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"Christian" Pastor and Heterosexual Heart-Breaker James Talarico: The Assassment That Christians are the Villains In Society Is "Spot On"
I wish I lived in Texas so I could vote for this super-duper S-Tier Christian.
In an episode published on August 5, Van Lathan Jr., host of Higher Learning, went on an extensive rant proclaiming that American Christians nationwide are "villains" and "mean people" who he expected to see "saying something wild," all while Talarico laughed and nodded in agreement. Talarico then told Lathan Jr. that he didn't believe that Christianity as "defining someone as a good person" was dead, but agreed that his "assessment is spot on." Talarico's strain of "good person" Christianity comes from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, headed by Jim Rigby. Rigby has employed the use of an "inclusive Bible" that forbids solely masculine pronouns for God and considers the use of titles like "King" or "Lord" for Jesus Christ to be akin to "rape culture." St. Andrew's Presbyterian distributes sexually explicit books to children with the message that "God is queer, and funds Planned Parenthood and trans youth summer camps.
SCOOP: In a 2025 appearance on the Higher Learning podcast, Democrat candidate James Talarico called the idea that Christians are the "villains" of American society "spot on." pic.twitter.com/GYE7lSHbvs
— Joe Chalfant (@JoeChalfant) August 27, 2026
The DA supposedly rejected this pressure -- but surprise surprise, her son got a sweetheart deal requiring only that he go to a three hour "course" and the charges will be ultimately expunged.
The entitled son of "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin had to complete a court-ordered course to get his Westchester County trespassing case dismissed -- despite his celeb mom's two-month-long campaign to make the case disappear. Ivy League-educated Gabriel Hostin, 24, was nabbed trespassing on Metro-North Railroad tracks in New Rochelle on June 16 and hit with a trespassing violation. During his arrest, his famous mom was caught on bodycam trying to throw her weight around with cops at the scene. "My name is Sunny Hostin and I'm one of the co-hosts of 'The View' and I'm a former federal prosecutor," she told cops. "That's my son. He's a Harvard graduate, he doesn't have a criminal record." According to sources, she didn't let up after that, and consistently hammered away at the Westchester County District Attorney's Office to make it all go away without any recourse. The younger Hostin eventually agreed to accept a deal, which required him to take part in a three-hour Fresh Start course, which the Westchester DA's Office said is a "pre-arraignment diversion program that provides eligible first-time, low-level offenders" with a chance to have the cases dismissed. Gabriel Hostin completed the course on Aug. 20, and the prosecutors have sent a letter to the court requesting that the charges be dismissed after completion of the course.To be honest, it's a minor offense and I wouldn't expect there to be a serious penalty for it. But then, Sonny Hostin, who claims to be a lawyer, would have realized the penalty would have been a slap on the wrist with the charges expunged after a minor pre-trial diversion. But she was determined that her son should receive no penalty at all. Because she's on The View. Why she imagines that's a credit, I don't know.
So f*** that bitch Sonny Hostin and her incredibly privileged form of "oppression."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: the country place that no one knows about at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 28, 2026 05:45 PM (EJE3y)
We...don't understand the problem.
Posted by: Hundreds of Thousands of Ethnic Chinese living in China but born on US soil at August 28, 2026 05:45 PM (FKi1y)
This is pretty standard for the PCUSA . There's a pastor near me who's "rewriting the Bible"
To do this. I know about it- not because I attend to his church- but I know a musician who does.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:46 PM (JrHfD)
Blue Shithole Cities Have Rampant Crime in Their Public Transit Systems.
They Could Slash Crime By Simply Stopping Fare-Evaders
Plus: Spanish Citizens Set Fire to the Shanty Town Put Up by Moroccan Invaders
Really? The very people whose first encounter with public transit systems is to commit a crime by jumping the turnstile turn out to also commit a huge amount of crime once they're in the system?
Who could have guessed this? City Journal argues that instead of wasting money on programs already shown to be ineffective, Congress should just fund full-height fare gates that cannot be jumped as turnstiles can be.I know we don't like Congress funding state or city systems, but apparently they're determined to throw taxpayer money at the problem. Might as well do something that can actually fix things. Except... would it? These shithole cities refuse to stop fare evaders. Congress can pay for new fare gates, but it can't actually force shithole cities to enforce the payment of fares. If you've ever been in a subway, you know there is a floor-to-ceiling gate at every entrance that are opened for people with wheelchairs or baby-strollers, who cannot go through the turnstiles. And you also know that criminals rush through these gates when they're opened and hold them open for their hoodlum friends.
Last November, 72-time arrestee Lawrence Reed poured gasoline on a CTA Blue Line passenger in Chicago and set her on fire. The incident was so egregious that the Federal Transit Administration got involved, threatening to withhold $50 million in federal funds unless the CTA enhanced systemwide security. The CTA implemented its plan in March, but the benefits have been hard to detect so far. Congress is poised to repeat the FTA's ineffective intervention. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization--the government's five-year approval of road and rail funding--features several similar attempts to improve public safety. Fortunately, America's major transit systems have a better option to reduce crime and disorder: installing full-height fare gates, which keep criminals out of transit systems. Congress should require and fully fund the installation of new full-height fare gates for all systems that don't yet have them. Transit officials report that serious crimes are committed overwhelmingly by people who evade fares. In the Los Angeles Metro system, 97 percent of people who committed a violent crime didn't pay. In Washington, D.C., 99.5 percent of those who committed a "Part 1" crime (homicide, rape, robbery, arson, or motor vehicle theft) had dodged the fare. In New York, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says that "virtually all" crimes are committed by fare evaders. ... Other systems report similar findings. Washington, D.C.'s WMATA found that, following its own modernized fare-gate installation, fare evasion fell by 82 percent and crime by nearly 40 percent. L.A. Metro reports that a pilot program for modernized fare gates reduced passenger reports of security concerns, uncleanliness, and vandalism and graffiti by 69 percent at affected stations.
Manhattan Institute
@ManhattanInst The numbers here are insane: In the L.A. Metro system, 97% of people who committed a violent crime evaded the fare. In D.C., 99.5% of those who committed a “Part 1” crime (homicide, rape, robbery, arson, or motor vehicle theft) had dodged the fare. In New York, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says that “virtually all” crimes are committed by fare evaders.
Speaking of broken windows: The left-wing media and socialist Spanish president Dirty Sanchez say that "almost all of the migrants in Ceuta" have returned home. As usual, they're lying. Citizens say their socialist government is not dealing with the problem, just claiming it's resolved, and have resorted to every citizens' option of last resort, self-help.
Georg Pazderski
@Georg_Pazderski The Ceuta public spirit is boiling over! Thousands of Spanish citizens are revolting in CEUTA and demanding the expulsion of the migrants, which the Spanish government did not want or rather prevented. They are now taking the law into their own hands and setting fire to the migrants' slum huts and driving them away from the beach.
Chaos in Ceuta. Spanish patriots with clubs attack North African Muslim invaders, razing illegal camps on Ceuta's beach. These brave patriots cannot be blamed, considering that a month has passed since invasion began and no one has done anything. pic.twitter.com/QCJx0k76qE
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 28, 2026
The Spanish patriots in Ceuta are not joking anymore. See with your own eyes. https://t.co/sn1HvD2edI pic.twitter.com/O1IOHeJd9S
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 28, 2026
🚨BREAKING: Ceuta locals are now tracking down and BLOCKING vehicles belonging to the Red Cross NGO, in order to halt their operations across the enclave
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) August 27, 2026
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta. 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/vVw6dIm1Rk
The people of Ceuta have had enough.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 27, 2026
When the locals saw that journalists from the liberal TV channel La Sexta had arrived to slander their protest against illegal migration, the locals quickly walked up to them and told them to get lost.
The people of Ceuta feel betrayed 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/rA5OYhIf3Z
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (e5z5/)
Why would the be any different.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (MWfyi)
As usual, they're lying.
If you like your country, you can keep your country.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)
I've seen videos of where they have these and the same sorts of people that jump the turnstiles just push through a person that paid to get in which normally leads to minor injuries for the person that paid which is a perfect metaphor for leftwing politics really.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Zombies James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (olMIp)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy)
Mosques, Wudu Lessons And $90 Million From Saudi Arabia: Inside The New Boy Scouts
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (xEumJ)
In Spain, it is against the law to toss someone out of a medical care facility. It is a long drawn out process to get someone to leave regardless of how outlandish or false their complaints happen to be. So, the first illegals to arrive at Ceuta ran right to the local hospital and claimed illness....which provided them with a domicile, three meals, television etc.
When they finally do get tossed, they just make a different illness complaint, or someone else pops in to take their place. Locals can't even use their own medical facilities regardless of the emergency. So, obviously, the locals have had enough. They can't burn down their local hospital, but Shanty towns are on the menu, boys.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (dIske)
Bludgeoning muslims
threatening the Red Cross
threatening the media
Good Job, Cueta. It's a start.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (wOO3z)
FIFY
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
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I believe its a matter of record that police and judges need periodic reminders of exactly who they might answer to if they stray to far from providing justice.
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)
Just let him go. He's paid his debt to society.
Posted by: A judge at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (MWfyi)
This is what needs to happen in blue city $hitholes but it won't because they are spinless lefties.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (cpFbA)
I've seen videos of where they have these and the same sorts of people that jump the turnstiles just push through a person that paid to get in which normally leads to minor injuries for the person that paid which is a perfect metaphor for leftwing politics really.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
You can fix it by arresting and jailing fare jumpers. That's all that will fix it. Start prosecuting cities that will not enforce laws.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)
I've been in several conversations where a leftist argues specifically: "We need more public transit, however we get people into it, so I don't have as much traffic when I drive to work"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
And remember they want to force everyone on to their glorious public transit.
Who knew high speed rail refers to the speed with which a vagrant pushes you onto the tracks.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (hzuYO)
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I believe its a matter of record that police and judges need periodic reminders of exactly who they might answer to if they stray to far from providing justice.
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)
The smart thing would be to go to the other invader camps and escort them to the border for their safety.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (uhVAy)
At least not for expensive stuff like full-height cages.
If we're going to do anything in these enemy shitholes, it should be something cheap like this: send normies in bear-proof suits to monitor turnstiles. When a particularly ravenous looking urban mutant jumps one, the normie will give him a nice big glass pipe full of bath salts and a butane torch, and let nature take her course.
With any luck, the salted up cannibal will gnaw the face off a writer for City Journal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (olMIp)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (uhVAy)
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That's an odd way to phrase, "Deal with them like standing armies have dealt with invasions for millenia and kill them until there are no more and they don't come back."
But maybe it's a Hippie-era phrasing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (olMIp)
Not if Spain can import 500000 thugs...or cheat. Both of which are the rule for the EU.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy)
We should insist that they each take one "journalist" with them.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (xEumJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
Wait until you find out by "public transit" and "however they get people onto it", they mean cattle cars.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (olMIp)
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It would be hilarious (terrible, but hilarious), if the People's Party refused to coalition with the Vox party and just kept the borders open.
Because it would just be another instance of that happening in Europe like in France and Germany.
You know...the kind of joke that you've heard so many times that it lost all meaning but then you hear it one more time and it regains the hilarity?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (/PKja)
But maybe it's a Hippie-era phrasing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (/PKja)
Its the cover story to cover their asses from their bosses.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (uhVAy)
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They should have piled the stuff in a heap and made a bonfire.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:52 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: the dandy at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (mACwA)
Not only does it stop the immediate problem it makes sure you won't have a problem in the future either
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)
FIFY
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
And you!
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (vE0+H)
We should insist that they each take one "journalist" with them.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
and ten "UN organizers"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)
Why would anyone deny another human medical attention? They can still deport them when the Red Cross is done?
I will never understand why people immediately lose their humanity and turn into howling violent maniacs just because someone crossed an imaginary line in the dirt.
Surprise: racist colonizers are acting like racist colonizers. They benefit from the unjustly lower wages paid to exploited migrant workers while trying to impede said migrants' access to basic necessities. Sounds in-character for people with politics like this. I hope their relatives and neighbors call them out for this abhorrence.
They are literally living in Africa and complaining about Africans.
As much as I hate the autocrat tactic of throwing poor at the neighbors, humans should get treated as humans, regardless.
For those unaware the red cross has been taking part in human trafficking and aiding illegal immigration for years now but gov leaders of europe are turning a blind eye because it work in favor of their globalist agenda.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
These blue cities continue to experience this because the populations of blue cities prefer it. Or, even in the case of the "trapped conservative in a blue city" like some here ... their priorities are restaurants and entertainment and convenience and a million other things above "not getting shanked on the subway".
This is a reality that hammer-headed conservatives refuse to understand. The mind-bending reality is what the vast majority of those in the blue cities prefer.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (nSCZv)
I will never understand why people immediately lose their humanity and turn into howling violent maniacs just because someone crossed an imaginary line in the dirt.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
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"Borders mean nothing. Which is why all of the world is exactly the same."
-smart person
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (/PKja)
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Red Cross is State Dept affiliated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (hPgrk)
That is the only thing that will get their attention -- start treating them the way they treat Christians.
Posted by: The River Bottom at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (ImuKY)
Now do Israel Mr Lefty...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)
You cannot be this stupid. It's just metaphysically impossible. The North Africans are crashing the border, while the Spaniards are trying to kick them out, and it's the Spaniards who are exploiting the North Africans?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)
The citizens themselves will have to burn the invaders out.
BTW, the Spanish police are using rubber bullets on the Spaniards who are trying to get rid of the invaders.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (0U5gm)
Why should Congress fund these things? Why should people who don't live in BSHC (blue shithole cities) have to pony up still more money to deal with an issue that the residents of the BSHC apparently don't care about?
Why don't people who don't live near me pay for me and all my neighbors to have supercars, in-ground pools, and door to door supermodel prostitutes?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (ExV1e)
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Red Cross is State Dept affiliated.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (hPgrk)
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Even if Red Cross are doing things completely on the up and up and just providing aid...
It is still the people's right to deny aid to invaders of their own country. These invaders walked to Ceuta. They can walk back to Morocco.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
How did that heretic get into the bubble?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)
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Hispanics invaded Ceuta on the African side of Gibraltar 600 years ago, have held it singularly ever since, and the Arabs who invaded and colonized Spain hundreds of years earlier are just decolonizing Spain's territory to give it back to the original colonizers the Arabs.
Racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:57 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:57 PM (ImuKY)
FIFY
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (XuXeR)
Congress and the regulatory agencies in charge of these things need to take a similar approach. We don't have to live like this, nor do we have to die like this. Quit fucking around. An astonishingly small percentage of individuals cause the largest majority of problems in any community large or small. Everyone knows them by name.
If you get arrested 72 times, it isn't like this should come as a surprise. Do you want "Death Squads" and Citizens Vigilance Committees? This is how you get them. They work a lot cheaper, too.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (99A9t)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (0U5gm)
I see this come up on lefty forums. If someone is a victim of crime and they complain too much they are called racist and kicked out of the forum.
I assume the same plays out in lefty friend groups.
So it isn't really "I prefer restaurants to being safe" it is more "my whole identity and friend group says there is no problem with crime in progressive cities so obviously there can't be. I just got unlucky. "
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)
What they don’t tell you is a) rich people don’t ride the bus or train, they drive and b) the reason only the rich drive is because car ownership is so expensive only the rich can afford to own one
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (nSCZv)
Elections in cities are a sham. There is literally nobody in a big city like that to vote for, and they would cheat it away if one did appear.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
This was more or less the lefty view of illegal immigration into the early 00s. You can find clips of Bernie Sanders making this argument
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
Do the cops imagine that they themselves are fireproof? Hopefully they won't have to find out.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (VrYHL)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
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And Jeremy Corbyn.
And Barack Obama.
And Bill Clinton.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (XuXeR)
And then install a bunch of Flock cameras and sell access on pay per view.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (Mzuzg)
Now do Israel Mr Lefty...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)
And January 6
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (NcvvS)
I got to talk with a Euro cow-worker of mine and he mentioned he had a new EV car.
I got into why he choose it and the answer was that the only car he could afford was the government discounted EV and yes this is a guy that works at a big mega-corp so its not like he's poor by Euro standards.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)
You want to see traffic, be on the road in Brussels on a Friday afternoon.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (FKi1y)
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lol how quickly was this person banned from that subreddit?
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
Then don't stay. If its really like that ? Move. Vote with your feet.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (nSCZv)
I'd settle for...a bit less. I'm a giver that way.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)
Hobos are spreading out from downtown Seattle as a result.
Kinda hilarious. Of course, I carry and Monroe has lousy transit service, so not an issue for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)
Bad choice given the EU power crisis presently and in future. Of course, they also have an oil and gas and natural gas crisis coming first.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)
Why does Congress have to fund it?
If you're city is large enough to have a subway/mass transit, shouldn't it have enough fund to cover the cost of fare gates, too?
Ya know, just to help pay for said mass transit by preventing fare jumpers?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)
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Wonder if this cretin ever locks his car doors. Somebody needs to help themselves to all his shit in his apartment.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (99A9t)
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta.
¡Viva Ceuta!
Posted by: Meanwhile Redditors are losing their shit at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (TbWk/)
We need to treat them the way the treat us.
The golden rule is inverted and used as a weapon against is.
It is not "treat others as you want them to treat you,"
But "treat others as they have already treated you!"
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)
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It's more "The price of being able to go out and have a good time affordably is the occasional violent crime. Urban living is vibrant and culturally enriching."
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (oqH4h)
The Spanish left is pearl clutching so hard they are... well i would have said caving their chest in but they have no chests.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
Then don't stay. If its really like that ? Move. Vote with your feet.
Or...we could, you know, enforce the law.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
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The real reason for his visit to Russia concerned Russia aiding Iran and our desire for them to desist. In turn Russia mentioned its desire for us to cease selling weapons (third party) to Zelensky.
The Russian counter part said that the conversations were progressing positively.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (hPgrk)
There are plenty of privileged white people in those cities with more teeth than they need, and I'm sure they'd be happy to share, but give the crazed hobos pliers anyway, just in case they haven't been completely honest about their altruistic nature.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (BI5O2)
Uh huh. Now do colonialism.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
Then don't stay. If its really like that ? Move. Vote with your feet.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (nSCZv)
i did. But people stupidly keep thinking that the victims are the enemy so they can keep doing nothing.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)
I'd settle for...a bit less. I'm a giver that way.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)
Who cares about the wheels and pool...
Posted by: One out of three is fine with me at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (TbWk/)
Funny. The various advocates will shout "we don't have a mandate" or "we don't ban gas cars"... but make it nearly impossible to buy certain things....
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:04 PM (XuXeR)
Nevermind.
I read further.
The debt is only approaching $40 trillion, what's a few hundred billion more in the grand scheme of things.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 05:04 PM (NtVYv)
The pool is for the supermodels to pose and lounge next to
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:05 PM (K32Fz)
It's gotten nothing but worse.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (hPgrk)
Average Pierre or Heinrich or Luigi can’t afford that shit.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (iCp4l)
Bus drivers in NYC have been told not to confront anyone who is not paying the bus fare because they could be attacked.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)
Then go do it. Make government enforce the law in Baltimore. NYC. Chicago. LA. Boston. And on and on and on and on and on.
And while those with all this academic virtue like you talk ? Anybody that stays gets what they get. Especially while they are, at best, a 40% minority. More like 20% in most of those places.
But go do it, big man. Wade in there and "make them enforce the law" over 60% or more of the local population that doesn't want the law enforced at all.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (nSCZv)
If this keeps up the locals there might start giving some European cities some ideas.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:07 PM (PbWRL)
I'd settle for...a bit less. I'm a giver that way.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)
Who cares about the wheels and pool...
Posted by: One out of three is fine with me at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (TbWk/)
You've obviously never read The Art of the Deal. You don't ask for what you want, you ask for more so they can negotiate down.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
The debt is only approaching $40 trillion, what's a few hundred billion more in the grand scheme of things.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Fuck them. NY made the problem NY can fix the problem.
Shoot a couple of jumpers and that sh*t will stop.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:07 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (iCp4l)
And while those with all this academic virtue like you talk ? Anybody that stays gets what they get. Especially while they are, at best, a 40% minority. More like 20% in most of those places.
But go do it, big man. Wade in there and "make them enforce the law" over 60% or more of the local population that doesn't want the law enforced at all.
Take a breath.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)
They are trying but the cops keep shooting them with rubber bullets
Then go do it. Make government enforce the law in Baltimore. NYC. Chicago. LA. Boston. And on and on and on and on and on.
That is what Trump did and flipped areas amazingly. But it is a problem that the governments there refuse to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (K32Fz)
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The issue isn't the issue, the issue is the Revolution. The worse, the better. Can't complain, even when the rot hits you personally. Gotta take one for the team, so to speak.
David Horowitz describe this phenomenon at length in his book "Radical Son"; all the whack job Karens and Time-Life hippie revolutionaries tried to adopt the Black Panthers, who weren't quite into the peace, love, and dope as their more enlightened bretheren. Rape and Murder were part of the equation, and anyone who sort of pointed out, hey, this isn't very Groovy, was ostracized heavily.
Some assclown in the Army, right after a Moslem shot up Fort Hood soldiers said he hoped this wouldn't interfere with the "commitment to diversity" or something. That's the real tragedy, you see. Spineless fucks everywhere you look, and our enemies know it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (99A9t)
I will never understand why people immediately lose their humanity and turn into howling violent maniacs just because someone crossed an imaginary line in the dirt.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison
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"Borders mean nothing. Which is why all of the world is exactly the same."
-smart person
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Those are the kind of asshoes that will walk up the the adjacent urinal next to you to piss when there ten other empty ones. Filthy dirty commie hippy asshoes (BIRM)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)
Wrong. The victims aren't my "enemy". They're just not my problem.
Like the wife that gets her ass kicked every Saturday Night the old man comes home full of liquor. Leave, dumb ass.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (nSCZv)
You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (FKi1y)
That seems, increasingly, to be a universal opinion.
Except in parts of California and Canada.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)
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Since Spain's current leadership has reportedly colluded with Morocco (unconfirmed, but totally believable), they will need new leadership. Unfortunately, 100s of thousands of migrants in Spain have been given the right to vote, and Spain is full of retarded leftists.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)
We have a murder rate of 4 per 100000 people
Mississippi has a murder rate of about 19 per 100000 people
Almost 5 times higher
Ultra marine blue Massachusetts had a murder rate of 2 per 100000.
Blue states have much lower serious crime rates
Even NJ (Aces home state?) with the 2nd highest foreign born population has a murder rate of only 2.4 per 100000.
Much much lower than red state hell holes
Posted by: Paul at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (mfiPk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Riz8t)
This is the kind of comment people like you drop when you have no realistic rebuttal.
You have an idealized view of how the world should work. It conveniently ignores how the world works.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (nSCZv)
Bus drivers in NYC have been told not to confront anyone who is not paying the bus fare because they could be attacked.
Posted by: four seasons
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Again, NY makes the problem and nurtures it.
Shoot the one's that jump fare and it will stop.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (iCp4l)
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Build more prisons. Hire more prison guards. Elect judges and DAs that will prosecute the criminals and send the guilty ones to the joint to serve their full sentences.
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (rj6Yv)
--- Officially--you must understand!!
He said the taxpayers will get their money back after we officially blow up the ballroom.
Something tells me they didn't cover Return on Investment in his law classes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)
Go fuck yourself. And don't leave NYC for the benefit of everyone. And Go fuck yourself again.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
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Sonny Barger, the Hell's Angel's president may not be one to emulate in too many things. But he coined a phrase I like a lot.
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better. Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse."
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (99A9t)
--- Officially--you must understand!!
He said the taxpayers will get their money back after we officially blow up the ballroom.
Something tells me they didn't cover Return on Investment in his law classes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)
That sounds like an incitement to violence to me.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
They'll just jam them open.
