance lands in St. Cloud with the White House fraud task force to make a major "War on Fraud" announcement

Tim Walz had YEARS to stop this. The Trump administration is actually doing it and that's what I voted for 🇺🇸

Trump at a rally this week said major fraud investigations are happening in Minnesota. It's all crashing down.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 02:06 PM (kX27y)

182
I think we moved Agriculture to Colorado. (Ugh)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:04 PM (mmrXZ)

I didn't realize this. I wonder if the employees quit their jobs?

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 02:07 PM (H67ia)

183 What does it say about not being able to assemble an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed?
Posted by: Sponge
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Bill of Rights gives defendants the power to challenge venue, not government. The real problem is that the Democrats have been allowed to create a rotten borough in DC of judges. The response of the GOP should be create a bunch of new judges and pack the court there. Or create a National Court of Appeals dealing with conflicts between the circuits or to do cert.

Abolishing DC as a federal district and returning the land to Maryland would be another option--no more Dem ran DC Circuit and no potential to create a new Democrat state with two senators.

Fedgov already gave back the Virginia portion of DC in the 1840's.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 02:08 PM (E4rtv)

184 You know, like a smorgasbord.

Megachurch pastor Judah Smith says Hindus can get to heaven if they add Jesus to their pantheon

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 02:08 PM (ndZc7)

185 I didn't realize this. I wonder if the employees quit their jobs?
Posted by: CaliGirl

They've moved some offices, not departments out of DC already and usually the DC types either retire or seek employment at another federal agency. Hasn't really affected the output of the offices. I think Bureau of Land Management and a USDA office have been moved out of DC by Trump to the shrieking and wails of DC denizens.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)

186
HERE WE GO! JD VANCE comes to MN TOMORROW.

Posted by: beckster

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I've been hoping he'll have some news about the Ilhan case.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:09 PM (mmrXZ)

187 *voting leads to Trump winning and so many deportations that the population of the US declines, outright declines, for the first time in literally 60 years*

"See? Voting does nothing."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:03 PM (pfZGz)

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Yes, but Trump didn't fix everything on his first day so it's probably best to sit the election out.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 29, 2026 02:09 PM (2UnvF)

188 Nude some anthrax homo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

189 @180

>>And The Cars are American so there’s another edge.

They were both great band but had two completely different vibes.

The Police had more number 1 hits than The Cars.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (XV/Pl)

190 I think such grand jurors and jurors are asking for violence to be directed at them and their families. Violence is what happens when courts don't work.

That's not a wish. It's just predictable.

If the government wants this to stop, prosecute (and persecute) the training organizations and their personnel. Get creative.

Posted by: DOOM! at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (TymRw)

191 187 Yes, but Trump didn't fix everything on his first day so it's probably best to sit the election out.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 29, 2026 02:09 PM (2UnvF)

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America didn't become a utopia after the 2024 election, therefore voting is pointless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (pfZGz)

192 Megachurch pastor Judah Smith says Hindus can get to heaven if they add Jesus to their pantheon
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 02:08 PM (ndZc7)

Envisions image of a six-armed Jesus riding an elephant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (fzlJX)

193 Make a rule that juries in DC cannot be filled with former and current government employees, former and current government contractors, or any person who is related to or friends with former or current government employees or government contractors.

That would weed about about 90% of the leftists in town.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:11 PM (6ydKt)

194 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2026 02:12 PM (H67ia)

195 If simply buying a maga hat was sufficient reason to be surveilled, the people who attended the jury nullification sessions should be on the DOJ's shit list.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 02:13 PM (nEUC6)

196
Hey I don't want those state department bastards here!
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 29, 2026 01:50 PM (YZ0Fo)

The lace-panty brigade at State wouldn't be caught dead in OK. Or anywhere else in the Midwest. They'll quit and apply to some NGO in DC.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 02:14 PM (y9nCu)

197 178 @163 wasn't Citizens United a big deal due to the dicta? As I recall that's where Scalia caused the left to go nuts
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Yep. I think Scotus blew that one myself. And that is because Buckley v. Valeo which Citizens United did not overrule, is bad law equating money with speech. So Buckley created this wonky balancing test that allowed money given to politicians was protected by the 1st Amendment but yet could be regulated because it had the option to corrupt. That meant that wealthy individuals could spend all they wanted (or borrow to be paid by after winning) but others were bound to campaign limits on contributions. The justification is that wealthy individuals could not be corrupted by contributing to themselves and thus their First Amendment rights to speech would be quelled.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (E4rtv)

198 They were both great band but had two completely different vibes.

The Police had more number 1 hits than The Cars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 02:10 PM (XV/Pl)

The Police had a more reggae/ska sound and The Cars were more of a Punk-Pop act, in my view.

The Police were more popular in the early to mid-80s for sure, but The Cars for their first few albums were popular, too.

If you turned on the radio in the mid-80s for several hours you were just as likely to hear The Cars as The Police.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

199
MAGA was the last, best hope for a genuine grassroots political movement to form a third party and break the grip of these DC bastards on the rest of us. But, the clock has run on out on MAGA. It has nowhere to go from here.

Now, this kind of thing is what we're going to get as long as we're in this ridiculous federation. It's DC's plaything and we're stuck with it. 350 million people at the mercy of a handful of buttfucking Communist elites.

So I've moved on to the obvious next (last) play: secessionism.

Given that I want to carry through an unconstitutional State usurpation of federal power, I think that NPV compact is the template.

Set an arbitrary number of States - I think 13 is a good number, as a nod to our amazing forebears. Once 13 States pass it, it triggers. In the meantime, while waiting for the laggards, signatories focus their resources on maximizing the size and power of their National Guards, and reforming infrastructure in preparation for border closure.

By the time it happens, the federal government will be in deep shit without *any* material preparation on the part of the rebellious States, but that's no excuse for sitting around.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 02:19 PM (BI5O2)

200 Mea culpa, had to go out for an appointment.

Trump had actively blocked her from joining the team in Palm Beach but she remained for nine additional weeks on GSA's WH transition payrolls working in VA.

Later, U.S. taxpayers funded Cassidy Hutchinson’s private security detail for approximately six months, spanning from immediately after her public testimony in late June 2022 until the House January 6th Committee officially disbanded at the end of December 2022.

She's quite the connection for the aray of investigations & punishments.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 03:16 PM (NFX2v)

201 8 Might be time to Heinleinize the DMV. Central Maryland, DC, and northern Virginia can serve on juries or grand juries only if they are honorably discharged veterans.
Posted by: a world that works

That changed very bigly under Biden.

After all, his two sons.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 03:22 PM (NFX2v)

202 From above, "A grand jury rejected the DOJ's attempt to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Trump's actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol..."

Which account?

Vice Chair Liz Cheney was her primary institutional champion. Critics argue that Cheney used the committee's official congressional budget to insulate and shield Hutchinson, creating a protective environment where her late-stage, uncorroborated "recollections" could be safely added into the record without immediate pushback from other White House staff.

In the end, proving Hutchinson deliberately fabricated her testimony, rather than just misremembering secondhand details, carried too high a legal burden for an indictment, so they say.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 03:34 PM (NFX2v)

203 New rule -- you can't have a government-adjacent trial in any jurisdiction that has a Pacifica radio affiliate.

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at October 29, 2026 03:52 PM (VqeLu)

204 [honorably discharged veterans.
Posted by: a world that works

That changed very bigly under Biden.

After all, his two sons.
Posted by: L - No nic.
----
One's dead so he ain't getting on any juries, and the other was kicked out... that "honorably" up there.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 04:22 PM (EuPh7)

NYT: An Obama-Era Investigation Concluded That Ilhan Nur Said Elmi Entered Into a "Sham Marriage" With Her Likely Brother (But Dropped the Investigation, Of Course)

This is all just a big Right Wing Conspiracy Theory and RUSSIAN Disinformation Campaign, H8rz.

Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother.
The federal investigation of Representative Ilhan Omar is focused in part on whether she entered into a sham marriage in 2009 to help a man suspected of being her brother obtain a green card, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said.

"Some evidence" = "literally all of the evidence so we dropped it like a hot potato so we could later say 'we reached no firm conclusions'"

Speculation that Ms. Omar committed marriage fraud with a brother has shadowed the Minnesota Democrat's political career for more than a decade and President Trump repeated the accusation last week. She has long called it a right-wing conspiracy theory that federal officials debunked during her first race for elected office in 2016.
But that case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, according to the current and former officials, most of whose law enforcement careers spanned several presidential administrations.

When Ilhan Nur Said Elmi answered the question "did you marry your brother?" with the answer "not to my knowledge," it immediately struck me that she might have been counseled to avoid directly lying, because a lie could be said to be a continuation of the original conspiracy which would therefore extend the statute of limitations clock.

I didn't mention it because it seemed too speculative.

But given that Ilhan Nur Said Elmi must have known she was investigated by Obama's DHS and FBI, and given that she was surely warned by Obama that she could face potential consequences, maybe it's not such a big speculation to say she's avoiding saying things that could be argued to re-start the statute of limitations clock.

Now the Trump administration, whose top leaders have long reviled Ms. Omar, has revived the scrutiny as one element of a sprawling investigation into the Omar family's journey to the United States as refugees from war-torn Somalia. At issue is her marriage in 2009, when she was already a U.S. citizen, to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen whom she divorced in 2017.

See, it's not that No One Is Above the Law or that cheaters and immigration fraudsters should face justice -- no, it's all about Trump "reviling" this poor immigrant stronk empowered black Muslim woman and daughter of a schoolteacher.

Be better, Trump. #BeBetter.

Democrats are "distancing themselves" from this smelly pirate hooker.

Dozens of House Democrats are keeping their distance from Rep. Ilhan Omar as the Minnesota "Squad" rep faces a federal investigation -- even as party leaders rally behind her and demand that the Trump administration back off.
A letter led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and signed by 175 House Democrats accused the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security of weaponizing law enforcement against Omar, whose Washington DC home was searched by federal agents earlier this month.
Around 40 Democrats declined to sign the letter from the 214-member caucus.

"Congresswoman Omar is seeking reelection in Minnesota's 5th congressional district in just one week. News of the search warrant, whether properly predicated or not, could affect voters' decisions, which is exactly why federal law enforcement should not engage in such conduct when voters are casting their ballots. This type of interference strips Minnesotans of their right to a free and fair election guaranteed to them under the Constitution," the letter states.

Trump was seeking re-election as the real president of the United States and Democrats charged him with four absurd non-crimes and arrested him.

I thought No One Is Above the Law. No? Was I misinformed?

However, a number of House Democrats declined to sign the letter, a notable show of distance from Omar, who has frequently drawn controversy over her outspoken criticism of Israel and other positions on foreign policy.
Among the lawmakers who didn't sign were Reps. Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen and Josh Gottheimer, who all represent a district in either New York or New Jersey, where political calculations could make embracing Omar a liability.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, also chose not to sign the letter even though current Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Washington Democrat who represents a competitive district, also was not on the letter.
Their absences suggest that while many Democrats are willing to defend Omar against what they characterize as a "politically motivated investigation," others may be wary of tying themselves to the progressive just days before Election Day.

Glenn Beck
@glennbeck
Oct 27
We received an HSI memo from inside the administration revealing federal agents spent 8 months building a case on Ilhan "Omar" before ever knocking on her door.
The leaked document requests her complete, unredacted passport history, targets potential federal violations for false passport statements and false claims of U.S. citizenship, and explicitly raises the prospect of civil denaturalization!
That paper trail explains why two dozen federal agents walked out of her home with her phone, files, and her DNA, and why those grand jury subpoenas went out to her family.
Now, is she going to be convicted, stripped of her citizenship, and deported? Proving this in a courtroom is still a major hill to climb. But if federal law enforcement actually has the receipts to back this memo up... OHHHHH BOY.

We received an HSI memo from inside the administration revealing federal agents spent 8 months building a case on Ilhan "Omar" before ever knocking on her door.
The leaked document requests her complete, unredacted passport history, targets potential federal violations for false passport statements and false claims of U.S. citizenship, and explicitly raises the prospect of civil denaturalization!
That paper trail explains why two dozen federal agents walked out of her home with her phone, files, and her DNA, and why those grand jury subpoenas went out to her family.
Now, is she going to be convicted, stripped of her citizenship, and deported? Proving this in a courtroom is still a major hill to climb. But if federal law enforcement actually has the receipts to back this memo up... OHHHHH BOY.
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 27, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

2 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

3 THE BLADE SPARES NONE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

4 Ilham Nur ist kaput?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (GN2QT)

5 If she'd been a blonde haired, blue eyed German, she never would have been allowed in the country.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (BpO1e)

6 The Blade is getting dull?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:13 PM (GN2QT)

7 Glenn Beck is still a thing?

Posted by: Who knew at October 29, 2026 12:13 PM (jtrvQ)

8 She is the poster child for repealing Hart-Celler. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:14 PM (NcvvS)

9 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Yeah, like the Marxists were going to go after another Marxist

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 12:14 PM (nOK1x)

10 If you can't keep it in your pants brother well, keep it in me!

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at October 29, 2026 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

11 Tucker Carlson and David French still think are important, so...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:15 PM (GN2QT)

12 The federal government is a criminal syndicate specializing in extortion and money laundering.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at October 29, 2026 12:15 PM (JAh4c)

13 >>>An Obama-Era Investigation Concluded That Ilhan Nur Said Elmi Entered Into a "Sham Marriage" With Her Likely Brother (But Dropped the Investigation, Of Course)

This all goes to the notion that, under democrats, the DOJ had too sole purposes, while they became a joke about true known wolf threats.

First, it was weaponized against conservatives, Tea Partiers, J6ers, etc.

Second, and probably primarily, it served as a Kompromat generator for its masters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:15 PM (dK+Kv)

14 5 If she'd been a blonde haired, blue eyed German, she never would have been allowed in the country.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (BpO1e)

Sadly, she's likely to look more similar to a youth in modern Germany than a blonde haired, blue eyed person.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 29, 2026 12:15 PM (P9Ea3)

15 >>THE BLADE SPARES NONE

Sorry, Elric. Got two before the deadly blade.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:15 PM (NcvvS)

16 So...presuming it is identified she lied to get citizenship what happens to any laws that she was the deciding vote on?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (sKqQm)

17 7 Glenn Beck is still a thing?
Posted by: Who knew at October 29, 2026 12:13 PM (jtrvQ)

I was a little surprised to see him bubbling up recently, too.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (QGaXH)

18 Afternoon Ace.
The investigation started under Barky , but now he's appalled that the Trump administration is going after her . F U Barky McF*ckstick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (f8snw)

19 Why would the Obama administration build a case against Ilhan-whatever her name really is- since she's a progressive Democrat and a Muslim who hates America-all up the alley of "Fundamental transformation" OBama?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (JrHfD)

20 Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, also chose not to sign the letter even though current Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did

Good Lord, what does this malignant crone have to lose by signing the letter?

Notice that "I think she's guilty and should be held accountable" never enters the conversation. It's Pelosi, after all.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

21 7 Glenn Beck is still a thing?
Posted by: Who knew

Glenn Beck is in this 30th trimester of pregnant pauses.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Y8DZL)

22 Have to say that last thread was the most polite and respectful discussion of religion I have seen in a group of more than 4 people. Kudos morons.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Ti9vn)

23 The NYT doing that journalisming again. Something is amiss.

>>We received an HSI memo from inside the administration revealing federal agents spent 8 months building a case on Ilhan "Omar" before ever knocking on her door.

So something was actually happening and just because it wasn't reported in the media for obvious reasons doesn't mean nothing is happening?

My world is rocked.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (viF8m)

24 I have a SPARE square.

By the way, has anyone considered that they dropped the investigation, but used the information to get Ilhan Nur Said Elmi to dance like a puppet?

I don't know. Maybe setting up a money laundering operation through a fake winery, to clean fraud funds that were orchestrated through her state's benefits, and siphoning a portion back to the DNC and various other parties sypathetic to Obama's world stance. While simultaneously setting up a facet of Congress to push Socialist mantra.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (dIske)

25 @glennbeck
Oct 27

We received an HSI memo from inside the administration revealing federal agents spent 8 months building a case on Ilhan

Umm, that seems unusual.

Now, is she going to be convicted, stripped of her citizenship, and deported? Proving this in a courtroom is still a major hill to climb.

Proving it will be the easy part.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2026 12:17 PM (3KWei)

26
So, does she end up in a DC court on all this?

If so, dibs on "Nothing Will Happen Guy" remarks.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 12:17 PM (Y8DZL)

27 I asked not that long ago if there will come a time when the Dems decide this xumaan sharmuta isn't worth the trouble any more and throw her to the rats.

Although many thought the answer was "no," The Blade thought the answer was "yes."

I think we're seeing that The Blade is correct.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

28 22 Have to say that last thread was the most polite and respectful discussion of religion I have seen in a group of more than 4 people. Kudos morons.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Ti9vn)

Sorry, we'll try to live down to liberal expectations of us in this post, the next one at the latest.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (P9Ea3)

29 22 Have to say that last thread was the most polite and respectful discussion of religion I have seen in a group of more than 4 people. Kudos morons.

Posted by: polynikes

...is what a Catholic running cover for the Pope would say.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

30 The NYT is suddenly doing journalism. First they bomb Peltola on her involvement in dirty tricks, now they dump on Barky and Omar .
Mamdani must have put something in the water

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (f8snw)

31 Gaylord had the FBI doing oppo research in case Michelle wanted to be President.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (GN2QT)

32 I'm a big supporter of The Blade, but today he could only slice his way to The Bronze Medal.

Posted by: Third Rail at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (EdP2u)

33 Have to say that last thread was the most polite and respectful discussion of religion I have seen in a group of more than 4 people. Kudos morons.
Posted by: polynikes

Well, despite our religious differences, we all agree that woke, leftist "religions" all suck.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

34 The administration needs to fast track her departure. Had this been a (D) admin going after a (R) fraudster from another country they'd already be deported and stripped of all their congressional perks.

So... yeah.... #Be Better

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 12:19 PM (RORbl)

35 >>I was a little surprised to see him bubbling up recently, too

You should listen to the piece he did with DataRepublican that IrishEi posted a week or so ago. DR seems to trust him.

I find his delivery a bit boring and dumbed down but he is often correct even if a bit behind the curve.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (viF8m)

36 Gaylord had the FBI doing oppo research in case Michelle wanted to be President.

Barky didn't get to be the first gay president due to Buchanan and Mooch wouldn't have gotten to be the first female president even if she won. Because of her penis and all that

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (sKqQm)

37 Now, is she going to be convicted, stripped of her citizenship, and deported? Proving this in a courtroom is still a major hill to climb.

Proving it will be the easy part.
Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2026 12:17 PM (3KWei)

I believe Boasburg has the case so....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (+gK6I)

38 The people repeatedly saying "I researched this and while there's no evidence of crime or wrongdoing, the things I have read uncritically from the fever pits of the internet make me think its FISHY" are just running the Pizzagate / Long Form Birth Certificate con again.

1. It is not a federal crime to marry your subling, even if he is, which I doubt.
2. The guy is not a US citizen, so claiming she married him to get him citizenship is absurd.

Call me when we prosecute Melania and Musk’s immigration fraud. 🥱

Careful! My account was banned for a week for Hate because I called a vulnerable trillionaire PedoNazi an illegal immigrant.

Conservatives have been crying about this for damn near 10 years and have failed to produce a shred of evidence. Trust me, if they had it we’d have heard about it by now!

My money is they lied on the warrant which is why they are fighting to keep it sealed and are using this as an opportunity to smear dems going into the midterms. Huge push in Minnesota is Somali fraud and nearly every right wing media outlet is hammering the constituents nonstop with that narrative and of course Omar's investigation.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (t19vo)

39 Hey commie retards - this is what decolonization looks like.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (jb8Ss)

40 I'm a big supporter of The Blade, but today he could only slice his way to The Bronze Medal.

Posted by: Third Rail at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (EdP2u)

It was kind of embarrassing, honestly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:21 PM (dK+Kv)

41 ...is what a Catholic running cover for the Pope would say.
Posted by: Archimedes

The real Mackerel Snapper thread is Saturday morning 8 AM Eastern.

Posted by: Papists Are A Problem at October 29, 2026 12:21 PM (EdP2u)

42 @24 Orson, the problem with that theory is that the Somalis are too stupid and insane to be effective puppets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:21 PM (f8snw)

43 Careful! My account was banned for a week for Hate because I called a vulnerable trillionaire PedoNazi an illegal immigrant.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (t19vo)
___________

Musk is a "PedoNazi"? Based on what? There are no particularly young girls in his past, are there?

Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

44 It seems things aren't going so good for the UTSA death threat chick.

Someone registered her name for a web site and posted all the family info. A bunch of fucking kooks. Mom is a DSA cheerleader and daddy is an immigration lawyer. All of them may or may not be here legally. Funny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:22 PM (wOO3z)

45
Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)

46 Avg Somali IQ is 60 something. Maybe Brofo is significantly smarter and reaches average but either way the point of these schemes isn't to be secretive, because they believed they were untouchable, the point was to enrich leftists in the easiest way possible

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)

47 >>Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?

Only for the last couple of decades.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 12:23 PM (viF8m)

48 Redditors are very good at projecting their kinks on other people.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:23 PM (GN2QT)

49 Just amazed how brazen it all is, to run for Congress and you're basically a fugitive and you know it.

But I'm sure none of them are brave enough to cast an illegal ballot.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 12:24 PM (zfAa+)

50 It seems things aren't going so good for the UTSA death threat chick.

Sorry. What is the UTSA and who is the death threat chick?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:24 PM (JrHfD)

51 >>>Democrats are "distancing themselves" from this smelly pirate hooker.

That's good.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:24 PM (dK+Kv)

52 Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

Yes
Posted by: It's me donna

I'm pretty sure "Nazi" has been used since Bush Jr. Now that it and "racist" have lost their power, they're adding the pedophile lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2026 12:25 PM (gWZEK)

53 >>> 5 If she'd been a blonde haired, blue eyed German, she never would have been allowed in the country

Like the white South African farmers that Trump is letting in as refugees, and the left gnashes their teeth over.

One of them is farming in the US, and posts in X vids of how happy and blessed he is to be here, not worrying he'll get slaughtered. Love him.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 12:25 PM (Toos7)

54 >>> 46 Avg Somali IQ is 60 something. Maybe Brofo is significantly smarter and reaches average but either way the point of these schemes isn't to be secretive, because they believed they were untouchable, the point was to enrich leftists in the easiest way possible
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)

iirc it's about 80 but that's the threshold for retardation.

One may argue how valid this can be as they are able to meet basic needs to survive, although one might also wonder if there's any correlation between lower IQ and shithole culture.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 12:25 PM (jb8Ss)

55 @43:Elric, everyone not on the left these days is called a pedo or a pedo protector. It shows they have nothing else to iffer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:25 PM (f8snw)

56
Musk is a "PedoNazi"? Based on what? There are no particularly young girls in his past, are there?

Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

==

Everyone that's MAGA is a pedo because they are in on Epstein. or something.

I'm still gobsmacked how many people on both the left and right got sucked into Epstein being the nexus of everything bad in the world.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 12:25 PM (zfAa+)

57 Speaking of smelly pirate hookers, where is Rancid Tilapia?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM (GN2QT)

58 Avg Somali IQ is 60 something. Maybe Brofo is significantly smarter and reaches average but either way the point of these schemes isn't to be secretive, because they believed they were untouchable, the point was to enrich leftists in the easiest way possible
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)
______

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Brofo is average in intelligence and not misshapenly hideous. That makes her a rock star in the Somali land of mutated retarded aberrations.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

59 Bets on when Ilhan is deported? 2040 at the latest, maybe?

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM (dpXJq)

60 22 Have to say that last thread was the most polite and respectful discussion of religion I have seen in a group of more than 4 people. Kudos morons.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Ti9vn)

What's the point of getting worked up about the misbeliefs of cretins who are all going to Hell?

Posted by: I'm Going to be Lonely in Heaven at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM (TymRw)

61 I'm pretty sure "Nazi" has been used since Bush Jr. Now that it and "racist" have lost their power, they're adding the pedophile lie.

However, Chimperor has come and gone. Some slurs are specific to a particular Republican. Remember Ray-Gun? That's some top-notch leftist humor, right there.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

62 Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?

Feminists have always been weird about this - remember they called Roy Moore a pedo for marrying a 24 year old when he was in his late 30s.

The left broadly has started calling everyone they don't like a pedo though because they believe the Epstein stuff hurt them in 2024. That's the simple reason. None of them actually believe it and if you pushed them on "Should any homosexual or trans adult be prosecuted for grooming a child" their answer would be hell no, that's a perfectly ok thing for an LGBTQ person to do

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM (sKqQm)

63 Ilhan Nur Said Elmi <<<<< En Sabah Nur

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 29, 2026 12:27 PM (78mYQ)

64 >>> 56

==

Everyone that's MAGA is a pedo because they are in on Epstein. or something.

I'm still gobsmacked how many people on both the left and right got sucked into Epstein being the nexus of everything bad in the world.
Posted by: Sharpie at October 29, 2026 12:25 PM (zfAa+)

He's a symptom, not a cause. I see the focus on him as very similar to Bush Jr talking about getting Bin Laden.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 12:27 PM (jb8Ss)

65 42 @24 Orson, the problem with that theory is that the Somalis are too stupid and insane to be effective puppets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:21 PM (f8snw)
____________________

That's why you marry some white guy with a history of creative financial hijinks.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 12:27 PM (dIske)

66 Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Inversion is a thing. They themselves support pedoes and not sees but the left know the normies hate it. So they think calling everyone on the Right as pedoes and not sees will cause the Normies to turn on them. Same as their widespread use of racists, White Supremacists, etc.

And on social media, easy for bots and the simple minded to chant the tagline.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

67 Tucker Carlson and David French still think are important, so...

They're both impotent, so just a few letters off.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM (2ocoG)

68 This video (perhaps a prescient video) has never not been creepy
youtu.be/gKhjaGRhIYU

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM (88C+u)

69 5 If she'd been a blonde haired, blue eyed German, she never would have been allowed in the country.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (BpO1e)

——-

Acshually, they kill her pet squirrel and then investigate her immigration status.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM (78mYQ)

70 iirc it's about 80 but that's the threshold for retardation.

The only study I am aware of found the avg was 68.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

71 I'm still gobsmacked how many people on both the left and right got sucked into Epstein being the nexus of everything bad in the world.

Epstein is a thing the CIA did. Concentrating on him as the be-all end-all is itself an op to obscure that.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

72 Hey commie retards - this is what decolonization looks like.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (jb8Ss)

When can we start chanting "by suitcase or casket"?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 12:29 PM (rbvCR)

73 Like the white South African farmers that Trump is letting in as refugees, and the left gnashes their teeth over.

One of them is farming in the US, and posts in X vids of how happy and blessed he is to be here, not worrying he'll get slaughtered. Love him.
Posted by: LizLem
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A local SA immigrant pharmacist mentioned to me how wonderful it was to go to the beach without having to worry about being assaulted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:29 PM (XeU6L)

74 It seems things aren't going so good for the UTSA death threat chick.

Sorry. What is the UTSA and who is the death threat chick?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

University of Texas San Antonio. Liberal kook chick read a Charlie Kirk assassination poem and threatened the same for the campus Conservative Club president.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (wOO3z)

75 A local SA immigrant pharmacist mentioned to me how wonderful it was to go to the beach without having to worry about being assaulted.

The video during the World Cup of the guy from South Africa who couldn't believe he was outside at night and not being raped and murdered in the wrong order was simultaneously great and sad.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

76
Among the more pathetic GOPe defector voter notices in Texas are those that out when a member of the Bush family comes out with an "I voted D!" picture or video.

"Oh, it really, really torqued my deep, deep devotion to the cause of conservatism, but I had no choice but to vote against Paxton and / or Abbott!"

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (ixS3i)

77 A local SA immigrant pharmacist mentioned to me how wonderful it was to go to the beach without having to worry about being assaulted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:29 PM (XeU6L)

Land of the Free. Because of the Brave.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (dK+Kv)

78 Casket?

Suitcase?

What happened to catspult?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (GN2QT)

79 >>> 66 Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Inversion is a thing. They themselves support pedoes and not sees but the left know the normies hate it. So they think calling everyone on the Right as pedoes and not sees will cause the Normies to turn on them. Same as their widespread use of racists, White Supremacists, etc.

And on social media, easy for bots and the simple minded to chant the tagline.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

Paxton (or his office?) letting that one dude off the hook is bad because White Male. (And, how odd that they didn't care until very recently.)
Commies releasing hundreds of thousands of rapists, pedos and murderers from prison across the US is fine because Oppressed Brown People Dindu Nuffin.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 12:32 PM (jb8Ss)

80 Have to say that last thread was the most polite and respectful discussion of religion I have seen in a group of more than 4 people. Kudos morons.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Ti9vn)

We were not discussing points of doctrine.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

81 Just amazed how brazen it all is, to run for Congress and you're basically a fugitive and you know it.

--

This is the part where she read the tea leaves, at least in the Democrat Party, and knew she was untouchable.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 12:32 PM (qBdHI)

82 Speaking of sub 70 IQ idiots, Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings of CNN for defamation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:33 PM (GN2QT)

83 Commies releasing hundreds of thousands of rapists, pedos and murderers from prison across the US is fine because Oppressed Brown People Dindu Nuffin.

It's basically a DNC platform plank now that crime, rap, and basketball are the only 3 things brown people can do.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

84 This is the part where she read the tea leaves, at least in the Democrat Party, and knew she was untouchable.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 12:32 PM (qBdHI)

I wouldn't want to touch that.. And I don't mean that in a gay way....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 12:33 PM (+gK6I)

85 University of Texas San Antonio. Liberal kook chick read a Charlie Kirk assassination poem and threatened the same for the campus Conservative Club president.

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With a great, big Cheshire cat smile while she did it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (qBdHI)

86 > "not to my knowledge,"

Well-played. Care to stop by my office for a cigar?

Posted by: William Jefferson Clenis at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (qlLNh)

87 75 A local SA immigrant pharmacist mentioned to me how wonderful it was to go to the beach without having to worry about being assaulted.

The video during the World Cup of the guy from South Africa who couldn't believe he was outside at night and not being raped and murdered in the wrong order was simultaneously great an

I remember when Hollywood and leftists in general were all outrageously outraged about SA, demanding an immediate end to apartheid, which would result in a new land of milk and honey for all. Strangely, they've been utterly quiet about the resulting collapse of civilization resulting from their handiwork.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

88 this smelly pirate hooker.

Hey now, Ace. You should be careful of libel. She bathes frequently and even wears perfume.

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (kU0PQ)

89 Speaking of sub 70 IQ idiots, Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings of CNN for defamation.

Jennings should just randomly yell "Kaya! Place!" in the courtroom.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (2ocoG)

90 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (wOO3z)

That; That was really dumb of her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (JrHfD)

91 I'm pretty sure "Nazi" has been used since Bush Jr. Now that it and "racist" have lost their power, they're adding the pedophile lie.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Since Thomas Dewey was smeared by Truman in 1948. The Democrats were coy about it but they have long tried to associate the GOP with fascism and Not Seeism by indirectly. GOP called the Democrats commies in return which in fact, a good percentage were such in the Democrat party.

No political theorist ever said that popular elections would turn on high principled grounds of debate. De Tocqueville thought it should be so but that was not the case even when he thought the US did (Federalists and Democrat party system).

Jefferson smeared Adams as a proto king and Federalists smeared Jefferson as a Jacobin.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (E4rtv)

92 The tranny who tackled and ripped up the shirt of a College Republican on U of Utah campus is a Roblox developer.

http://tiny.cc/lvuc101

For those who don't know, Roblox is a very popular game environment where people can create their own worlds and mini-games. It's poorly regulated and it's very popular with young kids with over 120 million active daily users.

Roblox has had a seedy pedo underbelly for a long time, but it's hidden enough and small enough that many parents either don't know it's there or think it won't affect their kid.

My son has never been allowed to be on Roblox. His peers were all on it and he asked to play many times. Fortunately his peers have moved on to other games and he doesn't ask anymore.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)

93 Land of the Free. Because of the Brave.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

George Orwell

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

94
No one is above the law.

Breaking: Ilhan Elmi has just changed her name to Ilhan No One.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (hVPzc)

95 I read somewhere that Ilhan's sister Sahra came up with the idea for the siblings to get married. I wonder if that's why she was also subpoenaed and her phone confiscated. On top of the accusations of being involved in the FOF fraud.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (kX27y)

96 What happened to catspult?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (GN2QT)

That is what the Algerians were chanting as they threw out the French, many of whom had been living in Algeria for generations.

La Valise ou le Cercueil

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (rbvCR)

97 90. Meant to write "Thanks.That was really...."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (JrHfD)

98 I remember when Hollywood and leftists in general were all outrageously outraged about SA, demanding an immediate end to apartheid, which would result in a new land of milk and honey for all. Strangely, they've been utterly quiet about the resulting collapse of civilization resulting from their handiwork.

Lethal Weapon 2 is still one of my most-quoted movies, but the whole South Africa thing definitely didn't age well.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (2ocoG)

99 91 No political theorist ever said that popular elections would turn on high principled grounds of debate. De Tocqueville thought it should be so but that was not the case even when he thought the US did (Federalists and Democrat party system).

Jefferson smeared Adams as a proto king and Federalists smeared Jefferson as a Jacobin.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:34 PM (E4rtv)

=========

"I AM ALL POWERFUL!"
-name recognition

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 12:36 PM (pfZGz)

100 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (wOO3z)

That; That was really dumb of her.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:36 PM (wOO3z)

101 Must be some sort of ancient alien virus making its way thru the grey lady.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 29, 2026 12:36 PM (8C1eU)

102 Acshually, they kill her pet squirrel and then investigate her immigration status.
Posted by: Cray Cray at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM

Bastards!

Posted by: Zombie Peanut at October 29, 2026 12:36 PM (KRh8R)

103
The Left are just "Merry Pranksters" who commit felonies, the far-Reich angry haters that notice it are the real villains.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (Y8DZL)

104 >> Democrats are "distancing themselves" from this smelly pirate hooker.

This chick is done. These are the people who proudly support killing babies and old people.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (p5Pt8)

105 So even calling Republicans cousin-humpers was projection.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (hVPzc)

106 Paxton (or his office?) letting that one dude off the hook is bad because White Male. (And, how odd that they didn't care until very recently.)
Commies releasing hundreds of thousands of rapists, pedos and murderers from prison across the US is fine because Oppressed Brown People Dindu Nuffin.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

In that particular case, I believe it was the family of the youth that wanted the deal to be made. They wanted it ended because of the negative effects on the kid having to testify again in court under cross examination. The kid was being forced to relive hell over and over again in court proceeding.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (E4rtv)

107 Land of the Free. Because of the Brave.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

George Orwell
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (XeU6L)
________

Interestingly, Orwell never said or wrote that. That quote is from a paraphrase of what Orwell actually said.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (iFTx/)

108 101 Must be some sort of ancient alien virus making its way thru the grey lady.
Posted by: dananjcon at October 29, 2026 12:36 PM (8C1eU)

Could be that they released to show that Obama had investigated it but found no wrongdoing so... Innocent...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (+gK6I)

109 Speaking of sub 70 IQ idiots, Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings of CNN for defamation.

Piker recently said he was known as three-beer because he gets gay after three beers.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

110 Strangely, they've been utterly quiet about the resulting collapse of civilization resulting from their handiwork.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Because...they have been successful in their actual aim, the destruction of western civilization.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:38 PM (XeU6L)

111 Among the more pathetic GOPe defector voter notices in Texas are those that out when a member of the Bush family comes out with an "I voted D!" picture or video.

"Oh, it really, really torqued my deep, deep devotion to the cause of conservatism, but I had no choice but to vote against Paxton and / or Abbott!"

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 29, 2026 12:31 PM (ixS3i)
==
It's nice to know that the Bushes are now a spent political force.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 29, 2026 12:38 PM (7/DDO)

112 When Ilhan Nur Said Elmi answered the question "did you marry your brother?" with the answer "not to my knowledge," it immediately struck me that she might have been counseled to avoid directly lying, ...

It's still a lie, just a harder to prove one.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 12:38 PM (vTZFs)

113 "I AM ALL POWERFUL!"
-name recognition
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I don't get it. Mebbe I should, but I don't. Really.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

114 Breaking: Ilhan Elmi has just changed her name to Ilhan No One.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (hVPzc)
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Worked for me.

Posted by: Odysseus, son of Laertes at October 29, 2026 12:38 PM (amcLV)

115 > Musk is a "PedoNazi"? Based on what? There are no particularly young girls in his past, are there?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

I've even seen them call him an "incel".

Dude has *at least* 14 children by a long succession of extremely hot (if sometimes a little crazy) women..

But sure, "incel".

Me, I tap out any time someone starts jabbering about the "Epstein files".

Dopey Joe and the Ho had four full years to "release the Epstein files", but they didn't. Not even when the Ho was in a close election battle with Trump.

Posted by: William Jefferson Clenis at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (qlLNh)

116 Don’t know what the fuck it is with Washington state and (particularly) stupid politicians. That Jayapal creature, in addition to being shamelessly stupid, has a face like a snow shovel that has been mercilessly beaten with another snow shovel.

Posted by: Steeldoc at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (AvFJz)

117 Interestingly, Orwell never said or wrote that. That quote is from a paraphrase of what Orwell actually said.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Dammit, Blade. Stop messing with my narrative. :-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (XeU6L)

118 I read somewhere that Ilhan's sister Sahra came up with the idea for the siblings to get married. I wonder if that's why she was also subpoenaed and her phone confiscated. On top of the accusations of being involved in the FOF fraud.

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 12:35 PM (kX27y)

If that sister was not also investigated earlier, then the conspiracy against her is still available, which could, I suppose, re-implicate the Smelly Pirate Hooker in a conspiracy indictment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (dK+Kv)

119 We were not discussing points of doctrine.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (JrHfD)

120 William Contreras hoisting the 2026 MVP Trophy

https://youtube.com/shorts/KYOfWsk_wv0

Note who he thanks first.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (dK+Kv)

121 It's nice to know that the Bushes are now a spent political force.
Posted by: Black JEM
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In hindsight, the only thing that Al Sharpton ever said I should have agreed with. "Stay out of the Bushes".

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

122 >>> 106
==
In that particular case, I believe it was the family of the youth that wanted the deal to be made. They wanted it ended because of the negative effects on the kid having to testify again in court under cross examination. The kid was being forced to relive hell over and over again in court proceeding.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:37 PM (E4rtv)

I had never heard about it until the political ads. The first thing I thought was where was that poor kid's father.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (jb8Ss)

123 When Ilhan Nur Said Elmi answered the question "did you marry your brother?" with the answer "not to my knowledge," it immediately struck me that she might have been counseled to avoid directly lying, ...

--

You just never know when your other Sybil personality committed something you, gosh darn it, don't remember.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (qBdHI)

124 bonhomme, good for you. I warned my brother (who has kids) off of Roblox even before "Schlep" released videos about all the preds on that site (and got banned).
My brother considers me a prophet now. Maybe I should brush up my Arabic

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (88C+u)

125 Funniest thing I've seen in a while, and it's just the trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAV4nDKZetY

Cunk on Cinema

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (pfZGz)

126 The Koreans are going to have to up their fight game.

https://tinyurl.com/yrkbfp7b

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

127 > Democrats are "distancing themselves" from this smelly pirate hooker.

We find this comparison extremely offensive.

Posted by: The Smelly Pirate Hooker Anti-Defamation League at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (qlLNh)

128 A unique, acoustic rendition of Mad World.

https://youtu.be/sFIQgPAms88

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (dK+Kv)

129 God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Heh, brought back childhood memories of VBS. "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Amen."

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

130 I don't like that no one likes my nickname Sickle Me Elmi but I'll get over it. Maybe.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (hVPzc)

131 It's still a lie, just a harder to prove one.
Posted by: Oddbob
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See:Hillary Clinton testimony

"I do not recall", 39 times.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (XeU6L)

132 Bye Bye, Brother-F**er.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (lCppi)

133 OT- from Rufo in City Journal. Can't afford $5 lettuce but can afford a manicure???
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"Salmon, beef, organic produce, and Amy’s Kitchen meals: these are just some of the luxury foods that California welfare recipients can get delivered to their homes each week, for free.

Californians like TikTok user “Lupita” are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.

“Yesterday, I was like, ‘I need some lettuce,’ but the lettuce was like five dollars,” she said. “And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God.”

https://tinyurl.com/2vehvxta

Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (kX27y)

134 The Koreans are going to have to up their fight game.

https://tinyurl.com/yrkbfp7b

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

Why can't we have that here?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:42 PM (dK+Kv)

135 Thomas Massie kept claiming he had the files. Never delivered.
I'm sure he has a lot of similar files on his hard drive iykwim.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 12:42 PM (88C+u)

136 I don't like that no one likes my nickname Sickle Me Elmi but I'll get over it. Maybe.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (hVPzc)

Deport Me Elmi is king. Sorry. There's nothing else to aspire to.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 12:43 PM (dK+Kv)

137 > Roblox has had a seedy pedo underbelly for a long time

Is it Roblox per se, or just a Willie Sutton situation ("I rob banks because that's where the money is")? Same basic reason that pedos gravitate toward teaching, youth groups etc.

I honestly don't know.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:43 PM (qlLNh)

138 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

That's fun too. I could be projecting here, but I don't think God gets a big smile from doctrinal disputes among Christians.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:43 PM (JrHfD)

139 It’s funny how she thinks “not to the best of my knowledge” is a get out of jail free card. Department of Social Welfare v Berlin Development Associates, for one.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:44 PM (p5Pt8)

140 Californians like TikTok user “Lupita” are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.

“Yesterday, I was like, ‘I need some lettuce,’ but the lettuce was like five dollars,” she said. “And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God.”

https://tinyurl.com/2vehvxta
Posted by: beckster

This country needs a gasoline enema.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:44 PM (wOO3z)

141 I had never heard about it until the political ads. The first thing I thought was where was that poor kid's father.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
======
Yep. Current Democrat leftists are despicable in their lust for power. Do or say anything to get power.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:44 PM (E4rtv)

142 I'm sorry, but after three beers it doesn't occur to me to top off the fourth with some frothy semen. If you're gay after three, your eyes were cruising for man-ass before one

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 12:44 PM (88C+u)

143 > God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Amen."

Good food. Good meat. Good God. Let's eat!

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (mkw2N)

144 I just remembered we had a pedo bus driver when I was a kid. Matt. And you know what? He even had the smile. Fuckin' Matt.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (hVPzc)

145 This is ready made for our nothing ever happens Moron.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (Wt1Rs)

146 > Heh, brought back childhood memories of VBS. "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Amen."
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

The original Romper Room used that one, too.

Just try getting a kid's program on the air with that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (qlLNh)

147 That's fun too. I could be projecting here, but I don't think God gets a big smile from doctrinal disputes among Christians.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Shakespeare comes to mind via Puck, "what fools these mortals be!"

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)

148 Heh, brought back childhood memories of VBS. "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Amen."
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)
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At church camp, we sang the Johnny Appleseed song from the Disney short film.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 12:46 PM (amcLV)

149 >>> 146 Heh, brought back childhood memories of VBS. "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Amen."
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

The original Romper Room used that one, too.

Just try getting a kid's program on the air with that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (qlLNh)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Charlie Brown Christmas Special at October 29, 2026 12:46 PM (jb8Ss)

150 Surprising, but the Somali pirates on Captain Phillips were actually the cream of the crop.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (lCppi)

151 >> It's nice to know that the Bushes are now a spent political force.

Been that way for awhile. And everyone knows his daughter if the NBA’s DEI chief. Excuse me, Social Impact and Inclusion chief.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (p5Pt8)

152 Just try getting a kid's program on the air with that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (qlLNh)

The meat alone would send leftards into a tailspin.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (hVPzc)

153 Good food. Good meat. Good God. Let's eat!
Posted by: bonhomme
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Heresy!!! You put the Lord last!!!/lol

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (E4rtv)

154 I honestly don't know.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:43 PM (qlLNh)

The banks weren't making money off of Willie Sutton's activities....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (aKiSo)

155 151 >> It's nice to know that the Bushes are now a spent political force.

Been that way for awhile. And everyone knows his daughter if the NBA’s DEI chief. Excuse me, Social Impact and Inclusion chief.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (p5Pt

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2022 AG for Texas Republican primary out front should have told everyone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 12:48 PM (pfZGz)

156 The little Brazilian snot who read the poem about being happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered is majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy. Her professors should fail her out of principle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:48 PM (f8snw)

157 Rub-adub-dub, thanks for the grub. Yeah God!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:48 PM (wOO3z)

158 146 Heh, brought back childhood memories of VBS. "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Amen."
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

The original Romper Room used that one, too.

Just try getting a kid's program on the air with that nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (qlLNh)

Even at 4, it bothered me and "good' and "food" don't rhyme.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 12:48 PM (lCppi)

159 I don't think God gets a big smile from doctrinal disputes among Christians.

Sorry, but we're not about to let the homoiousiasts get away with their nonsense.

Posted by: Homoousiasts at October 29, 2026 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

160 God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (JrHfD)

That is a given, but when it gets down to the soft boiled eggs and the Big-Endians versus the Little-Endians, that is when blood is shed and threats are made.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 12:49 PM (rbvCR)

161 Bush's daughter is the NBA’s DEI chief. Excuse me, Social Impact and Inclusion chief.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (p5Pt

Wow. Where can I apply for a job like that? Sounds cushy. Almost as mission-critical as the director of community affairs for the Chicago hospital system in the 2000s not that I have anyone in mind.

Posted by: 88C+u isn't calling it a payoff at October 29, 2026 12:49 PM (88C+u)

162 Is it Roblox per se, or just a Willie Sutton situation ("I rob banks because that's where the money is")? Same basic reason that pedos gravitate toward teaching, youth groups etc.

I honestly don't know.

I would say it's both. Pedos are going to go where the kids are. And Roblox's architecture and design philosophy makes it very hard to regulate in any way. I believe they do try, and I'm glad they do, but it's a problem.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:50 PM (mkw2N)

163 Even at 4, it bothered me and "good' and "food" don't rhyme.
Posted by: LASue
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Pronounce it Southern style and you can make it work. Have to work in some extra syllables into food.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

164 it gets down to the soft boiled eggs and the Big-Endians versus the Little-Endians, that is when blood is shed and threats are made.

Don't get me started on Star-Bellied Sneetches.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

165 Posted by: Charlie Brown Christmas Special at October 29, 2026 12:46 PM (jb8Ss)
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The suits were very very nervous about including the passage from Luke, but Charles Schulz was adamant.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 12:50 PM (amcLV)

166 Odd how there were so many 'investigations' of prominent Dem figures that got 'dropped'.

I bet you could do quite a list with the info we have on hand (and this is saying nothing of the info we DON'T have.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Y/06r)

167 The nicest part of the above mentioned CalFresh free veggie program is it frees up recipients scarce $ for cigarettes alcohol and dope!
California cares.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Wt1Rs)

168 > Heresy!!! You put the Lord last!!!/lol

*hangs head in shame*

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:51 PM (mkw2N)

169 Geez the Left are insane. I just saw a new word.

ZioNazi.

For fucks sake what I want to say here can't be said.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (hVPzc)

170 The Koreans are going to have to up their fight game.

https://tinyurl.com/yrkbfp7b

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

Looks like a royal Caribbean cruise sans the hair weaves and well...the ship.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (8C1eU)

171 The suits were very very nervous about including the passage from Luke, but Charles Schulz was adamant.

It's good to be the guy riding the crest of the zeitgeist.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

172 It's nice to know that the Bushes are now a spent political force.
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Been that way for awhile.

Two and a half* generations is a good run.

* George P.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (vTZFs)

173 156 The little Brazilian snot who read the poem about being happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered is majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy. Her professors should fail her out of principle
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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This is our globo homo elite. A bunch of suckups and nepot toadies with a hatred toward others as social inferiors.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv)

174 Even at 4, it bothered me and "good' and "food" don't rhyme.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 12:48 PM (lCppi)

Hell it bothered me just now

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (hVPzc)

175 For fucks sake what I want to say here can't be said.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (hVPzc)
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*types/deletes* is always an option.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 12:53 PM (amcLV)

176 -174 Even at 4, it bothered me and "good' and "food" don't rhyme.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 12:48 PM (lCppi)

Hell it bothered me just now
Posted by: ...
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Say it with me, goooooood, fooooood. Repeat until you make them sound the same in the middle. Take your time as that is part of the Southern trick--make the listener wait for it.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:54 PM (E4rtv)

177 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 12:54 PM (PQb8B)

178 The funny part is the people pushing assassination and assaults are the least capable of carrying out those threats and think people aren’t going to fight back. lol.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (p5Pt8)

179 173 156 The little Brazilian snot who read the poem about being happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered is majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy. Her professors should fail her out of principle
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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This is our globo homo elite. A bunch of suckups and nepot toadies with a hatred toward others as social inferiors.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv

What does it matter?
Unless she has family connections somewhere, she's getting a degree that qualifies her to work at Starbucks or go to law school.

Posted by: Poli Sci and Related Disciplines Are Trash Degrees at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (TymRw)

180 1 Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

2 And SPONGE!!
Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

3 THE BLADE SPARES NONE
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

It is to larf........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (PQb8B)

181 They're persistent, I'll give them that. Anyone who is stupid enough to think the Democrats will increase affordability is too stupid to vote.

THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: ‘Affordability’ Is A Trojan Horse For Democrats To Bring Back The Biden Years.

By “restore money that was improperly cut,” the Times means that Democrats will refuse to pass budget bills that don’t include funding for all the multibillion-dollar scam projects that help fund their cause, like USAID and every anti-American NGO. When they say “scientific research and disease prevention,” that’s what they’re referring to.

https://tinyurl.com/4tzwjr67

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

182
Ilhan Nur Said Elmi

I always knew that annoying Muppet Elmo was an evil fucker.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (y9nCu)

183 I thought Carnival Cruise Lines ran the ghetto ships.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (wOO3z)

184 The little Brazilian snot who read the poem about being happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered is majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy. Her professors should fail her out of principle
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Has anyone said 'nothing will happen' yet?

Because.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (PQb8B)

185
>>explicitly raises the prospect of civil denaturalization

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No wonder she was such a wreck when Chris Hayes interviewed her.

She was doing a lot better when she went on Omar Fateh's show with Hasan Piker, though. They didn't talk about the raid, just how awful Republicans are.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (mmrXZ)

186 161 Bush's daughter is the NBA’s DEI chief. Excuse me, Social Impact and Inclusion chief.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM
Which one? Married to a player? NBA or WNBA?

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (Ll/EU)

187 Elon Musk is a smart and capable guy, but he's got some wacky ideas.

"Don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won't matter."

"You won't need to save for retirement. If any of the things that we've said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant."

Sorry, no. I'm not taking this advice.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (mkw2N)

188 Illhan simply committed the same sort of immigration fraud that every previous administration, D and R alike, have ignored and/or winked at.
She made the mistake of getting herself into politics and then Congress. Actually, it only became a mistake under Trump, because he's been the only one enforcing the law, the law which is enormously popular among the hoi polloi if not the politicians.
The chickens are heading into the henhouse.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (EuPh7)

189 That first Pretenders LP is awesome. Not a bad tune on it.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Qugny)

190 It's nice to know that the Bushes are now a spent political force.

Been that way for awhile. And everyone knows his daughter if the NBA’s DEI chief. Excuse me, Social Impact and Inclusion chief.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 12:47 PM (p5Pt

Aren't the Bushes originally from Connecticut?

Connecticut needs them!!! They should go back.

Then they can wear Madras shorts and Top Siders all the time, talk with clenched teeth and (BONUS!) drink Madras highballs all day.

Away with you now, Bushies. And take Ol' Corny with you.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (YSUhf)

191 "Spain" and "again" don't rhyme? What the hell are you talking about, eh?

Posted by: Canadian Poet at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (qlLNh)

192 "International Studies" exists to indoctrinate and train anti-American cadres.

Posted by: 88C+u has some personal observations at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (88C+u)

193 i cared about the national debt under biden

Posted by: Paul at October 29, 2026 12:58 PM (LQ3Ux)

194 190 Away with you now, Bushies. And take Ol' Corny with you.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (YSUhf)

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Why do I doubt that Cornyn sets foot in Texas ever again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 12:58 PM (pfZGz)

195 191 "Spain" and "again" don't rhyme? What the hell are you talking about, eh?
Posted by: Canadian Poet

For a good laugh, walk up to Al Jourgensen and remind him of his accent in the With Sympathy songs

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 12:58 PM (88C+u)

196
Has anyone said 'nothing will happen' yet?

Because.........
Posted by: Sponge
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Someone bought her internet name as a domain and has made her internet famous. Not going to do her realtor mom in Houston much good either.

Nasty and vile is going to be her label for awhile and worse if anyone googles her. CEOs are rightly getting concerned about being assassinated nowadays--good luck getting that corporate job.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)

197 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (wOO3z)

198 I always knew that annoying Muppet Elmo was an evil fucker.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (y9nCu)
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Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/EHK5fBm1YWk

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (amcLV)

199 Then they can wear Madras shorts and Top Siders all the time

And just what is wrong with Top Siders?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

200 > The little Brazilian snot who read the poem about being happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered is majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy.

Her information's all over the Twitters. Someone even registered a domain using her name to relay the "poem" she read, who her parents are, etc. Even if she doesn't get kicked out of school or the country (she's on visa), employers google people. They'll find this page when she's interviewing.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (mkw2N)

201
So...presuming it is identified she lied to get citizenship what happens to any laws that she was the deciding vote on?
Posted by: 18-1

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She cast the deciding vote to table a motion to censure her.

That's the only case I can find.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (mmrXZ)

202 Why do I doubt that Cornyn sets foot in Texas ever again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I am sure all Texans will be broken up and sad about that.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:00 PM (E4rtv)

203 Sponge! How's the move going?

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

204
201
So...presuming it is identified she lied to get citizenship what happens to any laws that she was the deciding vote on?
Posted by: 18-1

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She cast the deciding vote to table a motion to censure her.

That's the only case I can find.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (mmrXZ)

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Committee votes! Gotta research those, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:00 PM (pfZGz)

205 The only reason Roblox """tries""" to stop groomers now is that Chris Hansen publicly dragged their lousy asses for it in a book, and then a bunch of State AGs sued them.

Up to that point, they dug in their heels and refused to budge on any kind of groomer-controls.

Those 764 pieces of shit Ace recently profiles loooove them some Roblox, but they are by no means the only ones, just some of the most malevolent.

Predators love Roblox, and Roblix loves them right back.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2)

206 Why do I doubt that Cornyn sets foot in Texas ever again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I am sure all Texans will be broken up and sad about that.

If I were a Texan, I would be. I want many opportunities to publicly mock him to his face.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

207 >>For a good laugh, walk up to Al Jourgensen and remind him of his accent in the With Sympathy songs

He actually pronounces 'Again' as though it rhymes with Spain in 'It's the Same'.
Which is off 'The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste', I think?

For all his faults...Ministry was a fucking amazing live band through the mid-90s.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (Qugny)

208 > Madras shorts
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (YSUhf)

Those...things... should be considered a crime against humanity.

Worst. Fashion. Ever.

And I say this as a person who once owned a pair of parachute pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (qlLNh)

209 Or are these loathsome turds now just calling everyone they disagree with pedos and nazis?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Projection isn't just a river in Egypt

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (f0Zj2)

210 The little Brazilian snot who read the poem about being happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered is majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy. Her professors should fail her out of principle
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Has anyone said 'nothing will happen' yet?

Because.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 12:55 PM (PQb8B)
_______

IIRC, some little shit pulled a very similar stunt last year at some college in TX, and was almost immediately expelled.

Plus, if there's any issue with immigration status, T2 don't fuck around.

So ... something "could" happen

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

211 “At this point, what difference does it make!?”

“No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

Posted by: RM at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (ananP)

212 Dos and DHS have been pretty regularly deporting visa holders who have glorified Charlie’s murder.

$5 says she’s done here.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (p5Pt8)

213 I missed this earlier:

The White Factory
Katherine Schmidt

Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM

"If only White factories were real, and we could just pump out more on demand, we wouldn't have this problem..." -- economists studying public finances throughout Europe and the Anglosphere, probably

Posted by: SciVo at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (ke3zm)

214 So apparently the federal poll watchers won't be FBI or DHS, per Zero hedge, the monitors would include employees from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

So winning!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (rbvCR)

215
I wish that NY Times article allowed comments. I'd love to know how actual readers are reacting to this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

216 Someone bought her internet name as a domain and has made her internet famous. Not going to do her realtor mom in Houston much good either.

Nasty and vile is going to be her label for awhile and worse if anyone googles her. CEOs are rightly getting concerned about being assassinated nowadays--good luck getting that corporate job.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)

I have a feeling there are plenty of left wing shithole businesses run by leftist billionaires that will protect her and make her rich.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (PQb8B)

217 212 Dos and DHS have been pretty regularly deporting visa holders who have glorified Charlie’s murder.

$5 says she’s done here.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (p5Pt

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Her alone being deported and her family staying in Houston will be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (pfZGz)

218 UTSA chick's dad is a lawyer and mom is a realtor/activist. Dad is from Brazil and mom is from Central America somewhere. Are they legal? Who knows?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 01:03 PM (wOO3z)

219 1. It is not a federal crime to marry your subling, even if he is, which I doubt.

That is a special objection

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 01:03 PM (vJrRc)

220 214 So apparently the federal poll watchers won't be FBI or DHS, per Zero hedge, the monitors would include employees from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

So winning!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (rbvCR)

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Guess which agencies have been deputized to enforce immigration law?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:03 PM (pfZGz)

221 > It is not a federal crime to marry your subling

Subling: n. a sibling who is retarded, or, equivalently, a Somali.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:04 PM (qlLNh)

222 THE BLADE SPARES NONE ...

... but nobody got the reference? It's an admittedly obscure reference, but with all the supposedly movie buffs here, I expected someone to get it.

Be better, dudes and dudettes. Be better!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

223 What YD said.
Schlep was a victim of these scum and, after catching a bunch of them (working with local police every time), Roblox banned him as a "vigilante". Of course if you work with the fuzz you are the opposite of a vigilante, which gave Schlep some standing to sue for defamation.
That's when Schlep did a video which he introduced "I take a seat with Chris Hansen", mega-lolz. And when Louisiana's AG sent out legal letters to Roblox.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 01:04 PM (88C+u)

224 No lawyer will save her from being deported. Even her father. The law is clear and tested. Not one single person spouting that crap has received relief. Not one.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 01:04 PM (p5Pt8)

225 UTSA chick's dad is a lawyer and mom is a realtor/activist.
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She's an activist? While peddling stolen land? Infamy!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 01:04 PM (amcLV)

226 62 The left broadly has started calling everyone they don't like a pedo though because they believe the Epstein stuff hurt them in 2024. That's the simple reason. None of them actually believe it and if you pushed them on "Should any homosexual or trans adult be prosecuted for grooming a child" their answer would be hell no, that's a perfectly ok thing for an LGBTQ person to do
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:26 PM

I believe that the theory is that this will cause the right to turn on people they hate because the right is all about hating on things, and pedos are one of the things that is hated by the right.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at October 29, 2026 01:04 PM (S6tOh)

227 The Revolting Cocks were pretty cool. Never really liked Ministry tho.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 01:05 PM (BI5O2)

228 >At this point, what difference does it make!?”

“No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
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you forgot 'unlikely to result in a verdict'

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 01:05 PM (ZxPkt)

229 Sponge! How's the move going?
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

It's going. We still have a bit to go....and fitting 26 years into a singlewide trailer (temporarily, we pray) is proving quite the mission.

We close on Tuesday, so we are getting low on time. It's supposed to rain this weekend, so trailering stuff will have to wait a bit........

I'm pretty tired......First Lady's knee isn't holding up very well and Sponge Bro (from anotha' mutha') has been a Godsend for most of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:05 PM (PQb8B)

230 Then they can wear Madras shorts and Top Siders all the time

And just what is wrong with Top Siders?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

Hurry up and get on your Madras shorts.

The Bushies are waiting for you and you cucumber sandwiches are getting warm!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 01:05 PM (YSUhf)

231 > Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

While Jimmuh Peanut was the Worst President Ever, right up until Jugears took office, I always did find his brother Billy amusing.

Someone asked if he'd be part of his brother's administration, should he win. "Yeah, I told him I want to be in charge of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:06 PM (qlLNh)

232 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (mmrXZ)

Hi Blondie! How are you?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:06 PM (hVPzc)

233
So ... something "could" happen
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

I will not be holding my breath, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:06 PM (PQb8B)

234 Dos and DHS have been pretty regularly deporting visa holders who have glorified Charlie’s murder.

$5 says she’s done here.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (p5Pt

========

Her alone being deported and her family staying in Houston will be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 01:02 PM (pfZGz)
______

See my comment above. Last filthy commie who mocked CK's murder was expelled, I think from UT. Same school?

I think this cunting bitch will at least be expelled.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

235 While she was married to her gay brother husband, one wonders who she was getting some from.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (Wt1Rs)

236 4 Ilham Nur ist kaput?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (GN2QT)

She's farted! I know this because I saw a YouTube thumbnail, "she's f***ed.."

Posted by: SciVo at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (ke3zm)

237 And besides it’s all your fault. So far. Billy Jeff, meet Homer.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (OW9LL)

238 And just what is wrong with Top Siders?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

Hurry up and get on your Madras shorts.

The Bushies are waiting for you and you cucumber sandwiches are getting warm!

That's a calumny, sir! A damnable calumny! Have at you!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t)

239 Deport everyone with a funny name

Spaniards and Scandinavians will be grandfathered in

everybody else, out you go

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (ZxPkt)

240 "Glenn Beck is still a thing?"

An old Christian friend from college that I reconnected with a couple years ago ... was going to some big Beck event a couple months ago. My old friend has money, and I'd guess her current husband does as well. She doesn't post much political stuff though. Beck does seem to offer some insight, like his long lists of Soros connections.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (vbXSk)

241 The NYT is suddenly doing journalism. First they bomb Peltola on her involvement in dirty tricks, now they dump on Barky and Omar .
Mamdani must have put something in the water
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (f8snw)

Or the Mexican cartel now recognizes there's a new string horse in town.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (fzlJX)

242 What do you think Paul did to satisfy the vig when he couldn't pay back the debt during Biden?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

243 OT:
California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri abruptly resigned on Wednesday,

lol

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (UjdFS)

244 That is a given, but when it gets down to the soft boiled eggs and the Big-Endians versus the Little-Endians, that is when blood is shed and threats are made.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Let me come down, firmly, on the Little-Endian side.

I once designed a PowerPC system.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (EuPh7)

245 Deport everyone with a funny name
Spaniards and Scandinavians will be grandfathered in
everybody else, out you go

Deport anyone whose name begins or ends with a vowel. That'll take care of the wops and the micks.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)

246 >While she was married to her gay brother husband, one wonders who she was getting some from.

Posted by: torabora
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It was probably battery-operated

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (ZxPkt)

247 Someone asked if he'd be part of his brother's administration, should he win. "Yeah, I told him I want to be in charge of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:06 PM (qlLNh)
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The one Clinton witticism that I like is when he quipped that they should combine ATF with NHTSA and call it "The Department of Guys."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 01:09 PM (amcLV)

248 Madras fabric is the official tartan of the MacButtfuck clan.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:09 PM (qlLNh)

249 "Glenn Beck is still a thing?"

An old Christian friend from college that I reconnected with a couple years ago ... was going to some big Beck event a couple months ago. My old friend has money, and I'd guess her current husband does as well. She doesn't post much political stuff though. Beck does seem to offer some insight, like his long lists of Soros connections.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2026 01:07 PM (vbXSk)

Beck does do things to earn ridicule, sure, but when it comes to doing in depth investigations and getting receipts to the things he talks about, he's pretty damn solid.

He unraveled the Ukraine corruption thing LONG before anyone was really talking about it, showing the ties to Biden, Owebama, Romney, Kerry......the dude is a bloodhound when it comes to that stuff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:10 PM (PQb8B)

250 Projection isn't just a river in Egypt

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (f0Zj2)

It can't be projection. Hate has no home with them. The sign says so.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 01:10 PM (hVPzc)

251 New one:

Madison Cornbread Is the Latest Beneficiary of Corrupt DC Democrat Jury Nullification

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

252 >
Deport anyone whose name begins or ends with a vowel. That'll take care of the wops and the micks.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)

Don't forget Obama. He'd get deported twice, which would be an excellent start.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:10 PM (qlLNh)

253 "International Studies" exists to indoctrinate and train anti-American cadres.
Posted by: 88C+u has some personal observations at October 29, 2026 12:57 PM (88C+u)
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When I took a bachelor's in this it was a multi department major between History, Political Science, and Regional Science.

1. History - full of rabid Marxists
2. Political Science - full of ex-spooks and anti-communist mercenaries
3. Regional Science - who cares

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 01:10 PM (RIvkX)

254 OT:
California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri abruptly resigned on Wednesday,

lol
Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (UjdFS)

A decade and billions of dollars leading to 1 mile of track.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:11 PM (PQb8B)

255 > A decade and billions of dollars leading to 1 mile of track.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:11 PM (PQb8B)

That was by design.

Remember how the Superconducting Supercollider got canceled after all the money had been spent paying Dem donors to dig a gigantic hole?

Same deal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (qlLNh)

256 Deport everyone with a funny name

Spaniards and Scandinavians will be grandfathered in

everybody else, out you go
Posted by: Don Black

Uh-oh.

Posted by: I. P. Freely at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (UjdFS)

257
>>A letter led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and signed by 175 House Democrats accused the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security of weaponizing law enforcement against Omar, whose Washington DC home was searched by federal agents earlier this month.

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That and Obama's explicit support.

What are these people going to do when it all becomes undeniable?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (mmrXZ)

258 What do you think Paul did to satisfy the vig when he couldn't pay back the debt during Biden?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

Well, he didn't get any vag.......

Move every vig.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (PQb8B)

259 For all his faults...Ministry was a fucking amazing live band through the mid-90s.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 01:01 PM (Qugny)

I saw Helmet and Sepultura open for Ministry Dec 91 at the Bill Graham Theater in SF.
I was pretty blown away.
Now I turn the station when they come on.
Alien J is Antifa.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 01:13 PM (Ae6Br)

260 OT:
California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri abruptly resigned on Wednesday,

lol
Posted by: wth at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM (UjdFS)
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At some point you've made enough money...

Or so I've been told.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (FZ29D)

261
Remember how the Superconducting Supercollider got canceled after all the money had been spent paying Dem donors to dig a gigantic hole?

Same deal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 01:12 PM (qlLNh)

A lot of it was built before congress cancelled the project.

It's still there, although I can't tell you what they're doing with it, if anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (PQb8B)

262
And just what is wrong with Top Siders?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

__________

Summering on the Cape. Messing around on yachts. Gin and tonics. Discreet adultery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (7LLii)

263 And just what is wrong with Top Siders?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Nothing... on the sailboat deck. Great grip on wet surfaces and non-marring.
Everywhere else, they're an affectation. 😎

Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (EuPh7)

264 >What are these people going to do when it all becomes undeniable?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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deny it, of course

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 01:15 PM (ZxPkt)

265 It's still there, although I can't tell you what they're doing with it, if anything.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (PQb8B)
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We could tell you but, well, you know...

Posted by: Men In Black at October 29, 2026 01:17 PM (FZ29D)

266 Nothing... on the sailboat deck. Great grip on wet surfaces and non-marring.
Everywhere else, they're an affectation. 😎
Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (EuPh7)
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Nonsense, I wear mine to the club, to lunch, or to shop.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton, CT at October 29, 2026 01:17 PM (RIvkX)

267 65 42 @24 Orson, the problem with that theory is that the Somalis are too stupid and insane to be effective puppets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:21 PM (f8snw)
____________________

That's why you marry some white guy with a history of creative financial hijinks.
Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 12:27 PM (dIske)

Well, the key to a successful marriage is to have common interests.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 01:20 PM (p61JE)

268 It's still there, although I can't tell you what they're doing with it, if anything.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (PQb8B)
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Underground laser tag skating rink?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 01:21 PM (amcLV)

269 265 It's still there, although I can't tell you what they're doing with it, if anything.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 01:14 PM (PQb8B)
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We could tell you but, well, you know...
Posted by: Men In Black at October 29, 2026 01:17 PM (FZ29D

Well, I'll tell you what, brother, they're jot superconducting and supercolliding. Not on The Hulk's watch. Oh yeah.

Posted by: the ghost of hulk hogan at October 29, 2026 01:22 PM (TymRw)

270 Somali average IQ is 68 -- exactly half what my IQ is.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 29, 2026 01:23 PM (bX16E)

271 Me, I tap out any time someone starts jabbering about the "Epstein files".

Dopey Joe and the Ho had four full years to "release the Epstein files", but they didn't. Not even when the Ho was in a close election battle with Trump.

Posted by: William Jefferson Clenis at October 29, 2026 12:39 PM (qlLNh)

Nearly everyone known to have been on that island boinking "nearly legal" teenies has turned out to be a Democrat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:24 PM (fzlJX)

272 Good food. Good meat. Good God. Let's eat!
Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 12:45 PM (mkw2N)

Rub a dub dub. Thanks for the grub. Yay, God!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:28 PM (fzlJX)

273 I have a feeling there are plenty of left wing shithole businesses run by leftist billionaires that will protect her and make her rich.
Posted by: Sponge

Too many of these activists nowadays for even billionaires to support now that AID is shut down. Billionaires operate using other people's money, not their own. Almost always, (Trump is a notable exception), they are cheapskates.

Regarding Soros, I always thought of him more an someone willing to be an open funding bundler to the left, useful to the CIA and other intel agencies for regime change as needed so funded, and using his civic foundations and pull to cause market fluctuations to make himself richer.

Dude believed in no one but himself--that is how he could seamlessly move from working for Not Sees, being a good little boy to get a visa from Hungary from the Commies which did not hand those out lightly, and so on. Now his mind has gone and he is rotting in human form in a mansion room waiting for death to release him.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:29 PM (E4rtv)

274 Nood, BTW. Madison Cornbread.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

275 Under the radar on X. GA prisons on lockdown.

"
Justin Wiedeman
@JustinWied20095
·
3h
New cell phone rule (allowing jamming) is likely causing huge "instability" in the prison population that has cell phones (the gangs). When I was on the Board of Corrections from 2009-2012, we wanted jamming badly but FCC would not oblige. That rule is now done, decades after we needed it, but it is likely in part why they are on lockdown."

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 01:37 PM (E4rtv)

276 244 Let me come down, firmly, on the Little-Endian side.

I once designed a PowerPC system.
Posted by: buddhaha at October 29, 2026 01:08 PM

Oddly enough, I've been programming PowerPC systems for a couple of years now.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at October 29, 2026 01:54 PM (S6tOh)

The Morning Rant

The stupidity of the typical "Jewish" voter is well documented. Voting against self-interest is pretty much expected among many American "Jews." And those quotation marks are intentional. Jews who voted for Mamdani and AOC and the other rabid Jew-haters in NYC, and who plan to vote for Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed in Michigan, support people and policies that are antithetical to the very idea of Judaism!

When a Christian rejects his religion, does not follow its precepts, is openly antagonistic to those who follow Christ, we call him an atheist. When so-called Jews reject their religion, do not follow its precepts, are openly antagonistic to those who follow the Torah, we call them...Jews? Why? Because they have Jewish names and eat bagels and lox on Sunday mornings? I eat fish most Fridays...does that mean I am Catholic?

They are atheists who have replaced a real religion with the worship of progressivism, which is a pretty way of saying socialist, which is a pretty way of saying communist. Sure, many "progressives" are uncomfortable with some of the demands of communism, but they are certainly working toward it, even if they are just the useful idiots of the hard left.

And in America, that is the majority of the cohort! That is changing, as the Jews In Name Only (JINO) fade away via assimilation and not having children. The Modern Orthodox and Hasidic (or ultra-religious) populations are growing fast because they do have children, and they tend to vote Republican in national races.

But that doesn't explain this poll...

McLaughlin Poll Shows Jews Flipping Republican on Generic Ballot

Things are changing enough that CNN noted a drastic falloff of Jewish support for Democrats on the generic ballot in New York. Not that surprising since the New York Jewish vote tends to be some of the most traditional in the country. But the generic ballot usually trended Democrat because Democratic congressional candidates would try to appeal to Jews. We're now in the era of the actively antisemitic congressional candidate like Dariazila Avila Chevalier, who celebrated the Oct 7 attacks, Claire Valdez and their gruesome toady, Brad Lander. No surprise that Jewish support for the generic ballot is crashing.
But a McLaughlin poll claims that overall Jewish support has flipped on the generic ballot.

I find it almost incomprehensible that any Jew, no matter how assimilated and contemptuous of his ancestral religion and culture would vote for those who support the destruction of the Jewish people. Are they finally waking up?

Here's some of the data from the McLaughlin poll:

Among the voters in our survey:

Protestants, who account for 38% of likely voters, favor Republicans for Congress by 51% to 43%, an 8-point advantage.

Catholics, representing 24% of likely voters, favor Republicans by just 48% to 46%, a narrow 2-point margin.

Evangelical Christians, who make up 29% of likely voters and overlap with other Christian categories, support Republicans by 56% to 37%, a strong 19-point advantage.

Jewish voters, representing 4% of likely voters, favor Republicans by a striking 64% to 33%, a potential major shift from historical voting patterns.

Here is FrontPageMag again...

Do I buy that shift? I think the number of Jewish voters polled is too small to put too much weight on it. But the level of everyday antisemitism that has been normalized among leftists is mind-blowing. You don’t have to go far to see Goebbels degree rhetoric. It’s leaking into not just the internet, but social circles and everyday interactions. (This isn’t just limited to leftists, but Jews live in liberal areas and encounter liberals more than anyone else.) I think that there is a growing sea change. I suspect it’s not quite as extreme.

Yes, it is a small poll that is only a snapshot, and very possibly not indicative of a lasting trend, but it is certainly interesting. For a lasting shift to occur among American Jews, the inertia of 110 years of voting for leftist policies and candidates, popularly known as Democrats, would have to change.

Rabid, open, obvious Jew-hatred might be the force that pushes American Jews to a more sane approach to their political support. It has been self-destructive for a century, and ignorant of reality; perhaps open discussion among the darlings of the left of American Judaism as intrinsically evil, and Israel as a illegitimate and dangerous country is finally being heard.

Color me skeptical (you would understand if you met some of my relatives!), but even a small shift is important.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 10:55 AM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (8B4gm)

2 >>I find it almost incomprehensible that any Jew, no matter how assimilated and contemptuous of his ancestral religion and culture would vote for those who support the destruction of the Jewish people. Are they finally waking up?

Not Schumer:

@PpollingNumbers
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Sep 16
🔵 News - Schumer's Senate super PAC put another $10M behind Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, per Axios

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (rOKnE)

3 Nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:00 AM (8B4gm)

4 >>Rabid, open, obvious Jew-hatred might be the force that pushes American Jews to a more sane approach to their political support. It has been self-destructive for a century, and ignorant of reality; perhaps open discussion among the darlings of the left of American Judaism as intrinsically evil, and Israel as a illegitimate and dangerous country is finally being heard.

Color me skeptical (you would understand if you met some of my relatives!), but even a small shift is important.
- - - - - -

After Mamdani turns NYC into London?
May be too late.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)

5 Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)

Yes. I have very little hope for NYC. But...many Jews will leave!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 11:01 AM (wMVKv)

6 Looks like it's Catholics' turn in the barrel. Guess we can stop picking on Jews now...
It's possible that the obvious homosexuals (James Martin, SJ) and various other limpwrists in the Church hierarchy is making the Church's appeal more selective. Talk about an institution in need of an enema.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (88C+u)

7 Those pesky Jews.......

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2026 11:03 AM (g8Ew8)

8 And I'm increasingly wondering if Schumer was raised in a secret Argentine vault by exiled Nazis to come here and make Jews look bad

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:03 AM (88C+u)

9 6 Looks like it's Catholics' turn in the barrel. Guess we can stop picking on Jews now...
It's possible that the obvious homosexuals (James Martin, SJ) and various other limpwrists in the Church hierarchy is making the Church's appeal more selective. Talk about an institution in need of an enema.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (88C+u)

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The Catholic vote has been shifting right for a while. It's been roughly 50/50 for a while, but Trump won 55% of the Catholic vote in 2024 while Kamala won 43%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (pfZGz)

10 Chickens for KFC! They are akin to the Gheys For Palestine!

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (07bJ3)

11 For diehard leftists, of any religious persuasion, leftism IS now their preferred religion. And they will vote accordingly. Even if it kills them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 11:05 AM (RORbl)

12 Interesting video of Batya Ungar-Sargon, who is no fool. So how do they walk away?

@TruthFairy131
"Jews built the Left."
- Batya Ungar-Sargon ✡️

Radical Leftism, Marxism & Communism is a Jewish creation.

Jews fund, promote & are the authors & leaders of all of leftist founding ideologies, documents & organisations.

https://tinyurl.com/3tf65yna

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:05 AM (rOKnE)

13 Catholics, representing 24% of likely voters, favor Republicans by just 48% to 46%, a narrow 2-point margin.
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That's theologically impossible. Yeah I know I know..."No true Scottsman" fallacy. But nevertheless, one can't be "Catholic" and support demonic entities running on a platform of abortion-right-up-to-and-including-birth and then go participate in communion afterwards. I get that the current fake pope isn't going to call them out for it, but I don't understand why more of the local priests aren't willing to take a stand.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:06 AM (TN0g+)

14 "I find it almost incomprehensible that any Jew, no matter how assimilated and contemptuous of his ancestral religion and culture would vote for those who support the destruction of the Jewish people. Are they finally waking up?"

Short answer: I think so, yes. It would be interesting to see this broken down by age. I suspect the biggest shift to the right -- or, more accurately, away from the left -- among Jews this election cycle is younger Jews.

Why younger? Because they've seen first-hand the viciousness and destruction the left has for Israel and Jews in general. And unlike older Jews, the younger ones don't have mostly obsolete fears of the KKK, Nazis, and the classic anti-semites.

The older Jews just can't seem to shake these old fears, and have a harder time seeing the real threat: their fellow Democraps. The call is coming from inside the house.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:07 AM (iFTx/)

15 Jews fund, promote & are the authors & leaders of all of leftist founding ideologies, documents & organisations.

That generation birthed Curtis Yarvin who literally wants to bring back the medieval kings.

Posted by: the pendulum at October 29, 2026 11:07 AM (88C+u)

16 13 Catholics, representing 24% of likely voters, favor Republicans by just 48% to 46%, a narrow 2-point margin.
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That's theologically impossible. Yeah I know I know..."No true Scottsman" fallacy. But nevertheless, one can't be "Catholic" and support demonic entities running on a platform of abortion-right-up-to-and-including-birth and then go participate in communion afterwards. I get that the current fake pope isn't going to call them out for it, but I don't understand why more of the local priests aren't willing to take a stand.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:06 AM (TN0g+)

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These ethnic (and religious) polls are...issue filled.

Never mind the fact that progressives are more likely to actually go through the polling process which creates response bias issues, you have to get a lot of Catholics to get a representative sample. Which is difficult and expensive to do.

They're always...suspect.

I take the exit polling from 2024 with less of a grain of salt than any other polling in this area, and exit polls have their own issues.

So, I doubt the Catholic vote has shifted about 10 points to the left in the last 2 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:08 AM (pfZGz)

17 We already early-voted for Jimmy Dean!

Posted by: Hogs In The Pen at October 29, 2026 11:08 AM (EdP2u)

18 The Catholic vote has been shifting right for a while. It's been roughly 50/50 for a while, but Trump won 55% of the Catholic vote in 2024 while Kamala won 43%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (pfZGz)

I live in a place with a strong catholic majority. I haven't heard any of them say they're voting for Dems. They're quite aware of what's going on. They hate the DSA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

19 When so-called Jews reject their religion, do not follow its precepts, are openly antagonistic to those who follow the Torah, we call them...Jews? Why?

Because "Jew" can be ethnic, cultural a/o religious. That Venn does have overlap but is not a circle.

Trump's daughter: a proselyte, not ethnic or cultural — a religious Jew.

Bernie Sanders: ethnic and to a much lesser extent cultural Jew, not religious.

The problem is cultural, not religious. The cultural part provides a Diaspora mindset and the concept of as a Chosen Race, according to Dennis Prager, has a duty to guide everyone else to fall in line with their understanding of how the world ought to be.

Cultural + Religious gives us the so-called Judeo-Christian ethic for as much as Free Will is compatible with Divine Providence. The duty to guide others into a monotheistic drive for righteousness is ideal for the US, anything less is Anti-American and is completely incompatible with a Western 18th Century Christian worldview.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (9s47C)

20 Statistically speaking, the Jewish vote is insignificant, representing a little over 2pct of the electorate.

What is significant is how wealthy Ideological driven Jews allocate their resources politically.

If Mark Zuckerberg is not throwing around Zuckerbucks that's more significant.

Groups will vote how groups will vote, and no matter how much you believe they are voting against their self interest, they don't believe that, and there is nothing you can do about that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (XV/Pl)

21 Crusader, the local priests like Fr. Chad Rippenberger and even bishops like Joseph Strickland tend to get apostolic visitations. The visitations aren't to stritch them behind the ears and call them very good boys.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (88C+u)

22 18
I live in a place with a strong catholic majority. I haven't heard any of them say they're voting for Dems. They're quite aware of what's going on. They hate the DSA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew

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It's as affected by region as much as anything else. Boston Catholics are hard left.

Rural Texas Catholics tend to be hard right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (pfZGz)

23 >>Looks like it's Catholics' turn in the barrel. Guess we can stop picking on Jews now...

Next thing you know we will have San Francisco Pelosi telling us that abortion is great and we need more open air drug markets and 3rd world invaders.

Faith is not church. The world is full of frauds and liars especially when it comes to faith.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (viF8m)

24 I find it almost incomprehensible that any Jew, no matter how assimilated and contemptuous of his ancestral religion and culture would vote for those who support the destruction of the Jewish people. Are they finally waking up?

Not Schumer:

@PpollingNumbers
·
Sep 16
🔵 News - Schumer's Senate super PAC put another $10M behind Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, per Axios

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (rOKnE)
_____

Schumer opposed AES and pimped for that Chungus HR Lady in the primary. But AES won and if there's any chance of the Dums retaking the Senate, they need that seat.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

25 Let me say this about that

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (ZxPkt)

26 Lot of people grew up Catholic, less practice the faith. Still, I'm surprised it's only 2 pts. Satan has been very successful selling abortion to the masses.

Posted by: Inogame at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (53oGX)

27 24 Schumer opposed AES and pimped for that Chungus HR Lady in the primary. But AES won and if there's any chance of the Dums retaking the Senate, they need that seat.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

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Democrats would never have treated Christine O'Donnell like a witch.

That's the difference between the parties from a tactical point of view.

Democrats treat almost any of their candidates like normal representatives of the party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (pfZGz)

28 Maybe some Jews are realizing that the clock is ticking towards 1933 and they've been voting for Hitler.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (zjgNU)

29 >>Those pesky Jews......

We are a Tricksy people.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Qugny)

30 Cuban Catholics, and a good deal of Latino Catholics in TX, can be classed as based.
A lot of them were thrown out of commie countries like Cuba and Venezuela.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:12 AM (88C+u)

31 looks like we got a lot of secular christians

Posted by: nckate at October 29, 2026 11:12 AM (enNUy)

32 >>Faith is not church. The world is full of frauds and liars especially when it comes to faith.

This

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:12 AM (rOKnE)

33 18 The Catholic vote has been shifting right for a while. It's been roughly 50/50 for a while, but Trump won 55% of the Catholic vote in 2024 while Kamala won 43%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (pfZGz)

I live in a place with a strong catholic majority. I haven't heard any of them say they're voting for Dems. They're quite aware of what's going on. They hate the DSA.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (g8Ew

My take:
Catholicism can be considered a "blue collar" congregation. Traditionally Democratic. Generally speaking, the ones who get out and vote are the older people - many who still subscribe to the Democratic Party they grew up with and continue to vote that way. Even when the Democratic Party has morphed into the DSA.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 11:13 AM (N39Ws)

34 Single issue voters are a thing.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:13 AM (Ti9vn)

35 Being Jewish is both religious and racial; that is something that may be unique to being a Jew.
Hitler didn't go after Jews because of religious hatred, but rather racial hatred.
The difference today is that the hatred of Jews by the Left is of the Notsee and Islamist bent, hatred of all Jews regardless of faith, which may be the impetus for changing voting patterns.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:14 AM (l3cgK)

36 In HS I found the Jewish girls to be sassy & cute

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 11:14 AM (ZxPkt)

37 When so-called Jews reject their religion, do not follow its precepts, are openly antagonistic to those who follow the Torah, we call them...Jews? Why?

Leftist Jews have declared Jewishness to be a race, separate from the hated Whitey. They are insufficiently educated in history to understand the ramifications of that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

38 Mayor Jihadi might be producing a cathartic affect.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 11:14 AM (8Uo7a)

39 If you need a feel good story of the day... a man accosted for just doing his job railed against the influencer/streamer recording him. Benny Johnson is raising money for him and has located him.

The anguish in the man's voice...I think everyone struggling right now feels it. Deep. Hope he gets enough to pay off his mortgage!

Also... can someone really just steal $20 from you if you pull out your phone and they tap it with theirs? I don't do things like Apple Pay so I don't know. But gross.

@bennyjohnson
🚨ATTENTION: Please Help Me Find This Father.
This hardworking dad of four just trying to make a living was harassed at his job by a nuisance TikTok influencer. He was then posted online to be mocked by the public.America is facing a crisis...

@bennyjohnson
UPDATE: $100,000 has been raised for Walt, the Red Barron employee harassed to the breaking point by a nuisance streamer. The owner of this GoFund Me has made contact with him and we have reached out as well. Walt is “overwhelmed” by the generosity. America is still great.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 11:14 AM (Toos7)

40 We are a Tricksy people.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Qugny)

And your good a banking !

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:15 AM (Ti9vn)

41 I'm shocked if that poll is accurate...

BUT, the fiancé of the losing Democrat candidate for Senate (she and he are both Jews) has publicly stated he's voting for the Republican.

If an actual, politically active Jew is being that vocal, I think it's likely that poll is true.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (zjgNU)

42 Schumer opposed AES and pimped for that Chungus HR Lady in the primary. But AES won and if there's any chance of the Dums retaking the Senate, they need that seat.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

========

Democrats would never have treated Christine O'Donnell like a witch.

That's the difference between the parties from a tactical point of view.

Democrats treat almost any of their candidates like normal representatives of the party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (pfZGz)
________

Yea. I despise Democraps with the heat of a thousand neon green dildos, but I wish we had their tactical fortitude and willingness to do anything to win.

I wish we had SC judges as bitterly ideologically partisan as the two commie DEI retards.

Democraps understand this is a blood sport. GOP does not (outside of a few people like Trump). Is that changing? Maybe. I sure hope so.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

43 Catholicism can be considered a "blue collar" congregation. Traditionally Democratic. Generally speaking, the ones who get out and vote are the older people - many who still subscribe to the Democratic Party they grew up with and continue to vote that way. Even when the Democratic Party has morphed into the DSA.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

The 85 yo steel mill widow will vote for what her husband voted for.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (8B4gm)

44
I can understand why Jews have been liberals, but the conditions where that was necessary are long past.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (eRlcH)

45 >>Also... can someone really just steal $20 from you if you pull out your phone and they tap it with theirs? I don't do things like Apple Pay so I don't know. But gross.

No, it is a "prank" designed to humiliate older people who don't understand the tech (which includes me).
Pretend to steal then film them freaking out, lol, he doesn't even know I didn't steal from him!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:17 AM (rOKnE)

46 42 Democraps understand this is a blood sport. GOP does not (outside of a few people like Trump). Is that changing? Maybe. I sure hope so.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

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Mitch McConnell fully understood that politics was bloodsport. He fought it that way every day of his life in leadership.

Democrats just weren't the enemy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:17 AM (pfZGz)

47 You're = your

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:17 AM (Ti9vn)

48
The 85 yo steel mill widow will vote for what her husband voted for.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (8B4gm)

___________

Old Catholic Ladies with JFK fantasies. Brain-dead union retirees.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:18 AM (eRlcH)

49 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (PQb8B)

50 40 We are a Tricksy people.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Qugny)

And your good a banking !

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:15 AM (Ti9vn)

Eight-ball and pool experts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (l3cgK)

51 I grew up hearing Never Again, and later after 9/11 it was Never Forget

Well I guess Never is here.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (hVPzc)

52 The older Jews just can't seem to shake these old fears, and have a harder time seeing the real threat: their fellow Democraps. The call is coming from inside the house.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:07

As my Jewish grandfather said, there's no fool like an old fool.

Jewish or not, the crunchy old liberal fucks will scratch out their ballots straight Dem no matter what.

The '28 nominee could say "my plan for America's future is AI. Specifically, AI-powered robots that use old people's medicine for fuel. They will roam Margaritaville-themed senior living communities across America, bludgeoning the elderly for their precious pills and securing their estates on behalf of millennials. We deserve it, and you pirates have been looking at 90 long enough."

Those old duffers would still shuffle to her rallies with their pathetic little signs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (BI5O2)

53 That's theologically impossible.

Depends on the theology.

Generally Speaking Roman Catholicism leans towards salvation through the Church. Due to its corporate nature, and the Second Chances concept of Purgatory, a Mob Fixer can perform a hit on the way to Mass and that is acceptable. So aborting children has its place in Rome.

This is in contrast to Confessional Christianity with a foundation within the Doctrines of Grace that, because of spiritual regeneration and sanctification would make it inconceivable for the Elect in Christ to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. The renewed mind finds that sin to be a characteristic of the unregenerated

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (a3CJ+)

54 Democrats just weren't the enemy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:17 AM (pfZGz

I do believe he valued procedure and decorum more than his constituents , his party and defeating the Lefty democrats.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (Ti9vn)

55 The 85 yo steel mill widow will vote for what her husband voted for.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (8B4gm)

___________

Old Catholic Ladies with JFK fantasies. Brain-dead union retirees.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Rust Belt Retards.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:20 AM (8B4gm)

56 43
The 85 yo steel mill widow will vote for what her husband voted for.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:16 AM (8B4gm)

Exactly. One of my parents was a government employee. When he was hired in the mid 60s, you only got hired if you were a (D). You only advanced if you were a (D). Long since retired, my parent still votes (D) and claims ignorance when I try to present evidence as to what he is actually voting for.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 11:20 AM (N39Ws)

57 Nice writeup Dildo. Well done.

I hope the tides are changing, but then you get the idiocy as spelled out during the Morning thread where a California Ex-resident is voting for Talarico because "Texas needs more public transport.

The electorate is f*cking stupid and there's no real workaround for that.

"Stupid is as stupid does, sir."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:20 AM (PQb8B)

58 The Jewish vot going conservative is just as likely as Sacramento turning conservative.
Not a chance in hell.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (NnhvP)

59 Republicans showed they have what it takes to do anything to win when it came to fighting the Tea Party and then Trump.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (hVPzc)

60 And I'm increasingly wondering if Schumer was raised in a secret Argentine vault by exiled Nazis to come here and make Jews look bad
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:03 AM (88C+u)

It's amazing to me that he even looks, and holds himself while speaking (at least since he's gotten older) like the caricature of the evil Joo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

61 51 I grew up hearing Never Again, and later after 9/11 it was Never Forget

Well I guess Never is here.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (hVPzc)

To infinity and beyond!

Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (l3cgK)

62 Erik Erickson on X being a fucking retard. Stuck in 2012

"IF YOU WANT ME TO VOTE FOR THE GOP YOU SHOULDN'T RUN A GUY KILE PAXTON" or some such drivel. He's a fucking loser and a Dem plant at this point. He's being rightfully destroyed on the comments.

Guy is just lost. Or maybe he's found because it is who he is. Already auditioing for Loser Republican Guy on CNN or MSNOW. Kind of a new Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: GigantorX at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (B67e/)

63 The Jewish vot going conservative is just as likely as Sacramento turning conservative.
Not a chance in hell.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (NnhvP)

It will happen eventually. When it's too late.

Look at the working class. No one ever thought they would switch sides. The Democrats abandoned them for the non-working classes.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (hVPzc)

64 Also... can someone really just steal $20 from you if you pull out your phone and they tap it with theirs? I don't do things like Apple Pay so I don't know. But gross.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 11:14 AM (Toos7)

______________

No, it's a stupid (and potentially dangerous) prank by these loathsome toads calling themselves "influencers."

Notice they always pick on what they perceive as "soft" targets, usually women or older white guys (like this guy in the video).

They never pick on gangster-looking MMA guys or anyone big enough to fight back.

Good on this older dude for not taking this punk's shit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

65 "Fuck you. WAR!"

https://isacasahuga.com/

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (dK+Kv)

66 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I agree with TJM,

On any survey of 'values', there is an obvious selection bias problem first---poll respondents have become a special class of their own while non respondents do not follow the same distribution of responses.

So any 'poll' is missing data and the missing data is not 'random' which makes any claims that a poll percentage is a true representation of the whole population, survey-able and nonsurvey-able.

Within those willing to be polled, you then have the problem of socially acceptable answers--in many social interactions, people fudge the truth and make their answers 'fit' what they expect the other person wants to hear. 'Values' questions are particularly sensitive to this sort of 'noise'. Classic example, non religious, is that polling repeated overstates those that claim to have voted or will vote. It is because nowadays, someone sensitive to social norms dislikes revealing that they did not vote while society has been pounded with the idea that they must vote.

You also see this problem with post election polling where invariably, a percentage claims falsely voting for the winner when they voted for the loser.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

67 62 Erik Erickson on X being a fucking retard. Stuck in 2012

"IF YOU WANT ME TO VOTE FOR THE GOP YOU SHOULDN'T RUN A GUY KILE PAXTON" or some such drivel. He's a fucking loser and a Dem plant at this point. He's being rightfully destroyed on the comments.

Guy is just lost. Or maybe he's found because it is who he is. Already auditioing for Loser Republican Guy on CNN or MSNOW. Kind of a new Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: GigantorX at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (B67e/)

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He lives in GA. Why is he so obsessed with Paxton in TX?

Is he in love with him, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (pfZGz)

68 So every time pizza stocker's crash out is watched, that fuckface influencer gets money because he was the one filming it? That fucker should turn over all that money if he's wanting to apologize.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (enNUy)

69 My take:
Catholicism can be considered a "blue collar" congregation. Traditionally Democratic. Generally speaking, the ones who get out and vote are the older people - many who still subscribe to the Democratic Party they grew up with and continue to vote that way. Even when the Democratic Party has morphed into the DSA.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 11:13 AM (N39Ws)

The ones I'm talking about are in their 70's and 80's.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (g8Ew8)

70 I've never voted for a party because it was f*cking 'tradition' in my family.

My dad's side of the family were union guys. They started out voting Dem, I'm sure, however, became VERY conservative later in life. My uncle, recently retired, has been a STAUNCH conservative for years.

I only vote straight R now because the Dems are batshit f*cking insane and want to destroy EVERYTHING the Founding Fathers built.

That being said, even though I've never voted for a Democrat, I have voted for an independent or 2 over the years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (PQb8B)

71 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

I just want to remark based on your last comment that I am a terrible Christian who will probably burn in hell. Even though that's probably not what you meant.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (hVPzc)

72 I won $200 once flipping Jews and tossing dwarves in the Yiddish Alps at the Avon Lodge.

Posted by: Zombie Lenny Bruce at October 29, 2026 11:24 AM (JAh4c)

73
Can't see how any Catholic could vote for today's Democrats. Abortion and homosexual marriage are white-line violations of doctrine. And you can't be a Democratic candidate without being on board with the whole set of evil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:24 AM (eRlcH)

74
He lives in GA. Why is he so obsessed with Paxton in TX?

Is he in love with him, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (pfZGz)

He's an op. No one really has a name like that.

F*ck that made up douchebag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:25 AM (PQb8B)

75 65 "Fuck you. WAR!"

https://isacasahuga.com/

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (dK+Kv)

This falls under two possible headings: stupid brainwashed child or hardcore commie operative.
Give her age, I go with the first. Going to modern liberal universities leaves one's brain clean and smooth.

Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:25 AM (l3cgK)

76 "Fuck you. WAR!"

https://isacasahuga.com/
-----

She wanted attention and now she has it. What a peach.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:25 AM (TN0g+)

77 >>> The electorate is f*cking stupid and there's no real workaround for that.

I'm seeing signs railing against republicans -- don't vote for them! -- because gas prices went up.

What do you think will happen if democrats get in and abolish drilling and coal? Sunshine and roses? Plus they happily vote in new taxes that raise the gas tax... but they vote for it because it's "for the children."

I can't help these people. They vote against their own interests and then wail when there's consequences to it.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 11:26 AM (Toos7)

78 Organized church like organized anything will rot and decay over time. It's the nature of any institution created by man.

Put not your trust in princes.

We have the manual. Read it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

79 It’s hard to convince people as they get older. Their bias becomes more ingrained, and they are suspicious of material facts. That’s why a lot of older Democrats will vote for the party that wants to euthanize them, and kill their grandchildren in the womb.

You see, it’s all Republican propaganda, despite the fact that you show, in the verifiable words of Democrats, exactly what they want.

There is as a time when you could compare the parties, surmise they are a few degrees apart and let apathy rule. That time is far in the past. You only need to read what Democrats are proposing.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2026 11:26 AM (i7wqn)

80 74 He's an op. No one really has a name like that.

F*ck that made up douchebag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:25 AM (PQb8B)

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I just can't wait for Erickson to be all, "I knew Paxton would win, he's obviously such a better choice than that fake Christian Talarico" after Tuesday.

It will make me laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:26 AM (pfZGz)

81
Look at the working class. No one ever thought they would switch sides. The Democrats abandoned them for the non-working classes.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (hVPzc)

_________

The Democrats have redefined "working class" to include baristas, marketing types and government drones.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:27 AM (eRlcH)

82 "Among the voters in our survey:"

Why would any of those religious groups vote Dem in significant amount? They are hostile to religion and don't even try to hide it any more. Are they all LIV's? From the ones I know that would seem to be the case.

Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (GUOwU)

83 Mom's in her 90s. Told her she's a Truman Democrat. We avoid talking politics.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (NcvvS)

84 Those of us who pay attention find it hard to grasp how much many people's political thinking is based on conditions generations ago that they don't even really think about. In AZ along the border there are Dem sheriffs, who by modern standards would be right wingers, but in the mid to late 1800s Republicans were carpetbagging Yankees and the locals were Confederate sympathetic Dems. So they see themselves as Dems. This is actually the political subtext behind the whole Earps and Tombstone story. Earps were northern carpetbaggers out to make some cash and Ringo and the rest were locals who resented that. Catholics, Jews, Irish were all the underclass 100 years ago and the Dems were their champions, and the Reps were the champions of the English types who got here first.

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (3/XaG)

85 Guy is just lost. Or maybe he's found because it is who he is. Already auditioing for Loser Republican Guy on CNN or MSNOW. Kind of a new Jonah Goldberg.
Posted by: GigantorX at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (B67e/)

They're Bush people. They want a polite aristocracy - where they're the nobles - and people bow as they pass. They want to replace Americans with foreigners because all of the social safety net is predicated on an ever growing population and foreigners, so they think, are more likely to accept the nobility of their betters than born Americans.

They were able to appear wise, and patriotic, briefly but then the Great Unmasker arrived on the scene.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (ExV1e)

86

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:26 AM (pfZGz)

He has actually done that Vivek "I'm learning" thing in the past.

I remember one time him saying that maybe Trump was right about something and that he is interested in learning the ways of our People. Just, full of shit.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (hVPzc)

87 I'd further argue that transgenderism violates the Noachide laws. Although (obviously) not a Christian doctrine, I think Christians do understand there exist commandments inherent to Creation, not just to the moral order.
G-d created us. Some of us were born with defects, which G-d is pleased to allow us to fix with our technology. Being a male is not a defect, much as we morons sometimes annoy our moronettes.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (88C+u)

88 70 I've never voted for a party because it was f*cking 'tradition' in my family.

My dad's side of the family were union guys. They started out voting Dem, I'm sure, however, became VERY conservative later in life. My uncle, recently retired, has been a STAUNCH conservative for years.

I only vote straight R now because the Dems are batshit f*cking insane and want to destroy EVERYTHING the Founding Fathers built.

That being said, even though I've never voted for a Democrat, I have voted for an independent or 2 over the years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (PQb8B)

My Dad voted Dem when he was younger, but started voting Rep in the 1950's due to his disagreements with Truman. His parents voted Dem, in general until they didn't (and now all three might be voting Dem again since they passed).
Mom voted only when she became a citizen (and might also be voting Dem now as she's also passed).

Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

89 Guy is just lost. Or maybe he's found because it is who he is. Already auditioing for Loser Republican Guy on CNN or MSNOW. Kind of a new Jonah Goldberg.
Posted by: GigantorX

Nope, Erickson is controlled opposition and is globo homo. IRRC, he grew up overseas in the Persian Gulf as his dad was in the oil industry. Got prominence by becoming a Macon city councilman and claiming to be opposing the Muzzies back then. From there, he left political office to create a media online project with others, Peach Pundit IIRC. From that, he built Red State which he sold to Salem roughly in Trump I term and his Red State soiree for GOP presidential candidates in late 2015-16 had Erickson refuse to invite Trump, ostensibly because of the Megyn Kelly blood coming out her whatever comment. Really, it was because Erickson was GOPE to the core. He had a part time gig as commenter at CNN, about like Scott Jennings did back in the day, and lost that.

So this is a guy financially well off (unless an idiot with money) but he craves to be a mover and shaker. Giving its too late to run for office, he aims at media influence to become a king maker.

Gamma personality secret king shit.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (E4rtv)

90 Now you believe in me?

Posted by: Stripper Poles at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (CcqV9)

91 Christina LeGarde just announced that she is stepping down as the head of the ECB 7 February 2027, and made the announcement of this on her X accounts with a hostage video with her face bandaged.

so many powerful people in the world seem to announce changes in their philosophy or their stepping away from their public life with facial trauma in the last decade

https://tinyurl.com/bp8umem3

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (rbvCR)

92 The Founders were very skeptical of organized religion.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (8B4gm)

93 65 "Fuck you. WAR!"

https://isacasahuga.com/

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (dK+Kv)

This falls under two possible headings: stupid brainwashed child or hardcore commie operative.
Give her age, I go with the first. Going to modern liberal universities leaves one's brain clean and smooth.
Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:25 AM (l3cgK)
______

There's a third option: Attention-Seeking Slut-Whore. That's my call.

These kids might be dumb, but they know an easy way to likes and attention is to say outrageous things about MAGA or conservatives. They know there's very little risk and lots of upside.

They wouldn't dare say anything outrageous about the left or especially muslims, because they know they would get beaten or killed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

94 I just want to remark based on your last comment that I am a terrible Christian who will probably burn in hell. Even though that's probably not what you meant.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (hVPzc)

At least you'll be in good company.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (dK+Kv)

95 It's as affected by region as much as anything else. Boston Catholics are hard left.

Rural Texas Catholics tend to be hard right.

Which indicates that asking how Catholics vote is not a good question because they're Catholicism does''t really explain their political preferences.

Posted by: Cereal Killers Drink Milk at October 29, 2026 11:30 AM (TymRw)

96 73
Can't see how any Catholic could vote for today's Democrats. Abortion and homosexual marriage are white-line violations of doctrine. And you can't be a Democratic candidate without being on board with the whole set of evil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:24 AM (eRlcH)

Because their priests and the news media all tell them that voting Rep = Voting Notsee, and you don't vote for Notsees.
It doesn't matter who the REAL Notsees are. When asked about specific policies instead of parties, they tend to be quite conservative.

Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:30 AM (l3cgK)

97 My mom usually if not always voted the way Dad did because she respected his opinion and knowledge of what's best politically which she wasn't.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:30 AM (Ti9vn)

98 And Erickson should fuck off on the Fuckoff Rocket to the distant Fuckoff Galaxy and then keep fucking off after that

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:30 AM (88C+u)

99 Old Catholic Ladies with JFK fantasies. Brain-dead union retirees.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:18 AM

Ah, I see you've been to MA.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (KRh8R)

100
He lives in GA. Why is he so obsessed with Paxton in TX?

Is he in love with him, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (pfZGz)

Erickson lives in GA?

I bet every deli owner in the state has a cyanide-filled tooth, against the dreaded day when he and Abrams show up at the same time. Nobody wants to die in a pastrami clash between those two titans.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (BI5O2)

101 This falls under two possible headings: stupid brainwashed child or hardcore commie operative.
Give her age, I go with the first. Going to modern liberal universities leaves one's brain clean and smooth.

Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:25 AM (l3cgK)

In MT, similarly inciting speech is prosecuted as a felony. Age be damned.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)

102 As a Jew-loving friend of Israel, thank you for stating what I have been too timid to write. JINOs who support the enemies of western civilization give observant Judaism a bad name. Great post.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (P54I0)

103 95 It's as affected by region as much as anything else. Boston Catholics are hard left.

Rural Texas Catholics tend to be hard right.

Which indicates that asking how Catholics vote is not a good question because they're Catholicism does''t really explain their political preferences.

Posted by: Cereal Killers Drink Milk at October 29, 2026 11:30 AM (TymRw)

========

I think that watching the pattern over the years is instructive from an internal Catholic Church perspective. If the laity in the US is trending to the right, how does the USCCB react when the bishops seem to remain to the left?

But, yeah, from an American politics point of view, it's not very useful for explaining much of anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (pfZGz)

104 78 Organized church like organized anything will rot and decay over time. It's the nature of any institution created by man.

Put not your trust in princes.

We have the manual. Read it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

But that requires actual reading! Manual labor!

Posted by: Georg Cantor at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

105 In like 2007 when I was looking for a place on the webs I ran across Red State. At the time it had real cache on our side - and I hated it. Seemed overmoderated and fully pussified.

Skeeved me out so after a couple weeks I abandoned it. And... yep.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (hVPzc)

106 Off maths sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

107
Ah, I see you've been to MA.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (KRh8R)

___________

Grew up in PA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (eRlcH)

108 36 In HS I found the Jewish girls to be sassy & cute
Posted by: Don Black

Judy Kass, Ellen Feldman.....

Posted by: Hubba Hubba Hubba!!! at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (EdP2u)

109 Statistically speaking, the Jewish vote is insignificant, representing a little over 2pct of the electorate.

—

Nationally it’s 2% but it’s heavily concentrated in just a few areas. Michigan is one of those areas. As is Ohio. So it could make a difference in a very close race.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (CcqV9)

110 Being a Catholic means you follow Catholic teaching and doctrine.

Not some of it. All of it. It isn’t a Chinese menu.

You can call yourself a Catholic, and support the Democrats agenda of abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and their host of abuses antithetical to Catholic doctrine, but then, you’re not really a Catholic.

That is just reality. He is watching;

“ the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.”

Psalm 121:8

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (PM/iv)

111 >>Erik Erickson on X being a fucking retard. Stuck in 2012

"IF YOU WANT ME TO VOTE FOR THE GOP YOU SHOULDN'T RUN A GUY KILE PAXTON" or some such drivel. He's a fucking loser and a Dem plant at this point. He's being rightfully destroyed on the comments.

Honest question: When has Erik Erickson been conservative or on our side? Ever?

Never cared for him, read him initially and decided not worth any attention. Like the NRO and former Weekly Standard (whatever they are now) freaks, these people are as bad, if not worse, than the Mitch McConnels in DC.

He does not speak for me, does not inform me, and could disappear tomorrow and I would not notice.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (rOKnE)

112 Look at the working class. No one ever thought they would switch sides. The Democrats abandoned them for the non-working classes.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (hVPzc)

My dad was 100% working class.

He grew up in abject poverty with the remnants of the Great Depression and believed (almost) all his life that Democrats were the party of the little people.

In the early 2000s (before he got Alzheimer's) he realized that the Democrats were no longer the party of the working man and didn't care about the "little people".

He was not a deep thinker. He didn't even graduate 8th grade. But he could see what was going on.

What does that say about the ones STILL voting for them as they've gotten far, far worse?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (zjgNU)

113 Erickson lives in GA?

I bet every deli owner in the state has a cyanide-filled tooth, against the dreaded day when he and Abrams show up at the same time. Nobody wants to die in a pastrami clash between those two titans.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (BI5O2)

LOL... Thanks for the laugh....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (+gK6I)

114 They wouldn't dare say anything outrageous about the left or especially muslims, because they know they would get beaten or killed.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM

^^^ This guy gets it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (KRh8R)

115 At least you'll be in good company.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (dK+Kv)

🍻

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (hVPzc)

116 >>> 68 So every time pizza stocker's crash out is watched, that fuckface influencer gets money because he was the one filming it? That fucker should turn over all that money if he's wanting to apologize. Posted by: NCKate

Yep. He should apologize and donate any money he made to the guy's gofundme. But he won't.

I hate the idea that I can be minding my own business and just get accosted in the store by some trash streamer. And you have no control over it. Same with going to a gym and being in the background of some thot's newest TikTok.

If I were the streamer's mom and found out he did that to some poor guy, I'd be railing on him. I raised you better than that! But maybe he wasn't and they wouldn't care.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 11:33 AM (Toos7)

117 I hold Erickson in the same regard as a 6 year old concerning political opinion.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 11:33 AM (8Uo7a)

118 Interesting.

>>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio just walked out and signed an anti-LEFTIST TERRORISM agreement with Hungary

>>"They operate off the basis of an international network that seeks to destabilize western societies, our systems, our culture, our civilization ultimately!"

>>"We are aligned and taking steps together in our governments to confront this resurgence of far-left terrorism...we have to stop the way these groups target the police departments and law enforcement and ultimately critical infrastructure, historical landmarks, foundations of a free society! THAT'S WHAT THEY ATTACK."

>>"This politically motivated violence and destruction of property that we've seen in Europe...it's going to increase cooperation and information sharing."

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

119 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:28 AM (ExV1e)

To be fair, the 'Bush people' turned Texas Red.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:34 AM (Ti9vn)

120 I didn't see Attention Seeking Whores front for Pussycat Dolls...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:34 AM (l3cgK)

121 I just want to remark based on your last comment that I am a terrible Christian who will probably burn in hell. Even though that's probably not what you meant.
Posted by: ...
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That is not for me to say and I would never say that. Jesus and the Father do eternal judgment, not me.

But despite considerable misfortune in my life, I never blamed the Lord for it. The very thought of it is repugnant to me personally as arrogance because it inverts the hierarchy. But Jesus forgives and cleanses whatever sins if you ask.

Just never diss the Holy Spirit though. Pretty clear in the Bible that is pretty much an unforgivable sin for whatever reason the Father and Son chose that to be.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)

122 To be fair, the 'Bush people' turned Texas Red.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:34 AM (Ti9vn)

Yes... Too bad they went to plaid....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 11:35 AM (+gK6I)

123 Hey, man, I'm a Catholic -- my word as a Biden! That's why I sicced my FBI on them! Not a joke!

Posted by: JoKe Biden at October 29, 2026 11:35 AM (Ovx+P)

124 Marco is my guy for ‘28 keeps impressing the fuck out of me.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 29, 2026 11:35 AM (CcqV9)

125 hold Erickson in the same regard as a 6 year old concerning political opinion.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 11:33 AM (8Uo7a)

A 6 year old would be honest!

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:35 AM (hVPzc)

126 >>This falls under two possible headings: stupid brainwashed child or hardcore commie operative.
Give her age, I go with the first. Going to modern liberal universities leaves one's brain clean and smooth.

Does it matter?

She'll be in the mob that burns down this country either way.

She's not even American - why should she care if she helps destroy it? She can go home.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (rOKnE)

127 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM (KRh8R)

Didn't you say once that Eastern Orthodoxy was attracting new adherents because it wasn't going woke?

I wonder what the Eastern Orthodox numbers in a poll like the one above would be.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

128 I have, and do, strongly support Israel and Jews in general. Odd and kind of sad that I support them more than many of them support themselves.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (Gqar8)

129 Honest question: When has Erik Erickson been conservative or on our side? Ever?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (rOKnE)

He was a blogger from peak GOP surrender caucus (ca. 2015), and it appears he is stuck in that moment in time, before Trump revealed all those losers to be fat, carny grifters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (dK+Kv)

130 Which indicates that asking how Catholics vote is not a good question because they're Catholicism does''t really explain their political preferences.
----

Perhaps their Catholicism doesn't mean anything to them?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (TN0g+)

131 126
Does it matter?

She'll be in the mob that burns down this country either way.

She's not even American - why should she care if she helps destroy it? She can go home.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (rOKnE)

========

State has been pulling visas of students who celebrate Charlie Kirk's death.

She'll probably lose her visa, I suspect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (pfZGz)

132 "Fuck you. WAR!"

https://isacasahuga.com/

--

Funny, her real self doesn't look at all like her Glamour Shots photos she's apparently put out there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (qBdHI)

133 Grew up in PA.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:31 AM

I can see PA being similar. I think MA has more of a Kennedy fetish, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 11:37 AM (KRh8R)

134 131 126
Does it matter?

She'll be in the mob that burns down this country either way.

She's not even American - why should she care if she helps destroy it? She can go home.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (rOKnE)

========

State has been pulling visas of students who celebrate Charlie Kirk's death.

She'll probably lose her visa, I suspect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (pfZGz)

She'll switch to Mastercard or American Express...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:37 AM (l3cgK)

135 117 I hold Erickson in the same regard as a 6 year old concerning political opinion.
Posted by: Ben Had

His attitudes reflect those in the GOP that supported Jeb! and GWB before him. Snake in the grass sort of person useful to the remaining Bush world operatives floating around out there like Pwrick Wilson, former FOB.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:37 AM (E4rtv)

136 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)

I have had an encounter with the Holy Spirit, nothing to condemn there. Same with Jesus come to think of it. In my lesser moments I'm ashamed to say I have gotten pretty fucking pissed off at the Father. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:37 AM (hVPzc)

137 It's not just Jews voting against their self-interest. It's most of the semi-normal Left. Voting for people who would take what's yours, who would enslave or subjugate you, spiritually if not literally, who would defile pillars of morality and decency, makes no sense to me. Some are fooled by the "helping others" bullshit, but most of it goes much deeper. It is both guilt and envy, in some bazaar combination.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 29, 2026 11:37 AM (QaH55)

138 >>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio just walked out and signed an anti-LEFTIST TERRORISM agreement with Hungary

>>"They operate off the basis of an international network that seeks to destabilize western societies, our systems, our culture, our civilization ultimately!"

>>"We are aligned and taking steps together in our governments to confront this resurgence of far-left terrorism...we have to stop the way these groups target the police departments and law enforcement and ultimately critical infrastructure, historical landmarks, foundations of a free society! THAT'S WHAT THEY ATTACK."

>>"This politically motivated violence and destruction of property that we've seen in Europe...it's going to increase cooperation and information sharing."
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

Doesn't Hungary consider Soros a terrorist?...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (zjgNU)

139
I just want to remark based on your last comment that I am a terrible Christian who will probably burn in hell. Even though that's probably not what you meant.
Posted by: ...

___________

A guy dies and goes to Heaven. He sees all the town drunks, whores and hobos there, looking at him strangely. He asks St. Peter, "How did they get in?" St. Peter replies, "They're wondering the same thing about you."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (eRlcH)

140 >>If the laity in the US is trending to the right, how does the USCCB react when the bishops seem to remain to the left?

The USCCB is a bureaucracy. They behave accordingly.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (NcvvS)

141 State has been pulling visas of students who celebrate Charlie Kirk's death.

She'll probably lose her visa, I suspect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (pfZGz)

She'll switch to Mastercard or American Express...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
========
Nope, she gets a Lula card.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (E4rtv)

142 >>I hate the idea that I can be minding my own business and just get accosted in the store by some trash streamer.

It's bad in many ways:

@PubWanghaf

I’ve been red pilled, black pilled, white pilled, clear pilled. All the pills.

I don’t even know which one this is, but it’s one of the strongest ones I’ve had in a long long time. The desperation in his voice. You can see the sight of his kids in his eyes when he says he’s supposed to be home with them. You can see the math he’s doing in his head as he calculates how much money he has left, and how much he needs for his mortgage, and when it’s due.

What the hell is the American dream anymore? Is this what it’s about? Is there anyone who would say this guy isn’t working his ass off? For what? So that 25% of his income can go to a government that wastes it on a bunch of shit he didn’t vote for? Subsidizing the food he stocks grocery stores with for people who don’t work a 1,000th of how hard he works to buy groceries with EBT cards that he pays for, which then drives up the cost of groceries for him and his family that he pays for out of his paycheck because he’s doing it the right way.

This entire system is shit.. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (rOKnE)

143 “Color me skeptical (you would understand if you met some of my relatives!), but even a small shift is important.”

I hope your liberal relatives respect you as a conservative, or at least tolerate it.

Posted by: EFF at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (3jecp)

144 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (eRlcH)

LOLOL

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (hVPzc)

145 137 It's not just Jews voting against their self-interest. It's most of the semi-normal Left. Voting for people who would take what's yours, who would enslave or subjugate you, spiritually if not literally, who would defile pillars of morality and decency, makes no sense to me. Some are fooled by the "helping others" bullshit, but most of it goes much deeper. It is both guilt and envy, in some bazaar combination.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 29, 2026 11:37 AM (QaH55)

I'm reminded of the warning Samuel told the Israelites regarding wanting a king...yet the majority enthusiastically wanted one...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (l3cgK)

146 At least you'll be in good company.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (dK+Kv)

https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (ExV1e)

147 🍻

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:32 AM (hVPzc)

ICYMI

https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (dK+Kv)

148 >>She'll probably lose her visa, I suspect.

Her whole family lives in Houston.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)

149 The Founders were very skeptical of organized religion.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:29 AM (8B4gm)

No, they were very leery of politically motivated religion. Especially politically motivated religion that could tell their politically powerful churches what the could and could not do.

Many of the colonies had an official church which was politically powerful in the colony. What they did not want was some sort of state religion that could be used to disenfranchise those churches in a power move, since they had already had to put up with that in England and they didn't enjoy it the first time.

(I was raised a Methodist, "Organized religion" always meant "those Presbyterians or whatever" so your definition may be different )

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (rbvCR)

150 148 >>She'll probably lose her visa, I suspect.

Her whole family lives in Houston.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)

========

And are immigrants, and she's an adult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (pfZGz)

151 My Dad grew up poor , the youngest of five siblings, without a father who died when his mother was pregnant. I always said he was born conservative which to me meant Right is Right and cause and effect guides you.

He refused any government assistance and never ever thought it was his right.

Damn I miss him.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:40 AM (Ti9vn)

152 A guy dies and goes to Heaven. He sees all the town drunks, whores and hobos there, looking at him strangely. He asks St. Peter, "How did they get in?" St. Peter replies, "They're wondering the same thing about you."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

LOL. But the joke makes a valid point.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

153 Didn't you say once that Eastern Orthodoxy was attracting new adherents because it wasn't going woke?

I wonder what the Eastern Orthodox numbers in a poll like the one above would be.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM

The younger crowd does trend more conservative. In my experience, i.e., limited to the ones I know, the Eastern Europeans tend to be more conservative overall. They saw socialism up close. Greeks...depends. A lot of them still have the leftism they brought from Greece, but some are very conservative. You should hear our Metropolitan when he gets going. He's one of us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 11:40 AM (KRh8R)

154 I have had an encounter with the Holy Spirit, nothing to condemn there. Same with Jesus come to think of it. In my lesser moments I'm ashamed to say I have gotten pretty fucking pissed off at the Father. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Posted by: ...

Everyone sins and needs forgiveness, it is just that is not my particular problem area of sinning which deal more with sins of the flesh.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)

155
No, it is a "prank" designed to humiliate older people who don't understand the tech (which includes me).

I saw this 10-15 years ago when I used to argue with woke college kids on FB. They are convinced that understanding computer world tricks makes them the smartest people that ever lived. I used to ask them if they could operate a three masted sailing ship, or harness a team of horses, or tune a carburetor, and then if that made them stupid that they couldn't because earlier people could. Few of them could even get my analogy.

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (3/XaG)

156 Q. What’s the difference between Donald Trump and a Reformed movement Rabbi?

A. Donald Trump has Jewish grandchildren.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (xOuxV)

157 Catholic laity is shifting back to tradition. And the church knows it. Part of the problem is many priests climbing the Catholic Church hierarchy are part of the battle and that included the last pope. They have become more biased in their politics, and more active in their opinions about it, than loosely associating their musings with the Gospels. Gospels which people can read for themselves and decide whether they personally believe this proclamations are true. Hint, a good portion of the laity doesn’t. Especially when you throw in organizations connected to the church that are clearly left wing, like Catholic Charities.

There is a real battle going on for the soul of the church. Politics and those in office will never change that. Ever. That’s in your own soul, and won’t be stolen by any person.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (PM/iv)

158 73
Can't see how any Catholic could vote for today's Democrats. Abortion and homosexual marriage are white-line violations of doctrine. And you can't be a Democratic candidate without being on board with the whole set of evil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:24 AM (eRlcH)

I put this on the priests/pastors/bishops of the Catholic Church. So worried about offending a parishioner (especially a wealthy one), that they'll never speak of the evils of abortion, etc.

I've seen 2 priests who came to the USA from Poland, went to a Polish Seminary in the upper midwest who have been removed from ministry. BS reasons provided, but it came down to they were hardcore, and the congregation was not. A few phone calls to the bishop, and they are removed from the parish.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (N39Ws)

159 To be fair, the 'Bush people' turned Texas Red.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:34 AM (Ti9vn)

They did. They had the name recognition at the suddenly part of "gradually, then suddenly".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (ExV1e)

160 I hope your liberal relatives respect you as a conservative, or at least tolerate it.
Posted by: EFF

They get snippy. I limit exposure. They can never seem to answer any question I have.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (8B4gm)

161 Didn't you say once that Eastern Orthodoxy was attracting new adherents because it wasn't going woke?

I wonder what the Eastern Orthodox numbers in a poll like the one above would be.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

My (12 year old) daughter tells me that MOST of her friends at school (public, charter) are Orthodox. (We're evangelicals.)

The school is self-selecting for conservative people, but that tracks with your stated trend. (We had a discussion about what "Orthodox" means: the denomination, not the word. )

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (zjgNU)

162 A guy dies and goes to Heaven. He sees all the town drunks, whores and hobos there, looking at him strangely. He asks St. Peter, "How did they get in?" St. Peter replies, "They're wondering the same thing about you."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 11:38 AM (eRlcH)

That's good.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv)

163 154 I have had an encounter with the Holy Spirit, nothing to condemn there. Same with Jesus come to think of it. In my lesser moments I'm ashamed to say I have gotten pretty fucking pissed off at the Father. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Posted by: ...

Everyone sins and needs forgiveness, it is just that is not my particular problem area of sinning which deal more with sins of the flesh.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)

Most sins are sins of the flesh...
Gluttony, Sloth, Lust...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

164 Rhode Island had a state religion that the founders didn't claim was unconstitutional IIRC?

Anyone?

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Ti9vn)

165 "Erik Erickson is a feiti snyllirinn vangefinn hommatittur. Fardu i rassgat!"

-- Leif Erickson

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

166 I am a definite Calvinist rattling around in a SBC church. A sad case, I am. Nevertheless I will endeavor to persevere. Really it can be sort of fun, except Baptists are often highly suspicious of that sort of thing.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Gqar8)

167 Things can't be good for the Left if Obama is walking around campaigning for El-Sayed in daylight.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (dtajH)

168 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:39 AM (dK+Kv)

I had. That goes pretty hard

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (hVPzc)

169 163
Most sins are sins of the flesh...
Gluttony, Sloth, Lust...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

Crossfit, Manscaping -

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar8)

170 (I was raised a Methodist, "Organized religion" always meant "those Presbyterians or whatever" so your definition may be different )
Posted by: Kindltot

God's Frozen People!

Growing up in small-town Michigan, my Presbyterian church did a lot of stuff with the Methodist church. I didn't think there was much difference between them theologically.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

171 I've seen 2 priests who came to the USA from Poland, went to a Polish Seminary in the upper midwest who have been removed from ministry. BS reasons provided, but it came down to they were hardcore, and the congregation was not. A few phone calls to the bishop, and they are removed from the parish.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (N39Ws)

Which means the church upper management cares more about money than souls...e.g. the Catholic Church (at least in certain locations and at certain levels) is a business.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

172 169 163
Most sins are sins of the flesh...
Gluttony, Sloth, Lust...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

Crossfit, Manscaping -

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar

Crocs, Vespas, man purses...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (l3cgK)

173 Organized Religion - Disorganized Religion. What to do, what to do???

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (Gqar8)

174 I saw this 10-15 years ago when I used to argue with woke college kids on FB. They are convinced that understanding computer world tricks makes them the smartest people that ever lived. I used to ask them if they could operate a three masted sailing ship, or harness a team of horses, or tune a carburetor, and then if that made them stupid that they couldn't because earlier people could. Few of them could even get my analogy.

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 29, 2026 11:41 AM (3/XaG)

Never mind the fact that most of us grew up with computing being a black screen command prompt. Millennials were the worst of that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (dK+Kv)

175 146/147

Horde mind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

176 Hitler didn't go after Jews because of religious hatred, but rather racial hatred.

If you ever watched "The Eternal Jew" one of the peculiarities of it was the demonization of The Jews™ for the crime of being leaders in the professions. They had Power Point slides showing how The Jews™ dominated in legal, medical, mercantile, accounting and politics professions. Not by a little, but by a lot.

I think that has much to do with the Diaspora mindset that says learn skills that can't be taken from you. Having a higher IQ in general and a culture that drills young minds into studious minds is a major plus.

Nevertheless, The Jews™ were likened to rats and vermin most likely as a way to manipulate the smooth brains the leadership would count on to perform the physical work of genocide.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (a3CJ+)

177 166 I am a definite Calvinist rattling around in a SBC church. A sad case, I am. Nevertheless I will endeavor to persevere. Really it can be sort of fun, except Baptists are often highly suspicious of that sort of thing.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Gqar

As long as you don't drink or dance you're probably safe.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:46 AM (l3cgK)

178 >>Growing up in small-town Michigan, my Presbyterian church did a lot of stuff with the Methodist church. I didn't think there was much difference between them theologically.

John Wesley and John Knox achieve maximum RPMs.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 11:46 AM (NcvvS)

179 172 169 163
Most sins are sins of the flesh...
Gluttony, Sloth, Lust...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

Crossfit, Manscaping -

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar

Crocs, Vespas, man purses...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (l3cgK)
________

"Anal Intruders!"

-- James Talacreepo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

180 According to Jesus the only sin that won't be forgiven is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:47 AM (Ti9vn)

181 Horde mind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

Yep. I had to check the youtube hash to be sure.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:47 AM (dK+Kv)

182 Rhode Island had a state religion that the founders didn't claim was unconstitutional IIRC?

Anyone?
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Ti9vn)

Prior to the 14th Amendment, the Constitution only constrained the federal government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

183 nteresting video of Batya Ungar-Sargon, who is no fool. So how do they walk away?

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She is saying it in the context of the "hutzpa" of, in this case, the new Left telling the Jews to go away, that they don't belong there..but that is the history of the Jewish people for at least the last 2000+ years, she should not be surprised...

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 11:48 AM (AKptf)

184 >>Doesn't Hungary consider Soros a terrorist?...

They do indeed.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:48 AM (viF8m)

185 Faith is not church. The world is full of frauds and liars especially when it comes to faith.

No, Faith is not church. Briefly, it's faith in the salvific power of the risen Christ and the continuing presence of the Holy Spirit. You don't have to go to church to be a Christian. However, I went to church for years before I was ordained. I appreciated the preaching, the hymns, the beauty of the sanctuary, the Sacraments, the foundational words of Scripture and the fellowship with other believers who were on the same page theologically preaching. My world would be much lessened were I not part of a church community. And I'm not longer preaching except to the ladies at the monthly service at the nursing home (which is done as a volunteer, so it's not as if I making a haul from being a pastor.

And no, I don't want to argue about it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (JrHfD)

186 180 According to Jesus the only sin that won't be forgiven is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:47 AM (Ti9vn)

Define blasphemy. Jesus was accused of it when he implied to the religious leadership that he could forgive sins, something that only God could do...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (l3cgK)

187 Prior to the 14th Amendment, the Constitution only constrained the federal government.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

Thanks that's what I recalled.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (Ti9vn)

188 176 "Hitler didn't go after Jews because of religious hatred, but rather racial hatred."

If you ever watched "The Eternal Jew" one of the peculiarities of it was the demonization of The Jews™ for the crime of being leaders in the professions. They had Power Point slides showing how The Jews™ dominated in legal, medical, mercantile, accounting and politics professions. Not by a little, but by a lot.

I think that has much to do with the Diaspora mindset that says learn skills that can't be taken from you. Having a higher IQ in general and a culture that drills young minds into studious minds is a major plus.

Nevertheless, The Jews™ were likened to rats and vermin most likely as a way to manipulate the smooth brains the leadership would count on to perform the physical work of genocide.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (a3CJ+)

Jews were prohibited from owning land in most of Europe, which likely erased most of their peasant class over time.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (okun6)

189 Most sins are sins of the flesh...
Gluttony, Sloth, Lust...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

Crossfit, Manscaping -

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar

Crocs, Vespas, man purses...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (l3cgK)

Thinking Sydney Sweeney is mid . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (dK+Kv)

190 This scares me even as a non-Jew: Cali enacted SB 1387, making it the first U.S. state to recognize Jewish identity as an optional ethnicity or race on official demographic forms.

Effective January 1, 2029, state agencies are required to provide an optional check-box for Jewish ethnicity on data collection forms (such as health, education, and social service forms).

The checkbox is completely optional & does not create a new legal protected class or alter religious classifications.

Will it help accurately count the state's roughly 1.2 million Jewish residents to better track healthcare needs, educational outcomes, and resources to combat antisemitism? Groups like Jewish Voice for Peace have raised concerns.
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Both Unitarian Universalists and the majority of modern Quakers heavily favor the Democratic Party.

Unitarian Universalists (UUs) are post-Christian/Pluralist, 🤷‍♀️ "broadly considered one of the most politically progressive religious traditions" in the nation.

Quakers have a unprogrammed branch (liberal) & a pastoral/evangelical branch often referred to as Orthodox that leans more 'mainstream' Protestant.

All are widespread. (i.e., Quakers in AK.)

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (NFX2v)

191 Thx CBD.
I'm a wedding and funeral Catholic but I do follow the teachings.
The Catholic Church at the top was captured by the left after JP ll. Pope Frankie was a liberation theology guy from South America. The present Pope seems somewhat like that but less of a jerk than Frankie. A lot of Catholics would like to go back to the traditional church but it will take a thorough housecleaning at the top

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (f8snw)

192 "The Eternal Jew" one of the peculiarities of it was the demonization of The Jews™ for the crime of being leaders in the professions.

There's that old joke about the Jew who reads Der Sturmer. He feels like a failure in his profession but here's the one newspaper which assures him of how great his people are doing

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:50 AM (88C+u)

193 I wonder what the Eastern Orthodox numbers in a poll like the one above would be.

The EO priests I know trend Libertarian

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (nCgQz)

194 149 The Founders were very skeptical of organized religion.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The whole postmodern idea that the Founders were Deist is overblown. A few might have been but the majority were not. As Kindltot noted, there were established state churches in the colonies (CofE in most, Congregationalist in MA (including ME at the time), and Maryland was founded Catholic.

What you might not have known is that Brits seriously considered at least twice, requiring installed bishops of the Church of England in the American colonies and mandating the colonies, whatever their existing church, be forced to be CofE as their official state religion. So you would have bans on Catholics in office mandated (some colonies had that), treating Congregationalists, Quakers, and Baptists as nonconformists under the law, and all other religions beliefs being taxed to support CofE institutions.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (E4rtv)

195 ... that's pretty much why i read Unz tbh

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (88C+u)

196 Guy is just lost. Or maybe he's found because it is who he is. Already auditioing for Loser Republican Guy on CNN or MSNOW. Kind of a new Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: GigantorX at October 29, 2026 11:21 AM (B67e/)

========

He lives in GA. Why is he so obsessed with Paxton in TX?

Is he in love with him, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:22 AM (pfZGz)

That lazy eye is a real turn on.

Posted by: Erik Cuckerson at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (dpXJq)

197 I can only think of ONEEternal Jew off the top of my head.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)

198 Define blasphemy. Jesus was accused of it when he implied to the religious leadership that he could forgive sins, something that only God could do...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (l3cgK)

Showing contempt irreverence, hatred , etc.

That said I don't understand your point?

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (Ti9vn)

199 Quakers in AK.
Posted by: L

Sounds like they need to wear parkas.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

200 This scares me even as a non-Jew: Cali enacted SB 1387, making it the first U.S. state to recognize Jewish identity as an optional ethnicity or race on official demographic forms.

Effective January 1, 2029, state agencies are required to provide an optional check-box for Jewish ethnicity on data collection forms (such as health, education, and social service forms).
...

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (NFX2v)

Is it wrong that I checkmark all the boxes?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:52 AM (l3cgK)

201 Growing up in small-town Michigan, my Presbyterian church did a lot of stuff with the Methodist church. I didn't think there was much difference between them theologically.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

My church too, which is why we were suspicious of them.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

202 >> Rhode Island had a state religion that the founders didn't claim was unconstitutional IIRC?

>>Anyone?

That's pretty much completely backwards.

Roger Williams was thrown out of the Plymouth Colony for preaching religious tolerance. That was a no go for the pilgrims.

Rhode Island was founded on religious tolerance and it's a big reason the US is a pluralistic society to this day.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:52 AM (viF8m)

203 >>> >>🚨 BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio just walked out and signed an anti-LEFTIST TERRORISM agreement with Hungary

Good. And this reminds me of something I can tie back into the morning rant...

I've been watching the classic Universal monster films. (Dang, Bela Lugosi was good! "I never drink...wine." And the "children of the night" line.)

The wise Hungarian peasants try to warn the polished, worldly Renfield not to go to Dracula's castle. He dismisses them. Goes and gets warped into a strange half creature by the predatory Dracula.

There is a metaphor in there of wise conservatives, the classic Democrat or Jewish voters, and the predatory DSA.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 11:53 AM (Toos7)

204 I first voted for Reagan. I've never voted for a Pedocrat in my life and I'm open minded. If they'd put forth reasonable sound policies I'd really consider it.

My dad was a Texas Democrat as everyone else in Texas. The party left him and he was as reliable a Republican vote as you could find.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 29, 2026 11:53 AM (l26NL)

205 Because in simplistic terms the Holy Spirit is the roadway.

Those who claimed it was demonic were essentially literally shutting down their own path to redemption, forgiveness, mercy, Jesus, the Father etc.

It's not so much that God would not forgive it, it was that they were severing their own pathway to His forgiveness. That's how I make sense of why that is the only unpardonable sin.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:53 AM (hVPzc)

206 Is Pumpkin Spice Unpardonable??

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (Gqar8)

207 198 Define blasphemy. Jesus was accused of it when he implied to the religious leadership that he could forgive sins, something that only God could do...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (l3cgK)

Showing contempt irreverence, hatred , etc.

That said I don't understand your point?

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:51 AM (Ti9vn)

Most folks define blasphemy as you do, but it's more that that. In Jesus' case, he was accused of it because he claimed to do things only God could do. Things that went contrary to the Torah, as his accusers saw it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (l3cgK)

208 Reminder, Mein Kampf is an extremely popular reading (as much as those inbred savages read) in the arab and muslim world. In the Cairo airport you will not find much in a bookstore, but Mein Kampf is there!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (AKptf)

209 Don't forget about me.

Posted by: Manbuns at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (jtrvQ)

210 Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:52 AM (viF8

Sorry you're absolutely correct. RI was the colony without an official state religion.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:55 AM (Ti9vn)

211 Is Pumpkin Spice Unpardonable??
Posted by: tubal

I was on the fence with pumpkin pie to begin with. I don't eat it anymore. The fad ruined it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:55 AM (wOO3z)

212 Don't forget about me.
Posted by: Manbuns at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (jtrvQ)

One of the 'ettes called that a twat knot, which I always found hilarious.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (PSEDc)

213 The concept of separation of church and state originated with Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Wise man.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (viF8m)

214 182 Rhode Island had a state religion that the founders didn't claim was unconstitutional IIRC?

Anyone?
Posted by: polynikes

Several states had state religions after the Constitution was signed. Mass, NH, and CT with their Congregationalist Churchs, Southern colonies with the Episcopalian (really Anglican without recognizing the king as head of the church) in southern states, IRRC the last of them abandoned them by the 1830's. Massachusetts I think.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

215 211 Is Pumpkin Spice Unpardonable??
Posted by: tubal

I was on the fence with pumpkin pie to begin with. I don't eat it anymore. The fad ruined it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:55 AM (wOO3z)

Went to Costco the other day...the smell of the pumpkin pies was quite enticing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (l3cgK)

216 And no, I don't want to argue about it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 11:49 AM (JrHfD)

Gainsaying is down the hall.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (hVPzc)

217 199. Sounds like they need to wear parkas.
Posted by: Bulg

Hi, Bulg.

I think they probably would.

Alaska has the highest Quaker population per capita of any U.S. state

Wikipedia, While it has a relatively low absolute number of members compared to heavily populated states like Indiana or North Carolina, its small overall population means Quakers make up a significantly higher percentage of the state than anywhere else in the country.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (NFX2v)

218 Can't see how any Catholic could vote for today's Democrats. Abortion and homosexual marriage are white-line violations of doctrine. And you can't be a Democratic candidate without being on board with the whole set of evil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Decades of 'Jesus is Love' and 'Be nice' warped those who were supposed to carry the Church. Men are flawed and always will be. Christ knows this.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 11:57 AM (nEUC6)

219 And I'm increasingly wondering if Schumer was raised in a secret Argentine vault by exiled Nazis to come here and make Jews look bad

There are *so* many other "elite class" Jews who do the lifting on that. The "USAID made rap popular" story hinges on an Israeli-born record executive, which I wasn't expecting (but probably should have).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 11:57 AM (2ocoG)

220 Is Pumpkin Spice Unpardonable??
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (Gqar

Declassee. Sort of like listening to Alanis Morissette or Toad the Wet Sprocket on a boom-box in the city park. Yeah, catchy tunes, but really?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:57 AM (rbvCR)

221 213 The concept of separation of church and state originated with Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Wise man.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Considering he was driven and exiled out of Mass Bay colony for his sermons, not surprising.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)

222 I've been watching the classic Universal monster films. (Dang, Bela Lugosi was good! "I never drink...wine." And the "children of the night" line.)
Posted by: LizLem

Tod Browning wanted his friend Lon Chaney to play Dracula, but Chaney died before it got made. Lugosi, who had done the role on the stage, came in and made that role his own.

As big a Chaney fan as I am, I just can't see him playing that role now. Lugosi WAS Dracula.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

223 In my lesser moments I'm ashamed to say I have gotten pretty fucking pissed off at the Father.

Israel literally means, in the Hebrew, "struggle with God"

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:59 AM (rgGn5)

224 I eat fish most Fridays...does that mean I am Catholic?

Look, fat. Did you vote for me?

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 29, 2026 11:59 AM (jb8Ss)

225 200. Is it wrong that I checkmark all the boxes?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not if you so choose.

Sounds to me like you can still defend yourself aptly & physically.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:59 AM (NFX2v)

226
There are *so* many other "elite class" Jews who do the lifting on that. The "USAID made rap popular" story hinges on an Israeli-born record executive, which I wasn't expecting (but probably should have).
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 11:57 AM (2ocoG)

The purpose of most of the music industry is money laundering with a side in drug smuggling and distribution. Rap covers those areas, and note who all got indicted for massive crimes and wound up being convicted on process crimes.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (rbvCR)

227 A woman is being arrested. The officer tells her she has the right to remain silent.
That's impossible, she says.
I'm an Atheist vegan who does CrossFit.

Posted by: Tip your waitress at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (jtrvQ)

228 Is Pumpkin Spice Unpardonable??
Posted by: tubal

I was on the fence with pumpkin pie to begin with. I don't eat it anymore. The fad ruined it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 11:55 AM (wOO3z)

The weird thing is pumpkin spice isn't supposed to taste like pumpkin. It's cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg and allspice.

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (dpXJq)

229 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (l3cgK)

I was just referring to this verse

Matthew 12:31–32 (NIV): Jesus stated that every sin and slander can be forgiven except blasphemy against the Spirit, whether in this age or the one to come.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (Ti9vn)

230 He lives in GA. Why is he so obsessed with Paxton in TX?

Is he in love with him, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Bushworld operative and Cox Broadcasting spreads his tedious show across the South.

Still resenting being backhanded by Trump over his stupid little RedState soiree in 2016 primaries.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)

231 Regarding the sidebar...

The Pretenders are always a good listen.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (YSUhf)

232 The Catholics ignore abortion as a sin because the Kennedys said so. Followed by Cuomo, Nazi etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (f8snw)

233 Is Pumpkin Spice Unpardonable??
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 11:54 AM (Gqar

Declassee. Sort of like listening to Alanis Morissette or Toad the Wet Sprocket on a boom-box in the city park. Yeah, catchy tunes, but really?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 11:57 AM (rbvCR)
______

Pumpkin spice itself ain't bad. What makes it intolerable is in the context of halloween season where every damn thing is pumpkinized whether it makes sense or not. Pumpkin ale, pumpkin spam, pumpkin mac & cheese, and I have no doubt that somewhere out there at a WNBA game are pumpkin spiced dildos.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

234 Gainsaying is down the hall.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (hVPzc)

LOL. How about acrimonious debates and name calling?. I'd like to avoid that room as well.

I could also try a funny walk, but being that I'm probably a foot shorter with less long legs than John Cleese. it wouldn't be nearly as amusing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 12:01 PM (JrHfD)

235 Votes are fine. Even helpful, in Long Island, New York. But Jewish people are much more important for campaign/party funding than for votes. We need to swing a few more Howie Lutniks over to our side.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2026 12:01 PM (wGerL)

236 >>Considering he was driven and exiled out of Mass Bay colony for his sermons, not surprising.

A man of principle. One of the most consequential founders almost nobody ever talks about.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 12:02 PM (viF8m)

237 The Pretenders are always a good listen.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (YSUhf)

I 100% support your right to be wrong.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 12:02 PM (Ae6Br)

238 Erickson is proof that not all virtue signaling aholes are Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:02 PM (f8snw)

239 Sorry you're absolutely correct. RI was the colony without an official state religion.
Posted by: polynikes

Since it doesn't exist, that makes sense.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

240 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: One Upmanship at October 29, 2026 12:03 PM (jtrvQ)

241 Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

Yeah I had Rhode Island's part in the established religion turned around. They were the exception.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:03 PM (Ti9vn)

242 You had many Jews leaning left for a few reasons historically:

1) They considered themselves a discriminated against ethnic minority. No one else does. To right leaning people they are white and to left leaning people they are uber white devils.

2) Large numbers of Jewish people didn't really believe their faith, and like all atheists voted hard left - as you note demographics seems to be resolving this issue

3) The left wing political establishment rewarded left leaning Jews - look at how failed commune member Bernie Sanders is now rich...but the entry to politics for Jewish people in the Dem party is closing

4) The argument re: Israel was always that Israeli hardliners were the problem and if Israel just negotiated enough the problem would go away. Well Israel gave Hamas their own land and they used it to plan an attack to rape and murder peace-nik Israelis.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

243 Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (f8snw)

There is no useful thing to say about "the Catholics" because as a group all Catholics split exactly as the population as a whole. If you divide Catholics into groups based upon Mass attendance, regular church goers are to the right of Evangelicals and those that never attend are to the left of mainline Protestants.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2026 12:04 PM (wGerL)

244 Israel literally means, in the Hebrew, "struggle with God"
Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:59 AM (rgGn5)

"And thus did the angel grab Jacob by the wrists and start striking him in the face with his own hands. "Stop hitting thyself! Stop hitting thyself!" demanded the angel."

Posted by: Holy Bible, modern internet translation at October 29, 2026 12:04 PM (dpXJq)

245 Pumpkin Spice brake pads are here!

Posted by: O'Reilly Auto Parts at October 29, 2026 12:04 PM (jtrvQ)

246 The Pretenders are always a good listen.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (YSUhf)

I 100% support your right to be wrong.
Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 12:02 PM (Ae6Br)

You, sir, are great, great American, but have terrible musical taste.