As with Ceuta, if they didn't want criminals, they wouldn't let them walk in. Their system requires criminals.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (AydIQ)
No he’s not. He knows this. But like all leftists he’s a lying piece of shit.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
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Crime goes WAYYY down, when you stop counting it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
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They're caught between a rock and a hard place.
If the local cops expel the invaders, then they will be targeted not only by the invaders but by their own government.
If they attempt to quell the uprising by citizens, well, the citizens can quickly find them and their families and exact vengeance.
And if they stand by and do nothing, chaos reigns supreme.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (FZ29D)
Paul's insisting its much, much safer for him and his to stay in those blue areas. I could not agree more. Paul and those like him should stay in those blue areas.
Its OK to take YES for an answer.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: connected and litigious at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (cS1cw)
Much much lower than red state hell holes
Posted by: Paul
Interesting. Dig a bit more, and you may find an actual demographic link.
Why do you hate black people?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (FKi1y)
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better. Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse."
Yeah, I think I won this one.
Posted by: The Grim Reaper at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (Riz8t)
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I thought it was private donations for the ballroom, and taxpayer funds for security.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Shoot the one's that jump fare and it will stop.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:10 PM (hPgrk)
Or set dogs on them. Everyone likes dogs.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Howdy
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Wrong answer.
Correct answer: Shoot him and keep the house.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (hPgrk)
Fight back or be conquered.
They have to protect themselves. Crime like violent r@pes are already happening.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)
- NYPD crime statisticians
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (iCp4l)
The January 2023 memo labeled traditional Catholics as extremists using Southern Poverty Law Center framing, and staff kept revising it after headquarters ordered it deleted.
The report reveals how an investigation into a violent extremist led to the surveillance of clergy affiliated with traditional Catholicism, though the FBI ultimately concluded the priests posed no national security threat. The report also sheds new light on internal disputes on the reliability of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (xEumJ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (4KUe5)
He is very butch. I'm convinced of his manliness.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oldcat
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There's always room for creative defense.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (hPgrk)
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New York has to decide if some people "needed killin'".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (4KUe5)
If they let the
They've got to stop it now or it'll become as routine as the beaches in France where the migrants have camps who are trying to cross the channel to the UK.
The Red Cross makes these camps permanent when they move in. You have to nip that in the bud.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)
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A good argument could be made that non-enforcement is a violation of the obligation to provide a republican form of government.
Of course, we saw what happened when Orange-Man-Bad tired to send the Guard to Blue Shit Holes.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:14 PM (4KUe5)
I wasn't that long ago we had the "Vigilantism is never the answer" chorus here at Ace O' Spades.
Was a banning comment under ol' Maet.
The times. They change.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (xEumJ)
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Did the SPLC have a position on Trad Catholics?
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (xEumJ)
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I remember a transcribed snippet of conversation between John Pederasta and Hillary Clinton about how they were going to update the Catholic Church.
Wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Since they are anti abortion, I'm sure they did and a negative one.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:18 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)
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IIRC, at one time the Christians went on quite a tear.
We need to consider that. As an alternative to passive pissing and moaning.
About a lot of things.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (xcxpd)
The Spanish left is pearl clutching so hard they are... well i would have said caving their chest in but they have no chests.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I would say clutching their balls but those fell away for disuse decades ago.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:15 PM (Riz8t)
And you still don't have a retort Arch. Look, I get it. You are not atypical. Very much not.
Things are moving, quickly, past how you've viewed the world all your life. I get it. And so this is all you've got left in the rhetorical tool-kit. A basic "decent people don't talk about this".
That's really all there is to it. And again, you are far from alone.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (4KUe5)
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Not as far as I know.
But the real poser is how anybody is going to get money back from a demolition.
A demolition cuts costs, it ruins any return.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)
We need to consider that. As an alternative to passive pissing and moaning.
About a lot of things.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
This is true.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (wOO3z)
Wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Posted by: Axeman
Ha! nope.
Posted by: Chicago Pope Leo at August 28, 2026 05:20 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
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It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I could care fewer.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)
What’s shocking and shameful is that the government of Spain is doing nothing to protect its own people.
Strange times indeed!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (4KUe5)
Our own border control should never have their asses handed to them by foreign nationals and cartels.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I saw some clip of some insane Spanish leftist (BIRM) screaming on stage that she welcomes the "cultural enrichment" as to "breed out the 'fascists'".
In a sane world, she'd be denaturalized and sent over to a more "diverse" country to enjoy the blessings of it.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (hbfWH)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)
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They need a well regulated militia in Cueta
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:22 PM (Dv3i1)
They'll just jam them open.
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Criminal is a profession, that's what they do, Commit Crime.
The way to prevent Crime is to stop the criminal. That can be done with a bullet, a noose, or a stiff jail sentence.
As long as a criminal does not receive justice he will advance his profession.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: I'm such a nerd at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
I'm sure Mossad has fully penetrated them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
I'm sure Mossad has fully penetrated them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Kink-y
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
A most cromulent point, as a certain gone poster used to say.
A time when being Christian wasn't necessarily being Pacifist.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (4KUe5)
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No justice, no peace! Right on!
-Blue cities
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (hBtiT)
Go anywhere where's there's little or only corrupt law and you'll find vigilante mobs taking care of business once they've had enough.
It will get like this here if we keep going down the idiotic route of Defund the Police & Soros DAs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
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They are trying but the cops keep shooting them with rubber bullets
I get that the current Spanish gov't is leftist and they just pretty much hate reality but I honestly don't understand what they think "win" would look like in this situation.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Time for all transnational ngos to be disbanded by patriots in Europe and the US. Their time and utility has passed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
I'm sure Mossad has fully penetrated them by now.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 05:23 PM (uhVAy)
Hopefully without lube.
Posted by: Maybe a little sand for good measure at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:16 PM (4KUe5)
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Not as far as I know.
But the real poser is how anybody is going to get money back from a demolition.
A demolition cuts costs, it ruins any return.
Posted by: Axeman
The left just lies and gaslights because they dare not explain their real agenda. So they purposefully seize on isolated persons, events, or policies to go apeshit. It is a rally round the flag type event for them and has little to nothing to do with the real world. After they finish yapping, the thought leaders move on to the next outrage du jour. All ops, all tedious repeats of douchebaggery by vile people that want to see the world burn.
These people have no good in them anymore, only rage, despair, debauchery, and nihilism.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:24 PM (4KUe5)
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So, I wonder if the FIB pressure on the American RCC has something to do with that plan.
And you mean John Pederasta, right?
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:26 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Oldcat
Welp unfortunately they haven't given them the same treatment as Ham Ass leaders.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)
Some people either have a hard time participating in a forum that has a certain set of rules or they just enjoy being a dick, getting banned and then pretending they are a victim.
Really not hard to understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Maybe
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A reloading tip, don't lube the bullets, lube the case neck when resizing, then remove before loading the bullet.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:25 PM (vTZFs)
Same as ours. Staying in power. Same with every major government on the planet.
This really is no small thing. Show me a region, anywhere, where the general public is happy with those in charge. I'll wait.
We are on the precipice of Global Revolution. Not WW III. A Global Revolution. About a hundred different French Revolutions.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:28 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:29 PM (4KUe5)
These people have no good in them anymore, only rage, despair, debauchery, and nihilism.
But other than that...
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 28, 2026 05:30 PM (nbLIj)
Milo Yiannopolous picked up by ICE yesterday.
Visa overstay, skipped his hearing in July.
Well, bye
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:30 PM (4KUe5)
We cannot allow a press detestation gap.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (Riz8t)
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta. 🇪🇸
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This is more likely to be effective than any other activity. These NGOs are anti western and anti civilization. They are the real enemy.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (E4rtv)
Yes Jack. I do enjoy showing how the rules change as the rule-makers get shown constantly, in real time, how they are not keeping up with social shifts.
I do. No apologies. Not because I'm smart. But because the disconnect is that damn obvious.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:31 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Decaf
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One cannot keep the enemy out if you have traitors letting them in the side gates and giving them sustenance.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv)
I think a very small number of Christians are pacifists- probably Quakers/ and Amish are the only ones who have that as their core doctrines.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:32 PM (W90Ou)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)
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It depends on two things: fundraising potential and how much cash to subsidize them is required.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 05:33 PM (Mjjx+)
Posted by: If you look at a map at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (2Ez/1)
No Scogg. Times change. Then rules change. You still don't get to make them in someone else's place.
Most people here can figure that out. You aren't some brave truth teller. We just color within the rules and you love breaking them and then telling us we are all just stupid and you are super smart.
It's not us. It's you.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (99A9t)
Its a real shift. Little things mean something.
A few of you will know the name Colin Cowherd. He's an opinionated little shit on FoxSports that does sports opinion.
He admitted, last week, that the political media has a certain tilt. A small thing. Yet, a big thing.
It is a dam that's breaking.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (nSCZv)
Milo Yiannopolous picked up by ICE yesterday.
Visa overstay, skipped his hearing in July.
Well, bye
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 05:30 PM (4KUe5)
Can we please have CBP check everyone’s passports, coming AND going?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (jPziU)
It is a dam that's breaking.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (nSCZv)
For decades.
The media will have to go broke.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (jPziU)
It's been awhile so the details elude me but it was a big scandal at the time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (ZdaMQ)
https://tinyurl.com/3wb9nszf - goes to X.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
Sure, but how does allowing Spanish territory to be overrun by Moroccans and then fighting your own citizens over it advance that goal? Maybe my poor brain is just not Machiavellian enough to see it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:37 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (PbWRL)
Neither you or I could say it any better.
At what point do you follow the rules ? At what point do you stop ? And at what point is "following the rules" not a virtue ? At what point are those enforcing the rules not doing a social good ?
And I can't tell you any more than I already have how I don't view myself as "super smart". Just seeing the obvious.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 05:38 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
It's been awhile so the details elude me but it was a big scandal at the time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
IIRC, I think it might have been Hurricane Andrew that revealed their modus operandi. Raised a lot of money for victims and ended up banking a big chunk instead of helping victims. When caught at it, deflected by claiming it was to help future victims and they let slip it was how they operated in general.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)
May I point you to the wisdom of comment 71.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)
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The Amish I know will certainly mess you up if you get all up in their shit. So to speak. It's never political with them. It's only when it gets personal. Which is what the left continues to push.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)
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Elite Europeans don't even insinuate that, they now straight out declare that the country is no longer yours, it's theirs.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:37 PM (vTZFs)
As usual, Howdy is all over the map.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 04:46 PM (iCp4l)
Except the Party Elites, who will be chauffeured in limousines.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (D9FOj)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:37 PM (vTZFs)
Seriously. How often have you ever worked with management ? Or really, really listened to motivated people ?
Your brain is not poor. You're just using logic. Most people in charge didn't get that way by logic. They got that way by ruthlessness and guile.
You know, like screaming "Heretic" or "Scogg" every-time an inconvenient opinion pops up.
Pard ... most people are not Logical. They are Ideological. Big difference.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (nSCZv)
Posted by: If you look at a map at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (2Ez/1)
No, its not, but it's on one side of the Strait of Gibraltar and is the shortest distance across the Mediterranean.
It's a strategic point, that Morocco covets, which the Socialists in Madrid are supposed to defend as if it were Spanish territory.
They are doing a lousy job of it.
Probably on purpose at this point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Sanchez is about to get chucked out on his ass and very possibly go to prison to sit by his wife and other high party members for stealing, bribery, and other crimes. So he changes the game by trying to open the borders, cause chaos, and cheat along with trying to make hundreds of thousands of illegals into Spanish citizens so they can vote.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: If you look at a map
And the upper peninsula isn't IN Michigan. I'm sure there are other examples.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:40 PM (ZNpJk)
We are the new aristocracy. We have not, yet, restricted to your lord's manor but it's coming. And we will have savages to kill and rape anyone who dares cross us. -- 'Elite' Europeans
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (/QHx4)
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I think many are starting to recall that Ferdinand and Isabella proved that you can be rid of the invaders.
Posted by: Decaf at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ZNpJk)
Public Caning like they have in Singapore
Administered the same day they're caught.
Discourages repeat offenders. Low cost, no jail time. Humiliating and painful.
Twenty or thirty good seats from a professional caner and those a-holes won't be back for more.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)
https://tinyurl.com/3wb9nszf - goes to X.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
DAAAAAANG!!
And I love her attitude.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 05:34 PM (99A9t)
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They're a bunch of theater kids who think they are the main characters in a pre-written drama. They have no idea how kinetic action works and are convinced that because they are abject physical cowards but also Stunning and Brave, the rest of the right is even more fearful.
These lunatics saw Trump take a bullet and their cope was saying it was staged. Think about that. Think about having the guts to order someone to shoot you in the ear. That's insane levels of courage, not a coward's tactic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (ZdaMQ)
Many see it. It's called discretion. It's a real thing.
When I'm in a privately owned place that has rules and I respect the owner I abide by them.
You don't even have to be super smart to get this. Try it, who knows, you might not get banned every 15 minutes and change your name and IP cause none of us can figure out who you are in 5 seconds.
Or go explore the world wide web and find a place that lets you be you all the time.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:39 PM (E4rtv)
I think these charity & aid groups can do a lot of good in certain situations where people need help.
But they have been corrupted by the long march through the institutions like everything else.
So you either reform them, or you break them and start over.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 05:41 PM (E4rtv)
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A lot of the elites are in full "burn it all down" mode. Their dream is dying so they want to bring about the deluge.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Public Caning like they have in Singapore
Administered the same day they're caught.
Discourages repeat offenders. Low cost, no jail time. Humiliating and painful.
Twenty or thirty good seats from a professional caner and those a-holes won't be back for more.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)
I've always thought Heinlein's punishment system from Starship Troopers was pretty good. Fines for really small shit, lashes for intermediate things, hanging for the bad stuff. Get it done and over with in a manner which, hopefully, makes in impression on the malefactor, and doesn't waste tax dollars on warehousing people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 05:44 PM (ExV1e)
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France, WWI, Gramps said the Red Cross sold donuts while the Salvation Army gave them away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 05:45 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 05:43 PM (viF8m)
All you are saying, still, is "don't harsh my mellow".
Its the weird bent of those like you here. And you are not alone. Its the "trust the process" DNA of your sub-type.
Get this. Everything does NOT have to turn out well. You hate that message. I do get it.
I don't get the "burn the heretic" response. OK - I get that too. As well as the general scold response of controlling the narrative.
Posted by: Howdy at August 28, 2026 05:46 PM (nSCZv)
Shock Study: There's a Direct Link Between Extremist Trans Ideology and the Trans Violence Committed to Vindicate That Extremist Ideology
If we were talking about any group the right, there would be no debate about whether the most extreme, no-deviation-allowed, all-who-deny-our-claims-are-enemies-and-valid-targets version of an ideology leads to violence. In fact, the left claims that fairly milktoast agitators like Ben Shapiro constitute an intolerable threat of extremist violence.
But the left is now shrieking that someone has drawn a connection between the trans extremists' claims that anyone who doesn't want you in your bathrooms is "literally trying to erase you from existence" and trans violence which explicitly justifies itself as resistance against "trans erasure." John Nolte at Breitbart:A just-released study from Rutgers University, the Network Contagion Research Institute, and the Manhattan Institute has found something not at all surprising...The study establishes a correlation but not necessarily a causation. Although, to be fair, they have to say that or trans extremists will murder them and their children.Knock me over with a feather. Here's the rub:
"These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence."Finally, broader research on perceived victimhood, moralization, and political violence suggests that identities organized around grievance, perceived victimization, and injustice, when paired with authoritarian or punitive dispositions, can predict support for anti-democratic or violent political action... Taken together, these literatures suggest a common mechanism: ideological content that names an oppressor class, certifies ongoing victimization, and locates remedy in coercive institutional or social action which may supply authoritarian psychology with morally justified targets.
Research frameworks for understanding authoritarianism have historically focused overwhelmingly on the political right, while analogous left-wing pathways have received far less attention...You don't say!?
This study suggests that the same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left, and that it may be running through institutional channels -- clinical guidelines, professional standards, credentialed expertise -- that current threat-detection frameworks are not well designed to recognize. Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature. This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable.More at the link, including the kind of statements -- for example, there's a "trans genocide" underway -- that seem to motivate extremists to kill 24 school children to stop this "genocide."
WPATH, which claimed for years that it had perfect scientific proof that transing children "saved lives," is being sued for by the FTC for fraudulent claims about the mutilation of children. And what's their defense? They now say they weren't offering facts -- just OPINIONS! Oh so now it's "opinions," huh? Ed Morrissey quotes City Journal:
Colin Wright
@SwipeWright 🚨BREAKING: Our new HHS report--"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?"--is out! For decades, psychological research has looked at opposition to transgender ideology through a lens of prejudice and right-wing authoritarianism. We asked the conspicuously neglected flipside question: What psychological traits characterize those who most strongly endorse gender-affirming norms? In a preregistered study of 1,208 U.S. adults, we developed a Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale (CGAS) using positions drawn directly from guidance issued by the APA, American Psychiatric Association, WPATH, and American Academy of Pediatrics. Our results shocked us. Endorsement of mainstream principles of "gender-affirmation" was strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) and support of political violence. Both LWA and endorsement of gender-affirming clinical norms were associated with greater justification for killing Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, and Brian Thompson, as well as arson against ICE buildings, destruction of wealthy people's property, and violence against police. These relationships remained significant even after controlling for political identity. Acceptance of gender ideology appears to augment authoritarian attitudes in support for political violence. From our report: "Together, these findings support the paper's core claim: gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and--in those already disposed toward force--that violence is legitimate." We believe institutionalized gender ideology may function as a kind of ideological "content package" for people already disposed toward left-wing authoritarianism. It assists in identifying oppressors, creates moral urgency, and provides justification for taking coercive action against opposition. This is only the first of a series of @HHSGov reports we're working on as a collaboration of researchers at @ncri_io, @RutgersU, and @ManhattanInst. Stay tuned for more.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) now claims that its "standards of care" are merely one opinion in a debate over youth gender medicine. This marks a dramatic change for WPATH, which spent years promoting its approach as the only ethical one to help youth and adults who experience distress associated with their sexual embodiment. WPATH makes this claim in a legal filing submitted in a lawsuit brought against it by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The federal agency alleges that WPATH has engaged in consumer fraud, specifically listing ten "deceptive claims" made by the defendant about the benefits and safety of medical interventions. According to WPATH, however, the claims in question "are non-actionable opinions about subjects on which there is medical and scientific uncertainty," and as such protected under the First Amendment and not subject to FTC jurisdiction.The balls on these self-castrated he-bitches.
🚨BREAKING: Our new HHS report—"Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?"—is out!
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 26, 2026
For decades, psychological research has looked at opposition to transgender ideology through a lens of prejudice and right-wing… pic.twitter.com/yaNJ6DPNVI
The Bluesky crowd is spreading lies about our HHS report.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 28, 2026
Nowhere in our report do we ever claim that "trans people are violent, authoritarian, anti-democratic, and extremist."
In fact, our report isn't about trans people at all!
We found left-wing authoritarianism and… pic.twitter.com/z0brJhzbVx
1 year ago, a trans gunman shot 24 kids at a Christian school in Minneapolis
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 28, 2026
The media buried the story pic.twitter.com/aoAN1oJDQ5
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)just what are you trying to say?
You've got a blank face, which irritates
Communicate, pull out your party piece
You see dimensions in two
State your case with black or white
But when one little cross leads to shots, grit your teeth
You run for cover so discreet, why don't they
Do what they say, say what you mean, and baby
One thing leads to another
You told me something wrong, I know I listen too long but then
One thing leads to another ....
TO FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (/PKja)
-the moderate option, apparently
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (Fi81e)
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"Reality is left-leaning, that's why all academics are left-wing."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:43 PM (/PKja)
Almost Islamic in their fervor.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (4NO2D)
Practicing psychology without a loysence? That'll get you an investigation in the state of California. If CA was consistent
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (88C+u)
Listen to that. It's a survival instinct.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (0U5gm)
Which came first, though? Does radical gender ideology lead to leftwing authoritarism and violence? Or the other way around?
I think it's neither. I think these people are just dangerous lunatics who finger-pop their bungholes thinking about violence. That kind of derangement leads the derangee to latch onto something -- anything -- that gives them an excuse for violence.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)
Here we go again.
"I, uh, erb ub uh ub, merely said that the Hunter Biden laptop story had all the earmarks of Russian intel, I didn't, erb ub, specifically say that it was." -- John Brennan
"Woke One was craaaayyy-zee!" (tee-hee, sorry about your small business, your kid's two years of school, and your grandmom dying alone!) -- AOC
"I never said that schools should close." -- Randi Weingarten
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (Mzuzg)
When does the WPATH and the APA lose all of their funding and donations?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (cpFbA)
Listen to that. It's a survival instinct.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)
Also look for the brightly colored hair(s).
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (hbfWH)
Who hates whom in that equation?
Methinks the trans-ladies doth protest too much.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (3arSl)
We THINK we've hit PEAK STUPID, but in a few more years these will be the good ole days.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM
That does explain why the current Democrats pair so perfectly with Muslim Jihadists.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (HlyYF)
Who hates whom in that equation?
Methinks the trans-ladies doth protest too much.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM (dEHLq)
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"Your kids need to die."
These people tend to attack children more than they attack people saying mean things about them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 03:47 PM
Nature's warning.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)
Also look for the brightly colored hair(s).
Posted by: Thrawn
And the Union Label.
Posted by: Coat, Dress, Or Blouse at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Pinochet airlines at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (/PKja)
They were probably beaten up on the playground years ago and hold that grudge until the end of time.
Used to be, the Nancy-boys learned the lesson instead of delving deeper into their idiocy. I guess they've gotten stupider and more aggressive at the same damned time.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (dEHLq)
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They are ideologues and to serious participants.
I dislike dismissing any group as easily as I can through just a constantly re-enforced pattern of their non-seriousness and kneejerk evasion.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Vermeer wood chipper at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: InZona at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (+YC6b)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (dEHLq)
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"I shall escape my terrible day to day life by reading science-fiction and think of the possibilities of the human mind against the vast cosmos around us."
vs.
"I shall escape my terrible day to day life by learning that I should cut off my dick and that everyone who doesn't clap for it is trying to murder me."
There's no way that they could have a difference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (XvL8K)
Had we not caved to the left and shuttered the insane asylums back in the 70's there'd be a possible solution. The entire sub-culture of trans is insane and should be institutionalized. Or euthanized.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (2Cry5)
I wish they would just break plates or something. Shooting kids isn't really all that much of an emotional release. More like a personal death wish.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:54 PM (EZWVc)
Google AI says "refer to two completely different concepts"
Posted by: 80sfan at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (BbB0e)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (vE0+H)
Also the left: Violence from trans idoeology? What the hell these people just want you to use their pronouns. How is that violent?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (U/dC0)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 03:56 PM (RHGPo)
Also the left: Violence from trans idoeology? What the hell these people just want you to use their pronouns. How is that violent?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)
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"Charlie Kirk was literally murdering trans people whenever he spoke at a campus. Literally murder. He was literally committing a genocide."
"It was obviously the right who killed Charlie Kirk because he said in a private conversation that no one can verify that he was going to say Free Palestine at his next speaking engagement."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:56 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (HlyYF)
Also explains the DNC-DSA fake war.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (vE0+H)
Have you seen the Oxford biochemistry lecturer.
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N)
They are mad because God created them wrong. If they are mad at God they are mad at everyone. Surprised they don't murder mommy first for birthing the wrong sex. altho it is Daddy's fault from his sperm choice.
This is why mommies support them. Daddy's leave or try to. A mommy issue of Munchausen attention.
The trans in the photo above was supported by her parents. It was sketchy as Mom was in FL and her twee looking Dad was at home. I never found out about their dynamics.
I am horrified and prayed for my sons after Columbine and daily for my grands. School shootings are one of my fears, and I don't have many, thankfully.