😀

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 12:05 PM (YSUhf)

247 The Catholics ignore abortion as a sin because the Kennedys said so. Followed by Cuomo, Nazi etc
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 12:00 PM (f8snw)

Have you heard Talarico's biblical justification for abortion?

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:05 PM (Ti9vn)

248 It's not so much that God would not forgive it, it was that they were severing their own pathway to His forgiveness. That's how I make sense of why that is the only unpardonable sin.
Posted by: ...
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Sometimes simply obedience to what the Lord says is verboten is wise policy. Humans have this tendency to start to 'revise' and 'extend' what the Bible says to the extent that the original prohibition becomes a shell. Thus, allowing people to do as they wilt while claiming Biblical sanction for it.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)

249 Have you heard Talarico's biblical justification for abortion?
Posted by: polynikes

I haven't. What is it?

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

250 Depends on the theology.

Generally Speaking Roman Catholicism leans towards salvation through the Church. Due to its corporate nature, and the Second Chances concept of Purgatory, a Mob Fixer can perform a hit on the way to Mass and that is acceptable. So aborting children has its place in Rome.

This is in contrast to Confessional Christianity with a foundation within the Doctrines of Grace that, because of spiritual regeneration and sanctification would make it inconceivable for the Elect in Christ to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. The renewed mind finds that sin to be a characteristic of the unregenerated

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (a3CJ+)

==
I think you need to update your definitions a bit. There are Catholics who fit your description and there are those in your second category who just like social hour after service.
New CAtholics and a purging of the old has made the catholic population more gospel focused in probably the last 100 years. The old liberal catholic dioceses are dying. Catholics will trend GOP more strongly going forward. Geography will impact that.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 29, 2026 12:06 PM (7/DDO)

251 "Hitler didn't go after Jews because of religious hatred, but rather racial hatred."

NAZI policies were mostly the latter - you couldn't escape the Gestapo by converting to Christianity or Islam.

But many NAZI leaders also complained that Christianity was also a Jewish religion and it had made the Germans weak.

Now of course prior to Christianity Germans were backward barbarians but history was never a NAZI strong suit

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 12:06 PM (sKqQm)

252 >>>Tod Browning wanted his friend Lon Chaney to play Dracula, but Chaney died before it got made. Lugosi, who had done the role on the stage, came in and made that role his own.
As big a Chaney fan as I am, I just can't see him playing that role now. Lugosi WAS Dracula.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

Very cool. I think I'm gonna watch Frankenstein tonight. Pretty sure it's gonna make me want to watch Young Frankenstein right after.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 12:06 PM (Toos7)

253 The Pretenders are always a good listen.

Posted by: naturalfake

I agree. Chrissie has a very distinctive and beautiful voice and could write killer songs.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

254 "Humans have this tendency to start to 'revise' and 'extend' what the Bible says to the extent that the original prohibition becomes a shell. Thus, allowing people to do as they wilt while claiming Biblical sanction for it.
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:05 PM"

Well, God helps those who help themselves.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at October 29, 2026 12:07 PM (jtrvQ)

255 Have you heard Talarico's biblical justification for abortion?
Posted by: polynikes

I haven't. What is it?
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

God had asked for Mary's consent before she became pregnant with Jesus.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:07 PM (Ti9vn)

256 >>Yeah I had Rhode Island's part in the established religion turned around. They were the exception.

Do you know where the Baptist Church in America was founded? Wasn't in the south. It was in Rhode Island.

Oldest standing synagogue in America is in Newport.

As I said, the concept of separation of church and state came from the teaching of Roger Williams. Render onto Caesar and all that.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 12:07 PM (viF8m)

257 The Pretenders are always a good listen.
Posted by: naturalfake

Wasn't that Chrissie Hynde's group, that did Rush's theme music?

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

258 >>Chrissie has a very distinctive and beautiful voice and could write killer songs.

She had the Karen Carpenter contralto, just not quite as angelic.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:08 PM (NcvvS)

259 253 The Pretenders are always a good listen.

Posted by: naturalfake

Greetings, conversationalists, all across the fruited plain...

Posted by: I miss Rush at October 29, 2026 12:08 PM (jtrvQ)

260 I'm having a hard time excepting the fact that the King James version of the Bible was written by the same guy who wrote the book on how to hunt witches. Dæmonologie.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 12:10 PM (Ae6Br)

261 Very cool. I think I'm gonna watch Frankenstein tonight. Pretty sure it's gonna make me want to watch Young Frankenstein right after.
Posted by: LizLem

My favorite part of the latter film is Gene Hackman's blind hermit. Hackman was an underrated comic performer.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

262 Growing up in small-town Michigan, my Presbyterian church did a lot of stuff with the Methodist church. I didn't think there was much difference between them theologically.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

My church too, which is why we were suspicious of them.
Posted by: Kindltot
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In my case, it was Methodist/Episcopal. The town was so small that there were not enough kids in either denomination/age group for the churches to have younger and older youth groups. So, the younger kids attended the Methodist youth group, the older, Episcopal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:10 PM (XeU6L)

263 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)

264 Wasn't that Chrissie Hynde's group, that did Rush's theme music?
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

And she appears to be a class act because she said even though she disagrees with Limbaugh , her father was a big fan so she had no problem with him using her music.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 12:10 PM (Ti9vn)

265 The Pretenders are always a good listen.
Posted by: naturalfake

Wasn't that Chrissie Hynde's group, that did Rush's theme music?

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)
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Yes, and her dad was a huge Rush fan. While she didn't agree with Rush, she was cool with him having his opinion and was fine with him using the theme. I am sure she got something for that from a music royalties payment perspective.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (7/DDO)

266 What knockers!!

Posted by: Gene Wilder at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (jtrvQ)

267 She had the Karen Carpenter contralto, just not quite as angelic.
Posted by: Nazdar

"Angelic" is an apt word to describe Karen's voice.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:11 PM (77rzZ)

268 The argument re: Israel was always that Israeli hardliners were the problem and if Israel just negotiated enough the problem would go away. Well Israel gave Hamas their own land and they used it to plan an attack to rape and murder peace-nik Israelis.

That's why I'm convinced the stupidest most suicidally empathetic people on the planet are Israeli leftists. I can kind of get falling for the Free Palestine (with purchase of equal or lesser value) thing when you're 10,000 miles away. When Palestine is actively launching rockets at your apartment it's a whole other level of stupid.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (2ocoG)

269 Wasn't that Chrissie Hynde's group, that did Rush's theme music?
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah. He used to say she really hated it but never failed to cash the check.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (Ae6Br)

270 Wasn't that Chrissie Hynde's group, that did Rush's theme music?

Specifically "My City Was Gone".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

271 53

Depends on the theology.

Generally Speaking Roman Catholicism leans towards salvation through the Church. Due to its corporate nature, and the Second Chances concept of Purgatory, a Mob Fixer can perform a hit on the way to Mass and that is acceptable. So aborting children has its place in Rome.

This is in contrast to Confessional Christianity with a foundation within the Doctrines of Grace that, because of spiritual regeneration and sanctification would make it inconceivable for the Elect in Christ to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. The renewed mind finds that sin to be a characteristic of the unregenerated

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 11:19 AM (a3CJ+)

Not an accurate characterization of Catholic theology on any point. Purgatory has nothing to do with second chances, that's Confession. Abortion etc. carries with it automatic excommunication.

Usually Protestantism is stricter about actual membership being requisite for salvation, and their shift to the right on abortion is relatively recent, happening late in the 20th century.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 29, 2026 12:13 PM (okun6)

272 I've mentioned my older relative here before (given that I'm older than dirt, you can imagine how old he is).

Hates illegal aliens
Hates abortion
Hates taxes
Hates communism
Thinks people in the US should speak English

Votes a straight D ticket every election.

Why? Because his daddy did.

I've given up on talking to him about politics. If you point out that 95% of his political views correspond to those of the Great Satan, Trump, he just gets angry.

If a person has a mistaken (but rational) belief you can persuade him out of it by citing evidence, noting logical flaws, and so on. Not so with an irrational, cult-like belief, and the Democratic Party is just that: a cult.

>, support people and policies that are antithetical to the very idea of Judaism!

See also: Queers for Palestine. As someone put it, that's like Chickens for Colonel Sanders.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:17 PM (qlLNh)

273
Crocs, Vespas, man purses...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 11:45 AM (l3cgK)

garrett?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 12:18 PM (PQb8B)

274 While Hynde isn't based by any means, she's pretty far away from being woke. It's not just the Rush theme. Some of her other views are contrary to the woke agenda.

This has caused her some grief among her peer group, as one would expect.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (qlLNh)

275 238 Erickson is proof that not all virtue signaling aholes are Dems
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I just want all of those titular GOP types to become Democrats formally instead of being dredged up again and again as a media stick to beat the GOP with. E.g. John Dean, Cindy McCain, Thom Tillis, Bill Weld, Christine Whitman, etc. etc.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv)

276 Hynde is indeed great. The Pretenders as a group, though, never did recover from losing two of their four founding members to drug abuse within a year. The rotating personnel since then just doesn't capture the same vibe, IMO.

Don't do drugs, kids.

Trivia: the original name of the Pretenders was Mike Hunt's Dishonorable Discharge, a rather more typical name for punk bands of the era, though the Pretenders were never really punk per se.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:28 PM (qlLNh)

277 Unitarian Universalists (UUs) are post-Christian/Pluralist, 🤷‍♀️ "broadly considered one of the most politically progressive religious traditions" in the nation.

IIRC The Unitarians do not believe in either the divinity of Christ (or His salvific work) or the Holy Spirit.

By definition, they are not Christian, even if they have all the other trappings.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2026 12:56 PM (vJrRc)

278 @ 70 I've never voted for a party because it was f*cking 'tradition' in my family. — That being said, even though I've never voted for a Democrat, I have voted for an independent or 2 over the years. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 11:23 AM (PQb8B)
______________________________

Agreed. When I turned 18, I asked my Mom how I should register to vote 'cos she worked at City Hall. She told me that, if I EVER needed to go to the Hall to ask to have anything done, the first thing they were going to look at was the little letter behind my last name. If it wasn't a 'D', everything you said after that was ignored … lesson learnt early. It's still that way today, too.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 02:13 PM (ayRl+)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

The White Factory
Katherine Schmidt

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (KRh8R)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)

3 Title checks out.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (KRh8R)

4 ray sis

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)

5 No boobs. No dog.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (G9z2o)

6 This looks like a good place to hide some missiles.

Posted by: Hamas at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (LTM0A)

7 so that's where it's made.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Bep7s)

8 Looks vaguely like Cheese Chalet, Monroe WI.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Jr5Lq)

9 This is a repeat, methinks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

10 Katherine needs to work on her perspective.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (RORbl)

11 Handsome. Looks humid and as though it's going to rain, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

12 they have many greek villa customers.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

13 So this is where the whities come from?

Posted by: Rev. Al at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (o2Pnv)

14 Looks like something that came out of the WPA.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (97NWC)

15 Now THAT is a narrow-gauge railroad!

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (Jr5Lq)

16 Soon to be burned to the ground.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (wzaBj)

17 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (KRh8R)

18 Crackers are made there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (8B4gm)

19 must be a rice paddy.

Posted by: uncle ben at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

20 8 lovely goetz theatre.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:33 AM (Bep7s)

21 The structure over to the left, with a cone atop it, looks as if it's leaning against the wall. Is it supposed to be some kind of ramp?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

22 Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:33 AM (ndZc7)

23 13 tighty whities.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (Bep7s)

24 would hang

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (5rh/l)

25 this is a repeat

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

26 The structure over to the left, with a cone atop it, looks as if it's leaning against the wall. Is it supposed to be some kind of ramp?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 09:33 AM

That's a white silo. It's where they store the white before shipping.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (KRh8R)

27 There's been a factory recall...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (FZ29D)

28 At first, I thought it was a church

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)

29 The newly made crackers can use the sliding board out front.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (8B4gm)

30 What's that style called? Bloopy-bloorp?

Posted by: Trotski at October 29, 2026 09:35 AM (nEUC6)

31 21 white noise generator.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

32 There's a storm coming.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:35 AM (8B4gm)

33 That factory was essential to my survival. I was able to make a meager living selling meagers until I turned to a life of crime.

Posted by: Virgil Starkwell at October 29, 2026 09:35 AM (EdP2u)

34 25 this is a repeat
Posted by: Don Black

That's what I was going to say!

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:35 AM (Y8DZL)

35 isle of wight?

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:36 AM (Bep7s)

36 I like the style but the painting is boring and the composition doesn't direct the viewer anywhere in particular.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:36 AM (Ti9vn)

37 that pile of slag is a byproduct.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

38 those utility poles have no wires...what is this thing?!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:37 AM (AKptf)

39 This painting is boring as hell.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

40 36 to the ashpile.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

41 37 that pile of slag is a byproduct.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

========

"A pile of slags?! Where!"
-British men

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:37 AM (pfZGz)

42 38 those are resistors.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:38 AM (Bep7s)

43 I wonder how this work will look in a fireplace....

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:39 AM (AKptf)

44 My white building painting. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:39 AM (Ti9vn)

45
Looks like a cover illustration for the Nazi Kiides' Favorite Book:

"Heinrich Heidelberg and the Zyklon B Factory"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:39 AM (YSUhf)

46 here she was / Just a-walkin' down the street / Singin' 'Doo wah diddy diddy / Dum diddy doo … ". Yeah you rite, brah …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:40 AM (ayRl+)

47 The pole on the right appears a bit bent.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

48 weird that it's right nextdoor to the brown factory.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:40 AM (Bep7s)

49 Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:39 AM (Ti9vn)

That's good.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

50
Would not hang.

Vaguely unpleasant.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:40 AM (YSUhf)

51 The whites were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at October 29, 2026 09:41 AM (FAxhF)

52 I like it.

Do they make white there?

Don't let Antifa know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 29, 2026 09:41 AM (Y/06r)

53 *sigh*

kiides = kiddies'

Thx AC.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:41 AM (YSUhf)

54 A Katherine Schmidt work for National Cat Day (today):

https://tinyurl.com/4te43ad

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 09:42 AM (rOKnE)

55 I watched the movie Basquiat last night. It tripled my hate of the pretentious Lefty art world.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Ti9vn)

56 The Starving Artists Art Sale down by the Interstate rejected this painting. Everyone hoped the "artist" starved to death.

Posted by: Waste Management, Inc. at October 29, 2026 09:42 AM (EdP2u)

57
Notice how big the White building is, compared to the building of color right next to the rail tracks.

Racist.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Y8DZL)

58 Would not hang.

Vaguely unpleasant.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:40 AM (YSUhf)

I like the grass and the clouds. That telephone pole is bent which is annoying the hell out of me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Y/06r)

59 51 The whites were angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza at October 29, 2026 09:41 AM (FAxhF)
______________

Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational … Bonus point: Name the movie that line's from.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (ayRl+)

60 58 make sure not to look at the other one.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (Bep7s)

61 Painting looks like a bad trip.

Posted by: Your Brain On Drugs at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (EdP2u)

62 59 Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational … Bonus point: Name the movie that line's from.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (ayRl+)

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The Birth of a Nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (pfZGz)

63
I like the grass and the clouds. That telephone pole is bent which is annoying the hell out of me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Welcome to old age. I was about to yell at those clouds as well.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:44 AM (Y8DZL)

64 59 color purple?

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)

65 38 those are resistors.
Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:38 AM

A water cannon will take care of that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (KRh8R)

66 I wanna live in this world where the smokestacks are straight and the power poles aren't.

Posted by: No Ruler Art! at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (EdP2u)

67 1928 is a little early for the WPA, but social realism was already in the air in the art world. The small building with the conical roof could be a water tank for the factory, then the so-called ramp could be a spillway if they wanted to empty out the tank.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (97NWC)

68 61 see you next fall!

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)

69 That's "The white Factory," per the style guide. Do better.

Posted by: NYT at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (BI5O2)

70 Look up the painting Basquiat sold for 110 million dollars named Untitled.

What a gas lighting crock of crap.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (Ti9vn)

71 those utility poles have no wires...what is this thing?!
Posted by: runner

Why would one stack wood in front of a pole like that? Stupid.

It looks the rails to the barn have no support cross ties either. And there's no access door/opening on the barn for the cart.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:45 AM (8B4gm)

72 65 "viva la ppblbpt!"

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:46 AM (Bep7s)

73 Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational … Bonus point: Name the movie that line's from.
Posted by: Dr_No

The answer you're looking for will not be given up by the horde.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:46 AM (Y8DZL)

74 That telephone pole is bent which is annoying the hell out of me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's outside Bill Clinton's house.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 09:46 AM (NMvV5)

75 "viva la ppblbpt!"
Posted by: cmeat

Bill the Cat!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 09:47 AM (NMvV5)

76 weird that it's right nextdoor to the brown factory.
Posted by: cmeat

Please! That would be 'factory of color'!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 09:47 AM (SaoqG)

77 this is a repeat

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

Yup... a couple of years ago, but I like the piece, so you will have to suffer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 09:48 AM (k5CNB)

78 75 "this is (sylvia), she does my laundry."

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:48 AM (Bep7s)

79 Needs graffiti.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 09:48 AM (RORbl)

80 >>I watched the movie Basquiat last night. It tripled my hate of the pretentious Lefty art world.

Heh.

There's a film called (Untitled) that mocks ALL of it.

https://tinyurl.com/yznkab6t

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (rOKnE)

81 Polynikes white building is much nicer than this one. Prettier tree, too.

Posted by: The Joy Of Painting at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (EdP2u)

82 77 this is a repeat

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

Yup... a couple of years ago, but I like the piece, so you will have to suffer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 09:48 AM (k5CNB)

And suffering produces character.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Gqar8)

83 The artist did paint dogs and cats so she did create art. 😀

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:50 AM (Ti9vn)

84 "but I like the piece" Me too.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

85 Boring and vaguely unpleasant. There seems to be no life or energy anywhere. Just blah.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (yEz+x)

86 This does not look nearly large enough to produce the number of whites required

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (ZzFQA)

87 It's a still life!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (f5HbQ)

88 And suffering produces character.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Gqar

Exactly. It is my job to build character in the commentariat!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (k5CNB)

89 Painting a dog is one thing, but painting a cat is quite another.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (Gqar8)

90 Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational … Bonus point: Name the movie that line's from.
Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (ayRl+)

Come on, do better Sheriff Bart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (Y/06r)

91 manufacturing the absence of color until 1908.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (Bep7s)

92 Alternate title:

"Young Friedrich Hied It To The Village Hardware Store For Cans of Spray Paint All The While Dreaming of All the Delightful Graffiti and Dick Pics He Would Draw On The White Factory"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (YSUhf)

93 Factory didn't spend much on landscaping around the plant. Nor an employee parking lot. Or even a picnic table for the tobacco addict employees to take a smoke break at.

Posted by: Raleigh Coupon Redeemer at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (EdP2u)

94 The White Factory - a limerick

Two Chinese fellows thought they had it right
Built a honky factory, a marvelous sight!
But their plan was doomed to fail
When they went beyond the Pale
Because two Wongs can't make a White

Posted by: muldoon at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (Ns+8q)

95 Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (rOKnE)

Thanks. They're preaching to the choir.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (Ti9vn)

96 Painting a dog is one thing, but painting a cat is quite another.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (Gqar

heh . I like cats.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:54 AM (Ti9vn)

97 but painting a cat is quite another.
Posted by: tubal

Obligatory Mrs. Slocombe joke here. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2026 09:54 AM (SaoqG)

98 And suffering produces character.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Gqar

----
According to an ancient little green Jedi Master, suffering is the end product of hate, anger, and fear.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 09:54 AM (FZ29D)

99 I watched the movie Basquiat last night. It tripled my hate of the pretentious Lefty art world.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Ti9vn)
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The movie or the documentary? I couldn't sit through the movie, but the documentary was interesting.

I was surprised how easy it was for art dealers and promoters to create a new superstar overnight, from literally nothing, and the supposedly sophisticated (and very rich) art collectors just lapped it up. Talk about NPCs ....

Basquiat had some talent, and he certainly knew how to manipulate homosexuals like Warhol, but he basically painted the same thing over and over ... and over.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 09:55 AM (iFTx/)

100 I love this. Favor pastoral scenes, farmland, green fields, sheaves of hay.

Totally alien and fascinating and calming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

101 >>It's a still life!

Still
Life
Barely
Hanging
On

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 09:55 AM (rOKnE)

102 Civilization: it was nice while it lasted.

Life-threatening violence broke out at a 12-year-olds girls’ softball game over the weekend, leaving one man unconscious with a fractured skull, a grandfather with a broken hip, and a Texas couple arrested and charged with assault.
Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, were attending their daughter’s game at Imperial Park in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, Texas, on Saturday when a verbal dispute among parents erupted into a physical attack, according to ABC 13.

Video.

https://tinyurl.com/mvydcww9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (ndZc7)

103 Exactly. It is my job to build character in the commentariat!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

***********

Don't we already have enough characters in this crowd?

Posted by: muldoon at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (Ns+8q)

104 Explodin’ Whale day is nae til twelth the November.

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (LHPAg)

105 Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday . . . “Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Higby filmed themselves and posted the videos to social media to try to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems

This is a common thing you see from leftwing regimes. As their systems fail in whatever they are supposed to do the claim becomes they are only failing because of "wreckers" - if everyone just worked in the system and believed in it, it would magically start working...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (sKqQm)

106 'And suffering produces character.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Gqar
----
According to an ancient little green Jedi Master, suffering is the end product of hate, anger, and fear.'

"3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."

Romans 5 ESV

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (Jr5Lq)

107 You must have character and not be one.

Something someone said once.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 09:57 AM (xLFgT)

108 Painting a dog is one thing, but painting a cat is quite another.
Posted by: tubal

The difficult part is getting the cat to sit still for a portrait. I recommend staples.

Posted by: weft cut-Frank Cross at October 29, 2026 09:57 AM (nEUC6)

109 We have Grant Wood's Fall Plowing in the living room.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

110 Is this a rerun?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 09:57 AM (6SIvd)

111 At least mow the grass. Making the lowly factory workers trudge through that tall grass all summer! Probably had to pull ticks off each other before their drudgery even started.

Posted by: No OSHA, Then at October 29, 2026 09:58 AM (EdP2u)

112 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (ndZc7)

The person who posted that vid is a delusional black racist.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:59 AM (Ti9vn)

113 Exactly. It is my job to build character in the commentariat!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM

Just because the commenters are characters, doesn't mean they have character.

Posted by: Winston Wolf at October 29, 2026 10:00 AM (KRh8R)

114 manufacturing the absence of color until 1908.
Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 09:52 AM (Bep7s)

Absence of color = black.

All colors yields white, if we talking about light and not pigments,

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 29, 2026 10:00 AM (97NWC)

115 According to an ancient little green Jedi Master, suffering is the end product of hate, anger, and fear.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 09:54 AM

And that same ancient little green Jedi Master said, upon hearing complaints about a repeat, "Whinge not you otto, man."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 10:00 AM (0sNs1)

116 Civilization: it was nice while it lasted.

Life-threatening violence broke out at a 12-year-olds girls’ softball game over the weekend, leaving one man unconscious with a fractured skull, a grandfather with a broken hip, and a Texas couple arrested and charged with assault.
Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, were attending their daughter’s game at Imperial Park in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, Texas, on Saturday when a verbal dispute among parents erupted into a physical attack, according to ABC 13.

Video.

https://tinyurl.com/mvydcww9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (ndZc7)
________

So ... a black tough guy sucker-punches a white dude with a metal water bottle. He then gets his ass beat by a white grandfather. Then his wife jumps in after the grandfather is already hurt. You probably won't be surprised to learn that she's ... an assistant high school principal. She resigned.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:01 AM (iFTx/)

117 Boring and vaguely unpleasant. There seems to be no life or energy anywhere. Just blah.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 09:51 AM (yEz+x)

hotair.com/art

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 10:01 AM (k5CNB)

118 102 known locally as "hy larry us kiarious."

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:02 AM (Bep7s)

119 Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, were attending their daughter’s game at Imperial Park

Did Chlamydia's team win?

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 10:02 AM (Y8DZL)

120 I seem to remember some white factory jokes. Maybe it was a different white factory.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (6SIvd)

121 I think that’s a munchkin train track running in front of the factory.

The silo is where they store the mayonnaise. Tanker trucks back up to the ramp to fill up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (xOuxV)

122 So ... a black tough guy sucker-punches a white dude with a metal water bottle. He then gets his ass beat by a white grandfather. Then his wife jumps in after the grandfather is already hurt. You probably won't be surprised to learn that she's ... an assistant high school principal. She resigned.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:01 AM (iFTx/)
=====

All of them are Great Americans.

Kicking ass at high school sports games is what made this country great!

*lobs football at floor producer*

Posted by: Sean Hannity at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (RIvkX)

123 So ... a black tough guy sucker-punches a white dude with a metal water bottle. He then gets his ass beat by a white grandfather. Then his wife jumps in after the grandfather is already hurt. You probably won't be surprised to learn that she's ... an assistant high school principal. She resigned.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Why my sons and I had The Talk.
Don't be around violence prone people.

Posted by: MkY at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (bmy0Q)

124 The only thing surprising about the softball riot is that Kiarious and Jazmine are married.

Posted by: Wonders Never Cease at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (EdP2u)

125 Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday . . . “Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Higby filmed themselves and posted the videos to social media to try to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems

This is a common thing you see from leftwing regimes. As their systems fail in whatever they are supposed to do the claim becomes they are only failing because of "wreckers" - if everyone just worked in the system and believed in it, it would magically start working...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (sKqQm)

They're just pissed off because every time they try an undercover operation against racist and corrupt white people they fail. So much so the make shit up and report false hate crimes.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (Ti9vn)

126 Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife

1. "Kiarious"? Was this dude conceived in the back seat of a Kia?

B. "and his wife" Wow. How refreshing.

III. F*ck these people, in particular.

Posted by: Winston Wolf at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (KRh8R)

127 Off, Pulp Fiction sock!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 10:04 AM (KRh8R)

128 All cultures are equal.

Machete Mob Attacks Ebola Workers in Congo as Cases Pass 10,000
. . . .
“Here are the people that are spreading the Ebola virus through people’s toilets and rivers!” the angry group of local residents shouted, summoning an even angrier band of youths armed with clubs and machetes. The nurse died at the scene after the mob attacked.
A few days before that deadly incident, another community worker in the area was attacked by a mob and escaped with his life, but the mob set his house on fire.

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Obamacare Africa style.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

129 A factory, such an inspiring subject for art, comrade.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 29, 2026 10:05 AM (M0I1r)

130 The "Tieless" railroad was an experiment that was quickly abandoned.

Posted by: Nice Try, Though at October 29, 2026 10:05 AM (EdP2u)

131 114 i'm of the true black is the sum of all colors.
"pinkusfuktus! pinkusfuktus!"

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:05 AM (Bep7s)

132 hotair.com/art
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 10:01 AM (k5CNB)
=====

Which site has more Rothko??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

133 114 i seldom do cyan or magenta.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s)

134 Kiarious or whatever the fuck, beat that guy with a steel thermos.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:06 AM (8B4gm)

135 A few days before that deadly incident, another community worker in the area was attacked by a mob and escaped with his life, but the mob set his house on fire.

-
Obamacare Africa style.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)
=====

Second look at virgin-sacrifice?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

136
must be a rice paddy.
Posted by: uncle ben at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

I thought the Irish were more into barley?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:06 AM (iqcvy)

137 Which site has more Rothko??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:05 AM

Theirs, obviously. Most of our threads point out that it's nice, but it's no Rothko.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 10:07 AM (KRh8R)

138 Africans: hey that guy is always around sick people!

*burns doctor's house*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:07 AM (RIvkX)

139 Africans: hey that guy is always around sick people!

*burns doctor's house*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:07 AM

To quote the late P.J. O'Rourke:

"Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 10:08 AM (KRh8R)

140 A factory, such an inspiring subject for art, comrade.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

It can be.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:09 AM (8B4gm)

141 That was in Texas - he won't be in for very long. He'll have the forties nicely chilled for Karmelo's release party.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 10:09 AM (BI5O2)

142 Jack Bruce originally titled the song "White Factory", but poet Pete Brown found it wouldn't fit the meter, so "White Room" it is.

Posted by: Cream's Greatest Hits at October 29, 2026 10:09 AM (EdP2u)

143 59 Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM

And Methodists.

Posted by: A nearby sheriff at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (FAxhF)

144 143 59 Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM

And Methodists.

Posted by: A nearby sheriff at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (FAxhF)

=======

Through the Vatican?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (pfZGz)

145 This is a common thing you see from leftwing regimes. As their systems fail in whatever they are supposed to do the claim becomes they are only failing because of "wreckers" - if everyone just worked in the system and believed in it, it would magically start working...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 09:56 AM (sKqQm)
---
Pointing out the flaws in their "system" is a capital offense, worthy of the death penalty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (FZ29D)

146 Twenty three minutes of Mielczewski:
youtube.com/watch?v=mfGDcvLC2wM

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (Jr5Lq)

147 Which site has more Rothko??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:05 AM

Theirs, obviously. Most of our threads point out that it's nice, but it's no Rothko.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

They also have way more paintings of naked Ed Morrisey on an ottoman than we do.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

148
“Here are the people that are spreading the Ebola virus through people’s toilets and rivers!” the angry group of local residents shouted

Same thing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:11 AM (iqcvy)

149 The racist and religious bigotry attacks against El Sayed are evil!

Pakistan’s Top Court Upholds Christian Man’s Death Sentence for Blasphemy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

150 Speaking of art

@Wendys 10m
we got a wendys video game before gta vi

WendyQuest drops 11/4
x.com/Wendys/status/2115805962426843475

Posted by: weft cut-Frank Cross at October 29, 2026 10:12 AM (nEUC6)

151 And Methodists.

Posted by: A nearby sheriff at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (FAxhF)

=======

Through the Vatican?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM

And next, I won't be able to defecate in peace.

Posted by: The Bear at October 29, 2026 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

152 136 "like white on barley" has a ring to it.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

153 Which makes the query "Wheah all the white wimmen at!?" completely rational …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM

And Methodists.

Posted by: A nearby sheriff at October 29, 2026 10:10 AM (FAxhF)

=======

Through the Vatican?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson

Bill Gates Sees an AI-Free Future for Some: “Like the Amish”

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Poor bastards!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

154
Second look at virgin-sacrifice?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

Ah. I see that you've been to a Magic: The Gathering convention....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:14 AM (iqcvy)

155 hotair.com/art

*******

Hmmmm...

I wonder what rhymes with 'vibrant'

Posted by: muldoon at October 29, 2026 10:15 AM (Ns+8q)

156 CBD, here's an artwork I saw this week. Might be a good post. YMMV. Schizophrenic draftsman does surrealism a century ahead of his time:
https://tinyurl.com/3vxem7jx

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 10:15 AM (Jr5Lq)

157 They also have way more paintings of naked Ed Morrisey on an ottoman than we do.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 10:11 AM

Hopefully CBD has quit monitoring the Thread in hopes of future inspirations.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2026 10:16 AM (0sNs1)

158 A few days before that deadly incident, another community worker in the area was attacked by a mob and escaped with his life, but the mob set his house on fire.

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Obamacare Africa style.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)
=====

Second look at virgin-sacrifice?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)
___________

Not the hot ones, though

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:16 AM (iFTx/)

159 Neighbors say Kiarious was just turning his life around and had begun attending a neighborhood bible study.

Posted by: Local media at October 29, 2026 10:17 AM (FAxhF)

160 Painting a dog is one thing, but painting a cat is quite another.
Posted by: tubal

I suppose it's harder to paint a dog because dogs are expressive and their personality shows on their faces. Much like painting a person. It looks off, if you don't get the character right.

Cats have almost no expression or personality on their blank faces beyond oh..say, a yawn.

That's why their portraits are so often anthropomorphized or given the AI treatment.

A cat is a cat is cat, except for color. So boring.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 10:17 AM (YSUhf)

161 134 i thought he only threw the drink at me. the video shows he broke the (newer style, thankfully) guinness pint glass on my head. that explained the laceration in my ear.
agitated kid spouting endless woke nonsense. trial is nov 16th.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:18 AM (Bep7s)

162 Pakistan’s Top Court Upholds Christian Man’s Death Sentence for Blasphemy
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I have a friend who's church supports the mission of an evangelist there; has to have security 24/7.

We regularly argue about courage vs. insanity.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 10:18 AM (Y8DZL)

163
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 10:19 AM (eRlcH)

164 WendyQuest drops 11/4
x.com/Wendys/status/2115805962426843475
Posted by: weft cut-Frank Cross

Trian Fund Management Offers Wendy's $1.4 Billion Buyout

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:19 AM (ndZc7)

165 Today is National Cat Day.

Not joking.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:19 AM (iFTx/)

166 Brrrrr. Chilly out here on the water this morning. And dark. Dark dark.

And damp.

❤️

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:20 AM (O0w/F)

167 I like this...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 10:21 AM (+gK6I)

168 Our good weather here in N IL keeps on hanging on.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 10:21 AM (Jr5Lq)

169 Cats have almost no expression or personality on their blank faces beyond oh..say, a yawn.

That's why their portraits are so often anthropomorphized or given the AI treatment.

A cat is a cat is cat, except for color. So boring.
Posted by: naturalfake

You’ve never seen Lucy the Fink testing bitch face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:22 AM (O0w/F)

170 >Today is National Cat Day.
---

is this really necessary

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:22 AM (ZxPkt)

171
Today is National Cat Day.

Not joking.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:19 AM (iFTx/)

Okay, everyone go nap on the window sill.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:22 AM (iqcvy)

172 168 me too. it will suck for the goblins tho.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:22 AM (Bep7s)

173 *RESTING.

FERKING autocucumber

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:22 AM (O0w/F)

174 Shouldn't National Cat Day be on a, you know, Saturday?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 29, 2026 10:23 AM (FAxhF)

175 Missed JJ this morning.. Went back to check... Yikes... Looks like everyone was on suicide watch....Forget the polls

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 10:23 AM (+gK6I)

176 EU Reportedly Dropping Associate Membership Offer to Canada

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They're too pussy for the EU? Or not enough?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:23 AM (ndZc7)

177 Is this a rerun?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 09:57 AM (6SIvd)

What's happening?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:24 AM (hVPzc)

178 Phony painting due to the lack of ads on the buildings.

This is a masterpiece of American landscape painting. It touches geometric abstraction in how the buildings are represented and at the same time are perfectly understood as real objects. The colors are spectacular and ground the scene in a serenity; Edward Hopper went here all the time - this is completely American. This period of American art and photography has become my favorite.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 29, 2026 10:25 AM (wcyKn)

179 177 Is this a rerun?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 09:57 AM (6SIvd)

What's happening?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:24 AM (hVPzc)

========

Is this real life, or is it just fantasy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:25 AM (pfZGz)

180 176 EU Reportedly Dropping Associate Membership Offer to Canada.
++++

Junior Apprentice Membership is still on the table, however.

Posted by: The EU Bigwigs at October 29, 2026 10:26 AM (FAxhF)

181
Cats have almost no expression or personality on their blank faces beyond oh..say, a yawn.

"The window sill is warm and cozy. But I wanna get up and kill my hooman and eat her quivering corpse."

*yawn*

"Naaaaah. Too much trouble. Go bring me some tuna, hooman slave."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:26 AM (iqcvy)

182 Caught in a landslide

No escape from
Reality.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:26 AM (O0w/F)

183 a Bierstadt once in a while
just a thought
ya wanna get crazy- put up a Ralph Steadman

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (ZxPkt)

184 Gun-Control Activist Arrested After Shocking Vandalism of 9/11 Memorial
A leftist activist claims in a video that he painted over the names of 9/11 victims to make an unrelated point.
A31-year-old gun-control activist was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly vandalizing the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Johnathan Andrew Tijerina is accused of spray-painting the address of his anti-gun website over the engraved names of some of the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks.

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Because 9/11 was all about Glocks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

185 Missed JJ this morning.. Went back to check... Yikes... Looks like everyone was on suicide watch....Forget the polls

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 10:23 AM (+gK6I)

Propaganda works. If it didn't they wouldn't do it.

What they love more than anything is demoralizing us.

But you know what they love more? Demoralizing their own people. And faking polls before an election could accomplish both. Us before and their own after.

With their own people shattered they get angrier, more disappointed, more miserable.

And our celebration if it happens will be short lived because they just start demoralizing with something else shortly thereafter. Kamala being unstoppable or whatever. And. It. Works.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (hVPzc)

186 184 Gun-Control Activist Arrested After Shocking Vandalism of 9/11 Memorial
A leftist activist claims in a video that he painted over the names of 9/11 victims to make an unrelated point.
A31-year-old gun-control activist was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly vandalizing the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Johnathan Andrew Tijerina is accused of spray-painting the address of his anti-gun website over the engraved names of some of the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks.

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Because 9/11 was all about Glocks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

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Charges dropped, and the city to pay for his rent for a year for his troubles in 3..2..1...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (pfZGz)

187 Wes Anderson whiffed when he used Forrest Gump in Atomic City instead of Bill Murray.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (wcyKn)

188 I was grabbing some popcorn to see if things went hands-on at the UN with Mike Waltz and Cuba’s foreign minister. Waltz served in 19th and 20th SFG. He has two Bronze Stars with v devices, the second one got him an oak leaf. Read the first citation if you get a chance. He was basically standing in a field with no cover shooting at positions with automatic weapons. When he ran out of rounds, he went to his pistol.

I’m pretty sure he’s not intimidated by a bunch of commie dick jugglers. Pretty sure.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (ReYtg)

189 Cats come from the Steven Wright school of comedy. They will jump up on a dresser and just sit there, calmly watching you. Then they casually reach out, push your half glass of water onto the floor, and continue sitting there expressionless waiting to see what you do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 10:28 AM (xOuxV)

190 I'm not saying the polls are faked that much this time and we are on track to win. Republicans DESERVE to lose both houses for being feckless spineless fools who despise their own voters.

All I'm saying is we know they lie and we know polls are bs. We just don't know the extent until the actual election. Meanwhile they have kept our side miserable for months. By nothing more than printing lies. Mission Accomplished.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:29 AM (hVPzc)

191 187 Wes Anderson whiffed when he used Forrest Gump in Atomic City instead of Bill Murray.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at October 29, 2026 10:27 AM (wcyKn)

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There's a short promo of Asteroid City, filmed at the outdoor set, with Murray and Jason Schwartzman. No idea why Muray didn't play a bigger role, there was obviously some level of availability (and Anderson talks about how he uses schedules creatively to afford his casts). I do think the role would have been better in Murray's hands than Hanks'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:29 AM (pfZGz)

192 the polling on Michelle Tafoya is all over the place

I have seen her tied with her opponent, AND trailing by 14, on the same day

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ZxPkt)

193 They should drown the 9-11 vandal in the Reflecting Pool just to make a point.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ReYtg)

194 EU Reportedly Dropping Associate Membership Offer to Canada

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They're too pussy for the EU? Or not enough?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:23 AM (ndZc7)
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Associate Bottom membership probably still on the table, though

But seriously, wtf is wrong with Canada? Why would they want to attach themselves to a weak, failing, and conquered organization of supplicant retards?

We we wrong about Canada the entire time, or has there been a generational shift in less than a generation?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

195 Brrrrr. Chilly out here on the water this morning. And dark. Dark dark.

And damp.

❤️
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:20 AM

Cool, crisp, and sunny, here. Getting used to leaving for work in the dark again. Until Monday when the clocks will be set back.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (KRh8R)

196 Actor Michael Rapaport Celebrates Casting Vote For Republican Bruce Blakeman Over “Kathy Hijab Hochul”

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"Hijab Hochul”. I like it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)

197 Just because I'm demoralized doesn't mean I won't vote. It's never stopped me before.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 10:31 AM (6SIvd)

198 192 the polling on Michelle Tafoya is all over the place

I have seen her tied with her opponent, AND trailing by 14, on the same day

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ZxPkt)

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NYT/Siena did the latter, and the guy who runs that polling, Nate Cohn, put out an article the same day talking about how it might be...his Selzer poll because it could be so wrong.

The polling industry knows something is wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:31 AM (pfZGz)

199 I saw Commie Dick Jugglers do a show at the halftime of a WNBA game. Like the game, it was imminently forgettable.

Posted by: With flying green dildos at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (FAxhF)

200 196 Actor Michael Rapaport Celebrates Casting Vote For Republican Bruce Blakeman Over “Kathy Hijab Hochul”

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"Hijab Hochul”. I like it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)

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Now that I know Rapaport supports Blakeman, I must now support Hochul.

Rapaport is fucking retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (pfZGz)

201 Europe will offer an unpaid internship to Canada

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (ZxPkt)

202 Holy crap

We are zig zagging around like a bunch of drunken retards through maritime traffic this morning.

Oh. And the Indian gill netters. Fuck those guys.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (O0w/F)

203
The EU stood up Carney for Homecoming 'cause he/she is going steady with Xi.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (Y8DZL)

204 Yeah... let's talk about polls.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (FAxhF)

205
But seriously, wtf is wrong with Canada? Why would they want to attach themselves to a weak, failing, and conquered organization of supplicant retards?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

Because Fuck Trump and the USA for electing him, that's why.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (iqcvy)

206 203
The EU stood up Carney for Homecoming 'cause he/she is going steady with Xi.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (Y8DZL)

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Probably no one could figure out what the fuck junior membership even meant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:33 AM (pfZGz)

207 Paste-up job or modified limited hang-out?

@BillMelugin_
BREAKING via NYT: In 2016, the Obama administration investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and found “some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother”, but the case and potential felony charges stalled because of a 5 year statute of limitations.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 10:33 AM (nEUC6)

208 207 Paste-up job or modified limited hang-out?

@BillMelugin_
BREAKING via NYT: In 2016, the Obama administration investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and found “some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother”, but the case and potential felony charges stalled because of a 5 year statute of limitations.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 10:33 AM (nEUC6)

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There's no statute of limitations on immigration fraud.

A Nazi who lied on his immigration form in 1946 was found out and deported in 2017.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:34 AM (pfZGz)

209 Speaking of Cappadocia.

>>@visegrad24
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7m
>>🇹🇷 Two people were killed and one injured when a rock collapsed at the entrance to an open-air museum in Cappadocia, Turkey.

>>The incident occurred at the Göreme Open-Air Museum.

>>Authorities said heavy rains caused parts of the rock to break off and fall where people were present.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:34 AM (viF8m)

210 WNBA Finals Game 6 Tickets Plummet to $32 for 12:30 Game

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Maybe they could throw in free beer and hot dogs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:34 AM (ndZc7)

211 Will Michelle Tafoya Be Sidelined?

Posted by: Possible headline at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (FAxhF)

212 But seriously, wtf is wrong with Canada? Why would they want to attach themselves to a weak, failing, and conquered organization of supplicant retards?”

Canada made their choice when they chose a mid level EU bureaucrat to be their new leader, rather than an actual Canadian.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (xOuxV)

213 Amazing. Rapaport was a HUGE lib. They LOVED him. A real outspoken ass.

He split with them on ONE thing - Jews - and overnight became a MAGA pariah even though he had at the time stayed a mega progressive socialist.

Just amazing. He is a rare one who COULD have his eyes opened all the way. I doubt it but it will be interesting to see where he goes. At the moment he's probably just enjoying pissing off the people who turned on him. Many of us were there at one time. Watching leftards turn on you for merely disagreeing ONCE.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (hVPzc)

214 212 Canada made their choice when they chose a mid level EU bureaucrat to be their new leader, rather than an actual Canadian.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (xOuxV)

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You mean an Indian?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (pfZGz)

215 We we wrong about Canada the entire time, or has there been a generational shift in less than a generation?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

Brave AI is telling me that 10.8% of the Canadians who served in WW1 didn't return.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (88C+u)

216 That's awful. I hope the subterranean chickens are ok.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 10:35 AM (6SIvd)

217 You couldn’t pay me to go to a WNBA game.

Ok. Five figures and I’ll go.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2026 10:36 AM (O0w/F)

218 Actor Michael Rapaport Celebrates Casting Vote For Republican Bruce Blakeman Over “Kathy Hijab Hochul”

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"Hijab Hochul”. I like it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)

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Now that I know Rapaport supports Blakeman, I must now support Hochul.

Rapaport is fucking retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (pfZGz)
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He's mentally unstable and a weirdo, but he's been red-pilled by 10-7 and the overall vicious hostility to Israel he suddenly noticed among his fellow liberals.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:36 AM (iFTx/)

219 I've never seen commie dick jugglers. What's the deal? Do they line fifty or so up in a line and whack 'em with mallets like a xylophone?

Posted by: muldoon at October 29, 2026 10:36 AM (Ns+8q)

220
Carney is finding out how marginal Canada is politically. A hard school, but a fool will learn in no other.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 10:36 AM (eRlcH)

221
The polling this time has been interesting, becaue-

usually by now the polls have started pulling back towards reality so as not top lose their reputations.

I guess you can take that either way, but I choose to see it as the Leftards all-in on this election because 2 more years of Trump and a Possibly(?) more responsible Republican Party means that they'll be almost totally defunded beyond their foreign gov't support and Bond-villain billionaires.

So, it's all propaganda polls up to the last minute.

Just do your duty and vote and if we all do that we will win.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 10:37 AM (YSUhf)

222
People are being thrown in jail, deplatformed, debanked, and fired over political speech throughout the western world and yet some wonder why you'd not want to provide your honest opinion to some stranger pollster.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 10:37 AM (Y8DZL)

223 WNBA Finals Game 6 Tickets Plummet to $32 for 12:30 Game

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Maybe they could throw in free beer and hot dogs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:34 AM (ndZc7)
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Probably would be more interest in free dildos

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:37 AM (iFTx/)

224 Methinks Hochul is in trouble in NY. People despise her and there is nobody else to blame for the general malaise in that state. They are going to need to crank up the printing presses and mail in fraud to pull that off. And the Feds are watching.

Should be fun to watch.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 10:38 AM (ReYtg)

225 218
He's mentally unstable and a weirdo, but he's been red-pilled by 10-7 and the overall vicious hostility to Israel he suddenly noticed among his fellow liberals.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:36 AM (iFTx/)

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It was obvious sarcasm meant to skewer the inclination of people to oppose things because people they don't like support them instead of thinking on their own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:38 AM (pfZGz)

226 @206

>>Probably no one could figure out what the fuck junior membership even meant.

Well, Canada not being a European country would tend to preclude being in a European Union.

Someone probably smacked the clueless twatbag that runs their fake circle jerk upside the brain pan and told her to stifle it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

227 What the hell is going on at the New York Times? Yesterday they went hard on the fraud being done by Democrats in Alaska and today this.

>>@AlphaNews
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15m
>>BREAKING: The New York Times reports that an Obama-era investigation found evidence that Ilhan Omar "had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother."

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:38 AM (viF8m)

228 222 People are being thrown in jail, deplatformed, debanked, and fired over political speech throughout the western world and yet some wonder why you'd not want to provide your honest opinion to some stranger pollster.
Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 10:37 AM (Y8DZL)

The "zero hour" guy on Twitter keeps getting mass-reported by the pedos, freaks, and commies he reports on. He's lately noted he's unemployable in IT. Despite being demonstrably a genius at it.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:38 AM (88C+u)

229 219 I've never seen commie dick jugglers. What's the deal? Do they line fifty or so up in a line and whack 'em with mallets like a xylophone?
Posted by: muldoon at October 29, 2026 10:36 AM

Zelensky usually starts with a piano solo.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (FAxhF)

230
Rapaport is fucking retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (pfZGz)

He's always been a flaming commie cocksucker. But his career is in the shitter, has been for years. Honestly, I think that he's trying to be clever in switching over to the right wing, either to get acting jobs with the new right wing production companies or to set the stage for lawsuits against the traditional commie studios for blacklisting him.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iqcvy)

231 221
The polling this time has been interesting, becaue-

usually by now the polls have started pulling back towards reality so as not top lose their reputations.

I guess you can take that either way, but I choose to see it as the Leftards all-in on this election because 2 more years of Trump and a Possibly(?) more responsible Republican Party means that they'll be almost totally defunded beyond their foreign gov't support and Bond-villain billionaires.

So, it's all propaganda polls up to the last minute.

Just do your duty and vote and if we all do that we will win.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 10:37 AM (YSUhf)

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The polling has corrected.

We went from Talarico leading every poll by 5-7 to every poll being in the margin of error. It's the hedge.

Most generic congressional polling have gone from D+10 or so to D+5 or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (pfZGz)

232
He's mentally unstable and a weirdo,
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Don't knock it until you've tried it.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (hVPzc)

233 Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:29 AM (hVPzc)

Why do people keep including the House?

The House has a teeny-tiny majority. Johnson gotten bill after bill passed.

The Senate needs an enema. The time to do that is in the primaries.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (SHHm+)

234 it's possible that some of the employees of NYT, although still very liberal, genuinely want to do investigative journalism, but the editorial board has been sitting on it all until this last week of October in an even-numbered year.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:40 AM (88C+u)

235 Maybe they could throw in free beer and hot dogs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

********

No wieners allowed at WNBA games!

Posted by: muldoon at October 29, 2026 10:40 AM (Ns+8q)

236 What the hell is going on at the New York Times? Yesterday they went hard on the fraud being done by Democrats in Alaska and today this.

>>@AlphaNews
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15m
>>BREAKING: The New York Times reports that an Obama-era investigation found evidence that Ilhan Omar "had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother."
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:38 AM (viF8m)

Yesterday's conspiracies really are today's facts, aren't they.

Morning, ever'one!

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 10:40 AM (dpXJq)

237 Trump appointed judge

@libsoftiktok 57s
BREAKING: Former Safari Restaurant owner Salim Said sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role the $250 million feeding our future fraud scheme

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 10:40 AM (nEUC6)

238 Rapaport is fucking retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM (pfZGz)

He's always been a flaming commie cocksucker. But his career is in the shitter, has been for years. Honestly, I think that he's trying to be clever in switching over to the right wing, either to get acting jobs with the new right wing production companies or to set the stage for lawsuits against the traditional commie studios for blacklisting him.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (iqcvy)
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He's planning on running for NYC mayor in 2029. Hell, why not? Maybe The Blade should also run ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:41 AM (iFTx/)

239 Europe will offer an unpaid internship to Canada
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:32 AM

I hope they at least throw in kneepads.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 10:41 AM (KRh8R)

240 ... also Trump critical

she has drawn national attention for a February 2026 order finding ICE likely violated detainees' constitutional rights during "Operation Metro Surge," and she was among the Minnesota federal judges targeted by a September 2026 DOJ complaint over their public comments.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 10:41 AM (nEUC6)

241 233 Why do people keep including the House?

The House has a teeny-tiny majority. Johnson gotten bill after bill passed.

The Senate needs an enema. The time to do that is in the primaries.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (SHHm+)

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People include the House because we remember the ACA repeal bills easily passing the House under Paul Ryan and then suddenly not even being brought to the floor once Trump was president.

The skepticism is historically warranted.

However, Johnson did pass the OBBB which tripled ICE and cut off a bunch of benefits to illegals, which the Senate then passed. So, I suspect that Johnson is different from Ryan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:41 AM (pfZGz)

242 We we wrong about Canada the entire time, or has there been a generational shift in less than a generation?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 29, 2026 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

The 'fact' that half the Canadian voting population was born outside of Canada may have something to do with it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

243 @224

>>They are going to need to crank up the printing presses and mail in fraud to pull that off. And the Feds are

The donks control the entire apparatus in NYS so they can pretty much do what they want.

Basically Blue states are becoming bluer, red states are becoming redder and since blue states tend to have bigger populations, I think we are starting to tend back to a point where everything is locked in and the donks will have a slight numerical edge going forward.

I fully expect them to whittle down the Cali and NY congressional GOP to next to nothing so, I think they take control of the house.

And since the GOP in many places doesn't want to rock the boat and redistirct, the Donks will have the numerical edge for a while.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (XV/Pl)

244 >>Why do people keep including the House?

>>The House has a teeny-tiny majority. Johnson gotten bill after bill passed.

>>The Senate needs an enema. The time to do that is in the primaries.

Cause it needs to be repeated.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (viF8m)

245 Ballistics expert in support of more Virginia gun control.

https://tinyurl.com/mx92989b

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (ndZc7)

246 187 asteroid?

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (Bep7s)

247 234 it's possible that some of the employees of NYT, although still very liberal, genuinely want to do investigative journalism, but the editorial board has been sitting on it all until this last week of October in an even-numbered year.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:40 AM (88C+u)

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There was already a DOJ investigation into the Alaska situation.

It's narrative framing, nothing more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (pfZGz)

248 Just do your duty and vote and if we all do that we will win.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 10:37 AM (YSUhf)

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The polling has corrected.

We went from Talarico leading every poll by 5-7 to every poll being in the margin of error. It's the hedge.

Most generic congressional polling have gone from D+10 or so to D+5 or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (pfZGz)

I've got a D+8. In my pants.

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (dpXJq)

249 Why do people keep including the House?

The House has a teeny-tiny majority. Johnson gotten bill after bill passed.

The Senate needs an enema. The time to do that is in the primaries.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:39 AM (SHHm+)

Because IMO, if the House can pass bills knowing the Senate will squash them, what exactly have they done? Republicans have played that game before....

"If only we had blah....."

They are fucking masters at it. Hell they practically invented it.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (hVPzc)

250 Remember when the exit polling proved Bush stole the election from Kerry?

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM (Q+gd/)

251 "...evidence that Ilhan Omar "had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother."
****

She's her own grandma!

Posted by: Ray Stevens at October 29, 2026 10:43 AM (FAxhF)

252 The House passed the SAVE Act.

Then what happened?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:43 AM (viF8m)

253 >>>Probably no one could figure out what the fuck junior membership even meant.
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you have to eat lunch in the cafeteria with all the other employees

you don't get a logo'ed company windbreaker

be available for weekend and shift work

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:43 AM (ZxPkt)

254 What did Canada bring to the EU?

Anything?

Other than a frosty relationship with the US... what, if anything did the EU think they'd get with Canada? I mean, what imports could Canada offer that the EU doesn't have, you know, right there in the EU?

Militarily? That's a joke too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 10:44 AM (RORbl)

255 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:41 AM (pfZGz)

Past House? Especially under Ryan? Agreed. Current House? Johnson has done yeomen' work.

Just think of the cats he has had to corral. It is amazing what he has accomplished.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:44 AM (SHHm+)

256 Really lovely painting. Have we had it before? It looks familiar. I like the different shadings of color in the grasses and all the other colors as well against the white buildings. Thanks. I will have to look up her other work.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 10:44 AM (JrHfD)

257 250 Remember when the exit polling proved Bush stole the election from Kerry?
Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2026 10:42 AM

I used to be the next President of the United States!

Posted by: Al Gore at October 29, 2026 10:44 AM (FAxhF)

258 >The House passed the SAVE Act.

Then what happened?

Posted by: JackStraw
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Thune

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:44 AM (ZxPkt)

259 Remember when MOE was a statistical method used to account for potentially undetected anomalies in a sample and used to smooth results? Now it’s a fudge factor meant to preserve pollsters credibility so they continue to falsely project winners as part of a psyop, and still say they were correct when they lose. Oh, the salad days. They are long gone

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 10:45 AM (ReYtg)

260
you don't get a logo'ed company windbreaker

be available for weekend and shift work
Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:43 AM (ZxPkt)

_________

But there's pizza. Every quarter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 10:45 AM (eRlcH)

261 maybe the $32 includes a lottery. highest number gets a dinner date with Sophie Cunningman. lowest number gets Angel Reese

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (88C+u)

262 255 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:41 AM (pfZGz)

Past House? Especially under Ryan? Agreed. Current House? Johnson has done yeomen' work.

Just think of the cats he has had to corral. It is amazing what he has accomplished.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:44 AM (SHHm+)

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We thought great things of Ryan...at the time.

If the GOP keeps the house (doubtful, to be honest) and the GOP keeps the senate (99% likelihood), then we'll see how much can be done now that Mitch, Tillis, Cornyn, Cassidy, and Ernst are gone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (pfZGz)

263 >I used to be the next President of the United States!

Posted by: Al Gore
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Been there.
-Hillary "Piano Legs" Clinton

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (ZxPkt)

264 Is Talarico winning?

Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (YobFY)

265
WNBA Finals Game 6 Tickets Plummet to $32 for 12:30 Game

BREAKING!!!

Due to lack of interest they are changing the WNBA Finals venue to the Food Court at Stonebriar Mall in Frisco.

Corndogs 30% Off!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (YSUhf)

266 yeah Hillary was next TWICE
ooh that's gotta sting

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (ZxPkt)

267 193 but that might damage the liner.

Posted by: cmeat at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (Bep7s)

268 264 Is Talarico winning?

Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (YobFY)

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Early voting shows that Texas has shifted to the left from 2024!

About 1.4 points to the left...when Cruz won by 9 and Trump by 14.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (pfZGz)

269 252 The House passed the SAVE Act.

Then what happened?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:43 AM (viF8m)

The Senate needs an enema. Every primary.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (SHHm+)

270 But there's pizza. Every quarter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 10:45 AM

Don't forget the Jelly Of The Month Club.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (FAxhF)

271 @254

>>Militarily? That's a joke too.

Canada is a lot like Russia, it's a gas station, which is why the GDP of Canada is exactly the same as Russia.

European countries are not going to let Canada dump their non-energy products in their countries and as much as Europe needs energy, their is no economical way to get energy products from Canada to Europe.

It seems Canadians are trying to euthanize their entire country.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

272 Is Talarico winning?
Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (YobFY)

If he is we should be hearing loud yiffing noises coming from somewhere around Houston.

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (dpXJq)

273 I try not to worry about what I cannot control. Only thing I can do is make sure like minded people in my circle vote .

The differences between the two parties is so obvious and huge I frankly am at a lost with people who are undecided.

It's like being undecided between a shit sandwich or a ham sandwich .

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (Ti9vn)

274 >>There was already a DOJ investigation into the Alaska situation.

>>It's narrative framing, nothing more.

There's been a DOJ investigation since Obama as the NYT accurately, for once, reported.

When has the NYT ever done narrative framing? Did they do it over Russia collusion? Did they do it over the Ukraine phone call? Did they do it over J6? Did they do it over the raid on Mar A Lago?

In the last 2 days the NYT has done more journalism than they have done in the last 2 decades. That's odd for The Paper of Record.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (viF8m)

275 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Art today is...ummm...not very exuberant.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (2WIwB)

276 Unfortunately Colorado's Republicans got buffaloed into nominating Victor Marx for their governor candidate. The primary system doesn't always work.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (88C+u)

277 The polls are always right. Just ask President Harris and President Hillary. And Rebecca Hong.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (hVPzc)

278 It seems Canadians are trying to euthanize their entire country.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

Oh well. No one will miss them.

What's for lunch?

Posted by: Good Riddance at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (JAh4c)

279 274
There's been a DOJ investigation since Obama as the NYT accurately, for once, reported.

When has the NYT ever done narrative framing? Did they do it over Russia collusion? Did they do it over the Ukraine phone call? Did they do it over J6? Did they do it over the raid on Mar A Lago?

In the last 2 days the NYT has done more journalism than they have done in the last 2 decades. That's odd for The Paper of Record.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (viF8m)

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"Alaska situation"

Did the Obama DOJ investigate Mary Petola searching out another Dan Sullivan in 2015 or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (pfZGz)

280 The Christian Post
@ChristianPost
Billy Crystal told CBS he doesn't talk to God anymore: "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened."

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Why, the Narnia reboot alone . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (ndZc7)

281 The front building is what inspired obama's library.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (vzuC7)

282 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (pfZGz)

I am hopeful that the new maps have given the Republicans a chance to keep the House. Hakeem Jeffries would make Nancy Pelosi seem like a statesman.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (SHHm+)

283 Dat where dey makes all da white people?
/Blues Brother

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 10:50 AM (kU0PQ)

284 Unfortunately Colorado's Republicans got buffaloed into nominating Victor Marx for their governor candidate. The primary system doesn't always work.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (88C+u)

Hopefully more like Groucho than Karl?

Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 10:50 AM (dpXJq)

285 WNBA Finals venue to the Food Court at Stonebriar Mall in Frisco.
Corndogs 30% Off!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 10:47 AM (YSUhf)

Do NOT make eyecontact with the players when eating the corndog. Violators will be arrested and forced into mandatory sensitivity training. And the corndog will be confiscated.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:50 AM (88C+u)

286 282 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:46 AM (pfZGz)

I am hopeful that the new maps have given the Republicans a chance to keep the House. Hakeem Jeffries would make Nancy Pelosi seem like a statesman.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:49 AM (SHHm+)

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It's probably just not enough. If TX and FL had gone cut throat and IN had done it and SC had done it, it might have been enough.

But, turnout differntials are a thing.

Not even Obama's team, whom I'm told were the best of the best, could undo turnout differentials in 2010 or 2014.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:50 AM (pfZGz)

287 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife at October 29, 2026 10:50 AM (FAxhF)

288 Apparently the USAID cutoff didn't deprive *all* the stupid trolls of their tendie funds.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (oPFtC)

289 Cope loves him some shit sandwiches.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (Ti9vn)

290 Victor Marx is a clown in a class of his own.
Anyway Groucho wouldn't want to be governor of a state with voters dumb enough to elect him

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (88C+u)

291 Billy Crystal told CBS he doesn't talk to God anymore: "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened."
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If only there was a book somewhere that warned him that in this world you will have trouble.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (hVPzc)

292 In the last 2 days the NYT has done more journalism than they have done in the last 2 decades. That's odd for The Paper of Record.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:48 AM (viF8m)

I have seen a lot of questioning on why they did it. Getting ahead of a story works for one, but two? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (SHHm+)

293 268 James Madison what does that mean?

Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 10:52 AM (YobFY)

294
TJM is right.

Michael Rapaport is developmentally disabled. It's not sarcasm. He probably puts his clothes on backwards and stuff like that.

Much as I hate Leftists, I don't really hold it against him. You can't take people like him seriously when they say what they "believe."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 10:52 AM (BI5O2)

295 >>The Senate needs an enema. Every primary.

And then when the primary dust settles it's time to vote against the communists who want to end the game entirely.

Everyone needs to go vote. Unlike Bolsonaro, we have no place left to run.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

296 Apparently the USAID cutoff didn't deprive *all* the stupid trolls of their tendie funds.

They're being paid directly by Singham, Mark Cuban, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Alex Soros now instead of with our tax money. So that's something.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 10:52 AM (2ocoG)

297 Will the REAL Dan Sullivan please stand up?

Posted by: Don Pardo at October 29, 2026 10:53 AM (FAxhF)

298 Racist much?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2026 10:53 AM (wGerL)

299 Got a buncha fast food coupons yesterday. E.g., two Arby's Greek Gyros for $7. Those aren't terrible. That'll be lunch today.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 10:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

300 The troll thinks we forget he was right here in 2024 bragging over and over that Harris was going to win.

The libs love the "passage of time". They think it erases their lies.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:54 AM (hVPzc)

301 Billy Crystal told CBS he doesn't talk to God anymore: "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened."

Aw Billy is special and nothing bad should ever happen to him. God should listen to him because he's an actor.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:54 AM (Ti9vn)

302 It's like being undecided between a shit sandwich or a ham sandwich .

Did you ever hear the one about the Priest, the Rabbi and the ham sandwich?

Posted by: Stretch Cunningham at October 29, 2026 10:54 AM (JAh4c)

303 Aw Billy is special and nothing bad should ever happen to him. God should listen to him because he's an actor.

He's a member of the Film Actors' Guild, obviously.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2026 10:54 AM (2ocoG)

304 Billy Crystal told CBS he doesn't talk to God anymore: "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened.

"And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold."

Posted by: Halfhand at October 29, 2026 10:55 AM (LbUS+)

305 >>"Alaska situation"

>>Did the Obama DOJ investigate Mary Petola searching out another Dan Sullivan in 2015 or something?

What? Was that supposed to make sense?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:55 AM (viF8m)

306 300 The troll thinks we forget he was right here in 2024 bragging over and over that Harris was going to win.

The libs love the "passage of time". They think it erases their lies.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:54 AM (hVPzc)

Who was it that said that for liberals, "history" begins this morning? Ann Coulter?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 10:55 AM (oPFtC)

307 >>Unfortunately Colorado's Republicans got buffaloed into nominating Victor Marx for their governor candidate. The primary system doesn't always work.

He wasn't ahead until after primary election day.
He wasn't the top pick.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 10:55 AM (rOKnE)

308 293 268 James Madison what does that mean?

Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 10:52 AM (YobFY)

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That comparing day to day from 2026 early voting to 2024, the county level analysis of voting in Texas is showing that the electorate in Texas today is slightly to the left of what it was in 2024.

In 2024, Cruz won by 9 and Trump won by 14.

So, assume that Paxton wins as many Republicans as Cruz did (only 6% of Republicans voted for Beto in 201

, and you're looking at Paxton on track to winning by about 7.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:55 AM (pfZGz)

309 Billy, don't be a shnook!
It's not how you feel, it's how you look!

Posted by: SNL throwbacks for $200, Alex at October 29, 2026 10:56 AM (FAxhF)

310 Getting ahead of a story works for one, but two? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (SHHm+)

There's an election coming up next week and they are on the losing end of these stories. They always like to present certain strains of objectivity as a shining example when it doesn't matter. Then they go right back to the usual lying.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:56 AM (hVPzc)

311 I'm looking at IMDB for Billy Crystal. TV series like "Before" and "Monsters at Work". Not even G-d wants to watch Crystal these days

Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (88C+u)

312 "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened."

Moses had to put up with that stuff over and over and over and ...

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

313 312 "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened."

Moses had to put up with that stuff over and over and over and ...

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

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"Fucking piker..."
-Job

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (pfZGz)

314 only 6% of Republicans voted for Beto in 201....

Those weren't Republicans. They were retards pretending to be Republicans.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (Ti9vn)

315 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 10:58 AM (8B4gm)

316 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The Book of Job at October 29, 2026 10:58 AM (FAxhF)

317 314 only 6% of Republicans voted for Beto in 201....

Those weren't Republicans. They were retards pretending to be Republicans.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:57 AM (Ti9vn)

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It's a standard crossover rate, roughly 5% or so.

The only time something exceeds that is usually incredible controversy (Mark Robinson in the NC governor's race in 2024, you should have heard the ads using his own words over and over again). And as much as Democrats want Paxton to be like Robinson, he's not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (pfZGz)

318 One of the bad things that triggered Crystal was Rob Reiner being murdered by his kid. Yeah God's fault.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (Ti9vn)

319 >>There's an election coming up next week and they are on the losing end of these stories. They always like to present certain strains of objectivity as a shining example when it doesn't matter. Then they go right back to the usual lying

Why would the NYT write an article about Ilhan Elmi days implicating Obama days before the 2026 midterms?

They know who their subscribers are. They picked a team decades ago and this ain't that. It's odd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)

320 I will note Crystal didn't say he doesn't believe in God.

The dark night of the soul is a genuine struggle. The thoroughly devout all face it at some point. So I will give him some grace because he may merely be being honest rather than spreading propaganda.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (hVPzc)

321 310 Getting ahead of a story works for one, but two? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 10:51 AM (SHHm+)

Maybe they want the Republicans to win because it's easier to attack them then it will be to attack the new Socialist Dems... Attacking Trump and his minions is their bread and butter... Besides.. They're probably afraid of the Socialists...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (+gK6I)

322 Thank you James Madison.

Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 11:00 AM (WdMlw)

323 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (pfZGz)

The worst a real Republican should do is just not vote. Again the basic differences between a Dem and Republican is so great today a Republican should never vote for an American hating Dem.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (Ti9vn)

324 303 Aw Billy is special and nothing bad should ever happen to him. God should listen to him because he's an actor.

He's a member of the Film Actors' Guild, obviously.
Posted by: Ian S.
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And this is how too many of elites view the Lord--as a Pez dispenser of fortune and grace. Since many of them don't really view Stan and his minions as real, bad things can only come from the Lord.

Saw something similar what Ted Turner hated Christianity and the Lord, he prayed for a beloved sister to live and she died. And held a grudge over it for the rest of his life against Christians because of it.

Rupert Murdoch dumped a Christian fiancee because she discussed her faith with him and he found the concept disturbing.

The glittery bright and beautiful invert the hierarchy into they deserve good things in their lives because of their wonderfulness. Bad things happening is reserved for the untermenschen.

Pride is indeed a cardinal sin and it goeth before a fall.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (E4rtv)

325 323 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (pfZGz)

The worst a real Republican should do is just not vote. Again the basic differences between a Dem and Republican is so great today a Republican should never vote for an American hating Dem.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (Ti9vn)

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What usually happens when partisans refuse to vote for a particular candidate is that they leave that vote blank but vote for everything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (pfZGz)

326 Why would the NYT write an article about Ilhan Elmi days implicating Obama days before the 2026 midterms?

They know who their subscribers are. They picked a team decades ago and this ain't that. It's odd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)

Obama isn't up for election. Elmi isn't in electoral danger for their precious numbers. The story isn't going to convince any of their idiot readers to switch sides. They haven't uncovered new information, just repeated what is widely known.

Surrounded by "Trump is a demon who will kill us all", it's essentially pap.

To US it seems like a big deal. To their side it's "see, the NYT is fair!!"

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:03 AM (hVPzc)

327 Yoo-hoo!

Posted by: Pat Paulsen at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (FAxhF)

328 Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 10:59 AM (hVPzc)

He's putting himself at the same level as God like he's a friend that's betrayed him.

That's the ultimate arrogance imo.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (Ti9vn)

329 Also don't forget there is an op RIGHT NOW to "move on" from the Democrat Party of old. Obama is part of that - and part of the op funnily enough. He will take some hits from the Left no doubt. But in service of The Cause he will take them because he is backing the very shift they want to make.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:05 AM (hVPzc)

330 >>> The Christian Post @ChristianPost Billy Crystal told CBS he doesn't talk to God anymore: "I don't trust Him. Too many bad things have happened."

It has taken me a long time, in my 29+ years of life, to understand this life is a test, and tests are by their very definition hard. That struggle is an essential part of it. And maybe god gives me hard things to work through BECAUSE he loves me, not because he hates me. And he will be with me every step of the way, if I lean on him.

Whenever Billy decides to talk to God again, God will be right there. He cares about us even we don't care about him.

The most poignant scripture to me at the moment is "Jesus wept." He knew he was about to resurrect their brother from the dead, and yet he wept and mourned with Mary and Martha. He weeps with us every day. And roots for us every day.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2026 11:06 AM (Toos7)

331 He's putting himself at the same level as God like he's a friend that's betrayed him.

That's the ultimate arrogance imo.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:04 AM (Ti9vn)

He's human. I have felt betrayed by God. As did Jesus.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:06 AM (hVPzc)

332 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 11:02 AM (pfZGz)

That's what I meant. If you just can't bring yourself to vote for the GOP candidate, just don't vote for them . But don't vote for the Dem.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:06 AM (Ti9vn)

333 He's human. I have felt betrayed by God. As did Jesus.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:06 AM (hVPzc)

Jesus did not feel betrayed by God. That's ridiculous.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:07 AM (Ti9vn)

334 Jesus did not feel betrayed by God. That's ridiculous.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:07 AM (Ti9vn)

What does Father why hast thou forsaken me mean

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:08 AM (hVPzc)

335 The dark night of the soul is a genuine struggle. The thoroughly devout all face it at some point. So I will give him some grace because he may merely be being honest rather than spreading propaganda.
Posted by: ...
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Anyone reading the Book of Job or viewing the sacrifice of Jesus in the New Testament along with the grisly martyrdom of saints should get the message.

During bad times, I was never tempted to blame the Lord, but instead blamed myself and individuals that were responsible. Prideful individuals though believe their good fortune comes from being good people rather than being humble despite repeated admonitions that one must be humble before the Lord. Even Moses nearly got killed for disobedience and was punished by never being able to enter the Promised Land.

Instead of reading the Bible, I think many of societal elites get their religion from attending services and it is not too popular nowadays for ministers/rabbis/etc to emphasize unpleasant truths in the Bible/Torah. We gloss over the bad things happening documented in the Good Book at our peril. And these even occur to those that the Lord views as his favorites because his plans are not ours.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)

336 What does Father why hast thou forsaken me mean
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:08 AM (hVPzc)

But thy will be done.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (Ti9vn)

337 But thy will be done.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:09 AM (Ti9vn)

That's not what it means.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (hVPzc)

338 Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:10 AM (hVPzc)

It's what Jesus said . He accepted God's will over his.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Ti9vn)

339 It's what Jesus said . He accepted God's will over his.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Ti9vn)

Why bother saying the first thing? It was a human expression of a feeling or He wouldnt have said it.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 11:12 AM (hVPzc)

The Morning Report — 10/29 /26

Good morning kids. Lots of ground to cover this morning so let's dive right in. First up, as if Spain doesn't have enough madness and bloodshed to contend with these days, on top of it all there was an absolutely horrific train crash there yesterday.

Several Americans are believed to have been injured in a high-speed train collision that killed at least 68 people in Spain on Wednesday when one train collided with another that had stopped on the tracks. The crash took place in Spain's Castilla-La Mancha, with the regional government confirming the death toll and adding that another 58 people required medical treatment in hospitals. Several Americans are believed to have been hurt in the crash, according to the State Department.

Prayers go out for all the victims and their loved ones. Yikes, having traveled extensively in Spain many years ago via their rail system, I can just imagine the carnage. Of course with everything else going on in Spain and Europe vis a vis the violent riots with its roots in Islam and their allies of convenience in and of the Left whose common enemy is Western civilization itself and the possibility of terrorism immediately comes to mind. You may recall the attack in Madrid at the Atocha train station shortly after 9/11 as well as the fact that Spain has been dealing with the terrorist Basque separatist group ETA for decades and so Terrorism cannot be ruled out, unless of course you're the Media channeling the specter of Yasser Arafat correcting that word as Tourism, which no doubt they're doing as we speak sincerely one day later and there's but one link I can find to this story. No doubt the Media and the Left but I repeat myself has its hands full trying to preserve protect and defend the election thievery in Brazil and more importantly run cover for whatever they have planned for next week here in the USA. The mass bloody carnage of a grisly train wreck, what a perfect metaphor...

On that note, we have a couple of items that underscore that threat which seems to be solidifying into a very distinct possibility, regionally in several crucial races if not nationally. First up there's this vile Gestapo-like action from the direct descendants of Goebbels and the Gestapo:

Investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby have been hit with felony charges by left-wing Minneapolis prosecutors for their video exposing vulnerable loopholes in Minnesota’s elections. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday . . . “Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Higby filmed themselves and posted the videos to social media to try to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems,” a press release from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office reads.

I'm not familiar with Minnesota's state criminal code, so will someone kindly enlighten me to the exact law or laws that these gentlemen broke? I ain't no F. Lee Bailey or Ironsides but I can't seem to find “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” anywhere in my dog-eared copy of "Understanding the Minnesota Criminal Code For Dummies/Dhimmis."

Meh, let's not lose our heads over this. They're will be plenty of time for that under Potus El-Sayed and VP Omar! Over the top? You tell me; the battle lines are being drawn, "For What It's Worth?!"

That garbage in Mecca-macacasota is bad enough but this next item is murder!

And yet after the DOJ identified illegal voters in Washington state, Gov. Robert Ferguson decided to invoke the National Guard. Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday criticized a federal request that Washington state set aside the ballots of more than 400 voters over citizenship concerns, calling the move “disappointing” a week before Election Day... Department of Homeland Security investigators claim, with a “high level of confidence,” that the voters in question are not U.S. citizens, according to a letter sent to Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs... National Guard personnel in plain clothes? What police state nonsense is this.Someone set three ballot drop boxes on fire back in 2024 and destroyed a few hundred ballots. Not sure how unarmed Guardsmen in civies are supposed to stop this. . .

These bastards are playing with fire. Meh, we've been saying this since forever and yet the Democrat Party and Leftists have metastasized like a cancer all over the place. Even if we the people of WE THE PEOPLE turn out like never before next week, there's just no way in hell that these bastards are going to allow their power to be denuded if they can help it?

But it raises a broader and more serious point that we touched upon in the latest episode of the podcast (linked here) as well as in the sidebar and on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of this post.

Western Civilization and arguably its high water mark the American Revolution and the Republic it spawned are on a knife edge of being destroyed. So, my fear is that we can vote for Donald Trumps all up and down the line all for election after election And Make No Mistake, we Must!!! but at what point will voting harder and harder and harder just not cut the mustard?! Horrid as the prior two stories are, we have already witnessed and lived through many more since before Trump descended the golden Trump Tower escalator 11 years ago now?

So Psaki-Psircling back to the podcast, when do we the people of WE THE PEOPLE dare "take arms against a sea of troubles?" and as I pondered (not necessarily weak and weary) is resorting to the tactics, specifically the violence (albeit in true self defense) of our enemies, who as we have seen are in every sense of the word mortal enemies, isn't the negation of the very things we are trying to preserve? The Democrat Party and Leftism must be completely removed from every position of power and influence in and out of government and society at large and never be permitted to rise again. We must fight evil remorselessly and relentlessly lest it once again rise to hold a rusty hacksaw to our neck!

It's us or them. And that's the plain unvarnished truth, like it or not. And so with that bitter pill I nevertheless bid you all to have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

The crash took place in Spain's Castilla-La Mancha, with the regional government confirming the death toll and adding that another 58 people required medical treatment in hospitals. Several Americans are believed to have been hurt in the crash, according to the State Department.
Spain: 68 Dead in High-Speed Rail Crash Points to a Systemic Problem

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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday...
James O’Keefe, Cam Higby Criminally Charged for Exposing Vulnerable Minnesota Election
There's a pretty clear use for the National Guard and this isn't it.
WA Gov Calls On National Guard to ‘Protect Ballots’ After DOJ IDs Illegal Voters

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

Victor Davis Hanson: Elon Musk’s shift to the right, support for Trump, and defense of free speech have turned a former liberal darling into a target of the Left’s growing hostility toward billionaires.
Why Do They Despise Musk?
"This country will not go communist on our watch."
'When socialists attain power, they never ever give it up'
The former labor secretary wants the Democrat Party to steal SpaceX and Starlink.
Robert Reich And Organized Theft
They dropped the SPLC screening tool following DOJ allegations that the group funneled $3 million to white hate groups.
BlackRock, Microsoft, and Seven Other Companies Drop SPLC Screening
FOR SIX YEARS, THE RULE HAS BEEN SIMPLE: IF YOU QUESTION AN ELECTION, YOU ARE A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. IF YOU QUESTION IT LOUDLY, YOU ARE AN INSURRECTIONIST. IF YOU QUESTION IT WITH A FLAG AND A BAD IDEA ABOUT WHERE TO PARK, YOU ARE A DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
Democrat-Aligned Groups Increasingly Threaten To Undermine Democracy
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Am I missing something here? Shooting someone in the face sounds like attempted murder to me.
ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Given Probation for Shooting Man in the Face
Woke media and politicians are already bewailing the death of Oscar Daniel Isaya Corrales, the 27-year-old man whom an off-duty FBI agent shot on Monday. In fact, Isaya Corrales was a Venezuelan illegal alien with a lengthy rap sheet who was firing into a homeless encampment, hence why the off-duty agent killed him.
Leftists Claim to Love the Homeless Until an Illegal Alien Tries to Murder Them
The monumental difficulty of deporting a Muslim illegal immigrant murderer.
Muslim Who Assaulted Jake Lang in Dearborn Was Criminal Illegal Alien Convicted of Murder in 1999
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Saudi Arabia’s oil exports are going strong and holding near war-time highs despite the ongoing wave attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, according to maritime tracking firms.
Damn Strait Saudi oil exports boom despite relentless Houthi attacks

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Mohammad El-Sayed's charity was tangled up for years in federal investigations over sending money to Iraq up until days before the US invasion
Abdul El-Sayed's Father Sits on Board of Charity With Muslim Brotherhood Ties That Got Caught Funneling Cash to Saddam, Was Raided by FBI and US Military
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Both arrests are part of a nationwide operation the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out last week. The first round brought in five people – four Haitian nationals and one Cuban national – and DHS called it the “opening salvo” of a much larger push.
ICE Arrests 2 More Haitian Illegal Aliens in Ohio Food Stamp Crackdown
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Congress should close four loopholes and catch more fraudsters.
JD Vance Says Current Law Misses 99% Of Fraud. He’s Close, And Here’s How Congress Can Fix It
As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.
California Sends Luxury Foods to Welfare Recipients
"I have an answer to not being able to get it past the Democrats or the Republicans together." (great, another Coney Island Whitefish wrapped in the South African constitution? - jjs)
Trump Names Potential SCOTUS Pick He Says Both Parties Would Approve
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
'Economic Hardship Reporting Project' highlights plight of $315,000-a-year anti-Israel activist
New York Times Increasingly Relies on Left-Wing Nonprofit Journalism

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According to Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index, the computing costs associated with developing and operating advanced AI systems have increased dramatically. OpenAI’s reported annual computing expenditure reached approximately $16.3 billion in 2025, compared with $5.8 billion in 2024. Anthropic’s equivalent spending reached approximately $6.8 billion in 2025.The economic consequences are substantial. Unlike software development, building the physical infrastructure necessary to operate advanced AI systems requires enormous upfront investment.
Is the AI Boom Hiding a Manufacturing Slump?
The question haunting Microsoft is whether its expensive vision of tomorrow will prove worth the costs in human talent and input.
Microsoft Buyout Offers for 60,000 Workers Amid $175 Billion AI Push
One thing to keep in mind is that mass hysteria, particularly on platforms like X, is often wrong.
Governments Are Telling Citizens To Prepare For The Worst. Here’s What You Need To Know.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
No matter what Democrats are saying about ‘affordability,’ trust that their priorities are anything but lowering prices.
‘Affordability’ Is A Trojan Horse For Democrats To Bring Back The Biden Years
Their pursuit of levies on net worth already have support beyond California.
Democrats’ Wealth-Tax Proposals Won’t End on Election Day

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
A federal judge ruled the DOJ unlawfully extended Essayli’s authority beyond the 120-day limit, disqualifying him from two cases but allowing time for an appeal.
Judge Rules Bill Essayli Unlawfully Serving as Los Angeles Top Prosecutor
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Cleta Mitchell: It is not misinformation, disinformation, or a crime to echo Democrats’ longheld view that election machines are vulnerable to manipulation.
Democrats Want Me In Jail For A Post Explaining Election Security
Watch with great care when lazy journalists start using the word ‘unprecedented.’
The Lazy ProPublica Hit Piece On Cleta Mitchell Is Full Of Howlers
Republicans should not be bullied or duped into the latest inane round of ‘pledges’ to blindly accept the results of the midterm elections.
Election Integrity Deniers Demand Allegiance To A Troubled Election System
In the run-up to the midterm elections, which are scheduled for November 3, the Trump administration has been cracking down on noncitizen voting.
Trump DOJ is Demanding That This State Set Aside Ballots From Hundreds of Suspected Noncitizens.
‘Americans from every state deserve fair and honest elections no matter what political party is in power,’ said Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead.
Report: State Midterm Races Will Determine Election Rules For 2028 And Beyond
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
According to the outlet, while Peltola’s campaign “has repeatedly denied any involvement” in Daniel J. Sullivan entering the race, the effort to find a second Dan Sullivan “involved the Peltola campaign’s lawyers, as well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee”:
Trump: Democrats’ Fake Alaska Senate Candidate Scheme ‘A Fraud on the American Public’'

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Malig-Nancy Pelosi is not on board.
Fellow Squad Member Rallies Support For BRO-FO Omar, But Not All Democrats Are On Board'
POLITICS
The DSA has already signaled its intention to use its leverage within the House to extract concessions from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D), the current House Minority leader, in his bid for the speakership. Specifically, the DSA aims to lower the thresholds for both discharge petitions and vacating the chair to make it easier to force votes on DSA-aligned objectives and topple the House leadership.
The DSA Could Quadruple Its Congressional Representation in the Midterms.
Polling this midterm election has been especially unreliable, but looking at past polling results might be useful for understanding what could happen.
What The Midterm Senate Polls Won’t Tell You (And Where They Might Be Wrong)
We have a two-party system, whether we like it or not.
In Defense of Realist Voting
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The official sustained a laceration in his left cheek before he drew his service weapon and “fired several shots at the attacker, killing the minor on the spot.
Serbia: Minor Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ Attacks Israeli Embassy Officer Before Being Shot Dead
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc of right-wing and religious parties held a lead over the opposition on Thursday morning, according to updated partial results from the Central Elections Committee.
Staying ahead Netanyahu bloc maintains edge over opposition in Israeli elections as vote count continues

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Bolsonaro was nowhere to be found on Tuesday, fueling rumors that he planned to travel to America.
Flávio Bolsonaro, Family Arrive in Miami After Fleeing Brazil
Nobody circles the wagons quite like the leaders of the global left, who will eagerly line up behind just about anyone — the corrupt, the vindictive, the incompetent and even the openly evil — so long as they perceive them to be “part of the team.”
Of course the power-hungry left is shamelessly celebrating an authoritarian thug in Brazil
FRANCE IS BURNING, And Europe With It
But we were assured it was only students in despair over the condition of their schools.
Muslims Desecrate Statues of Joan of Arc With Hijab and ‘Palestinian’ Flag
A malevolent agenda.
Video: Why Are The Protests Really Happening in France?
"The far-left extremist scene is internationally connected and coordinated."
Radicals Plot to Move French Riots to Germany
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen criticized the decision to engage Putin independently, questioning what the Norwegian and Finnish leaders hoped to accomplish and insisting that European governments must maintain a united position.The disagreement comes as Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, Moscow targets Ukrainian infrastructure, and tensions surrounding Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad raise fears of a wider confrontation.
European NATO Members Break Ranks to Hold Talks With Putin on Ending the War.
Zelensky’s term expired more than two years ago. The longer he refuses to hold an election, the more he undermines Ukraine’s defense.
Iraq Held An Election In A War Zone. Why Hasn’t Ukraine?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The company’s goal is to produce genetically engineered working dogs outfitted with high-tech gear. The first puppies are expected in early 2027.
‘Dogs of War’: Colossal Biosciences Plans Genetically Engineered Military Canines
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Larry Elder: Who's going to pay for it?
Washington Post Editorial Board: The ‘Childish’ Lies of Medicare for All
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
As this white dwarf’s mass is about half that of the Sun, the scientists conclude that these two objects have to be almost impossibly dense to avoid being ripped apart by tidal forces.
Scientists: Implausibly dense objects required to create two concentric gaps in debris disk around ancient white dwarf star
The Dart probe impacted Dimorphos in 2022, shortening its orbit around Didymos by about 32 minutes and reshaping the asteroid’s overall shape. Hera is aimed at documenting more precisely the changes in this asteroid binary. It will also deploy two small cubesats for closer observations, Juventas to make radar observations and Milani to obtain multispectral mineral data.
Europe’s Hera probe sees both Didymos and Dimorphos for the first time
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Sharing a belief with 80 percent of the population makes you a dangerous extremist — according to the legacy media.
Dumb Info Ops Ramp Up Against Reasonable Colorado Measures To Protect Children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Historically low birth rates signify not just fewer babies but less happiness.
You Can Be Your Career-Obsessed Friends’ On-Ramp To Motherhood
“We have put our lives on hold to foster networks of care, resources, and a home base for organizing. It’s time we pass it on.”
Massachusetts Lesbian Bar in Viral Story About Masking is Closing Permanently
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: The making of “Rocky” proved as challenging and inspirational as the Italian Stallion’s journey.
Why ‘I Play Rocky’ Is More Than Just a Crowd Pleaser
Toto Too: 'Crystal Lake' scores big on Peacock, more revivals heading our way
Here’s Why Hollywood Won’t Stop Reviving Classic Movies

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1 Neext

Posted by: Okjohn at October 29, 2026 07:01 AM (yEBcy)

2 Whoa.
Flustered I was. - and1st first.
Happy Friday Eve, all y'all !

Posted by: Okjohn at October 29, 2026 07:02 AM (yEBcy)

3 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 07:05 AM (NcvvS)

5 Okjohn

Good reflexes and a fast connection. Con\gratulations are in order.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

6 Congrats on the 1st first, Okjohn!

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 07:06 AM (NcvvS)

7 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

8 Happy Thursday

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

9
Several Americans are believed to have been injured in a high-speed train collision that killed at least 68 people in Spain on Wednesday when one train collided with another that had stopped on the tracks.

Clearly the cause is school conditions, Global Warming, Trump and late-stage capitalism.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 07:11 AM (eRlcH)

10 LOL, JJ, and thanks (as always) !!

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 07:11 AM (VyBeY)

11 Our local newspaper asks:

"Can Donald Trump run for president in 2028?"

A deep dive by top journalists reveals that no, Donald Trump can not run for President again. Give those guys a Pulitzer or something.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:11 AM (MWfyi)

12 We will do nothing except vote, then shrug our shoulders when we lose by cheating. No large scale armed resistance will happen, because the first one to start shooting usually loses. People like us don't want to kill, but the other side has no qualms about it. Only direct danger to our own families will make us shoot. They will shoot when they get told to, no matter who the target is.

I think there's a book that outlines the whole scenario.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 07:11 AM (1Ff7Z)

13 The official sustained a laceration in his left cheek before he drew his service weapon and “fired several shots at the attacker, killing the minor on the spot.
=====

Finally some good news.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 07:11 AM (RIvkX)

14 8 Happy Thursday
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:07 AM (/+uur)

It's Friday"

"Wednesday is Sundae at Carvel"

- - Tom Carvel

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 29, 2026 07:12 AM (x0n13)

15 Hadrian the Seventh

Communications matters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

16 Elke Sommer has passed away. She was born in Berlin in 1940. Not a Nazi though.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:12 AM (MWfyi)

17 There is no such thing as National Guard in plain clothes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:13 AM (/+uur)

18 If Tuesday Weld married Joe Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)

19 "There is no such thing as National Guard in plain clothes.
Posted by: r hennigantx "

Would you believe a fabulous pantsuit and pumps?

Posted by: National Guard Fashion Advisor at October 29, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)

20 when I was growing up we called 'em Chicago River Whitefish ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 07:16 AM (VyBeY)

21 That is a movie I am looking forward to seeing: "I play Rocky" and thanks for posting that review, J.J.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 07:17 AM (JrHfD)

22 In the Peoples Republic of Maryland, they have been running an advertisement with the SCOAMF to vote "yes" on Question 3 which would insert gerrymandering into the MD Const. I cannot understand why opponents have not run ads simply saying "Tell Trump 'no means no' and vote NO on 3." It would totally fool the stupid liberals to vote no. Sheesh.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 29, 2026 07:18 AM (jFCkp)

23 Moronin', Hourde!

Go Brewers! Finally WS Champs!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at October 29, 2026 07:19 AM (Gq9/0)

24 OrangeEnt

I used to think I didn't want to kill, except Iranians IRGC and terrorists while in the service, but my views are evolving. Iranian Uber drivers are safe from me.

The Left is a direct threat to me, the life I have made, and all the values I hold dear. Maybe my late wife was on to something when she told me she would not visit me in jail.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

25 Voting voters who voted the vote.

They are ineligible persons. Foreign nationals, aliens. Legal aliens, illegal aliens, whatever. “Voters” isn’t the right description.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 07:21 AM (L3c0T)

26 I'm still alive.

Posted by: Bud Selig, Cheap Prick at October 29, 2026 07:22 AM (JAh4c)

27 Bud Selig, Cheap Prick: Alive.

John Holmes: Dead.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

28 "Implausibly dense objects required to create two concentric gaps in debris disk around ancient white dwarf star"

Robert Reich opened his yap to some "journalists" again?

Posted by: National Guard Fashion Advisor at October 29, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

29 I'm curious about the trains. With 68 dead, was that because they hit at tremendous speed? Or...

The first word I noted was "packed" in the first headline I saw about that. Is that a normal condition on Spanish trains, from, let's say, 20 years ago?

Or would that be more like the third world "packed" where it's standing room only, elbow-to-elbow? And something that's new?

Does anyone here know much about this?

Posted by: GWB at October 29, 2026 07:25 AM (kU0PQ)

30 cnn just released their final bull$hit poll for this election cycle, they have talerico up by 6 points. No democrat has won a statewide office here in Texas by 6 points since the 1960s.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 07:27 AM (I43vL)

31 The Trains in Spain
Run Mainly to cause Pain

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:27 AM (/+uur)

32 Poor Bob Uecker didn't make it to see the Brewers win the WS.

Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 07:27 AM (8B4gm)

33 If Tuesday Weld married Joe Friday
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)

On a Maundy-Thursday?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 07:28 AM (wVcYX)

34 22 In the Peoples Republic of Maryland, they have been running an advertisement with the SCOAMF to vote "yes" on Question 3 which would insert gerrymandering into the MD Const. I cannot understand why opponents have not run ads simply saying "Tell Trump 'no means no' and vote NO on 3." It would totally fool the stupid liberals to vote no. Sheesh.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 29, 2026 07:18 AM (jFCkp)

Yep - saw it this morning - muted the TV asap. It's sad how much the main commercial on "Question 3" I see comes off at the elementary school level. I've gotta think if they brought out Obama for a commercial on this, it smacks of desperation - but then, the usual players are the ones counting the votes.

Posted by: MD_Mike at October 29, 2026 07:28 AM (giVoG)

35 The O'Keefe and Higby persecution by the Hennepin County lesbian is going to be explosive and not in the way persecutors intended when bringing these charges.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 07:28 AM (wgnaQ)

36 GWB

One fast moving train ran into a stopped train. 1/2 mv2 where m is very large.

An awful lot of kinetic energy crushed two of the carriages. Metal shrapnel everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

37 Good morning JJ and horde

Obviously it was a Tuesday to Friday wedding

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 07:29 AM (nJxaf)

38 I found this ann encouraging article ( and no, I don't think I'm always great at it) : . Responding as a Christian to all the negativity on the world:

https://tinyurl.com/42bwfu22

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 07:29 AM (JrHfD)

39 On a Maundy-Thursday?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 07:28 AM (wVcYX)

I know English. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Saturday.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:30 AM (/+uur)

40 30 cnn just released their final bull$hit poll for this election cycle, they have talerico up by 6 points. No democrat has won a statewide office here in Texas by 6 points since the 1960s.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 07:27 AM (I43vL)

Then, if you're in Texas, you should make sure that doesn't happen and vote, and then gets your like minded family to vote, and then get like-minded neighbors to vote, and then offer to help the party drive like minded voters to the polls on the election day...

It's a psyop, and it needs to be battled with on the ground efforts...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2026 07:30 AM (tOcjL)

41 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 07:30 AM (NMvV5)

42 "An" not "ann"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 07:30 AM (JrHfD)

43 cnn just released their final bull$hit poll for this election cycle, they have talerico up by 6 points. No democrat has won a statewide office here in Texas by 6 points since the 1960s.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 07:27 AM (I43vL)

I voted yesterday. Place was busy, but not slow moving. Voted extra hard on the touch screen for Paxton.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 07:31 AM (wVcYX)

44 Membah how James Comey used his scum journalist friend to plant false information in the media which he then in turn used as a predicate to open an investigation?

All the polls are similar bullsh*t, meant to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

45 I used to think I didn't want to kill, except Iranians IRGC and terrorists while in the service, but my views are evolving. Iranian Uber drivers are safe from me.

The Left is a direct threat to me, the life I have made, and all the values I hold dear. Maybe my late wife was on to something when she told me she would not visit me in jail.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

I still don't want to, but it seems they won't stop what they're doing until somebody does something against them.

People who believe in a good higher power aren't usually going around murdering others because of how they vote. Those who don't seem to have no qualms about it because they think nothing will happen to them after they've passed, will do it if they think there's a benefit to to them.

I have tools for self defense, but I don't want to use them unless absolutely forced to because, where do you stop?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 07:31 AM (1Ff7Z)

46 Thank you JJ

I noticed a strange thing yesterday… MN senate race. All recent polls had Tafoya within a few percentage points of Flanagan. Then… poof, a poll comes out showing Flanagan ahead 54-40… and of course RCP includes this poll in their average even though it’s a way-out-there outlier. It reminded me of that Des Moines register poll late in 2024 that showed Trump losing Iowa.

My two takeaways: 1. Most polls are propaganda and 2. Dems are gonna cheat cheat cheat in this election

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 07:31 AM (znwa7)

47 Tuesday's gone with the wind.

Posted by: Joenrd Fridaynrd at October 29, 2026 07:34 AM (sdSI9)

48 Hello again, everyone. It's a nice morning here at the GPROMD and we're having a department pot luck. I brought in pesto rolls but had to make sure that a few of my co-workers got some before they were devoured.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 07:35 AM (BpO1e)

49 Trump thinks Democrats will be happy with Ted Cruz on SCOTUS? Yeah, I'm going with none of them would vote to confirm him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 07:36 AM (qBdHI)

50 I still don't want to, but it seems they won't stop what they're doing until somebody does something against them.
=====

None of that would be necessary if you followed my plan.

Posted by: Hero and Savior of Chilean Democracy Gen. Agosto Pinochet at October 29, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

51 Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 07:35 AM (BpO1e)

That sounds like a nice thing. Enjoy yourself!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 07:37 AM (JrHfD)

52 We still use paper ballots here. Make your selections marking the ovals, walk your ballot up to the machine processor, insert it. Each ballot is assigned a number which you see. Not fool proof I realize, but seems a fairly good method.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:38 AM (Gqar8)

53 Good morning Horde thx JJ as always.
The Dems seem to be getting more insane as the election bears, if that is possible. A Trump supporter got stabbed at a Trump rally yesterday.
Also it's interesting watching Mark Halperin walk back his talk of a Blue Tsunami. He must be seeing the same signs the Horde has been talking about for weeks.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 07:38 AM (f8snw)

54 OrangeEnt

What I think I now understand is "Deep Hate."
Like where the Russians in 1945 paid back the entire nation of Germany once the Red Army crossed the border.
Like Hamas and the Peace Festival.

It is under control in me, but I can feel it building. I know this is unhealthy. Try to overcome it. But I know it is welling.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

55 I just wish to have a sane govt and be left alone. I'm not getting either and anger is building. Simmering for awhile now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 07:39 AM (8B4gm)

56 Good morning!

As Cam Higby is pointing out on X, MN did not see fit to take legal action when he and another independent journalist were attacked y an antifa mob - frozen water bottles and rocks thrown at them, damaging their truck.
Nope!

But when Cam puts on a burqa and demonstrates how easy voter fraud is in MN? Prosecuted.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 07:39 AM (rOKnE)

57 51 That sounds like a nice thing. Enjoy yourself!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

My wife has a reputation. All I have to say is that she baked something and I get mobbed. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 07:40 AM (BpO1e)

58 Might be time for O’Keefe to avoid Minnesota.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:41 AM (Gqar8)

59 The Beatles, Ed Sullivan Feb 16 1964:
youtube.com/watch?v=UKTIPg9Cfhk

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 07:41 AM (Jr5Lq)

60 cnn just released their final bull$hit poll for this election cycle, they have talerico up by 6 points. No democrat has won a statewide office here in Texas by 6 points since the 1960s.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2026 07:27 AM (I43vL)

Then, if you're in Texas, you should make sure that doesn't happen and vote, and then gets your like minded family to vote, and then get like-minded neighbors to vote, and then offer to help the party drive like minded voters to the polls on the election day...

It's a psyop, and it needs to be battled with on the ground efforts...
Posted by: Nova Local

I voted last Saturday. I'm going to vote again tomorrow and Saturday.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 07:41 AM (NMvV5)

61 Hegseth has found a leaker, apparently:
“Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. . .

Sylvia is the subject of an investigation for leaking classified information about the Iran War, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and more. Due to the Pentagon’s media policy requiring journalists to have escorts in the building, Sylvia began meeting with journalists outside of the Pentagon in order to leak classified information.
Sylvia failed three polygraphs which questioned him about leaking classified information. The investigation into him remains ongoing and has been referred to the Department of Justice for further action. The extent of his leaking became so critical that Secretary Hegseth took immediate action and fired Sylvia in order to protect national security. Urgent action was needed and could not wait another second.”

https://tinyurl.com/3txvavuy

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 07:42 AM (rOKnE)

62 As I understand neither Higby or O'Keefe signed the oath or voted. Maybe trespassing but that's it and that's a leftist reach. Moriarty is a lesbian horror show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 07:43 AM (f8snw)

63 AK voters leave a lot to be desired in my mind (putting it mildly). But I hope there has been enough awareness on this "imposter" Dan Sullivan to not fool those frozen tundra Americans.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 07:43 AM (qBdHI)

64 The enshittification continues...

Just moments ago, a notice to Garmin InReach users saying that the SMS messages will no longer go out with a click-able link to the message location, rather just a lat/long and the recipient is expected to cut and paste that coordinate into their favorite mapping software.

Garmin InReach is a service where a Garmin sports enthusiast, when doing an activity that involves a changing location as a key element of the activity, can provide a way for the SMS message recipient to track the athlete in near real-time.

The map-link version went to a map where the location was dynamic (sort of like Glympse) and provided things like heart-rate, pace, etc. It also reports incidents like crashing.

This is useful in a low-trust society as riding a bicycle exposes one to getting murdered by shit-head motorists. The map would show me stopped with a 0 BPM heart rate.

They stopped the link provision for US customers because of Carrier/A2P anti-spam compliance and SMS aggregator requirements.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 07:44 AM (rgGn5)

65 “Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was ~~fired~~ HANGED by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. . .

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:44 AM (/+uur)

66 In good news, The Vienna Boys Choir visited Manhattan.

They were is a large main-line church with excellent acoustics. It was vey good music. The one adult, the piano player / conductor Pell, was amazing. He knew how to get an audience to laugh, milk applause, and lead talent.

I had a great time. So did the widow that was with me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

67 Might be time for O’Keefe to avoid Minnesota.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:41 AM (Gqar

Yes. Like New York, another democrat no go zone.

Reverse Jim Crow is alive and well in these places.

Posted by: Northern Poverty Law Center at October 29, 2026 07:45 AM (JAh4c)

68 61 Hegseth has found a leaker, apparently:

We need to start making examples of this in ways that would make people very uncomfortable.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 07:47 AM (BpO1e)

69 Huh:

@Milajoy BREAKING:

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy just ordered a CRIMINAL investigation into Mary Peltola's Senate campaign, CNN reports.

It follows the NYT report that Peltola-aligned operatives recruited spoiler candidates, including one with the SAME last name as Sen. Dan Sullivan, to peel votes from him.
- - - -

Marc Elias's name just landed in the "second Dan Sullivan" scandal.

The New York Times reports that Peltola aides, DSCC staffers and the CAMPAIGN'S LAWYERS helped push a retired teacher named Daniel J. Sullivan to run against Sen. Dan Sullivan.

Peltola's lawyers in Alaska?

Elias Law Group, which is now fighting Trump's DOJ to make sure the result gets certified.

Mark Halperin says Elias's firm was involved in the search. That's his claim, and the firm didn't respond to Reuters.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 07:48 AM (rOKnE)

70 Brewers get their WS championship. They did it by playing fundamentals well. singles and push each other around the diamond to score. opportunistic base stealing and no showboating. The catcher is really good contreras. I thought the rookie David Pratt should have been named MVP as he had timely hits all throughout the playoffs.

Posted by: paulnjax at October 29, 2026 07:48 AM (PPnyU)

71 Is Brett Sylvia a tranny? Would you be surprised?

Posted by: National Guard Fashion Advisor at October 29, 2026 07:48 AM (MWfyi)

72 As I understand neither Higby or O'Keefe signed the oath or voted. Maybe trespassing but that's it and that's a leftist reach. Moriarty is a lesbian horror show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 07:43 AM (f8snw)
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She is high on the list

Posted by: Hero and Savior of Chilean Democracy Gen. Agosto Pinochet at October 29, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

73 @63 apparently the rural Alaskans , specifically "indigenous" who usually vote left (a reversal from the rest of rural USA) aren't showing up. Their numbers are way down. Sullivan , the real one, should win

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 07:49 AM (f8snw)

74 Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. . .

He looks like a homosexual and a pederast.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at October 29, 2026 07:50 AM (JAh4c)

75 Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 07:40 AM

That's a great talent she has. I am a good cook, but not a baker, so I admire people who can do that well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 07:51 AM (JrHfD)

76 Only direct danger to our own families will make us shoot.

Unless your children and grandchildren join the movement and man the gas chambers for the Demonic Party, they will be inside them.

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Edmund Burke in "Cause of the Present Discontents"

"It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing." - Charles F Aked

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." - John Stuart Mill

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 07:54 AM (pawvM)

77 >>Apparently the rural Alaskans , specifically "indigenous" who usually vote left (a reversal from the rest of rural USA) aren't showing up. Their numbers are way down. Sullivan , the real one, should win

Hope so!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 07:55 AM (rOKnE)

78 I suspect the voting shenanigans will be off the charts next week. They really no longer care if it's obvious. And why would they? They never pay a price.

Posted by: Biergood at October 29, 2026 07:55 AM (PwgSL)

79 Always a good time to look into a good concealed carry pistol. The emphasis on concealed.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:56 AM (Gqar8)

80 tubal

A single-shot sleeve gun in the hands of women could stop rapes. But no.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

81 Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lam is announcing a new venture to create real “dogs of war” with a decidedly science-fiction twist: genetically engineered working dogs outfitted with high-tech gear from defense contractor Anduril.

And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 07:57 AM (/+uur)

82 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 29, 2026 07:58 AM (53oGX)

83 Why are they calling espionage leaking?

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 07:58 AM (Wt1Rs)

84 How many shits like Sylvia are there in top military command positions? Fire them all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 07:58 AM (znwa7)

85 They didn't register, just tested to see if they could.

@camhigby
🚨🚨 “NO ID REQUIRED for you and your 8 friends”

I dressed as a Muslim woman and Minneapolis poll workers were prepared to allow me an an army of other foreigners fraudulently vote without verifying who any of us are.

Full video. . .
https://tinyurl.com/r7uks48x

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 07:58 AM (rOKnE)

86 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

87 80 tubal

A single-shot sleeve gun in the hands of women could stop rapes. But no.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

Lots of good options out there salty. Perhaps the times we live in will finally have an impact on mindsets.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:59 AM (Gqar8)

88 I suspect the voting shenanigans will be off the charts next week. They really no longer care if it's obvious. And why would they? They never pay a price.

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It only gets more refined with each passing election. I truly and deeply believe they have stolen 100s if not 1000s of elections big and small over the years. And yes, most never pay a price.

Because of POS's like John Thune, who could've at least tried to have some integrity and restore trust in our elections, we only have had some tweaks here and there in various states. IMO, each and every voting fraudster and cheater deserves, at the very least, a long federal prison sentence.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

89 Most eskimos get their oil check and get so high and drunk that they end up in jail or unable to ride their dogsleds into town to vote.

Posted by: The Mighty Quinn at October 29, 2026 08:01 AM (JAh4c)

90 84 How many shits like Sylvia are there in top military command positions? Fire them all
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 07:58 AM (znwa7)

A quick glance at the Generals bio reveals much about him. His educational background - very revealing.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:01 AM (Gqar8)

91 A single-shot sleeve gun in the hands of women could stop rapes. But no.

Rather ironic that in the Low Trust Society that women so desperately want, that for their own safety, they must adopt the way of Islam where women in public should be covered and accompanied with a close male relative to avoid being raped.

But after hearing the escapades of Train Hoe, and the universe of OnlyFans, violent rape might be part of the kink.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:01 AM (9s47C)

92 John Astin is still with us. Wonder if he was looking on with glee at the commie Spain train crash.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee. at October 29, 2026 08:01 AM (EdP2u)

93 Most eskimos get their oil check and get so high and drunk that they end up in jail or unable to ride their dogsleds into town to vote.

Ahh, the Noble Savage, and role model.

Must make the obligatory Land Acknowledgment while handing them a totally unearned oil-check.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:03 AM (9s47C)

94 Always a good time to look into a good concealed carry pistol. The emphasis on concealed.

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Even little old me has a concealed permit, and my pistol of choice was Sig's P238. I'm always with Mr. Black so I've never felt the need to actually carry it though. If he were gone, I certainly would.

And in SC, you can full-on carry your weapon unconcealed thanks to a lawsuit brought about against some Karen who complained about being "scared and uncomfortable" when she saw some man's weapon under his shirt when he reached for something in a store. Thanks to that dumb broad, we can now carry unconcealed firearms. I hope it made her cry and "literally shake."

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

95 These blue states like CA and WA… apparently they don’t care if we know that they know that there are illegals voting. Extreme hubris and hutzpah

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 08:06 AM (znwa7)

96 {{{Lady in Black }}}

Gun control: The Four Rules, sight picture, and practice, practice, practice.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

97 Cleta Mitchell is awesome from JJ's link:

So what was the reaction of the pro-corrupt election crowd to my post on X? Democracy Docket and its principal, Elias, screamed that I had called for Lutnick to “seize the voting machines.” The next day, Elias and Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s former chief strategist, publicly declared that I should be indicted on RICO charges because of my X post on this topic.

Media Matters included my comments in its article headlined “Election Denial Movement Sets Stage for Chaos on Election Day and its Aftermath.”

What is wrong with these people?

Why are they opposed to taking steps to protect against potential manipulation or exploitation of electronic voting machines? I have never said, nor do I believe, that anyone should “seize” the voting machines — or inspect any parts. I merely reiterated the mitigation plan that DHS outlined earlier this year.

Marc Elias is screaming at others in hopes of deflecting from his career in subverting our elections. May the Alaska investigation into his latest activities there be successful.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 08:06 AM (rOKnE)

98 I'm thinking that waterboarding the journalists who receive classified information should also be on the schedule.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 08:07 AM (BpO1e)

99 I suspect the voting shenanigans will be off the charts next week. They really no longer care if it's obvious. And why would they? They never pay a price.

--

It only gets more refined with each passing election. I truly and deeply believe they have stolen 100s if not 1000s of elections big and small over the years. And yes, most never pay a price.

Because of POS's like John Thune, who could've at least tried to have some integrity and restore trust in our elections, we only have had some tweaks here and there in various states. IMO, each and every voting fraudster and cheater deserves, at the very least, a long federal prison sentence.
Posted by: Lady in Black

We need a Battle of Athens, Tn.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 08:07 AM (NMvV5)

100 I'm thinking that waterboarding the journalists who receive classified information should also be on the schedule.
Posted by: NR Pax

It's not waterboarding if you use diesel.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 08:08 AM (NMvV5)

101 IMO, each and every voting fraudster and cheater deserves, at the very least, a long federal prison sentence.

If one acknowledges the centuries of blood, treasure and duty that was invested in creating this Exceptional Nation that has showered the globe in wealth and human flourishing, when a relative handful of demonic people and their stupid, selfish minions working to secure the cheat, it should be seen as not just mere federal crime like draining a wet-land without permit, but what it really is: A declaration of war against humanity.

They should be shot and killed in the streets, without remorse for their crimes are not like stealing sodas from a vending machine, but with the intent to put billions of people into a Thousand Years of Darkness, poverty and misery.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:09 AM (PVBkQ)

102 A deep dive by top journalists reveals that no, Donald Trump can not run for President again. Give those guys a Pulitzer or something.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:11 AM (MWfyi)

Smarter journalists would have breathlessly concluded that he CAN run for President in 2028. They'd spend several paragraphs wailing about his impending dictatorship before, in paragraph 30 or so, admitting that while he could run, he could not actually be elected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

103 >>Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lam is announcing a new venture to create real “dogs of war” with a decidedly science-fiction twist: genetically engineered working dogs outfitted with high-tech gear from defense contractor Anduril.

Sounds like the beginning of a horror movie. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 08:09 AM (rOKnE)

104 Bereaved parents ask for lightest sentence for elderly Australian driver who hit their young son:

https://tinyurl.com/5hyj35jy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 08:09 AM (JrHfD)

105 The Left doesn't just hate billionaires. They hate anyone who has a one dollar.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:09 AM (hVPzc)

106 Gun control: The Four Rules, sight picture, and practice, practice, practice.

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{{{Salty!}}}

Yes, I do get to the range, but not as often as I would like. Practice is crucial!

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

107 These blue states like CA and WA… apparently they don’t care if we know that they know that there are illegals voting. Extreme hubris and hutzpah
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Catch one illegal voting in a federal election and decertify the state and revert them to territorial status.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 08:10 AM (NMvV5)

108 Community Notes

I upvote this mild comment. Very good.

Reframe voter fraud as a declaration of war against humanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

109 The Left used to hate millionaires until that became their top constituency and until they all accumulated millions off the back of the taxpayers. So that's why they have a newfound hate for "billionaires".

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:10 AM (hVPzc)

110 And OT-

Dogs just being dogs- video:

https://tinyurl.com/43fc2m69

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 08:10 AM (JrHfD)

111 1/2 mv2 where m is very large.

This strikes me as disturbingly math-ish.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

112 Thanks to that dumb broad, we can now carry unconcealed firearms. I hope it made her cry and "literally shake."

Nah, she'll just get another cat, close the blinds and open another box of wine.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:12 AM (PVBkQ)

113 1/2 mv2 where m is very large.

This strikes me as disturbingly math-ish.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)
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And what do those letters mean??

Posted by: Tuq'r Carlson at October 29, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

114 Lizzy

Sounds like the beginning of every bad SF Doom game.

Just like the Spanish train crash feels right out of Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

115 My two takeaways: 1. Most polls are propaganda and 2. Dems are gonna cheat cheat cheat in this election
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 07:31 AM (znwa7)

All polls are propaganda. There's no real need for anyone who is voting on the issues to care about how everyone else is voting.

Dems cheat every election, why would this one be different?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

116 The Sig P365 is an excellent concealed carry pistol, IMO. Very comfortable. Beretta 92 for an unconcealed that says “ back off”.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:15 AM (Gqar8)

117 A great irony would be unleashing dogs of war against Muslims.
We hate dogs. Oh yeah? Deal with these doggies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 08:15 AM (f8snw)

118 >>Dogs just being dogs- video:

https://tinyurl.com/43fc2m69

Cute!!
Thanks, Fen.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 08:15 AM (rOKnE)

119 100 It's not waterboarding if you use diesel.
Posted by: rickb223

A fellow admirer of Mad Mike Williamson I see.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 08:15 AM (BpO1e)

120 The 6/26/2026 order of the superior court directing the Division to include
appellee Sullivan as a candidate for United States Senator on the primary election ballot
is AFFIRMED. This matter is remanded for the Division of Elections to determine, in
the first instance, how appellee Sullivan shall be listed as a candidate within the confines
of existing Alaska ballot design law. A full opinion will be issued at a later date.

Notice the later date has not happened.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)

121 It is under control in me, but I can feel it building. I know this is unhealthy. Try to overcome it. But I know it is welling.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

Sorry, working out.

Right, why lose your humanity?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 08:16 AM (1Ff7Z)

122 A fellow admirer of Mad Mike Williamson I see.
Posted by: NR Pax

Maximum results for minimum input.

😁

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 08:18 AM (NMvV5)

123 But when Cam puts on a burqa and demonstrates how easy voter fraud is in MN? Prosecuted.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 07:39 AM (rOKnE)

How many others have been prosecuted my MN?

A scholarly review found only three state convictions of lawful permanent residents for unlawful voting or registration in Minnesota across 2015–2024, despite over 13 million ballots cast.

The feds, OTOH, have indicted 10 - so far. Seems MN is very selective in their concern.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

124 Good morning, Salty!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 08:19 AM (rOKnE)

125 To what do we owe the early morning pleasure of your presence Lizzy?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:19 AM (hVPzc)

126 {{{Lizzy}}}

Top o ta monin to ya, young lass.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

127 There's no real need for anyone who is voting on the issues to care about how everyone else is voting.

"no real need". True, but is trying to ignore the 800# gorilla.

Mimetic Theory.

The proven idea that most people don't know what they desire and obtain those desires through external sources. Generally, we are social creatures and need of affirmation and peer approval. Thus arise cultures because influencers implant desires. This is how gold teeth and spinner rims become Must Haves in some communities.

Madison Avenue and spam would not be effective if Mimetic Theory was not true. Propaganda works. Marketing works. How else do people eat shitty fast food unless smiling happy people implant the idea that you need to kill yourself with poor diet?

So yes, polls are extremely effective in implanting certain desires in a very large majority of people.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:22 AM (9Hs2w)

128 The Sig P365 is an excellent concealed carry pistol, IMO.

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I actually have that one, too. Doesn't fit into my purse as well.

For a guy though, I know several that have this model as their concealed of choice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 08:22 AM (qBdHI)

129 Thanks to that dumb broad, we can now carry unconcealed firearms. I hope it made her cry and "literally shake."
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

Hopefully you can do both. Open carry a big-ass .45 (non-working), but have an auto concealed, so if they go for the fake you can blast them in the belly.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 08:23 AM (1Ff7Z)

130 I'm thinking that waterboarding the journalists who receive classified information should also be on the schedule.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 08:07 AM (BpO1e)

Shoot them as spies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

131 Madison Avenue and spam would not be effective if Mimetic Theory was not true. Propaganda works. Marketing works. How else do people eat shitty fast food unless smiling happy people implant the idea that you need to kill yourself with poor diet?
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Hey! We'll make it your way!

Posted by: Burger King at October 29, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

132 On the bright side, the California high-speed train to nowhere has killed or injured no one as of this morning.

Posted by: Casey Jones at October 29, 2026 08:26 AM (EdP2u)

133 California Sends Luxury Foods to Welfare Recipients

I remember when I was living in CA and was so broke I couldn't pay attention. Shame that it never occurred to me to get free food like that.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 08:26 AM (BpO1e)

134 Gomez Addams specialized in head-on train disasters, not rear-enders like this one.

Posted by: Uncle Fester at October 29, 2026 08:28 AM (EdP2u)

135 Choot 'em! Choot!

Posted by: Troy Landry at October 29, 2026 08:29 AM (8B4gm)

136 hope it made her cry and "literally shake."
Her tits?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 29, 2026 08:30 AM (SKDsW)

137 Lady in Black

I will amplify OrangeEnt's vision.

Imagine, if you will, a nation where women dress in leather pants and use a holster for a large, but lightweight, hole-puncher. Maybe Titanium. That throws "things" beginning in a .4.

"An armed society is a polite society." RAH.

"If we legalize vehicular weaponry, the three survivors would be careful." NaCly Dog.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

138 "An armed society is a polite society." RAH.

"If we legalize vehicular weaponry, the three survivors would be careful." NaCly Dog.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
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"A well-kitted Chevy is never caught in traffic."
-Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

139 Open carry a big-ass .45 (non-working)

If by non-working you really mean Condition 3† or "Israeli carry" then that should be even better. That is, chamber empty, magazine full, hammer down, safety off.

That should give you plenty of time, and for the cameras to support the "intent to take gun and shoot" defense that you will need for basically "hunting over bait"

† Jeff Cooper's Conditions of Readiness aka "Cooper Conditions"

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:32 AM (rgGn5)

140
We can complain about it all we want. But we're boxed in, politically. Trapped between the metaphysically useless GOP and the Dems, there's nothing we can do to stop the future. This union is a deathtrap.

But never suggest, ya know, leaving it before it happens, or anything naughty like that. That's so gauche. Heaven forfend!

And make sure to vote HARD. It would be very un-American to get forcibly sodomized by the Communists without a closet queen in a little red hat beating off in a cuck chair while it happens. Make sure he wears his flag lapel pin, too. That flag is the most important thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (BI5O2)

141 Obligatory childhood memory:

https://youtu.be/tQ9cnIFNVQ0

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (MtA6K)

142 cnn just released their final bull$hit poll for this election cycle, they have talerico up by 6 points. No democrat has won a statewide office here in Texas by 6 points since the 1960s.
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That is just insane.

These polls have him winning independents by like 60% and that over 14% of Rs are flipping over.
This, in a state Trump won by over 14% just 2 years ago.

But they justify this by nationally Trump approval is in the 30s and Talarico has mid-50s approval.

None of them poll Trump's approval among Texas Republicans....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (3cUTc)

143 Imagine, if you will, a nation where women dress in leather pants and use a holster for a large, but lightweight, hole-puncher. Maybe Titanium. That throws "things" beginning in a .4.

TBH, I don't trust many women with firearms or exercise bands.

I've seen too many videos where if the shrieking woman had a gun, there would be a mass casualty event.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:35 AM (rgGn5)

144 Did the engineer/motorman scream Allahu Akbar! as he approached the stopped train at high speed?

Will this happen on The A Train approaching 59th Street?

Posted by: Derailed Train Of Thought at October 29, 2026 08:35 AM (EdP2u)

145 The new Bodyguard 2.0 Carry Comp has been to the range twice this week.

And it's a very nice little gun for CC.

So far in the last four months, there has not been a day where I have not carried concealed where it is legal to do so.

And I suspect that is not going to change any time soon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2026 08:35 AM (iMotb)

146 Imagine, if you will, a nation where women dress in leather pants and use a holster for a large, but lightweight, hole-puncher. Maybe Titanium. That throws "things" beginning in a .4.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

Use a Mosin that shoots flame out of the barrel for more fun effects!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 08:35 AM (1Ff7Z)

147 And make sure to vote HARD. It would be very un-American to get forcibly sodomized by the Communists without a closet queen in a little red hat beating off in a cuck chair while it happens. Make sure he wears his flag lapel pin, too. That flag is the most important thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (BI5O2)
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You, Sir, are a Great American.

Posted by: Sean Patrick Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt's Better Half at October 29, 2026 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

148 >>Just like the Spanish train crash feels right out of Atlas Shrugged.

Oh man, yes!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 08:36 AM (rOKnE)

149 I mentioned it yesterday, all the Dem hyping Talarico's Lubbock rally.

All of the unquestioningly repeating his false claim that he had over 4k attend.
The venue has a max of 2.6k.

Trump had over 5k inside watching and estimates of another 10k milling about outside.

But the only story the left is pushing (even NBC nationally) was the 4k lie of Talarico.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:36 AM (3cUTc)

150 Today Is National Cat Day. 🐈🐈‍⬛

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:37 AM (wzaBj)

151 "A well-kitted Chevy is never caught in traffic."
-Franpsycho
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

Right. Because it's in a junkyard.

Posted by: Things Scotty Kilmer Might Say at October 29, 2026 08:37 AM (1Ff7Z)

152 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (MtA6K)

Did Israel's election turn out like the way you thought it would?

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)

153 "Use a Mosin that shoots flame out of the barrel for more fun effects!"

Mosin M-44 carbine for the win!

Punkin balls at dusk is a hoot!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2026 08:38 AM (iMotb)

154 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

155 >>Today Is National Cat Day. 🐈🐈‍⬛

Meow that's one I can celebrate!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 08:38 AM (rOKnE)

156 Did Israel's election turn out like the way you thought it would?

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)
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Sort of. Not surprised.

Dumb voters.

Dumb voters everywhere!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 08:39 AM (MtA6K)

157 Here's the TX poll number you need to know:

82% of TX Republicans approve of the job Trump is doing.
With 48% strongly approve.

But sure, they're staying home or voting for Talarico.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:39 AM (3cUTc)

158 Today Is National Cat Day. 🐈🐈‍⬛

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:37 AM (wzaBj)
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Isn't that every day?

Like Mother's Day?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 08:40 AM (MtA6K)

159 Today Is National Cat Day. 🐈🐈‍⬛
Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:37 AM (wzaBj)
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Make the breakfast. Now.

Posted by: Your Cat at October 29, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

160 "Today Is National Cat Day."

"That is every day, servant!" -Average cat.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 08:40 AM (BpO1e)

161 150 Today Is National Cat Day. 🐈🐈‍⬛
Posted by: redridinghood

Woo Hoo! Two winners in a row! This has never happened before! Thanks, redridinghood!

Posted by: Little Friskie at October 29, 2026 08:40 AM (EdP2u)

162 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Thank you for not being a victim.

And top of ta morning to ya, guvn'er.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

163 Jonathan Turley on X is warning the people involved in the fake Sullivan BS in Alaska to lawyer up. He also says they should avoid the lawyers involved in this stunt ,(hello Elias Law Firm)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 08:41 AM (f8snw)

164 156

Sort of. Not surprised.

Dumb voters.

Dumb voters everywhere!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 08:39 AM (MtA6K)

Is the Muslim vote in Israel a big factor? Serious question, I know very little about Israeli politics.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:41 AM (Gqar8)

165 - A loving reminder to those who claim the name of Jesus...

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Read the finish in Matt 5:46-48

Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2026 08:42 AM (ix5nG)

166 Village Idiot's Apprentice

I was handed a Mosin at the range. By a former German lady who was in Berlin in 1945. She was young, then. Sadly, she is gone now.

I was the first to fire that gun since 1945. The fireball was immense and intense.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

167
Here's an excellent essay by Sensurround Q. Catgirl:

https://sensurround.substack.com/p/i-didnt-leave-

the-democratic-party

It's very well thought out.

I agree with her basic conclusion, cuz I've thought the same thing myself.

TL/DR?

FIIIIIIINE. I want a Democrat Party that's not insane. I want a Democrat Party that doesn't make it easy for Republican candidates to go "Hey, you're not going vote for insanity are you?" as their sole platform and not deliver on promises that make my life and the nation better cuz well, hell, the Democrats are crazy, mentally unbalanced, loco in the coco.

I'll never vote Democrat because their basic ideas of governance are incorrect at best. But, what I'dd like is two parties fighting hard for the middle.

That means the Democrats have to embrace the Constitution and not Marx or faggy French philosp[hical retards.

Jeffersonian/Hamiltonian arguments we can and should have. Destroying the country and Constituion arguments - naw, son. Do not want.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 08:44 AM (YSUhf)

168 “Their malice may be concealed by deception, but their wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.”

Proverbs 26:26

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2026 08:44 AM (9I5W+)

169 That is just insane.

These polls have him winning independents by like 60% and that over 14% of Rs are flipping over.
This, in a state Trump won by over 14% just 2 years ago.

But they justify this by nationally Trump approval is in the 30s and Talarico has mid-50s approval.

None of them poll Trump's approval among Texas Republicans....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (3cUTc)
*******
What I don't like seeing is that republican's who voted in the primary in March are not showing up.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:45 AM (wzaBj)

170 I know very little about Israeli politics.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:41 AM (Gqar

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Not worse than my synagogue's Board of Directors.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

171 Top one hunded and I read all the content!

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 29, 2026 08:45 AM (JNTt1)

172 The only reason smooth brains want to remain a Union is the fake money that flows out of washington dc that keeps them in the life they are comfortable to. Once that money goes away, poof goes the Union.

Posted by: Uncle Shooga at October 29, 2026 08:45 AM (JAh4c)

173 The Dems seem to be getting more insane as the election bears, if that is possible.
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If the Dems fail to take the Senate and also the House by a large margin, their base is going to riot.

They won't take the Senate.

And I lean toward they'll miss the House by 1-2.

And they are going to riot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (3cUTc)

174 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (BI5O2)

I will vote. I will encourage people I know to vote. I will put up "Vote Republican" or "Have Democrats ever lowered taxes?! " sorts of signs ion my lawn, which already has Republican candidate signs. Morning after morning of black pulling and "It's all over " comments will not change that. I will pray - a lot . . I'm out for the day, unless there's something cool on the art thread. I think the ace and cobs for their contributions. I fell unable to deal right now with relentless negativity and trolls ( AOS cope and Paul ) who chase people around and push polls designed to stop Republicans or conservatives from voting. I think a walk and looking at beauty in nature is in order for me. May you all have a blessed day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (JrHfD)

175 redridinghood

Those were Dems faking being Reps.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

176 “At one point, I had 45 students in one classroom,” he said during a CNN town hall. “There weren’t enough desks for all those kids, so I had students sitting on the air-conditioning unit in the wealthiest country in human history — in the 21st century, children sitting on the air-conditioning unit.”

TEA records show the largest class was 30 with 22 being the normal.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (/+uur)

177 142 That is just insane.

These polls have him winning independents by like 60% and that over 14% of Rs are flipping over.
This, in a state Trump won by over 14% just 2 years ago.

But they justify this by nationally Trump approval is in the 30s and Talarico has mid-50s approval.

None of them poll Trump's approval among Texas Republicans....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:33 AM (3cUTc)

========

Beto got 6% of Republicans in 2018.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (pfZGz)

178 We have some of the most permissive gun laws in America in my state. As it should be. But cross a river, and you have a pretty much oppressive system in place. Gun owners take note.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:47 AM (Gqar8)

179 Is the Muslim vote in Israel a big factor?

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:41 AM (Gqar

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Anywhere in the world that Muslims vote is a bog factor!

Minor point: the problem is Arabs - mostly Muslim but also Christian.

But the bigger factor is the idiot parties (Eisenkot, Bennet, Golan, Lieberman) who would consider forming a majority coalition with the Arab parties.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 08:47 AM (MtA6K)

180 Secretary Hegseth took immediate action and fired Sylvia in order to protect national security. Urgent action was needed and could not wait another second.”
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Others are noting he celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk.

So this is long, long overdue.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:47 AM (3cUTc)

181 173 If the Dems fail to take the Senate and also the House by a large margin, their base is going to riot.

They won't take the Senate.

And I lean toward they'll miss the House by 1-2.

And they are going to riot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (3cUTc)

========

"If Trump stops rioters from burning down Chicago, we declare Trump illegitimate!"
-the grand plan from Pritzker

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:47 AM (pfZGz)

182 "I was the first to fire that gun since 1945. The fireball was immense and intense."

The history of the Mosin is steeped in war and bloodshed.

Yet lay one on a table next to a modern AR-15, and they will screech about the AR-15 being a weapon of war.

Anyhow...off to replace a windshield on the Volvo. 300,000 miles on the original windshield.
Not bad.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 29, 2026 08:48 AM (iMotb)

183 Beto got 6% of Republicans in 2018.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (pfZGz)

The skateboard got 6%?

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 08:48 AM (Oy/m2)

184 Those were Dems faking being Reps.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Got a fuckton of those in SC, unfortunately.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 08:49 AM (8B4gm)

185 What I don't like seeing is that republican's who voted in the primary in March are not showing up.

Says who?

All over Texas in mostly red districts, the early voting has been at or above 2024 levels. And its not even the traditional day most Republicans vote, and that is on this Tuesday.

So are you going to believe your mortal enemy or your lying eyes?

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:49 AM (U4c/V)

186 What's happening in South Carolina? It's now tied in the Senate race.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:49 AM (wzaBj)

187 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 08:50 AM (ccf/V)

188 All am certain about in this election is that the Cali congressional GOP is going to be wiped out, via redistricting and legalized vote theft.

Counting ballots will probably stretch into 2027.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 08:50 AM (XV/Pl)

189 "I will vote."

It costs nothing and takes little time. I see no downside to voting, even for those who perceive no upside to it.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 08:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

190 The Democrat Party are the Left. Whether they were taken over at some point because the Left will colonize anything eventually or whether it's just what that Party is, who is to say.

But the toothpaste is never going back in the tube.

They got away with pretending to be reasonable and sane while beating the hell out of the country and looting it, for years and years, particularly from 2006 on. The beatings were always going to get worse and they were always going to wear the mask of beauty and love.

But then Trump came along and forced the rats into the light and they had no choice but to claim the mantle. I just hope no one thinks what the Left is doing, abusing, jailing, killing their enemies is some kind of "response" to Trump. The only thing that's really a response, is them deciding to own it now. It was their only play. But the idea of a party that is gonna go back to centrism and reasonability, forget it.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:51 AM (hVPzc)

191 I'm not familiar with Minnesota's state criminal code, so will someone kindly enlighten me to the exact law or laws that these gentlemen broke? I ain't no F. Lee Bailey or Ironsides but I can't seem to find “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” anywhere in my dog-eared copy of "Understanding the Minnesota Criminal Code For Dummies/Dhimmis."

It's simple. It doesn't matter. This is lawfare. Their goal is to bankrupt him. They can't arrest him. They can't try him. However, they CAN tie him up legally and require him to spend lots of money on lawyers trying to keep him out of court. Their tax dollar pockets are a lot deeper than O'Keefe's private donation pockets.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

192 What's happening in South Carolina? It's now tied in the Senate race.
Posted by: redridinghood

It's a fucking mess. Thanks, GOPe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 08:52 AM (8B4gm)

193 so I had students sitting on the air-conditioning unit in the wealthiest country in human history

With over $40 trillion in debt.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:52 AM (U4c/V)

194 186 What's happening in South Carolina? It's now tied in the Senate race.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:49 AM (wzaBj)

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Polling said the 2020 SC senate race was tied, too.

Graham won by 9.

Data for Progress said it was 46-46 in their late October poll
Morning Consult said Graham was up only 2 over Harrison, 46-44.
Swayable said that Harrison was up by 6.

Remember, the polls are never wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:52 AM (pfZGz)

195 Hard to believe PDT'S approval rate is as high as 30% when all they poll are dems.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 08:52 AM (8Uo7a)

196 189 "I will vote."

It costs nothing and takes little time. I see no downside to voting, even for those who perceive no upside to it.
Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 08:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

The old saying “ if you don’t vote, don’t bitch” still has a bit of merit.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 08:53 AM (Gqar8)

197 Back in 2019, before Trump Derangement Syndrome resulted in collective Democrat amnesia on the topic of voting machine vulnerabilities, Wyden and 14 Senate Democrats introduced the “Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2019” (the PAVE Act) “to protect American elections from foreign interference by mandating hand-marked paper ballots and setting new cybersecurity standards for all federal elections.”
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Cleta Mitchell kept receipts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 08:53 AM (LY8iJ)

198 These bastards are playing with fire. Meh, we've been saying this since forever and yet the Democrat Party and Leftists have metastasized like a cancer all over the place. Even if we the people of WE THE PEOPLE turn out like never before next week, there's just no way in hell that these bastards are going to allow their power to be denuded if they can help it?

Democrats (Nazis, Commies, Marxists, whatever) are FINE as long as Republicans are the ones suffering as a result. They will continue to lie, cheat and steal until there's no one left to combat them because they left, were murdered by illegals, or simply moved out of the state.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 08:54 AM (ccf/V)

199 Sylvia's mother says, 'Sylvia's busy
Too busy to come to the phone'

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:54 AM (hVPzc)

200 PREPARED TO BE SHOCKED !

"
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
·
19h
BREAKING: A new study finds that one-third of all accounts reposting support for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race are based overseas."

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:54 AM (AKptf)

201 oh, also 20% reposting Talarico are based overseas!

I think we are being manipulated!!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:55 AM (AKptf)

202 Hard to believe PDT'S approval rate is as high as 30% when all they poll are dems.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 08:52 AM (8Uo7a)

Current polling should be declared illegal and current mainstream pollsters should be put in front of a firing squad.

It's 100% voter intimidation and election fraud at this point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 08:55 AM (ccf/V)

203 How's Mitch McConnell doing these days?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:55 AM (hVPzc)

204 201 oh, also 20% reposting Talarico are based overseas!

I think we are being manipulated!!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:55 AM (AKptf)

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70% of Kalshi bettors are in Europe.

The betting only from MI shows that there's a slight preference for Rogers in the betting market.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:56 AM (pfZGz)

205 Sylvia's mother says, 'Sylvia's busy
Too busy to come to the phone'
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:54 AM (hVPzc)

Epstein's Mom > Silvia's Mother

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 08:56 AM (ccf/V)

206 Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks Thursday.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 08:56 AM (8Uo7a)

207 BREAKING: A new study finds that one-third of all accounts reposting support for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race are based overseas."
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Makes sense. That's where the voting machine companies are.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:57 AM (hVPzc)

208 What's happening in South Carolina? It's now tied in the Senate race.

Still need to get idiots to whip out their mobile devices and make precipitate bets on the Prediction Markets.

When you make your vig on churn, then you must have an actual horse race.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:57 AM (U4c/V)

209 Says who?

All over Texas in mostly red districts, the early voting has been at or above 2024 levels. And its not even the traditional day most Republicans vote, and that is on this Tuesday.

So are you going to believe your mortal enemy or your lying eyes?
Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 08:49 AM (U4c/V)
******
Yesterday when I had a nail appointment, they had the local NBC station on and they were saying that.
I think the Cornyn people that are butt hurt are just not voting or are crossing over to vote TalaFreako.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:57 AM (wzaBj)

210 There are a lot of entrenched fake Republicans in SC. Very anti-Trump. The opposite of the citizenry.

The Senate race never needed to be like this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (8B4gm)

211 Mark Halperin says Elias's firm was involved in the search. That's his claim, and the firm didn't respond to Reuters.
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I guarantee he was involved.

Since 2019, he and his firm have been a clearinghouse, a central hub for coordinating all the lawfare against Trump.

They have also been the back-channel work-around that judges, Dem lawyers and Dem prosecutors have been using to avoid ex-parte communication ethical violations.
This is also how these judges always seem to be miraculously available and instantly ready to issue orders blocking Trump.

And yes, he'll be indicted by the FL grand jury after the midterms--he's been a key player in the coup, every step of the way.

Seizing his electronic communications will be a full confession and indict the entire Dem Party.
He thinks he's smart when he's just a cheater who's been protected.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (3cUTc)

212 209 Yesterday when I had a nail appointment, they had the local NBC station on and they were saying that.
I think the Cornyn people that are butt hurt are just not voting or are crossing over to vote TalaFreako.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:57 AM (wzaBj)

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The Bushes want to turn Texas blue to fuck over the voters that have rejected them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (pfZGz)

213 Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. . .

He looks like a homosexual and a pederast.
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at October 29, 2026 07:50 AM (JAh4c)

A creepy looking dude in any case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Sylvia

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (iIyc0)

214 What I don't like seeing is that republican's who voted in the primary in March are not showing up.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:45 AM (wzaBj)

How many cling to the idea that voting on election day beats the cheat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

215 "WA Gov Calls On National Guard to ‘Protect Ballots’ After DOJ IDs Illegal Voters"

Wut?!?! My Betters have told me for about 10 years that Trump*&>%@# will be the guy who sends the military to interfere with voting!

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 08:59 AM (5rh/l)

216 The Bushes want to turn Texas blue to fuck over the voters that have rejected them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (pfZGz)

No. They want to turn Texas blue because they are leftist skunks.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 08:59 AM (hVPzc)

217 Qatar and Turkey has some 'splaining to do ! Israelis are saying that they manipulated their election too.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:59 AM (AKptf)

218 203 How's Mitch McConnell doing these days?
Posted by: ...

He and Auntie Maxine are going to finish 1-2 in a half Marathon scheduled for Saturday.

Posted by: Joan Lunden For A Place For Mom at October 29, 2026 09:00 AM (EdP2u)

219 Bush fucked over all the people who had voted for him twice. It's not personal. This is who they are.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 09:00 AM (hVPzc)

220 redridinghood, Cornyn himself voted for Paxton and said so publicly.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (8Uo7a)

221 214 What I don't like seeing is that republican's who voted in the primary in March are not showing up.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:45 AM (wzaBj)

How many cling to the idea that voting on election day beats the cheat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

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There are simply not enough Democrats in Texas to overcome the tidal wave already cresting in late early voting and will overwhelm them on election day.

Democrats have burned through their most loyal voters already, and they're losing ground every day despite getting some kind of early lead.

Republicans vote more on election day than Democrats do. It's been that way for like a decade or longer depending on the state and how long they've done early voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (pfZGz)

222
The Bushes want to turn Texas blue to fuck over the voters that have rejected them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (pfZGz)

This.

This is fact.

Ken Paxton beat George P. Bush for the Texas Attorney General spot and kicked the last of the Bush clan out of politics.

They will never forgive him for that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)

223 Might be time for O’Keefe to avoid Minnesota.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 07:41 AM (Gqar

Might be time for the country to avoid Minnesota. If only Trump was the dictator described by the left.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (hmYU4)

224 "How many cling to the idea that voting on election day beats the cheat?"

I don't, but since I oppose early and mail-in voting, it'd be hypocritical for me to vote early. And I feel like doing it on The Day is upholding a good tradition.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (Jr5Lq)

225 Andrews in SC is a big supporter of transing children. She's kept it quiet, like Spangenberg in VA acting like a moderate to get elected , then being a lunatic. Graham will win by almost as much as her brother

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (f8snw)

226 O'Keefe should go straight to Minnesota and get arrested with the federal DOJ representing him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (pfZGz)

227 runner, Qatar needs to have a bombing mishap in the near future.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (8Uo7a)

228 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

First recorded fail of Socialism.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (/+uur)

229 225 Andrews in SC is a big supporter of transing children. She's kept it quiet, like Spangenberg in VA acting like a moderate to get elected , then being a lunatic. Graham will win by almost as much as her brother

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (f8snw)

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She lost to Nancy Mace in the SC-1 general election a few cycles ago.

She couldn't win Charleston against Mace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (pfZGz)

230 David Marcus-

I just had an insane conversation with a guy who moved from California to McKinney, TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (wzaBj)

231 ..also rans , Alaska, Maine, IOwa and Ohio, between 13-9% foreign "participation"...but MI and TX are at the top...

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (AKptf)

232
A creepy looking dude in any case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Sylvia
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (iIyc0)

He looks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (ccf/V)

233 And Bush did it while paving the way for Obama and then standing aside while Obama lambasted and insulted all of US using Bush's NAME, for years.

Never defended himself, not because of the "dignity of the office", but because he never had any intention of defending us

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (hVPzc)

234 "WA Gov Calls On National Guard to ‘Protect Ballots’ After DOJ IDs Illegal Voters"

Imagine being in the National Guard and you are being told by the Communist Governor to assist in election fraud through voter intimidation.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (PVBkQ)

235
I just had an insane conversation with a guy who moved from California to McKinney, TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (wzaBj)

What a f*cking idiot.

This is why Texas will eventually turn blue and die like the rest of the blue states.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 09:03 AM (ccf/V)

236 I just had an insane conversation with a guy who moved from California to McKinney, TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation

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so many retards out there...how old is this idiot? what age group ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:03 AM (AKptf)

237 Sylvia might have a furry costume with an ass flap.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:04 AM (8B4gm)

238 TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation.

That is just an obtuse way of saying he is against high speed rail.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 09:04 AM (PVBkQ)

239 Those were Dems faking being Reps.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

Or Bush "Republicans" who will pout over not having a commie-lite in office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

240 And I feel like doing it on The Day is upholding a good tradition.
Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (Jr5Lq)

On The Day here in Harris County in 2022 they spaced the names so that the printed ballot needed 2 blank sheets and sent 1 sheet per number of voters that voted last election.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:05 AM (/+uur)

241
That is just an obtuse way of saying he is against high speed rail.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 09:04 AM (PVBkQ)

We will need a ruling from Doof here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 29, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)

242 224 "How many cling to the idea that voting on election day beats the cheat?"

I don't, but since I oppose early and mail-in voting, it'd be hypocritical for me to vote early. And I feel like doing it on The Day is upholding a good tradition.
Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:01 AM (Jr5Lq)

Wife and I always vote on election day. For any and all elections. Never don’t vote is our stance. We are pretty far right Christians who are not pacifist in our inclinations, meaning, really, that compromise is just not in our DNA.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:06 AM (Gqar8)

243 "is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation."

The salient question is: has the idiot ever himself used public transportation, at any time in his entire life?

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:06 AM (Jr5Lq)

244

"Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
25m
🚨 BREAKING: US GDP growth just BEAT the experts' expectations at +3.4% in the 3rd quarter, right before the midterms"

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:06 AM (AKptf)

245 Yesterday when I had a nail appointment, they had the local NBC station on and they were saying that.
I think the Cornyn people that are butt hurt are just not voting or are crossing over to vote TalaFreako.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 08:57 AM (wzaBj)

The Bushes want to turn Texas blue to fuck over the voters that have rejected them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (pfZGz)

I think it's hilarious that Ol' Corny and Teh Bushies can't see that it's their own action, over a course of years that caused their rejection.

You know, in honest elections, you can't fuck your voters over forever. Eventually, they will turn on you.

Honestly, both the Bushes and Ol' Corny illustrate the problem with keeping the a-hole cuz the alternative is corrupt, criminal insanity.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (YSUhf)

246 ‘Dogs of War’: Colossal Biosciences Plans Genetically Engineered Military Canines

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Will they pick up their own poop?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)

247 233 And Bush did it while paving the way for Obama and then standing aside while Obama lambasted and insulted all of US using Bush's NAME, for years.

Never defended himself, not because of the "dignity of the office", but because he never had any intention of defending us
Posted by: ...