I don't know a trannie or know of a trannie through others. They all look angry and are mentally ill.
If mental hospitals are still never coming back, I have a solution:
I wish President Trump would buy 2 islands:
1 for trannies to be among their peers
Another for pedos
No supplies and resultant cannibalism til only one or two are left on each island who will then die of kuru of eating humans.
Ship criminal illegals to both islands and let them join the fun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (hzuYO)
Google AI says "refer to two completely different concepts"
Posted by: 80sfan at August 28, 2026 03:55 PM (BbB0e)
See me at 29
Posted by: InZona at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (+YC6b)
Have you seen the Oxford biochemistry lecturer.
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
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Your description is the stuff of nightmares. John Wayne Gacy killer clown nightmares.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)
lol, run this through the Google "A.I." and you get this:
"What the Data ShowsGender identity does not predict violent behavior or crime.Experts state there is no proof of higher crime rates or radicalization in the transgender community.Mass shootings and violent crimes are overwhelmingly carried out by cisgender individuals.Rates of VictimizationData from the Williams Institute shows transgender people are over four times more likely to experience violent victimization than cisgender people."
Garbage-in has always resulted in garbage-out.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:58 PM (Y8DZL)
They are mind warping children. Permanently.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (3cYpk)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (RHGPo)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
Feed me.
Posted by: Vermeer wood chipper at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 03:59 PM (HUco/)
Seems if we grant the model that sex is a biological fact, but "gender" are clusters of ideas that grow up around sexual functions, that the "gender affirmers" are the more traditional. Because they are affirming the case for a legitimacy of social conventions concerning sexual differences.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 04:00 PM (VrYHL)
Posted by: spray 'em in cheese first at August 28, 2026 04:01 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:02 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:02 PM (HUco/)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N
Funny. Thanks.
Somewhere there's a woman out there thinking "I can fix him!"
Four women's golf tournaments in Canada this year were apparently won by women. That's probably the best way to beat these crazies and win over young women in the process.
Losing out to fake women has to get old at some point.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:03 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:03 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:03 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (K32Fz)
During Trans Genocide National Breastfeeding and Don't Be A Bully Vengeance Month of Rage? Really, Ace???
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (9c4Eu)
In the old days when it was straight-ish white kids shooting up schools the FNM told me that you could ignore all the drivebys and the like by urban yutes that white kids shooting up schools meant white people were especially dangerous.
Now school shooting don't matter I guess...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)
It has been my observation that at least some women really like suffering and being humiliated
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:05 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: InZona at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (+YC6b)
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I thought it said "WRATH" for a moment...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (FZ29D)
That's a sexist thing to say you pig!
Posted by: Some AWFL in a Handmaid Outfit, reading 50 shades of grey, warming up her kitty masher 900W back mas at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (sKqQm)
Some of them want to be abused."
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (HUco/)
The Dems needed the next group to 'defend' from conservative 'bigotry.'
The trannies interpreted the shack up as true love.
And that's when it all got out of hand.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 28, 2026 04:06 PM (4HoLg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 04:07 PM (EZWVc)
AWFLs want to get milked by a minotaur now.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:07 PM (HUco/)
I strongly suspect that most of the past school shooters would, in the modern era, be trannies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (hzuYO)
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Plus they are living in a "World without God". Where all hierarchies can be said to be "arbitrary" and nothing is better than anything else (but thinking "makes it so").
And that's the world where "You have to make your own meaning". How, though? Because non-hierarchy-primacy would suggest that meaning is not necessarily better than "not having meaning".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)
Let's check out the lies...
MS Now - Iran War six months in. It's a lost quagmire of doom.
CNN - Same - their 650,000 viewers are frustrated this is still going on.
CBC - Hey Nepal! That's a change of pace.
FoxNews - Will Cain - Clancy.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Sco7b)
This one has been Norm MacDonalded.
Trans nonbinary woman who fled to Canada because "the trans Krystallnacht is coming" said her terror began when Charlie Kirk was killed. Wot, you say? Well, she knew then that transpeople were going to get blamed for all kinds of shit, and the rest of us are going to go regular Nazi on them.
TikTok seems to defy tinyurl, so here it is if you want a good laugh or a good scream.
https://www.tiktok.com/
@nopebrigade0/video/7577812221422587167
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Reforger at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (jJAdc)
Speaking of which, in the Disney Beauty and the Beast movie, Gaston is horrified by the book Belle is reading then she falls in love very rapidly with this monstrous thing in a castle. Was she reading monster romantasy?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (K32Fz)
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As an old-school third-rate blogger once and often-famously noted:
Their violence is speech.
Our speech is violence.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:10 PM (9c4Eu)
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 04:11 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
......
I like the hair between his chesticles.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS)
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 04:11 PM (W2Pud)
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It was about the minotaurs, wasn't it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (/PKja)
Every broken, messy, strange, crazy, or screwed up kid is being pushed into this category.
That kid whose mom beat him every day and kills cats in the back yard? The school counselor tries to fix him by telling him he's a girl and would be normal if he hacked his danglies off.
That weird girl who wears spiderwebs in her hair and gets D's in every class because she can't pay attention? The school counselor tries to fix her by saying she should cut her funbags off.
That oddball who hates their life and feels aimless is told they will be better by the school counselor if they swap their gender and sees the school celebrate queers and trannies every day while ignoring normal kids.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (K32Fz)
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Old & Busted: Dead-Naming.
New Hotness: Dead-Shaming.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg
I mean, I know that he's in Hell, but I hope he's in the absolute hottest part.
The part that Fauci is destined for.
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ)
His face turned as pink as his shirt and he stomped away.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (W2Pud)
The razor wire encrusted flaming c0ck of Shaitan for all eternity hopefully.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (HUco/)
Its like getting a tattoo or long hair way back, they do it because you hate it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (K32Fz)
SEE! The love of a woman can change any man...
TV and movies told them so!
Okay. Back to work.
Thanks all.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b)
He's bald. He's got a long, weird, wispy beard. He's got MASSIVE tits.
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme
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I like the hair between his chesticles.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS
So regular people like you meet at Walmart?
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 04:15 PM (LHPAg)
Uhhh
If I were an Oxford student assigned to his class, I would transfer the heck out. I suppose they can't do that because of lawsuits.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:09 PM (K32Fz)
lol, like this meme?
https://tinyurl.com/mtkrwemj
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (hbfWH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:04 PM (K32Fz)
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But per capita is definitely the more scientific model.
Otherwise, who CARES what might cure or palliate a rare disease--statistically the positive returns on any trial are insignificant given all the people who do not have that disease.
That would be dumb.
The pro-vax would hope for a situation where those that did not take a vax would be small. Creating a case where far more vaxed people succumb to a sickness than the insignificant non-vaxed, right?
So would the correction be "Actually the number of unvaxxed that succumb to the disease is insignificant in comparison to the vaxed"?
You can bet it wouldn't be.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (HUco/)
TV and movies told them so!
Okay. Back to work.
Thanks all.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b)
Only if said man has wealth and a humongous castle.
Otherwise, "short" kings need not apply by kidnapping women and locking them up until they "love" them.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (hbfWH)
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (KGj36)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:14 PM (K32Fz)
Which is of course pathology in itself.
Living for other people is dumb. Living to annoy or bother other people makes you into a pathetic loser.
I'm so clever I annoyed a stranger, is the Applause Comedy of human defects.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (HUco/)
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Beauty and the Beast is best in black and white.
And French.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:18 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (K32Fz)
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That's because it's about getting people sterilized and making them think it was their idea.
This is the seed of 70-80s MENSA and other think tanks "solving" the overpopulation problem.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)
Well that is the proper story but the Romantasy theory is funnier
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Belle at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 04:18 PM (HUco/)
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Come on. You know I can't even read English.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:19 PM (/PKja)
Yeah and the "don't get married, and if you do, don't have kids" push in culture. At least, to white people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (/PKja)
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You can always turn down the color.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)
The progression of this insanity has been observed. Euphemisms used:
1 - Live for the day when you can complete your transition so that finally, at last, blessedly, your body matches your soul and you can be happy and live as your true self
2 - Undergo irreversible medical processes
3 - Discover you're still miserable -- AND your body is destroyed AND everyone can "clock" you as your assigned-at-birth gender anyway after all that pain and expense AND you also have constant UTIs, scars, difficulty speaking from vocal feminization surgery, failure of neovagina, etc
4 - Hate everyone else for living normally and happily
5 - Bang-bang
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS
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Is there a market for tranny baby formula bottles with hairy nipples for "authentic" chest-feeders like Mayor Pete?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (Fi81e)
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Or, I can buy Nightmare Alley all over again to get the black and white version from Criterion.
Commerce makes he world go round!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (/PKja)
I mean your average lefty can realize they were wrong and change politics but if you cut your genitals off because leftwing ideology told you it was the right thing to do you will justify that narrative pretty much no matter what.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (p3pWU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 04:16 PM (O0L8i)
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The people who "settle Science" probably do not agree.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e)
A search warrant in the documents showed the car Westman drove to the church that morning and in the days before the shooting had a dashcam. Officers described the videos recorded by that camera, writing that Westman seemed agitated after a visit with family and at times sobbed before driving by the church and school the night before the attack.
The records also include transcripts of police interviews with Westman’s father, ex-girlfriend, close friend and former co-workers, describing Westman as somewhat of a loner prone to depression. Many of those people had not previously spoken publicly about the shooting or about Westman.
While several said Westman had expressed suicidal ideations years earlier, they also said they had not seen signs that Westman was capable of hurting others. Westman’s father said he hadn’t seen a reason to be worried about his child before the shooting, noting only that Westman had been struggling to eat and had lost significant weight. Several relatives declined to speak with law enforcement altogether, according to the record release.
Posted by: beckster at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (kX27y)
That movie is so depressing.
It makes you want to scream at the TV: stop being an evil asshole you are going to screw yourself even if you don't care about anyone else
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (p3pWU)
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"Not It's a Wonderful Life!"
-Ted Turner
I read an article shortly after Turner's death that asserted that the whole colorization thing he led was really just an excuse to help get funding to restore old movies. Colorization was the sizzle, but the base remasters were the steak and the central point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:20 PM (mmrXZ)
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And in some cases:
Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
bang-bang-bang-bang-bang
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Related- why does it seem like high percentage of trannies, M to "F" are still wearing their facemasks?
Posted by: Rex B at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (LUIDu)
Posted by: dantesed
Can you imagine Casablanca in color? Yech.
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)
It must be a good day.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (wOO3z)
That movie is so depressing.
It makes you want to scream at the TV: stop being an evil asshole you are going to screw yourself even if you don't care about anyone else
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)
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The book goes even further.
Stan gets Molly into a position where she almost gets raped, and Stan knows it's going to happen.
The author was an alcoholic wreck who went from ideology to ideology looking for meaning and finding nothing. Nihilism gets tossed around too much as a descriptor to describe things that are dark and depressing but do actually point to things having meaning, but Nightmare Alley is full-on nihilistic. His wife also divorced him to marry CS Lewis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)
They were anti competing leftists. They were socialists themselves. Once they won the street battles they absorbed the communist thugs into their ranks with no problems.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
Yes but they hated everyone else for how they were living to begin with. It's just that once the "process" is complete, that is all that's left.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (p3pWU)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)
They were anti competing leftists. They were socialists themselves. Once they won the street battles they absorbed the communist thugs into their ranks with no problems.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
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"Mussolini was actually a small government conservative," always tickles me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (/PKja)
Which, by definition is "mental illness."
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
The Left loves nothing more than to lift something up...... and then destroy it.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)
No thanks.
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (p3pWU)
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Black and white isn't real. I must have real.
Now, excuse me while I watch my movie about a superman defeating an army of aliens devouring the earth single-handedly, but realistically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:22 PM (/PKja)
Seems doubtful, he could have gotten a lot of detractors on side by telling that from the start.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)
Spider Noir was much better in black and white than color
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (K32Fz)
What? That guy was the Top!
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)
What? That guy was the Top!
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (sKqQm)
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"He loves Marx the wrong way. He's practically a Republican."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (/PKja)
He got the trains running on time, not made highways for individuals to go where they wanted.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (uhVAy)
No thanks.
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (p3pWU)
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Black and white isn't real. I must have real.
Now, excuse me while I watch my movie about a superman defeating an army of aliens devouring the earth single-handedly, but realistically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:26 PM (/PKja)
_________________________
Wait...dinosaurs aren't purple?
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)
*******
Have surgeons create fake meaning from fake vagina.
It's going to be glorious! What I was born for!
Spend the rest of the years before suicide dealing with ingrown hairs and boils that get infected with drug resistant staph.
This does not take away from the fact that there is chronic pain when not dealing with boils.
The inability to have sex again as a fake female; wishing every minute he still had the genitalia he started with and simply gay.
Orgasm is a thing of the past.
Then the he/she has to pee, which takes about 20min of concentration and pain.
Returns to regular pain after pee pain and time spent on the toilet.
Dat's life in a day of a trans' greatest wish!
Half commit suicide.
Trans supporters say it's working! Sort of by elimination!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (hzuYO)
Which, by definition is "mental illness."
Yeah. Mental illness isn't sin, its not a moral failure, it doesn't mean you are a bad person. But its a real thing, and thinking you are something you are not is crazy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (K32Fz)
Welcome back, Zombie Piper. I'm beginning to think that it was kale, and not the Soup-transmitted tumor, that took you from us.
You did see that article, right?
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mike Tython at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
The Left loves nothing more than to lift something up...... and then destroy it.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)
Gays were last year's shock troops. Many of them are too content and are going mainstream instead of remaining outcasts.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)
Half commit suicide.
Trans supporters say it's working! Sort of by elimination!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:28 PM (hzuYO)
This contrasts with the half that commit suicide if they don't cut themselves to bits.
From what I recall though, the old school cross dressers only rarely shot up schools, or political rivals, because they weren't political.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:31 PM (uhVAy)
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I gotta see what reddit thinks of this...
Posted by: Cole Porter and your average pre-war leftist at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)
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"Israel told him to."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:31 PM (/PKja)
Service discontinued
As of August 28, 2026, this website has been permanently discontinued, following a request from X Corp. All cached content has been deleted.
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Musk strikes again
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (l3cgK)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
He's gonna need a new grifting source to maintain his previously "fabulous" appearance.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (hbfWH)
IT IS MY RIGHT AS A NON-BINARY ENTITY TO GET MY WISHES !!!!!!!!
IF NOT I WILL CRY TO BARRY O MY SAVIOR AND HERO !!
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (0/Zc3)
I mean your average lefty can realize they were wrong and change politics but if you cut your genitals off because leftwing ideology told you it was the right thing to do you will justify that narrative pretty much no matter what.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)
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True.
As well as the fact that mental illness is the seed-corn of mass formation psychosis and cult membership, "meaning," advocacy, violence, & a lesser cause worth murdering and dying for.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
When your lifestyle makes sitting down difficult...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (l3cgK)
Dang.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (uhVAy)
With my .357 mag. sidearm.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (SK+av)
I thought grenades and TNT were better for fishing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (l3cgK)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
He's gonna need a new grifting source to maintain his previously "fabulous" appearance.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 04:32 PM (hbfWH)
I think he's more needed in the UK than here these days.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:34 PM (uhVAy)
Mussolini was a fairly learned man whospoke several languages. When he came to power, he was widely praised, from the likes of Churchill to Gandhi.
And he was not onboard with the Shoah, but he had to acquiesce once he was firmly attached to Hitler's teat.
He came very close to allying with Britain and France before the war, until they forced him into Hitler's arms by disowning him over his stupid takeover of Ethiopia.
Dude, you could've just stayed out of Ethiopia. But nooooo...
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
I think we should do a $10M Study to see if some the dinosaurs were either Gay or Non-Binary ....
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 28, 2026 04:35 PM (ZITfF)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (yoYxH)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:33 PM (uhVAy)
Fossilized colour-imparting melanosomes that were found in certain Archaeopteryx fossils imply at least some of their feathers were black...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)
but maybe it's not a typo and some people don't know this...
It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
Yes but they hated everyone else for how they were living to begin with. It's just that once the "process" is complete, that is all that's left.
Posted by: ...
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They start by hating the world and hating their life for sure. "Transition will change it all!"
Then wake up with everything that can go wrong going wrong -- socially, medically, psychologically.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)
but maybe it's not a typo and some people don't know this...
It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I sometimes take proper spelling for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)
Haven't followed it for a while but some Chinese feathered fossils hinted at being reddish as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Jack Meehoff
Barney is gay as shit. The rest are dead.
I'll take my money now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 04:38 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)
Their feathers might have been.
I think we should do a $10M Study to see if some the dinosaurs were either Gay or Non-Binary ....
Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 28, 2026 04:35 PM (ZITfF)
AFAIK, they've only found one pair of dinos mating, and they were male and female...I think it can be found in some museum in Spain...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:38 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)
but maybe it's not a typo and some people don't know this...
It is spelled "milquetoast."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I sometimes take proper spelling for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (/PKja)
That's a rock-solid position to take.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:39 PM (l3cgK)
The queens got off and got paid for it. The bands were good and everyone laughed - the performers and the audience.
New Orleans, naturally, had more of these eccentric clubs than most towns.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (/PKja)
That's a rock-solid position to take.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:39 PM (l3cgK)
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Well, for all intensive purposes, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Crusader at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
I'm not gonna argue against the Anglo Saxon / English / then American rigor in pruning out extra letters that add no value.
Mostly because it bugs the French.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
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A few days in the tank with real food and no drugs will do him good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
>It's true, many decades ago, we used dynamite to fish the yellowstone. Now the sidearms are for the frootloops and predators cruising the recreational areas.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 04:41 PM (SK+av)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 04:42 PM (BI5O2)
But our media (traditional and online) is really an instigator for a lot of the violence perpetrated by those weirdos.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 04:42 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (dIske)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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My sediments exactly.
Posted by: The River Bottom at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (ImuKY)
10% of reddit argues this is Trump trying to keep the "Anti-Trump right" from attacking him and Israel
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
You can't prove or disprove anything with emotion.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (2Cry5)
I was only a disinterested teen back then but didn't the pharamaceutical and health insurance industries have a hand in this?
Posted by: Sumguy at August 28, 2026 04:43 PM (X/gXX)
https://tinyurl.com/2xukcdpm
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
*******
Just saw that mug shot!
He is missing his diamond earrings. I guess cashed in for some more poppers and whatever drugs cause those dead eyes and dark circles.
You've come a long way, faker! Remember when Ann Coulter thought he was fabulous? I do!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 04:44 PM (hzuYO)
Mostly because it bugs the French.
Posted by: Oldcat
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But it is named after a comic strip character, who was given a frenchy name because he was weak and timid.
So the French name is part of the gag. It caught on and became a word.
Posted by: The River Bottom at August 28, 2026 04:45 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Agreed.
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (77rzZ)
So gross.
http://tiny.cc/sci9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 03:57 PM (mkw2N)
He should stay away from tall buildings in the presence of his future muslim overlords.
Posted by: Sumguy at August 28, 2026 04:47 PM (X/gXX)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 04:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
Where's your God now!?
Posted by: chicks with dicks ... lol at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (2rCZb)
How dare that man wanting a name and a email addy from you to view his site.
Damn that man!
How dare he???
!!!
Posted by: Reginald Van Dough at August 28, 2026 04:50 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 04:55 PM (Mzuzg)
With my .357 mag. sidearm.
Don't drop it in the water. Happens a lot around here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 04:58 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 04:36 PM (ImuKY)
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I could care fewer.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 04:40 PM (vE0+H)
Where's your God now!?
Posted by: chicks with dicks ... lol at August 28, 2026 04:49 PM (2rCZb)
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But "God didn't make junk" was the rally of the queers at one time.
Because the were "the way God made them".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)
John Ratcliffe's Secret Mission to Moscow: Don't Attack NATO, and You Had Better Strike a Deal While a Deal Is Still Possible, Mr. Putin
Ratcliffe told the head of the FSB that Russia must not attack NATO.
Is that a real fear? Yes, for several reason. First, intelligence warned of an attack on Poland by Russia, with Russia hoping to make Poland back away from its support of Ukraine. And then months after that, a Russian missile fell in Poland. The missile hit an empty field and killed no one, but it seems likely that it was intended as a threat, especially since it had been predicted by intel sources. And now their are fresh reports that Russia is planning another provocation attack. Second: Russia is losing this war and one of the most basic reactions to losing on one front is to open another front. The CIA seems to fear that Putin will become desperate and escalate the situation to delay his defeat.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's personal visit to Moscow this week saw him warn Russia against any strikes on NATO nations, multiple outlets have reported. Ratcliffe visited Russia this week and met with intelligence officials, but not President Vladimir Putin. The meeting came amid reported concerns from Washington that Russia could attack one of the Baltic States, all of which are in NATO, according to the Wall Street Journal.
That wasn't the only point of the trip. The other objective was to deliver the CIA's assessment that, despite the US previously figuring that Russia would eventually win the war due to their great advantage in population and war materiel, the CIA now believes that Russia will lose the war, given the disastrous 2026 Russian spring and summer offensives, which are hardly worthy of the name. Ratcliffe urged Russia to start seriously negotiating for a peace deal before Russia suffers military and economic damage that could take generations to repair. For those of you who have, like me, been reading about the Ukraine-Russia war, and wondered if the news of Russia's bloody failure was just Ukrainian propaganda: It appears not. The CIA broadly confirms what we've been hearing from Ukrainian sources and independent analysts.
C.I.A. Chief Delivered Bleak Assessment of Russia's War in Secretive Moscow Visit John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, made a secretive visit to Moscow this week to privately share his bleak assessment of the state of the Russian war against Ukraine, and to urge the Russians to cut a deal before their military and economic situation gets worse, current and former officials said. Mr. Ratcliffe delivered the message to Aleksandr V. Bortnikov, the head of Russia's F.S.B. intelligence service, and made no threats about potential consequences for the Russian side should President Vladimir V. Putin ignore the C.I.A. director's assessment and choose to continue fighting. C.I.A. analysts have long questioned whether Mr. Putin's advisers have given him honest assessments of the war's trajectory and toll.This is discussed a lot -- Putin is almost like Hitler in seeming to believe that he's winning this. People attribute this to the fact that generals and staffers who give Putin bad news tend to exit tall buildings from high windows.
The C.I.A. has long maintained communications channels with the F.S.B. and Russia's foreign intelligence service, which is known as the S.V.R. Officials said Mr. Ratcliffe's intelligence channel with Bortnikov runs parallel to separate channels that President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, have established with other senior advisers to Mr. Putin. Some officials said they hoped that Mr. Putin, a former intelligence officer himself, would see a message from the C.I.A. director as more urgent and credible than communications through normal diplomatic channels. For much of last year, Mr. Trump and some of his top advisers appeared to hold the belief that a Russian battlefield victory over Ukraine was inevitable because of Russia's larger population and its nuclear arsenal. But the Russians have suffered massive losses, and their battlefield gains have stalled. It is not clear whether Mr. Ratcliffe's message presaged any change in U.S. policy toward Russia or Ukraine. Mr. Ratcliffe's visit was the latest effort by the Trump administration to breathe new life into stalled negotiations. It has become increasingly clear that Ukraine is not going to give up its fight in the east, even with reduced U.S. military support. Given what he presented as the bleak military and economic reality for Russia, Mr. Ratcliffe told Mr. Bortnikov that he believed it was time for Moscow to engage in serious negotiations to end the war. Since Mr. Trump's return to office, the United States has scaled back its military support to the Ukrainians, forcing them to rely more heavily on European partners. ... Last month, Mr. Ratcliffe spoke out pointedly about Russian troop losses during the war, and Moscow's inability to advance on the battlefield. He noted that the life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the front lines was less than 35 minutes. And he added that Russia had gained only about 1 percent of Ukraine's total territory in the 18 months since he became C.I.A. director, a development he attributed to Ukraine's "mastery" of drone technology.Ukraine is parlaying that drone mastery into more aid. They're striking deals with many countries, including the US, and trading their hard-won expertise at drone warfare and technology for additional weapons (including more drones and components for drones). Drones have replaced artillery as the new king of the battlefield. They're the weapon responsible for the most battle deaths, knocking artillery off its long-held bloody throne. The future of warfare will be, for good or for ill, all about drones and, crucially, anti-drone technology. (Not all counter-drone weapons are so high tech.) America must be able to destroy drones if we want to keep our other advantages. (And the Ukraine war has shown that US weapons systems are very good and much better than Russian, and presumably Chinese, systems. In fact, most of NATO's weapons are superior to Russia's.)