But hugged Barry publicly every chance he got.

See: Jerry Ford / Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (Y8DZL)

248 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2026 07:04 AM

Always a solid plan, NaCly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (KRh8R)

249 California style public transportation.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 09:02 AM (wzaBj)

So a high speed train that connect Madisonville to Ennis.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (/+uur)

250 The polling in Texas has been so consistently bad this cycle that it’s no surprise that the left decided to just double down on it here at the end.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (xOuxV)

251 244

"Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
25m
🚨 BREAKING: US GDP growth just BEAT the experts' expectations at +3.4% in the 3rd quarter, right before the midterms"

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:06 AM (AKptf)

========

1. GDP numbers don't convince people of anything. Their perception of the local economy convinces them.

2. Worst economic depression...ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (pfZGz)

252 Will they pick up their own poop?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)

yes
And throw it

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (/+uur)

253 Passing through, busy day.
All of you have a happy one.

CNN - Michigan
Abdul up by 5 I think it was.

Maybe the blacks being polled don't want to be called racist or islamophobic.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 09:08 AM (Sco7b)

254 251

1. GDP numbers don't convince people of anything. Their perception of the local economy convinces them.

2. Worst economic depression...ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (pfZGz

I have noticed the lines for bread and soup have been getting longer and longer.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (Gqar8)

255 1. GDP numbers don't convince people of anything. Their perception of the local economy convinces them.

2. Worst economic depression...ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (pfZGz)

are you this argumentative in real life ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (AKptf)

256 111 1/2 mv2 where m is very large.

This strikes me as disturbingly math-ish.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

It is 10^10 times worse than maths. It is physics! NaCly Dog and I need to be banned forever for our no-physics AoS Style Guide rule violations!

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (5rh/l)

257 @240 a couple of years back a woman from out of state moved to Austin partially because of the trolly and the vibe in that city. Then taxes went up the place got overrun by druggies and crime and she couldn't figure out how that happened
. Duh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (f8snw)

258 250 The polling in Texas has been so consistently bad this cycle that it’s no surprise that the left decided to just double down on it here at the end.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2026 09:07 AM (xOuxV)

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It's how they get millionaires in Los Angeles to write $20,000 checks each at fundraisers.

It's also how the RNC gets its own whale donors to write massive checks.

TX being close and a purple state is big money for both parties, and it's not going to stop any time soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (pfZGz)

259 Another good reason not to vote a month early is that there's a whole lot of stuff that can change in a mere month.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:10 AM (Jr5Lq)

260 I have noticed the lines for bread and soup have been getting longer and longer.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (Gqar

you could put the soup in a bread bowl for faster service

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

261 Likud is leading the double envelope vote.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 09:10 AM (8Uo7a)

262 255 are you this argumentative in real life ?

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (AKptf)

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Yes!

But, really, if GDP numbers convinced people, Kamala would have easily won in 2024.

Biden's GDP numbers were good. They just were, you know, deeply dishonest and padded with government spending instead of economic growth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:11 AM (pfZGz)

263 Oh and I hope they find out who that bitch is at UTSA and bad things happen.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 09:11 AM (Sco7b)

264
BREWERS !!!

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at October 29, 2026 09:11 AM (+CguV)

265 I hate to say it but...the borrowing rates are too damn high.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:12 AM (AKptf)

266 260 I have noticed the lines for bread and soup have been getting longer and longer.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (Gqar

you could put the soup in a bread bowl for faster service
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

Brilliant!!! You could - market that!!

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:12 AM (Gqar8)

267 I did not know Talafreako is a former San Antonio public school teacher and a member of the teachers union.

That explains a lot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 09:12 AM (twIk0)

268 “At one point, I had 45 students in one classroom,” he said during a CNN town hall. “There weren’t enough desks for all those kids, so I had students sitting on the air-conditioning unit in the wealthiest country in human history — in the 21st century, children sitting on the air-conditioning unit.”

TEA records show the largest class was 30 with 22 being the normal.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 08:46 AM (/+uur)

When I attended school in the 1950's (elementary) and Jr High and HS in the early to mid 60's, our average class size was 40 to 42 students. How in the world did we ever learn??

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 29, 2026 09:12 AM (hmYU4)

269 Genetically Engineered Military Canines
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What could go wrong?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (hVPzc)

270 However...I do notice the lack of traffic...and the low low price of eggs!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (AKptf)

271 I just had an insane conversation with a guy who moved from California to McKinney, TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation

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Well, California high speed rail is the envy of the world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

272 I think we are being manipulated!!
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:55 AM (AKptf)

Now do betting markets, which get talked about more than polls these days. It's all fake and gay. It's an op.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

273 "When I attended school in the 1950's (elementary) and Jr High and HS in the early to mid 60's, our average class size was 40 to 42 students. How in the world did we ever learn?? "

And we did not have A/C.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (Jr5Lq)

274 It is an open secret in WA - by which I mean the state gov knows, and the conservatives know, but the Subaru driving dangerhair chekist cat ladies, trannies, and hordes of Indian H1bs do not know - that ballots from outlying areas on the wet side determined to be largely non-leftist are rejected en masse via signature challenge.

They just don't count them. I am not sure exactly how they manage this, but entire areas will get their ballots sent back with signature challenges. Like every single house on a given street. Media won't touch it, which means for all the regular prog zombies it didn't happen. Not that they'd care.

Posted by: heya at October 29, 2026 09:14 AM (TkJMd)

275 267 I did not know Talafreako is a former San Antonio public school teacher and a member of the teachers union.

That explains a lot.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 09:12 AM (twIk0)

yes
and he routinely exchanged text with students sometimes after midnight

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur)

276 Voted yesterday and it seemed to be majority GOP as most in line holding GOP voting guide. My county went 75% Trump so no big surprise.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:15 AM (Ti9vn)

277 I have noticed the lines for bread and soup have been getting longer and longer.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM (Gqar

you could put the soup in a bread bowl for faster service
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

Brilliant!!! You could - market that!!
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:12 AM (Gqar

We do!!!

Posted by: Boudin Bakeries at October 29, 2026 09:15 AM (AKptf)

278 "When I attended school in the 1950's (elementary) and Jr High and HS in the early to mid 60's, our average class size was 40 to 42 students. How in the world did we ever learn?? "

The Secret Sauce we had back then: classroom discipline. It works.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (Jr5Lq)

279
Genetically Engineered Military Canines
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What could go wrong?

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (hVPzc)

Five Star General and 51st President of the United States Woof Barkington-

would argue...nothing.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)

280 BREWERS !!!
Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin
____________

Helps when every game is home field. Seemed like the crowds in Tampa were mostly Brewers fans.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (JzUSu)

281 Egg prices - they were .99 cents/dozen the other day at Hy-Vee. Amusingly, a little further down the case they had “ Designer” eggs on display for sale ranging from 4.99 to 8.99 per dozen. Fools, their money, something something.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (Gqar8)

282 And we did not have A/C.
Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (Jr5Lq)

No a/c and I was in South Louisiana . Ceiling fans.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (Ti9vn)

283 Five Star General and 51st President of the United States Woof Barkington-

would argue...nothing.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (YSUhf)

First president with 100% approval from non-muslims

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (hVPzc)

284 My city votes 78% R and the R voters are still turning out in huge numbers.

I call this the "we are sick of your shit" election.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 09:17 AM (8Uo7a)

285 The single crime for which the left would happily support the death penalty is showing the state its own ass.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 29, 2026 09:18 AM (2ap+5)

286 "When I attended school in the 1950's (elementary) and Jr High and HS in the early to mid 60's, our average class size was 40 to 42 students. How in the world did we ever learn?? "

And we did not have A/C.
Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (Jr5Lq)

Neither did we. My elementary school was built in sections, 1907, 1910, and 1930. Beginning in 1955, we went on a spit session due to all the new housing construction, along with the new GSP that brought families in from the cities...Newark, Irvington, Jersey City, etc. Finally, in 1959, 5 new schools were built including 3 Junior high schools in the township. In 1964 a new HS opened as well. Our graduating class in 1966, if we all attended the same HS, would have consisted of over 1100 students!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (hmYU4)

287 Good news, everyone!

TheBlaze
@theblaze
Barack Obama: "I am tired of being divided! I want friendship and neighborliness!"

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It's the Age of Aquarius!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)

288 Amazin', from $8/dozen to .99c/dozen in two years! Trump is a magician. Rather, Brooke Rollins is. Another superstar on Trump's team.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (AKptf)

289 The Brewers in five games hit 3 HRs and won. Up yours sabermetrics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (f8snw)

290 Egg prices - they were .99 cents/dozen the other day at Hy-Vee. Amusingly, a little further down the case they had “ Designer” eggs on display for sale ranging from 4.99 to 8.99 per dozen. Fools, their money, something something.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (Gqar

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Unless the chickens are somehow decorating them for Easter, probably not worth the money for "designer" eggs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (FZ29D)

291 Ever notice that when a Dem's in office the Pentagon doesn't seem to have a problem with senior officers running their mouths to the press?

Or is this sort of thing just not reported when a Dem's in office?

I have a theory...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2026 09:20 AM (RORbl)

292 yes
and he routinely exchanged text with students sometimes after midnight
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur)
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A free and open press would widely publicize those sorts of facts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 09:20 AM (o2Pnv)

293 A dumb question about the Democrat scheming in Alaska's Senate election. Is the objective not so much to confuse Republican voters but to game the ranked choice voting scheme by giving Democrats a 2nd choice, the fake Dan Sullivan, whose votes would be assigned to the top two finishers (Peltola, real Dan Sullivan), using the screwy RCV calculus? Resulting, they expect, in a Peltola win? Is whig here this morning?

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 09:21 AM (5rh/l)

294 well, too late to comment now

Posted by: Don Black at October 29, 2026 09:21 AM (ZxPkt)

295 Canned bread and soup could be trebucheted into poor neighborhoods and eliminate bread lines.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:21 AM (/+uur)

296 289 The Brewers in five games hit 3 HRs and won. Up yours sabermetrics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (f8snw)

========

*snaps finger at Jonah Hill*

"You...you want me to speak?"

"When I point at you, yeah."

"He gets on base."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:21 AM (pfZGz)

297 Enlightened leadership.

CBS News
@CBSNews
Former President Obama criticized President Trump’s war with Iran while campaigning for Democrats in Georgia on Wednesday, less than a week before the midterm elections.

“This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.”

The war with Iran, which began in February, has cost the U.S. military at least $47.1 billion as of mid-October, according to a new estimate from U.S. Central Command obtained by CBS News.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:22 AM (ndZc7)

298 So Hegseth fired a general for leaking to the press. The scumbag Jennifer Griffen hardest hit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 09:22 AM (o2Pnv)

299
I just had an insane conversation with a guy who moved from California to McKinney, TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation

That guy's an a-hole. He can take the DART buses and trains if he wishes.

Having ridden public transportation trains in various countries,

Japan is the only country in the world that gets it right and they still have their problems with overcrowding, etc.

Cities out west really aren't built for "public transportation"...

Tell that jerk if he wants his lazy ass to be driven around...Buy a Tesla!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 09:22 AM (YSUhf)

300 It is 10^10 times worse than maths. It is physics!

Physics is just math for people who've actually talked to a girl, once, in their lives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

301 TheJamesMadison, I do enjoy that movie.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (8Uo7a)

302 293 A dumb question about the Democrat scheming in Alaska's Senate election. Is the objective not so much to confuse Republican voters but to game the ranked choice voting scheme by giving Democrats a 2nd choice, the fake Dan Sullivan, whose votes would be assigned to the top two finishers (Peltola, real Dan Sullivan), using the screwy RCV calculus? Resulting, they expect, in a Peltola win? Is whig here this morning?

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 09:21 AM (5rh/l)

=======

I suspect most people prone to voting Republican would vote for the two Sullivans in a row as the 1 and 2 choices, so when fake Sullivan gets pushed out after the first count, everything goes to the real Sullivan.

It honesty feels like a stupid plan that lawyers and politicians put their livelihoods on the line for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (pfZGz)

303 When I was a child, we had separate classes for the smart kids, the average kids and "the kids who needed more help."

Posted by: Oglebay at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (2ap+5)

304 290

Unless the chickens are somehow decorating them for Easter, probably not worth the money for "designer" eggs.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 09:19 AM (FZ29D)

Read a couple of the designer egg cartons - they assured me that the chickens involved were leading their Best Lives Ever, happy in every way, only eating the highest quality organic chicken feed, with ample play and socialization times. I am not, for the most part, making this up.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (Gqar8)

305 TheBlaze
@theblaze
Barack Obama: "I am tired of being divided! I want friendship and neighborliness!"

He talks out of both sides of his mouth because the Left has more projection than Space X and because he has a penis in it.

Mostly because of the penis.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (Ti9vn)

306 wag the war dog

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (/+uur)

307 297 CBS News
@CBSNews
Former President Obama criticized President Trump’s war with Iran while campaigning for Democrats in Georgia on Wednesday, less than a week before the midterm elections.

“This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.”

The war with Iran, which began in February, has cost the U.S. military at least $47.1 billion as of mid-October, according to a new estimate from U.S. Central Command obtained by CBS News.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:22 AM (ndZc7)

========

Obama...didn't fire missiles? Drones fire missiles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (pfZGz)

308 People have no clue who they're voting for this Gina Hinojosa is on the same ticket at Talerico and she's running for governor of the state of Texas Talerico's enthusiasm could pull her over the top.
I can't even believe what I'm saying. I can't even believe that we're in this situation.
I shouldn't even post what I'm feeling cause I don't wanna be so negative.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (wzaBj)

309 Oh,voting does matter. I started voting again now that I'm in a red State with a pretty based GOP. I want the most right wing State government I can possibly get. But I will continue my boycott of voting for federal offices. I no longer consider DC legitimate and voting in those elections is counterproductive.

Sadly, the extremist I voted for in the gubernatorial primary exceeded all expectations. He won 5 counties, when he was predicted to win 0.

So, not this time around, but there's always next time. One of these days, we'll ram it home to his boneless GOP detractors good and hard.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (BI5O2)

310 301 TheJamesMadison, I do enjoy that movie.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2026 09:23 AM (8Uo7a)

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One of my favorites this century.

Game 20 just sweeps me up every time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (pfZGz)

311 “This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.”
==========================
The story should have a headline reading, "Obama confesses total failure"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (o2Pnv)

312 '"designer" eggs.'

100% yolk. Shell shapes to choose from: cube, tetrahedron, dodecahedron.

Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (Jr5Lq)

313 TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson

=====

1. Watch Moonrise Kingdom
2. Write glowing review
3. Call it a day and go do productive stuff

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (LTM0A)

314 Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:16 AM (Gqar

I am willing to pay a lot more for eggs. I love the orange yolks (unwashed eggs) I get at the local farmers market.

We barely use 2 dozen per month, so paying up is not a problem.

For families? That eggs are back to 99¢/dozen is fantastic as eggs are used in so many things and are a good source of protein.

Posted by: Ann at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (SHHm+)

315 I meant to say "but he still lost." That was the sad part, not the exceeding expectations part.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (BI5O2)

316 Another good reason not to vote a month early is that there's a whole lot of stuff that can change in a mere month.
Posted by: gp at October 29, 2026 09:10 AM (Jr5Lq)

I voted (almost) two weeks early. I voted red down the line. In non-partisan races, I tried to pick the least lunatic. There was only ever one.

There's nothing which can come out late which would cause me to either vote blue or, by my inaction, allow a blue to be elected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

317 313
1. Watch Moonrise Kingdom
2. Write glowing review
3. Call it a day and go do productive stuff

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 29, 2026 09:24 AM (LTM0A)

=======

Moonrise Kingdom's glowing review was posted two days ago! Today is The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:25 AM (pfZGz)

318 It is 10^10 times worse than maths. It is physics! NaCly Dog and I need to be banned forever for our no-physics AoS Style Guide rule violations!
Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 09:09 AM

Consider a spherical comment field of radius R...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:25 AM (KRh8R)

319 Why is oil so high? I can't see any reason for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

320 272 I think we are being manipulated!!
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 08:55 AM (AKptf)

Now do betting markets, which get talked about more than polls these days. It's all fake and gay. It's an op.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Spain has Atlas Shrugged like train crash without the endless monolog of why they all deserved to perish...
Who is John Galt?

A: cTHIEL&associates. failing forWAR'd.
For the war until they were against it?
why? the always need MORE...
trust no cTHIIL.

more of your privacy, more of your freedom, more of your trust; and are you getting your money's worth?
the Falacy of the Managable War; the Separation of Regional Conflict from Strategic Threat and the inevitable shortcoming when all the money sunk into their Paradigm doesn't live up to expectation -- vis, still requiring travelsize on flights, but now justified by shrinkflation.

Yes, there is profit in war, but only at a distance.
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision

Some things never change -- from 2008.
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision
ATLAS SHRUGGED UPDATED FOR THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS
“Why make a product when you can make dollars?"

Posted by: MANFRED the heat Seeking OBOE at October 29, 2026 09:26 AM (jCTQg)

321 Well, California high speed rail is the envy of the world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

Best safety record.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

322 Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.”

On December 12, 2013, a drone operated by Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), an elite United States military division, launched an airstrike on a convoy of vehicles Aqabat Zaj, an area near the city of Radda in al-Bayda Governorate, Yemen. The convoy was a wedding procession transporting the bride to the village of the groom. As it stopped for a vehicle with a flat tire, four missiles were launched at a Toyota Hilux carrying three people, who had escaped before the missiles struck.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 29, 2026 09:26 AM (/+uur)

323 Moonrise Kingdom's glowing review was posted two days ago! Today is The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:25 AM (pfZGz)

I liked that movie.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 29, 2026 09:27 AM (hmYU4)

324 Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
Republicans Are Driving the Most Racist Election Cycle in a Generation
Donald Trump and MAGA have nothing to run on but rank bigotry.

-
Those bastards!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 29, 2026 09:27 AM (ndZc7)

325 The war with Iran, which began in February, has cost the U.S. military at least $47.1 billion as of mid-October, according to a new estimate from U.S. Central Command obtained by CBS News.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So, about a week's worth of the phony public services budget.

Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:27 AM (Y8DZL)

326 “This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.

Cause and effect you dumb mother fucker. Learn it. Your ' diplomacy ' is why we are where we are right now with Iran.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:27 AM (Ti9vn)

327 High speed rail killed about a 100 yesterday in Spain. Imagine how many it would kill if ever completed in Cali

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:28 AM (f8snw)

328 326 “This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.

Cause and effect you dumb mother fucker. Learn it. Your ' diplomacy ' is why we are where we are right now with Iran.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:27 AM (Ti9vn)

=======

Iran pinky promised not to do any weapons research for 10 years. That meant that they'd never get any nuclear weapons ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:28 AM (pfZGz)

329 Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. . .

He looks like a homosexual and a pederast.
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at October 29, 2026 07:50 AM (JAh4c)

A creepy looking dude in any case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Sylvia
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 08:58 AM (iIyc0)

"Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
·
10h
NEW:

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @Pete Hegseth has fired Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia.

You’ll recall that after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I exposed Gavin Sylvia, a he/him data analyst at @FEMA, for celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk. Following my report, Gavin Sylvia was placed on administrative leave.

Gavin Sylvia is the son of Brett Sylvia..."

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:28 AM (AKptf)

330 interesting family!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:28 AM (AKptf)

331 My fat and lazy chickens make good soup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 09:29 AM (8B4gm)

332 319 Why is oil so high? I can't see any reason for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Not to mention the rent!

Posted by: Jimmy McMillan at October 29, 2026 09:29 AM (EdP2u)

333 >>“This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplo

Says President Drone Assassination

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2026 09:29 AM (rOKnE)

334 General Brett Sylvia has a degree in Environmental Engineering.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (Gqar8)

335 Oil is high because the Ukes are bombing Russian oil refineries

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (f8snw)

336 Iran pinky promised not to do any weapons research for 10 years. That meant that they'd never get any nuclear weapons ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:28 AM (pfZGz)

Grand Mullah issued a "no new nukes" Fatwa!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (AKptf)

337 Art is nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (KRh8R)

338 The war with Iran, which began in February, has cost the U.S. military at least $47.1 billion as of mid-October, according to a new estimate from U.S. Central Command obtained by CBS News.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So, about a week's worth of the phony public services budget.
Posted by: Auspex at October 29, 2026 09:27 AM (Y8DZ

We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Ti9vn)

339 336 Iran pinky promised not to do any weapons research for 10 years. That meant that they'd never get any nuclear weapons ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:28 AM (pfZGz)

Grand Mullah issued a "no new nukes" Fatwa!

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 09:30 AM (AKptf)

========

It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 09:31 AM (pfZGz)

340 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

341 326 “This happens to be something I know a little bit about,” Obama said. “I didn’t fire any missiles, I engaged in diplomacy.

Cause and effect you dumb mother fucker. Learn it. Your ' diplomacy ' is why we are where we are right now with Iran.
Posted by: polynikes

Indeed, had Bill Clinton done back in Mogadishu back in '92 what Ethiopia accomplished a decade later in a single week, there factually would have been no OBL, no 9/11 no endless wars.

Had Bill Clinton been CAPABLE of taking his eyes ways from the superbowl for 30 seconds to give the kill authorization on OBL, ibid...

Remember who did this:
"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists and other potential adversaries around the world that they can change our policies by killing our people. It would be open season on Americans."
-- Bill Clinton '93 just before he pulled out of Somalia.

To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against alQaeda from a distance -- would significantly hamper our ability to keep the pressure on al Qaeda, and create an UNACCEPTABLE RISK of additional attacks on our homeland and our allies.
-- OBAMA'09

What is the vital national interest? -- IceKingJOE'21

Posted by: MANFRED the heat Seeking OBOE at October 29, 2026 09:33 AM (UCg/u)

342 Jensen Huang is apparently going to join Elon Musk as a tech billionaire who learns how expensive it is to not be a Trump hater.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 29, 2026 09:33 AM (2ap+5)

343 "I shouldn't even post what I'm feeling cause I don't wanna be so negative."

Quit reading the lamestream media. Quit looking at polls. They are fake anyway.

Everything is designed to make you feel negative.

Worry today only ruins tomorrow.

So
just
stop

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 29, 2026 09:38 AM (5Op5D)

344 a high-speed train collision

... there is one point in favor of the existing California High Speed Rail .. nobody has been killed

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

345
Leftists Claim to Love the Homeless Until an Illegal Alien Tries to Murder Them

Streets-living junkie bum America is learning the same thing that Black America is starting to realize. The commie cocksuckers in the Donkey Party don't give a shit about them, never have. They are just convenient tools to use in their campaign to destroy Western Civilization.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 10:01 AM (iqcvy)

346 Odd that O’Keefe and co. get prosecuted for election tampering, along with the guy that got sent to prison years ago for a farcical FB post telling people to vote on Wednesday after election day, yet nothing on the fake pollsters posting made up numbers showing big leads for democrat candidates. Hmmmm, related?

Posted by: Advo at October 29, 2026 10:01 AM (jO4mz)

347 Alaska's governor is ordering an investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola's Senate campaign over an alleged scheme to confuse voters by recruiting a Senate candidate with the same name as Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.

The governor cited new reporting suggesting an organized effort to misdirect votes and directed state authorities to determine whether any laws were broken or charges are warranted.

Peltola's campaign has denied involvement in recruiting the candidate.

"The evidence will determine what happens next."

... now compare that to ...

“Avoid the line. Vote from home.”
“Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
“Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.”

The scheme was charged as conspiracy to interfere with voting rights under the Ku Klux Klan Act

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 10:03 AM (RHGPo)

348 Ben Had, is Talarico winning?

Posted by: AnnaS at October 29, 2026 10:25 AM (YobFY)

349 Good morning, and thanks J.J.

"Investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby have been hit with felony charges by left-wing Minneapolis prosecutors for their video exposing vulnerable loopholes in Minnesota’s elections."

Seems to tie into the abundance of 'news,' nationally and locally, of PDT (administration) & possible interference with the mid-term elections elections.

A few examples: 'Inside the DOJ's Unlawful Push to Interfere in the 2026 ...'; "The New Worst-Case Scenario for Election Officials: Federal Interference” and "Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire A Voting Machine - and Hack It.'

And online alerts: Trump appointees - unnamed, stationed at DHS - asked cybersecurity agency to SECRETLY HACK voting machine ahead of midterms, and the results of the secret hack were to be passed directly back to the White House.

Did it happen? Reportedly, DHS and CISA declined to deny the event and the White House issued a broad statement defending the President's overall record.

So what? Trump is the head of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and CISA has only been strengthened over recent years.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (NFX2v)

350 Around since about 2007, but with it's "official" launch in 2018, CISA's powers grew from being a passive advising agency to operational cyber defense. (2021, given administrative subpoena authority and via Executive Order, Mandatory Federal Cyber Defenses. 2022, Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure; 2024 designation as National Coordinator for the Security and Resilience of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. 2026, Information Sharing Protections were reauthorized by Congress.)

It's much stronger & more legally empowered than it was at its inception in 2018, and has a newly released 4 year roadmap.

But for some who've formerly worked for or with CISA's election teams in past years, election interference is always possible 'cause Trump & DOGE.

By mid-2025, nearly 1,000 CISA employees, roughly one-third of the agency’s workforce, had left or been removed from active service. True.

However, CISA relied on massive networks of federal contractors to handle everything from soup to nuts. They were rarely based in D.C., often working remotely from home and/or at regional tech hubs nationwide. When congressional watchdogs & agency defenders complain

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:11 AM (NFX2v)

351 about less staffing, they always mix fulltime civil servants with contract operations AND unneeded administrative positions and 'probationary hires' that DHS brought into federal service. (And not everyone who departed chose to leave contracting with the federal government nor were given the gate by CISA/DOGE. Many were reassigned to work for other federal agencies.)

The President leads the Executive Branch and is the only executive official elected by the entire nation. The elected position has authority to redirect agencies like CISA if/when it's believed the agency is overreaching or misallocating taxpayer resources. (Restructure departments, reallocate budgets, place officials on leave when necessary to align with the administration's goals.)

Former career officials & state administrators argue for an independent bureaucracy when it comes to national security & law enforcement.

State officials point to the Constitution which gives states the primary authority of managing elections. To them, Federal agencies exist to support them as partners, thus requiring "voluntary trust" on all sides.

And for all times, sour grapes towards PDT, Elon Musk & all not in step.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 29, 2026 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

352 On Oct. 28, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged both men with two felonies: unlawful voting and identity theft.
Basis: During the Aug. 11 primary, Higby and O’Keefe allegedly went to four Hennepin County precincts and used the names of four registered voters without their permission. Some of those voters were deceased, and one had already voted. Neither man received a ballot or signed the vouching oath. Moriarty says giving false names and starting the process is enough for the charges, which she says are unrelated to their politics or costumes.
Penalties and next steps: Each charge carries up to five years, but Moriarty expects presumptive probation if they’re convicted. Both will be summoned rather than jailed, and their first court appearance is Nov. 16.
Response: Higby denies breaking any law and is fundraising on the case. O’Keefe’s group says no one voted and that the goal was to test Minnesota’s vouching law.

Posted by: ShotinMNandKeptTalking at October 29, 2026 11:42 AM (W165o)

Daily Tech News 29 October 2026

Top Story

Microsoft has hit ten quarters in a row of record-breaking revenues. (Tech Crunch)

That's good, right?
Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees. (Tech Crunch)

Right?

Tech News

SpaceX has told the FAA it is planning for 10,000 launches per year. (WCCFTech)

That's... A lot.
Ford's new Fathom electric truck - which is expected to start below $30,000 - doubles as a 10kW whole-home UPS. (CNET)

Honestly, pretty useful. Usefuller if it were a plug-in hybrid, but still useful.
Amazon is planning to judge engineers by how much they achieve, rather than how much they cost the company. (Tom's Hardware)

Just now figured this out, apparently.
AI execs may be total dipshits. (Tech Crunch)

May be?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Beep beep beep beep beep.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

2 Morgen.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 29, 2026 04:01 AM (iIyc0)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:05 AM (WZjs1)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 04:06 AM (sAmhv)

6 G'day.
(which I think is "good morning" in 'stralian)

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:07 AM (odBC9)

7 G'day means g'day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 29, 2026 04:09 AM (BLOW1)

8 >>>Disclaimer: Beep beep beep beep beep.

The "ready!" sound made by the fries machine where let-go Microsoft employees are going to be working?

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

9 7 G'day means g'day.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 29, 2026 04:09 AM (BLOW1)

Good morning!

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:10 AM (odBC9)

10 "Can we be total dipshits?"

"I don't know.... cannnn you?"

"*sigh*. MAY we be total dipshits?"

"Yes, go ahead. And wash your hands when you're done."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:10 AM (aKiSo)

11 SpaceX has told the FAA it is planning for 10,000 launches per year.
****

I wonder if that would include launches for fueling tankers for starship missions to the moon.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:12 AM (WZjs1)

12 I wonder if that would include launches for fueling tankers for starship missions to the moon.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:12 AM (WZjs1)

Imagine the future where the kitchen-table political issues include bitching about the price of gas in space.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:13 AM (aKiSo)

13 Top of the Melb'n to you!

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:15 AM (odBC9)

14
It's gonna get kind of cluttered out there, all that orbiting junk.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:18 AM (mmrXZ)

15 It's gonna get kind of cluttered out there, all that orbiting junk.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:18 AM (mmrXZ)

You could build little space stations that collect all the junk, then bring it all to an orbital recycling station, and refine it back into components that could be used to build and repair other orbital vehicles without needing to bring new material up from Earth.

Eh, who am I kidding. They'd just pretend they're recycling it and then throw it out anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:20 AM (aKiSo)

16 Beep beep beep beep beep.

Joke Punchline: "Watch out! She's backing up!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:24 AM (l3cgK)

17 Imagine the future where the kitchen-table political issues include bitching about the price of gas in space.
****

Starship uses methane and liquid oxygen. The plan is to have tankers in orbit to fuel trips to the moon. If water (ice deposits) is found to be abundant, production of liquid oxygen will be much easier than shipping it to the moon. Half of the production of fuel for missions to Mars would be solved.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:28 AM (WZjs1)

18 15 You could build little space stations that collect all the junk, then bring it all to an orbital recycling station, and refine it back into components that could be used to build and repair other orbital vehicles without needing to bring new material up from Earth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:20 AM (aKiSo)

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

19 Good Morning pixel people. going back to sleeep, 0 dark 30 is way to early for me.

MS is still a total CF, always has been.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 29, 2026 04:31 AM (Q/FnY)

20 Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:20 AM (aKiSo)

(aKiSo) sounds like it might be from one of those languages that was being discussed on the ONT.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

21 Bacon, toast and cheese omelet
Getting up early has its privileges

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Starship uses methane and liquid oxygen. The plan is to have tankers in orbit to fuel trips to the moon. If water (ice deposits) is found to be abundant, production of liquid oxygen will be much easier than shipping it to the moon. Half of the production of fuel for missions to Mars would be solved.
Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:28 AM (WZjs1)

"Congressman Schmoopydoop voted to allow trillionaires like Elon Musk to use our precious oxygen to fuel his greed rockets to Occupied Mars. Our Children need that oxygen to breathe. Can you vote for someone who doesn't want Our Children to breathe?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:39 AM (aKiSo)

23 19 Good Morning pixel people. going back to sleeep
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 29, 2026 04:31 AM (Q/FnY)

... perchance to dream.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

24 Re space junk. See the Kessler Effect. It's a potential problem. We're not near the threshold yet, and we want to make sure we never get there. The damned Chicoms don't give a shit and may be a problem.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at October 29, 2026 04:46 AM (w6EFb)

25
That's good, right?
Right?
That's... A lot.
Honestly, pretty useful. Usefuller if it were a plug-in hybrid, but still useful.
Just now figured this out, apparently.
May be?
Disclaimer: Beep beep beep beep beep.

A Pixy of few words.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:46 AM (odBC9)

26 Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees
****

When the AI (funding) bubble pops, having a much reduced payroll may allow the company to surf the downward lurch.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:50 AM (WZjs1)

27
Eh, who am I kidding. They'd just pretend they're recycling it and then throw it out anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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

And there's Jane Jetson sorting her trash as if it mattered a damn.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 04:51 AM (mmrXZ)

28 BBC

Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d’état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of “electoral fraud”.

"unsubstantiated"
Does that belong in a headline?

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

29 I don't forsee China continuing to exist as a unified state much longer.

Yes, yes, thousands of years, blah de blah, but as a State they've only existed for a few generations. They can't continue on the trajectory they're on, and their perverse lazy idiot version of smash and grab authoritarianism, which frankly is infecting the entire world again these days, has proven time and time again to be less than helpful for a nation's longevity. The State can't change without ceding the fragile, fake, fear-based pseudo-legitimacy it still has, so it can't adapt. Which means, it will inevitably die.

So hopefully we only have to deal with the crooked little bastards shitting up our orbit for a few more generations.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:51 AM (aKiSo)

30 28 BBC

Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d’état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of “electoral fraud”.

"unsubstantiated"
Does that belong in a headline?
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

Forget about the propriety of opinion based terms in news headlines. It's simply false. It doesn't belong anywhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:53 AM (aKiSo)

31 30 28 BBC

Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d’état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of “electoral fraud”.

"unsubstantiated"
Does that belong in a headline?
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

Forget about the propriety of opinion based terms in news headlines. It's simply false. It doesn't belong anywhere.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:53 AM (aKiSo)

Maybe they'll have to retract it.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

32 I would like to see an America led coalition of South American nations band together and curb-stomp this Lula shithead.

And don't look at me like that. I was never all that upset about Iraq or Afghanistan, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:55 AM (aKiSo)

33 Maybe they'll have to retract it.
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

Maybe someone should jam a gun in their mouth and take their passports away from them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:56 AM (aKiSo)

34 BBC ... Maybe they'll have to retract it.
****

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*cough, cough*hahahahahahhahahahahahaha(thud)

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:57 AM (WZjs1)

35 That headline is rage inducing.

How the fuck does the guy who is literally making the accusation of the election being stolen *from him* get described as "recycling" the allegation?

Did that crazy orange man whisper into his ear, huh? Did he destroy his own passport and un-ass his country toot-sweet as part of some bizarre stunt?

And did the BBC take their payment from The Party in good old USD, or in whatever the fuck trinkets and beads Brazil is scraping together for a currency these days?

So many questions....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:00 AM (aKiSo)

36 I keep trying to leave
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 05:03 AM (Ia/+0)

37 Also maybe don't brag that your buddy's opponent had to flee the country after losing an election. "LOL he says he didn't flee but he totally did hurr durr what a loser".

Are these people actually retarded?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:04 AM (aKiSo)

38
The damned Chicoms don't give a shit and may be a problem.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone

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

Typical. I hope we can knock their junk sculptures out of orbit and send them zinging into space. But first, we should slap a label on it: "Dear Extraterrestrials, if you find this, it came from the shit country of China on planet Earth. If you ever reach us, consider them hostile and tasty."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 05:06 AM (mmrXZ)

39 Are these people actually retarded?
****

To ask is to answer.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 05:06 AM (WZjs1)

40 Ball up all the space junk on a regular schedule and huck it straight at Beijing.

Hopefully the explosion helps burn out at least some of the stink.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:09 AM (aKiSo)

41 I read the contemporary historical debates of the “cold war”, the Soviets were straight up SOBs, but they oftentimes had a point in their official responses. The BBC just sounds like an 5th grader. Very sad.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 05:12 AM (X3owK)

42 The writer of that fluff piece for Ford did not mention the tremendous amounts of money wasted on electric vehicle fantasies. Vaporware.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 05:12 AM (WZjs1)

43 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 29, 2026 05:13 AM (Hbeqj)

44 Fathom. That is a term of measurement for water....under water.

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 05:13 AM (WZjs1)

45 The new almost built high speed rail in California is going to use the latest in tech to control their trains. Signal flags like the navy uses between ships, they can't afford to use the European tech as its to expensive. But it works so well in Spain, the best high speed network in Europe. Single track for the California high speed trains, what could go wrong.

Posted by: colin at October 29, 2026 05:14 AM (CiQE7)

46 Some bacteria thrive in these conditions. Some in those. People are the same way. Very Darwinian.

Posted by: Accomack at October 29, 2026 05:16 AM (4qMiv)

47 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 05:19 AM (VyBeY)

48 They focus grouped the idea of calling it the "Ford ToasterInABathtub", but it didn't score quite as high.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:22 AM (aKiSo)

49 41 I read the contemporary historical debates of the “cold war”, the Soviets were straight up SOBs, but they oftentimes had a point in their official responses. The BBC just sounds like an 5th grader. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 05:12 AM (X3owK)

The key to good propaganda is that it has some kernel of truth to it, and it's the skillful sleight of hand that bends that truth into a lie that's perceived as truth. (Heck, in some cases the point of propaganda is to replace an easy lie with a difficult truth... but that's not my point here)

Propaganda is not merely lying your face off. That's just called "Lying Your Face Off".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:25 AM (aKiSo)

50 It's become very easy for "legacy" media outlets to tell bald faced lies and get no pushback. It's as if the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect has been short circuited, because that effect relies upon people having some level of expertise in at least one topic to use as their standard to perceive when a previously trusted source has just told them a naked lie.

If you don't know anything about anything, then you'll never be able to use that handy mechanism to escape the hamster-wheel of shiny idiots in business wear shouting nonsense at you as if it were holy writ, never to be questioned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:30 AM (aKiSo)

51
Hmm, a 22kW standby generator installed costs maybe $20k, as long as the state of California hasn't banned it. Ford Fathom supplies 10kW, costs $30k, doubles as transportation in case of emergency, and probably gets you a rebate in California. Nope, still not a good deal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 05:36 AM (mmrXZ)

52 Old time hymn- from the 1770's, "Rock of Ages":

https://tinyurl.com/5eduxj87

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:36 AM (JrHfD)

53 Maybe there's some new variant of Gell-Mann Amnesia that I'm falling prey to, here.

Your receptors can become too finely tuned to picking out even the trivial, inconsequential lies and errors in the daily fire hose of news-slop we're all subjected to against our will. (Why is there "news" on my damned refrigerator?!?!)

Then, when they drop a real top-shelf cutting-edge doozy of a clanking lie in your lap, it pegs your meter and flings you into the kind of tantrum that makes you look like a nutjob to any sane person with a life....

Call it the "Waraiotoko Bullshit Effect", I guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:37 AM (aKiSo)

54 Radio Havana wasn’t too objectionable at all, at least during their top of the hour news roundup. It seemed to be relatively even handed and authoritative recounting world news. Their editorial stance was lunatic insane, but there was a clear and obvious demarcation.

This is modern “journalism” now for decades in the West. Puff piece, left wing twaddle, amateurish opinion pieces passed off as straight “news”.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 05:38 AM (X3owK)

55 God answers when we call . Devotional on Psalm 145:14-21

https://tinyurl.com/4n2kw5k2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:39 AM (JrHfD)

56 Cow can't stop listening to 80's rock music:

https://tinyurl.com/44rdzw43

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:43 AM (JrHfD)

57 It's become very easy for "legacy" media outlets to tell bald faced lies and get no pushback.
———

Except, they are now loss leaders, nobody under 55 years watches, and nobody believes anything they say. I use them, if at all, as a contrary indicator.

Merely by the headline, I know instantly the Brazil election is hinky. They are like the North Star of contrary indicators now. Whatever they say is bullshit. Count on it.

Hell of a “legacy”.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 05:43 AM (X3owK)

58 Hell of a “legacy”.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 05:43 AM (X3owK)

Heh. Great point.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:44 AM (aKiSo)

59 That's right. I just invented "yelling at the news".

....

Maybe i really am a millennial, after all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:46 AM (aKiSo)

60 Merely by the headline, I know instantly the Brazil election is hinky. They are like the North Star of contrary indicators now. Whatever they say is bullshit. Count on it.

Hell of a “legacy”.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 05:43 AM (X3owK)

exactly right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 05:48 AM (VyBeY)

61 Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees.

27% of their workforce. That's kind of a lot. They're in trouble.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 29, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

62
California high speed trains, what could go wrong.
Posted by: colin

===========

When that never-to-be-finished boondoggle's death certificate is finally signed, its scattered components should be left in place and stamped or painted, "This is your brain on democrat governance. "

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 29, 2026 05:52 AM (mmrXZ)

63 "Hope in a hero". God with us in difficult times and when things seem hopeless . "Our daily bread" devotional . 1st Chronicles 16:12-27

https://tinyurl.com/yx5b3nbj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:52 AM (JrHfD)

64 A good evening and morning for a Thor's Day. satellites and satraps!

Microsoft is offering buyouts? I remember when my old employer did that back in about 2016. If I'd been prepared to retire then, I'd have grabbed it. They told us the package included assistance in finding a new job. I was the only one who asked, "What about if you want to relocate?" The people running the seminar looked at me as if I had two heads -- as if nobody would ever consider leaving Da Swamp.

Anyway! Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

65 "AI, can you fire 60,000 people for me?"

"OK. You're fired. 59,999 to go."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:55 AM (aKiSo)

66 They'll happily consider letting go sixty thousand people to try to make ends meet.

But they'll never consider axing the hundred odd people who created the situation where sixty thousand people had to be let go.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 05:59 AM (aKiSo)

67 Happy Thursday, everyone. Time to share a nice story.

Dad got his disabled veteran plates and he and mom were having a tough time installing the front one. They finally ended up at the local AAA office. The kid working at the repair department asked if he could help. Once mom explained what was going on, he and brought out Allen Wrenches and put on the new plate in the front. Mom asked him what she owed and he said no charge.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 06:03 AM (BpO1e)

68 Oh, my problem with time.gov vanished on its own. I checked my laptop at the coffee shop; still the same problem. The site worked fine on a library computer. Then, on my third refresh of the site (Command + R on a Mac), the actual times came back; same for my desktop. And so they have remained. Odd.

I did call up Spectrum and got their 1 Gb speed package, 2x my current setup, for $40/month less than I'm paying now. They're shipping me the modem/router; should be easy to hook up. Then I'll bring the old unit to one of their local offices. The lady I spoke with was in Kansas and was very sharp. A major improvement over customer "service" with the old firm, Cox.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

69 But they'll never consider axing the hundred odd people who created the situation where sixty thousand people had to be let go.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Sort of like "We'll do everything in our power to hold onto good people except give them more money."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 06:04 AM (BpO1e)

70 Temp is 64-68 F. depending who you ask, humidity up but little wind. Good workout conditions. Of course, the motivation has to be found and wrestled into compliance. Maybe I need a trap like those "spay and release" devices you use on feral cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 06:12 AM (wzUl9)

71 I told my children that they need to be "exploited" by the enterprise. If they are not producing more than what they are being paid, the enterprise will fail and they will lose their jobs.

The only people that are not exploited are govt. workers. In most cases, they are paid more than they are worth.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 06:20 AM (LOvBA)

72 But they'll never consider axing the hundred odd people who created the situation where sixty thousand people had to be let go.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Sort of like "We'll do everything in our power to hold onto good people except give them more money."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 06:04 AM (BpO1e)

Funny how it quickly comes on the heels of this:

The Trump administration suspended Microsoft and several other major tech firms from a U.S. green-card sponsorship program on October 8, 2026, alleging misuse of employment-based visa programs while protecting American jobs. Microsoft was also the largest filer of PERM applications, the first step in the permanent labor certification process, according to Labor Department data.

- DDG AI

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 06:21 AM (dK+Kv)

73 Imagine the future where the kitchen-table political issues include bitching about the price of ~~gas~~ oxygen in space.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 06:22 AM (LOvBA)

74 mornin yall. How long can that EV truck provide 10kw? An hour? Or 1kw for 10 hours. And then you have a dead battery and can't go anywhere. At least a 10k generator can have fuel on site for a week or more.

You can buy three 3600w battery packs with 15amp inverters for about $3k. They can even be recharged from a vehicle with an internal combustion engine. One that can go get more fuel instead of sitting their like a brick.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 06:23 AM (MWfyi)

75 The Trump administration suspended Microsoft and several other major tech firms from a U.S. green-card sponsorship program

"You guys know that we have a LOT of Americans earning Computer Science degrees, right?"

"But we don't want those people! We want the ones who will save us money!"

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 06:27 AM (BpO1e)

76
Amazon is planning to judge engineers by how much they achieve, rather than how much they cost the company.

After a prolonged and heated internal debate and struggle sessions' marathon, Microsoft has concluded that water is wet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2026 06:27 AM (GksGT)

77 You can buy three 3600w battery packs with 15amp inverters for about $3k. They can even be recharged from a vehicle with an internal combustion engine. One that can go get more fuel instead of sitting their like a brick.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 06:23 AM (MWfyi)

You can run minimal house needs off a commodity 7500 W generator for quite a while for comparative pennies.

That Ford rolling structure fire is a solution in search of a prblem.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 29, 2026 06:28 AM (dK+Kv)

78
Microsoft has hit ten quarters in a row of record-breaking revenues.

Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees.

If you want good treatment by a company, be a shareholder.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 06:30 AM (eRlcH)

79 Amazon is planning to judge engineers by how much they achieve, rather than how much they cost the company.

... it is amazing how different tech companies handle the "review process".

The worst are when the entire review process is handled like all the engineers are working in the marketing department .. they give you the objectives of the marketing department and tell you to evaluate yourself based on metrics like company ROI.

Others will express their support (or lack thereof) thru the stock grant program. When you have to be in the top level to get a promotion, it pretty much signals when you might want to be ready to find the door.

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 06:33 AM (gWCxi)

80 @68/Wolfus: "They're shipping me the modem/router"

Before you hook it up, look its model number up at:
https://tinyurl.com/yuhfcwws

If it's got an Intel Puma 5 or 6 chipset, you probably don't want it. Intel Puma 7 might be okay, but I'd lean towards asking for a modem on their compatibility list that had a Broadcom chipset.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 29, 2026 06:35 AM (O7YUW)

81
Old time hymn- from the 1770's, "Rock of Ages":

Soon to be updated, when the space junk begins auguring in, to "Rock of Ages, Dropped On Me"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2026 06:36 AM (GksGT)

82 If you want good treatment by a company, be a shareholder.

... you can own millions of dollars worth of stock in stome of these hi tech firms and still be an owner of only 1/1,000,000,000 of the company.

Besides, how did that work for Steve Jobs (in the beginning)

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 06:37 AM (gWCxi)

83 Congratulations to the Brewers! Great team playing great baseball! The silly announcers kept calling it "throwback" baseball because they don't strike out and don't hit home runs, they play great defense a d run the bases well.

At the end of the game, the manager hugged his first baseman and said to him,

“You’re gonna be a rich fucker. Just remember when you’re on that horse shit Yankee team and you’re all playing for yourselves….just remember this is way we used to do it”

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 06:37 AM (OuHuW)

84 Hmm. The Daily Mail this morning:

"wild fairy penguin populations face increasing pressures from climate change."

This may be ok. Who the hell wants a bunch of wild fairy penguins around?

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 06:38 AM (MWfyi)

85 66 sums the problem up in a nutshell.

now multiply by hundreds of thousands of organizations across the country (and don't forget the gummint!) and see another thing that is driving our civilization to the brink.

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 06:38 AM (VyBeY)

86 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

87
Amazon is planning to judge engineers by how much they achieve, rather than how much they cost the company.

*gasps!*

This is revolutionary. What will the MBAs say? Hitherto, employees are only a cost center. By accepting a paycheck, engineers are stealing from shareholders.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 06:40 AM (eRlcH)

88 huh, Brewers won the Series, then? yay.

there will be joy in many towns in Wisconsin today!

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 06:42 AM (VyBeY)

89

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2026 06:43 AM (D7VIl)

90 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 29, 2026 06:43 AM (FAxhF)

91
Wild fairy penguins? Cross dressers all. (Are they the diseased detritus from yet another Kathleen Kennedy "Swap Their Genders and Make It Gaaaaay" reboot -- of "Happy Feet", perhaps?)

It's the wild feral penguins that'll shiv you when you're otherwise distracted.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2026 06:44 AM (GksGT)

92 Has anybody noticed that "Mission Statements" have fallen by the wayside. At least pretty much.

They all read something like ..

"Customer Delight Thru Continuous Improvement"

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 06:44 AM (gWCxi)

93 Elke Sommer has passed away. She was born in Berlin in 1940. I did not know that.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 06:45 AM (MWfyi)

94
They all read something like ..

"Customer Delight Thru Continuous Improvement"
Posted by: SMOD

Slap "Valued" in front of of "Customer" and you'll arrive at the punchline to THAT joke.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2026 06:48 AM (GksGT)

95 Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2026 06:03 AM (BpO1e

That is a nice story. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 06:49 AM (JrHfD)

96 A nice school bus driver story. "Sunny Skyz" story:

https://tinyurl.com/ykdxdkak

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 06:53 AM (JrHfD)

97 A major improvement over customer "service" with the old firm, Cox.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

Two tin cans and a length of string would be an improvement over Cox(suckers).

Don't know that Spectrum is any better. It took two months for them to rewire from the street, but at least I got a fresh sidewalk from it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 06:54 AM (1Ff7Z)

98 Elke Sommer has passed away. She was born in Berlin in 1940. I did not know that.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 06:45 AM (MWfyi)
=====

I only knew her from Gene Rayburn swooning on Match Game.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

99
The silly announcers kept calling it "throwback" baseball because they don't strike out and don't hit home runs, they play great defense a d run the bases well.

This is the problem with the Yankees. Their team is built around two pillars: hitting home runs and striking opponents out. If they can't do that, they can't hit for contact, move from station to station, run the bases or field the ball.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 06:57 AM (eRlcH)

100 It's become very easy for "legacy" media outlets to tell bald faced lies and get no pushback.
———

Except, they are now loss leaders, nobody under 55 years watches, and nobody believes anything they say. I use them, if at all, as a contrary indicator.
===

Especially on local TV news, where I find the purest distillation of the Current Message.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 06:58 AM (RIvkX)

101 I'd lean towards asking for a modem on their compatibility list that had a Broadcom chipset.

... when Hoc Tan bought LSI, it had cornered the market on Fax/Modem chips (as the market had shrumk so much) expecially with HP ALL-In_one devices. The margins (his minimum is 40% or you're fired) were damn good, but Hoc Tan wanted much more, so he told HP he was doubling the price, so HP revived Conexant.

Posted by: SMOD at October 29, 2026 06:59 AM (gWCxi)

102 SpaceX has told the FAA it is planning for 10,000 launches per year. (WCCFTech)

That's... A lot.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Just from the one Starbase, he clarified on X.

Posted by: SciVo at October 29, 2026 06:59 AM (ke3zm)

103 Our local newspaper asks:

"Can Donald Trump run for president in 2028?"

A deep dive by top journalists reveals that no, Donald Trump can not run for President again. Give those guys a Pulitzer or something.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)

104 JJS.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 07:04 AM (NcvvS)

105 JJS.
Posted by: Nazdar at October 29, 2026 07:04 AM (NcvvS)

Already?! I haven't even finished all of my Halloween candy!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 07:05 AM (1Ff7Z)

106 You can run minimal house needs off a commodity 7500 W generator for quite a while for comparative pennies.

Inverter generator, which doesn't run at 3600RPM ALL THE TIME, of that class 1-2 gallons per hour. Some people use/store ethanol free gasoline since ethanol destroys small engines and their fuel lines. So what? $4/gallon? 24 hours, not doing laundry, not doing dishes, not taking long showers, not running the A/C—unless its a variable speed, LED lighting...

Still going to be a whole lot more expensive than a utility bill on a per/day basis, but yes, cheaper than an EV truck.

Ford did make a gasoline hybrid that people in Texas, during the Freeze-Out of Feb-2021 were using to power their homes for the week of intermittent (at best) power.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 07:08 AM (pUU4E)

107 103, yeah, wow, deep-think rocket surgeons, every one of 'em ...

I say that the law intends a limit of two terms consecutively ... the debacle of 2020 interrupted the series, so he is indeed entitled to run in 2028.

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 29, 2026 07:09 AM (VyBeY)

108 SpaceX has told the FAA it is planning for 10,000 launches per year.

Could you imagine their fuel bill?

Falcon-9:

• 350-380 metric tons of LOX
• 120-150 metric tons of RP-1 kerosene (40k-50k gallons)
• 500 metric tons of propellant

Falcon Heavy: 1300-1500 metric tons
Starship: > 4500 metric tons (based on load-out)

Posted by: Community Notes at October 29, 2026 07:13 AM (+4Cf6)

109 >>>SpaceX has told the FAA it is planning for 10,000 launches per year. (WCCFTech)

Lunches. They said "lunches."

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 07:29 AM (odBC9)

Wednesday Night ONT - October 28, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order. JQ has the bar keys, so be nice.

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 optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

[Top photo: Half price pumpkins before Halloween at Home Depot? Sign of the end times for sure.]

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ONT Debate Society

I know what you're thinking: "It is almost Halloween and I have opinions on candy. Wouldn't it be great if there was somewhere on the interweb that I could defend the honor of my favorites and rain scorn on those with incorrect opinions on their favorites?" Yeah...anyway, I gathered all the names of all the candy I could think of or find on the interweb and put them into a virtual randomizer. The results are below.

1) Reese's Pieces - after Mars turned down the product placement opportunity for M&Ms, ET made Reece's Pieces famous in the 1982 film. They had only been introduced in 1978. The candy color mix is reportedly a mix of orange (50%), brown (25%), and yellow (25%).

2) Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - these consistently rank at or near the top by sales volume and revenue. They are the top candy by ounces sold and the top seller in 40 of 51 states plus Washington, D.C. Pretty good for a candy that was created in 1928. Remember the famous commercial: "You got chocolate in my peanut butter!/ You got peanut butter in my chocolate!"

3) Baby Ruth - Snickers is the top selling candy bar in the US but Baby Ruth is the plucky underdog with a loyal following. The official company claim is that it was named after Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of President Grover Cleveland. Others have plausibly claimed it was inspired by Babe Ruth, the baseball player.

Baby Ruth bars are similar to Goo Goo Clusters from Nashville. Baby Ruth comes in bar form and Goo Goo Clusters feature more marshmallow. If you like one, you'll likely enjoy the other.

4) Crunch (the bar formerly known as Nestle Crunch) - a Hershey's chocolate bar is good, but adding crisped rice makes the "crunch." The origin story dates to Nestle's factory in Fulton, New York in 1938 when an employee added Rice Crispies to a batch of chocolate at home. Nestle sold the business line in 2018 (including Crunch, Butterfinger, Nerds, Baby Ruth and others), so that is why it is currently known only as Crunch.

Honorable mention for the Nestle Alpine White Chocolate bar with almonds which (I think) was the first widely sold white chocolate candy bar. The interweb says it was discontinued in 1994.

5) Twizzlers - The National Licorice Company was based in Brooklyn, New York. It was formed in 1902 by the merger of Young & Smylie (itself founded in Brooklyn in 1845) with two other licorice makers. Twizzlers were originally introduced in 1929 as black licorice. Fruit-flavored versions (especially strawberry and cherry) were added in the 1960s and eventually overtook black licorice as the best-sellers. The classic red "Twists" most people picture today are strawberry-flavored and do not contain actual licorice extract. Hershey acquired ownership in 1977 which gave Twizzlers marketing and distribution muscle.

6) M&Ms - milk chocolate M&Ms were introduced in 1941 and still outsell peanut M&Ms which were introduced in 1954. M&Ms does not publish enough specifics to know the breakdown between them. M&M stands for Mars & Murrie. The name comes from the two men who created the candy: Forrest Mars Sr. (son of Mars company founder Frank C. Mars) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey Chocolate president William F.R. Murrie). Mars bought out Murrie's share around 1949 (war-time chocolate rationing ended and candy sales and distribution grew). The single printed "m" on each piece was added in 1950.

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I asked the interweb for well known local candies in the US. Can anyone confirm these?

Arizona - Cactus Candy - Pink gummies made with prickly pear cactus juice by the long-running Cactus Candy Company.

California - Abba-Zaba - Thick vanilla taffy with peanut butter center (Annabelle Candy Co.)

Florida - Coconut Patties - Chocolate-covered shredded coconut (Anastasia Confections and others)

Idaho - Idaho Spud - Cocoa marshmallow center, chocolate coating, coconut; potato-shaped bar from Idaho Candy Co. (Boise, since 1918 ).

Iowa - Twin Bing - Cherry cream balls coated in peanut-chocolate "hash" (Palmer Candy Co.)

Kansas - Valomilk - Chocolate cups filled with runny marshmallow cream

Kentucky - Blue Monday - Thin chocolate-covered pulled cream (taffy-like) from Ruth Hunt Candies.

Louisiana - Pralines - Classic pecan-and-sugar confections

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Mandatory Maiden

I recently heard someone the interweb suggest that "Caught Somewhere in Time" was a good introduction to Iron Maiden for a newbie. I can't find the video, so I can't validate the rationale but I think it was something along the lines that the song echoes a lot of signature Maiden tempo changes and galloping bass line. The subject matter is also less aggressive than other Maiden songs. Yes, it is a little more synth and a little less gritty than earlier work and it is a lengthy piece, but interesting suggestion. If I was asked, I probably would have gone with "Wasted Years."

What would you suggest? Remember - the question is not the best, most well-known or most typical but the best introduction for a beginner.

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called bigstackD casting. A recurring theme of this feature is my endless fascination that a relatively niche interest - if done well - can find and sustain an audience. Tonight's channel is a great example. It is a YouTube channel dedicated to showing recovery and casting from scrap metal. That's it.

This is one guy in Australia that dumpster dives and visits the scrap yard for trash to melt. He melts almost anything and casts copper, brass, aluminium, silver, and more. Sometimes the end result is a coin or bar. Other times the end result is sculpture.

The intrigue each week is seeing scrap like a compressor or outboard motor or motorcycle and then seeing how much metal he can recover from it. Some lots are things like padlocks, aluminum cans, and bullet casings. He shows each project but keeps track over time as well.

Zero commentary or graphics. No music. All sounds - including the furnace - are natural. He has 1.56 million subscribers and video views in the hundreds of thousands and millions.

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Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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Old school deep cut AC/DC for the big ONT finish:

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1 Now, Smackwater Jack
He bought a shotgun
'Cause he was in the mood
For a little confrontation

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 10:00 PM (jU8k8)

2 Jeepers

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:01 PM (yEz+x)

3 Christmas candy is displacing Halloween candy on the store shelves. Of course, trees and decor have been up for a couple of weeks now.

Looked everywhere and couldn't find a turkey tree. Such a mad rush from trick or treat to ho ho ho.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 28, 2026 10:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 Hello Mr. REX!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:02 PM (96kpa)

5 4 Hello Mr. REX!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:02 PM
***
Howdy COMM!

Posted by: TRex - half price pumpkin dino at October 28, 2026 10:03 PM (XfIK1)

6 Pittsburgh Scanner
South Side. South 14th Street. Caller says an ex-employee is on scene and throwing around slabs of concrete.

Firing Bruce Banner wasn't such a good move, guys.

Posted by: mikeski smash at October 28, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)

7 Only a fool pays list price for a pumpkin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 10:04 PM (vBZcw)

8 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 28, 2026 10:04 PM (sAmhv)

9 Favorite candy bar is the $100,000 Bar later changed to the 100 Grand Bar .

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 10:04 PM (Ti9vn)

10 Man, wheelchair man proves that you can achieve your dreams of being a thief even if you're crippled! Wonder if he's in league with ATM Man? Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 28, 2026 10:05 PM (aJQbY)

11 Snickers, Miley Way etc, are tasting worse to me. Very plasticky or waxy.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 28, 2026 10:05 PM (Vvh2V)

12 A lot of these mainstream candies that used to be chocolate are no longer chocolate. They are "chocolatey".
And the cacao butter is now palm oil or whatever.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 10:05 PM (88C+u)

13
Judge Carter has DENIED DOJ's request for a TRO requiring California to segregate mail ballots associated with approximately 20,000 registered voters whom federal officials suspect are noncitizens.

Back to the Ninth Circuit, presumably.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 10:06 PM (mmrXZ)

14 Today was very long, very tiring... but the kids were good, mostly, and at the Trunk or Treat at church, some of my students recognized me!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 28, 2026 10:07 PM (aJQbY)

15 The Marathon Bar was also good.

You can tell I'm a chocolate/caramel combo fan.

Favorite candies are Turtles.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 10:07 PM (Ti9vn)

16
I remember Abba-Zabas. Like most taffy, it could pull your teeth out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 10:07 PM (mmrXZ)

17 Favorite candy bar is the $100,000 Bar later changed to the 100 Grand Bar .
Posted by: polynikes
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This is the way.
Thanks for the ONT Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at October 28, 2026 10:08 PM (u6hXB)

18 Good evening, y’all! Crazy day.

Thank you, TRex! Now to go read the scanner.

Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2026 10:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 Candy! Yum!

Thanks for the ONT, TRex!

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:09 PM (rdVOm)

20 Fucking Arabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5cXss5cPg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 10:09 PM (jU8k8)

21 Only name candy on that list I know is Abba-Zaba. I've seen cocoanut patties before, and I know what pralines are, but none of the others.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 28, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

22 >>Favorite candy bar is the $100,000 Bar later changed to the 100 Grand Bar .

Knuckle bump.

Bought two bags of minis for Halloween among a bunch of other candy knowing full well I won't get that many kids.

Whatever will I do with all these extra 100 Grand Bars?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:10 PM (viF8m)

23 Iowa - Twin Bing - Cherry cream balls coated in peanut-chocolate "hash" (Palmer Candy Co.)

Can confirm! The plant is in Sioux City and at least one Twin Bing is in every Casey's I've ever been to (which is a lot).

Posted by: pookysgirl, still part of the Casey's Cartel at October 28, 2026 10:10 PM (Wt5PA)

24 OK. I confess. I'm a candy corn girl. I know...cheap stuff...can't help it...only for Halloween though..
🎃

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:10 PM (96kpa)

25 Reese's was acquired by Hersheys in the early 1960s. Over time Hersheys substituted cheap synthetic ingredients for the original recipe. "Chocolate compound covering" anyone?

They got called out for this a few years ago by one of the Reese family. The Hershey CEO sheepishly admitted the crappification of the product and vowed to restore the original standards.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 10:11 PM (vBZcw)

26 "well known local candies in the US" ....

Almond Roca.....still made in Tacoma!

Posted by: Rex B at October 28, 2026 10:11 PM (sdSI9)

27 ONT Debate Society

Kit-Kat.

With over 400 flavors, past and present, they must have one you like.

Waiting for them to arrive from Japan is the hard part.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

28 OK. I confess. I'm a candy corn girl. I know...cheap stuff...can't help it...only for Halloween though..
🎃
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:10 PM (96kpa)

Candy corn and pumpkins from Brach's. Good from September first through Thanksgiving day.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 28, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

29 24 OK. I confess. I'm a candy corn girl. I know...cheap stuff...can't help it...only for Halloween though..

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I find that classic candy corn is the most polarizing of candies. Many love it (including me) but lots of people despise it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 10:12 PM (vBZcw)

30 Well, I found something AI is good at. I asked it to list occurrences where a gray Hyundai Tuscan was used to steal ATM machines and had a NJ Plate.

Besides the Pittsburgh one....another occurrence took place in Fairfield NJ (unsuccessful). And, another in Worcester, Mass. Same type vehicle. NJ plates...and they got away that time.

Apparently, this is an organized crime issue. And, they use stolen Hyundai's because they don't have an engine immobilizer (thus a walk in the park to steal).

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:13 PM (dIske)

31 When I bought candy as a kid, I liked to get Baby Ruth candy bars. I really liked them. But they were also bigger than the other candy bars for the same price.
I was cheap even back then.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 28, 2026 10:14 PM (Lo97M)

32 >>OK. I confess. I'm a candy corn girl. I know...cheap stuff...can't help it...only for Halloween though..

No shame. I like them too but only around this time of the year. There's a reason they are still made despite what the candy snobs say. I even like the occasional circus peanut. They still make them too for some reason despite absolutely nobody liking them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:15 PM (viF8m)

33 Neighbor texted me yesterday, that they're going hunting this weekend so their boys won't be treat or treating this weekend.

I'd already bought candy: special stuff for the boys, plus a bag of mixed goodies for anyone else that may show up.

So, I bagged a bunch of it and took over to the mom today. She said the boys were slightly bummed about missing out on candy, although they were excited to go hunting, and will doubtless appreciate the treats.

Wonderful neighbors. Great people.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:15 PM (rdVOm)

34 Cinnamon Imperials. So simple. So perfect.

They do not seem to sell them much in stores anymore. You can get them on Amazon for like a 2lb bag. They are just as good as brachs.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

35 Marines birthday is Nov 2.

One year, he asked for a peanut butter cup.

I found a recipe, and a false bottom shallow scalloped edge pan and made one. Melted good chocolate, made my own peanut butter cream. It was awesome. And quite large. Suffice to say, it was enough for the party.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:17 PM (yEz+x)

36 I'd already bought candy: special stuff for the boys, plus a bag of mixed goodies for anyone else that may show up.

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Toss some wax lips into the bag. Scares the hell out of the deer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 10:17 PM (vBZcw)

37 Apparently, this is an organized crime issue. And, they use stolen Hyundai's because they don't have an engine immobilizer (thus a walk in the park to steal).
Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:13 PM (dIske)

This is a situation that cries out for "bait" ATM's loaded with a cylinder of poison gas. Unplug it from the wall, topple it over into a car trunk, and 30 seconds later, the gas is released.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:17 PM (Asc1p)

38 Pittsburgh Scanner
Police indicate that this might be a the work of a serial ATM thief. A grey Hyundai Tuscan with a New Jersey plate.

Just the thing you'd expect raiders to be driving.

Posted by: mikeski-wan kenobi at October 28, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

39 Caller says that there is a table setup by an organization asking for donations. Caller says that they are making people who walk past them feel bad.
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Al Sharpton Sidewalk Shakedown?

Posted by: scampydog at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (u6hXB)

40 Sorry I'm late, the biology lab needed help. Apparently somebody misplaced some chicken named Abby's brain. We still hadn't found it when I left.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (PMi3m)

41 I like Canada Mints. They went obsolete and then some New England custom company made them. Now obsolete again. I am disappoint.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 28, 2026 10:19 PM (Jr+re)

42 Can confirm coconut patties in FL. Pralines are everywhere in the south, milk, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, pecans. And they are Pray- lines. You South Carolina people are wrong. lol.

Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

43 They still make them too for some reason despite absolutely nobody liking them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:15 PM (viF8m)

This, too, is the story of Peeps.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 28, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

44 Firefox is begging users to come back, with a 2000s nostalgia campaign.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 10:19 PM (88C+u)

45 T Rex does it again! Great ONT!

Those folks in Pittsburgh are something else! The dispatchers must have a daily contest for the most unusual call...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 28, 2026 10:20 PM (D/6p1)

46 Always have a small bowl of candy corn out this time of year. The extent of my seasonal decorating. Used to carve 2 pumpkins and answer the door on Halloween, but have become lazy.

KitKat fans would love going into a Japanese convenience store (Family Mart, Lawson). A zillion flavors.

Years ago I got shikwasa-flavored gummies on Okinawa (another east Asian citrus variety). Fantastic. Have never been able to find them on mainland Japan again. Or online.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 10:20 PM (U/Byj)

47 I always liked Bun candy - I haven't seen it for awhile but I think it is still being sold.

Candy corn and pumpkins are an abomination. Circus peanuts, peeps, all things marshmallow, and licorice of color too.

Ptooie!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 10:20 PM (fO5H9)

48 Twix or Kit Kats for me as favorites. Hated Almond Joy.

We used to give out normal size bars and a huge bowlful or two. Very popular. I got tired of kids taller than me showing up with a lame pillowcase. Plus kids and parents driving up the mountain for the good stuff. We are done.

Most of the kids on the street are older now and we are bah humbug. Turn our porch light out and hide with most of the lights off watching tv til 8pm.

We do give stuff to our grands as we love them...not much candy, though as they get tons trick or treating.

It's been awhile since Halloween was on a Saturday. This one will be rocking! I remember one in college and always, always a kegger and total insanity. No one died, dropped a pitcher of beer, or harfed at my keggers. I don't know how but it's true.

I don't put out our fall wreaths til Nov. 1st due to the potential thug issue being mad at me for not answering the doorbell. We did our part for a decade, plus 30yrs in FL, and are retired from stranger's children.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:21 PM (hzuYO)

49 31 When I bought candy as a kid, I liked to get Baby Ruth candy bars.

Come on...you liked throwing them in the pool...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:21 PM (96kpa)

50 39 Caller says that there is a table setup by an organization asking for donations. Caller says that they are making people who walk past them feel bad.
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Al Sharpton Sidewalk Shakedown?
Posted by: scampydog at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (u6hXB)
_____________________

I, actually, look forward to that nonsense, because it's so easy to wind those people up. They always have one outside the local Cabela's. Sometimes it's anti-gun. Sometimes it's anti-hunting. Sometimes it's something that has nothing to do with that place. But, I seem to be able to always push the right buttons to get them yelling while I cooly stand there smiling having accomplished my mission.

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:22 PM (dIske)

51 My grandmother made almond roca that was better than store-bought... hers was always *fresh* and the toffee would just melt in your mouth.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

52 >>This, too, is the story of Peeps.

We were young once, and innocent.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:22 PM (viF8m)

53 Come on...you liked throwing them in the pool.

Doodie!!!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 28, 2026 10:22 PM (Jr+re)

54 Howdy Dino! Somewhere in Time (the album) was what got me hooked on Maiden. Wasted Years was my favorite track, followed by Alexander the Great.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 28, 2026 10:22 PM (K3aCg)

55 Candy corn>>>>>Good n Plenty.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:23 PM (yEz+x)

56 31 When I bought candy as a kid, I liked to get Baby Ruth candy bars.

Come on...you liked throwing them in the pool...🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:21 PM (96kpa)

(Jump to top of page)

Canadian counterpart to the Baby Ruth is the Oh Henry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Asc1p)

57 33 Wonderful neighbors. Great people. JQ

Lovely!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:24 PM (96kpa)

58 Good evening everyone! Thanks for your ONT patronage.

Posted by: TRex - trick or treat dino at October 28, 2026 10:25 PM (XfIK1)

59 COMM!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:25 PM (yEz+x)

60 These got mentioned twice a few ONTs ago, but Clark Bars are pretty great, too, for a more old-school candy bar. Like a Butterfinger, but lighter. Won't pull out your cavity fillings.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

61 JQ,

I so appreciate your support, and Blonde and tcn support the other night. Ettes are the best. And not dinner whores.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:26 PM (yEz+x)

62 One of me grandfathers used to make Molasses, caramel taffy with home grown walnuts. Then he'd store it in the fridge. I was too young to realize how funny it was at the time, but he kept a ball peen hammer in the kitchen utensil drawer to divvy out pieces. You had to let it sit for a while to soften (which is when we caught up). Very good stuff.

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)

63 Sorry I'm late, the biology lab needed help. Apparently somebody misplaced some chicken named Abby's brain. We still hadn't found it when I left.
Posted by: tankdemon

It's just a brain. How far could it get on its own? That doesn't sound normal.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

64 Good sized thunderstorm rolled through here in N WI this evening.

Unusual for this time of year. Thankful it wasn't snow.

Posted by: davidt at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (Q+gd/)

65 We had zero trick-or-treaters last year, which was unusual. So in the spirit of hope, I got a couple small bags of M&Ms for the lil' goblins this year. If no one shows up, the goodies will be gobbled in-house.

I prefer my chocolate plain, unless it is Enstrom's Toffee, which is glorious! Thankfully, they ship world wide.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (D/6p1)

66 In the way-back time of my youth, you could get a 25 cent Baby Ruth that was HUGE (to my rural senses)! It took a coupla sittings to finish it.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (Jr+re)

67
I so appreciate your support, and Blonde and tcn support the other night. Ettes are the best. And not dinner whores.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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

You were so right.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (mmrXZ)

68 "I fully support your right to abort a child up until the moment of birth, provided you accept the duty to kill your own offspring if they grow up to be a criminal, or a tranny, or a Communist."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (Asc1p)

69 My favorite candy bars are Zero, Hershey's Special dark chocolate bar, and Chuckles, which are gum drops. The last time I bought Reese's Peanut Butter Cups they were awful. The filling had almost no peanut butter flavor. I do like licorice, red, black, and Allsorts.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

70 My favourite is Coffee Crisp.

What bugs me though is how much the bars have shrunk in the last 20 years.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 28, 2026 10:30 PM (O7YUW)

71 Nurse--

::fistbump::

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:30 PM (rdVOm)

72 Dark chocolate >>> any other chocolate.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 28, 2026 10:30 PM (Jr+re)

73 Payday candy bars were good. I haven't seen one in a long time.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 28, 2026 10:30 PM (Lo97M)

74 That was a nice pitch

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:31 PM (yEz+x)

75
{{{OH my goodness! Nurse!}}}

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:32 PM (96kpa)

76 One of the highlights of the Hershey "Factory" tour is that you can design your own candy bar, which they will make during the tour. Then you can design your own label.