US drone "mothership" carries other drones. Related: Trump announced the US had cleared the sea lanes of Strait of America of all Iranian mines. Among the weapons deployed to destroy the mines? Underwater drones.
US officials had confirmed the essential claim two days earlier. They said underwater drones had identified more than 100 suspected mines in recent months. Private contractors then disposed of the devices, the officials said. President Donald Trump warned that American forces would destroy any Iranian vessel caught laying new mines.
On July 12, 2026, three Saronic Corsair one-way attack uncrewed surface vessels struck a submarine and a ship maintenance facility at Iran's Bandar Abbas Naval Base, in what U.S. Central Command described as the first American combat employment of sea drones. The strike settled a question this profile left open in June, when the Corsair's offensive role existed in acquisition documents and company material with no combat instance behind it. It settled much less about the platform. The approach was reported as low-speed and uncontested, the launch point, transit distance and warhead were never disclosed, and the released video ends at the explosions. Thirty-four days earlier the same vessel class had recovered two downed Army aviators near the Strait of Hormuz. Behind both events sits a company that has since selected Brownsville, Texas for a shipyard costing more than $3 billion, launched its first 52-foot Mirage, and carries a $9.25 billion valuation against roughly $200 million in estimated 2025 revenue.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (EJE3y)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (O0L8i)
It's really, really important that America build a defense against this.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (Shi2G)
exactly. I heard Ratcliffe paid Russian prostitutes to poop on the American flag.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (1wjle)
Wow, how did Iran get/develop those Ghadir class subs?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (mmrXZ)
That's false.
He paid the Russian prostitutes to shit on a Wig that was worn by Michele Obama.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (sFNX2)
The walls are closing in
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)
I would bet that Poland would have a better chance of taking Moscow than the reverse.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (qgHp7)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (NcvvS)
Fuck'n A
It's about god damned time the unwashed masses took things into their own hands.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (Shi2G)
We have always been at war with Russia and in solidarity with their people and entirely nazi-free military.
Noting has changed.
Russia bad
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Hopefully, the goatrapers are in them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (jo6FO)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (6VEkT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:38 PM (ImuKY)
Anyway, if you watch those videos, it looks like the Bradley is highly effective and takes out Russian main battle tanks.
HBO is a leftwing propaganda organ. I know that shocks you.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:38 PM (1wjle)
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No. I don't thinks so. Based on what I've seen and heard, there was a different reason for the visit. This type of strategic message that Euro based braniacs allege would not have been delivered by Ratcliffe. It is not his purview.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:38 PM (g47mK)
Do we know that the CIA can do competent analysis now or are we still assuming that they miss everything important and are going to get blindsided by big events that woudl be plain to anyone on the Internet?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (vJrRc)
The bottom line for the EU is they want escalation that requires US direct involvement, because that fills their treasure chests. They tried to lure us in previously by offering up peace troops, with the caveat that the US serve as an "insurance policy" and jump it if something occurs....which they would have been happy to covertly facilitate deceitfully. Trump didn't fall for that.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (dIske)
He had to fly there to do it, because a phone call could have been tapped and then everybody would know what he said.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (6VEkT)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (PGK1w)
We have always been at war with Russia and in solidarity with their people and entirely nazi-free military.
Noting has changed.
Russia bad now always.
that's right, nothing has changed, despite the weird Russian-intel crafted effort to convince Americans that Putin is a really nice guy and just wants to defend Christianity against the gays.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (O0L8i)
2. Russia seized and controls at least 20% of Ukraine. But Russia is losing the war? I don't think that's how this works.
3. Can both these terrible countries lose?
4. The fact that Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is back in the news after largely disappearing telegraphs to me that Iran is going very well for the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (iFTx/)
well it was kind of secret earlier in the week
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:41 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (1wjle)
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Church attendance in Russia is lower than in France. Russia bombed a bunch of churches in Ukraine.
It's a weird stance to take, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:41 PM (/PKja)
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Yeah right. Sure they did. Because everything always goes exactly as planned.
Oh wait I thought that said Sardonic vessels.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (PbWRL)
Brutality Wins Conflict.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (Shi2G)
If you were in Russia and saw a nuclear-warhead capable missile coming your way, what are you supposed to do? Let it land and then sift through the smoke and ruins to determine if the war has escalated?
The Islamo-fascist UK needs to be cut loose from NATO since they have demonstrated that they no longer want to be part of civilized society.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (a6PrB)
Interesting place to negotiate from. Trump and Putin both know what really happened but exposing it to the world has implications for both and not good ones for the US. Good for Trump, not so good for the US on the world stage.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (viF8m)
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I found it somewhat disturbing that the natives were largley dressed in shorts and t-shirts. Don't they know anything about dressing for combat? Jeez, even antifa does it better.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: logprof
I believe in the pictures of long gas lines there, and the worldwide price of diesel.
Ukraine is within reach of shutting Russian fuel off completely.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (Y8DZL)
No one else in NATO comes close.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (wtvvX)
They have a gun with a computerized fire control that estimates where a drone will be by the time the bullet gets to it, and locks the trigger until it calculates the gun is aimed at the right place.
I don't know how effective that is.
I'm happily impressed at how well American war tech seems to be working so I'm hopeful we will figure this out.
Directed energy weapons are part of this. They just jam drones' communications and guidance. But AI is the answer to this, as an AI drone doesn't rely on communications with its operator and also doesn't need GPS guidance. They can fly by scanning the ground.
but also they'll probably be putting money into laser-trucks.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (1wjle)
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I don't believe that online publication, or any outlet, got a hold of a real CIA assessment. Russia cut off Ukraine from any and all trade in the Black Sea. So much so, that Zelenskyi proposed a temporary ceasefire. And what gets disseminated ? That Ukraine is winning the Black Sea!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:40 PM (iFTx/)
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Iran is now complaining that the US is committing terrorism, Bloomberg has admitted that the strait is effectively open (2/3 of pre-conflict oil getting through, plus all the redirects), the only ships "hit" by Iran these days are either made up or ships that were allowed through the blockade to deliver grain...to Iran, the rial is worth about 2 million to the dollar, and Iran has pretty much admitted that the Gayatollah is dead.
But other than that, Iran is dominating America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (/PKja)
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I like to have my Christianity against the gays
Posted by: Talarico at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (JunZe)
Brutality Wins Conflict.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:42 PM (Shi2G)
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Mark Rober has a video about all this!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (/PKja)
generals and staffers who give Putin bad news tend to exit tall buildings from high windows.
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I know very little about Putin, but I'm surprised to see this. I thought the guy was more realistic.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (mmrXZ)
However they've lost a ton of men in this war. NATO has watched and learned from the development of drone warfare.
While Europe , except Poland are militarily not in good shape we still dominate and it wouldn't go well for the Russians.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (EZWVc)
lol
Russia has been sending missiles at Ukrainian cities since the beginning of the war.
Poor Russia! They invaded a country and that mean Nazi country fought back!
he just wants to defend Christianity from The Gays!
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (1wjle)
I doubt that the USA has a defense against attacks by a large number of drones at this time
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (llBIB)
Either way, I am with you if both countries can lose.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (n5tGW)
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I found it somewhat disturbing that the natives were largley dressed in shorts and t-shirts. Don't they know anything about dressing for combat? Jeez, even antifa does it better.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (sFNX2)
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"Well, at least they weren't in fucking jeans."
-George Will
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (/PKja)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
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So now postpartum abortion?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
That would be funny if Ratliff went to Moscow to have counter-intelligence from the FSB to do a compare and contrast with the lies and propaganda coming from Deep State operatives at Foggy Bottom.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (NzX/y)
They are. Russia's ships have pulled back to the coasts and the ports.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (1wjle
I mean... The Ukes are where actual Nazis are.
Just like WW11, it's the Nazis fighting the Communists.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (6VEkT)
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This is bullshit. Doing the math, if only 1,000 Russians were manning what are called the front lines (which is obviously a ridiculous underestimate), then at a 35 minute life span they'd have 41,142 dead per day just to keep those positions manned.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (XvL8K)
So what you are voting for is #1 and #2 exporters of wheat to both lose.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 02:47 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (qwx/I)
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Wut?
There is no reduction in US support. The US is barely more than halfway done disbursing the aid passed under Biden, and added another $400m under Trump.
This is more lies from the lying media.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (BI5O2)
I also believe that we have now settled into a sustainable low cost, low risk tactical posture that can crack Iran without much kinetic effort on our part. Most wars start off with bad battle plans that don't survive first contact with the enemy - the key to victory is adapting and improvising as it develops.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (edUvp)
https://x.com/MorseReport/status/
2093384909461365040
"Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz."
We just cut a new waterway that Iran can't even see if they still had their towers and binoculars, much less hit with missiles that they don't have anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:48 PM (g47mK)
Just like WW11, it's the Nazis fighting the Communists.
Uh huh. You mean that Ukranians wanted to be free of Russia and made the enemy-of-my-enemy choice to join Germany.
Yes that's bad.
Whose side of WWII was Ireland on? They made the same calculation and declared war on the UK.
Would we say the Irish are Nazis?
I mean, this is all silly nonsense.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)
2. Russia seized and controls at least 20% of Ukraine. But Russia is losing the war? I don't think that's how this works.
3. Can both these terrible countries lose?
4. The fact that Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is back in the news after largely disappearing telegraphs to me that Iran is going very well for the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I'll address point 2. Germany held a greater part of France in WWI but yet ended up losing. Why. Its internal economy collapsed under Allied blockade. Its civilians were starving.
Gaining territory for territory's sake is what did in Shitler and that Froggie bloke. Same with launching attacks on Ukrainian cities rather than dispersed military targets.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (Mzuzg)
Is Putin a bad actor? Absofuckinglutely. Are the puppets running Ukraine any better? No.
Has nothing to do with the citizens who always get caught in the crossfire. The people running both countries suck.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (OUMaO)
87% of the time, Statistics are Made Up 100% of the time.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (qgHp7)
SOOPER - DOOPER!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (wtvvX)
Number 1, to see if they work.
Number 2, to send a message.
Number 3, for the fun of it.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (QRHoA)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)
oh they're already doing that. They've got all of this netting and fencing on top of their tanks.
I think I saw a weapon that deploys a net as it approaches a drone to drop it.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (1wjle)
Ace, Ukraine is dead without Black sea trade, not Russia. That is how Ukraine got their grain out. Now Russia cut them off, and nothing gets through.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
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So now postpartum abortion?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
That’s the only thing Lindsay Clancy is guilty of! — AWFL Karen’s everywhere
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (geWO5)
I believe the idea was to kneecap whatever good relations were possible, probably on the orders of Beijing, or adjacent. Ukraine is easily one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. It was astonishing to see how quickly they upload the new programming narrative.
"Freedom and Democracy! Let's give them Eleventy Gazillion Dollars RIGHT NOW, OR ELSE!"
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (rQ950)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (EZWVc)
There are a plethora of online video's showing huge lines waiting for gas and diesel across Russia - in many cities, it's no longer available at any price. Ukraine's campaign against Russian refinery capacity has been seriously damaging.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: ace
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I think the problem is that is is very expensive Like, 10s of k per shell.
The solution to drones is probably going to be ... more drones. Just like the solution to artillery was counter battery artillery.
What scares me is when AI replaces GPS for navigation and AI replaces the fiber optic or radio for targeting. Then these damn things wil be fully autonomous.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (ImuKY)
That's fine. New markets and all of that.
We'd be better off producing more Wheat than Corn, anyway.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Cqx++)
Had you forgotten?
Russia was great friends with the Nazis... until the Nazis invaded.
Like I said, this is all twitter-argument nonsense. It's silly.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (1wjle)
Regarding the Strait of Hormuz, it turns out Iran just chucked a bunch of metal trash into the water and claimed it was mines, for the most part. There were 11 actual mines and an unholy large mess that wasn't dangerous.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (LHPAg)
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*looks off meaningfully in the distance*
-Andrei Rublev
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner
Doesn't change the logistics problem with declining petroleum refining and far better Ukrainian targeting. Putin has made this war into a war for his own survival as has Zelinsky. Neither can climb off the tiger or they will undoubtedly be eaten by who comes next.
Prediction, continued bloody stalemate until someone, probably Russia as long is Putin is in charge due to frustrations, does something incredibly stupid. He lost the moral justification for his war pretty early on and he is now losing strategically while he is winning scant yards of territory at a massive cost of lives.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv)
We used to know this. I guess we forgot it as it's inconvenient and hurts our dumb twitter arguments.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (llBIB)
Regarding the Strait of Hormuz, it turns out Iran just chucked a bunch of metal trash into the water and claimed it was mines, for the most part. There were 11 actual mines and an unholy large mess that wasn't dangerous.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (P9pDS)
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Most of the 11 weren't effective because they weren't properly deployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)
No, actually. I mean today. There are actual, real-life Nazis fighting for Ukraine.
I'm not saying anything other than that. I draw no conclusions and take no moral positions because of it. I'm saying the Azov Battalion is real.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Saw a piece today about how Ukraine is shipping grain overland to be transferred down the Danube, but this can only carry a fraction of what used to go by cargo ship. Predicted famine in parts of the middle east soon, which relies on Ukrainian grain imports.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (edUvp)
Is the WNBA deploying anti-dildo countermeasures again?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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I always thought nets would fail -- all you need is a second drone to go through the hole.
But I don't see that happening -- I wonder why.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (ImuKY)
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Make the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Great Again!
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 28, 2026 02:55 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:55 PM (dK+Kv)
It’s pretty clear for whatever reason you feel a need to advance at least part of Putin’s sophism. But the fact is this is Putin’s war of choice. He started it and used NATO as a pretext to do it. He also thought, as Ace noted this would be over quickly. But the fact is Putin has single handily changed the face of warfare, and not to his advantage. He proved you no longer need to be a near peer actor to not just stay in the battle, but to win a war by virtue of perseverance. Ukraine is wrecking Russia’s economy and destroying what is otherwise a great country for his ego. He no longer has NATO to use as his pretext, and his casual belli is essentially gone. The Russian people see it. His top tier military leaders see it, and they’re also not very fond of what looks like subservience to the Chinese. This all has the danger of spiraling out of control, which is why the agency thinks he may make a desperate move.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 02:55 PM (7S15B)
3. Can both these terrible countries lose?
4. The fact that Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is back in the news after largely disappearing telegraphs to me that Iran is going very well for the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I'll address point 2. Germany held a greater part of France in WWI but yet ended up losing. Why. Its internal economy collapsed under Allied blockade. Its civilians were starving.
Gaining territory for territory's sake is what did in Shitler and that Froggie bloke. Same with launching attacks on Ukrainian cities rather than dispersed military targets.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)
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Except France didn't defeat Germany. If the war was just France and Germany, Germany would have easily won.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (n5tGW)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
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Ya know, that's one of the things that started breaking down my disbelief.
I outsmarted myself. I had been a Catholic. I had cited how abortion would result in a "decline of the value of life". And then I got "sophisticated". There didn't seem to be a irrefutable (that matters as an "atheist") interaction there.
But after it got to a certain point, I realized that I had "predicted" the decline in valuing human life much better as a Catholic, than as a non-believer.
We're here now, and this is probably not a nadir.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:54 PM (edUvp)
We have so much grain....
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (EZWVc)
Something something "when the winged hussars arrived"...
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (EZWVc)
There are a plethora of online video's showing huge lines waiting for gas and diesel across Russia - in many cities, it's no longer available at any price. Ukraine's campaign against Russian refinery capacity has been seriously damaging.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Some folks here pretty early on decided to side with one or the other in that contest. To me, it is more like Iran-Iraq war, a pity that both could not lose which ironically is pretty much on point. Ukraine cannot win in a conventional contest like retaking its territory by defeating russians and moving its troops into the occupied regions.
Russia appears increasingly unable to win either--it has meager territorial gains while hollowing out and destroying its economy to the point that it is far more at risk from the Chicoms moving into a vacuum in the East.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:57 PM (E4rtv)
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Betwee them, Russia and Ukraine represent about 10% of the global production of calories. Not good for anybody, the way I see it, if they are at war with each other.
Fertilizer, sunflower oil, wheat, petroleum, natural gas, etc. Russia still provides many aerospace materials and rare earths, as well as re-processing spent nuclear fuel rods. That fuckhead from Plains, Georgia decided we weren't going to do things like that. Well, somebody has to.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 02:57 PM (rQ950)
https://t.ly/kcPyA
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM (Cqx++)
We need artillery drones.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (Mzuzg)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: ace
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And I've still never seen a satisfactory explanation for why Britain and France didn't declare war on Russia for doing the exact same thing Germany did. Whereas they had an expedition fitted out to help the Finns when Russia invaded. Makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (XvL8K)
I'm not saying anything other than that. I draw no conclusions and take no moral positions because of it. I'm saying the Azov Battalion is real.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (PGK1w)
And there are (or at least were) actual real life Nazi's running for Senator from Maine. I'm not that worked up about the significance of the designation anymore.
I have from the beginning taken the position that this is a fight between two organized crime gangs on the other side of the world, and there's no reason for me to cheerlead for either one. But the war has been worth following a little just to see the huge jumps in drone tech and tactics. 21st century warfare is here, old methods are obsolete now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (edUvp)
They might do something like fund terrorist groups to attack the US and its allies. Oh wait they've been doing that for 70 years.
I guess they might give Iranian targeting information that Iran doesn't have itself so Iran can hit our bases in Jordan with missiles. Oh wait they've done that too.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (1wjle)
We used to know this. I guess we forgot it as it's inconvenient and hurts our dumb twitter arguments.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:53 PM (1wjle)
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Why not?
Because it's verboten to know that this was a "Well, we're both socialists" type of affinity. Back then it seemed natural: authoritarian ideological socialist with authoritarian ideological socialist.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)
The war in Ukraine did not start in a vacuum and they aren't all good guys because Putin is a bad guy. It's not nearly as black and white as some try to paint it.
The CIA was invented to topple governments. That's what it does. Including our own. Does it seem just a bit of a coincidence that they tried to take down Trump by claiming he was a Russian asset a couple years after Hillary's failed "reset" button diplomacy in Russia and then got much of the dirt to frame Trump and his team from Ukraine?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Not until Lt. Col. Bear Claw weighs in.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 28, 2026 02:59 PM (4HoLg)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (iFTx/)
Germany did bomb Pearl Harbor, though, bringing America into the war.
Posted by: Senator Blutarski at August 28, 2026 02:59 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Senator Blutarski at August 28, 2026 02:59 PM (wVcYX)
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Is he rolling?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:00 PM (/PKja)
This guy is higher than anyone here and even he fucking gets it.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:00 PM (Shi2G)
Right. Anduril and other "neo-defense" companies have gotten thousands of hours of cheap beta testing for all manner of new technologies out of Ukraine, and for me that's the most interesting part of the war by far. Although the part where Zelensky's apparently in it to help further Soros' Great Replacement is a close second.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:00 PM (P9pDS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM
I suspect that we will know that feeling very soon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (n5tGW)
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Corn really isn't that digestible. We process the fructose out, and we can ingest fructose (to a degree).
That's why it often shows back up in your poop as round as it went in.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 02:58 PM (Mzuzg)
I laid in a lot of shotgun supplies, including shotshell reloading equipment and supplies. That looks to be prescient.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (n5tGW)
And who is it that you think is fighting on the Russian frontlines, targeting civilians, burning villages, raping women and committing war crimes?
This war has been brutal on both sides. I can tell you in every war there are unsavory characters- that’s just the nature of war. It is insidious, destructive, inhumane and unforgiving. Probably by design and certainly by its nature.
BTW I make no excuse for either sides inhumane actions, tactics or philosophies.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (CKrQs)
Number 1, to see if they work.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants
This. The rumor of Russian nukes being non-functional through lack of proper maintenance has going been around for over a year now.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (Y8DZL)
A "CIA assessment" is one thing. Ratcliffe's assessment is another... and I'll base that on whether or not he used a "CIA assessment" as a basis for his own.
Suffice to say there was something brewing over there that had someone's panties in a bunch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
And it is not just Ukraine. A lot of their weapons enabling them to continue the fight came from massive transfers from the West. And sufficient ability to standoff initial Russian superior numbers and technology.
Territory means nothing, to win, you destroy armies and Russia failed to do that because from the beginning it was a political op like Putin used in Georgia with Abkhazia, taking the Crimea, Chechniya, etc. A modified Brezhnev doctrine dealing with ethnic Russians rather than communism.
Germany took Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco Prussian War which did little to help them win WWI either. Simply served as a continuing irritant to the French and caused the French to build up its military again which led to the stupid von Schiefflen plan. Germans were overconfident and stupid in their foreign affairs after Bismarck got dismissed much as Napoleon overreached in his time as well.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:02 PM (E4rtv)
This was the game.
No different than our actions in Afghanistan in the 70s and early 80s and in the Balkans after that.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:02 PM (Shi2G)
And we have to keep it cost-efficient. One unit of defense should cost no more than one unit of offense costs the enemy, if possible. No more gold-plated, over-engineered, over-featured, billion-dollars-per-copy weapons systems.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (Shi2G)
Like the Navy Sixth Fleet using underwater drone technology to blow up the Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines?
Or Victoria Nuland overthrowing Ukraine's presidential election and installing Zelenskyy?
There are no good actors. The Cold War just changed tactics.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (nCgQz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:52 PM
I suspect that we will know that feeling very soon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (4NO2D)
California certainly will. They've been waging a war against their own refineries even more effective than the Ukraine's has been.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)
There's a large Ukrainian community sw of me and at one of their community centers they have a statue of Bandera
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (EZWVc)
Canadian doctors’ group doubles down on expanding MAID to newborns
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
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Ya know, that's one of the things that started breaking down my disbelief.
I outsmarted myself. I had been a Catholic. I had cited how abortion would result in a "decline of the value of life". And then I got "sophisticated". There didn't seem to be a irrefutable (that matters as an "atheist") interaction there.
But after it got to a certain point, I realized that I had "predicted" the decline in valuing human life much better as a Catholic, than as a non-believer.
We're here now, and this is probably not a nadir.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)
Gang violence, Islamofascism, antifa, transgenderism, pedophilia - it's all just different pages in the same book.
And it's titled "Life is Cheap to Too Many People".
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
Good morning all.
as a commenter said, you can't fake the many videos of miles long lines for gas and angry Russians complaining that after they stood in line for hours, the station was out of gas before they could get it.
And these attacks are getting more effective.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (1wjle)
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Just the starch. The remainder gets fed to hogs and cattle as silage, just like it always has for a couple hundred years now.
I'm no fan of corn-squeezins in our fuel, but this is a bit of lefty propaganda nonsense that just needs to die already. It's stupid, and implies that people are starving or something for lack of corn.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (rQ950)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (Spelz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:01 PM (n5tGW)
LOL! That's good, that's really good!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 03:05 PM (LHPAg)
Ukraine destroyed one third of Russia's strategic bomber force in a ferried drone attack. The attack ranged as far east as Irkutsk.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (Jr5Lq)
This recently happened in Japan with McDonald's PokeMon Cards.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (Shi2G)
What the actual fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (VJ0w/)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (CKrQs)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
And it is not just Ukraine. A lot of their weapons enabling them to continue the fight came from massive transfers from the West. And sufficient ability to standoff initial Russian superior numbers and technology.
Territory means nothing, to win, you destroy armies and Russia failed to do that because from the beginning it was a political op like Putin used in Georgia with Abkhazia, taking the Crimea, Chechniya, etc. A modified Brezhnev doctrine dealing with ethnic Russians rather than communism.
Germany took Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco Prussian War which did little to help them win WWI either. Simply served as a continuing irritant to the French and caused the French to build up its military again which led to the stupid von Schiefflen plan. Germans were overconfident and stupid in their foreign affairs after Bismarck got dismissed much as Napoleon overreached in his time as well.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:02 PM (E4rtv)
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Russia-Ukraine is not remotely WWI
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Because the UK called the shots and Chamberlain failed to support Czechslovakia when it would have been easier to stop Shitler. France quailed when a small German contigent of NotSees invaded the demilitarized Rhineland.
The French could have easily stomped them as even the NotSees admitted and Shitler would never have probably been able to retain power after.
The Fixx song, One Thing Leads to Another is exactly how political history reads.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig
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I don't think they were overconfident in 1914. The calculus was that it would be better to risk a general war in 1914 when they had some chance of winning, vs a war three of four years down the road when Russia would have completed its rearmament, and they had no chance of winning.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (ndZc7)
**scoots further south, waits for massive lightning strike to hit Canada**
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (ZgwKJ)
The USS Rueben James was sunk by a German U-boat on Oct 31, 1941, more than a month before Pearl Harbor.
But Roosevelt was in Hitler's pocket, so he Epsteined the whole affair.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (Y8DZL)
i saw that poland announced a many-billion dollar effort to build the largest army in Europe. (I don't know if they include Russia as part of Europe.)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Casualties are right up there. Probably exceeded the total number of Iran Iraq war which was about eight years in length. Bloodiest war in decades leaving out civil wars.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)
And we have to keep it cost-efficient. One unit of defense should cost no more than one unit of offense costs the enemy, if possible. No more gold-plated, over-engineered, over-featured, billion-dollars-per-copy weapons systems.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 03:03 PM (Jr5Lq)
We don't think you quite understand the potential here.
Posted by: Cyberdyne Research Group at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (wVcYX)
It's time to get out. What if Putin does something rash? What if he nukes Kiev? What if he attacks Poland? What if Poland gives Zelensky an old French warhead cobbled back together with pierogies, and Zelensky fires it at the Kremlin?
I literally couldn't give any less of a shit about any of them. Let the birds fly.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (BI5O2)
But what is cool about growing corn is that it is water intensive and destroys the soil requiring massive amounts of fertilizer.
So if you want to dry up the aquifers and wreck the soil, find stupid and wasteful reasons to grow corn.
The Left can be admired for their creativity in destroying a country.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (+4Cf6)
i saw that poland announced a many-billion dollar effort to build the largest army in Europe. (I don't know if they include Russia as part of Europe.)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (1wjle)
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*squees at the idea of the Knights Templar starting again in Poland and correcting the Papacy as I've predicted for years*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Overt60 at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (GdFaB)
The Fixx song, One Thing Leads to Another is exactly how political history reads.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM (E4rtv)
Churchill said that WW2 was the most unnecessary war in history; that it could have been prevented for a fraction of the cost in men and material at the point you mentioned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 03:08 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
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Because that's essentially Darwinism.
Your life means little unless you "make it mean more". (??) Which, is nice rhetoric of a sort, but clinically void.
What's important is that the group survives, not the individual.
But most importantly: Life advances by the death of lesser forms "competing for survival".
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM
Poland is a real country that I don't mind having in NATO. The Baltic States are not.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (rQ950)
Number 1, to see if they work.
Posted by: Old Iron Pants
Obligatory: https://tinyurl.com/yem3bpt6
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (/OKHJ)
If you listen to Peter Zeihan, I'm sorry about the lost IQ points, but the prediction that does ring true are effectively that Russia will demographically die in a paroxysm of violence by 2040.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (qwx/I)
I suppose they could lob a few missiles to start a panic, on the assumption that Poland wouldn't retaliate for fear of a nuclear reprisal.
Posted by: Lurkyloo at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (ort2b)
You can't lay 100% of the results of the Farm Bills on the Dems.
It's the Progressive Republican Caucus that is every bit as much responsible for this particular policy.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (Shi2G)
What Putin does in the next few weeks will tell. Can't believe ace cited a commie paper as a source.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 28, 2026 03:10 PM (qmxL/)
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Churchill made a half-hearted push to go against the Soviets through Norway - he never saw a sideshow he did not like. But I think the western allies quietly expected the Nazis and Commies to turn on each other and so just waited for the inevitable. After France fell, Britain was in no shape to attack anyone, let alone Russia.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (sFNX2)
stinks!
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (Mzuzg)
Push button warfare.
I hope we win. I have good reasons for hope. All three of my very intelligent, above average IQ children are working the problem.
Yeah, I am a proud dad. Yeah I am arrogant. Please forgive me for that. I am nothing. He is everything.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (36x1j)
i think you're right.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (1wjle)
182 The Fixx is one of those bands that, for whatever reason, has suppressed their original recordings so that only new recordings are available on streaming. I think "Saved by Zero" is one of the ones where one can only hear the new, inferior version on Amazon.
stinks!
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (1wjle)
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Probably producer rights over original recordings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:11 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (zHdFR)
When the Winged Hussars Arrive!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (n5tGW)
This is why you need to have the original LPs.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (Shi2G)
What the actual fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 03:06 PM
Feminism has reached the "you don't actually love your kids, they're symbols of your oppression by men" stage.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (UmGiD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:09 PM (rQ950)
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Grass-fed is better for Omega-3 balance.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)
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There's a reason it costs 7 bucks for a bag of corn, the bag, worth 70 cents, and it ain't goin' to corn farmers. I suspect SNAP and similar wealth distribution schemes have a lot to do with it.
"Welfare" really needs a weigh-in program, but I can't see how it could ever be done practically or effectively.
Whatever your problems, if you weigh 300 pounds, you don't need free food.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (rQ950)
They’re upping their game in the colonization.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Nope. The Germans nearly unleashed forces over Morocco twice. TR won the Nobel Peace Prize for the first at the Algiciras Conference. The second time was in 1911 over the Panther gunship and Morocco which was under French 'protection'. French ceded some territory further south in Africa to resolve it.
The Germans were to blame for WWI because Bismarck's entire career was spent trying to keep the French and the Russians apart. And indeed both were strange bedfellows. But the von Schiefflen plan explicitly required violating Belgium neutrality from the get go and that violated a treaty post Napoleon forbidding Germany from doing that.
Most people focus on WWI in 1914 but the whole saga began in the Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna period after.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (E4rtv)
oh that's one of the ones where it's this lame re-recording.
It's so bad. What a shame.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (1wjle)
The only reason Ukraine is not ashes - Our weapons - he is fighting us by proxy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:13 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (UmGiD)
The equivalent of hiding ordnance in the basements of mosques and hospitals.
"We Dare You To Go After It"
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (+4Cf6)
This is why you need to have the original LPs.
Posted by: garrett
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I think the same reason as Taylor Swift. Has to do with royalties and former bad management percentage takes probably.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)
It's Stand or Fall that has been replaced by a re-recording.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
So... we've managed to bring peace between the Greys, Nordics and Reptilians?
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
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The Fixx is one of the bands that seemed like they could not miss.
I mean okay, Deeper, was weird to some, but I ended up liking it just as much as their other stuff.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (Fi81e)
They’re upping their game in the colonization.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
Weblow goat badge
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (VJ0w/)
It's Stand or Fall that has been replaced by a re-recording.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:14 PM (1wjle)
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And one of the most infectious songs ever: One Thing Leads to Another.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Fi81e)
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Most all beef is "grass fed". It's going to be tough.
They finish off with corn for marbling. Fat. Fat is Flavor.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (rQ950)
I love that song.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Martin Tell
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It wasn't half-hearted. That expedition of like 150,000 was fitting out with plans to proceed when the Russo-Finnish war ended. So something changed between 1939 with Poland and 1940 with Finland.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:15 PM (XvL8K)
Russia isn't in much of a position to add new fronts. Nor is Putin's position as fragile as has been claimed since the start of this war. There is a tendency to read Russia in western election cycle terms which is not really how they work.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Shenanigans
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Don't discount ego. Twas always a problem for kings and other autocrats, you end up with an inner circle that tells you only what you want to hear, not telling you the horrid truth.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
Reach the Beach, too.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:17 PM (wtvvX)
I'd rather Ukraine wins, I suspect Russia will attrit its way to victory. But I'm not prepared to put money on that.
I said it was gonna be a long war and it has been.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:18 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (EZWVc)
Reach the Beach, too.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 03:17 PM (wtvvX)
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Now, I gotta bring up Spotify....
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (Fi81e)
I think it's great that Indians think that they're the best, smartest, greatest people on earth.
I just don't know why they feel like they have to come here to make money. Something wrong with the country full of Indians?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (/PKja)
Socialism. As I understand it, as soon as an Indian company hires its 100th employee, it becomes nearly impossible to fire any of them -- and the employees know it. So, Indians in India are (effectively) statutorily forbidden from growing even medium-size companies, let alone large ones. And they're also too commietarded to revoke the law that "everyone knows" has hard-broken their economy.
Further, it's a safe bet that if they go somewhere with a better economy and get enough political power to make public policy, then they will put the same idiotic law in place there. They will break the economy there, for the same reason they have not fixed it at home: because it's their nature. They can't help it.
Self-destruction is just irresistibly appealing to simpletons who cannot perceive 2nd-order effects.
Posted by: SciVo at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
TDS has been very hard on him. His first book was fun.
Posted by: Auspex at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (Y8DZL)
This is why you need to have the original LPs.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:12 PM (Shi2G)
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It's a royalty issue. The original recordings are owned in part by the record companies, so any streaming of those is shared with the company. The per-song streaming royalties isn't enough to justify the band sharing them, at least in their view.
Streaming of newly or re-recorded versions of the songs isn't shared, so that's what's available.
Def Leppard had the same issue for a long time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
Ain't the same corn. Ethanol corn is a different variety that is genetically engineered to be good feedstock for ethanol conversion.
Sweet corn is the stuff you recognize on your plate.
Processed field corn is the crap that makes Doritos
Dent corn feeds livestock and is used by ethanol distillers.
Its because they are turning cattle feed into Climate Change™ approved ethanol is part of the reason your beef costs more.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:19 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (1wjle)
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Yes, but Germany under Chancellor Merz has also announced a military build-up with the aim of establishing the Bundeswehr as the largest army in Europe (outside Russia). There are already German troops in Lithuania, and plans to cooperate with Ukraine on manufacturing missiles that will be fired into Russia.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (GdFaB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
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*off to the side, whistling innocently*
-Clippy
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Authoritarian regimes, of which Putin's Russia certainly is, usually fall by internal coup like Gorbachev suffered at the very end.
I've been watching the Russian economy since the war began and it is getting sicker by the minute--the war is literally bleeding it, the attacks on logistics is causing the retrenchment of the internal russian economy, not just the oil refineries, but their civilian good delivery warehouses, and all their NATO countries surrounding them are rearming to the teeth.
Doesn't help that you have the Russians stirring up Trans Dneister that is close to causing Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine collaborating to expel the Russians from it.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)
I love that song.
Posted by: ace
I ran across a CD with about 20 of their most popular songs, in extended versions. It is phenomenal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)
Now explain Global Resource Centers that Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, et al use for off-shore IT.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:22 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Now, imagine drones attacking key Northern munitions factories. The North benefitted from the South running an essentially defensive war. Had the safe factories in the rear been vulnerable to attack by air, suddenly not so similar after all.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)
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A band of perennial quality until they ... gave it up?
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:23 PM (Fi81e)
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Totally disagree that the Germans almost totally unleashed forces over Morocco in 1905 and 1911. Especially 1905, when the Russians were embroiled with Japan and the Germans would have won, probably easily. They backed down anyway after losing the diplomatic battle because they weren't willing to unleash a war they would have won. In the 1911 Morocco crisis, they weren't so sure, and by 1914 the feeling of being encircled by France and a rearmed Russia had become overwhelming.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Now, imagine drones attacking key Northern munitions factories. The North benefitted from the South running an essentially defensive war. Had the safe factories in the rear been vulnerable to attack by air, suddenly not so similar after all.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
You're not wrong but industry is resilient to bombing, WW2 demonstrated that. Unless you firebomb entire cities, the industry can be hardened, moved, rebuilt. And as long as China takes Russian rubles, they'll have cash to do it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (xcxpd)
What a joke this website has become.
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (Ys9Hz)
Authoritarian regimes, of which Putin's Russia certainly is, usually fall by internal coup like Gorbachev suffered at the very end.
I've been watching the Russian economy since the war began and it is getting sicker by the minute--the war is literally bleeding it, the attacks on logistics is causing the retrenchment of the internal russian economy, not just the oil refineries, but their civilian good delivery warehouses, and all their NATO countries surrounding them are rearming to the teeth.
Doesn't help that you have the Russians stirring up Trans Dneister that is close to causing Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine collaborating to expel the Russians from it.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)
Russia has long been ruled by something approximating an autocrat and a military aristocracy. When the autocrat is weak, the military deposes him and places in another. But that has historically had very little to do with their economy. While there are many instances of weak-willed leaders in Russia being replaced with more authoritarian ones, it was never driven by the economy.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:25 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Axeman
I have no idea what happened, other than they might have been typecast when grunge and other styles showed up. They were very creative.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:25 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
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*off to the side, whistling innocently*
-Clippy
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:20 PM (/PKja)
I've got my eye on you...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (xcxpd)
We should not be involved, militarily, in that war.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (rj6Yv)
I agree about the re-recorded stuff....I hate it. I still have my old CD collection for when i want to hear the good stuff, or I go on YouTube and put on the MTV videos from back then.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (lmFwW)
Metabiota was also busy tracking viruses in China. Largely because once again they were getting contracts from USAID which is just another way of saying the CIA.
Again, not a conspiracy theory. Fact.
They likely would have been busy in Kazakstan where we were also building a huge biolab had Putin not stepped in and stopped it claiming he was going to allow anymore "color revolutions", he said it plainly, on his border.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:26 PM (viF8m)
Of the many reasons I don't utilize Streaming for listening...
this is one.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (Shi2G)
I agree about the re-recorded stuff....I hate it. I still have my old CD collection for when i want to hear the good stuff, or I go on YouTube and put on the MTV videos from back then.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat
Are they touring?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (lmFwW)
Rus was supposed to overwhelm them THE FIRST WEEK
instead? they've hung in there
also, Ukrainians are smart. they're not Indians. they are coming up with ways to fend off the Rus and me personally? I'm impressed
again I am biased being very close with expats here (whom yes, the US Gov brought over for nuclear science expertise originally - well their parents)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (j+aD2)
"Welfare" really needs a weigh-in program, but I can't see how it could ever be done practically or effectively.
I can eliminate almost all Fraud with this One Simple Trick:
For as many months as is necessary, all entitlement recipients need to show up at regional centers, with their receipts (utility, grocery, bank statements) for the previous month and have AI ingest it.
Merely showing up eliminates the dead, illegals and the double dippers.
Failing to document gets rid of another
Failing a remedial Dave Ramsey test eliminates a whole lot more.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Putin doesn't appear to think that way from his public statements. And that is a problem when we analyze him--to him, it is his task to protect Russians everywhere and to restore Russia to great power status.
So he chose to go to war over Ukraine attacking marginally economically useful territories in the Donbas and retaking the mostly Russian Crimea (the entire cession to the supposed SSR Ukraine in 1954 by the USSR was to the Politburo, merely a paper thing).
Perhaps. Putin thought he would be able to decapitate the regime quickly and force a pro Russian peace. He failed. And the remainder of this war is due to climbing the tiger's back, you don't get off or risk being eaten. Zelinsky is in a similar war for his own survival.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)
I'm still hoping we revive letters of marque and reprisal.
A supertanker full of oil would be a sweet, sweet prize.
Unrelated: given that we were the first (and so far only) people on the Moon, it's been suggested that we rename it Moon of America.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Casualties are right up there. Probably exceeded the total number of Iran Iraq war which was about eight years in length. Bloodiest war in decades leaving out civil wars.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)
I'd say Ukraine has not even gotten to the level of casualties of the Somme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)
Well, now it's 2026, and Europe doesn't count for shit.
Explain why it matters what happens there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: whig
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And the South was not constantly re-supplied by France or England.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (hPgrk)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (zHdFR)
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Following the massive commercial breakthrough of their double-platinum 1983 album Reach for the Beach, The Fixx chose to make a more serious, moody, and experimental follow-up album, Phantoms (1984). This musical shift made them harder for radio programmers to categorize.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)
I'm still hoping we revive letters of marque and reprisal.
A supertanker full of oil would be a sweet, sweet prize.
Unrelated: given that we were the first (and so far only) people on the Moon, it's been suggested that we rename it Moon of America.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 03:28 PM (IG3/x)
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We are.
https://x.com/benjaminpenn/status/
2092692684427190703
"@benjaminpenn
SCOOP: Justice Dept. plans activating long-dormant maritime war court to streamline capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes. Legally uncertain plan intended to bolster blockade of Iran.
A feature of 1700s naval combat, prize courts set to return."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (/PKja)
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1) That makes no sense. If you can't handle the fight you're in, deliberately expanding it is suicidal, and unlike our muslim enemies, Putin hasn't shown any evidence of suicidal tendencies.
2) Why in the world would we consider CIA opinions as credible?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat
Pretty good set of the Fixx performing live online just previous to Covid, I think in a Portland studio or something. Some kind of corporate sponsored gig but on youtube.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)
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Is Putin now also being advised by AutoPen Empire treasonous rejects like Gen. Milley Vanilli, $6-man Lloyd Austin, and other holdover scumbags from Trump 1.0's Pentagon?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (9c4Eu)
They likely would've had they not been fighting NATO the whole time.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (viF8m)
Well, now it's 2026, and Europe doesn't count for shit.
WW2 ended Europe mattering for much, mostly by their own decision to go gay atheist Communist.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (UmGiD)
They hung in their with billions of our tax dollars and our munitions and our intelligence so fucking zelensky could snort coke off French hookers asses. After jailing the opposition, outlawing them and stopping elections.
I have not a whit of sympathy for those assholes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (zZu0s)
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Yes, the new tour begins next week. I'm seeing them on 9/11 at the Keswick theater outside of Philly.
It's a real "old guy" tour, the opening acts are Colin Blunstone and Peter Asher.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 28, 2026 03:30 PM (lmFwW)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:31 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:31 PM (EZWVc)
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Putin advisor Cucker Qatarlson hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 03:31 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Methos
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Putin himself has threatened to use nukes both against Ukraine and obliquely against UK and others that are supplying and arming Ukraine.
One should always take such threats credibly. Not dismiss them. And by all accounts, due to fear of Ukrainian assassins/missiles and his own safety, Putin has deliberately isolated himself more and more from the public and even his own government.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account
I think that's the heart of a lot here. Everyone expected the Russians to curb stomp Ukraine...just like everyone expected the Soviet Union to stay standing well into the 21st century...just like (and I honestly still think this) they believed Saddam had WMDs.
The CIA is incompetent. Or more to the point maybe they're just distracted playing domestic kingmaker. Either way, they are not fit for purpose, which means ultimately we've been flying...if not blind, then with a VERY distorted view of reality.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 03:32 PM (OUMaO)
Rus was supposed to overwhelm them THE FIRST WEEK
instead? they've hung in there
also, Ukrainians are smart. they're not Indians. they are coming up with ways to fend off the Rus and me personally? I'm impressed
again I am biased being very close with expats here (whom yes, the US Gov brought over for nuclear science expertise originally - well their parents)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 03:27 PM (j+aD2)
That was the western assessment of Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia basically had the same type of military and doctrines, they were both part of the USSR and until 2014 Ukraine was a Russian buffer state. Culturally they aren't that distinct.
It made no sense to assert essentially similar forces would result in a one-sided conflict.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:32 PM (okun6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (/PKja)
Yeah, I knew about the prize courts coming back, but I haven't seen that we've actually started issuing letters of marque to privateers just yet.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (EZWVc)
So why did we send them $200 billion to fight a war we do not really care about?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:16 PM (okun6)
Not one IS has good intelligence on what goes on inside Russia.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (g47mK)
The fist will run, grasp metal to gun
The spirit sings in crashing tones, we gain the battle drum
Our cries will shrill, the air will moan and crash into the dawn
The pen won't stay the demon's wings
The hour approaches, pounding out the Devil's sermon
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (n5tGW)
but also they'll probably be putting money into laser-trucks.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:44 PM (1wjle)
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Yes, AI in weapons is a great idea.
Posted by: Skynet at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (U/dC0)
The late Hal Lindsey Graham and the Disappearing Turtle both assured us that the $200B was distributed across US MIC recipients.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (rgGn5)
What a joke this website has become.
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM (Ys9Hz)
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This is what Russian shock and awe does to you.
The military-political leadership in Ukraine did not even have time to declare war.
They were FROZEN.
Troops were instantly demoralized.
Kiev was basically defeated in SHORTLY OVER AN HOUR.
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (GdFaB)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (ndZc7)
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Nope, nothing to do with that. The Feds require "oxygenated" gasoline. California has queer notions about what gasoline should be like as well. Boutique blends.
The Oxygenate of choice was formerly MTBE, but this was found to contaminate ground water. Nasty stuff.
Ethanol was the approved replacement.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (3cYpk)
Does anyone actually believe this?
Ukraine is one of the poorest country's in Europe. Surely, this is someone else's mastery on display.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (QvNk9)
So why did we send them $200 billion to fight a war we do not really care about?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:33 PM (viF8m)
Multiple reasons, some of which you might even agree with. One big one, same reason we opposed the invasion of Kuwait: we don't want the precedent that aggression is rewarded.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
instead? they've hung in there
It might well have worked it the Russians' attempt at a coup de main on Keev would have worked at the start.
Alas for them, little Russia let them down.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:34 PM (GdFaB)
Ah, that explains why the war was over so fast.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (0U5gm)
Makes sense. Russia could have ordered a general mobilization - which could easily zergrush Ukraine - but Tsar Putin chose not to do this. He just sent criminals, Islamic scum from the Caucasus, and North Koreans.
Drop a few old issues of Juggs on 'em and they're out of the fight.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (88C+u)
Bernie: the oligarchs will raise pirate crews and take over the seas. Ahhhh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (EZWVc)
There was also the minor issue of the Donbas voting to leave Ukraine because it was culturally aligned with Russia.
How did the peaceful government of Ukraine respond to that? Didn't get a lot of western media coverage. Unexpectedly.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM
Is this a proper flounce? The form seems off.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (4NO2D)
They likely would've had they not been fighting NATO the whole time.
Posted by: JackStraw
Not really Jack. Putin is not our friend, Ukraine ain't our friend either. Nor is the UK, France, Germany, and many other putative allies.
Despite the Deep State punkin Putin on Ukraine via the color revolution. Putin was pulling the same shit in Georgia prior to that with even GWB putting American planes on the ground there to prevent his sniveling and cowardly Abkhazian based invasion on hold.
Fuck Putin, Fuck Zelinsky, the common people of both nations deserve far better than those assholes and their regimes. And Fuck the IC and its ridiculous meddling as it causes more problems for common people in the long run than it solves.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)
Then we overthrew Ukraine and installed the Nazi Z-Bag. Which was a practice run for J6.
We--NATO, State, CIA, BabyLondon--started this war, not Putin.
Europe, especially London, are all trying to start WW III and drag us into it, not Russia. They need to keep the Money Laundering, Bio-Labs, Weapons Trafficking, Sex Trafficking and Child Trafficking going for their Endless War.
Zelesky sells his own people as Cannon Fodder. And everything out of the CIA is pure fucking horseshit.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 28, 2026 03:38 PM (cu1Xa)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
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Actual tweet from Pepe Escobar on February 24 2022.