It gets rapped, and likely never makes it to the car.

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

77 Haribo sugar-free Gummy Bears FTW. Can't get enough of 'em!

Posted by: joe biden at October 28, 2026 10:34 PM (Asc1p)

78 I saw a Chinese with a Werewolf Menu in his hand
And his friend showed up and they got the eggroll

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 10:34 PM (/+uur)

79 @NBCNews

Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.
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Does NOBODY at NBC have ANY journalistic integrity? Lol, yeah I know--that made you laugh! Just the same, let's explore the errors in this less-than-100-characters tweet:

* "Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away...": You're NBC FRICKING NEWS--are you pretending that your entire organization can't perform accurate and detailed research regarding something "more than 4,000 miles away"? What the hell? From AI:

AI Overview
The longest road distance between two cities/points in the contiguous (continental) United States stretches approximately 3,689 miles...

So NBC basically says that if it didn't take place in the continental United States that THEY aren't competent to report on it and nobody else can either???

* "...the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media". How could a story that isn't even 36 hours old be declared "baseless" by a supposed media outlet?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 10:34 PM (Cjcf6)

80 I always liked the maple sugar candies, but they're not really "hand out" candies and they're difficult to find.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 28, 2026 10:35 PM (CHHv1)

81 For the last few years, I've only bought candy that I probably won't eat. LOL!

All of this year's leftovers will go to the staff at hubby's nursing home.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:35 PM (rdVOm)

82 "Ettes are the best" is one of the entries in my big book of life knowledge stuff. A recent entry is "Do not make Nurse Ratched angry."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 28, 2026 10:37 PM (CHHv1)

83 It gets rapped, and likely never makes it to the car.
Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

rapped?

Orson's Morsels. Dey's da bomb!

Chew 'em, crunch 'em, all day long.

Feed 'em to your ho's and bitches,

They won't know which one is which's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:37 PM (Asc1p)

84 The Cheeseheads are gonna do it. Sad for the Rays

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at October 28, 2026 10:38 PM (F3QBk)

85 No love for the New England Confectionary Company Wafer?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 10:39 PM (PMi3m)

86 Two big omissions in the candy area. Red Hots (and their big cousin fireballs). I think Ferrara candy makes them.
And the entire New England Confectionary Compant. NECCo. Necco Wafers, of course, but also Canada Mints (white/peppermint,.and blue(?)/wintergreen), Waleco Bars, and some others.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 28, 2026 10:39 PM (sl73Y)

87
Nonpareils.

That is all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 10:40 PM (eRlcH)

88 Caller says that there is a table setup by an organization asking for donations. Caller says that they are making people who walk past them feel bad.

It's probably those Girl Scout thugs trying to intimidate people into buying their cookies.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 28, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

89 No love for the New England Confectionary Company Wafer?
Posted by: tankdemon

No. None at all. Sintered talcum powder with artificial flavorings... bleh.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

90 I always liked Bun candy

The maple ones are the best.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 28, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

91 Applets and Cotletts suck.

Supposed to like local stuff. They suck. Horrid. Give me PTSD.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:42 PM (yEz+x)

92 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are the best easy access candy available in the United States.

A sneaky second choice is this: Buy a Hershey Bar, and then spread a generous portion of a quality peanut butter atop it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 10:42 PM (Cjcf6)

93 85 No love for the New England Confectionary Company Wafer?
Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 10:39 PM (PMi3m)

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They sell Halloween candies in the fall and calcium antacid tablets the rest of the year, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 28, 2026 10:43 PM (vBZcw)

94 77 Haribo sugar-free Gummy Bears FTW. Can't get enough of 'em!
Oh, joe...you poor, demented fella...🙄...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:43 PM (96kpa)

95 A recent entry is "Do not make Nurse Ratched angry."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

If we are being honest here, we could expand that to include ALL 'Ettes.

Of course, after they throat punch you, they will ask if you've smartened up and would you now like to head to the bar.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 10:44 PM (fO5H9)

96 Applets and Cotletts suck.

Supposed to like local stuff. They suck. Horrid. Give me PTSD.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:42 PM (yEz+x)

Ivar's Clam Crunchies: empty clam shells filled with marshmallow and wasabi.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:44 PM (Asc1p)

97 I missed whatever happened last night, I am sorry, Nurse. It’s not fun being on the receiving end of others behaving badly.

Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2026 10:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

98 >>I always liked the maple sugar candies, but they're not really "hand out" candies and they're difficult to find.

Elvis and I visited my mom today. That's one of the things we talked about. When my folks had a farm in Vermont the farms were too spread out for trick or treating so they had a halloween party for the kids at one of the farms and the favorite candy was local maple sugar candies.

They aren't difficult to find in Vermont. I miss less exciting times.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:44 PM (viF8m)

99 My ex husband used to call cat turds in the litter box “kitty roca.”

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:45 PM (yEz+x)

100 >>My ex husband used to call cat turds in the litter box “kitty roca.”

Me too!

*burp*

Posted by: The dog at October 28, 2026 10:46 PM (rdVOm)

101 My ex husband used to call cat turds in the litter box “kitty roca.”
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:45 PM (yEz+x)

Jill won't let me eat those, the bitch.

Posted by: joe biden at October 28, 2026 10:47 PM (Asc1p)

102 In junior high and HS at school, 50 in each class, total of 200 in HS, we had a "store" for recess. We could buy candy and Coke and other stuff. I think pencils but no one bought those.

A friend in junior high got a Reese's Peanut Butter cup with a worm in it and I haven't eaten one since. She also used to buy a packet of peanuts to put in her Coke. I never figured that out. I got a Coke and chips.

A junor high or HS kid ran the place behind a half door and were fine, upstanding students, unlike me.

Special Ed shared the junior high bldg with us, which made it more exciting.

One guy who had googly eyes rode the school bus with us. Older and pervy. Lived on a chicken farm and often had chicken poop on his arm on the bus, which was hideous.

My friend's older college brother drove one year and Charles had to sit on the front seat behind the driver. He still tried to look up our dresses and we'd yell at Jimmy (driver) and he'd wearily tell Charles to turn around. It was hard to tell which eyeball was actually looking cause they rolled around.

I'm sorry this tangented out of the candy bar discussion. Reese's cups brought the memories back.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:47 PM (hzuYO)

103 Necco Wafers for sure, but never saw Canada Mints. Could be a regional thing.

This thread is making me want some evil sweets. All I have is good Japanese chocolate and some good Alaska Airlines chocolate. Guess I'll survive.

In Japan Kobe (and not just that city) has amazing confectionery companies, usually with German or Russian names. European-style chocolate with Japanese precision and packaging. See's Candy is a big hit there because it's a very different chocolate recipe than Belgian, French or Italian, and of course because it's American, and hard to get. Always the standard gift when visiting.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 10:47 PM (U/Byj)

104 Do kids actually like Necco wafers? I always considered them a poor kid candy...and I loved them! Yep. I was a poor kid...😙

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:48 PM (96kpa)

105
Chunky with raisins is among the cruelest candies ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 10:48 PM (eRlcH)

106 Fucking Chinese

https://tinyurl.com/5n8h7bba

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 10:49 PM (jU8k8)

107 See's Candy is a big hit there because it's a very different chocolate recipe than Belgian, French or Italian, and of course because it's American, and hard to get. Always the standard gift when visiting.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 10:47 PM (U/Byj)

Does Germany have Not See's candy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:50 PM (Asc1p)

108 Great Scanner Night. Bon Scott much appreciated.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 10:50 PM (r2Icn)

109 95 If we are being honest here, we could expand that to include ALL 'Ettes.

Of course, after they throat punch you, they will ask if you've smartened up and would you now like to head to the bar.

Yessir!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:51 PM (96kpa)

110 I had the Koof last fall and my tastebuds are still out of whack. A staffer at dialysis said it took two years for hers to revert to normal. I was a very serious chocoholic but it just doesn't taste right, no matter the form. So I've pretty much given up on it. And, sadly, chocolate isn't the only problem; practically everything tastes not good. On the plus side I've lost enough weight that I had to buy a whole new winter wardrobe.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 28, 2026 10:52 PM (DK5Sh)

111 A niche candy but a monster hit every Christmas in our neighborhood growing up was La Florentine Torrone Candy from Italy.

Dave DiMinno, the route salesman for the only Italian store within 80 miles did a killer business with them.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 10:52 PM (fO5H9)

112 Of course, after they throat punch you, they will ask if you've smartened up and would you now like to head to the bar.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 10:44 PM (fO5H9)

********
Welp. This is surely (Shirley) not about me. Although the throat punch is after the knee to the groin and gouging of eyeballs.

I tried to get the story out of the guy and he wouldn't give names and I gave up. I did ask him to apologize and told him that's what I would do. As far as I know he didn't.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:52 PM (hzuYO)

113 >>Necco Wafers for sure,

Necco stood for the New England Confectionary Company. One of my ex's clients.

She came home after every meeting with Necco wafers. Used them to level tables. They also made those horrid Valentine's Day heart things nobody actually ate.

Nice people though. Very generous to the community.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:53 PM (viF8m)

114 Chunky with raisins is among the cruelest candies ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Paolo, how you say, he smiled whenever their jingle was played:

*Open wide for Chunky*

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 10:53 PM (fO5H9)

115 ...Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.
------

Does NOBODY at NBC have ANY journalistic integrity?

Posted by: Crusader
---

Depends on how you define integrity.
They swing for the other team.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 10:54 PM (jU8k8)

116 See's Candy is a big hit there
Posted by: rhomboid

Does Germany have Not See's candy?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yeah. It's all white chocolate, though.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

117
See's Candy is a big hit there because it's a very different chocolate recipe than Belgian, French or Italian, and of course because it's American, and hard to get. Always the standard gift when visiting.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 10:47 PM (U/Byj)

Does Germany have Not See's candy?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

Holy fvk comment of the week.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 10:56 PM (mmrXZ)

118 The Big Twelve decided to make its life more difficult:

"The Big 12's conduct policy at athletic events will now include an automatic minimum $100,000 fine and a warning after a first confirmed incident. A second incident at the same game will result in an in-game penalty, such as a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty in football or a two-shot technical foul in basketball."

How stupid. We're now affecting the outcome of an athletic event because 1 or 10 or 100 people in the crowd want to shout something that was the not-polite equivalent of "Screw the Mormans"? Really, are entire athletic departments supposed to be on alert about what their crowds might chant?

I can't wait to the completely-unpredictable outcome where a berth in the college football playoffs is more or less determined because 25 college kids chanted something and a penalty or foul was called.

Is EVERYONE in college sports just *retarded*?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 10:56 PM (Cjcf6)

119 Our trick or treaters are hit or miss. The museum behind us does a thing for the kids with candy, so a lot of people just go there.

Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

120 102 I'm sorry this tangented out of the candy bar discussion. Reese's cups brought the memories back.
Darlin' ! What a crazy, wild, and disturbing story!
I love that😆...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:57 PM (96kpa)

121
White chocolate is the negation of chocolate.

Dark chocolate. Semi-sweet. These are real chocolate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 10:57 PM (eRlcH)

122 I used to get Skor bars and Charleston Chews a lot when I was in school, though you can't go wrong with a Hershey bar.

I like melting a full size Hershey bar into heated milk, maybe add a ¼ teaspoon of vanilla extract, to make hot cocoa.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 10:57 PM (PMi3m)

123 My MIL had a 4000 sqft house with Nicos hidden everywhere.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 10:57 PM (/+uur)

124 "Does Germany have Not See's candy?"

Don't know. Japan I think just has one store in Tokyo.

Just before I left the east coast for 'splodier climes, See's had started to rent empty mall store space and have stores open from Black Friday to Christmas. Just pre-packed boxes, not choose-your-own. Imagine they did pretty well. And airports in the west used to have See's kiosks.

The See's factory in SF is near the airport, and even closer to the national cemetery. Some time I'm going to drop by that location on the way to see Nimitz's grave at the cemetery (and Turner's, and Spruance's, and Lockwood's, I think, all together).

Stopped by that factory on a ski trip once and saw a tanker (spotless) pull up and connect a hose to the huge "Milk Chocolate" connection out front.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

125 Candy corn and salted peanuts taste just like a Payday bar..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 28, 2026 10:57 PM (08OqX)

126 No Snowflake tonight.
Rare, but happens.
Winter will be here soon.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 10:58 PM (Sco7b)

127 87
Nonpareils.

That is all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 10:40 PM (eRlcH)
___________________

I'm with you on that. I favor the dark chocolate ones, but I wouldn't turn down the milk chocolate one either. You can keep the butter mint ones. They are a "bridge too far."

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 10:58 PM (dIske)

128 Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 10:58 PM (Sco7b)

129 "Japan's government plans to ask all citizens to stockpile at least three days' worth of food and water in preparation for disasters such as

Godzilllra

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 10:59 PM (/+uur)

130 Send the murderers home
TA fuckin DA
20% drop

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 11:00 PM (/+uur)

131
Do kids actually like Necco wafers? I always considered them a poor kid candy...and I loved them! Yep. I was a poor kid...😙
Posted by: COMountainMarie

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

It's funny, half the candy I pretended to like as a kid, I actually didn't. I ate it because it was frowned upon.

Necco Wafers we played Holy Communion with. Any other Catholic schoolers?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 11:00 PM (mmrXZ)

132 Evening all,

Computer is back up and running.

We have a spacewalk early in the morning.

NASA - ISS Spacewalk #100 - Menon & Kutryk
International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Date: October 29, 2026
Time: 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC, 13:00 CET)

https://youtu.be/jEx83JFP9ng

Posted by: Joyenz at October 28, 2026 11:01 PM (2F0/Y)

133 Necco Wafers we played Holy Communion with.

What did you use for wine?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 28, 2026 11:01 PM (Jr+re)

134 Hey, kid, wanna see somethin' scary?

(Be advised, link to a Siouxsie and the Banshees video that has some moments of intense flashing lights, so epileptic might want to avoid.)

https://youtu.be/ArsWV6LLy3k

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 11:02 PM (PMi3m)

135 It's been cold at night, so Cat has stayed indoors a couple of times. Until he re-discovered his comfy cushy chair on the enclosed back porch. (I folded back the bottom corner of screen on the screen door.)

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:02 PM (rdVOm)

136 All of this year's leftovers will go to the staff at hubby's nursing home.
Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 10:35 PM (rdVOm)

************
You are a sweetheart. For some shifts in hospitals that might serve as dinner for most of the staff.

In the ED someone would make popcorn, put it in a bedpan in a kitchen, and we'd go to town as we passed by. I always liked the vessel chosen.

If an ED doc bought pizza on a horrible night we were like honeybadgers. There was no time for dinner as it was that insane. I look back now and honestly don't know how we did it. I'd still trust any of them with my life or those I loved. It was a great experience for five years and I was honored to be a part of that group. Some saw me years later and about knocked me down with hugs when I appeared to say hi.

It's possibly a little known fact for many that nurses sometimes used to forget to pee it can be so busy til the end of the shift. Bladders? What are they?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:03 PM (hzuYO)

137 Candy corn is great if you're candy-poor and 5 years old.

Grown adults should make better decisions.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

138 Good evening morons und danke Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

139 At Costco today, I noticed a holiday-themed package of soda pop: Cranberry!

Anyone here try it? They weren't offering samples, so I hesitate to buy an 18-pack of unknown. Even though it seems like it'd be tasty...

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

140 Posted by: RandomDave at October 28, 2026 10:07 PM (aJQbY)

It's nice to be recognized in a good way!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 11:05 PM (JrHfD)

141 Worked for a senator from a state that was home base for big candy brands. Holiday season the stuff that came in was amazing. Mail room manager had a system to divvy up the spoils. Between that stuff and the receptions that time of year, you could pretty much live off the land half the time.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 11:05 PM (U/Byj)

142 I liked Necco wafers. I can speak for no one else. An enemy of mine (don't ask) said they were candy's version of "plaid."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 28, 2026 11:05 PM (CHHv1)

143 I regularly visit the places I've worked in the past and throw around slabs of concrete. It's a basic human right!

Posted by: Employee Of The Month at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (EdP2u)

144 Mrs. F. is getting a box of See's Nuts & Chews for her anniversary.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

145 This time of year, Mrs. MKC likes to make a very dangerous form of crack by mixing candy corn and salted peanuts in a bowl. Damn if I can keep from eating fistfuls of it... very comparable to a Salted Nut Roll.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (K3aCg)

146 Life for Tampa Bay here in the ninth.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (yEz+x)

147 134Be advised, link to a Siouxsie and the Banshees video that has some moments of intense flashing lights, so epileptic might want to avoid.)
Too late...my eyes!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (96kpa)

148 >>Candy corn is great if you're candy-poor and 5 years old.

>>Grown adults should make better decisions.

I don't go out of my war to find it. But it takes me back whenever I have some. Always a happy memory.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)

149 144 Mrs. F. is getting a box of See's Nuts & Chews for her anniversary.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Those are really really good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:08 PM (yEz+x)

150 My favorite candy is chocolate with caramel. I like)-Ghirardelli chocolate I don't know if it's been adulterated or not. Still tastes good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 11:10 PM (JrHfD)

151 Life for Tampa Bay here in the ninth.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (yEz+x)

More like death.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 28, 2026 11:10 PM (dK+Kv)

152 GooGoo Clusters, official sponsor of The Grand Ole Opry, or used to be anyhow.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 11:10 PM (LHPAg)

153 I never buy pumpkins. I have a realistic foam plasticky pumpkin I've put on my front step for the last 15 years. Looks real from the road and even up close. Last year the seam came undone and it broke in half. A little exterior wood glue and I'm ready for another 15 years, assuming I live that long.

Posted by: Frugal Freda at October 28, 2026 11:11 PM (EdP2u)

154 One of my uncles was a corporate VP of a company we all know. At Christmas, he'd send Cougar Gold cheese to clients and friends.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:11 PM (rdVOm)

155 The Reese peanut butter cups have changed, for the worse. Used to consume the miniature ones in bundles, now I might eat one now and then.

Probably manufactured in Mexico now, too.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 28, 2026 11:11 PM (4h45B)

156 I think Ghirardelli is still good, and Russell Stover although never great (they over sugar it) at least hasn't got worse.
Lindt is also okay.
No problems with Dove.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:12 PM (88C+u)

157 Texans are so bad the r/texans reddit had to post a special thread for the doomers.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:13 PM (88C+u)

158 131 Necco Wafers we played Holy Communion with. Any other Catholic here...
Yep.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 11:13 PM (96kpa)

159 Brewers win!

Brewers win!

Brewers win!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:13 PM (yEz+x)

160 That's it. Congrats, Brewers and fans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 28, 2026 11:13 PM (dK+Kv)

161 159 Brewers win!

Brewers win!

Brewers win!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:13 PM (yEz+x)

Good for them.
Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 11:14 PM (Sco7b)

162 139 At Costco today, I noticed a holiday-themed package of soda pop: Cranberry!

Anyone here try it? They weren't offering samples, so I hesitate to buy an 18-pack of unknown. Even though it seems like it'd be tasty...
Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:05 PM (rdVOm)
- - - - - - - - - - -
Not a soda pop, but Aldi's has these flavored water bottles. Not the squirt ones, but regular drinks, around 32oz. One's a tropical fruit flavor, and another is cranberry. Both are pretty good, but your mileage may very.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 28, 2026 11:14 PM (4h45B)

163 Brewers win!

Brewers win!

Brewers win!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:13 PM (yEz+x)

My TV feed is so far behind, this comment is how I found out they got they final out.

Posted by: Vendette at October 28, 2026 11:15 PM (N/jk5)

164 They were the Seattle Pilots before they were the Milwaukee Brewers.

And that’s as close as we will ever get.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:15 PM (g4m12)

165 Congratulations to any Milwaukee Brewers fans for theor first World Series win.

Posted by: JTB at October 28, 2026 11:15 PM (yTvNw)

166 147 Too late...my eyes!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 11:07 PM (96kpa)

I very specifically placed the caution before the link in hopes of avoiding such mishaps. I apologize for any resulting harm.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 11:16 PM (PMi3m)

167 Looks real from the road and even up close. Last year the seam came undone and it broke in half. A little exterior wood glue and I'm ready for another 15 years, assuming I live that long.

"We're calling to alert you that your pumpkin's warranty has expired."

Posted by: The Reliable Gourd Warranty Corp. at October 28, 2026 11:16 PM (4Je4D)

168 It's really a win for the entire National League

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

169 *basks in reflected glory*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

170 I really like the Martinelli's Cranberry flavored Sparkling Cider. A holiday favorite here, for those what can't have/don't want alcohol.

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

171 Once the victory parade is over, the countdown to the lockout begins.

Posted by: Vendette at October 28, 2026 11:17 PM (N/jk5)

172 When I bought candy as a kid, I liked to get Baby Ruth candy bars.

Come on...you liked throwing them in the pool...🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 10:21 PM (96kpa)

(Jump to top of page)

Canadian counterpart to the Baby Ruth is the Oh Henry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Asc1p)

You could get Oh Henry bars in the US. Eons ago, when I was still in high school, I remember ringing those up as a cashier. I also remember the Chunky bars with just nuts, in the gold wrapper.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)

173 Sliced my finger putting razor blades in the halloween candy. Still worth it.

Posted by: Sammy the Sociopath at October 28, 2026 11:17 PM (EdP2u)

174 so... Milwaukee winning is historic?
Well done I guess.
I was happy when Houston won, and happier when they didn't get crapped on the second time.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:19 PM (88C+u)

175 At Costco today, I noticed a holiday-themed package of soda pop: Cranberry!

Anyone here try it?
Posted by: JQ

Haven't tried it. Sounds like it would be a decent drink mixer if nothing else. Have a vodka-cranberry with fizz.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:19 PM (VHUov)

176 Mrs. JTB has a bunch of relatives who are Brewers fans. A number of happy texts will be going out tomorrow morning.

Posted by: JTB at October 28, 2026 11:19 PM (yTvNw)

177 Jeepers.

All the “HOW DO YOU FEEEEEEL ?” questions.

Duh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:19 PM (g4m12)

178 Arnold Stang made commercials for Chunky. Who is the Arnold Stang of our day?

Posted by: Stanley Myron Handelman at October 28, 2026 11:20 PM (EdP2u)

179 "Japan's government plans to ask all citizens to stockpile at least three days' worth of food
......

Three day old sushi has got to suck.

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2026 11:20 PM (oq9dX)

180 I'm pretty sure that 50 percent of Idaho Spud bars are sold at the Boise airport to departing travelers who suddenly remember they need to take a gift from Idaho home.

I personally find the Spud bars to be excessively sweet. Perhaps if they made a bacon-wrapped version...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 28, 2026 11:20 PM (x3rPG)

181 A nice thing happened to me yesterday. I was buying a lottery ticket ( which I rarely do expect when it gets very high) I put in the money. It now costs $3.00 and I don't have dollar bills so I put in a $5.00 but had wandered away and forgotten I had extra money. This was 6:00 inthe morning . A man waiting to use the lottery
Found me and said "You have extra money left over on the machine. " I thought that was very honest of it. He could have used it on himself but didn't. I won $5.00 so I hope I might see him again so I can pay him back.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 11:20 PM (JrHfD)

182 All the “HOW DO YOU FEEEEEEL ?” questions

Based on all the crotch adjustments the players do, the honest answer is "itchy"

Posted by: "sweaty" also might work at October 28, 2026 11:22 PM (88C+u)

183 Oh Henry bars would rip out your fillings, if not your teeth.

Posted by: Bonomo Turkish Taffy at October 28, 2026 11:22 PM (EdP2u)

184 so... Milwaukee winning is historic?
Well done I guess.
I was happy when Houston won, and happier when they didn't get crapped on the second time.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:19 PM (88C+u)

First for the franchise (which as Nurse mentioned earlier, was the Seattle Pilots before moving to Milwaukee). The Milwaukee (now Atlanta) Braves won the WS in 1956.

Posted by: Vendette at October 28, 2026 11:23 PM (N/jk5)

185 On the few occasions that I went to Canada, I always made sure to buy extra Crunchie bars to take home with me. I'd like to see those go on sale in the US.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 11:23 PM (PMi3m)

186 Is EVERYONE ~~in college sports~~ just *retarded*?
Posted by: Crusader

Pretty much.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov)

187 Zero candy bars were good, basically a snickers with white chocolate, iirc. But candy is dandy (and not keto), but liquor is quicker.

interesting "ZERO Candy Bars were created in 1920 by F.A. Martoccio Macaroni Company and joined The Hershey Company in 1996."

Posted by: illiniwek at October 28, 2026 11:24 PM (vbXSk)

188 Considering sugar...
I'm seeing more sweet stuff actually using real sugar rather than HFCS. I think that Bobby Kennedy is an influencer here. Our systems are able to more easily process 'real' sugar', although too much of anything,....
You know...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 11:25 PM (96kpa)

189 Dark chocolate. Semi-sweet. These are real chocolate.
****

Nibs. Pieces of cocoa before it gets made into chocolate.

Posted by: clarence at October 28, 2026 11:25 PM (WZjs1)

190 I knew there were at lot of Brewers fans at the Trop, but seeing the pictures now that most of the Rays fans have left, no wonder it sounded like a Milwaukee home game at times.

Posted by: Vendette at October 28, 2026 11:26 PM (N/jk5)

191 Thank you Vendette.
I had the idea the Mariners got pretty far last year but it seems they didn't win the ALS.
So this is like when the Oilers blew town and won a superbowl as the Titans over in TN.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:26 PM (88C+u)

192 183 Oh Henry bars would rip out your fillings, if not your teeth.
Posted by: Bonomo Turkish Taffy

Bit O Honey.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:27 PM (yEz+x)

193 Japan's government plans to ask all citizens to stockpile at least three days' worth of food
-
I watched a Glenn Beck video earlier, and apparently everyone in Europe is doing the same, while we've just mandated that our military bases be prepared to run for three months without resupply.

He thinks it's all a bad sign.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 28, 2026 11:27 PM (vSvIl)

194
Sees is insanely good, but I never get the prepackaged boxes, and if someone gets me one, I feel disappointed. Their fudge is the best. Chocolate Creams verrry good. Victoria Toffee aaghhh (Homer Simpson salivating sound). Others, I know what they are but I don't know the names.

Fredericksburg Fudge in Texas to my sadness has disappeared, into some outfit called "Sweet Fred" that I haven't tried yet. Their Black Forest Fudge is sold out right now, but I'm on the notification list when they make more. I intend to try it out against a copycat recipe.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 11:27 PM (mmrXZ)

195 The original Chunky candy bar with fricking raisins is the worst. I was a little kid the first and only time I bit into one and was convinced it was total bullshit.

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 11:27 PM (enNUy)

196 ... oh right, they lost that 99-00 superbowl.

Posted by: at least they got there at October 28, 2026 11:27 PM (88C+u)

197 before moving to Milwaukee). The Milwaukee (now Atlanta) Braves won the WS in 1956.
Posted by: Vendette

Eddie Matthews is the only Brave to have played for the Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta Braves.

Posted by: Chief Nokahoma at October 28, 2026 11:27 PM (EdP2u)

198 All the “HOW DO YOU FEEEEEEL ?” questions

Based on all the crotch adjustments the players do, the honest answer is "itchy"
Posted by: "sweaty" also might work at October 28, 2026 11:22 PM (88C+u)

https://youtu.be/E2ukxCErDkk?t=228

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:28 PM (qx7Zg)

199 With regard to local candy, Chicago has Frangos, which are chocolate-covered mints. For years, they were sold by the late Marshall Field's. I don't know if they're still available; but they were awfully good.

In Ontario (yes, I know, Canada, but bear with me), the Laura Secord chain of candy shops sells something called "almond bark", which is a slab of white chocolate with lots of almonds embedded in it. If you're a fan of white chocolate, like I am (which of course makes me a racist), almond bark is outstanding: I have to stay away from it, or I'll eat myself sick.

And I have to mention my wife, the lovely and accomplished Annalucia, who makes a version of almond joys but with dark rather than milk chocolate. Outstanding! But available only to our friends and family.

Posted by: Nemo at October 28, 2026 11:29 PM (4RPgu)

200 Well, the Baseball Season is over, and the World Series was BORING !!!!!!

Tampa Bay Never Showed Up .......

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 11:30 PM (jGtoG)

201 Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:28 PM (qx7Zg)

This guy broke Mel Brooks with that deadpan. I'm in awe.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:31 PM (88C+u)

202 200 Well, the Baseball Season is over, and the World Series was BORING !!!!!!

Tampa Bay Never Showed Up .......
Posted by: Jackson K.

On the upside, the Banana Ball Draft was earlier this evening.

Posted by: Yellow Journalist at October 28, 2026 11:32 PM (EdP2u)

203 193 Japan's government plans to ask all citizens to stockpile at least three days' worth of food.

Not a bad plan for anyone. Three months is probably a better plan...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 11:32 PM (96kpa)

204 In Ontario (yes, I know, Canada, but bear with me), the Laura Secord chain of candy shops sells something called "almond bark", which is a slab of white chocolate with lots of almonds embedded in it. If you're a fan of white chocolate, like I am (which of course makes me a racist), almond bark is outstanding: I have to stay away from it, or I'll eat myself sick.

And I have to mention my wife, the lovely and accomplished Annalucia, who makes a version of almond joys but with dark rather than milk chocolate. Outstanding! But available only to our friends and family.

Posted by: Nemo at October 28, 2026 11:29 PM (4RPgu)

Alas, Laura Secord is much harder to get in Canada, with all the store closures. And they're not shipping to the States. Better for my waistline, though.

Posted by: Vendette at October 28, 2026 11:33 PM (N/jk5)

205 During trick-or-treating, do dogs get wound up every time they hear "Trick or TREAT"?

Do they expect one for each group that says it?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)

206 For a Maiden intro I would have gone with Stranger In a Strange Land. Adrian wrote the best songs.

Posted by: dooley at October 28, 2026 11:33 PM (F8aPo)

207 Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:28 PM (qx7Zg)

This guy broke Mel Brooks with that deadpan. I'm in awe.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 11:31 PM (88C+u)

Bob Uecker was in a class by himself.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:34 PM (qx7Zg)

208 For a Maiden intro I would have gone with Stranger In a Strange Land. Adrian wrote the best songs.

Posted by: dooley at October 28, 2026 11:33 PM (F8aPo)

Hallowed Be Thy Name or Paschendale.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 28, 2026 11:35 PM (dK+Kv)

209 Another example of tone-deafness:

Why does MLB's Commisioner's Trophy get handed to the team owner first? Nobody knows who that is. Nobody cares. Nobody cares when he dedicates this win to his wife Debbie.

The BREWERS won the World Series. "The Brewers" are interpreted by the general public to be the 25 players on the World Series roster, their head coach, and...maybe...another coach or two. None of us give a crap about who owns that team.

I hope he enjoyed his 5 minutes. I'm sorry I sat through it, and I don't even recall his name.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:35 PM (Cjcf6)

210 Applets and Cotletts suck.

Supposed to like local stuff. They suck. Horrid. Give me PTSD.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:42 PM (yEz+x)

***

This X1000!!!
Hate those vile things. Parents used to get them.
Ugh.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2026 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

211 Today I got out of the shower to hear some alarms, sort of like our smoke alarms, & a voice repeating something twice that sounded like my voice. I had a second to think, "Is this the radon gas alarm, oh, lawsie."

I yelled for my dude, no answer. He had my phone downstairs doing something to it so I had no phone nearby like I usually do.

Our house is very big and you can't hear each other, even on the same floor as the walls or thick (I guess). I threw on my nightgown to go find him, thinking he was outside. About that time he wandered inside with me yelling on the deck.

He'd gone out to check his tomatoes, without his phone, & didn't turn off the burglar alarm. I started getting texts from the alarm company *just* before they called the law. I wanted to kill him and tell the alarm people, yes, come get him as he's burgled my brain this morning.

I guess he sashayed outside completely oblivious. Which he's never done before. He was apparently downstairs in the basement & had to see his tomatoes while I was upstairs. He may soon have a leash if this happens again.

The police would have arrived to see me po'd in my nightgown with wet hair & him yammering about his tomatoes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)

212 >>Japan's government plans to ask all citizens to stockpile at least three days' worth of food.

Not difficult. A bag of rice, sack of dried cuttlefish (for making broth), various veggies, a roll of kamaboko...

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm)

213 >>so... Milwaukee winning is historic?

Sure.

I have a good friend in Wisconsin who has been waiting for this moment for his whole life. Just got a text from him "At last".

Happy for him. As historic as anything else.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 11:36 PM (viF8m)

214 Back in the Before Times, when we drew names in class for someone to give a Christmas present to, I always envied the kids who got a Life Savers Sweet Story Book.
Even if it had evil butterscotch in it.

All time favorite growing up- movie theater lemon drops.

Posted by: sal at October 28, 2026 11:37 PM (f+FmA)

215 Florida, man.

Blind Florida man who is charged with first-degree murder tells judge he will plead guilty in exchange for a Philly cheesesteak, fries, & a Pepsi.
--

The sf judge tells him I can promise you lunch but I can't promise what you'll get.
The man buries his head in his hands.

https://tinyurl.com/3a9dtz6v

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 11:37 PM (jU8k8)

216 The most deceitful candy is spiced jelly beans. Whose brilliant idea was to flavor jelly beans like toothpaste?

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 11:38 PM (dIske)

217 If you're a troll, go away.

Since when did this work?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2026 11:39 PM (nEUC6)

218 Brewers win!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sports books lose!

I guess they didn't pay off enough players/umpires to stretch it to seven games.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)

219 The police would have arrived to see me po'd in my nightgown with wet hair & him yammering about his tomatoes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)
=====

I like fresh tomatoes too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:40 PM (RIvkX)

220 The police would have arrived to see me po'd in my nightgown with wet hair & him yammering about his tomatoes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:36 PM (hzuYO)

When they asked, "Do you know this man?" How would you have answered?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:40 PM (qx7Zg)

221 Mmmm... Abba Zabba's cousin Big Hunk was my favorite of all - a flat bar of hard nougat with peanuts sprinkled throughout. When I moved from California to New York umpty years ago, I discovered to my horror that you could not get either of those candy bars, or the others that Annabelle made (Rocky Road and Look), on the East Coast. A West Coast friend shipped me an Annabelle assortment for Christmas, but they arrived all melted and yucky, having gotten too warm in transit and leaked out of their wrappers and into the box itself. The same friend later sent me a refrigerated shipment of another assortment, and they were good, but not good enough to spend a day's salary on to procure! Looks like these candy bars still exist. If you have cavity-proof teeth, I highly recommend all of them.

Posted by: Clio Weeps at October 28, 2026 11:41 PM (FvFu9)

222 On the upside, the Banana Ball Draft was earlier this evening.
---

Banana Ball is the way to sort out who *really* likes excellence in a sport versus those that aren't that selective. Its akin to those people who a decade ago pretended to like women's basketball rather than any of the men's versions--"they just try so hard".

Yeah, and its *terrible*. The best baseball in the world takes place in the Major Leagues, even if their owners and commissioners are absolutely clueless.

The best basketball takes place in the NBA, even if they too are clueless and readily willing to fellate China and the Arab Emirates.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:41 PM (Cjcf6)

223 Man sneaks up on deer blinded by a plastic bag over its head to help save its life. Faithpot site.

https://tinyurl.com/y4zm35ev

Goodnight, folks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 11:42 PM (JrHfD)

224 Florida, man.

Blind Florida man who is charged with first-degree murder tells judge he will plead guilty in exchange for a Philly cheesesteak, fries, & a Pepsi.
--

The sf judge tells him I can promise you lunch but I can't promise what you'll get.
The man buries his head in his hands.

https://tinyurl.com/3a9dtz6v

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 11:37 PM (jU8k

=====

Literally just saw this on Seinfeld.

Figures a serial killer puts mayo on a cheesesteak. Savage.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:42 PM (RIvkX)

225 Dogtrovert (noun)

A person who enjoys the company of dogs more than people.

Example: As I've grown older, I've become more of a dogtrovert.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:42 PM (qx7Zg)

226 Arnold Stang made commercials for Chunky. Who is the Arnold Stang of our day?

I'd say Eddie Deezen but I think he's kind of out of it these days.

So, today, Billy West or Mike Judge.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 28, 2026 11:42 PM (CHHv1)

227 Not Seinfeld, Gutfeld.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 11:42 PM (RIvkX)

228 Today I got out of the shower to hear some alarms

He'd gone out to check his tomatoes, without his phone, & didn't turn off the burglar alarm. I started getting texts from the alarm company *just* before they called the law.

I guess he sashayed outside completely oblivious. Which he's never done before. He was apparently downstairs in the basement & had to see his tomatoes while I was upstairs.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Well?

.....

How were the tomatoes doing?

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:43 PM (VHUov)

229 208 For a Maiden intro I would have gone with Stranger In a Strange Land. Adrian wrote the best songs.

Posted by: dooley at October 28, 2026 11:33 PM (F8aPo)

"The Clansman" Rocks.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 11:43 PM (jGtoG)

230 >>Dogtrovert (noun)

>>A person who enjoys the company of dogs more than people.

Me.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 11:44 PM (viF8m)

231 I wanna see the last 200 hires.

@CynicalPublius
Holy Moly, this is insane.

Weil Gotshal, one of America's most prestigious "BigLaw" firms is closing its doors.

Weil Gotshal was the gold standard. When people think of "white shoe" NYC firms, this is what they think of. In my legal career, if you were given an offer to be an associate at Weil Gotshal it was like winning ten Willy Wonka golden tickets.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2026 11:46 PM (nEUC6)

232 When they asked, "Do you know this man?" How would you have answered?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 28, 2026 11:40 PM (qx7Zg)

*********
Probably no, then laughed. And they would have hauled us both off.

We had a brief spat about it all. He, of course, said he's never done this before. I then said we (the royal we) should always have our phones with us in the ancient of days. Because you can't hear in this house even if yelling. Which is nice except if you need someone.Then we got over it.

I woke to a text from my bro that our 95yr old mother was going to not need sitters once she's home from rehab and the glue repair of a fractured lumbar vertebra. Her royal decree. She's alert and was living independently. I said, nope to this. A case manager also said nope and that was a relief as she will have sitters the rest of her life at home.

Then the talking alarm just about did me in.

I told my dermatologist that her visit was the highlight of my day. She and staff love me. Which may have been why she told me I don't look my age.

I feel my age today, buddy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:48 PM (hzuYO)

233 229 208 For a Maiden intro I would have gone with Stranger In a Strange Land. Adrian wrote the best songs.

Posted by: dooley at October 28, 2026 11:33 PM (F8aPo)

"The Clansman" Rocks.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_eC1wPAZgA

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 11:49 PM (jGtoG)

234 217 If you're a troll, go away.

Since when did this work?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2026 11:39 PM (nEUC6)

Have you seen any trolls this evening?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 11:49 PM (PMi3m)

235
How were the tomatoes doing?
Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:43 PM (VHUov)

******
Lol. Good, I guess. They've had a rough summer due to hot weather and drought.

Are you they guy who used to add stuff to your nic to make me laugh? Or am I finally losing it?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:50 PM (hzuYO)

236 I ignore my neighbors but talk to their dogs. It gets awkward

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 11:50 PM (enNUy)

237 235 217 If you're a troll, go away.

Since when did this work?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2026 11:39 PM (nEUC6)

Have you seen any trolls this evening?
Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 11:49 PM (PMi3m)

Wow. I have absolutely impeccable timing.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 28, 2026 11:52 PM (PMi3m)

238 Are you they guy who used to add stuff to your nic to make me laugh? Or am I finally losing it?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I've been known to add things. A couple in this thread.

And I'm mostly here on the ONTs to be a goof and unwind. Corporate life and daywalker news can drag a guy down.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:53 PM (VHUov)

239 55 D senate
250 d house
Bank it
----

I'd be willing to consider your possible outcome if you'd answer a simple question:

For those results are you depending on "moderate fraud" or "a crazy level of fraud"?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 11:55 PM (Cjcf6)

240 If you're a troll, go away.

Since when did this work?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Have you seen any trolls this evening?
Posted by: tankdemon

Wow. I have absolutely impeccable timing.
Posted by: tankdemon

There's something to that "speak of the devil" thing.

Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:57 PM (VHUov)

241 *sniiiiiiifffff*

Ahhh. Ozone. Delightful!

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)

242 If there’s 120% voter participation in key areas, will fraud be considered?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 11:58 PM (yEz+x)

243 >>If there’s 120% voter participation in key areas, will fraud be considered?

Nah... That's just a cOnSpiRaCy TheOrY!!!

Posted by: JQ at October 28, 2026 11:59 PM (rdVOm)

244 If someone's looking for a business idea, create a lawn cutting service that sends vegans out to each the taller grass. It's Climate neutral, no engine noise during the process, and provides vegans a chance to share their philosophy.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:00 AM (qx7Zg)

245 selling candy bar in the US but Baby Ruth is the plucky underdog with a loyal following.

Baby, Ruth! (Wiggles ears)

Posted by: Sloth at October 29, 2026 12:01 AM (t19vo)

246
And I'm mostly here on the ONTs to be a goof and unwind. Corporate life and daywalker news can drag a guy down.
Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:53 PM (VHUov)

********
Two of you have similar names, sort of. I read very fast and one night you were adding stuff in German, or your twin was, and I was cracking up.

As today was officially a very weird day I'm going to bed and hoping for the best. It's been a long six weeks or so of stress and I have had enough!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 12:01 AM (hzuYO)

247 FenelonSpoke is a treasure--but you don't have to be told the obvious. Unless you're a Democrat, in which your stupidity is alas, impenetrable.

Good night good folks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2026 12:02 AM (CHHv1)

248 237 I ignore my neighbors but talk to their dogs. It gets awkward
Posted by: NCKate

I nearly got in trouble last week for talking to someone's cat. I ride my bike over the same 12 mile route about 3 times a week. I always carry dog and cat treats and have some steady customers when they are outside. The owners are fine with it. There's a pretty tuxedo cat who was always skittish and would run when I got close, but this time it was laying out by the end of her driveway and I stopped to talk to it and see if it wanted a treat. I was in the road and not on the property. Just then the lady of the house drives up with a scowl on her face saying, "Are you looking for me?" I kind of laughed and said no, I was talking to your cat. I could tell she didn't believe me and I wonder just who she is hiding from. Awkward and weird, but amusing.

Posted by: People Are Funny at October 29, 2026 12:02 AM (EdP2u)

249 Night, {{{BC}}}

Hope today has been better for you!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

250 A person who enjoys the company of dogs more than people.
Me.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 29, 2026 12:03 AM (96kpa)

251 Arguing with trolls makes as much sense as arguing with the tides.

Goodnight.

https://tinyurl.com/8mvnhuvj

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 12:05 AM (viF8m)

252 💕💕My bed won. I’m going to sleep.💕💕
Good night luvs...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 29, 2026 12:08 AM (96kpa)

253 246
And I'm mostly here on the ONTs to be a goof and unwind. Corporate life and daywalker news can drag a guy down.
Posted by: mikeski
----

Argumentative and prejudicial.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 12:08 AM (jU8k8)

254 If there’s 120% voter participation in key areas, will fraud be considered?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Obviously caused by same-day registration!

Posted by: Democrats and the media at October 29, 2026 12:14 AM (VHUov)

255
a lawn cutting service that sends vegans out to each the taller grass.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

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

This is a typo for what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:14 AM (mmrXZ)

256 I like to read day threads when I have time, but that's not often.

Just read, don't usually comment (unless there's snark to dish) because someone else often says what I'm thinking before I can type it out. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 12:16 AM (rdVOm)

257 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Radiation is making me extremely tired, so I am not working on needlepoint tonight, which frees my hands up to type....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2026 12:16 AM (SRRAx)

258

Japan's government plans to ask all citizens to stockpile at least three days' worth of food.

Three days to slow the spread.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 12:16 AM (Cqx++)

259 Just read, don't usually comment (unless there's snark to dish) because someone else often says what I'm thinking before I can type it out. LOL.
Posted by: JQ

Hordemind is real.

And spectacular.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 12:16 AM (VHUov)

260 This is a typo for what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I'm guessing: "eat"

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm)

261 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Radiation is making me extremely tired, so I am not working on needlepoint tonight, which frees my hands up to type....
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Glad you're back!

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 12:18 AM (Cjcf6)

262 Hi, Teresa!

Steady as she goes...take it easy.

Glad to see you & hope this treatment is successful!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

263
Teresa, good to see you!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:25 AM (mmrXZ)

264
From the annals of "this did not hit the way they intended":

CalMatters
@CalMatters
Luis Arreguin, a father of four, lived for 49 years in the United States. It took just 16 days for ICE to send him to Mexico after detaining him in Fresno.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:26 AM (mmrXZ)

265 Elon Musk retweeted:

Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉

@m_goes_distance
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical

i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs

but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.

it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them

the last 6 months alone:

- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 12:27 AM (jU8k8)

266 and it changes how the neighbors behave

we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday

stick around, it's going to get weird

bio/acc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 12:27 AM (jU8k8)

267 a lawn cutting service that sends vegans out to each the taller grass.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

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

This is a typo for what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 12:14 AM (mmrXZ)

"Each" should be "eat".

Sometimes the edit box is behind the tablet's keyboard, so I can't see what I'm typing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:29 AM (qx7Zg)

268 >>Luis Arreguin, a father of four, lived for 49 years in the United States. It took just 16 days for ICE to send him to Mexico after detaining him in Fresno.
--------

Better late than never!

How much does he owe US for all the bennies he sucked up for 49 years?

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)

269 Posted by: AOS cope, again

Flammenwerfers to the front!

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 12:30 AM (VHUov)

270 (irNsI)

Need moar ozone!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)

271 Posted by: AOS cope, again

Flammenwerfers to the front!
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 12:30 AM (VHUov)

Flammpanzers to the flanks.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:33 AM (qx7Zg)

272 Flammpanzers to the flanks.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:33 AM (qx7Zg)

Flaming homos to the rear!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at October 29, 2026 12:34 AM (x3rPG)

273 (irNsI)
****

I are Nuts says I. *chef's kiss*

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 12:34 AM (WZjs1)

274 >> irNsI

Sounds like one of Ilhan "Ohmar's" relatives, and the really retarded one (which is saying something).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 12:37 AM (w6EFb)

275 In today's further adventures with the Honda generator, I was able to get it to run with the ignition module driven by the generator's own "twelve volt" output. It would not start that way; had to connect a 12 volt battery to start it, but once running, the battery could be disconnected. The 12 volt output makes only about a 0.25 volts at cranking speed. Unfortunately, I metered it at 17.6 volts at normal running speed, with no load. That's a little salty for the long-term health of the HEI module, I would wager. Not to worry. I have on hand some little adjustable IC buck regulators. I will build one in, along with a filter network to smooth the DC from the bridge rectifier, and probably also a 12 volt pilot lamp, to serve as evidence the battery is charged. And I ordered a small 12 volt AGM battery from Amazon for 20 Loonie dollars, which will become part of the finished machine. It ought to last years, being asked to put out an amp or two for less than half a minute, and then being put on float charge for as long as the generator runs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 12:37 AM (Asc1p)

276 Elon Musk@elonmusk · 1h
That’s what I do too. Just have @Grok Bot buy it somewhere else at a lower price.

jimmah@jamesdouma
Amazon locked out my Grok Bot. So it just bought the same thing from a different site (at a lower price).
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OK, is this interesting, weird, good news or what?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 12:39 AM (jU8k8)

277 I see it's morning in Pakistan, as the overseer whips his stable of trollfags into action.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 12:40 AM (Asc1p)

278 > "You got chocolate in my peanut butter!/ You got peanut butter in my chocolate!"

Somewhere on an alternate timeline, John Belushi wrote an SNL skit about the invention of the speedball.

"You got heroin in my cocaine!/ You got cocaine in my heroin!"

Posted by: Lulaa at October 29, 2026 12:41 AM (qlLNh)

279 How did Milky Way not receive at least an honorable mention?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 12:41 AM (y1wyK)

280 > "Ohmar's"

That's the one that's in the resistance, right?

Heh.

Posted by: Lulaa at October 29, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

281 (Brazilian dictator sock off)

Posted by: Lulaa at October 29, 2026 12:43 AM (qlLNh)

282 What kind of drastic national emergency where you couldn't buy food would be over in three days? World War III would be over pretty fast, but being hungry really wouldn't be the problem...

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 29, 2026 12:45 AM (3/XaG)

283 Sep 30, 2026What makes Grok Bot different is that your agents can actually use a computer, log into your accounts, browse the web, send emails, research things, and complete real tasks for you.
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Uh...no.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2026 12:45 AM (XeU6L)

284 (Brazilian dictator sock off)
Posted by: Lulaa

One does not simply leave the Communist party.

Posted by: mikeskimir at October 29, 2026 12:46 AM (VHUov)

285 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Radiation is making me extremely tired

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2026 12:16 AM (SRRAx)
-

"What's all this talk about radial tires?!" - Emily Litella

Be well and hang in there!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 12:46 AM (y1wyK)

286 >> That's the one that's in the resistance, right?

Heh, indeed. Now, I'm wondering if I've been spelling it wrong for a while.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

287 >>>some little adjustable IC buck regulators. I will build one in, along with a filter network to smooth the DC from the bridge rectifier, and probably also a 12 volt pilot lamp, to serve as evidence the battery is charged.
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this is where the little four wheeler lost control and rolled off into the woods.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 12:47 AM (jU8k8)

288 > My favorite candy bars are Zero
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

Those are still made? I haven't seen them in years. I liked them when I was a kid.

Posted by: Lulaa at October 29, 2026 12:48 AM (qlLNh)

289 286 283 (Brazilian dictator sock off)
Posted by: Lulaa at October 29, 2026 12:43 AM (qlLNh)

lol
Posted by: Also, LOL! at October 29, 2026 12:46 AM (3+xSz)

It looks like the Brazilian dictator has arrested another human, and stolen his socks.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:48 AM (qx7Zg)

290 > 289 284 (Brazilian dictator sock off)
Posted by: Lulaa

One does not simply leave the Communist party.
Posted by: mikeskimir at October 29, 2026 12:46 AM (VHUov)

lol
Posted by: Also, LOL! at October 29, 2026 12:47 AM (3+xSz)

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:49 AM (qlLNh)

291 292 > My favorite candy bars are Zero
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 28, 2026 10:28 PM (0Htd1)

Those are still made? I haven't seen them in years. I liked them when I was a kid.

Posted by: Lulaa at October 29, 2026 12:48 AM (qlLNh)

Walmarts in my area have them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:49 AM (qx7Zg)

292 One does not simply leave the Communist party.
Posted by: mikeskimir

Now you tell me~!

Posted by: Trotski at October 29, 2026 12:50 AM (nEUC6)

293 m

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 12:50 AM (y1wyK)

294 > Not a bad plan for anyone. Three months is probably a better plan...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 28, 2026 11:32 PM (96kpa)

For sure. Also be prepared to defend it, and don't tell ANYONE you have it.

If the trucks ever stop rolling, the blue cities will have food riots within three days, and cannibalism within a week.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:51 AM (qlLNh)

295 I tried a Twin Bing for the first time a year or two ago. It was good, but probably the sweetest candy bar I have ever had. Enough to curl your teeth!

Posted by: 496 at October 29, 2026 12:52 AM (1LWHK)

296 Sidebar note: NBC News. Inadvertently proving Conservatives correct about Brazil. It was stolen. Thanks NBC News.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 12:52 AM (sAmhv)

297 Trotski

What do you get when you drink the water in the Kremlin?

Toulouse-Lautrec

What do you get when you drink the water in the Louvre?

Posted by: Double Jeopardy at October 29, 2026 12:54 AM (qlLNh)

298 Sad Cope was given an extra dose of meth.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 12:57 AM (sAmhv)

299 > Walmarts in my area have them.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 12:49 AM (qx7Zg)

So they do. Just added one to my cart for my next delivery.

Thanks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2026 12:58 AM (qlLNh)

300 In today's further adventures with the Honda generator, I was able to get it to run with the ignition module driven by the generator's own "twelve volt" output. It would not start that way; had to connect a 12 volt battery to start it, but once running, the battery could be disconnected. The 12 volt output makes only about a 0.25 volts at cranking speed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 12:37 AM (Asc1p)

So If I'm following right, it isn't producing enough voltage during cranking to power the ignition. We have those problems with certain hot rodded harley engines with big compression. Most of the ignitions won't power up below 9 volts, and with bigger compression the starter will draw the battery below the 9 volt mark and they don't fire. There was a device we used to wire in that had two 9 volt batteries in parallel so the ignition always had the voltage needed. That came out with better cures since then. Now we use a relay that applies battery voltage right to the ignition during cranking. Did you figure out why its only producing 1/4 volt during cranking?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 01:00 AM (vzuC7)

301 Happy Wednesday Horde!

Posted by: The Strangeloves at October 29, 2026 01:02 AM (ibDUx)

302 Happy Wednesday!

*pours Chivas for The Strangeloves*

Hahaha...

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

303 Oh my gosh, I have had this sock on for a while, I know it is from the candy art thread on Monday, maybe. I am sorry about that.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:09 AM (ibDUx)

304 Thanks JQ, I swear that I am getting stupider every day.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:10 AM (ibDUx)

305 "Can I Play With Madness" is probably Maiden's best intro for a beginner. Has a good melody and is short - 3:38. A 7 and a half opus is tough for a beginner.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 29, 2026 01:12 AM (Fv808)

306 Evenin’, or, I guess, Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2026 01:12 AM (77rzZ)

307 Did you figure out why its only producing 1/4 volt during cranking?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 01:00 AM (vzuC7)

Because the force cranking it is my left elbow? It's a permanent-magnet alternator, like you find under the flywheel of a Japanese single motorcycle. There is no regulation at all, and like any dynamo, voltage output is a function of RPM. I'm using a GM HEI module as my spark controller, and they are designed to run off a 12 volt battery. There is another winding, called the "exciter winding" that puts out 3 to 5 volts AC at cranking speed, but I really doubt there would be enough current to run the HEI if I used a transformer to step it up to 12 volts.

But the little puppy runs nice and quiet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:13 AM (Asc1p)

308 "Can I Play With Madness" is probably Maiden's best intro for a beginner. Has a good melody and is short - 3:38. A 7 and a half opus is tough for a beginner.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

We don't get it.

Posted by: Dream Theater at October 29, 2026 01:14 AM (VHUov)

309 LMAO, Debby! No worries. Who *hasn't* ever left a sock on by mistake? You're not stupid!

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

310 I swear that I am getting stupider every day.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Pretend you intended it that way. It works most of the time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 01:17 AM (jU8k8)

311 The differences between an apprentice, a journeyman, and a master...

They *all* make mistakes, BUT handle them thusly:

Apprentice, must ask a journeyman to help him correct it.

Journeyman can fix it himself.

Master, will convince all that he *intended* it that way.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

312 For the Harley problem: find an ultracapacitor that can be charge up to 12.6 volts, and hold enough juice to operate the ignition module for say 5 seconds. Connect that right to the ignition module (and ground, of course). Feed that from the ignition switch via a diode.

Key on, ultracap charges up, ignition module sees 12.6 volts. Crank engine, voltage sags, but ultracap maintains 12.6 volts to module. If engine fails to start on first go-round, ultracap recharges in a few seconds with key on.

Downside? Shut key off, engine continues to run for 5 seconds until ultracap is discharged. Adding a relay would solve that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:20 AM (Asc1p)

313 But the little puppy runs nice and quiet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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My 7hp Honda is louder than ten kids with sticks and frying pans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 01:24 AM (jU8k8)

314 The differences between an apprentice, a journeyman, and a master...

They *all* make mistakes, BUT handle them thusly:

Apprentice, must ask a journeyman to help him correct it.
Journeyman can fix it himself.
Master, will convince all that he *intended* it that way.
Posted by: JQ

So: dogs, humans, and cats.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 01:25 AM (VHUov)

315 My 7hp Honda is louder than ten kids with sticks and frying pans.
Posted by: Braenyard

Not sure what big bro has, but it's louder than a dozen chainsaws running wide-open...

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

316 So: dogs, humans, and cats.
Posted by: mikeski

LOL! That's good!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

317 I'm not expecting too much of a crowd for Halloween, the neighborhood has changed and there aren't so many kids. For a few years we had all sorts of foreign children dropped off by vans to trick or treat on our street. I would text my neighbor and tell her to prepare for a large group of kids of many colors, kind of a UN delegation.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:29 AM (ibDUx)

318 For a few years we had all sorts of foreign children dropped off by vans to trick or treat on our street. I would text my neighbor and tell her to prepare for a large group of kids of many colors, kind of a UN delegation.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:29 AM (ibDUx)

That's really mercenary.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:31 AM (Asc1p)

319 Same here, Debby. All the children have grown up or moved away, except for the near neighbors' boys... who will be hunting instead of TT this weekend.

I took some candy to them this afternoon, so the boys will have their sugar-fix anyway.

There may or may not be other kids from down the road, I'm not sure who lives at the far end anymore.

Certainly, there won't be any 'drop offs' from elsewhere, as houses are too far apart for making quick scores/big hauls of candy, out here.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:35 AM (rdVOm)

320 Banhammer is smokin' tonight!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:37 AM (Asc1p)

321 >>Banhammer is smokin' tonight!

'Tis a thing of beauty!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)

322 When the bass player is the extrovert and the guitarist is the introvert:

https://youtu.be/iosUtnuFeI4

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 01:39 AM (VHUov)

323 I am glad to see that banhammer AOP, I am glad that I wasn't banned for wearing my sock for a couple of days. I get awfully tired of seeing these same posts every night with the doom and gloom election posts.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:41 AM (ibDUx)

324 Here's a quirky song by Seattle singer-songwriter Virgil Brown. It's a remake of a minor hit he had in the late '90's - early oughts. He plays his guitar through a Leslie speaker:

https://youtu.be/XPn1pCdAkrQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:44 AM (Asc1p)

325 I am glad to see that banhammer AOP, I am glad that I wasn't banned for wearing my sock for a couple of days. I get awfully tired of seeing these same posts every night with the doom and gloom election posts.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:41 AM (ibDUx)

The troll really has a hard-on for The James Madison, for some reason.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:45 AM (Asc1p)

326 I was glad to vote early, the last few elections. Shorter lines (if any at all) and less hassle. In and out.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

327
I was trying to figure out the LOL troll, too. WTF?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb)

328 I was glad to vote early, the last few elections. Shorter lines (if any at all) and less hassle. In and out.
Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

Scored a couple of roadside election signs from Alberta's referendum vote last Monday. Going to put them up in the shop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:48 AM (Asc1p)

329 I was trying to figure out the LOL troll, too. WTF?
Posted by: publius

Minx is a pretty niche comment system. Maybe the script couldn't figure out how to put the advertisement in the url field?

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 01:48 AM (VHUov)

330 All the time he was taking apart that motor alart, I kept thinking about how obsessive people in Florida were about keeping stains off their brick driveways.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 29, 2026 01:48 AM (PKL0q)

331 Trolls try to demoralize us into giving up & not voting?

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

332
I just watched a Sabine Hossenfelder video -- headline was LHC guys wrote a paper claiming they had evidence of a compact extra dimension. She went through it, then gave it a 9/10 on the Bullshit meter.

They're some knives coming out for here amongst the leftard love-science-sexually crowd. They're claiming she's a racist and a tool of oligarchs now. So, I'm pulling for her. She struck me as sort of a default lefty type, but I'm not really sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 01:49 AM (w6EFb)

333 I was trying to figure out the LOL troll, too. WTF?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb)

Defective-compulsive?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:50 AM (Asc1p)

334 Scored a couple of roadside election signs from Alberta's referendum vote last Monday. Going to put them up in the shop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sweet!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)

335 He plays his guitar through a Leslie speaker
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I'm not much of a blues guy, but that was pretty good.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 01:51 AM (VHUov)

336
Oh, and in burning news I'm sure you've all been hanging on your seats about, the Erf's little rotational speed since 2020 has reversed. Looking at the latest projections, 2026 will erase a little over 3 years of speed up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 01:52 AM (w6EFb)

337 Italian police arrested the person who was a chief organizer of the riots. A judge released him. Meloni called the act 'shameful',saying,
"I think this is an unbearable humiliation of the work of the police and investigators," she said in a video posted on social media.
"I really don't know how a normal state can defend decent people in the face of these decisions by certain sections of the judiciary,".

The court judges rebuked her, saying, - Meloni's remarks were "unacceptable", reflecting what they described as "a poor understanding, whether real or feigned, of the legal institutions of a state governed by the ‌rule of ⁠law".
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It appears that Trump is not the only leader with judge troubles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 01:52 AM (jU8k8)

338 The troll really has a hard-on for The James Madison, for some reason.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Troll is a bot, and "sees" TJM mentioned frequently in the sidebar, thus creating a target? 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

339 Today's xkcd comic is for publius.

https://xkcd.com/3317/

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 01:54 AM (VHUov)

340 I'm not much of a blues guy, but that was pretty good.
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 01:51 AM (VHUov)

The guy has talent for sure. He toured in Alberta is support of his first CD, and I caught the show at a club in Calgary. I met him, and bought the CD from him. Heard later that he had soured on the music biz, and went back to Seattle and opened a cafe. Then he turns up with a new record. Go figure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:55 AM (Asc1p)

341 >> Today's xkcd comic is for publius.

Heh. And that would actually work. You could indeed arrange a bunch of those sources to make a square wave. You'd have to be God, though.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

342 It is sad how the judiciary has been corrupted, here in America it used to have a whiff of impartiality and equal treatment under the law. Now the ranks are filled with political donors.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 01:59 AM (ibDUx)

343 Nikola Tesla must be rolling over in his grave to see all that precision work building the electric motor turned into scrap.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 29, 2026 02:00 AM (PKL0q)

344 He plays his guitar through a Leslie speaker:

https://youtu.be/XPn1pCdAkrQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Fellow working the board had a heavy hand.
_shoot the engineers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:01 AM (jU8k8)

345 Don't drop the soap in the shower! James o'keef arrested for committing voter fraud in Minnesota and video taping himself doing it.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at October 29, 2026 02:02 AM (ipAU1)

346 678

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 02:02 AM (WZjs1)

347 missed it ><

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 02:03 AM (WZjs1)

348 Sorry I'm a bit late to the ONT. We have been partying like it's 1982, except that this time we won the whole damned thing! Ueck is looking down benignly from heaven and he is... in heaven! I have never heard from a team that is so un-self-centered as the Brewers this year, and everyone contributed in a meaningful way, which is also not very modern-baseball-like. They actually played baseball, as it was meant to be, not like a bunch of prima donnas hitting home runs instead of executing the plays one at a time.

Very satisfying.

Let's do it again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 02:05 AM (5WPt1)

349 Also, I'm reliably told that this World Series had more viewers than they have had in years, even though Milwaukee is the smallest market in the country. How could that be? Oh, yeah, people love real baseball.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 02:06 AM (5WPt1)

350 Fellow working the board had a heavy hand.
_shoot the engineers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:01 AM (jU8k

The original recording of that tune on his first CD was not so overproduced. But I cannot find it on the internet. I should still have the CD.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:06 AM (Asc1p)

351 Glad you won. It's always a joy. If you had arrived much earlier you would be suffering insulin shock by now.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:07 AM (jU8k8)

352 326 I was glad to vote early, the last few elections. Shorter lines (if any at all) and less hassle. In and out.
Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

We voted early for the last Trump election, and waited in line over three hours. Last election I walked in on election day and walked out 10 minutes later. I think we will vote day of, just because there aren't that many people out here and it should be quick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 02:09 AM (5WPt1)

353 Glad you won. It's always a joy. If you had arrived much earlier you would be suffering insulin shock by now.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:07 AM (jU8k

I caught the first couple of innings. Broadcast on Sportsnet (Canada) was annoying, too many "analysts" inserting themselves into the program.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:10 AM (Asc1p)

354 I caught the first couple of innings. Broadcast on Sportsnet (Canada) was annoying, too many "analysts" inserting themselves into the program.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:10 AM (Asc1p)

We listen on MLB.com. Local broadcast in Milwaukee. Much more satisfying. They look through blue and gold glasses.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 29, 2026 02:11 AM (5WPt1)

355
I need to quit thinking about this stuff for a while, I think. I nearly sprained my brain trying to get my head wrapped around "topological defects" in spacetime that might have formed in the early universe. These things would be sort of "kinks" in spacetime. And they would derive from some ridiculously high energy conditions where, topologically, spacetime would not be "simply connected".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 02:14 AM (w6EFb)

356 Arab parties will back opposition if they turn Netanhayu over to hague war crimes tribunal.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at October 29, 2026 02:18 AM (ipAU1)

357
It appears that Trump is not the only leader with judge troubles.

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Or any good leader of Brazil, should they get one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 02:19 AM (mmrXZ)

358 >>>The original recording of that tune on his first CD was not so overproduced. But I cannot find it on the internet. I should still have the CD.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Some presenters at YouTube will modify songs to suit themselves.
Rarely do their enhancements improve the original.
On some albums they will mislabel the event, personnel, include wrong album cover. Some of this is ignorance the other, juvenile malice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:21 AM (jU8k8)

359 I need to quit thinking about this stuff for a while, I think. I nearly sprained my brain trying to get my head wrapped around "topological defects" in spacetime that might have formed in the early universe. These things would be sort of "kinks" in spacetime. And they would derive from some ridiculously high energy conditions where, topologically, spacetime would not be "simply connected".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 02:14 AM (w6EFb)

I don't think about any of it. I read a book on particle physics one time and my head hurt for a week, and I never get headaches. I look at the stars and I remember some old philosophy quote "I see, therefore it is". Fuck it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2026 02:23 AM (vzuC7)

360 Here's something lighter to think about.

https://youtube.com/shorts/R-XEtBusj5w

The video and explanation don't quite match, but it's still pretty good.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2026 02:25 AM (qx7Zg)

361 I vote day of and destroy my mail in ballot in front of them.
Mail in ballots are the cheat.
The fucking mail system is older than the country. Wonder why the founding fathers didn't go "Hey. We should write mail in voting into the constitution".
I personally think the post office in some areas is in on the cheat.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2026 02:26 AM (Ae6Br)

362 293 m
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 12:50 AM (y1wyK)

wut

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:26 AM (odBC9)

363 Hubby's late vote was in 2024. We went early then, too. He was excited to cast his ballot for PDJT!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

364 spacetime would not be "simply connected".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---

Things a little less complex. Maybe a presentation us commoners
could understand?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:28 AM (jU8k8)

365 Sweet dreams Horde, I have an earlier than usual alarm in the morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 29, 2026 02:29 AM (ibDUx)

366
I very vulnerable to "nerd sniping", a term I only recently stumbled on, and it comes from the xkcd comic. Throw some deep problem (math, physics, etc) at a nerd, and he stops what he's doing, becomes totally distracted, and obsesses over the problem.

Apparently that has real life inspiration. Some mathematician was posed some question and he just stopped and started thinking about it, and nearly got run over in traffic.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 02:29 AM (w6EFb)

367 293 m
Posted by: Biden's Dog

wut
Posted by: m
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Tonight's explanation:

At the time (before Troll-B-Gone was applied), comment # was approaching "300"-- one of your trademark numbers-- so BD was helping you. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

368 363 Hubby's late vote was in 2024. We went early then, too. He was excited to cast his ballot for PDJT!

Posted by: JQ
---

Buddy's older brother, a Marine, has had cancer for at least ten years, he's 91. Said, I'm voting in this election if they have to haul me there in an ambulance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:31 AM (jU8k8)

369 Night, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

370 Well, 12:30 A.M. here, and I am off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 02:31 AM (Asc1p)

371 I personally think the post office in some areas is in on the cheat.
Posted by: Reforger

Concur.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

372 They're some knives coming out for here amongst the leftard love-science-sexually crowd. They're claiming she's a racist and a tool of oligarchs now. So, I'm pulling for her. She struck me as sort of a default lefty type, but I'm not really sure.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 01:49 AM (w6EFb)

She's still a global warming enthusiast and thoroughly a product of the Left Wing campus environment. However, she seems to actually be able to do math which doesn't lend itself to the Narrative. She may have been red pilled by some e mail she got from a colleague urging her to shut up because whatever she was saying wasn't helpful. She made a video about it. It's kind of a crazy video, I'll see if I can find a link.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 29, 2026 02:33 AM (r7+Q7)

373 Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

374 367 293 m
Posted by: Biden's Dog

wut
Posted by: m
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Tonight's explanation:

At the time (before Troll-B-Gone was applied), comment # was approaching "300"-- one of your trademark numbers-- so BD was helping you. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

Thanks, JQ.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:34 AM (odBC9)

375 >> Maybe a presentation us commoners
could understand?

Simply connected means in a space, you can shrink a closed loop down to a point without hitting anything. Non simply connected, you can't. Well, I don't know how rigorous that definition is, but that's the gist of it.

Now imagine the surface of a donut, a torus. Imagine a loop going around the outside surface. You can't shrink it down to a point. And imagine another loop on the very inside, going around the hole. You can't shrink that down.

There are other loops you can make that you can't shrink down, but many loops you can't.

The topology prevents that loop from contracting. This has profound constraints on the way physics fields can work on that space.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 02:34 AM (w6EFb)

376 Used to vote day of because I wanted them to see me.
Last time I voted on time I got into a discussion with one
of the harassers. Then a rep for the other team joined in.
Then it got louder. During that time, Karen called the police.
Police rolled up just about the time the debate was settled.

I voted early this time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:37 AM (jU8k8)

377 It isn't really a novel technique to send people out into communities to brow-beat and intimidate them with nonsensical threats and bellowing about the futility of opposing their "Progress". That goes far, far back, even before Moustache Man or Red Book Guy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 02:37 AM (aKiSo)

378 LOL

Posted by: mikeski smash at October 28, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski-wan kenobi at October 28, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeskimir at October 29, 2026 12:46 AM (VHUov)

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:43 AM (odBC9)

379 I very vulnerable to "nerd sniping", a term I only recently stumbled on, and it comes from the xkcd comic. Throw some deep problem (math, physics, etc) at a nerd, and he stops what he's doing, becomes totally distracted, and obsesses over the problem.

Apparently that has real life inspiration. Some mathematician was posed some question and he just stopped and started thinking about it, and nearly got run over in traffic.
Posted by: publius

You forgot the link. 😄

https://xkcd.com/356/

Today's comic was #3317, and there are usually 3/week, so "nerd sniping" is probably old enough to vote.

Posted by: mikeski is helping! at October 29, 2026 02:45 AM (VHUov)

380 LOL
Posted by: m

Thanks, it's nice to be appreciated. 🙃

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 02:47 AM (VHUov)

381 Halloween and Pittsburgh! Growing up there the local favorite candy bar was the Clark Bar!!

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at October 29, 2026 02:48 AM (mnFxU)

382 I voted early this time.
Posted by: Braenyard

I expect *trouble* this time. Our usual polling station is coupled with several other precincts, and so attracts many special interest group reps to set up tables between parking lot and building entrance.

"Hot" issues this year: 'Borshun. English as official language of the state... Let's just say that I'm in no mood to deal with leftists and expect them to be out in force.

Early voting here, is the same as same day-- you show ID, receive a ballot, vote, submit ballot, it goes into the lock-box-- no mail-in, no outdoor drop-box BS.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

383 Us small m's gotta hang together.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:50 AM (odBC9)

384 I personally think the post office in some areas is in on the cheat.
Posted by: Reforger

I mean, they've been caught at it. "Losing," destroying, or burning ballots in red areas.

Most recently in the 2026 primaries, in Utah. Also NJ, KY, and MA, just from the front page of a DDG search (+AI).

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 02:51 AM (VHUov)

385 miklos is a small m

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 02:52 AM (odBC9)

386 372 They're some knives coming out ...

Harbor Freight has a 9" hunting knife for $7.99.
You never know when a stashed knife will come in handy.
I have a WWI bayonet in the middle drawer of my desk.
Employee comes in with a complaint I set it on top.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:54 AM (jU8k8)

387 made the last part up

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 02:54 AM (jU8k8)

388 Us small m's gotta hang together.

miklos is a small m
Posted by: m

Let's include publius and nurse and tcn and the rest of the lowercase brigade, even if m is the best letter.

Except exodus. He can take a long walk off a lowercase pier.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 02:56 AM (VHUov)

389 One of the local D candidates for state office, is a former postal clerk. Retired after decades at usps... wonder how many suspected R ballots he personally made disappear?

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

390 >>Harbor Freight has a 9" hunting knife for $7.99.

Nice price! I should go there... Need something for the car.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

391
I first saw that "nerd sniping" thing with something about the "chain fountain" behavior (look that up, it's mind blowing).

There was some disagreement on some of the nitty-gritty of what was going on, just how the forces worked. That could be settled by doing some experiments with little chains in zero-g.

They got Don Pettit to do it aboard the ISS on his last stint, and succeeded because he was a sucker for nerd sniping.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 02:59 AM (w6EFb)

392
Don Pettit's chain experiment:
https://t.ly/uLfSE

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 03:02 AM (w6EFb)

393 235 How were the tomatoes doing?
Posted by: mikeski at October 28, 2026 11:43 PM (VHUov)

******
Lol. Good, I guess. They've had a rough summer due to hot weather and drought.

Are you they guy who used to add stuff to your nic to make me laugh? Or am I finally losing it?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 11:50 PM (hzuYO)

Might be miklos?

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:03 AM (odBC9)

394 I miss miklos! Haven't seen him for a long while. Hope he's OK.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

395 We call a w a double-u even though it's a double-v, but no one calls an m a double-n.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:04 AM (aKiSo)

396 *waves at miklos*

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:04 AM (odBC9)

397 And a B is just two D's in a trenchcoat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:06 AM (aKiSo)

398 A W that's curved at the pointy parts would be sorta U+U.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:10 AM (odBC9)

399 Not sure that I should just get up

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 03:10 AM (Ia/+0)

400 400

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:11 AM (odBC9)

401 398 A W that's curved at the pointy parts would be sorta U+U.
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:10 AM (odBC9)

... that's curved at the lower pointy parts.
(Not to get all technical with the wording.)

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:11 AM (odBC9)

402

Does anyone have a source or a link to a source for the Fun-Size Salad Packs that was posted here a few years ago?

I might need to spread some unhappiness this Halloween.

Posted by: Arbalest at October 29, 2026 03:12 AM (FlRtG)

403 Think it's genesis is a double v.
Although civilized people pronounce it dub ya.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:12 AM (jU8k8)

404 Not found

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

405 Does anyone have a source or a link to a source for the Fun-Size Salad Packs that was posted here a few years ago?

I might need to spread some unhappiness this Halloween.
Posted by: Arbalest

LOL. Pretty sure those were Foto-Chop

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

406 404 Not found
Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

Aw, man! Good one.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:14 AM (odBC9)

407 395 We call a w a double-u even though it's a double-v, but no one calls an m a double-n.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:04 AM (aKiSo)

In typesetting, an em-dash is twice the length of an en-dash. So, in that context, an em is a double-en.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:16 AM (odBC9)

408 And then there's Auntie Em.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:16 AM (odBC9)

409 Spanish calls 'W'

doble ve

(double v)

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)

410

LOL. Pretty sure those were Foto-Chop

Well, I was hoping ...

I'm too lazy to recycle some taterchip bags.

Posted by: Arbalest at October 29, 2026 03:17 AM (FlRtG)

411 408 And then there's Auntie Em.
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:16 AM (odBC9)

Did you know if you put an Em and an Auntie Em together it creates a huge explosion?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:18 AM (aKiSo)

412 >> You forgot the link.

That got me. LOL. But I cheated and looked it up. The exact solution to that is the equivalent resistance is (4/pi - 1/2).

And this is the discrete equivalent of the capacitance/resistance of a continuous medium, which Laplace's equation governs. It has nice solutions in 3D, well-behaved and allows for a "resistance to a ground plane at infinity" to be defined. The notion of "resistance to ground" of a ground rod is just this, approximating the earth as a infinite conducting medium.

Howeve, it 2D, because of the way Laplace's equation works, that thing diverges at infinity. The resistance between two points is finite, but the resistance to ground is infinite in 2D. In 3D it's finite as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 03:21 AM (w6EFb)

413 Japanese has a kanji that means "repeat the previous kanji," so they have a double letter for all their letters.

It's "々"

Which is useful when you don't want to write something like "龥" twice.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:23 AM (VHUov)

414 I'm too lazy to recycle some taterchip bags.
Posted by: Arbalest

Well, you could get some apples and pears... or put cut-up veggies into zip bags...

Heck, it's probly cheaper to just buy candy.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

415 What a piece of shit for melting down perfectly good, valuable motors.

Posted by: Pooklord at October 29, 2026 03:24 AM (9MAOs)

416
The 2D vs 3D difference with Laplace's equation behavior led one mathematician to describe it as drunk man can always find his way home, but a drunk bird may not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 03:25 AM (w6EFb)

417 It's later than it should be. She y'all tomorrow. 'night

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2026 03:28 AM (jU8k8)

418 Night, Braenyard

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:28 AM (rdVOm)

419 413 Japanese has a kanji that means "repeat the previous kanji," so they have a double letter for all their letters.

It's "々"

Which is useful when you don't want to write something like "龥" twice.
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:23 AM (VHUov)

huh
That's cool.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:29 AM (odBC9)

420 >>>something like "龥"

Hoping that's not a NSFW word.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:30 AM (odBC9)

421

Well, you could get some apples and pears... or put cut-up veggies into zip bags...

But, where's your Halloween spirit? I mean, there are the commercial aspect, an eco-granola-healthy-eating aspect and an extra-dietary-fiber aspect that must be introduced to the people ...

Heck, it's probly cheaper to just buy candy.

I guess that you don't really get into Dark Ops, do you.

Posted by: Arbalest at October 29, 2026 03:30 AM (FlRtG)

422 >>Which is useful when you don't want to write something like "龥" twice.

Heh.

Reminds me of the dude at work, that had these 5 kanji symbols tattooed on his arm. Swore that they "spelled [his] name" LMAO!

I tried to explain that kanji didn't work like that...

"OH, NO! THAT SPELLS MY NAME! _ _ _ _ _!"

Uh, yeah ok, sure bud... that spells your name. *snort!*

(Wonder what it *really* said?)

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

423 I guess that you don't really get into Dark Ops, do you.
Posted by: Arbalest

*lowers head in shame*

No... No, I guess not...

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:35 AM (rdVOm)

424 411 408 And then there's Auntie Em.
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:16 AM (odBC9)

Did you know if you put an Em and an Auntie Em together it creates a huge explosion?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:18 AM (aKiSo)

M&M

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:35 AM (odBC9)

425 Banhammer is smokin' tonight!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:37 AM (Asc1p)
-

I'm afraid to say LOL ever again.

Oops.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 03:36 AM (5UTWB)

426 Uh, yeah ok, sure bud... that spells your name. *snort!*

(Wonder what it *really* said?)

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:34 AM (rdVOm)

Could have been katakana? That's sort of angular and pointy like kanji, and it's used to "spell" foreign loan words and names. Or maybe it's some weird self-made mash-up of the sound-reading of each kanji that vaguely resembles the guy's name? That would be super weird though. Like a Chinese dude with "Ching Chong" tattooed on his back but the g's are 9's, or something....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:40 AM (aKiSo)

427 Warai-otoko--

NOT katakana or hiragana. Definitely kanji.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:41 AM (rdVOm)

428 425 Banhammer is smokin' tonight!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 01:37 AM (Asc1p)
-

I'm afraid to say LOL ever again.

Oops.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 29, 2026 03:36 AM (5UTWB)

You could say ΛΟΛ.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:48 AM (odBC9)

429 You could say ΛΟΛ.
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:48 AM (odBC9)

That's the frat house that got shut down for making too many Dad Jokes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:49 AM (aKiSo)

430 429 You could say ΛΟΛ.
Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:48 AM (odBC9)

That's the frat house that got shut down for making too many Dad Jokes.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:49 AM (aKiSo)

Zeta Ate-A Theta!

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:50 AM (odBC9)

431 There's a defunct blog called "hanzismatter" that answered questions about misused kanji/hanzi characters. He found out there was a "tattoo manual" that gave kanji-to-English-letter "translations" that were completely made up.

https://is.gd/zJHTjT

It got to the point where 4 out of 5 of his posts were about tattoos that used that book.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:53 AM (VHUov)

432 431 There's a defunct blog called "hanzismatter" that answered questions about misused kanji/hanzi characters. He found out there was a "tattoo manual" that gave kanji-to-English-letter "translations" that were completely made up.

https://is.gd/zJHTjT

It got to the point where 4 out of 5 of his posts were about tattoos that used that book.
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:53 AM (VHUov)

"tattoo manual"
It got to the point

Inadvertent pun.

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 03:55 AM (odBC9)

433 Kanji is super weird. There's a generic "this is the sound it makes" reading, the "this is the original Chinese meaning" reading, the "this is the Japanese meaning", and the "This is the japanese word for what the ideogram literally means in Chinese when you read it as its individual components, regardless of what it means in Chinese now" reading. And I think some even have a "screw it, it can sound like this too because why not" reading. I'm sure i'm butchering all that, but it's that sort of thing, and each way of reading a character has a name in Japanese and the hell i'm going to actually remember what any of those names are.

So one character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 03:57 AM (aKiSo)

434 That gets a verse in Stephen Lynch's "Tattoo" song too:

You think that symbol in Japanese
Means "strength" or "honor?"
Ni----, please!
It means "queer tattoo....."

https://youtu.be/eQvdSwXLY5w

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:57 AM (VHUov)

435 mikeski-- that looks plausible. Except for the "t"-- not enough brush-strokes there.

All of his "letters" looked so complex... but what do I know? I can't read kanji, after all.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 03:58 AM (rdVOm)

436 Inadvertent pun.
Posted by: m

Ha! You saw what I didn't see that I did there.

Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:59 AM (VHUov)

437 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

438 Why get your own name tattooed on yourself in a foreign language/script, even if you did manage to do it correctly?

Are you worried you might get bonked on the head and wake up Japanese and have no idea what your name is?

Imagine waking up with amnesia but you're Japanese now, and you look down and see "Dave" tattooed on your arm and you think "Well shit, I guess I'm gay."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:01 AM (aKiSo)

439 436 Inadvertent pun.
Posted by: m

Ha! You saw what I didn't see that I did there.
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 03:59 AM (VHUov)

ha!

Posted by: m at October 29, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

440
That drunk man vs drunk bird thing is the "random walk" problem (which is related to diffusion). You start out at a point. You take a step of some finite distance, just say 1 unit in a random direction. And you keep doing that with each step. One unit is random direction. That models a drunk.

Now, ask the question. What is the probability that the drunk will get to some destination point? That is, if he starts out at point A, will he ever get to point B? For 1 and 2 dimensions, that probability is 100%. It may take a loooongg time, infinite in fact, but it's certain the drunk will get to any other chosen point in the space.

Now, for 3D and higher, that probability drops off. In 3D space, the probability, even after an infinite number of steps of getting to point B is only 1/3.

And all that is the same problem as the infinite grid of resistors.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:02 AM (w6EFb)

441 pixy!

Posted by: clarence at October 29, 2026 04:02 AM (WZjs1)

442 ...So one character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Well, he seemed like a nice enough guy. I sure hope his tat doesn't contain a nasty message!

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2026 04:08 AM (rdVOm)

443 The joke in Washington during the Manhattan project, you could always tell when Niels Bohr was soon going to show up at your office soon, because you’d hear brakes howling and tires screeching. He was well known to be absent minded, the security services tailed these guys and wrote that he seemed to pay no attention or regard to traffic. He needed his wife to keep his clothes straight, he would show up for work at the T-area at Los Alamos with horribly mismatched clothes, and a Jethro Bodine style rope-belt when she was out of town.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 29, 2026 04:44 AM (X3owK)

444 35 Marines birthday is Nov 2.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 10:17 PM

Blasphemy! Marine Corps Birthday is Nov. 10!!!

Posted by: USMCMGB at October 29, 2026 06:10 AM (VRxcs)

Dungeon City Cafe

Swan ~~dive~~ belly flop.

Simpsons-themed Halloween house decorations.

Sometimes you just need to stick your paw in your mouth.

Fussy raven strips the leaves off a strawberry before accepting it.

Playing with a raven in the snow.

Sometimes a monkey just needs a hug.

This 800 year old linden tree is a real chonky chungus.

A sad photo won the 2026 Wildlife Photograph of the Year. It shows a grieving mother elephant carrying her dead calf with her trunk.

The red and white giant flying squirrel. He's a big boy as far as gliding animals go. Here's a picture of one of these chonky boys in flight.

FAQ: Do owls sneeze?

Owls being cute weirdos.

Sea otter plays basketball with a pumpkin.

But why https://t.co/tP3Umpp5zR
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) October 27, 2026

Dog tells his owner his blind friend deserves a treat first.. 🥺
Dogs are the best.. 😊 https://t.co/5eW7Ia9qOW
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 23, 2026

Old but great: service dog likes the slide.

Service dog loves the slide.. 😊 https://t.co/EZcx6FiNSK
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 25, 2026

A man knocked down a basement wall, finding a 2,000-year-old underground city
Chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground city that once housed 20,000 people
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu https://t.co/0y5SxlSUP9
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

Apparently that's real:

More than 85m beneath the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia lies a massive subterranean city that was in near-constant use for thousands of years.

Violent gusts whipped loose soil into the air as I hiked through Cappadocia's Love Valley. Pink- and yellow-hued hillsides coloured the rolling landscape scarred with deep red canyons, and chimneystack rock formations loomed in the distance. It was arid, hot, windy and devastatingly beautiful. Millennia ago, this volatile, volcanic environment naturally sculpted the spires surrounding me into their conical, mushroom-capped shapes, which now draw millions of visitors to hike or hot-air balloon in the central Turkish region.
But beneath Cappadocia's crumbling surface, a marvel of equally gargantuan proportions lay hidden away for centuries; a subterranean city that could conceal the whereabouts of up to 20,000 inhabitants for months at a time.
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu, burrows more than 85m below the Earth's surface, encompassing 18 levels of tunnels. The largest excavated underground city in the world, it was in near-constant use for thousands of years, changing hands from the Phrygians to the Persians to the Christians of the Byzantine Era. It was finally abandoned in the 1920s by the Cappadocian Greeks when they faced defeat during the Greco-Turkish war and fled abruptly en masse to Greece. Not only do its cave-like rooms stretch on for hundreds of miles, but it's thought the more than 200 small, separate underground cities that have also been discovered in the region may be connected to these tunnels, creating a massive subterranean network.
According to my guide, Suleman, Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again. Upon closer investigation and some digging, the Turk unearthed a dark passageway. It was the first of more than 600 entrances found within private homes leading to the subterrestrial city of Derinkuyu.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

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Bill Melugin
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BREAKING: Colleague @davidspunt reports via two sources familiar that there is an ongoing DOJ "aggressive criminal investigation" into Daniel J. Sullivan appearing on the ballot for US Senate in Alaska, and the investigation has intensified in the wake of the bombshell NYT report today.

DOJ sources tell David that multiple grand jury subpoenas will be issued in the coming hours and days, and there are preservation orders to cell phone companies that are being prepared regarding text messages and emails that may build a timeline for how Daniel J. Sullivan was placed on the ballot.

The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alaska and federal prosecutors are interested in potential charges relating to the depravation of rights of Alaska voters. The investigation is expected to go beyond Election Day and has been underway for several months.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:11 PM (kX27y)

2 Pretty tree

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:12 PM (8B4gm)

3 Nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (8B4gm)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (fO5H9)

5 My painting of a single tree. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (Ti9vn)

6 The wonderful, fresh bouquet of the Café continues.

Thank you Ace, and the AoSHQ Café Custodial Staff !

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 07:15 PM (0sNs1)

7 "It shows a grieving mother elephant carrying her dead calf with her trunk."

Kinda morbid. That was the best they could come up with?
Reminds me of the GOP.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi)

8 A man knocked down a basement wall, finding a 2,000-year-old underground city
Chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground city that once housed 20,000 people
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu https://t.co/0y5SxlSUP9
- Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

"So, do you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (jb8Ss)

9 I am tickled by ace's headlines today. En Fuego!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:17 PM (wVcYX)

10 leading to the subterrestrial city of Derinkuyu.

Dink a dink a doo?

Ha-cha-cha-chaaaa!

Posted by: Zombie The Schnoz at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (fO5H9)

11 Your Wings painting is great.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (8B4gm)

12 "Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM

Are you going to serve as bluebell's agent?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

13 My painting of a single tree. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (Ti9vn)

Would hang.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (wVcYX)

14 I think I saw that underground city in a Netflix documentary called Ancient Apocalypse, which is pretty good. The level of forethought that went into it is insane. Oh, and it's carved out of rock.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:19 PM (l26NL)

15 That tree at top has 'connections' at the the highest level.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 07:19 PM (LHPAg)

16 but why

just more examples of why women live longer than men.

Also

"It was there"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:19 PM (vJrRc)

17 2026, the year of the ' we are sick of your shit' election

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 07:20 PM (8Uo7a)

18
Marc Elias is an evil man -

John Reese - Person of Interest
@Rickisback_ON_X
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2h
Just In: Per Mark Halperin on Megyn Kelly, the Marc Elias law firm was involved in the fake Dan Sullivan Candidate search in the Alaska Senate race.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:20 PM (kX27y)

19 Your Wings painting is great.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (8B4gm)

Thanks . One of my top five sitcoms. It's from the closing credits.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (Ti9vn)

20 "It shows a grieving mother elephant carrying her dead calf with her trunk."

Kinda morbid. That was the best they could come up with?

Posted by: fd

It works for the Newbery awards

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (vJrRc)

21 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)

22 A man knocked down a basement wall, finding a 2,000-year-old underground city
Chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground city that once housed 20,000 people
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu https://t.co/0y5SxlSUP9
- Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

"So, do you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (jb8Ss)

Sneks. Why did it have to be sneks.

Posted by: Prof. Bluebell the Chicken at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (wVcYX)

23 "So, do you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (jb8Ss)
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I'm picturing "Chicken Boo" from Animaniacs in this role...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (FZ29D)

24 --- > as I hiked through Cappadocia's Love Valley.
Pink- and yellow-hued hillsides coloured the rolling landscape
scarred with deep red canyons,
_Bernie Sanders?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (jU8k8)

25 I've got one of those cities hidden behind a wall in my basement. I have a whole bunch of tiny aliens living there and every time I visit the yell, All Hail Jack!

True story.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (viF8m)

26
Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again.

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Great setup for a horror flick about ghost chickens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (mmrXZ)

27 When I and Kenny B dug that big hole in the yard, we fully intended on a city for 20,000

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (RIvkX)

28 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.

https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (3ImbR)

29 Simpsons theme is pretty good

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)

30 Damn, those people diving into the water from crazy places are darwin awards waiting to happen. I know 2 people, friends of mine who died doing that. One was a kid I went to school with. 1 day after graduation. They were jumping off a bridge. He misjudged the jump, and broke his head open like a melon when he hit a chunk of concrete under the surface. The next one was a few years later. He jumped off a cliff a little over 100 feet up at some quarry. Never surfaced. Divers had to find his body. People are frigging nuts.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (vzuC7)

31 Voted today. First time I was allowed to have a preferred candidate list to look at while voting . Necessary because the local offices like school board don't list Party.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (Ti9vn)

32 Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again.
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This does prompt the question, "What is down there eating chickens?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (FZ29D)

33 Sometimes you are in the right place at the right time with a camera like the top photo.

Skateboard height jumping dude ain't going to live long based on his choice to jump into boulders under the water from that bridge. He was lucky.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (hzuYO)

34
Just In: Per Mark Halperin on Megyn Kelly, the Marc Elias law firm was involved in the fake Dan Sullivan Candidate search in the Alaska Senate race.
Posted by: beckster

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What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (mmrXZ)

35 >>What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.

He was the one who came up with the idea. So low level staffer got the assignment to find another Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:25 PM (viF8m)

36 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (vzuC7)

Whenever I watch the Red Bull events or those crazy diving vids ,etc I always have to comment:

White Boyz Be Crazy

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:26 PM (Ti9vn)

37 What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

He and the guy that double jumped off the rock won't see too many more birthdays.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:27 PM (8B4gm)

38 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.

https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (3ImbR)

They need to be machine gunned to an unrecognizable mass, then reassembled like a dinosaur skeleton with pins and rods, then machine gunned again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2026 07:27 PM (vzuC7)

39 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.
https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db
Posted by: IrishEi

Another (likely illegal alien) sawed the head off of a Marine on the Iwo Jima monument.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (l26NL)

40 What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

When only the lowest will do

Posted by: Elias Cheatum and Howe at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (ik4bQ)

41 Why did the chicken slip into a crevasse?

Posted by: Just The Punchline at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (wVcYX)

42 I choose to believe the chickens built the underground city

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (4HoLg)

43 I saw Subterranean Chicken open for the Byrds. It was unreal.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)

44
He was the one who came up with the idea. So low level staffer got the assignment to find another Dan Sullivan.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

Oh, of course. I'm hearing another story right now about how they wanted to start a fake MAGA party. "Dan Sullivan, party affiliation MAGA." Frat game politics.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (mmrXZ)

45 We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And the chicken is then accused of rape by several TAs

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (88C+u)

46 Did the guy find his chickens?
Enquiring minds you know!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (NnhvP)

47 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.
https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db
Posted by: IrishEi

He's in federal custody.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:30 PM (8B4gm)

48 Nurse is getting some good, quality sea otter content this week.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 07:30 PM (l0mRP)

49 As pointed out elsewhere, the buried lede in the alaska scandal is that there must be a solid GOP win coming.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (4HoLg)

50 Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again.

I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for these meddling kids!

Posted by: Old Man Jenkins at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (wVcYX)

51 The underground city inhabited by fox humanoid hybrids.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (Ti9vn)

52 If mentioned, I missed it that this undergraduate city is in Turkey

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

53 Test

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:32 PM (Sco7b)

54 Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (4HoLg)

Besides the usual Winston Wolfe quotes, there may be an undercurrent of trying to raise the moles all at once.
Biden "won" 2020 by defrauding several states at once. Trump's legal team could not whack all those moles at once.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:32 PM (88C+u)

55 There is a Derinkuyu beneath Las Vegas. The storm drain system or what ever it is. Crackheads, drug addicts, there was even a famous old porn star living down there.

Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.

Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM (Ssbab)

56 Nicki Minaj may be whatever you think she is
But one thing for sure is that she is a Trumper.
Have a look, scroll through it and see:

https://x.com/NICKIMINAJ

https://twitterviewer.net/NICKIMINAJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM (jU8k8)

57 I, for one, welcome our subterranean chicken overlords.

It's gotta be better then having Democrats in charge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (wVcYX)

58 This does prompt the question, "What is down there eating chickens?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (FZ29D)

I wonder if the map could be used for some sort of Doom II or Castle Wolfenstein reboot game.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (rbvCR)

59 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ti9vn)

60 Bet that otter is a Sophie Cunningham fan

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

61 We were never here.

Posted by: The Chickens at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (RIvkX)

62 Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.
Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM

What that guy said.

Posted by: Greece at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l0mRP)

63 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought that was Seattle.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l26NL)

64 What is this stupidity on Fox, the Ingraham Angle to be precise? They are blurring out the faces of people behind Trump as he is giving the speech.

I thought people were there to be seen with Trump.

Posted by: Decaf at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (ZNpJk)

65 Apologies for jumping into a happy thread but I just returned from DC and it was beautiful there today. Saw a few NG troopers walking around, smiling and talking with the citizenry. Just awesome.

The rate of aggravated assault declined 31%… The rate of property victimization declined 19%… The rates of burglary or trespassing (down 25%), motor vehicle theft (down 30%), and other types of household theft (down 19%) decreased from 2024 to 2025.

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Outside of Democrat-run jurisdictions America is one of the safest big countries, if not THE safest, and outside of Democrat-run states, the rconomy is the strongest in the world. By far.

Thank you PDJT!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (WKesY)

66 Cotton tree very pretty.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (Cqx++)

67 Darren McGavin stars in: The Night Pecker.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (wVcYX)

68 Turkish chupacabra lives in the cave.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (8B4gm)

69 37 What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Lawyer-client privilege. Democrats use law firms to hide dirty political jobs. Reason why Marc Elias worked at Perkins Cooie before they parted ways. Perkins Cooie reported had its own SCIF where Democrat operatives who were also contractors for the FBI used NSA and other classified databases to spy on GOP members of Congress, GOP political operatives, donors etc.

Smith took it a step further during his quest to put Trump in jail and included even people buying MAGA hats and small time donors number thousands of people.

Democrats are basically using national security databases to spy on GOP and anyone getting in their way. And corrupt pieces of shit GOPe operatives like former senator from NC Richard Burr knew this (Senate intel chair and ranking member before retiring). Burr kept quiet because he used similar data to get his family generational wealth through trading and investments.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)

70 >>>Sometimes a monkey just needs a hug.

And sometimes a monkey just needs to eat someone's face. Choose your moments well.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (syz1S)

71 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the ~~hoboshomeless~~unhoused.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)

72
According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought that was Seattle.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Yeah, Night Stalker TV movie was Seattle. It was just on MOVIES! channel this past weekend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (Cqx++)

73 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought that was Seattle.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l26NL)

Was it? Maybe I'm thinking of another show where San Fran built on top of the 1908 earthquake damage.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (Ti9vn)

74 Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.
Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM

What that guy said.
Posted by: Greece at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l0mRP)

Ditto.

Posted by: Cyprus at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (wSZ/B)

75 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ti9vn)
=====

In Chinatown

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (RIvkX)

76 Obama's still packing them in. I asked chat this.

Where's obama's speech tonight?
Room capacity?

🏟️ What is the arena's capacity?
The The Arena at Southlake has a capacity of approximately 8,000 people.

The Arena At Southlake

Address: 1300 Southlake Circle, Morrow, Georgia.
Maximum venue capacity: Approximately 8,000.
Expected attendance tonight: I couldn't confirm an official attendance figure. The number attending Obama's rally could be lower than the arena's maximum capacity.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:39 PM (Sco7b)

77 64 What is this stupidity on Fox, the Ingraham Angle to be precise? They are blurring out the faces of people behind Trump as he is giving the speech.

I thought people were there to be seen with Trump.
Posted by: Decaf

James Murdoch hates Trump and hates Elon too by the way. Bleeping globalist nepot and a good reason never to watch Fox. They did the same with supporting Thatcher and then pivoting to supporting Blair with their papers in the UK. All of the family are pieces of human excrement including ole Rupert himself. Nasty critters involved in the whole 2020 steal as well with their call in AZ starting the whole shutdown of counting in multiple swing states simultaneously.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:40 PM (E4rtv)

78 I saw that otter on TV yesterday. Or the day before.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:40 PM (Cqx++)

79 I can't find anything about San Fran having underground city. False memory I guess.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:41 PM (Ti9vn)

80 >>>59 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.

nope, seattle. and that's a fact. Seattle was prone to flooding so they re-graded the city and buried the first two (?) floors of buildings under fill and made the old third story "street level."

It doesn't look like it does in the TV movie, though. That's just a set.

This was in the second Kolchak TV movie, The Night Strangler, which I think is better than the first one.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1wjle)

81 Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.
Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel

=====

Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October, and the thought has crossed my mind - see the Sagrada Familia before it gets Hagia Sophia'd.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (4HoLg)

82 you see the Seattle underground in the bizarro movie "Malignant" (the James Wan WTF movie).

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (1wjle)

83 >>Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October,

It's pronounced Barthelona.

Tourist.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)

84 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the hoboshomelessunhoused.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)

Correct. The Mole People. Most work t Coney Island when they are not in jail.

Posted by: Mole People King Blind Dirty Bastard The First at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (Ssbab)

85 I never saw much daylight between Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. They were both running tabloid trash papers in London.
The only difference is that we know the geo-coordinates of the pedo island for the first one's family.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (88C+u)

86

They also used the Bradbury building in The Night Strangler.

https://t.ly/u6rzh

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)

87 Bleeping globalist nepot and a good reason never to watch Fox.
Posted by: whig

I had weened myself from Fox except for Maria in the Morning. Now, even that is gone.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (l26NL)

88 Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1wjle)

Yeah but still..

( channeling a lefty)

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (Ti9vn)

89 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the hoboshomelessunhoused.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)
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According to the afterword in "Reliquary" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the "Mole people" of Manhattan are quite real, living most of their lives in the underground tunnels. Some estimates say there are as many as 30 levels *below* some buildings.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (FZ29D)

90 >>>They also used the Bradbury building in The Night Strangler.

oh yeah, I have a hazy memory of that now that you mention it.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (1wjle)

91 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the hoboshomelessunhoused.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)

Correct. The Mole People. Most work t Coney Island when they are not in jail.
Posted by: Mole People King Blind Dirty Bastard The First at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (Ssbab)

Splitters!

Posted by: C.H.U.D.s at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (wVcYX)

92 "Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM

Ohhh...chasing your chicken through a hole is TIGHT!

Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (SwyyQ)

93 This was in the second Kolchak TV movie, The Night Strangler, which I think is better than the first one.
Posted by: ace

I concur. Plus, a better bosomy girlfriend.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (l26NL)

94
Puff and Ruth to the vet today for their annual exam and shots. Considering they're both wild children, they behaved fine. They were found to be in good health. Doc is always amazed at how clean everyone's teeth are.

I'd like to think our vet wished all her clients were like us. Our dogs are well taken care of, well maintained and well socialized. We can discuss problems and solutions intelligently. And if the time comes, we accept it and stay with them to the end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 07:46 PM (eRlcH)

95 >>>Sometimes a monkey just needs a hug.

And sometimes a monkey just needs to eat someone's face. Choose your moments well.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

The guys in the video are definitely betting on "face eating"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:47 PM (vJrRc)

96 The only thing Barack is packing in tonight is his colon.

Posted by: Zombie Barney Fag, democrat homosexual at October 28, 2026 07:47 PM (Ssbab)

97 San Francisco's underground is all above the ground since the 1960s

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

98 >Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October,

It's pronounced Barthelona.

Tourist.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)

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When we were there in 2019 I refused to pronounce it that way. People seemed to be OK with it.

Posted by: Decaf at October 28, 2026 07:48 PM (ZNpJk)

99 I know that Atlanta has some parts of it underground and I believe Oklahoma City did at one time or another.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:48 PM (TN0g+)

100 "Mole people" of Manhattan are quite real, living most of their lives in the underground tunnels. Some estimates say there are as many as 30 levels *below* some buildings.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Well, yes. The foundations of skyscrapers have to be very, very deep, or they fall over like those Chinese high-rises.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:48 PM (vJrRc)

101 >>I concur. Plus, a better bosomy girlfriend.

Oh, I don't remember her. I usually do.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:49 PM (1wjle)

102
@nicksortor is currently in an active Live Broadcast, click to watch
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
·
35m
LMAO! The crowd at Barack Obama's rally in Georgia looks COMPLETELY checked out as they send out some "performer" screaming gibberish into a mic, which the crowd can't even HEAR

The "performer" is buying time for Obama, who is now WELL over an hour late to speak 🤣

A GREAT representation of the Obama presidency right here 😂

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:49 PM (kX27y)

103 It's pronounced Barthelona.

Tourist.
Posted by: JackStraw

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I'm assembling my Sheriff J. W. Pepper vacation wardrobe.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (4HoLg)

104 They also used the Bradbury building in The Night Strangler.

https://t.ly/u6rzh
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)

Blade Runner used it...

Posted by: Boswell at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (j10i6)

105 Did you know there are 21 states where BOTH Senators are democrats?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (TN0g+)

106 85 I never saw much daylight between Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. They were both running tabloid trash papers in London.
The only difference is that we know the geo-coordinates of the pedo island for the first one's family.
Posted by: 88C+u
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We know Maxwell was also an intel asset for at least two spy agencies, mebbe three. CIA and MI-6 used him and his academic publishing company as a conduit to Leonid Brezhnev as Maxwell published some of Brezhnev's writings and as a result Maxwell got to spend alone time with him.

Given his state funeral in Israel attended by high ranking officials of Israel after his death, would not be surprised that he was a Mossad asset on occasion as well.

Ghislaine is just the type that would slide into Maxwell's role.

The Murdoch family probably also has intel ties. Rupert had a Hong Kong wife, Wendi Deng, at one time, had Saudi Prince bin Talal as a major silent investor, and Mick Jagger's ex Jerry Hall among others. Now married to a former Russian. Dumped a fiance in between hall and the Russian due to the fiance being a strong Christian which gave Rupert heebie jeebies.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (E4rtv)

107
Daisy Ridley is supposed to be playing the David Hedison "Captain Crane" roll in a remake of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

Could this be the peak Girl Boss moment we've not been waiting for?

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (Y8DZL)

108
I know that Atlanta has some parts of it underground and I believe Oklahoma City did at one time or another.
Posted by: Crusader

I visited the Atlanta Underground in 1976. It's been closed and reopened several times since then.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)

109 We are going to deflate the ball
Run an oversized engine
Snow bow the field for the field goal

and then

FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (/+uur)

110 nope, seattle. and that's a fact. Seattle was prone to flooding so they re-graded the city and buried the first two (?) floors of buildings under fill and made the old third story "street level."

It doesn't look like it does in the TV movie, though. That's just a set.

This was in the second Kolchak TV movie, The Night Strangler, which I think is better than the first one.
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1wjle)
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Apparently Chicago has an extensive underground network of tunnels as well. Jim Butcher uses this on occasion in his Dresden Files series as a place for nastier supernatural critters to hang their hats (assuming they have heads...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (FZ29D)

111 India has a retarded time zone.

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (enNUy)

112 Oh, I don't remember her. I usually do.

Posted by: ace

Joanne Pflug I think. She was in the original movie MASH. She took car of Painless Paul, if I recall. She's hawt.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (l26NL)

113
The "performer" is buying time for Obama, who is now WELL over an hour late to speak

__________

Punctuality is the courtesy of well-bred people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (eRlcH)

114
We built this city
We built this city
In a big hole

Posted by: The chickens at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (MWfyi)

115 Bradbury Bldg. the one from original Blade Runner? It's right across the street from the Grand Central Market in LA, which is worth visiting (lots of good Mexican and other cuisines, pretty authentic).

Without any arrangements at all you can walk in the Bradbury and look around (ground floor) during regular business hours. There are also tours by arrangement. Just walking in and looking up/around you get the bulk of the Blade Runner thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (U/Byj)

116 I had weened myself from Fox except for Maria in the Morning. Now, even that is gone.
Posted by: Blutarski
========
James wants social recognition among Manhattan elites and doesn't have the rest of the Fox empire like movie studios anymore.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (E4rtv)

117 Did you know there are 21 states where BOTH Senators are democrats?
Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (TN0g

Only 4 states have a split.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:53 PM (Ti9vn)

118 That was a good solid 30 minutes of MSNow. I'm done.

No Obama speech.
Eternal sadness.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:53 PM (Sco7b)

119 Surprised he lived - photo of the flydubai's pilot's head that got the jihadi axe:

https://tinyurl.com/ys8hsmd2

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:53 PM (kX27y)

120 "Taking the leaves off strawberries"

Ahem: the calyxes. That raven dinner is going to become a big mess somewhere soon, on a car most likely.

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 07:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