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:38 PM (GdFaB)
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And he is right to do so. The Europeans are supporting attacks against civilians in his territory and one way or another, as the leader of his country, he has an obligation to deter them.
We should have nuked Kabul and Kandahar after 9/11 for exactly the same reason.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:39 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: JackStraw
I can't recall seeing a lot of mainstream media showing the videos of Ukranian units shelling towns in the eastern provinces. They were doing it for years.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 03:39 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: JackStraw
To launder $200 billion. They think their Big Reset is coming.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 03:39 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: Pepe Escobar at August 28, 2026 03:38 PM (GdFaB)
ah
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:40 PM (xcxpd)
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A distinction without a difference for what's under discussion.
They feed the remainder to hogs and cattle. This product even has a name. "Distillers Dried Grains" or DDGs. It might be a different strain, but guess what? The fucking cattle don't give a shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:40 PM (3cYpk)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Which is a funny comparison because:
George H. W. more or less told Saddam Kuwait was none of the US's concern beforehand, just like Sleep Joe said a little invasion of Ukraine would be no big deal beforehand. Why, it's almost like we wanted both of these conflicts to ripen.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (cpb9t)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (hbfWH)
Ukraine is one of the poorest country's in Europe. Surely, this is someone else's mastery on display.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket
They have some really bright guys there just as the Russians do. And the fact that drones at the tactical level are pretty simple helped. What is clear though that while pilots on both airforces are pretty much grounded due to anti air to air missiles, robo guided ordnance has become king.
200 billion buys a lot of tooling, factories, and revenge for the Ukrainians.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (E4rtv)
True in AD 750 maybe but things have changed. I follow some linguistic channels on Youtube. They report that Ukraine came under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth where the prestige language was Polish. So they have a lot of Polish loanwords.
Russia came under the Mongols, and then Peter the Great moved to Leningrad. Prestige language here was French. Some German. These loanwords did not come to Ukraine.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (88C+u)
Do you remember how much smoke the U.S. could create on the battlefield in WWII? Surely smoke capabilities are even much better now?
For that Ukraine counter-offensive, if I was a soldier, I would want a sh*t ton of smoke until I got into a favorable position.
Likewise, when I see a drone chasing soldiers in the open, would popping off a big smoke canister protect the soldiers from a direct hit from an FPV drone grenade?
(Questions from a non-military Moron.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (HlyYF)
I don't agree with any war that was largely started by corrupt US politicians and our garbage intel community.
We knew for years that a further eastward expansion of NATO toward Russia was going to result in war. Not only did Putin clearly state it, he gave us a test run in Georgia.
The myths that people have been sold about what led to this war are largely just that, myths. This was a war we helped fuel so some jackoffs in foggy bottom could play their game of global Risk. And now tens and likely hundreds of thousands are dead, billions of our tax dollars have been lit on fire and nobody wins. Super.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Which is a funny comparison because:
George H. W. more or less told Saddam Kuwait was none of the US's concern beforehand, just like Sleep Joe said a little invasion of Ukraine would be no big deal beforehand. Why, it's almost like we wanted both of these conflicts to ripen.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (cpb9t)
Korean war started the same way. The US Government could fuck up a wet dream. And then soldiers, sailors and Marines have to pay the price. And don't get me started on gas prices as well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (hPgrk)
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This guy gets it.
I've never been able to figure out how most countries have wonderful people. And absolutely wretched, vile leaders on a consistent basis.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (3cYpk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)
But hey, we crippled the Russian military and got to preview drone warfare.
Eh, I mostly agree with you. But there are layers and there are reasons to keep Russia from stomping its neighbors. Not saying the Ukes are saints tho.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:35 PM (okun6)
Right, Russia did not "start a war," they escalated one.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket
Well, that is whether April Glaspie, ambassador to Iraq understood that Saddam aimed at taking the Kuwaitis out. At the time, GHWB was preoccupied with the dying Soviet Union. You can dig up her wiki page which is ambiguous depending on which source you believe on transcription.
One has, "But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 1960s. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi (Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the Arab League) or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly." Continued,
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (E4rtv)
True in AD 750 maybe but things have changed. I follow some linguistic channels on Youtube. They report that Ukraine came under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth where the prestige language was Polish. So they have a lot of Polish loanwords.
Russia came under the Mongols, and then Peter the Great moved to Leningrad. Prestige language here was French. Some German. These loanwords did not come to Ukraine.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 03:41 PM (88C+u)
The PLC was partitioned. The language and religion remained far closer to Russia.
At any rate, the conflict is something closer to the same military fighting itself than Russia fighting a different power.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:44 PM (hPgrk)
"One version of the transcript has Glaspie saying:
We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship — not confrontation — regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders?
Later the transcript has Glaspie saying:[citation needed]
We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.
April Glaspie meets Saddam Hussein in 1990 (Sadoun al-Zubaydi center)
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Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 28, 2026 03:45 PM (/WHpM)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (3cYpk)
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Absolute Power Attracts Absolute Psychopaths.
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (9c4Eu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 03:46 PM (hPgrk)
Because once people like Victoria Nuland get in power they start to believe their own bullshit and think they alone should decide how to reorder the world. It's not a uniquely American situation but we sure do have our share.
I mean the same people tried to run a coup against our own president and then rigged an election to keep out of office, tried to throw him in prison and then best case looked the other way when nut bags they likely radicalized tried to murder him. Our president. Does anyone really think they give a shit about wars in far away places when they know the media will turn it into a teevee special?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Unless one is Ukrainian, what we say as outsiders has scarce relevance to facts on the ground. It is what they believe to be true and nations are often founded by being forged in blood. Claim to Austrians that they are really Germans sometime. Or Swiss.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM
Is this a proper flounce? The form seems off.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (4NO2D)
A joke like funny? Funny like a clown? Do we make you laugh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Possibly. Probably a whole agenda to discuss. But like the idiotic mullahs in IRGC, they always get a say in what happens.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 03:42 PM (3cYpk)
Governments are populated by people who want power over other people.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 03:52 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Braenyard
He was stupid, by his actions in Syria, he pissed off the Israelis and forced them to at least have some relations on the down low on strategic matters with the Ukrainians. Same with his embrace with Iran that is now biting him in the ass.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: kat von wisc at August 28, 2026 03:24 PM
Is this a proper flounce? The form seems off.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 03:37 PM (4NO2D)
A joke like funny? Funny like a clown? Do we make you laugh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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The proper flounce is similar to metaphorical defenestration. Except for comedic purposes.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 03:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw
To launder $200 billion. They think their Big Reset is coming.
Posted by: t-bird
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Don't forget 10% to the Big Guy.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 04:01 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: jt at August 28, 2026 04:17 PM (wXX2g)
Most "transgenders" who truly believe their status are suffering from a severe lack of testosterone and are more susceptible to that lack. Most "transgenders" are cosplaying a trend for attention. The entire female born "transgender" society is made up of low self-esteem females (primarily plain and unattractive) looking for an alternative that forgives their appearance, and plays into feminist propaganda that we live in a purely patriarchal society.
The remaing .0005% are just still confused by the childhood song, "I'm a little Teapot."
File it.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 04:37 PM (dIske)
Would we say the Irish are Nazis?
I mean, this is all silly nonsense.
Posted by: ace at August 28, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)
Sorry, Ace, the Republic of Ireland declared official neutrality in WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Irish_neutrality_during_World_War_II
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (/MsWN)
Surely not. When was it called St. Petersburg, before or after Peter the Great moved there? Oh, and when did they start calling him the Great?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 04:59 PM (/MsWN)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 04:53 PM (/MsWN)
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And the Republic of Ireland sent official condolences to the Third Reich on the death of Adolf Hitler.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2026 05:18 PM (+HNMe)
You might want to reinterpret this. On 22 July, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice reported 259,853 registered deaths in the first six months of 2026. Only about 40,000 of those deaths were females, about normal in a second world country with a population around 20 million. Do the math: about 180,000 male deaths were due to Russian military action, or about 25% of the UFA combat effectives. And this does not include the massive number of unrecovered MIA bodies being ground up by artillery strikes.
If the Russians are losing, God help the Ukrainians if they ever start to win.
The poor bastard in the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice who reported this data without filtering it is probably now leading an assault team in the Kramatorsk theater, if he is indeed still alive.
Posted by: 10x25mm at August 28, 2026 05:19 PM (/obgY)
Rubio Suspends All H-1B Visa Processing
Rubio tried to ban visas for citizens of countries who tend to abuse our welfare system.
A Biden judge named Jeanette Vargas, get this, blocked this necessary measure.
federal judge in New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration deemed likely to require public assistance in the United States. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, set aside the policy Friday as "contrary to law and in excess of statutory authority." Secretary of State Marco Rubio exceeded his authority by issuing the policy, which "runs afoul" of the Immigration and Nationality Act by mandating "the refusal of visas to eligible applicants without any basis in law," the judge ruled.
Judge says power lies with consular officers Vargas said the policy also undermines the congressional requirement that puts consular officers at the forefront of any visa decision.
So the Trump Administration goes to Plan B: Stop all immigrant visas while they teach consular staff to vet the living hell out of applicants.
The Trump administration has paused immigrant visa appointments worldwide to carry out "in-depth training" for consular officers to screen out foreign applicants at risk of taking advantage of U.S. public assistance. ... "A more prosperous American means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need," a State Department spokesperson told The Hill in an email Wednesday. The spokesperson said that a global, in-depth training initiative was launched in early August at all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide and that "appointments for visa and services will be adjusted." "Whenever there are changes to visa interview appointments, embassies and consulates communicate any changes directly to visa applicants," the spokesperson said. The pause on visa applications coincides with Trump's hard-line tack on immigration, where the administration has boasted about revoking more than 175,000 visas from individuals it said had violated the terms by committing criminal offenses, but that largely relied on encounters with law enforcement. The administration announced on Monday it was working to revoke short-term visas from individuals who used them to enter the U.S. and then file asylum claims, with some reports claiming the administration has a goal of canceling 200,000 visas. The administration has also prioritized revoking visas and permanent residency, or green cards, from people who it deems are a threat to U.S. national security, but advocates say officials are targeting people over protected free speech like political opinions and attending pro-Palestinian protests.
Palmer Luckey on H-1B visas:
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 26, 2026
"You would not believe what I saw in Silicon Valley. The H-1B abuse is insane. It is obviously a scam to replace US workers with, basically, slave labor that can’t ever escape." pic.twitter.com/SU8xZAoLuD
It used to…. not anymore. https://t.co/pOYJArjDbF pic.twitter.com/GCuSv0iwV0
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 28, 2026
He's Congolese now. Perhaps the most Congolese man alive. https://t.co/wsBZPiv6Um
— Wade Stotts (@wadestotts) August 26, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (NcvvS)
Trump has imported all of India. Kamala would have done it better.
Nick Fuentes told me so.
Besides, Trump's deportation effort is too non-existent and way too mean at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (6LG2q)
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"Trump is using tools that have been legal parts of the executive toolkit for decades. He's so lawless!"
-the CATO Institute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Dr. T at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (KKJEY)
Huh. Guess he should have left for Cuba when he had the chance.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (dpAEq)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (2Cry5)
Huh. Guess he should have left for Cuba when he had the chance.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t)
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Usually this happens when the host country refuses the deportee. Most of the time because they're violent criminals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (/PKja)
The Hamilton cops respond:
Hamilton Police are aware the Dominion Club of Canada continues to seek an alternate Hamilton venue for its DomCon conference on Aug 29. Anyone with information about a recent venue booking in #HamOnt is asked to contact police at 905-546-4707. Read More:
Our future Antifa police force is a reality today in Hamilton.
Posted by: Michael Moore! at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (P9Ea3)
Pause, hell! SHUT IT DOWN FOR GOOD!
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (Jr5Lq)
-the CATO Institute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (/PKja)
Biden admitted 5M illegals. If Trump were a REAL conservative, he'd ensure that he admitted 5M illegals. He's an out of control communist who wants to take food out of the mouths of starving dreamers for his billionaire friends who almost entirely support his opponents. -- CATO after a couple more bong hits
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (j9ddv)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (PGK1w)
Pause, hell! SHUT IT DOWN FOR GOOD!
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Requires an act of Congress.
Gonna get Tillis, Murkowski, Mitch, Cassidy, and Cornyn to vote for it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (/OKHJ)
The H1B visa was always a scam to replace Americans with more compliant foreigners willing to work for a fraction of the pay. Always.
And for rich guys to import foreign THOTs and whores.
It's long past the time to shut the whole racket down. But better late than never.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
I want to address something from the last thread though, as an answer:
Why haven't the wastelands of the West been turned into data center farms, with on-site nuclear power and solar for backup?
Data centers need two things and really want a third
1) Power, which a local nuke would definitely help with
2) Water, to cool the processors until they figure out a way to make them work without generating self-melting temperatures
Neither of those are available in the middle of the Nevada desert. Building your own power plant definitely would help but they take years and billions so its not exactly practical.
3) Being near civilization. Its not that they have to be, you can transmit the data and commands etc back and forth but the closer the safer and higher quality of transmission. Its just better that way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (CYBB0)
On the mal-advice of their lawyer, they think they are being cute and can avoid deportation by claiming they have a credible threat of bodily harm if they return to their home country.
Surprisingly, the law had anticipated this and give them the option to name a country to which they would be willing to be deported to.
On further mal-advice of his lawyer, he doubled-down on his gamesmanship, and thought naming a far-off country would forestall the deportation.
So, to be clear--he chose the Congo.
Not the US.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
Judge says power lies with consular officers
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (PGK1w)
Of course not. Rubio is doing all of this with neither Trump's approval or direction. Frankly, we'd be better off with Nikki Haley who was great during her time in the first Trump Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
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Are not some of them pretty much saying this now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Piper
That's, like, hard and shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (VJ0w/)
Judge says power lies with consular officers
It's **just** amazing how many members of the Executive Branch don't have to follow the dictates of the Executive Branch.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx)
Just going back to Earl Warren, once they realized they were untouchable, they just kept stepping over lines.
When's the last time a federal judge was impeached?
A total of 8 judges in US history have been removed from office.
Huge flaw in our Constitution.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (XKqRR)
Judge Vargas: "You can't do that."
State Department: "OK. Looks like we need to shut down visa processing in EVERY country so that we can train our consular officers best practices in vetting applicants to the United States. Could take months. Maybe years."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (FZ29D)
Complete with a picture of the tyke in a Texas Longhorns shirt.
What did he leave out?
Oh yeah, that his dad was here illegally and his dad CHOSE to take him back to Mexico with him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (3cUTc)
Ringy ringy ringy dingy dingy dingy
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (oCS0o)
"You would not believe what I saw in Silicon Valley. The H-1B abuse is insane. It is obviously a scam to replace US workers with, basically, slave labor that can’t ever escape.""
Do you know who the first politician was that I heard make this very argument, back in 2014-15 or so?
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, from the floor of the Senate.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (0CU3H)
They call them canadian geese, we need a tariff on goose shit exports.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (SK+av)
Uh, yeah? Guess who encounters the people breakng the law on a daily basis: LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Associate Professor in the Obvious Department at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (Wt5PA)
Yeah Indians, at least the caste that H1B seems to consist of, are utterly, unshakably convinced that they are completely superior in every possible way to all others, particularly Americans and English. They cannot even begin to conceive that this might be questionable.
They post constantly about how they built America and America would be doomed without them, and how stupid Americans are and (this is the oddest one, but repeated a lot) wipe their rear ends with paper instead of washing with water.
Given what India looks like and how they crap in the street, I'm puzzled by this particular point but here you are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (K32Fz)
They call them canadian geese, we need a tariff on goose shit exports.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (SK+av)
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Canada Geese have been renamed Donald Ducks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (/PKja)
H-1Bs allow the United States to import all of the world's super-geniuses.
It is purely coincidence that 80% of the world's super-geniuses are Indian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
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That could take just forever if they do it right.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (vSvIl)
Ehhh, fuck, singh me a song
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (NtVYv)
His first day of school will be in Mexico. So what?
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (EZWVc)
H-1Bs allow the United States to import all of the world's super-geniuses.
It is purely coincidence that 80% of the world's super-geniuses are Indian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
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I think it's great that Indians think that they're the best, smartest, greatest people on earth.
I just don't know why they feel like they have to come here to make money. Something wrong with the country full of Indians?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:25 PM (PGK1w)
Of course not. Rubio is doing all of this with neither Trump's approval or direction. Frankly, we'd be better off with Nikki Haley who was great during her time in the first Trump Administration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)
No. She wasn't. She was pretty garbage.
Rubio isn't though. Rubio's tearing this up like we all hoped it would get torn up.
You know his heart's not really in it, though. He DESPERATELY wants amnesty, but that meany Trump won't let him. As soon as Trump's gone, though, we're going to get Rubio from 15 years ago instead of Rubio from literally this week.
It is known.
I can't imagine being treated like I haven't learned anything over the past decade and a half.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (PGK1w)
Yeah I keep asking these people: do you want to separate children from their families or not? Pick a side here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (K32Fz)
His first day of school will be in Mexico. So what?
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (MWfyi)
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"Mexico is a shithole that deserves no human life. Also, we must import Mexico."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:31 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 01:31 PM (FcAaq)
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They've always maintained this. Illegals are "shoring up Social Security", because they pay in yet don't receive benefits. They really believe there is a net economic benefit to Americans. Or that's what they claim. Not that many are really that stupid. It's the same ole same ole, professing to not understand something to make rational discourse impossible.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:31 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (CWTWj)
Yeah that is my take as well. People are real big on Rubio, because he takes orders really well but his true nature is not the same and he has no leadership skills on his own. Vance has been saying some really odd stuff lately but I still like him better than Rubio as president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (K32Fz)
It's to avoid the costs associated with having the employee here. Health insurance in India is far cheaper than here. For example.
Plus, termination is way easier. Is the guy in India going to fly back to the US to fight his ouster? Probably not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (2Cry5)
It is purely coincidence that 80% of the world's super-geniuses are Indian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (aD4fx)
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And yet their country is a shit hole.
You'd think a bunch of super-geniuses would be able to solve that problem...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: steevy at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)
Yeah they really think that. Odd how they can only be a useful super-genius in the USA and India continue to be a literal shit hole
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)
It's amazing how the civil rights employment laws don't apply when a Silicon Valley tech firm decides to employ 80% Indians.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (JunZe)
I think the agreement includes from cash or aid for each deportee accepted. It's well worth the money for us to get rid of these degenerate parasites.
I assume foreign criminals and scumbags don't last long in Congolese jungles or Liberian death camps. So sad.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (iFTx/)
Rubio was bad on immigration. Really fucking bad on immigration. For years. He suddenly became not bad on immigration when it stopped being his decision.
Would he go back to being bad on immigration? I have no idea. But neither do you. At the very least, he should be required to answer when and why he flipped from very bad to good on the subject before we all line up to give him a tongue bath on the subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah that is my take as well. People are real big on Rubio, because he takes orders really well but his true nature is not the same and he has no leadership skills on his own. Vance has been saying some really odd stuff lately but I still like him better than Rubio as president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (K32Fz)
I guess I needed the /s on that one...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (PGK1w)
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Canada Geese have been renamed Donald Ducks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August
100% better than lake America! Let’s do this. And ignore community notes on different species issues.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (CWTWj)
Cuba doesn't accept deportees back from the US.
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (oCS0o)
It's amazing how the civil rights employment laws don't apply when a Silicon Valley tech firm decides to employ 80% Indians.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (aD4fx)
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People are tribal. Just a question of which tribe.
Indians are pretty overt about their tribes. They have a whole caste system about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (CWTWj)
Indians are pretty overt about their tribes. They have a whole caste system about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (/PKja)
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Yup. And the further removed you are from a first-world nation, the more tribal you become.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)
It's because almost all the Indians in the United States are upper-caste. It's those filthy low-caste Indians that make India India in their view.
California briefly considered including caste discrimination in its definition of racial discrimination.
That got shut down real quick.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (aD4fx)
It has been my observation having worked in half dozen offices, that the only group that doesn't obsessively and deliberately hire their own kind are white men. Women hire women. Hispanics hire hispanics. Blacks hire blacks. White guys hire anyone if they can do the job (or are at least hot).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (K32Fz)
More lawless action ignoring the will of Congress in order to stop legal immigration. Hopefully a wake up call for all the people saying "do it the right way". Americans are now stuck without their loved ones for an indeterminate period of time solely because of fear, bigotry and a lack of imagination.
Our K1 application only worked as an immigrant visa. Our interviews were cancelled 3 days before, and we had to refund hotel tickets and stop all our travel plans before we lost everything. We are devastated.
This pause seems suspiciously timed with the judge throwing out the 75 country ban/pause. So they are just going to put everyone in procedural hell. Time for the courts to step in and smack Trump. Again.
As much as I despise Trump and MAGA, I'm down with severely limited H1B's. I've worked in tech for ~30 years. No H1B my teams have worked with where any better than an American. H1Bs wouldn't follow processes and procedures. Explaining complicated SOX compliance to an Indian pretending to not understand English..
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (FKi1y)
Burned some temporary housing, kind of like how the Belfast boys burned some housing of migrants up in Northern Ireland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (/PKja)
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I.e. executive power isolated from the President/Cabinet.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)
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Lots of brackish water aquifers in the US.
Modular nuclear reactor will have plenty of power for desalination.
Hell, they may have enough spare power to fully evaporate it and sell the "Ancient Laramidia Sea Salt"
Goofy hippies will trip over themselves to buy the crystals.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: mikeski at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (VHUov)
Would be great if we could send this Judge there to be his indentured servant.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:37 PM (geWO5)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus
We’ve had traffic cameras for decades. We’ve had toll highways scanning plates for decades. Even flock has been around for almost 10 years. Every house has a Ring camera Nobody cared.
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
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Bentley Boys >>> Belfast Boys
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2Ez/1)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
https://archive.is/AfMye#selection-3905.0-3933.0
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2ap+5)
He cannot understand the rules for work and must a judge be control.
Posted by: You can call me Kevin at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
As much as I despise Trump and MAGA, I'm down with severely limited H1B's. I've worked in tech for ~30 years. No H1B my teams have worked with where any better than an American. H1Bs wouldn't follow processes and procedures. Explaining complicated SOX compliance to an Indian pretending to not understand English..
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (FKi1y)
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1. Yes. No one has a right to come here not approved by the body politic as represented by our federal government. We can put them in as much procedural hell if they want to come here as we want.
2. This is the kind of thing that breaks through cognitive dissonance. "I despise Trump, but he's making progress on one of my key issues." It won't make the guy pro-Trump, but it'll end up opening eyes about which side is actually on his side. Maybe. Probably not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (/PKja)
A total of 8 judges in US history have been removed from office.
Huge flaw in our Constitution.
It really was. And they knew better: they knew the political types would make a political class and protect their own wherever possible. The last federal judge to be impeached by congress? G. Thomas Porteous Jr. i 2010, and he was removed from office. A lot more recent than I thought, I have no memory of this happening and I was blogging at the time. Cannot remember if I covered it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (dkZoh)
Yes, that's what the law says.
But California and other states just help them by not checking the box or don't care.
Because they indeed get food stamps etc.
Posted by: Harun at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (IuIym)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
https://archive.is/AfMye#selection-3905.0-3933.0
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (2ap+5)
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That doesn't sound good. Is anyone taking bets that KSM will be released with a slap on the wrist and a huge cash settlement for the inconvenience?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (FZ29D)
In 10 years tech will be like construction, no white men need apply.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (dkZoh)
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Trump increased Congo's diversity.
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (/PKja)
Burned some temporary housing, kind of like how the Belfast boys burned some housing of migrants up in Northern Ireland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:36 PM (/PKja)
The Spanish riot police are firing rubber bullets at the Spanish rioters, not the invaders.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
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People respond to these sob stories with two memes:
Pic of adults and children:
"Big or small, deport them all."
And:
"look, picture of child crying--we must destroy democracy."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (3cUTc)
It's in the unwritten part of the Constitution that consular officers don't have to accept direction from the President and Secretary of State.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (aD4fx)
Yes, that's what the law says.
But California and other states just help them by not checking the box or don't care.
Because they indeed get food stamps etc.
Posted by: Harun at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (IuIym)
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It's state law in California that illegal immigrants are eligible for Medicaid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Dr. T
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What's the the alternative for settling whether or not an executive action or legislation is constitutional?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
Which was predicted at the start of all this.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)
As much as I despise Trump and MAGA, I'm down with severely limited H1B's. I've worked in tech for ~30 years. No H1B my teams have worked with where any better than an American. H1Bs wouldn't follow processes and procedures. Explaining complicated SOX compliance to an Indian pretending to not understand English..
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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"Everybody is conservative about what they know best"
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (4HoLg)
Most? Self goal retort retard.
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (5yDGQ)
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Has to be done through an act of congress since the visa class was created by Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (/PKja)
1. I don't think chipmunk cheeks there is Cuban. I'd guess Guatamalan.
2. No criminal record? Rather than take his word for it, I'll just point out entering a country without authorization, legal permission or documentation is illegal.
3. I'm aghast at the denigration and raw disapproval he is displaying towards The Congo. BIGOT!!!!
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (dIske)
Me: Name please:
VISA applicant: Abdul Mohammad Mohammad
Me: NEXT!
Posted by: fd
You need a button and trap door.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (VJ0w/)
that's for sure the case in fintech
for now anyway
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM (j+aD2)
I did consider the whole desert thing, but my counter-argument is that smaller nuclear reactors are exploding (heh heh) in popularity and affordability; and that my understanding is that once the data center gets up and running, they don't need that much water.
But no one seemed to even explore building them out West, which makes me think that they thought it would be more profitable to get tax breaks from populated areas rather than trying to buy government land.
Posted by: pookysgirl, fending off kittens at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Wt5PA)
It's in the unwritten part of the Constitution that consular officers don't have to accept direction from the President and Secretary of State.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (aD4fx)
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I'm guessing the same paragraph prevents both the President and Secretary of State from firing any and all consular officers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (FZ29D)
The first lady explained that they didn't want us breaking down and getting stuck or staying longer than we intended and somehow requiring Canada to help us out. I thought it was pretty wild, but I wasn't outraged.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
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Sanchez has until August of 2027 to get in as many invaders to be loyal voters as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (/PKja)
Would he go back to being bad on immigration? I have no idea. But neither do you. At the very least, he should be required to answer when and why he flipped from very bad to good on the subject before we all line up to give him a tongue bath on the subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (ExV1e)
Rubio supported the Gang of 8 for about a year and a half before opposing it after opposing it in the first place.
2010: "I will never support any effort to grant blanket amnesty."
2012: "DREAM act can never be part of an effort to grant amnesty."
January 2013, comes out in favor of a 'pathway to citizenship,' aka Amnesty, saying the only way to get it was to leave and come back legally.
October 2013: Obama ruined any possibility of immigration reform so we're back to business as usual.
And we see him today.
A politician doing the right thing (smashing our shit immigration policies) for the wrong reason (to say in or get more political power) is still him doing the right thing.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (PGK1w)
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Way past time to dispense with that bit of nonsense. Too bad so sad. Drop them off on the beach. Fuck these people with a rusty chainsaw.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (PGK1w)
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He's doing well in office now.
I just don't know what he would do when he's the boss.
If forced to pick between Vance and Rubio on immigration alone, I'd choose Vance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (/PKja)
Yeah that is my take as well. People are real big on Rubio, because he takes orders really well but his true nature is not the same and he has no leadership skills on his own. Vance has been saying some really odd stuff lately but I still like him better than Rubio as president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:32 PM (K32Fz)
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Is it possible that Rubio has seen the light and grown up? Perhaps he has learned a thing or two in the last 15 years and realizes that leftism light is just diluted poison and has sworn it off like a bad habit . . . .
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (JNTt1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, fending off kittens at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (Wt5PA)
It is straight up state law in Oregon that nuclear power plants are illegal to build.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (rbvCR)
"I want to remove one tiny brick from that building."
"No, you can't do that. I forbid it."
(Puts on hardhat, waves in gigantic wrecking-ball crane.) "OK boys, knock down the whole thing!"
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (Av6i5)
In 10 years tech will be like construction, no white men need apply.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (iCp4l)
There is a difference though between tech and construction.
Posted by: Your soon-to-be AI Overlords at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (JNTt1)
Usually this happens when the host country refuses the deportee. Most of the time because they're violent criminals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It's also happened when the deportee screams that they'll be killed or oppressed if they're sent back to their country.
"Fine. Try Liberia."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
>I hadn't heard that one. That's pretty amusing.
Canadians are asshoe. When the seasons are right we could have the ducks fly back there like drones sorties and drop poutine contaminated with cyclospora and hit them with waves of explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (SK+av)
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
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And, as I understand the city folk, the Congolese ought to be thrilled they can get cubano sandwiches at 2am, right?
That's like a defining factor of civilization and sophistication--ethnic foods in the wee hours of the morning.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (3cUTc)
ICE has deported a Cuban immigrant to the Congo.
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At least he's no longer in the hellhole that is the United States.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Dr. T
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For states, it is necessary for federal law in its particular areas to override the states and Gibbons v Ogden is actually pretty savvy in allowing both federal and state regulation to coexist on commerce.
For overturning other federal laws, it is notable that Scotus did not overturn another federal law until Dred Scott.
And you can blame Congress and the presidents in part. In many cases, judicial review is built into the statutes themselves such as the APA or criminal law. Neither Congress nor the executive have shown themselves to be willing to be limited by the Bill of Rights much either.
The problem is NOT judicial review so much as our judges are unaccountable to the ultimate sovereign, the people of the US and when they rule on policy matters, they usurp the role of popularly elected officials that are. Especially on spurious grounds like Resistance judges use.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (JunZe)
That's like a defining factor of civilization and sophistication--ethnic foods in the wee hours of the morning.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (3cUTc)
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The point of diversity is the food, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:46 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (JM9I6)
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I wondered about that. Figured it could be counted on one hand. So, two hands anyhow.
It should be routine, and not cause for comment or concern. 8 a year sounds about right. At least until they get their head out of their ass. Congress has been derelict in their duties by appointing wholly unsuitable individuals.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Bonecrusher
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Political ambition is a curious thing. Alexander Hamilton is one example.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (q177U)
Complete with a picture of the tyke in a Texas Longhorns shirt.
What did he leave out?
Oh yeah, that his dad was here illegally and his dad CHOSE to take him back to Mexico with him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (3cUTc)
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The "longhorns" shirt isn't the flex this creep thinks it is. Whenever you see an illegal with a shirt or other clothing that seems out of character, it's because the shirt was given to the illegal. Taxpayers paid for it.
The kid isn't a fan of the LH. He's a fan of handouts paid for by us.
Same when you see an illegal in a heavy metal concert shirt. It's not that Manuel is a big fan of Slayer or Maiden. Manuel is a fan of free shit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)
vs.
Americans aren't eligible for most public assistance.
One of these statements is true, one is false.
The left thinks the first is true.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:48 PM (3cUTc)
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Nobel Peace Prize material. I've been assured immigrants are what made America the great nation it is, and Trump is voluntarily sacrificing that advantage to enrich the Third World. He's a true humanitarian.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 01:45 PM (JNTt1)
No. That's how you climb the R ranks. Fooling people into thinking you are fighting for them.
Nikki Haley was a good soldier in 2018. Hell so was Pence.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (g47mK)
I just don't know what he would do when he's the boss.
If forced to pick between Vance and Rubio on immigration alone, I'd choose Vance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:44 PM (/PKja)
Trump was a New York City Democrat. I didn't vote for him in 2016 because I KNEW he was just another big city leftist saying whatever he needed to say to get the Big Chair.
And now look at him.
More fool, I. And the Trump Experiences has forced me to consider that Rubio isn't who he was back when I was 14.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (ZdaMQ)
Ahhh.... the "staff training day" gambit.
Well done Marco, well done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Is this a thing? I think I get it. "Okay, now that we see your requirements, it is of dire importance that we pause everything and go back and train 100% of our personnel on it and make sure we do it right, so it could take months before we can get back to work per your guidance."
Is that it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mmrXZ)
The Left is used to always winning by bluffing, because every other pseudo-conservative for the past 45 years has always folded.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (Av6i5)
ha!
and I was already having a good Friday!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
Its like people trust the media until they get to a story that the person is an expert about: the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
my understanding is that once the data center gets up and running, they don't need that much water.
One of the reasons Nevada looks like that is that it has virtually NO water.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
Oh boy….
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 01:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:51 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
I think he's already grown in office. In a good way.
And if he's a pure political animal, he's also hearing how we talk about him now vice how we talked about him before and would like to maintain that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (4JFrI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (K32Fz)
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I kinda hope someone builds a data center in Perfection, Nevada (fictional town from the movie Tremors, population 14).
Of course, there are "graboids" in the area...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (FZ29D)
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They are in in on it. Assistant democrats. They'll bitch and moan about something for the TV, but never fight, or re-visit. Ratchet only turns one way.
"We Shall Never Speak Of This Again" is hard-wired into their political DNA.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (6LG2q)
Its possible, but it would take a great deal of convincing to prove that to me. And you still have the problem of him not being a leader. A good bureaucrat, a good manager, but not a leader.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)
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Way past time to dispense with that bit of nonsense. Too bad so sad. Drop them off on the beach. Fuck these people with a rusty chainsaw.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (6LG2q)
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That there video is likely a nice dose of poetic justice. That guy is claiming to be Cuban. I don't think he is. But, before Trump started setting up deals with other countries to take in deportees, NGO's advised illegals being processed to claim to be from Cuba, since that country doesn't accept returnees. I think the guy is Guatamalan based on his complexion and language "ticks". So, it's entirely possible he screwed himself over by taking NGO advice.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (dIske)
🔴 More than 200 mine-like objects have been swept from the main lane of the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports, citing US officials
🔴 The officials say only 11 of them were actual mines and just a few were properly deployed
🔴 US officials believe shifting conditions in the strait give the Trump administration a stronger hand in any future negotiations with Iran
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Remember the hoopla about Iran mining the whole strait? Turns out it was bullshit, that third-world low on the totem poll guys who weren't wiped out in the first wave of bombing didn't even know how to deploy mines, and they mostly just threw trash into the water saying they were mines while people unironically and unquestionably believed it.
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 28, 2026 01:39 PM (dkZoh)
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Trump increased Congo's diversity.
Trump should be celebrated for creating more diversity in third-world countries that really need it to flourish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (/PKja)
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Isn't it time for Congo to embrace ex-pat troons? Maybe get a WNBA Franchise?
The "Mbuji-Mayi Ahi" has a nice ring to it ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (sEtpl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
It was reported that his visa had expired. Guess showing up at an airport did him in.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
Most people are UPSET if they require a cavity search. He was flagged when he demanded one.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (FKi1y)
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Yeah, he is.
Last I heard, the DOJ was appealing the dismissal of the trafficking charges.
I've not heard anything further on the deportation, though.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:40 PM (iCp4l)
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A pretty big overstatement. I have an IT job that I've had for 15 years. I work with Indians/Pakistanis, Arabs and other MEs and white men.
(We can't hold on to girl coders though. They either quit or transition to project management.)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)
"I mean, TECHNICALLY yes but not in practice, could you imagine us taking any sort of direction or orders from the President of all people? I mean really"
--State Department
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)
This is my biggest concern about him. He is a soldier, and willing to fight, but not the absolute killer that Trump is.
Of course... nobody is or will ever be Trump, so how much should I hold that against Rubio?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (PGK1w)
Of course, there are "graboids" in the area...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:52 PM (FZ29D)
Love that movie.. Burt Gummer is my hero
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (PGK1w)
Where was this RUBIO, and what's happening to South America I think is Rubio's doing. I really think he saw the the Dems a capable of doing to this Country.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (mBinc)
2. This is the kind of thing that breaks through cognitive dissonance. "I despise Trump, but he's making progress on one of my key issues." It won't make the guy pro-Trump, but it'll end up opening eyes about which side is actually on his side. Maybe. Probably not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:38 PM (/PKja)
Good points. Also, the original Reddit poster wasn't wrong, that's a pretty standard political move by Trump. If the other side keeps blocking the things you want, then make everything hell for everyone and shut it all down and see if they like that, or if they want to talk about some more reasonable accommodations.
Shutting down all Visas is a pretty big move which is going to get a lot of attention from people who weren't really paying attention.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 28, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)
I think he's doing a fine job as SoS. It's entirely possible that he'd be a fine President. If and when he announces his intent to run for that office, I will listen to what he has to say and weigh his history. I'm just not prepared to anoint him on the basis of his work as SoS.
For the record, I'd also want to hear the policy proposals from anyone else running as opposed to what they've done while working the The Donald.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Black Orchid
2028.
Staring down at the ballot in front of you.
Rubio -- or some communist dingbat like AOC.
Seriously, what is there even to talk about? Even Worst-Case-Scenario Rubio is 100,0000,000x better than any alternative they might put up.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:51 PM (geWO5)
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The Trump administration is keeping him here because they keep working to get the criminal charges against him through court. His deportation order is final, and there's no legal question about it anymore (there seems to be an open question about which country he'll go to which is unresolved, mostly because USCIS won't reveal it until they're deporting him).
The point of Maryland Man is to make an example of him...on both sides.
Plus, no one actually cares about him anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
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Visa is not always where you want to be.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Fi81e)
Chop the H-1B program off at its ankles. Make Vivek cry.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (trSL4)
Does any other nation have a -lese suffix for their people? Other than the Congo?
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo
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Senegalese off the top of my head. Sinhalese (an ethnicity, not a nationality, but).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:55 PM (mmrXZ)
If Marco is doing things which benefit the nation and US citizens I say more power to him. If not eff him. Right now on immigration he's kicking ass and taking no prisoners. Good on him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 01:56 PM (EZWVc)
The latest claim is that he offered to go to Costa Rica and they are fighting to send him wherever they choose and not a non-extradition country with porous borders and massive corruption.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:56 PM (K32Fz)
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Way past time to dispense with that bit of nonsense. Too bad so sad. Drop them off on the beach. Fuck these people with a rusty chainsaw.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 01:43 PM (6LG2q)
Congo is probably a safer place to go than Cuba right now, even if they do end up on the menu.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung
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As to who most closely approaches Trump between Rubio and Vance, I'd take DeSantis.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (XvL8K)
If Marco is doing things which benefit the nation and US citizens I say more power to him. If not eff him. Right now on immigration he's kicking ass and taking no prisoners. Good on him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 01:56 PM (EZWVc)
This.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (z9yxT)
Rubio -- or some communist dingbat like AOC.
Seriously, what is there even to talk about? Even Worst-Case-Scenario Rubio is 100,0000,000x better than any alternative they might put up.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
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Trump was a gamble. Rubio is a gamble but he might have learned from Trump. Vance, too.
But there was no contest with Clinton--or the Senator I depised the most, Biden--or Kamala--why would it?!. And as nothing can get as energized as DSA and DSA-lite candidates, it very likely won't be a contest in 28.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)
He also likes putting them in a position where they have no good choice and so they make a bad one. If they didn't keep him adversarial he would handle them differently but they would end up doing things that benefit the country and that's the last thing they want.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (g47mK)
Staring down at the ballot in front of you.
Rubio -- or some communist dingbat like AOC.
Seriously, what is there even to talk about? Even Worst-Case-Scenario Rubio is 100,0000,000x better than any alternative they might put up.
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
1. The question isn't Rubio vs. Democrat, it's Rubio vs. other Republican.
2. Rubio has stated that he will not run against Vance. If Vance runs in 28 and Rubio suddenly decides that his fingers were crossed... well, I'd hold that against him (in the primaries) like I did when DeSantis took that tack in 2024.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 28, 2026 01:42 PM (9ZFZd)
There is no country I have had a harder time entering than Canada. The PRC was easier. The PRC didn’t search me at the border. Canada has.
Once when getting extra screening I was asked what I did for a living. When Insaid I was a USAF officer, next came “What do you do for them?” “Logistics”. Next: “What is that?” So I covered all the things I could be tasked with, including plans. Which I concluded with “I can plan out the invasion of Canada on the back of an envelope.”
Some Canadian friends asked me “I bet they were pissed!” Yeah, so pissed that I got a multiple entry visa for my trouble. Shame I couldn’t use that. (Hell, I was telling her the truth…
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (jPziU)
This is my biggest concern about him. He is a soldier, and willing to fight, but not the absolute killer that Trump is.
Of course... nobody is or will ever be Trump, so how much should I hold that against Rubio?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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This (what we're commenting about) looks pretty killer to me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo
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Senegalese off the top of my head. Sinhalese (an ethnicity, not a nationality, but).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:55 PM (mmrXZ)
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Nepalese ... except native Nepalese don't like being called that. They prefer Nepali both for the nationality and the language.
And don't say they sound like an Indian accent no matter how much they do.
Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)
Burned some temporary housing, kind of like how the Belfast boys burned some housing of migrants up in Northern Ireland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
That is going to prove to be the only viable solution, as no government on that side of the Atlantic will cooperate with their own people. If democrats gain some control again, the same will have to happen here.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (0U5gm)
But there was no contest with Clinton--or the Senator I depised the most, Biden--or Kamala--why would it?!. And as nothing can get as energized as DSA and DSA-lite candidates, it very likely won't be a contest in 28.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)
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Negative partisanship will continue forever.
I think both Rubio and Vance can provide positive reasons to vote for themselves, and we're honestly probably going to get a ticket with both of them on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)
Trump was the easiest gamble in history if you listened and watched what he was saying and doing. Rubio is a mortal lock to fuck us but this is fun right now.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (JunZe)
Mid-Late 90s News:
"However, the US Forces have yet to come up against Iraq's Elite Republican Guard..."
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (Shi2G)
https://tinyurl.com/mr87t6tt
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
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Rubio and Vance are reportedly good friends in real life. They like each other.
If Rubio says he won't run against Vance, I suspect he's telling the truth.
Vance is going to walk into 2028 with Trump's and Rubio's endorsement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (0U5gm)
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Spain's next election is no later than August of next year.
Should be interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (mmrXZ)
It absolutely IS pretty killer.
It's also the Secretary of State taking an action at the direction of the President.
As best I can tell, Rubio didn't come up with this idea, he's just gleefully executing it. He gets credit for that, obviously, but the point being made about there being a question as to what Rubio will do when Rubio is the boss are fair.
I'm just someone who has answered that question to my own satisfaction on the topic of immigration.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Tom Servo
If they're so worried they'll be killed if returned to their home nation, they should be stoked the US took the time and effort to find a different, 3rd nation to take them in. Truly generous of us.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (JunZe)
I'm OK with that either way it's stacked. A couple of days ago I saw something from Ted Cruz that sounded like he was planning to run again. I (mostly) like Ted but he needs to realize that his window is closed and resolve to do the most good he can where he is.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: sidney at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)
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I think Kamala will probably go with either Crockett (black girl magic and the white man screwed her over so she don't need to appeal to no white man no more) or Mark Kelly (fine...she'll try and appeal to the white man).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (/PKja)
However, he has all the personal charisma of a used dishrag and I think that hurts him in a national election.
Now, its possible after the bombastic chaos of "Lake America" Trump, voters will want someone a bit more calm and dull and analytical by contrast, so who knows. It could work for him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:00 PM (JunZe)
It took a little digging, but he was basically saying the same things since the '80s. That's how you could tell he believed in what he was promising.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
If Rubio says he won't run against Vance, I suspect he's telling the truth.
Vance is going to walk into 2028 with Trump's and Rubio's endorsement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
In which case, I'd like to see either Rubio as VP with DeSantis as AG, or DeSantis as VP with Rubio remaining at State, depending on what works best.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
I'm not a fan of JD.
But, I am also a huge McCain Hater. And Marco was a little too close to McCain and his cronies for me to be on the Marco Train until I get a very sincere apology from Marco re. Amesty.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Shi2G)
Judge says power lies with consular officers
It's **just** amazing how many members of the Executive Branch don't have to follow the dictates of the Executive Branch.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx)
I'll bet he moved to LA and operates a bunch of taco trucks that are fronts for Tren de Aragua money laundering and human trafficking. LA "Street Vendors" are rarely given citations for operating without the numerous licenses brick-and-mortar restaurants are required to have. If fact, LA Mayor Bass recently ordered LAPD and city officials to not issue any citations or closure orders to unlicensed operators of 'street food vendors.'
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (2UnvF)
Most data centers now use a closed-loop cooling system. Something akin to a radiator on a car. Sure, it takes some water to initially load the system, but once it is running, the people working in the data center consume more water for their personal use than the data center's cooling system.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2026 01:54 PM (Av6i5)
Yes but look at the damage that President McCain or Romney would have done to the brand for the next two decades. That shit matters. Look what traitor Bush left us with.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (JunZe)
They won't run a woman again. They can't.
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (2Cry5)
Should be interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
I haven't paid attention to their parties, but is there any party running specifically on getting the invaders out? If not, the people will have to burn them out.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: runner
She just renewed her DSA membership. That's not going to help with a national presidential run, but may help her take Schumer's seat.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Shi2G)
Trump ended up getting along great with Lindsey Graham, even though Graham had been McCain's mini-me as long as McCain was around.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (JunZe)
Trump is a one off, there will never be another like him in our lifetimes. But there doesn't need to be, at least not in the next term. Just keep the ship on course.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
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Rubio is good at State, and there's a very good argument that he should stay there, especially with the VP office being largely pointless.
He could be both at the same time, though. It's reportedly possible.
DeSantis as AG feels like fan-service, though. I don't think Vance has a relationship with DeSantis, and he'd probably pick some lawyer he's closer to. Dude did go to Yale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (/PKja)
Kramola / Kelly is more likely , or Mr. Good Hair and AOC.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (vTZFs)
Cruz should run for governor in 2030. If he does well there the window can open again.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (vTZFs)
Cruz is really smart but he just can't get his head around the fact that he could never be elected to the big chair. I think that the same holds true for DeSantis, for different aspects of the same reason. DeSantis has no personality whereas Cruz actively pisses people off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (ExV1e)
DeSantis surrounded himself with some terrible advisors who went around pissing people off who might have been sympathetic. There's a lot of MAGA who distrust him as a result.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (88C+u)
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
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Someone should tell the Democrat primary electorate in South Carolina, which is now first in the nation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (/PKja)
Hard pass.
Same with my State's gubernatorial nominee.
Serving in that body is an automatic disqualifier, AFAIC.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (BI5O2)
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Did they throw trash in, or did the minesweepers find something they had to deal with, not know what it was from a distance, and log it as "mine like object."?
We may be giving them credit for "decoys" when in reality it was just the typical trash you encounter when looking for mines in a polluted gulf.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (ImuKY)
Most data centers now use a closed-loop cooling system. Something akin to a radiator on a car. Sure, it takes some water to initially load the system, but once it is running, the people working in the data center consume more water for their personal use than the data center's cooling system.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (8mulE)
If you've seen these systems in operation, you'd find that claim dubious. The cooling towers absolutely are losing water to evaporation in the process of transferring heat away from the closed loop system.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Posted by: South Carolina at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (PGK1w)
Nobody wants a female President.
Right now that is the prevailing thought in the DNC as I see it. They ran a woman twice and they got demolished both times. They ran a white man and he won big (at least on paper). Until something major changes, I don't see them running a woman at the top of the ticket again.