121 He's in federal custody.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:30 PM (8B4gm)
~~~~~

Excellent. President Trump said 10 years for defacing a national memorial. Hope he gets that.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 28, 2026 07:55 PM (3ImbR)

122 I visited the Atlanta Underground in 1976. It's been closed and reopened several times since then.
-----

Fascinating! What was it like back then?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:55 PM (TN0g+)

123 CPT

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:56 PM (8B4gm)

124
Trump speech: We're all friends here.

Obama speech: You're lucky I'm talking to you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 07:56 PM (eRlcH)

125 Everything is a cheat
At the touch screen they off calibrate
Or they make the printer need a second sheet but your precinct has 1 per voter
The polls close at 500 shut the fuck up and go home
You did not register by party (their is no registration by party)
The line stop here (inserts a piece of paper)
This is not your voting place (I voted here about 4 time)

Just a few things I have seen in my life.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 07:57 PM (/+uur)

126 >>When we were there in 2019 I refused to pronounce it that way. People seemed to be OK with it.

I don't know why but I hear it's gotten much worse. I have some friends who visited in 2024 for the America's Cup races and they said many of the locals were openly hostile. Not to the point of violence, they just made it clear they thought the tourists, the ones who paid the bills, were beneath them.

They might not be as uppity now that muslims are burning their country down. Again.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:57 PM (viF8m)

127 Evenin’, All. Happy Thursday Eve!

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 07:57 PM (77rzZ)

128 Pennsylvania is split Senators

Time forbed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

129 If the 17th did not pass the Average term for a Senator would be 18.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 07:58 PM (/+uur)

130
What was it like back then?
Posted by: Crusader

Tourist trap. Shops and bars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:59 PM (Cqx++)

131
Not to the point of violence, they just made it clear they thought the tourists, the ones who paid the bills, were beneath them.

___________

Why go there anyway?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 08:00 PM (eRlcH)

132 You know one thing I haven't seen in awhile that was big for awhile.

Fact-checkig ads.

I guess when no one trusts you, why are they going to trust your analysis.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)

133 400K absentee ballots to be counted in Israel, which reportedly could affect allocation of up to 12 seats (don't axe me to figure that one out). Counting of these supposed to be finished by tomorrow, official final results announced Nov. 4.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:02 PM (U/Byj)

134 I went to Underground Atlanta before they redid it in the 80s. It was dingy and dangerous and interesting After they reopened it was was well lit and modernized and boring. I guess it's still open and like a underground mall with a bunch of touristy crap for sale.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)

135 >>>"It was at the time of the [7th-Century] Islamic raids [on the predominantly Christian Byzantine Empire],
---

Fucking Islam

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:03 PM (jU8k8)

136 24 year of John Wayne McCornholeyn
things are great
Paxton
ooh ooh ooh gay dick cutting senator bestest ever
Fuck the Bushs

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:04 PM (/+uur)

137 >>Why go there anyway?

Beautiful city. Lots of history. Great food. Try the ham.

Seriously, it's a lovely city and it does have a ton of historical significance. Beautiful place.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 08:04 PM (viF8m)

138 133 400K absentee ballots to be counted in Israel, which reportedly could affect allocation of up to 12 seats (don't axe me to figure that one out). Counting of these supposed to be finished by tomorrow, official final results announced Nov. 4.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:02 PM (U/Byj)

More Muslim freely vote in Israel than the whole middle east.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:05 PM (/+uur)

139 Tree looks like a big old cotton ball.

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2026 08:05 PM (ZxPkt)

140 Tree looks like a big old cotton ball.
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2026 08:05 PM (ZxPkt)
----
Ripe for the Q-tip harvest!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 08:08 PM (FZ29D)

141 Another day ending in Y with the VTuber drama cycle.

This is an ugly mess as the female VTuber Ember Paradox has admitted to being in RL a man using a cute avatar and a voice changer. It seems like they let things get out of control because they were having success and we now have hurt feelings and broken trusts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (2GVsD)

142 rhomboid. those votes are called double envelopes. They are vote from medical, military and disabled voters that can't make it to the polls.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (8Uo7a)

143 139 Hopefully, it doesn’t get cut down by a beavil.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

144 More Muslim freely vote in Israel than the whole middle east.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Apparently from reports, the Arabs got paid for their votes from countries abroad. SO possibly not 'free'ly.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (E4rtv)

145 Benjamin Netanyahu - @netanyahu

Translated from Hebrew
Likud:
The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

The Likud party is transferring to the police, the Shin Bet, and the
Central Elections Committee hundreds of testimonies and pieces of evidence

envelopes with cash and Ra'am slips, threats and violence against polling station members, multiple voting behind the curtain, voting with double identities, discrepancies between the number of envelopes and the number of voters, the use of prohibited mobilization software, and more.

We demand from the police and the Shin Bet a thorough investigation into the election theft by the Arab parties and the full prosecution of the criminals.

We demand from the Central Elections Committee an immediate response to investigate these criminal offenses that have severely damaged the integrity of the elections in Israel and the election results.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:10 PM (jU8k8)

146 Ah, forgot to mention that they all have to be double verified since the person is not voting in a polling place.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (8Uo7a)

147 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)

148 Portland Oregon has extensive tunnels under Old Town and Chinatown, Known as the Shanghai Tunnels.

Posted by: Mon Lee Chinee Take Out at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (EdP2u)

149 134 I went to Underground Atlanta before they redid it in the 80s. It was dingy and dangerous and interesting After they reopened it was was well lit and modernized and boring. I guess it's still open and like a underground mall with a bunch of touristy crap for sale.
Posted by: fd

I think they are on their third iteration of Underground Atlanta. Version one got did in by crime, Version two, ditto as no one wanted to go downtown to that area as there were safer places to party, now they are on Version three.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (E4rtv)

150 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)
---
Batman?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (FZ29D)

151 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

152 Apparently from reports, the Arabs got paid for their votes from countries abroad. SO possibly not 'free'ly.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (E4rtv)

Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You couldn't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (/+uur)

153 151 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

Ramadan?

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (/+uur)

154 August Democrats: "There are no issues here. No dirty tricks."

September Democrats: "Sure there were some dirty tricks, but the Peltola campaign wasn't the problem."

October Democrats: "Sure the Peltola campaign participated in the dirty tricks, but it wasn't, you know, Illegal."

November Democrats: "Look at the Trump administration and their election interference!"

Posted by: notalawyer at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (lR2Tk)

155 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (rbvCR)

156 My wife and I were in the underground city about a year ago. Cappadocia in general is awesome and that was one of the cooler things.

Dang, I've been some pretty cool places.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (Riz8t)

157 I think they are on their third iteration of Underground Atlanta. Version one got did in by crime, Version two, ditto as no one wanted to go downtown to that area as there were safer places to party, now they are on Version three.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (E4rtv)
---
When version three burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp, we can rebuild it!

And the fourth one will stand strong!

Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (FZ29D)

158 147 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)

the lizards of Denver? i mean, before they took over the legislature

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 08:14 PM (88C+u)

159
Nicki Minaj@NICKIMINAJ· 3d

Trump War Room@TrumpWarRoom

International rap sensation Nicki Minaj will appear alongside President Donald Trump in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday as he continues his final push to support Republican candidates ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

https://t.co/6CYdbD1pFd
https://t.co/FPj4fE5a3A

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:14 PM (jU8k8)

160 "Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.
Posted by: Kindltot "

There will be a lot more if they let them keep this up.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)

161 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

162 Dicks!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 08:16 PM (8Uo7a)

163 155 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.

Posted by: Kindltot
---

That can be remedied different ways.
_ 'Do you want it nice and easy?
or Do you want it rough?
_Tina Turner

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:18 PM (jU8k8)

164 Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.
Posted by: Kindltot "

There will be a lot more if they let them keep this up.
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)

Yes. Letting arabs vote for anything is like sticking your tongue in an electrical outlet.

Stupid and pointless. They want to kill you yet you'll let them vote. Madness.

Posted by: Dumb and Dumber at October 28, 2026 08:18 PM (Ssbab)

165
Vulvae!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (w6EFb)

166 Trump said PUSSY

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (enNUy)

167 162 Dicks!
Posted by: Ben Had

Far as the eye can see.
youtu.be/xjkAZO1WAck

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (88C+u)

168 Hey, Ben Had.🙂

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (77rzZ)

169 AI sez: "The Arab population in Israel numbers approximately 2.1 million people, making up about 21% of the country's total population of roughly 10 million"

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 08:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

170 So your chickens found an ancient city behind a wall.

The professor we stayed with, had this old wardrobe in a room on the 2nd floor.

If you went into it, and walked out the back, you walked into a whole other world.

True story ...

Posted by: Lucy Pevencie at October 28, 2026 08:21 PM (oCio0)

171 Vulnavia

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 08:21 PM (2GVsD)

172 151 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd
====
The parties are aimed at grifting and destruction of the Jewish state. Sooner or later, the Arabs figure the left will get desperate enough to join with the Arabs to get a majority coalition.

Like the West in general, Israel had some leftists with a death wish.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:21 PM (E4rtv)

173 Thanks Ben Had, yep, what we call absentee they call double-envelope (for a similar arrangement with the registration info outside, "privacy" envelope with ballot inside).

Thanks Braenyard, meant to post that Bibi statement. It's pretty strong and specific by Israeli standards. Reports that Israeli intel/LE tracking down the source of the payments. Not entirely clear on Bibi's implication here. Most Arab Israelis vote for Arab parties, historically. So he either means bribed to vote, period, or bribed to vote for one particular Arab party.

Think preliminary estimate for turnout was in high 70s%.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (U/Byj)

174 I just went to YouTube to watch The Night Strangler to see an underground city. John Carradine is in it!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (l26NL)

175 "The Arab population in Israel numbers approximately 2.1 million people, making up about 21% of the country's total population of roughly 10 million"

I wonder how many are NOT Muslim.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

176 No Muzzies should have a vote, anywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (77rzZ)

177 >>Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.

Largest minority population in Israel are Palestinians.

If only we had a real media.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)

178 How many of the 10 million citizens in Israel are also American citizens?

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:24 PM (enNUy)

179 Historically the Arab parties usually consisted of one commie (literally) party and one smaller traditional one, as I recall. Arab representation in Knesset will be highest ever after this vote.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:24 PM (U/Byj)

180

When version three burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp, we can rebuild it!

And the fourth one will stand strong!
Posted by: King of Swamp Castle

More like useless grifting from government contractors and developers will spur version three. Same as Atlantic Station development has been emptying out since Keisha Lance Bottoms let BLM run wild. Hurt Buckhead too. Turns out merchants don't like their stock being stolen and customers don't like homeless bums threatening them nor being robbed/carjacked.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:25 PM (E4rtv)

181 Think most Arab Israelis are Muslim. Nazareth and few other areas have the large minority of Christians.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:25 PM (U/Byj)

182 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Kirk has to ensure that a bleeding heart leftist dies in order to save his own butt.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)

183 Also the Druze are Arabs

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 08:27 PM (88C+u)

184
Edith Keeler must die!

Also, they walk by Floyd's Barber Shop.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (w6EFb)

185 Buckhead was turning into a shit hole back in the mid 00's. I can't imagine it now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (8B4gm)

186 Also the Druze are Arabs
Posted by: 88C+u

What are Druze? Are they muslim or something else?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (l26NL)

187 Historically the Arab parties usually consisted of one commie (literally) party and one smaller traditional one, as I recall. Arab representation in Knesset will be highest ever after this vote.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:24 PM (U/Byj)
**********************

The United Arab List (a.k.a. Ra'am) is the relatively moderate one.

The Joint Arab List combines a Ba'athist party whose leaders used to denounce Israel in Damascus, a communist party descended from the one that took orders from Moscow, and an Islamist party.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:29 PM (+HuQv)

188 Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October. . .

Que?

Posted by: Manuel at October 28, 2026 08:29 PM (fO5H9)

189 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Kirk has to ensure that a bleeding heart leftist dies in order to save his own butt.
Posted by: fd

The episodic violation of the Prime Directive?

Posted by: Manuel at October 28, 2026 08:30 PM (fO5H9)

190
The Perseverance rover has set the off-world driving distance record at 28.10 miles distance on Mars.

The off-world driving by humans record is 22.2 miles by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, Apollo 17.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2026 08:30 PM (w6EFb)

191 "The Joint Arab List combines a Ba'athist party whose leaders used to denounce Israel in Damascus, a communist party descended from the one that took orders from Moscow, and an Islamist party.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan"

They don't seem nice. We aren't the only ones with enemy within.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:31 PM (MWfyi)

192 Mulva?

Posted by: Dolores? at October 28, 2026 08:31 PM (EdP2u)

193 "What are Druze? Are they muslim or something else?"

A question left open pretty intentionally by the Druze themselves. Pretty rational approach over the centuries of various sects over-running the area. In Israel the Druze are well integrated some of the few Arabs who serve in police and IDF. Bibi made a fairly explicit public security guarantee to the Druze of southern Syria - who often demonstrate with Israeli flags and portraits of Bibi. Obviously there's zero trust, or should we say an abundance of caution, with regard to the new Syrian regime.

Bedouin Arabs also serve in the IDF. Some of the Israeli heroes of 10/7 were Druze and Bedouin.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:32 PM (U/Byj)

194 Also the Druze are Arabs
Posted by: 88C+u

What are Druze? Are they muslim or something else?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (l26NL)
*****************************

The Druze speak Arabic and follow a variant of Islam, but they're always categorized separately from Arabs. Unfortunately for them, they're few in number and scattered across Lebanon, Israel, and Syria. In Israel, the Druze are about 2% of the population and participate fully in society, even being subject to the draft at the request of their community (made sometime in the '50s, IIRC).

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:33 PM (+HuQv)

195 I worked with a Druze Muslim. Nice guy. Lot of the Saudis wouldn't talk to him at all. He was viewed as an apostate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 08:34 PM (8B4gm)

196 Druids>>Druish>>Druze

Posted by: I Rate 'Em... at October 28, 2026 08:35 PM (EdP2u)

197 Didn't realize Arab Israelis had a Ba'athist faction (!), that's amusing. Dunno if any such folks yet survive up in Beirut, birthplace of the movement. The brutal dictatorships in Damascus and Baghdad that used the "ideas" early on and later the label when useful, of course, have mysteriously disappeared.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:35 PM (U/Byj)

198 >>Bedouin Arabs also serve in the IDF. Some of the Israeli heroes of 10/7 were Druze and Bedouin.

I remember seeing an interview after 10/7 of a Bedouin man and his family who risked their lives to rescue a number of Jews who were running from the music festival that was attacked. Very humble guy. Just said it was his duty to help people who were in need.

That kind of thing doesn't sell. Conflict does.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

199
Edith Keeler must die!

Also, they walk by Floyd's Barber Shop.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Was Barbara Eden doing manicures?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 08:37 PM (Cqx++)

200 185 Buckhead was turning into a shit hole back in the mid 00's. I can't imagine it now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
=======
Slightly better than after BLM and Keisha but not anywhere near what it was before her disastrous term in office. Atlanta has a new multibillion dollar redevelopment plan now for a former rail yard called the Gulch that is kicking off. Which as usual, will go sour in the end due to rampant crime and feral behavior by drug and alcohol soused homeless.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

201 I was going to become a Ba'athist, but showering once a week on Saturday night is enough for me. Any more often dries my hide and fur.

Posted by: Three More Days... at October 28, 2026 08:38 PM (EdP2u)

202 You're soaking in it!

Posted by: Madge The Ba'athist at October 28, 2026 08:41 PM (EdP2u)

203 Checking other sites.

I'm kind of hope the leftists start getting what they're begging for. Within the last year or so, damn, stupid was one thing. Stupid and dangerous is another.

To paraphrase an alien on ST:TNG, teaching them a lesson may cost several of them their lives. Maybe half.

Deal!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 08:42 PM (Sco7b)

204 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics

Posted by: SMOD at October 28, 2026 08:43 PM (gWCxi)

205
Vulnavia
Posted by: Anna Puma

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

THE Vulnavia?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 28, 2026 08:44 PM (mmrXZ)

206 Welp, done for the evening. Have a pleasant evening.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:44 PM (E4rtv)

207 desafinado/out of tune

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkK5eSlX7M

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:44 PM (jU8k8)

208 THE Vulnavia?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

MY...Vul...navia!

Posted by: Dr. Phibes at October 28, 2026 08:45 PM (l26NL)

209 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics
Posted by: SMOD

Oh, my. That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (l26NL)

210 Bibi made a fairly explicit public security guarantee to the Druze of southern Syria -
---

You mean, like, he blew up a bunch of Syrians who were trying to annihilate them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (jU8k8)

211 Vulnavia
Posted by: Anna Puma

* opens envelope *

Describe lots of little men in boats.

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (VHUov)

212 The underground city thing is cool but if it only fell out of use in the 1920s, wouldn't there still have been people around that knew it was there when it was "rediscovered " in 1963? Seems unlikely that everyone could forget an underground city that housed 20,000 people in just 43 years.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2026 08:48 PM (uyuYG)

213 I'd gotten the Arab parties a bit confused: it's relatively moderate Ra'am that's Islamist, while the third party in the Joint Arab List has origins linking it to the PLO/Fatah.

United Arab List (Ra'am): Moderate Islamists

Balad: Ba'athists

Hadash: Communists

Ta'al: Sort of in-between those others

Joint Arab List: Balad, Hadash, and Ta'al

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:48 PM (+HuQv)

214 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics
Posted by: SMOD

I'm sorry, I'm honestly not sure how I can make Los Angeles more gay.

Posted by: K. Kennedy at October 28, 2026 08:49 PM (VHUov)

215 The Balad of Hadash and Ta'al was one of those catchy tunes that never really got legs

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

216 Describe lots of little men in boats.
Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM

That 'big men' can't ever find, and men never ask for directions.

But we love 'em anyway.

Posted by: Women at October 28, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

217 Bibi made a fairly explicit public security guarantee to the Druze of southern Syria -
---

You mean, like, he blew up a bunch of Syrians who were trying to annihilate them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (jU8k

*****************************

It's a pity that the Druze area in southern Syria isn't immediately adjacent to the Golan Heights.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:53 PM (+HuQv)

218 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?
Posted by: Count de Monet

the lizards of Denver? i mean, before they took over the legislature
Posted by: 88C+u

Werewolves of London >> Lizards of Denver

Posted by: ah-hoooo at October 28, 2026 08:54 PM (VHUov)

219 Something going on in Aiken SC?

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:54 PM (enNUy)

220 >>> 209 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics
Posted by: SMOD

Oh, my. That's not going to end well.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (l26NL)

I can't wait for the opening ceremony starring several WNBA players as magic space lesbians.

No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)

221 *****************************

It's a pity that the Druze area in southern Syria isn't immediately adjacent to the Golan Heights.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan
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There's a way to remedy that
_territorial enhancement

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jU8k8)

222 Werewolves of London >> Lizards of Denver
Posted by: ah-hoooo

And their hair was perfect!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (l26NL)

223 This is O/T more than normal, but since nether parts are flying above.

PLUS I had a suprise nap during a TV show, upright and normal. Just dropped off the planet. Dude had to say my name a few times. I reckon the month's long insomnia has reached the peak and I will start having narcolepsy.

I was thinking this when lyft Rashad picked me up...

Have read at least twice about young girls getting into a car alone with a strange man, thinking he was their lyft or uber driver.

I have to assme they both were totally inebriated. Both guys said my name after they rolled down the rearview mirror. You get notification with a photo of the car, etc.

A real stupid way to die,girls.

I'll bet ole Rashad is still mad at me as his ego seemed fragile. At least he did not go snack bar on me or drive to another state. I told my husband about the 40min hwy tale he told me (the first guy got me there in 17min going my shortcuts). I may be blonde but I ain't stoopit.

I went along with it as wth, I'm not in danger yet and started reading.

I did like when he said, "I am an expert driver" like Rain Man. I didn't laugh.

Maybe he thought I was kidnapping him! I should have rebel yelled on arrival.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 08:57 PM (hzuYO)

224 I can't wait for the opening ceremony starring several WNBA players as magic space lesbians.

No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)

The whites begging at their feet for forgiveness should be touching.

As will be their sacrifice...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 08:59 PM (Sco7b)

225 The underground city thing is cool but if it only fell out of use in the 1920s, wouldn't there still have been people around that knew it was there when it was "rediscovered " in 1963? Seems unlikely that everyone could forget an underground city that housed 20,000 people in just 43 years.
Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2026 08:48 PM (uyuYG)
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Everyone who lived there left. All of them. Ethnic cleansing, but because it involved Muslims eradicating Christians, it's all good. It's just a quirky story, you see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)

226 Hazy memory but I think there were some Israeli kinetics agin' the bedouin elements Damascus was mobilizing against the Druze. Other than that, intimidation (credible, for obvious reasons), and arms and training to the Syrian Druze in the area. All vaguely recalled or imagined. That is, better than most "reporting" you'll find.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:02 PM (U/Byj)

227 No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)
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Each with a tiny parachute.

As the approach the earth, "It's Raining Men" will crank at full volume.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)

228 Something going on in Aiken SC?
Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:54 PM (enNUy)

The fire at the Savannah River facility being reported as a nuclear response

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)

229 The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

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that is awfully specific!

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:05 PM (AKptf)

230 The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

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what software exactly ??

Posted by: Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed at October 28, 2026 09:06 PM (AKptf)

231 Squeeeee! Sea otters!

Did you know they hold hands while
They sleep?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 09:08 PM (5cOt9)

232 I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)

233 >>I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".

Check out Kaspersky Labs software bans in the US over national security issues.

Not really the same thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)

234 And boy howdy do I wish we had bans on software used to run Dominion voting machines.

And so do you.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:17 PM (viF8m)

235 I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)
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Unauthorized guns aren't going to scrape your computer and send all your data to mainland China.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

236 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:19 PM (8B4gm)

237 The beautiful photograph of the tree at the top.wiped away the memory of the ugly female Senator from Alaska

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:19 PM (PKL0q)

238 I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)
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Unauthorized guns aren't going to scrape your computer and send all your data to mainland China.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

yes, false analogy

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:20 PM (AKptf)

239 Hey, Paul. It's been a minute. God bless you.

I know you're grinding out a wage, typing what you are told to type (but really copy/paste, amirite?). But there is a better way.

You joke about transgenders, but these are human beings. What is more important? The most vulnerable, hopeless people, confused people, are being told to castrate themselves, mutilate themselves.

Why do you think only old people care about that? Do you have any children? Can you have any children? Imagine your only child being brainwashed into self-castration and eliminating the joy of being a parent and you becoming a grandparent? Is that not an existential level of evil?

God is waiting. I have prayed for you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)

240 S186 The Druze are a breakoff sect of Islam. Not considered true Muzzies by true Muzzies.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:23 PM (77rzZ)

241 The Druze are a breakoff sect of Islam. Not considered true Muzzies by true Muzzies.
Posted by: Bulg

Splitters!

Posted by: The People's Front of Gaza at October 28, 2026 09:24 PM (VHUov)

242 What else do the lady sea otters hold when they sleep?

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:24 PM (77rzZ)

243
Not really the same thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)

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Jack...did you see the comment to you I made about French Onion soup the other day? If not I'll repeat as a couple of things make a huge difference.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 09:25 PM (hzuYO)

244 runner, that's what I alluded to up above - Bibi's statement was pretty detailed and strong.

Have no idea what the software bit is about.

Do know that there should be no software or electronics of any kind involved with the voting process. At most, electro-mechanical card readers. Paper ballots. Hand counts (except for the case just mentioned).

There is literally no reason or defense for electronics involved in the voting process (possibly in checking registrations or IDs, but not in the voting or tabulation itself). It's one of the most absurd and pernicious indefensible things in the world today, which is a high bar.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:26 PM (U/Byj)

245 "At most, electro-mechanical card readers."

The old Votomatic punch cards seem just fine to me, but they were (wrongly, IMHO) blamed for the 2000 election fiasco.

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (Jr5Lq)

246 I've got one of those cities hidden behind a wall in my basement. I have a whole bunch of tiny aliens living there and every time I visit the yell, All Hail Jack!
True story.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (viF8m)

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"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of minded

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (PKL0q)

247 Hey, she holds mine just fine!

Posted by: Male Sea Otter at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (77rzZ)

248 The Druze are a breakoff sect of Islam. Not considered true Muzzies by true Muzzies.
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:23 PM (77rzZ)
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What if the Druze are actually the real Islam? We know that "Mohammed" did not exist. He was created to legitimize the Caliphs after the fact.

And by "real Islam" I mean "closer to the Christian heresy that became Islam" than the present version, which went through a major revision and burning of books to clean everything up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)

249 The old Votomatic punch cards seem just fine to me, but they were (wrongly, IMHO) blamed for the 2000 election fiasco.
Posted by: gp

Not working when you try to punch a stack of 40 ballots at once is a serious deficiency!

Posted by: Democrats at October 28, 2026 09:30 PM (VHUov)

250 >>Jack...did you see the comment to you I made about French Onion soup the other day? If not I'll repeat as a couple of things make a huge difference.

I did not but I'm all ears. Well, some other good parts but that's not important

I got a winter full of onion soup coming up so please make it better.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:31 PM (viF8m)

251 The old Votomatic punch cards seem just fine to me, but they were (wrongly, IMHO) blamed for the 2000 election fiasco.
Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (Jr5Lq)
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My freshman year in college was the last time punch cards were used for registration.

In 1991. Florida was a bit behind the times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)

252 that's what I alluded to up above - Bibi's statement was pretty detailed and strong.

Have no idea what the software bit is about.

Do know that there should be no software or electronics of any kind involved with the voting process. At most, electro-mechanical card readers. Paper ballots. Hand counts (except for the case just mentioned).

There is literally no reason or defense for electronics involved in the voting process (possibly in checking registrations or IDs, but not in the voting or tabulation itself). It's one of the most absurd and pernicious indefensible things in the world today, which is a high bar.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:26 PM (U/Byj)

Here are some allegations: " cash-filled envelopes containing Ra'am ballot slips, threats and violence against polling station staff, multiple voting, voting under different identities, and discrepancies between the number of envelopes and the number of voters"...so just like Detroit, Chicago, or LA...peak Democracy! I guess they might have laws agains certain type of computerized electioneering, like we have against certain type of electioneering at polling stations. I guess we shall see!

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:32 PM (AKptf)

253 A.H., I still don’t buy the idea that Mohammed didn’t exist. I think that he was an actual person that a lot of weird legends accrued around, for whatever reasons.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:33 PM (77rzZ)

254 A.H., I still don’t buy the idea that Mohammed didn’t exist. I think that he was an actual person that a lot of weird legends accrued around, for whatever reasons.

==

they should did him up and carbon date the remains

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:36 PM (AKptf)

255 gp, that's what I was referring to. Properly used - and always backed-up by a hand count if needed - punch cards and readers offer no potential for f***ery.

Recall (well, it's a closely held secret, if you quizzed the country) that the initial final result announced by the FL SecState election night *was in fact the correct result*. Subsequent independent recounts confirmed this.

Those kinds of machines can be checked and calibrated without limit. Their accuracy can be checked constantly. Their results cannot be altered electronically.

One of the things that made the FL case a fiasco, and which ultimately led to SCOTUS shutting it all down, was the ridiculous idea of "curing" or figuring out voter intent. Nope. Never. The fucking voter has 100% responsibility to vote properly. Period. Election officials aren't even clerks, they're automatons. Any unclear or improperly marked/punched ballot is either void in its entirety, or those sections improperly done are void.

Those who want to be able to steal elections want to have such outrages as "curing", etc. included. Nope. Self-disenfranchisement of a voter by his own errors is not a public interest.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:37 PM (U/Byj)

256 Robert Spencer and few others have laid their case of Big Mo not to existing. Makes sense.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:37 PM (8B4gm)

257 In Texas You get a printout after you vote and then that printout is scanned. I don't know what happens to the physical printout after it's scanned.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (Ti9vn)

258
No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)

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I swore I wouldn't watch anymore WNBA games until they cleaned up, but for this airdrop I might make an exception

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (PKL0q)

259 255 Concur.

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

260 I wish I could swim
like dolphins can swim

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)

261 No type well today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:40 PM (8B4gm)

262 @NBCNews

Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

N-BS and their cohorts (C-BS, A-BS, PBS...) have been quite good at collecting conspiracy theories and claiming they're the truth, while calling things done by the Dems and the Left (BIRM) as conspiracy theories. It's almost like they're the spokesholes of commies in the US, like a 5th column...except they aren't secretive about it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:41 PM (l3cgK)

263 261 No type well today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:40 PM (8B4gm)

That's me most days. Also very tired today for some reason; have been awake maybe 3 or 4 hours so far. Figured I must've needed the sleep or something.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:42 PM (l3cgK)

264 In Texas You get a printout after you vote and then that printout is scanned. I don't know what happens to the physical printout after it's scanned.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (Ti9vn)

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How about if you also get a purple finger? Though it doesn't do much to stop the mail-in vote fraud.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:43 PM (PKL0q)

265 I will grant, however, that Mohammed may have been a composite of several actual historical figures. But I think the idea that he was completely fictitious is nonsense.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

266 250 >>Jack...did you see the comment to you I made about French Onion soup the other day? If not I'll repeat as a couple of things make a huge difference.

I did not but I'm all ears. Well, some other good parts but that's not important

I got a winter full of onion soup coming up so please make it better.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:31 PM (viF8m)
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Ok...over the years and other recipes I've perfected it but will try the crock pot o' onions this winter mentioned Sunday. Also a trick to carmelize the onions in the oven vs stirring. I've always used sliced red onions as that was the original I tried as a newlywed.

Once you have your onions carmelized & are adding beef broth, add at least 1/2 cup white wine as well. You can also use wine to deglaze the pan of onions as more wine never hurt anyone. Add herbes de provence. I never measure, but about .5-1 TBS to to your taste.

Before adding the onions/broth to the oven-proof soup bowl, put 1 TBS cognac or brandy on the bottom of the bowl & proceed with onions/broth and slice of bread and shredded Guyere cheese til it browns in broiler.

I don't know what magic the cognac does, but it works for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (hzuYO)

267 260 I wish I could swim
like dolphins can swim

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)

According to the Left, all you need to do is identify as delphine, get plastic surgery to turn your arms and legs into flippers and a tail and add a breathing hole to the top of your head, and viola!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (l3cgK)

268 A.H., I still don’t buy the idea that Mohammed didn’t exist. I think that he was an actual person that a lot of weird legends accrued around, for whatever reasons.
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:33 PM (77rzZ)
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But what is that based on? Go ahead, try to find a single contemporaneous source talking about Mohammed. There are none. Gibbon pointed this out more than 200 years ago. It's a known problem.

Pick a conqueror. There's always some dude who had dinner with him. The Byzantine Empire was a thing, and do you think some Greek dude wasn't dying to meet the guy ravaging the eastern provinces? Do you think the great conqueror didn't want to have his story told by his enemies? We have first-hand accounts of Atilla the Hun at dinner. Why are there zero accounts of Mohammed doing...anything?

It's funny how there are still retarded "Akshually, Jesus didn't exist" articles when Mohammed is much more problematic.

Oh, and why did "Islamic era" coins still have Christian symbols on them?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

269 According to the Left, all you need to do is identify as delphine, get plastic surgery to turn your arms and legs into flippers and a tail and add a breathing hole to the top of your head, and viola!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (l3cgK)

Gerald Broflovski tried it. Didn't quite work.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 28, 2026 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

270 they should did him up and carbon date the remains
Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:36 PM (AKptf)
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Every significant history site in the Koran has been demolished. The Dome of the Rock is all that remains, and it is very clearly a Christian church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)

271 It's funny how there are still retarded "Akshually, Jesus didn't exist" articles when Mohammed is much more problematic.

Oh, and why did "Islamic era" coins still have Christian symbols on them?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

There are some good vids on EweToob about it, and how contemporaneous sources don't mention him, and even hundreds of years later, how Islam was portrayed by the first crusaders doesn't exactly fit.

https://youtu.be/UqhXJjHafzs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)

272 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:41 PM (l3cgK)

Ukraine is over 5000 mils away and the Ldft supported the allegation that Russia stole the election which led to the 2014 coup.

Even though the elected government agreed to have another early international monitored election. The first election was monitored also but it didn't matter either to the CIA and Ukrainian crooks.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (Ti9vn)

273 N-BS and their cohorts (C-BS, A-BS, PBS...) have been quite good at collecting conspiracy theories and claiming they're the truth, while calling things done by the Dems and the Left (BIRM) as conspiracy theories. It's almost like they're the spokesholes of commies in the US, like a 5th column...except they aren't secretive about it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:41 PM (l3cgK)
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They want to normalize the idea of last-minute decrees keeping the polls open until enough fake votes are found.

This is "protecting our democracy" because people are totally retarded and can't tell time or know when polls close.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)

274

Pick a conqueror. There's always some dude who had dinner with him.

My Dinner With Genghis

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 09:52 PM (Cqx++)

275 There are some good vids on EweToob about it, and how contemporaneous sources don't mention him, and even hundreds of years later, how Islam was portrayed by the first crusaders doesn't exactly fit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)
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Mohammed's various moral lapses are easily explained by the caliphs needed to excuse their perversions. "See, Mohammed did it, so I'm good!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:53 PM (ZOv7s)

276 Let’s go Pilots!

I mean Brewwrs!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (yEz+x)

277 275 There are some good vids on EweToob about it, and how contemporaneous sources don't mention him, and even hundreds of years later, how Islam was portrayed by the first crusaders doesn't exactly fit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)
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Mohammed's various moral lapses are easily explained by the caliphs needed to excuse their perversions. "See, Mohammed did it, so I'm good!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:53 PM (ZOv7s)

And the sheep, goats, camels, and little kids were very, very afraid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (l3cgK)

278 >>I don't know what magic the cognac does, but it works for me.

Thank you. Copied and printing and will go into my recipe file. I will give it a try.

My mom's dad was from Switzerland so it's entirely possible that genes force me to find a reason to eat gruyere. New Years is always a cheese fondue night.

But I could pretty much live on a great onion soup, fresh baked bread and gruyere. Ok, the occasional rib eye, lobster and maybe some other stuff. But I do love onion soup.

Thank you!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (viF8m)

279 My Dinner With Genghis
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 09:52 PM (Cqx++)
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It is very much a thing. And the conquerors loved it. "Tell your people about the magnificence of my feast!"

Zilch regarding Mohammed. We know more about chicken-shit one-off Roman usurpers who lasted six month or less.

Oh, and they minted coins with their names on them. Weird that Islam did not, just kept on minting Christian symbols.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (ZOv7s)

280 268 A. H., are you an expert in Arabic and Greek primary sources? I am certainly not.

Besides, Islam is an existential threat whether Mo existed or not.

Just treat the false prophet as if he were an actual historical figure and move on, pointing out how false his teachings were.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:56 PM (77rzZ)

281 Let’s go Pilots!

I mean Brewwrs!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (yEz+x)

Lol, I was thinking of posting same lately.

Posted by: Rex B at October 28, 2026 09:57 PM (sdSI9)

282 And the sheep, goats, camels, and little kids were very, very afraid...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (l3cgK)
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If it's good enough for The Prophet, I guess it's okay for the Caliph to get buggered and chase pre-pubescent girls...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

283 A. H., are you an expert in Arabic and Greek primary sources? I am certainly not.

Besides, Islam is an existential threat whether Mo existed or not.

Just treat the false prophet as if he were an actual historical figure and move on, pointing out how false his teachings were.
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:56 PM (77rzZ)
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Well, kinda. I do have a history major focusing on the Middle Ages.

But the burden of proof is on Islamic scholars, not on me. Show me the documents! Edward Gibbon exposed all of this more than two centuries ago. Are you saying Gibbon didn't do research into ancient sources? That he didn't know Greek or Latin?

Every frickin' Easter some retarded atheist scholar says Jesus didn't exist, and we have to dump the immense volume of material showing that He did. Not just the Gospels but Roman records that are far from favorable.

No such scrutiny is given to Mohammed. It's time we stopped being pussies and just called the whole thing out: show us this guy. Meet the Jesus standard of proof.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 10:02 PM (ZOv7s)

284 283 OK, A. H. I”ll give you that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 10:06 PM (77rzZ)

285 Jack...you are very welcome. We love it also.

I love fall/winter and cooking. Am not a summer cook with any enthusiasm.

Fall/winter/snow does it for me. I must be a throwback to Scots Highlanders as my love of mountains and snow has baffled my entire family in MS since I went to college here. I'm Scots-Irish-French-English.

I loved living 1/4mi from the Atlantic for 20yrs (and 1/4mi from the Intracoastal Waterway aka Indian River) in FL. Great place to raise our babies and we moved there when they were 2yrs and newborn. Baby took his first steps in the sand. The second he heard the surf he was out for a nap before he got to the beach. It was grand to live on that barrier island.

However, the mountains are what we love most. And we're back for 11yrs after meeting 50yrs ago this month in college.

I plan to make many soups, stews, etc as the frost should be on the pumpkins soon. We used to get our first snow below the high peaks in early November (there's snow up there now). Gorgeous. Ski country.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:08 PM (hzuYO)

286 If it's good enough for The Prophet, I guess it's okay for the Caliph to get buggered and chase pre-pubescent girls...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

The argument you are making is suspiciously like the early Usenet "because you neglected X your argument is invalid!" but applied to a major religion.

Hooray, dude. You have just shown how 25% of the world population isn't really a religion.

Now what?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 10:09 PM (rbvCR)

287 A. H., you and I are on the same side. I just discount major historical figures as substantial fabrications.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 10:10 PM (77rzZ)

288 >>I plan to make many soups, stews, etc as the frost should be on the pumpkins soon. We used to get our first snow below the high peaks in early November (there's snow up there now). Gorgeous. Ski country.

One of the joys of living here is the seasons and the foods that come with them. I love all of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

289 One of the joys of living here is the seasons and the foods that come with them. I love all of them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

*******
Yep. That's what we missed the first autumn in FL. The seasons are subtle there. January/February gorgeous.

Moved there for his job and to be a bit closer to my parent's farm in MS...a 13hr drive. We'd go twice a year and they'd fly to us twice a year. Worth it as my boys got to know my grandmother's and aunts and my family.

We missed these mountains badly. Love FL but love it here more.

I know RI is beautiful. It's too bad our former SIL is such a weirdo and tossed us aside when MIL died (actually before she died). She's of the uber snotty kind of Rhode Islander, for reasons unknown, as her family, to my knowledge, were not of the upper crust in Newport to sneer at us. As far as I know Kingstown. It is all very weird on her part.

I insulted her once (without meaning to) asking if it was spelled Kingston like Charleston. She went off, man. hic Probably during my college daze. Her husband, my late BIL, loved me and that's all that counts. We shared a lot of laughs while she had migraines at family parties here.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:31 PM (hzuYO)

The Mob Lawyers for Cuba's Kleptocrats Attempt to Intimidate US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, Who Informs Them He Has Chunks of Guys Bigger Than Them In His Stool

And the Cuban delegates assaulted an American staffer.

Bomb them.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz got into a shouting match Tuesday with Cuba's foreign minister on the floor of the UN's General Assembly hall while detailing the communist regime's ill-gotten wealth.
Waltz called out the Havana government for profiting off of the forced labor of its own citizens sent to concentration camps while using confiscated "businesses, farms, factories, homes and the savings of generations of hardworking Cubans" to line the pockets of its leaders.
As Waltz spoke, Cuba's delegation banged on the table near their seats to express disapproval before Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla charged toward the rostrum and accused Waltz of lying, causing the US envoy to shout: "Back up!"
"He doesn't like hard truths," Waltz told the delegates. "You can come and intimidate all you want."
"He's not going to intimidate me in the United States of America -- like he tries to intimidate political prisoners," said Waltz, raising his voice at Parrilla as UN officials tried to restore order.
"I know that you don't like to hear these hard truths, but I am speaking for the Cuban people," Waltz added. "And ever since 1959, this government in Havana would have you believe that everything in Cuba has just disappeared; that they are the victim; that it's someone else's fault."
A video obtained by The Post showed fellow US diplomat J.P. Freire being assaulted by another member of the Cuban delegation who tried to grab Freire's iPhone as he was recording the confrontation.

Hey, that's a Jim Acosta move. And Acosta is, in fact, of Cuban descent.

...
The broadside against "corrupt Cuban elites" at one point featured Waltz displaying a photo of late dictator Fidel Castro wearing two Rolex watches worth around $40,000 in today's money.
"According to the regime's own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage," Waltz noted, before showing a photo of Miguel Díaz-Canel and saying, "It didn't just start with Castro. This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on."
The former Florida congressman highlighted reports on the Cuban military-run conglomerate GAESA amassing $18 billion in assets that have enriched regime elites, showing further photos of them flaunting their wealth.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz just WENT BERSERK at the Cuban official who tried INTIMIDATING him in the middle of his remarks
"BACK AWAY. THIS ISN'T HAVANA. You're NOT gonna intimidate ME! Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is AMERICA...SIT DOWN."
🔥🔥🔥
"I'm the representative of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA � BACK UP!"
"You can bring as many people as you want, PLEASE SIT DOWN."
The moderator got flustered! The UN is a total crapshow!
I think these Cuban communists just KNOW what is coming. Rubio told Cubans to partner with the CIA, and they're shook now.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 27, 2026

The Castro regime has profited at the expense of the Cuban people with luxury cars, expensive watches and a private island resort. As I shared this with the world, regime thugs rushed the stage to interrupt my speech.
They can intimidate their own people in Cuba but think again about trying that nonsense in the United States of America.
— Ambassador Mike Waltz (@USAmbUN) October 27, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:10 PM

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1 We need to end the cuba issue once and for all.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2026 06:12 PM (I43vL)

2 Not the Blade

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 06:15 PM (uhVAy)

3 We need to end the cuba issue once and for all.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

It's really past time to settle their hash.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 06:17 PM (l26NL)

4 Good for Mike Waltz!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 06:18 PM (JrHfD)

5 The status quo is getting the shit kicked out of it.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 06:18 PM (8Uo7a)

6 The Left loves communism because they dream about being humble, feted and pampered elites who can choose which of their childhood and college friends live or die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

7 I spent almost three years stationed at GITMO from February 1993 through October 1995. The people in that country are literally prisoners. I witnessed three people killed while trying to cross the minefields to get into the base.

The cubans never made maps of their minefields so they could not be sold on the black market. Once every few years they would light the minefields on fire to burn them off so they could start over. Those minefields burned for 4 days. Thousands of mines cooking off from the fires for days on end.

In 1995 castro decided to open all of his prisons and herd all of the prisoners to the beaches and force them into the water on whatever they could find that would float because he knew we would rescue them.

And we did, the Navy and Coast Guard rescued over 10,000 of them and brought them to GITMO Some of them were political prisoners but most were murders, rapist, thief's and other petty criminals. A bunch were HIV positive and every single one of them eventually got a plane ride to the US and were granted green cards.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2026 06:21 PM (I43vL)

8 Keep the UN in America. Just move its location.

A good spot would be about a 100 miles SW of Barrow, Alaska, right in the middle of the North Slope area.

A little frozen tundra might do them all some good.

Posted by: Fritzy at October 28, 2026 06:23 PM (2GIh1)

9 Great headline!!!!

Posted by: Fritz at October 28, 2026 06:24 PM (J7jo9)

10 6 The Left loves communism because they dream about being humble, feted and pampered elites who can choose which of their childhood and college friends live or die.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2026 06:20 PM
There is iron in the words of Aetius451AD for all men to see.
- Ten Bears

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 06:25 PM (LHPAg)

11 Fritzand Friitzy? Unique hash? What the hell is going on?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

12 Well done, Ambassador Waltz!

Posted by: mrp at October 28, 2026 06:26 PM (rj6Yv)

13 So James Comey is claiming he had the authority to declassify as head of the FBI.

If you're keeping score, then:

Who does have authority to declassify - the FBI Director

Who does not have authority to declassify - The President of the United States, who is the Chief Executive and boss of the FBI Director

If you stupids went to Harvard, you'd understand that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 06:27 PM (3cUTc)

14 We're teaming up to conquer this place.

Posted by: Fritzy at October 28, 2026 06:28 PM (2GIh1)

15 The status quo is getting the shit kicked out of it.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 06:18 PM

To quote Martha Stewart, that's a good thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 06:29 PM (l0mRP)

16 Woulda been nice to end the Cuber problem before the election. Need to find out where Raul is and do a Maduro on him. Quick trial and hanging.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 28, 2026 06:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

17 Banana eatin bean fartin motherfuckers!

Posted by: Lance Corporal Jones at October 28, 2026 06:32 PM (2UnvF)

18 Hilarity ensued ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eezo at October 28, 2026 06:33 PM (VyBeY)

19 Long day. Whoo-hoo. Nightly News!

Train crash in Spain
Bombshell Report - Dan Sullivan ...when your political advisors take advice from 'The Simpsons' episodes.

Hayden Panatierre death.
9-11 Memorial
Leftist bitch dead

Leading off
NBC - train
CBS - Sullivan leading off - bitch calls it a diversion.
ABC - train crash

Sorry, lot of sub-human leftist bitches in the news.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 06:35 PM (Sco7b)

20 So James Comey is claiming he had the authority to declassify as head of the FBI.

If you're keeping score, then:

Who does have authority to declassify - the FBI Director

Who does not have authority to declassify - The President of the United States, who is the Chief Executive and boss of the FBI Director

If you stupids went to Harvard, you'd understand that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 06:27 PM

comey has just hoisted his a$$ with his own petard. He was on multiple news shows as an "expert" on classified documents after the raid on mar a lago.

I would have to go back and find the interview but he was on cnn or msdnc and claimed that no one including the president had the authority to declassify any documents without having them go through an intelligence team at DIA and getting to them to bless the document(s) to be declassified after they retracted damaging stuff.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2026 06:35 PM (I43vL)

21 President Trump appointed men with cojones. Something the pansy world is not used to. Good for him!

This was probably the most exciting speech to wake up the drowsy UN in some time. I wish we'd kick the UN out.

I really wish Congress was more lively like in the olden days when they whacked each other with their silver canes. I'd watch more c-span!

I know I'd like to remove a glove and slap people as well. Vs the squad wearing their stupid white outfits and screeching like the harpies they are.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 06:38 PM (hzuYO)

22 Are Dems really going to win a Senate seat in Alaska with this stupid trick?

Posted by: Leupold at October 28, 2026 06:38 PM (fbRKR)

23 Zerohedge....
Is financial literacy racist?

NBA Legend Who Earned Nearly $200 Million Admits He's Broke As Wild Spending Habits Revealed

The Basketball Hall of Famer claims he has just $300,000 left in the bank and approximately $3 million in property holdings, despite reportedly raking in $195 million over his 19-season NBA career.

The court filings also offer a glimpse into Pierce's lavish spending habits.

The former Celtics superstar reportedly spends a whopping $7,000 per month dining out, $5,000 on groceries, $8,000 on childcare, $3,500 on entertainment, $3,200 on utilities and another $1,000 on clothing.

The expenses come on top of approximately $28,000 in monthly child support and $20,000 in spousal support, pushing his reported monthly financial obligations toward $75,700

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 06:39 PM (Sco7b)

24 Ken Dilanian
@KDilanianMSNOW
New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention.
--
At first I read that from below and thought, "yeah, of course there are still rouge agents."

Then I see it's good ol' Fusion Ken and it's even stupider:
Replace "FBI agents" with "bitter, and fired, deep state hacks trying to recruit active agents"

And it's another brick in the color revolution they are fomenting.
Here, that you can't trust the FBI because those investigations are made by "bad" agents--"good" ones would have refused false and baseless claims.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2026 06:40 PM (3cUTc)

25 Which stool? The EigenSchtörke or MǾGen?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2026 06:40 PM (nEUC6)

26 There's talk here that Uranus got tilted sideways because one of its earlier moons quietly spiraled in and entered it
youtu.be/pZh5BWCNmmE
so now, like Acosta, it can't sit straight

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 06:41 PM (88C+u)

27 Okay, GatewayPundit has good news.

The Justice Department has launched an “aggressive criminal investigation” into Alaska’s Senate decoy candidate Daniel J. Sullivan, according to Fox News.

News of the criminal investigation comes after The New York Times confirmed that Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited the decoy Dan Sullivan to confuse Alaska voters

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 06:43 PM (Sco7b)

28 The *actual* mob would like nothing better than to take the entire Cuban regime for a one-way ride in the trunk of a Lincoln Continental Mark IV. There would be cement and barrels waiting at the other end...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 28, 2026 06:43 PM (lfNXu)

29 Two questions. Why am I just hearing about the Dems paying a random Dan Sullivan to get on the ballot to confuse voters.

The whole 'ranked choice' voting in Alaska seems wrong, but the talk radio folks made it seem like the ranked choice nuttiness made this trick more likely to work. Does Alaska not show the party affiliation on the ballots or is this con guy Sullivan also running as a Republican? (How did the GOP let that happen if so)

Posted by: PaleRider at October 28, 2026 06:44 PM (oYFNj)

30 The former Celtics superstar reportedly spends a whopping $7,000 per month dining out, $5,000 on groceries, $8,000 on childcare, $3,500 on entertainment, $3,200 on utilities and another $1,000 on clothing.

$12,000 per month on food is nuts.
$8,000 per month on childcare? What does a live-in au-pair cost? Even a nanny shouldn't be $8,000 a month.
$3,200 on utilities? Does he keep the house at 60F, light up every room and outdoor shrubbery 24/7, and have a heated outdoor pool?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 06:45 PM (mkw2N)

31 As a career US merchant mariner since 1973 who has helped pull Cubans out of the Florida straits more times then I care to remember, I say huzzah to Mike Waltz.

Posted by: Cosda at October 28, 2026 06:45 PM (DwnZ2)

32 28 The *actual* mob would like nothing better than to take the entire Cuban regime for a one-way ride in the trunk of a Lincoln Continental Mark IV ...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 28, 2026 06:43 PM (lfNXu)

I do believe I'm a cousin of Meyer Lansky. So I endorse this message (and, for presently-occupied Cuba, your hash).
Any Luciano cousins in the HQ? Let's meet over cannoli.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 06:46 PM (88C+u)

33 PaleRider: Dunno why you're just hearing about Dan Sullivan -- it's been in the news for months.

As for ranked choice -- it's the reason Murkowski has a job instead of a Republican.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 28, 2026 06:46 PM (lfNXu)

34 Take it fwiw, on X

Pascal Najadi (USSF)🇺🇸
@JfkPascalNajadX
·
20h
🚨 WOW! In a terrifying development for Democrats, Republicans are forecast to win 215 HOUSE SEATS this November to Democrats' 206 — meaning Republicans need just 21% of the swing seats, per Inside Elections

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 06:46 PM (E4rtv)

35 News of the criminal investigation comes after The New York Times confirmed that Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited the decoy Dan Sullivan to confuse Alaska voters

Haven't we known (or at least "known") this for many months now? I guess something is only real when the NYT says it is.

Posted by: Dorian Gray's Portraitist at October 28, 2026 06:46 PM (vTZFs)

36 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at October 28, 2026 06:47 PM (vTZFs)

37 Okay, GatewayPundit has good news.

The Justice Department has launched an “aggressive criminal investigation” into Alaska’s Senate decoy candidate Daniel J. Sullivan, according to Fox News.

News of the criminal investigation comes after The New York Times confirmed that Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited the decoy Dan Sullivan to confuse Alaska voters

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 06:43 PM

It's done, peltola's campaign lawyers lied under oath in federal court claiming that they and her campaign had nothing to do with finding this guy to run.

The odd thing is the NYT broke this story and they could have sat on it until after the election was over. That leads me to believe that they were trying to get ahead of another outlet that was getting ready to drop this news.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)

38 reminder that polls are for strippers and might give you AIDS

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 06:48 PM (88C+u)

39 38 reminder that polls are for strippers and might give you AIDS
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 06:48 PM (88C+u)

Eeeew. Guess I'll need to stop sniffing those things...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 28, 2026 06:50 PM (lfNXu)

40 29 Two questions. Why am I just hearing about the Dems paying a random Dan Sullivan to get on the ballot to confuse voters.

The whole 'ranked choice' voting in Alaska seems wrong, but the talk radio folks made it seem like the ranked choice nuttiness made this trick more likely to work. Does Alaska not show the party affiliation on the ballots or is this con guy Sullivan also running as a Republican? (How did the GOP let that happen if so)
Posted by: PaleRider

Top four advance and another Democrat took a dive during the primary so that Peltola would be facing three supposed Republicans. Due to RCV voting rules, you rank order your choices as 1-4 and cast your ballot, then you get a complicated Rube Goldberg calculation that takes into account the rank order, those that put no other candidate on the ballot, those that put one other, etc. etc.

Official Alaskan poll card on it at link
https://tinyurl.com/Alaska-RCV-Voting

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 06:50 PM (E4rtv)

41 Haven't we known (or at least "known") this for many months now? I guess something is only real when the NYT says it is.

Posted by: Dorian Gray's Portraitist at October 28, 2026 06:46 PM

I'm thinking the NYT and the Economist from earlier today published this only to get ahead of the stories and minimize the damage.

MSNow was all giddy about early black turnout in Georgia.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 06:50 PM (Sco7b)

42 The odd thing is the NYT broke this story and they could have sat on it until after the election was over. That leads me to believe that they were trying to get ahead of another outlet that was getting ready to drop this news.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2026 06:48 PM

Great minds...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 06:52 PM (Sco7b)

43 Venezuela as the 51st state and Cuba as the 52nd?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 06:52 PM (2GVsD)

44 Doesn't the left say Cuba has been "blockaded" since 1959?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 06:53 PM (Cqx++)

45
The status quo is getting the shit kicked out of it.
Posted by: Ben Had

Like a bunch of matchstick men.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 06:55 PM (Cqx++)

46 The Left says many things that are false, like how Communism is the answer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 06:55 PM (2GVsD)

47 Some of them were political prisoners but most were murders, rapist, thief's and other petty criminals. A bunch were HIV positive and every single one of them eventually got a plane ride to the US and were granted green cards.

It's the feel good story of the day!

Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2026 06:55 PM (SwyyQ)

48 OT - paging Harmeet.....

Andrew Kolvet

@AndrewKolvet
·
1h
🚨This is going to be the biggest self-own by Hennipin County of all time (and Hennepin has owned itself a lot lately). They do NOT want more attention on their ridiculous voter vouching policy by the @TheJusticeDept and potential voter fraud.

FACT: Hennepin County is charging James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with unlawful voting - but they didn't even vote! In fact, in her press conference, Mary Moriarty says it's clear they didn't intend to vote.

FACT: James and Cam exposed the absurdity of the state's vouching policy in which one individual, without an ID, can claim to be a registered voter, and bring in 8 other people without IDs, on Election Day, and "vouch" for them as legal voters. It's all on an honor system and votes are automatically counted. These are not provisional ballots.

FACT: They didn't sign the oath, which means legally they didn't commit identity theft. It was an act of pure journalism.

How many individuals who have voted based on someone else vouching for them has Hennepin County investigated for voter fraud? (The internet says ZERO.)

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 06:55 PM (kX27y)

49 38 reminder that polls are for strippers and might give you AIDS
Posted by: 88C+u

Seth Keshel has it about about 212-213 likely GOP seats and likely D 210-11 on Monday. About a dozen or so seats are tossups dependent on turnout. He relies on polling, spending, past voting history in the district (aka normal vote), and I think candidate quality to make his calls.

But it is clear that the Dem tsunami is not going to happen unless the yutes below 40 suddenly storm the polls in the remaining couple of EV voting and on Election Day. Their absence in EV and mail in ballots so far is why national pollsters are getting nervous and down to D+3-4 in national generic polling now. Some states, yutes are down to single digit percentages in turnout so far while the blue tsunami requires a much greater voter participation than that.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 06:55 PM (E4rtv)

50 Anytime you see that ugly green marble backdrop in the General Assembly, you know the perverts and thieves are holding court.

Posted by: Give Turtle Bay Back To The Turtles! at October 28, 2026 06:56 PM (EdP2u)

51 I had no idea Castro had his own private island off the southern coast of Cuba. Walz exposed that as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 06:56 PM (viF8m)

52 Any Luciano cousins in the HQ? Let's meet over cannoli.
Posted by: 88C+u

Leave the gun; take the cannoli.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 06:57 PM (l26NL)

53 The Mariel boatlift, when Fidel 'gifted' America with such enrichers as rapists and murderers.

Thanks a lot Jimmy Carter, hope you are roomies with Fidel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 06:57 PM (2GVsD)

54 I had no idea Castro had his own private island off the southern coast of Cuba. Walz exposed that as well.

Another Epstein Island?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 06:58 PM (2GVsD)

55 >>The Left says many things that are false, like how Communism is the answer.

Been having an argument on X with a couple Abdul supporters who insist the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing but a political party in Egypt.

Impossible to know whether they are lying or really this stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 06:59 PM (viF8m)

56 Shocking!

C14 News | EN
@c14english
·
2h
🚨🚨 BREAKING: VOTE-BUYING INVESTIGATION PAPER TRAIL LEADS TO ENEMY STATES

A major investigation conducted by the Israel Police
and the Shin Bet has revealed that MILLIONS of shekels originating from hostile enemy states were allegedly funneled into Israel to finance large-scale vote-buying operations in Arab communities.

Following the Election Day arrests of three Bedouin suspects in the Negev caught with cash-filled envelopes and Ra'am ballots, intelligence agencies are actively tracing covert smuggling routes and intermediary networks.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 06:59 PM (kX27y)

57 Interesting datapoint from NY

"
John Sandor
@RealJohnSandor
·
6h
A DOSE OF REALITY:
McLaughlin & Associates ..consistently the most accurate pollster in past elections, has the NY race at just 4 points!

• Hochul: 49.6%
• Blakeman: 45.7%

Don’t let media narratives trick you into staying home. Early turnout is surging."

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 06:59 PM (E4rtv)

58 The Mariel boatlift, when Fidel 'gifted' America with such enrichers as rapists and murderers.

Thanks a lot Jimmy Carter, hope you are roomies with Fidel.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The vast majority of them went straight to work for the Colombian cartels in Miami. Most notably under Griselda Blanco.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2026 07:00 PM (YZ0Fo)

59 >>Another Epstein Island?

No idea. High altitude photos and drawings. But it looks pretty damn plush at the least.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)

60 Nicholas Cage in an Amazon film portrays John Madden. What could go wrong? The only thing I can say good is at least Amazon didn't do a race and gender swap.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7sxubs

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 28, 2026 07:03 PM (wcyKn)

61 you know the perverts and thieves are holding court.
Posted by: Give Turtle Bay Back To The Turtles! at October 28, 2026 06:56 PM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Big Penguin at October 28, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)

62 Since I don't smoke seegars, my only interest in Cuba is Cuban Sammiches.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 07:04 PM (fO5H9)

63 CNN -LOLOLOL- Obama gives a speech in Georgia. Americans are very concerned about Trump corruption.

I wonder if Obama filled the high school gym.

MSNow - Obama live from Georgia!!!

Drinking game? Every reference to himself, take a drink...?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:05 PM (Sco7b)

64

Great -

Fox News Politics
@foxnewspolitics
·
3h
Judge James Boasberg — the same federal judge Trump called a "Radical Left Lunatic" after he blocked Venezuelan deportation flights — has been assigned to oversee the fight to unseal the FBI search warrant used in the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home.

The case lands on Boasberg's desk as two separate federal investigations into Omar are underway: one examining alleged discrepancies in her financial disclosures and another probing whether her father misstated her age on citizenship paperwork in 2000, potentially allowing her to obtain citizenship as a minor. Trump has long accused Omar of committing immigration fraud, including allegedly marrying her brother, and called for her to be "put in jail" in the weeks following the raid on her D.C. home.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:05 PM (kX27y)

65 It is an absolute mystery to me why we have tolerated these miserable thugs even one day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 07:06 PM (RIvkX)

66
Nothing from Judge Carter yet on California's 20,000 suspect ballots.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:06 PM (mmrXZ)

67 Stacy Abrahams IS John Madden!

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 07:06 PM (Y8DZL)

68 Here's hoping that the shit Midas touch is still a thing and the commies lose senate seats in GA and MI.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 28, 2026 07:07 PM (oYFNj)

69 Been having an argument on X with a couple Abdul supporters who insist the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing but a political party in Egypt. Impossible to know whether they are lying or really this stupid. Posted by: JackStraw

Why not both?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at October 28, 2026 07:07 PM (wcyKn)

70
Thanks a lot Jimmy Carter, hope you are roomies with Fidel.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Two-coup Jerry Ford had him deliver his eulogy.

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 07:08 PM (Y8DZL)

71 Impossible to know whether they are lying or really this stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 06:59 PM (viF8m)
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A distinction without a difference.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 07:08 PM (RIvkX)

72 MILLIONS of shekels originating from hostile enemy states were allegedly funneled into Israel to finance large-scale vote-buying operations in Arab communities.

Note that this money didn't just buy votes for Arab candidates, it bought votes for anti-Israel anti-Jewish factions of those candidates.
It wasn't Nestorian Christians from Arbela and Kirkuk buying those votes.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:09 PM (88C+u)

73 Venezuela as the 51st state and Cuba as the 52nd?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 06:52 PM (2GVsD)

It took South Korea about 30 years to move from the Korean war to a major industrial exporter, but the Koreans didn't have a diaspora making lots of money and wanting to go home and remake the country.
I think Cuba would be a wonderful territory that is moving to home rule and back to sovereignty, this time without the Russian bases.

Havana was always a major transshipment port for the Gulf to Europe, and I bet it could be again.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 07:09 PM (rbvCR)

74 Well, that takes care of the Florida vote. What other states do we need to address?

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 07:09 PM (dIske)

75 "Judge James Boasberg — the same federal judge Trump called a "Radical Left Lunatic" after he blocked Venezuelan deportation flights — has been assigned to oversee the fight to unseal the FBI search warrant used in the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home."

It will probably be fine.

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at October 28, 2026 07:10 PM (MWfyi)

76 Cuba, America's new hemispherical territory.

Imagine, how sparkly, the Trump Havana, Hotel and Casino will be.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:10 PM (jU8k8)

77 It's all going to blow up after the election.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:10 PM (8B4gm)

78 >>>Judge James Boasberg — the same federal judge Trump called a "Radical Left Lunatic" after he blocked Venezuelan deportation flights — has been assigned to oversee the fight to unseal the FBI search warrant used in the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home.

What, was Judge Alexandre de Moraes all busy?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 07:11 PM (rbvCR)

79
3h
Judge James Boasberg — the same federal judge Trump called a "Radical Left Lunatic" after he blocked Venezuelan deportation flights — has been assigned to oversee the fight to unseal the FBI search warrant used in the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home.

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

Oh brother. The MSM can't wait to get their eyeballs on this even though the search warrant isn't fully executed and Pirro says revealing it now could compromise the case.

Go ahead, Boasberg -- order the whole thing thrown open, get reversed, and look out for your next chance to throw a wrench into American justice.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:11 PM (mmrXZ)

80 Trump Havana, Hotel and Casino
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Enlisted will line up to serve @GitMo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:11 PM (jU8k8)

81 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at October 28, 2026 07:12 PM (ISl8s)

82 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:13 PM (8B4gm)

83 I'm doing dishes and folding laundry.

If I'm going to be miserable, MSNow it is. The DEI crew is on!
And Obama soon! The light-bringer speaks.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (Sco7b)

84
Havana was always a major transshipment port for the Gulf to Europe, and I bet it could be again.
Posted by: Kindltot

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

Probably a riotous hospitality resort as well. I'd love to go to Club Babalu.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:15 PM (mmrXZ)

85 80 Trump Havana, Hotel and Casino
---

Enlisted will line up to serve @GitMo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:11 PM
Maybe some retired too.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

86 The case lands on Boasberg's desk as two separate federal investigations into Omar are underway...
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When do we get two separate federal investigations into the corrupt Boasberg?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:20 PM (TN0g+)

87 East Texas checking in. I’m worried sick that Tally Boy will deliver the upset. Hell, OU beat TX this year. Never expected that and I’m an OU fan.
I hope I’m wrong. My liver might not survive this.

Posted by: Billythesquid at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (x4l2h)

88 68 Here's hoping that the shit Midas touch is still a thing and the commies lose senate seats in GA and MI.
Posted by: PaleRider

GA is being called for Ossoff by analysts because of polling and incumbency but Jackson (R) in the governor's race to replace Kemp.

NC has a relative unknown Whatley (R) taking on a former two term governor of the state and the Dems have held the governor's mansion for the last 10 years in NC while the GOP holds the State House, Senate, and Supreme Court. Cooper probably has a hard upper cap on his numbers due to a variety of factors including Western Carolina Hurricane response but has the name recognition, money, and ties in the more populous east and mid part of the state. Again, depends on turnout and perhaps degree of ticket splitting. NC is one of the states where they redistricted and there are two of the tossup House races there--one had an incumbent drop his reelection requiring GOP to put someone in that race and the other is a redrawn district that is competitive.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:25 PM (E4rtv)

89 JackStraw....

Those people you were arguing with. I'm voting stupid.

Oh, my head.
'ICE killing people in the streets.'

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (Sco7b)

90 Sorry partial thought. If Jackson is up in the governor's race for the GOP and apparently down ticket GOP are leading races like Lt. Gov, then analysts so far would have to explain ticket splitting of GOP voters for other races but voting for Ossoff in the Senate race.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (E4rtv)

91 @24 -- rouge agents
I know you meant rogue, but rouge (i.e., red) is an appropos typo.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 28, 2026 08:04 PM (XMwZJ)

Quick Hits

Surprise! French leftists follow the lead of Spanish leftists and propose granting amnesty to hundreds of thousands of Muslim illegal aliens, even as they loot stores and burn down city halls and vandalize churches and synagogues.

Via Politico.eu:

Lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France.
The measure is expected to be supported by center-left presidential candidate Rapha�l Glucksmann, whose campaign is eager to find some breathing space between centrist candidates like Gabriel Attal and Edouard Philippe, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, his rival on the radical left. Glucksmann has previously expressed support for such a step in multiple interviews.
The proposal, introduced by Socialist lawmaker Paul Christophle, hails Spain's Pedro Sánchez for having "chosen to provide foreign nationals with the legal means to settle and work" instead of "trying -- in vain -- to control migration flows."

Trump advises "allies:" There's a strike coming on Iran after the midterms.

The U.S. has told several allied nations in the Gulf to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign following the midterm elections next month.
The communications went through diplomatic and military channels, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
The claims are among other indications that the U.S. and Israel are preparing to launch a new round of combat operations in Iran.
The U.S. military is sending an additional Patriot system to Israel from Texas, which will improve missile defenses. The U.S. has also moved troops off bases in the Middle East based on U.S. intelligence suggesting Iran is preparing to attack Americans.

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's top campaign aide called Biden a "dipshit" and a "rapist" and said America is "cringe."

Two out of three ain't bad.

A top aide to Abdul El-Sayed has publicly called former president Joe Biden a "dipshit" and "rapist" and blasted the United States as "cringe" on July 4, a Washington Free Beacon review of now-deleted posts shows.
It's not the first time Roxie Richner--a far-left operative who, as El-Sayed's communications director, often hovers just behind him when he's speaking to reporters--has made news over her fiery X account, though the most recent posts unearthed by the Free Beacon have not been previously reported.
"#IBelieveBiden raped tara reade and needs to be held accountable," Richner said in May 2020 as then-candidate Joe Biden faced allegations of rape by a former congressional aide, Tara Reade.
"He's a rapist," she told a Democratic activist who urged his party to unite around Biden for the general election.
El-Sayed, by contrast, has been walking a tightrope when it comes to Biden. Black voters--whose support El-Sayed badly needs--are strong Biden supporters, while El-Sayed's Arab base despises the 46th president for providing Israel with financial support after Oct. 7. El-Sayed has kept his public criticism of Biden limited to Gaza.
Richner showed no such hesitation. While Biden made history by elevating the first woman to the vice president's office, Richner made it known that she was unimpressed.
"Yeah but does it matter if his vp is a woman if he's literally a rapist?" she asked in April 2020. In March 2020, she said she "cried" after hearing the Reade allegations.
"I'm sad for her because she tried to tell her story and no one listened," Richner said.

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed -- who has no terrorist links or terrorist sympathies, Racists, and you should be ashamed for documenting his clear terrorist links and frequently expressed terrorist sympathies -- objected to the drone strike that eliminated the Al Qaeda mastermind who planned 9/11.

Abdul E-Sayed wrote that it was "troubling" that the United States killed the al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri--who is widely considered the mastermind of 9/11--in a 2022 targeted drone strike. Killing al-Zawahiri was "a fig leaf" to cover up the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, El-Sayed wrote in 2022, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
In the piece, "Projecting Strength Abroad Isn't Simply About Killing Terrorists. It's About Standing Up to Despots, Too," which was published in the New Republic on Aug. 5, 2022, El-Sayed spoke out against the CIA drone strike that successfully took out al-Zawahiri, a fellow Egyptian who'd joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager and ultimately rose to lead al Qaeda.

Hey wait, Abdulrahman Mohamed Al-Sayed is an Egyptian with strong family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Small world!

"President Biden is using the strike to bolster his approval here at home. It is troubling to watch yet another American president flog 'War on Terror' themes to resurrect a laggard term," El-Sayed sniffed in the article.

The Bee:

Of course.

Catherine Selgado:

Maine Absentee Ballot Envelopes Ended Up at a Soros-Tied Organization in Maryland

The state of Maine seems reluctant to look further into a 2025 case in which hundreds of absentee ballot envelopes ended up in a different state and at a location with ties to the Soros family money machine. A local outlet says state officials closed the case, even though they had not produced any answers or solutions.
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UPS told Attorney General Aaron Frey's (D-Maine) office that it required a subpoena before it would release any details about the envelopes, and Frey decided he would rather not know. He didn't think there was sufficient evidence to justify a subpoena, according to The Maine Wire. Why worry about 500 ballot envelopes ending up at a sketchy NGO headquarters in another state?
It is not clear why the NGO might have wanted the envelopes, of course. And it's strange that the envelopes were separate from the ballots.
The Maine Wire's Steve Robinson already put out a detailed examination of the case and the records he was able to obtain, noting that the NGO, which operates out of a residential home in Maryland, has lobbying connections to more than one Maine Democrat official.

The New York Times: Yes, the shifty Democrat socialist whore Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.

Operatives aligned with Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates in an effort to dilute support for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Alaska's crowded ballot, according to The New York Times.
The effort, internally dubbed the "ballot composition project," included an early directive to a Peltola staffer in the summer of 2025: find as many people named Dan Sullivan as possible in the state.
The goal, the report says, was to land another Dan Sullivan on the ballot to create confusion and siphon votes from the incumbent.
The White House communications department weighed in with a firm rebuke of the reporting that has come out after nearly 60,000 early votes have been cast in that election thus far, according to The Associated Press
The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.
This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state's Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state's unusual, four-person ballot.
The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.
The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola's team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent's support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.

Lisa Murkowski just endorsed -- get this -- the Democrat cheater.

🚨 BREAKING: "Republican" Sen. Lisa Murkowski just ENDORSED Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Governor of Alaska � stabbing President Trump's endorsed candidate, Bernadette Wilson, in the back just 7 days before Election Day
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!
There are THREE Republicans on the November ballot � Trump-endorsed Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson, and Treg Taylor � and Murkowski passed on ALL of them to back the lone Democrat in the race
Her father, former Gov. Frank Murkowski, also joined Democrat Tony Knowles and Bill Walker in endorsing Kreiss-Tomkins today
At this point, why does Lisa Murkowski even pretend to have an "R" next to her name?!
She's representing a heavy Trump state like a Democrat. Unreal.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 28, 2026

Nothing to see here, just a Somali �community leader� openly calling for jihad inside the Minnesota State Capitol.
How did it even get to this point? https://t.co/xkGESxxUUu
— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 22, 2026

Is Minnesota in play thanks to Ilhan Nur Said Elmi and her Somali pirates and warbands?

Democrats keep trying to change the subject, but the subject is Somalis and, by extension, the Democrats' deep ties with and advocacy for their community despite all the trouble they are causing.

"'The Republicans have their best shot in 20 years at winning the state,' Hamline University professor of political science and legal studies David Schultz told Newsweek, crediting the state's issues with corruption and 'Democratic Party fatigue' as reasons why Republicans might secure a win. He added that he would not be surprised if Tafoya won the election."
6 days, Minnesota.
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) October 28, 2026

The Senate might be safer than pollsters would have you believe.

arlier this month, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten pulled the final polling averages for Senate races decided by five points or fewer, using surveys conducted in the last 21 days of each campaign. Those aggregates missed the final margin by an average of 3.7 points. Almost every race Enten examined fell within that range.
"This, to me, is the big siren warning sign for Democrats right here," Enten said. "Because I know you feel like it's Lucy and the football. You've seen yourselves ahead before. And then Election Day, the votes are cast and counted, and the Republicans come out ahead."
That's an uncomfortable message for a party that has spent months convinced it's headed for a big win. If the polls miss again, a lot of Democrats are going to learn on election night that they've lost.
Enten also gamed out what that would look like. If Republicans beat their polling averages by 3.75 points, the map transforms. The GOP wins in Maine, Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Alaska, and leaves with a 52-48 Senate majority.

UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS "GOING TO BE DOMINANT" AND "MAINSTREAM" IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
"The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream Democratic movement. Absolutely. No question about that."
That's California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, speaking to an undercover journalist while campaigning in New Hampshire.
Asked by a "younger voter" who said "we don't want Kamala Harris, we want more democratic socialist policies":
"No one is arguing to manage the status quo and fail more efficiently."
"You can't play in the margins anymore. The system's broken. It's completely unbalanced, and we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine."
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 26, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:10 PM

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1 UNBLADED!

Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2026 05:10 PM (SwyyQ)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 28, 2026 05:11 PM (hG5L0)

3 Lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France.

Employed My Ass.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 28, 2026 05:12 PM (OkYzo)

4 You have to admit, she has a way with words:

Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
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16h
UPDATE:

@ZohranKMamdani
just deleted his tweet below that I quoted after I exposed how he is discriminating against non-Muslim street food vendors and how he’s trying to spread Islamic ritual animal torture aka Halal in NYC by giving out over 10,500 more licenses to Halal street vendors, which would islamify the food supply in New York and push out the kosher hot dog stands and pretzel stands by overwhelming them with competing Islamic Halal vendors.

After he started to get ratioed following my X post, Mamdani DELETED his tweet.

Luckily I took a screenshot because I was stunned he tweeted this to begin with.

What an insane little jihadi.

Nobody in New York wants to be suffocated by the smell of shawarma and white sauce. It smells like shit and will give you explosive diarrhea and food poisoning.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 05:14 PM (kX27y)

5 Just remember a lot of this stuff is programmed by those who want a conservative overreaction in order to grasp total control over the government. They spin up their crazies to get the response. X . com just had a report of someone charged with a felony for battery on a indian national because he told the indian to 'go home.'

They want the violence. They crave it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2026 05:14 PM (nEUC6)

6 Surprise! French leftists follow the lead of Spanish leftists and propose granting amnesty to hundreds of thousands of Muslim illegal aliens....

Gonna say it's way more than a couple of hundred thousand, they are up in the millions of illegals at this point.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2026 05:14 PM (I43vL)

7 Regarding the possible Iran strike, it seems to me that's not something you'd want to announce right before the midterms. Wouldn't it be better to wait?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 28, 2026 05:16 PM (9ZFZd)

8
>>Killing al-Zawahiri was "a fig leaf" to cover up the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, El-Sayed wrote in 2022, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

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What? Abdul el-Sayed agrees Biden's Afghan withdrawal was a disaster?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:16 PM (mmrXZ)

9 The Term "DSA" is BS.... There is no such thing...

The Acronym contradicts itself....

DEMOCRAT - SOCIALIST is a play on words to attract the Idiots to vote for "The Garden of Edan".

SOCIALISM is total Government control..
Democracy is freedom for all...

So, the Hippies of the 1960's now support the DSA ???

What happened to "Not Trusting The Man" ?? or
"Do not Trust Anyone Over 30" ???

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 05:16 PM (jGtoG)

10 is his full name "Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed" appearing on the Michigan ballot?

That's going to be tough for even a lot of democrats to pull the lever for

Posted by: Leupold at October 28, 2026 05:19 PM (fbRKR)

11
Regarding the possible Iran strike, it seems to me that's not something you'd want to announce right before the midterms. Wouldn't it be better to wait?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti

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

WSJ cites unnamed sources. A leak? Like, heads should roll?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:19 PM (mmrXZ)

12 I have zero doubt Iran gets obliterated after the midterms. I'm sure Trump is pissed at how much political damage they did.

Iran really had one goal, hurt GOP in midterms.

Posted by: Leupold at October 28, 2026 05:20 PM (fbRKR)

13 Gavin so dumb he starve a brain eating virus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)

14 I wonder how many Dan Sullivans live in Alaska?

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 05:21 PM (kX27y)

15 Holy crap, Murkowski looks like the puppet guy from "The Corbomite Maneuver."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 05:21 PM (amcLV)

16 Peggy Flanagan looks - strange - very strange.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

17 Strike on Iran - I'mma let you finish but that ain't happening until the election is over.

Posted by: Polls are for strippers and leaks are for Biden at October 28, 2026 05:22 PM (anL5R)

18 Lisa Murkowski just endorsed -- get this -- the Democrat cheater.

This is my not shocked face.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 28, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

19 0 is his full name "Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed" appearing on the Michigan ballot?

No, his name appears "Bubba Joe Al Sayed....

This way he proves he is an ALL-AMERICAN BOY and not a Bin Laden Raghead Lover...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 05:22 PM (jGtoG)

20 Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.

-
CNN's Dana Bash says this perfectly OK.

https://tinyurl.com/2zhe3s2j

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:23 PM (ndZc7)

21 Wasn't the Obongo birth certificate dustup debunked by the media?

Surely they would not de-bunk something that was true?

Posted by: Comet Pizza at October 28, 2026 05:23 PM (8EQTH)

22 Murkowski looks like what happened to Edgar happened to her. Her skin doesn't fit. There's an alien bug inside her. Put out some sugar water and see if she goes for it.

Posted by: Polls are for strippers and leaks are for Biden at October 28, 2026 05:23 PM (anL5R)

23 What an insane little jihadi.

Nobody in New York wants to be suffocated by the smell of shawarma and white sauce. It smells like shit and will give you explosive diarrhea and food poisoning.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 05:14 PM (kX27y)

She must write some hilarious texts to her boyfriend.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 28, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt)

24 In the piece, "Projecting Strength Abroad Isn't Simply About Killing Terrorists. It's About Standing Up to Despots, Too," which was published in the New Republic on Aug. 5, 2022, El-Sayed spoke out against the CIA drone strike that successfully took out al-Zawahiri, a fellow Egyptian who'd joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager and ultimately rose to lead al Qaeda.

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Since I don't recall any democratic terrorist cells, we get two for one going for terrorists.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

25 15 Holy crap, Murkowski looks like the puppet guy from "The Corbomite Maneuver."

According to the Laws of Physics what is inside eventually seeps the surface.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 05:24 PM (jGtoG)

26 MurCow looks like she has MadCow

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2026 05:24 PM (n5tGW)

27 Speaking of the MSM . . .

NBC News
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:24 PM (ndZc7)

28 I don’t get all the mischegas over the senate. We got that. We were never in danger of losing it.

Enten is a cheap troll.

The house is a different story, but The Blade is optimistic. And The Blade has been sharp today. Trust The Blade.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 28, 2026 05:24 PM (j/Lj+)

29 25 15 Holy crap, Murkowski looks like the puppet guy from "The Corbomite Maneuver."

MY Eyes ARE BURNING...............

I AM BLIND AND TURNING TO STONE FROM THAT PICTURE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 05:25 PM (jGtoG)

30 1 UNBLADED!
Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2026 05:10 PM (SwyyQ)
——

Well, you are maximum power ….

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 28, 2026 05:25 PM (j/Lj+)

31 CNN's Dana Bash says this perfectly OK.
==
High spirited Hijinks in the Alaska election. Creative, imaginative and novel. Such a fresh approach!!!

Posted by: Dana's Gash at October 28, 2026 05:25 PM (anL5R)

32 Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.

-
CNN's Dana Bash says this perfectly OK.

https://tinyurl.com/2zhe3s2j
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:23 PM (ndZc7)

The super fair Canadians had something like 96 candidates running against the opposition leader with his name buried in the mass.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

33
Jihad Man seems to be calling for war against Somaliland. I suppose the Minnesota state capitol is as good a place as any for a putsch against some Third World separatist state.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:26 PM (mmrXZ)

34 So France in it's wisdom is going to give the roving gangs of violent muslims destroying everything what they really want. I'm sure this will calm them down and there will be no instances of this in the future.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2026 05:26 PM (n5tGW)

35 War? Good. That means more food for my family. All 78 million of them./i]

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 28, 2026 05:26 PM (6ydKt)

36 NBC News
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:24 PM (ndZc7)

They must have run out of "without evidence" tokens and had to replace it with "baseless".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 28, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

37 MY Eyes ARE BURNING...............

I AM BLIND AND TURNING TO STONE FROM THAT PICTURE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 28, 2026 05:25 PM (jGtoG)
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Hmmm, perhaps she's actually the Gorgon Medusa.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (amcLV)

38 > Murkowski looks like the puppet guy from "The Corbomite Maneuver."

Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (mkw2N)

39 whose campaign is eager to find some breathing space"

Can all "pro immigration" parties worldwide just admit that they are after voters/supporters, since the traditional groups just don't support like they used to?

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (pfXMo)

40 The blades head shall be severed.

In other news I think Seth Keshel on X has the proper vibes on the election. Things should look firmer tomorrow and the next day as we get closer to ERECTION DAY!!!!

Take this time to find your favorite turn coat grifter on X (like Baris, Barnes, Morefield (a total dork) and whoever the fuck else and go and troll them mercilessly. Drive them from their land, take their skills as prizes and hear the Lamentations of their women which they don't have. Because they are doomer dorks.

Posted by: GigantorX at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (N5Ygk)

41 The communications went through diplomatic and military channels, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.

The claims are among other indications that the U.S. and Israel are preparing to launch a new round of combat operations in Iran.

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Claims we made up with no sources? Every fact in there sounds defensive, not offensive.

Never believe sources that won't give a name.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (uhVAy)

42 I saw Baseless Conspiracy Theories open for Cannibal Corpse at The Gates of Hell in '96.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7)

43
Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
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CNN's Dana Bash says this perfectly OK.

So does Harold Ford, Jr.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (Cqx++)

44 You know what is the only solution for pirates?

Posted by: Hemp Promotion Board For Growth at October 28, 2026 05:29 PM (EdP2u)

45 "El-Sayed, by contrast, has been walking a tightrope when it comes to Biden."

What tightrope and why?

Posted by: L - No nic.... at October 28, 2026 05:30 PM (NFX2v)

46 > You know what is the only solution for pirates?

Letters of Marque?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 05:31 PM (mkw2N)

47 Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.
==
I can't tell if she looks better or not - I can't see her ass.

Posted by: typical moron at October 28, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)

48 >>The Senate might be safer than pollsters would have you believe.

No way, really?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)

49 Mary Petola is behind the recruitment of a nobody loser named "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican "

Dan Fielding and Christine Sullivan?

Hmmm.

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:33 PM (pfXMo)

50 The Senate might be safer than pollsters would have you believe.

No way, really?
==
Stop this. Stop. It. Right. Now. I will not have you sowing hope before this election. You will all be despondent, morose and surly until further notice.

Posted by: Doomer McBlackPill at October 28, 2026 05:34 PM (anL5R)

51 Wow!

Murkowski really lost a ton of weight.

Welp, there you go. Scientific proof that cocaine beats there hell outta Ozempic for weight loss!

That guy on the corner downtown isn't just selling craack....He's selling beauty!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 28, 2026 05:35 PM (YSUhf)

52 take their skills as prizes and hear the Lamentations of their women which they don't have. Because they are doomer dorks.

Posted by: GigantorX
=======
Cough foreign money, cough.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv)

53 Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (mkw2N)
——

Well, she fucked the shit outta Harvey Weinstein, and that’s gotta change a person …

Looks like a mutated Charlize Theron

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 28, 2026 05:35 PM (j/Lj+)

54 You know what is the only solution for pirates?"

HClO4?

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:35 PM (pfXMo)

55 Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.

Why do these women keep doing this?

Jennifer Grey all over again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 28, 2026 05:35 PM (PSEDc)

56 It is not all clear that two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner is total freedom.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 05:35 PM (2ap+5)

57 Andrew Klavan has a funny bit on YouTube about polling.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 28, 2026 05:36 PM (bX16E)

58 The US and Israel planning a strike on Iran after the midterms?

Quick Democrats, rush to Tehran to be human tar... I mean shields for the regime!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 28, 2026 05:36 PM (5eNyd)

59 Lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France.

You get more of what you subsidize. Sow the Muzzie wind, reap the Jihadist whirlwind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 05:36 PM (l3cgK)

60
Political Analyst Gavin Newsom lol.

The Abundance Democrats -- another of those oxymorons like Democratic Socialists -- have made, in fact centralized, a (negative) case study of his Train to Nowhere.

But so what? No one is listening to Ezra Klein except a bunch of his fellow pseudo-intelligent podcasters and book-writers!

That's one plus for Newsom. People admire his hairline and his California credentials more than Ezra's elaborate! exciting! novel! political philosophy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:36 PM (mmrXZ)

61 Ken Dilanian
@KDilanianMSNOW
New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention. with @CarolLeonnig

-
Dubious claims and baseless conspiracy theories.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (ndZc7)

62 CNN's Dana Bash says this perfectly OK.

So does Harold Ford, Jr.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
=======
Both are media whores so liars by definition.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (E4rtv)

63 Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.
==
I can't tell if she looks better or not - I can't see her ass.
Posted by: typical moron at October 28, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)

She looks like she's been bashed on the head with a brick. Filter face in real life.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (uhVAy)

64 Where is the Somali Skank these days?

Still in the US?

Shoot on sight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (RORbl)

65 25 15 Holy crap, Murkowski looks like the puppet guy from "The Corbomite Maneuver."

According to the Laws of Physics what is inside eventually seeps the surface.....

tranya?

Posted by: anachronda at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (oY6Yp)

66 I've had a day from hell from the moment I woke up from a text from my brother (regarding mother's idea she didn't need sitters anymore at home) til now and realize I will probably survive.

I had to take a lyft to an appt to top it all and other stuff that happened; and a certain Rashad probably wanted to go jihad with me.

I suggested a different route from the Interstate, he argued 20min vs the 40min I suggested. Being smart I said ok (he said he was an "expert driver" which reminded me of Rain Man).

I was reading and looked up and we were on my short cut with less traffic and suicide, as that was on his app. When I got home I said, "Well, that wasn't so bad!" He snarled at me. It took us 20min my way. HA! Score! He'll probably return with a machete.

Even with all this I don't (thankfully) look as cranky, bitter, and dessicated as Murky Murkowski. That old beetch.

I think general crankienss seeps from inside to your face and she's a fine example of this theory.

If I remember correctly she was elected by a hair or possible fraud, but I am too tired to look it up. I don't think buzzards would bother if she was road kill.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (hzuYO)

67 Speaking of, Murkowski is looking very trim.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (2ap+5)

68 Murkowski looks like she'd eat a baby to keep her seat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (f8snw)

69 Dubious claims and baseless conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
======
Ken specializes in distributing those to the blue demon faithfuls.

Russia Russia anyone?

Hunter Biden's computer being a Russian op?

Fusion Ken is so talented that he can lie with his botoxed to the max face with no reaction on the screen.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 05:38 PM (E4rtv)

70 New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention. with @CarolLeonnig

-
Dubious claims and baseless conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (ndZc7)

Note the admission that there is a conspiracy to fight the detection of election fraud. Oops.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)

71 >>>Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 05:28 PM (mkw2N)

=====

WUT THE WUT???

That's got to be some AI bullshit. From a high 8 to a very mid 5. Hope it was worth it.

Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2026 05:38 PM (SwyyQ)

72 Lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France.

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It's almost as if violence works.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:39 PM (ndZc7)

73 You will all be despondent, morose and surly until further notice"

Gloom, despair, and agony ok?

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:39 PM (pfXMo)

74
Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.

Looks like Generic Plastic Surgery Beauty Face #3.

Very anonymous.

She's lost all of the homespun cuteness that made her beautiful.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 28, 2026 05:39 PM (YSUhf)

75 In SC you can choose to do straight party voting. Never chose that before, but it's helpful when you have weird parties like the US Citizens Party.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 28, 2026 05:39 PM (bX16E)

76 > Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.
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AI perhaps? To gauge public opinion on her next plastic surgery adventure.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2026 05:39 PM (RORbl)

77 I love this video so much. An idiot, fake tough guy tries to shoot a powerful gun one-handed and dents his face.

http://tiny.cc/wzsc101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 05:40 PM (mkw2N)

78
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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

What do they mean "although" it's 4000 miles away it raced through the media? Like 4000 miles is a long way to send a foot-runner with the message? Have they heard of the internet?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:40 PM (mmrXZ)

79 The average AWFL would look at the Somali declaring jihad and say "that's only for the election you racist"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2026 05:40 PM (f8snw)

80 Senator Murky looks like a gender-affirmed Palpatine now.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 05:41 PM (88C+u)

81 Murkowski looks like she'd eat a baby to keep her seat
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (f8snw)
----
How do we know she hasn't?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 05:41 PM (FZ29D)

82 The Democrats want their people convinced that a Blue Wave is coming, so when it doesn't they have a reason to riot.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 28, 2026 05:41 PM (0MjtC)

83 50 Stop this. Stop. It. Right. Now. I will not have you sowing hope before this election.

sewing the seams of gloves > sowing hope

Posted by: tears for fears at October 28, 2026 05:41 PM (oY6Yp)

84 expressed deep concern"

How deep? Like deeeeep or just, you know....deep.

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:41 PM (pfXMo)

85 If I remember correctly she was elected by a hair or possible fraud, but I am too tired to look it up. I don't think buzzards would bother if she was road kill.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Illegal election violating plain letter Alaskan law when she lost a primary to Joe Miller during the Tea Party years. She ran as a write in which required by AK law that her name be completely and correctly spelled for it to count. Some Murkowski crime syndicate judge allowed those to count. Just like this recent op by Peltola which the AK Supreme Court needs smeared across its rep for being willingly gullible in accepting Dem lies.

State's pols and courts are bad enough that it reminds me of Arkansas during the Clinton heyday.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 05:41 PM (E4rtv)

86 Did you guys see what Jennifer Lawrence did to her face? Yikes.

http://tiny.cc/ezsc101

She doesn't look ugly. She's just a completely different, bland person.

Looks like Generic Plastic Surgery Beauty Face #3.

Very anonymous.

She's lost all of the homespun cuteness that made her beautiful.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 28, 2026 05:39 PM (YSUhf)

She did a Jennifer Gray.

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2026 05:42 PM (lCppi)

87 78
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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

What do they mean "although" it's 4000 miles away it raced through the media? Like 4000 miles is a long way to send a foot-runner with the message? Have they heard of the internet?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:40 PM (mmrXZ)

They expected truth to still be putting on its shoes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 05:43 PM (l3cgK)

88 >>@KDilanianMSNOW
New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention. with @CarolLeonnig

Kash Patel told Ken this when Kash was in Russia.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 05:43 PM (viF8m)

89 67 Speaking of, Murkowski is looking very trim.
Posted by: Oglebay

Her outer appearance is as vile as her inner self. And her corrupt as shit father needs to join her as he was responsible for the nepot appointment of Murcow in the first place when he decided to run for governor. He won, resigned as senator and appointed Murcow II as senator.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 05:44 PM (E4rtv)

90 Give Lawrence a couple more surgeries and she'll either look like Michael Jackson or that Jennifer Welch critter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2026 05:44 PM (f8snw)

91 CNN's Dana Bash says this perfectly OK.

So does Harold Ford, Jr.
___

Unless the GOP does it, then it will be aN aSsAuLt On DeMoCrAcY!!!!!

Posted by: Elizabeth Toni-Marie Warren at October 28, 2026 05:44 PM (Ovx+P)

92 >>> 61 Ken Dilanian
@KDilanianMSNOW
New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention. with @CarolLeonnig

-
Dubious claims and baseless conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (ndZc7)

We have cannons surrounding ~~Fort Sumter~~ Camp Pendleton!

Posted by: Democrats! at October 28, 2026 05:45 PM (jb8Ss)

93
state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention.

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

Feds Intervene with Federal Election

Posted by: WTOP headline at October 28, 2026 05:45 PM (mmrXZ)

94 Like 4000 miles is a long way to send a foot-runner with the message? "

I would walk 500 miles....

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:45 PM (pfXMo)

95 16 Peggy Flanagan looks - strange - very strange.
Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar

She always does. It's a manic face with crazy eyes.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 05:46 PM (kX27y)

96 Remember Tara Reade was a life long Dem when she made her claims against Biden, so this isn't like life long Dem Jean Carroll suddenly claiming Trump assaulted her after Trump became a Republican.

Interestingly Broaddrick and Jones were both life long Dems as well before being assaulted by Dem office holders...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 05:46 PM (sKqQm)

97
sock off.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 05:46 PM (mmrXZ)

98 I'm not sure what that is on Murkowski's left arm in the photo, but my suspicion is Dalmatian fur.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 28, 2026 05:46 PM (2ap+5)

99 Ken Dilanian
@KDilanianMSNOW
New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention. with @CarolLeonnig

-
Dubious claims and baseless conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (ndZc7)

So, Robert Mueller and Jonathan Buma are deeply concerned?

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2026 05:46 PM (lCppi)

100 @KDilanianMSNOW
==
this particular shitheel has a lot to answer for

Posted by: I'm just saying at October 28, 2026 05:46 PM (anL5R)

101 Kash Patel told Ken this when Kash was in Russia."

To Russia. With love...

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:47 PM (pfXMo)

102 94 Like 4000 miles is a long way to send a foot-runner with the message? "

I would walk 500 miles....
Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:45 PM (pfXMo)

And I would walk 500 more

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 28, 2026 05:47 PM (6ydKt)

103
No "associate membership" says E.U. to Carney, looks like he'll have to take Xi to homecoming.

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 05:47 PM (Y8DZL)

104 And OT my e-mail is full of political spam addressed to mother who died in the 80's: "Stunning blow, _____(her first name}.rush $5.00 now to help save the House Of Reps for Democrats. "Either this is some fakery or the Democrats are not as confident as they appear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2026 05:47 PM (JrHfD)

105 She looks like she's been bashed on the head with a brick. Filter face in real life.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 05:37 PM (uhVAy)

*********
I can answer some of this from before and after photos.

She had her naturally hooded eyes worked on. A blepharsty. Her eyes look ok,but not herself beforehand.

I don't understand at 36yrs why, but that's all natural me.

Her cheeks were rounder, which actually makes you look younger as I sport them still.

The trend in Hollyweird is to have buccal fat removal to enhance cheekbones. Gross. If you do this with the magic Ozzy pill you then look half dead on top of different.

As I've said, from having needed, horrific, and it turned out great from a spot on my nose years ago, it would require me going through a windshield for plastic surgery. Not just my advanced age but even when I was 30yrs younger. Nope!

The dermatologist told me today, for my yearly check up that I look 30yrs younger and have amazing skin for all the sunbaking I claim. At 32yrs when you get your first basal cell it tends to change your tanning at the beach or pool. On my forehead, plastic surgeon removed, and I can no longer find the scar.
Use SPF I weakly cry.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 05:47 PM (hzuYO)

106 >>state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention.

BTW, this is another case of the left building the case that Trump rigged the midterms.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)

107 Robert Mueller and Jonathan Buma are deeply concerned?"

Very deeply. So very, very deeply.

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:49 PM (pfXMo)

108 Like 4000 miles is a long way to send a foot-runner with the message? "

I would walk 500 miles....
Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:45 PM (pfXMo)
——

That dude was very desperate. I assume he walked 1000 miles to find out his girl was getting crushed by The Paolo ….

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 28, 2026 05:49 PM (j/Lj+)

109 Lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France.
__________________________

I'm pretty sure if lived in Europe or Canada, I'd be in jail right now. But, I'd be LOUD about the injustice. I don't comprehend the apathy.

The only way I can rationalize such detachment and indifference is to believe that in order to want to protect and save your nation, you must have a certain pride in it.

I don't think the Europeans have that. I would expect more from Canadians. Yet, they have no real conservative movement. No true conservative leaders. And, a lazy attitude when it comes to using critical thought to truly understand the issues rather than serving up animosity towards the President of a separate sovereign nation.

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2026 05:49 PM (dIske)

110
Then: If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from a governmental investigation

Now: New: FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention. with @CarolLeonnig

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 05:51 PM (sKqQm)

111 I don't comprehend the apathy."

Trust me. We're the oddest ducks in world history...

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 05:51 PM (pfXMo)

112 Far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen officially launched her 2027 French presidential campaign on October 25, 2026, in Orléans, promising to restore law and order, tighten immigration controls, and revive national sovereignty amid widespread social unrest.

So lawmakers in the French National Assembly will vote on a Socialist Party proposal to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in France, largely because Raphaël Glucksmann and other prominent challengers are significantly trailing Marine Le Pen in early polling for the 2027 Presidential election.

And we'll all see how dumb the French voters are.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at October 28, 2026 05:52 PM (NFX2v)

113 Remember Le Pen is a center left politician BY LEFTWING EUROPEAN STANDARDS.

She just has a rational view on immigration.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2026 05:53 PM (sKqQm)

114 Another 1/4 to 1/2 Million Muslims will calm everything down I am sure.

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)

115 Her outer appearance is as vile as her inner self.

Hey, I can only do so much ya know.

Posted by: Dorian Gray's Portraitist at October 28, 2026 05:53 PM (vTZFs)

116 I refuse to be optimistic. Life is disappointing enough already.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 05:54 PM (MWfyi)

117 BREAKING: "Republican" Sen. Lisa Murkowski just ENDORSED Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Governor of Alaska — stabbing President Trump's endorsed candidate, Bernadette Wilson, in the back just 7 days before Election Day

The picture of trans-Skeletor attached to that post is a low blow.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 28, 2026 05:56 PM (HW2K9)

118 I think Le Pen and NR have their best chance of winning ever next year.

But governing is a different story and I think she’ll hit ever wall Trump did in his first term, and even more than that since France is so dependent on government for over half of their GDP.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 28, 2026 05:58 PM (6ydKt)

119 Ace doesn't seem able to find any good news to post about the midterms

Posted by: Paul at October 28, 2026 06:00 PM (w4PfG)

120 Kathleen Kennedy named head of ceremonies and content for LA Olympic Games.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2026 06:01 PM (YZ0Fo)

121 I have written Europe off. No, that is too broad a brush. I have written Western Europe off. And the Anglospere, generally, not counting the US, which hangs on tenuously. One election away.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 06:01 PM (Gqar8)

122 I don't think the Europeans have that. I would expect more from Canadians. Yet, they have no real conservative movement. No true conservative leaders. And, a lazy attitude when it comes to using critical thought to truly understand the issues rather than serving up animosity towards the President of a separate sovereign nation.
Posted by: Orson
------
From X

John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
EU abandons plans to make Canada an 'associate member'
==
As someone said, they pissed in Carney's face.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 06:01 PM (E4rtv)

123 on October 25, 2026, in Orléans,"

At the House of the Rising Sun?

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:01 PM (pfXMo)

124 Ace doesn't seem able to find any good news to post about the midterms
Posted by: Paul at October 28, 2026 06:00 PM (w4PfG)

Well, one bit of good news is there is a sale.on ammo at the local.sporting goods store! A good time to stock up.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2026 06:02 PM (2WIwB)

125 Kathleen Kennedy named head of ceremonies and content for LA Olympic Games."

Put a chick in it and make it gay...er?

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:02 PM (pfXMo)

126 123 on October 25, 2026, in Orléans,"

At the House of the Rising Sun?
Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:01 PM (pfXMo)

I was thinking “ Dance with Me”.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 06:02 PM (Gqar8)

127 The dermatologist told me today, for my yearly check up that I look 30yrs younger and have amazing skin for all the sunbaking I claim. At 32yrs when you get your first basal cell it tends to change your tanning at the beach or pool. On my forehead, plastic surgeon removed, and I can no longer find the scar.
Use SPF I weakly cry.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 05:47 PM (hzuYO)

I once got a sunburn on an overcast day in early March in Chicago. My tan regiment is to get a burn, which leaves a little tan. I once spent a day outside at a Civil War battlefield re-enactment facing the same direction and had blisters from the top of my hand all the way to the ears. No more sun for me! I wear long sleeves for hiking and hats

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)

128 And in putting debt on future people category?

Calif is about to sign a 10 year contract with Siemens, for 3 High Speed Rail trains, and maintenance.... on a 10 year contract from 2030 to 2040.

Once signed... it's a debt... on trains that will never run, on tracks never laid... but they want to get the contract signed before a new Governator comes in.... so the current graft will stay where it is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2026 06:03 PM (mP0Kj)

129 DSA’s rise puts left flank at center of Democrats’ 2026 fight (and I'd argue 2028 as well -Intrepid)

Been 45 years of Reagan and 30 years of Clinton. The areas that have cut taxes (Reagan) and services (Reagan & Clinton) the most have not risen to become top 10 economic hubs or anything like that. Center and right have failed America, keeping us running on fumes.

Today's Republican "center" is far to the right of Richard Nixon' policies; today's center is pretty much John Birch Society. FDR and Truman policies are far closer to DSA than to the Democrat leadership of today

Mamdani implemented in days/months what corporate dems have been talking about doing since 1990. Tangible example of if they wanted to, they would.

We've been trying the moderate side since at least the Clinton administration. Obama took a tippy toes step to the left. Can we try an actual progressive side of the party now?

Do you know how funny it is for DSA to win THE MAYORAL ELECTION OF NEW YORK CITY and for people to still pretend they're irrelevant or unpopular?

Fascists taking over the country and dems worry about people who want universal Healthcare.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 28, 2026 06:03 PM (HW2K9)

130 As far as Europeens are concerned here's how it will go. The invaders at some point will gear up and start killing lots of people. When enough people are killed, the natives will get the point and either submit or fight. That's the plan in America too.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 06:04 PM (LHPAg)

131 127

I once got a sunburn on an overcast day in early March in Chicago. My tan regiment is to get a burn, which leaves a little tan. I once spent a day outside at a Civil War battlefield re-enactment facing the same direction and had blisters from the top of my hand all the way to the ears. No more sun for me! I wear long sleeves for hiking and hats
Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)

The White Folks Burden.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 06:04 PM (Gqar8)

132 Well, one bit of good news is there is a sale.on ammo at the local.sporting goods store! A good time to stock up."

Youngest found boxes of Federal 5.56... 400 for $199, including metal ammo box...

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:04 PM (pfXMo)

133 132 Well, one bit of good news is there is a sale.on ammo at the local.sporting goods store! A good time to stock up."

Youngest found boxes of Federal 5.56... 400 for $199, including metal ammo box...
Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:04 PM (pfXMo)

Green Tip is nice.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 06:05 PM (Gqar8)

134 I was thinking “ Dance with Me”.

Ahem. The gayest album cover ever?

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:06 PM (pfXMo)

135 134 I was thinking “ Dance with Me”.

Ahem. The gayest album cover ever?
Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:06 PM (pfXMo)

Well, it’s right up there.

Posted by: tubal at October 28, 2026 06:06 PM (Gqar8)

136 Green Tip is nice."

It's all good...

Posted by: man at October 28, 2026 06:06 PM (pfXMo)

137 Eromero I think your going to be right

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 06:06 PM (Ia/+0)

138
Kathleen Kennedy named head of ceremonies and content for LA Olympic Games.
Posted by: BruceWayne

So "master" is right out?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 06:07 PM (Cqx++)

139 "...investigate dubious claims of election fraud..."
The FBI investigated that "noose" found in Bubba Wallace's garage, right? With about 20 agents? Investigating dubious (in that case, obvious bullshit) claims of racism seems to be (or was) a top priority of the FBI. I think they can spare a bit of time to investigate claims of election fraud, which are far more likely to be actual crimes than Bubba's little hissy-fit.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 28, 2026 06:08 PM (XMwZJ)

140 Calif is about to sign a 10 year contract with Siemens, for 3 High Speed Rail trains, and maintenance.... on a 10 year contract from 2030 to 2040.

Once signed... it's a debt... on trains that will never run, on tracks never laid... but they want to get the contract signed before a new Governator comes in.... so the current graft will stay where it is.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 28, 2026 06:03 PM (mP0Kj)

Three whole trains? And of course still no answer on how to actually arrive at a city on either end.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 28, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)

141 > Use SPF I weakly cry.

I wash my face using Cetaphil, then I use Cetaphil face lotion with 30 SPF. I didn't start doing this until my mid-40s. I can really tell the difference. I wish I'd started sooner.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 06:11 PM (mkw2N)

142
Three whole trains? And of course still no answer on how to actually arrive at a city on either end.
Posted by: Oldcat

Mule trains

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 06:12 PM (Cqx++)

143 139 "...investigate dubious claims of election fraud..."
The FBI investigated that "noose" found in Bubba Wallace's garage, right? With about 20 agents? Investigating dubious (in that case, obvious bullshit) claims of racism seems to be (or was) a top priority of the FBI. I think they can spare a bit of time to investigate claims of election fraud, which are far more likely to be actual crimes than Bubba's little hissy-fit.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 28, 2026 06:08 PM
Let's go, Brandon!

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 06:12 PM (LHPAg)

144 Without any gun rights I don't see how Europeans will be able to fight back once the real SHTF.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2026 06:13 PM (n5tGW)

145 Glucksmnann, another Jewish politician hell bent on bringing a Caliphate to the west. In the US we have Chuck Schumer, Bernie, Elissa Slotkin and many others.

What in the actual fuck is up with these people?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 28, 2026 06:14 PM (RTJh6)

146 Here's one bit of good news. Paul is 79 and will be dead soon.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 06:14 PM (88C+u)

147 144 Without any gun rights I don't see how Europeans will be able to fight back once the real SHTF.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2026 06:13 PM
Almost like it was planned.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 06:15 PM (LHPAg)

148 *Cerave face lotion.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 06:20 PM (mkw2N)

149 Broad swords and long bows

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)

150 141 > Use SPF I weakly cry.

I wash my face using Cetaphil, then I use Cetaphil face lotion with 30 SPF. I didn't start doing this until my mid-40s. I can really tell the difference. I wish I'd started sooner.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 28, 2026 06:11 PM (mkw2N)

*******
Ace's beauty tips!

SPF 30 daily in moisturizer since 32yrs on my face, neck and hands. I have no sunspots and am ancient.

From age 13yrs (pool) to 32yrs (snow ski, pool, beach) I baked every summer. Mostly wore a hat as my face didn't tan well for a green eyed blonde, my body tanned well and I loved it.

Some people are lucky and some are not in regard to UV waves changing DNA. However, the lucky ones, and I know many my age, have severe sun damage and spots...whether they turn to cancer or not.

I had one spot no bigger than a fine tip marker dot, on my shoulder, black, flat, looked different. Fooled PCP and derm: .32mm melanoma. Measured in depth vs size.Now sport a 3" incision for that one and no more (thank God and 25yrs ago).

I'm also lucky in that I have virtually no moles and if stuff shows up I run to the doctors who are with the university.

I'm one of the lucky ones. Skin cancer survivor.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 06:21 PM (hzuYO)

151 .32mm melanoma.
mine was .79mm, just avoided the lymph surgery

Posted by: free tibet at October 28, 2026 06:25 PM (h6yWA)

152 Today's Republican "center" is far to the right of Richard Nixon' policies

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Well, yeah, but Nixon was a pussy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 28, 2026 06:26 PM (ndZc7)

153 151 .32mm melanoma.
mine was .79mm, just avoided the lymph surgery
Posted by: free tibet at October 28, 2026 06:25 PM (h6yWA)

**********
Yep...you don't want it hitting circulation or lymph!

If I had a lot of moles I would have not seen it fiddling with my hair. Docs were amazed as it was not textbook. They both called me to tell me I'd be fine. They watched liver enzymes and a chext x-ray for 2yrs then told me to behave with sunscreen. I have. Wore a pressure bandage for 3wks and kept working in the ED. I wanted no pity from anyone with that diagnosis.

I got the basal cell on my nose from several bad sunburns as a youth...looked like a clogged pore vs the typical one at 32yrs, pearly, etc. Thought it was nothing yet my doc said, oh, yes it is!

A MOH's hole too big to heal, grew underneath skin, and then plastic surgery...2 scars from above nostril to the corner of my mouth & dimple. Called a shark pedicle repair. My dude changed the dressing each night, telling me it would be ok, when it was not ok at all in my opinion.

Within a few months the healing was amazing. Now you have to look for one scar, as the other one vanished somehow. They do work magic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 06:48 PM (hzuYO)

154 @jsolomonReports
EU abandons plans to make Canada an 'associate member'
==

Just say no to more Trump tariffs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 06:58 PM (jU8k8)

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