And honestly I would not vote for a woman for president. Its not that a woman cannot be a good president, we've barely had any good male ones. Its that the odds are so miniscule and the historical evidence of disaster of having women in charge is so overwhelming that I am not taking that chance. I think most Americans -- women and men -- share this attitude.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (K32Fz)
We may be giving them credit for "decoys" when in reality it was just the typical trash you encounter when looking for mines in a polluted gulf.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (ImuKY)
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Fair.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
It is intense, and I hear it from every young person I encounter. They know that their dreams of a career and a house are being taken away from them, in order for some manager to get another half point on their stock ticker or another couple of grand executive bonus.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (0U5gm)
They won't run a woman again. They can't.
Nobody wants a female President.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
Not even a good female president?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (jPziU)
Not gonna argue with that at all.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Tom Servo
If they're so worried they'll be killed if returned to their home nation, they should be stoked the US took the time and effort to find a different, 3rd nation to take them in. Truly generous of us.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (FKi1y)
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There are two Congos. The DRC is one of the worst places on Earth. Ebola, crime, warlords, drugs, communist revolutionaries, kidnaping, and AWFuLs in pink shirts supporting child murderers.
Level 4 travel advisory -- "don't fucking go!" -- and I don't think the USA allows direct flights back from there even for US citizens. Even US citizens are required to stay in another country for weeks before coming back to the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (ImuKY)
We also would have accepted: "They're just retarded, sir."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (FKi1y)
maybe; or they may make a deal, he supports her for VP and she leaves him alone in Senate seat
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (g47mK)
One Primary State doesn't matter.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
And if they rely on grid power, the power plants use evaporative towers, Not insurmountable but ground loop cooling systems should be required by any local zoning for datacenters and no evaporative cooling transference.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (g47mK)
The Dems, well...it'll be a shit show of incompetents and special interest candidates.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (FKi1y)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (Shi2G)
My esteem of Ted Cruz has diminished greatly over time and the stupid stuff he says. I wouldn't mind him in some administrative role like Attorney General but not anything else.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (K32Fz)
248 >>Posted by: South Carolina at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (PGK1w)
One Primary State doesn't matter.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
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When it's first, when it's the voice of the black vote, and when the black vote is overrepresented in Democrat politics in general...yes, it does.
Every winner of SC in the Democrat primary has won the nomination for decades.
They weren't going to go with Biden because he was stupid and old and needed to appeal to the young.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (/PKja)
I assume foreign criminals and scumbags don't last long in Congolese jungles or Liberian death camps. So sad.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Congo looked damned dismal in that tweet. Now those foreign invaders get to live in the hell they wanted to create for us.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (mmrXZ)
One Primary State doesn't matter.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
She's going to win 100% of the delegates in SC, and a majority of them in NV.
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (EZWVc)
If they need someone to compete and win forget Kamala.
Democrats don't choose their own candidate and haven't for quite some time. The whole point of being a Democrat is doing what the Party tells you to do and it not matrering anyway.
And when it's not Kamala I hope those who guaranteed it will be won't say that no one saw "blah" coming. We're gonna get blah. Good and hard.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
Fans like to be serviced.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (g47mK)
The Dems, well...it'll be a shit show of incompetents and special interest candidates.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (FKi1y)
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The GOP primary is going to be as exciting as the 2024 primary. Probably less so.
The Democrat primary is going to be a series of "Not-Kamalas" until Kamala just wins everything anyway. That should be fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (/PKja)
A couple of days ago I saw something from Ted Cruz that sounded like he was planning to run again.
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He left the door open to it on Sean Hannity last night.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Cooling towers do use a lot of water, but they are old tech and they are no longer in use in most data centers. Look into chillers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (8mulE)
Harris will be the nominee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (PGK1w)
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And at least half in Michigan (#3 in the calendar).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (E4rtv)
The massive fans for the water to air radiators would consume additional power and real estate, too. That's likely why the water-water heat exchanger is the preferred cooling method.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 01:59 PM (g47mK)
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I think Kamala will probably go with either Crockett (black girl magic and the white man screwed her over so she don't need to appeal to no white man no more) or Mark Kelly (fine...she'll try and appeal to the white man).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (/PKja)
Mark Kelly /spit/ may be the VP pick by any Democrat in '28. He checks all the boxes the POTUS nominee will not. Male. Military veteran. Bravery and derring-do (astronaut). Sticks by his brain-damaged wife, who was targeted by a right-wing nutter (false but they will sell it that way). White. I'm sure the DNC will concoct several more attributes for him that are focus-group tested and confirmed to comfort non-crazy voters.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (5rh/l)
Moving it to the first Primary is the necessary step in stopping that.
That's why they did it.
Things change.
Remember what happened to Bernie.
Remember how Joe Biden got the nomination...
they WANT to end that.
Moving it to the first Primary of the season was done to allow the Party to crab on the SC result, imo.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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True.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Shi2G)
I want Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (HwKLm)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (g47mK)
I'm fully 29, and retired, and H1b pissed me way the fuck off back when I was working. Offshoring also. And then upper management would tell us about how big their bonuses were and how they got to fly around on corporate jets.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Tom Servo
If they're so worried they'll be killed if returned to their home nation, they should be stoked the US took the time and effort to find a different, 3rd nation to take them in. Truly generous of us.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 28, 2026 02:01 PM (FKi1y)
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It's straight-up Thunderdome only more mutants. Which is a shame, because the natural country is beautiful. The country once had a pretty good tourist industry, mostly catering to safaris for white Euros. Then, much like happened in South Africa, the country was turned over to racist black lunatics with machetes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)
By the same token the Dem old timers will have died out or been taken out by DSA types.
2028 will be MAGA v DSA
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (EZWVc)
That's why they did it.
Things change.
Remember what happened to Bernie.
Remember how Joe Biden got the nomination...
they WANT to end that.
Moving it to the first Primary of the season was done to allow the Party to crab on the SC result, imo.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (Shi2G)
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No...pushing it back would be the counter to it.
SC was in open revolt at the very idea that it would get pushed back at all and not be the new first (NH's primary is in like April now).
You don't give Kamala 100% of the SC delegates from SC and then expect her to lose steam.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Why?
She could be the worst presidential candidate since the last time she ran.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
I take the same position as Trump has in recent statements - it's way too early to be worrying about 28', get this years elections over with first.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (edUvp)
Probably. He's smart, he seems to have at least some respect for the Constitution, and he'd be able to piss people off with his opinions without it affecting his future.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Gref
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No one votes for VPs anymore, you might lose votes by picking an POS but you don't gain votes that way. They are mainly a way to balance tickets for political insiders than for voters.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (HwKLm)
Well, at this point you are basically a Frenchman.
...so.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (Shi2G)
Sometimes, I really wish this was a Betting/Gambling Site.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (Shi2G)
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I already put my money on her at PredictIt.
Should make a few thousand when she wins. Hell, my bet will 5x its size when she just announces.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Superdelegates of the Democratic Party at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:02 PM (ExV1e)
I take the same position as Trump has in recent statements - it's way too early to be worrying about 28', get this years elections over with first.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Part of the invisible primary for 2028 is to see which potential candidates do as GOP surrogates in competitive races.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 02:09 PM (cWLG3)
Different Presidents. What did she want to accomplish that W shot down and we never heard about. Probably nothing but we just don't know.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 02:12 PM (5rh/l)
But he's gonna run for the top of the ticket...he may not want VP on a losing ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (tOcjL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:11 PM (8mulE)
Sure, but you're ultimately rejecting all that processor heat to some medium, whether that is directly to the air, to some body of water, or via an evaporative cooler.
The data center that took over an old lumber mill site near here still uses evaporative coolers, although smaller modular units. They specifically cited the cites easy water availability and cheap power (along with established industrial power distribution) in their PRs as reasons why the site made economic sense. The site conversion is less than about five years old.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)
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We don't know about that....
Posted by: Superdelegates of the Democratic Party at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (Fi81e)
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This idea is more than a decade out of date.
The superdelegates lost their power on the first ballot after 2016. It was a cop to Bernie's supporters.
They can vote as they want on the second ballot at the convention, but on the first ballot they have to vote with the voters of their state in the primaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (/PKja)
And honestly I would not vote for a woman for president. Its not that a woman cannot be a good president, we've barely had any good male ones. Its that the odds are so miniscule and the historical evidence of disaster of having women in charge is so overwhelming that I am not taking that chance. I think most Americans -- women and men -- share this attitude.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I predict the first female president will be Republican, and she'll be great.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:15 PM (g47mK)
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I just wanted to get this in: nothing is going to happen.
Posted by: The Guy Who Says Nothing Is Going to Happen at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
Naturally cool environment -- it will save a lot of money.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (ImuKY)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Bruh.
We've been arguing about 2028 since like November of 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (g47mK)
Vance would be better than Trump with women...almost any R candidate is. Trump won with the men vote coming hard and heavy for him...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: front toward enemy at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (TIizU)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)
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The whole "Vance is in thrall to the woke right" thing is an online only phenomenon that won't go anywhere because it's all implication about, like, having Tucker's son on staff for a year and not much else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (/PKja)
I'm just someone who has answered that question to my own satisfaction on the topic of immigration.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August
I am going to say this is not how it all works. They bring ideas to the President, or the President says “this is the goal, come tell me how to get there”. It is not Trump coming up with each and every thing and barking orders. That isn’t how CEOs operate, and Trump is still very much a CEO.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:10 PM (g47mK)
Yeah. Those of us in Texas hear that every day. Every day we tell you that it isn't and then we get told that we're delusional.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
That's a shame. *munches a funyun*
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: The Guy Who Says Nothing Is Going to Happen at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)
I knew you were going to say that!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (g47mK)
They might as well nominate Der Oysterfuhrer, he'd do as well as any of the others would.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (edUvp)
The media will pick whoever the DNC tells them to pick.
The D nominee is not gonna selected by something as antiquated as voting.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (JunZe)
Yeah. Those of us in Texas hear that every day. Every day we tell you that it isn't and then we get told that we're delusional.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)
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Trump+14 state that hasn't elected a Democrat to statewide office in literally decades is going to not elect Paxton, who already holds statewide office, to a statewide office because Talarico said he loves trans-kids and hates Christianity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (/PKja)
I could get used to Plan B.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (6VEkT)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
The American equivalent to Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:13 PM (g47mK)
By getting more votes in the primary? Are you basing your vote on who the Dems appear to be choosing?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (ExV1e)
This is kind of understandable -- they have to make their returns before the bubble pops or the investors wise up.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 28, 2026 02:20 PM (ImuKY)
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Who isn't?
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:05 PM (JunZe)
The Funeral is still going on, HOW DARE YOU
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 02:20 PM (mBinc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah - this has all the hallmarks of an online/media op just like the one exposed as pushing the anti Data Center narrative.
The theory is that if everyone repeats and prints something that is obviously false over and over, then it will magically become true.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (edUvp)
The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)
Signs point to no. -- Magic 8 Ball
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ExV1e)
Trump actually did pretty well with women despite the dire predictions. He got around 45% in 2024 which was up from 2020.
I mean he won every swing state and the popular vote. That wasn't all men.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (edUvp)
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"Well, I guess the electorate shifted 10 points in a week."
-late September/early October
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (JunZe)
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Good thing, because it could mean an End to Our Democracy!
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
I thought Tulsi has "it" but I'm not sure she would be with us. I don't see anyone else who could withstand the storm.
That said my father insisted the same as you're saying but like 40 years ago. You may both yet be right.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:19 PM (/PKja)
Islamic mystics are crucial to his “faith journey”.
America is not a Christian nation for if we were we’d forgive all students loans and have “free” medical care.
Yeah. This goes down well in TX HD 50. Not the rest of the state.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (g47mK)
Well... we're fucked. May as well learn the words to L'Internationale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (EZWVc)
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Unless he's since recanted recently, he's ex-gay.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 01:49 PM (mBinc)
That's a shame. *munches a funyun*
Posted by: 88C+u
The story has Milo being picked up in New Orleans where coincidentally Kanye West is playing. Suspected that Milo was trying to meet him. If I was MTG, I would quit thinking third party grift in 2028 and more moving to Costa Rico. He ass is hanging out over Milo being a former stealth employee to do shit for her.
Guy is one vile and damaged soul.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (EZWVc)
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Unless he's since recanted recently, he's ex-gay.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:22 PM (Fi81e)
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Did he manage to unsuck some dicks?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (EZWVc)
Maybe Congo Man can build a new, advanced civilization over there.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta
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Well, he's now among people who literally flew at one time, so there's no telling how far they can go.
But srsly, I really wonder what Senor Cuba's new keepers think of him. MAN, I would not want to be some non-belonger rapist-age single male at the mercy of the Congolese.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd
You need a button and trap door.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 01:41 PM
Immigrant: I'm not dead, just horribly horribly injured.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (4NO2D)
The media will pick whoever the DNC tells them to pick.
>>The D nominee is not gonna selected by something as antiquated as voting.
This. 1000x. This.
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Axeman
Well, he pretty much resumed doing drugs, hanging out with sketchy people, and doing shit work for a bunch of political patrons. So that too was probably a lie.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)
The data center that took over an old lumber mill site near here still uses evaporative coolers, although smaller modular units. They specifically cited the cites easy water availability and cheap power (along with established industrial power distribution) in their PRs as reasons why the site made economic sense. The site conversion is less than about five years old.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)
Ok, I'll grant you that if you have water in abundance, it might make economic sense to use a lot of water. But, you don't have to. If you are in a location where water is a scarcity, or even if the local authorities want to treat it like it is scarce when it may not be, a closed loop system is definitely doable. Data centers don't *need* to use a lot of water in order to operate.
And, yes, the heat has to go somewhere. But, dispersing it into the outside air works nicely.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (8mulE)
@globeandmail
Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ndZc7)
Wow.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (VJ0w/)
The problem with a woman as supreme leader is that all the other countries with chauvinist men as leaders assume that a woman as leader will be weak and compliant, so in order to not have her country be steamrolled, she has to be more vicious at slapping down threats, and then she gets accused of being crazy hormonal and unusually evil by guys who routinely murder their political opponents.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (vJrRc)
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It's not a handout...
Old: It's a hand up!
New: It's a "hand it over"!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (qgHp7)
Old: It's a hand up!
New: It's a "hand it over"!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (qgHp7)
In Islamic countries it's a hand off
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (JunZe)
I predict the first female president will be Republican, and she'll be great.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
The American equivalent to Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Yes. An Iron Lady.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)
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I wasn't tracking him. I just knew the last time he was being talked about, he repudiated his gay lifestyle.
Sounds like anything for attention.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (Fi81e)
Yeah but that "grab them by the pussy" comment cost him (as unreasonable as the reaction was), and Vance doesn't have anything like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (K32Fz)
Thatcher was one of a kind however
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
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Don't be so sure about that!
- Levine for America 2028 -
Posted by: Rachael Levine at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 02:17 PM (tOcjL)
I missed that . And, no. Vance does terrible with the womens folks. SOrry to burst your bubble. And men...well are we talking about blue c? they will go back to Ds. And he will be left with the Romney "coalition".
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (g47mK)
>>@Donuncutschweiz
Translated from German
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦New video footage has emerged of the US-organized Maidan coup.
>>February 2014, Maidan Square: John McCain films the protests and stands next to Geoffrey Pyatt, the US Ambassador to Ukraine. Behind him stands Victoria Nuland.
>>All of them relish their role in the ousting of the democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 02:23 PM (EZWVc)
No, I'm saying that you won't get through 2026 before you start arguing about 2028. -- Magic 8 Ball
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (ExV1e)
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So Sophie Cunningham?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (XeU6L)
Old: It's a hand up!
New: It's a "hand it over"!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 02:25 PM (qgHp7)
In Islamic countries it's a hand off
Posted by: ...
Madge from Palmolive had a hand job.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (VJ0w/)
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LOL
No.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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What difference is 26 really going to make, absent the very unlikely outcome of a non-GOPe majority in the house and senate? It's not like the current congress has done much of anything to help Trump's agenda.
24/7 impeachment theater and the dems letting their freak flag fly - all the while with a veto and impeachment proof numbers in the senate - may actually help us for 28.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28,
Sadly, he would be a much smarter candidate than Kamala. He would be able to debate.
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (ZdaMQ)
Some people just have "it". Her biggest problem is she is basically anthropomorphic CIA.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (JunZe)
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I'd settle for a Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 02:27 PM (g47mK)
So, which campaign are you working for?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (ExV1e)
The problem with a woman as supreme leader is that all the other countries with chauvinist men as leaders assume that a woman as leader will be weak and compliant, so in order to not have her country be steamrolled, she has to be more vicious at slapping down threats, and then she gets accused of being crazy hormonal and unusually evil by guys who routinely murder their political opponents.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Or instead of that convoluted Rube Goldberg scheme, she could announce firm policies and stand by her word. Done.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 02:28 PM (VJ0w/)
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Hand job
Hand job
Hand job
Doin' that crazy hand job.
Posted by: Rachael Levine at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)
Sounds like anything for attention.
Posted by: Axeman
Stories were around when he was doing stealth work for MTG and she and other House members like Massie were doing their version of the GOP resistance.
Unhinged types that are on the periphery of politics are often used for political scutwork and then disposed of when they become an embarrassment or no longer useful. I think Milo falls into that category as even his attempts to climb aboard team Candace Ovens floundered when all his past texts to others about her being a scummy scam artist came to view.
I think he has burned every 'friend' he has now and him being shipped back to the UK means probably finis in his stint in US politics.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (E4rtv)
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I'd settle for a Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:29 PM (XeU6L)
I'm still holding out hope for Sara Palin.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 02:18 PM (/PKja)
I've seen Vance do a couple of own goals when he tries to remind everyone he went to Yale and launches into some esoteric intellectual exposition that nobody gets and many misinterpret. For example, when he said Milton Friedman was obsolete now. If you worked to get his point, you could kind of understand it, but not many people did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:30 PM (edUvp)
I might be able to find a counterexample if I looked hard enough but my default rule for voting in the general is
any R > any D
Posted by: Oddbob at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Rachael Levine
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Well, I mean, Admiral Levine has military experience, right?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
... okay I'm confused. What Rube Goldberg scheme?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:26 PM (K32Fz)
Well number 1 you don't know that and number 2 they just make it up.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:31 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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And yet it was the progressives in England who talked about living in "Fascist England" under Thatcher.
Posted by: Rachael Levine at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)
BREAKING: Florida becomes the first state to block welfare cash from being spent on tattoos, theme park tickets, video games, vapes, & other non-essential purchases.
HOW JUST HOW and it really explains Carnival Cruise Lines downfall
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (mBinc)
McMahon has the Iron Lady look, but I just see her in D of Ed posts. I like Tulsi as a "Golden Age" President.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 02:32 PM (6VEkT)
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LOL
No.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
It's not the Moron way.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)
What this means is that 49 states do all welfare to be spent on tats, theme park tickets, video games, vapes and other non-essential purchases.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (8mulE)
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The problem is getting it from the chip to the outside air.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:33 PM (ndZc7)
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It would be like settling for crossbows when you can have long bows.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)
Some people just have "it". Her biggest problem is she is basically anthropomorphic CIA.
Posted by: ...
Eh, we are in the stage where heritage Americans and their views are not really relevant here. Basically empires end up with the inner Praetorian Guard and wealthy donors calling the shots.
I think most of our politics since the Cold War has been shadows on the wall for the public and only the inner circles of the ruling class knowing a little of what is going on.
When a change agent like Trump shows up (as it did when you got a few competent emperors trying to address internal issues in Rome or the Byzantine Empire), the whole rotten insiders to the system revolt.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2026 02:34 PM (Fi81e)
Surely you mean settling for long bows when you can have crossbows.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (JunZe)
The Globe and Mail
@globeandmail
Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:21 PM (ndZc7)
Canada talking tough to the US is like the old Mouse Fucking An Elephant joke
"TAKE IT AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL, BITCH!!!!!!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (y9nCu)
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I'd settle for a Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Catherine the Great and a stable of stallions?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 02:35 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: No Name Today
Air is actually a shitty way to do it which is why it requires fans to disperse it. There is a reason dead air space is a pretty decent insulator.
Solids or liquids of the right sort are far better.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (E4rtv)
Well for one thing, did it surprise anyone to find out that Trump would say something like that in private?
Would it surprise you to find out that Vance did?
These are different men with different flaws.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 02:24 PM (vJrRc)
Take the time to read Charles Moore’s bio of Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Point is they can figure out a way to turn women in particular off to someone. They have teams of people to do just that.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 02:37 PM (JunZe)
Would it surprise you to find out that Vance did?
These are different men with different flaws.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Vance is a Lance Corporal of Marines.
He has ABSOLUTELY said things like that in private.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Thatcher's advantage was that UK had a parliamentary system. She was in effect elected by her colleagues, not the public. She got her advantage though and ran with it when she could have ended up like poor Liz Truss.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: No Name Today
Air is actually a shitty way to do it which is why it requires fans to disperse it. There is a reason dead air space is a pretty decent insulator.
Solids or liquids of the right sort are far better.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 02:36 PM (E4rtv)
Chillers work by running water pipes to inside CRAH units that direct the indoor hot air over the pipes, cooling the air. The pipes return to the chillers outside, where air is used again to take the excess heat.
I compared it earlier to a radiator in a car and it is very much like that.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 28, 2026 02:43 PM (8mulE)
LOL the trade clash is over Canada buying Chinese steel we are tariffing massively, then selling it to the USA disguised as Canadian. So China is fond of Canada in this? LOL what a shocker
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:45 PM (K32Fz)
Yeah but there's "Binders full of women" slur that women roll their eyes at but repeat for political effect, and "HOW DARE HE???" that genuinely enrages women.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 02:46 PM (K32Fz)
When, in all of history, has a conqueror killed the wimmens?
And why not? Because they'd rather roll over.
Posted by: MkY at August 28, 2026 03:23 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Bingo, Bango, Bongo at August 28, 2026 01:47 PM (JM9I6)
Sinhalese: you need a name that ends in a vowel.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (/MsWN)
X Safety Team: We Have Uncovered 200,000 Bots and Fake Accounts Created by Chinese Intelligence to Propagandize Against Data Farms
...so that China can win the AI race because the US just quit it.
Global Government Affairs
@GlobalAffairs
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense. We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.
AG
@AGHamilton29 Keep this in mind when you see posts with tens of thousands of likes that happen to fit with the information war positions of certain adversaries. You think this is the only CCP bot farm? Any idea how many Iranian/Pakistani/Russian active bot farms currently exist on here and other platforms?
ZitoSalenaYes, we saw Russia paying "environmental groups" in the US to block fracking so that the price of Russian crude would remain high. We never saw the left-wing media, so keen to discover connections between Trump and Russia, note that Democrats were embracing a RUSSIAN AGENT propaganda effort. And of course, it's Democrats doing the bidding of the Chinese communist government, banning data farms and pushing legislation to limit them, but you will never -- NEVER -- see a single media story about Democrats being CHINESE AGENTS under the control of Xi. Two of the propaganda posts below, posted by bots with American-sounding names.
@ZitoSalena
Done right this is an industry that won't just remake blue-collar workers lives, it will also remake communities that have been on their knees for 40 years.
Always be curious. Always be skeptical. If something does a 180 & politicians are suddenly demonizing it in a short period time you have to ask yourself why? As I said yesterday, there's always bad actors in everything we do. But an entire industry?
We have all seen this playbook before.
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) August 28, 2026
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate… pic.twitter.com/Mj0SqerdlH
Members of an immigrant business group that has spoken out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans for government-owned supermarkets lately have been getting slapped with fines from the city's Sanitation Department -- and some say it looks like a case of retaliation. Diana Larrazabal, who owns flower and gift shop Aroma D' Angel at 304 E. 116th St., said shops including hers in recent months have received a slew of citations from the New York City Department of Sanitation for garbage that isn't even theirs. Her flower and gift shop was dinged with fines three times this year -- most recently for $350 in May. Many of her Spanish-speaking neighbors who are not bilingual lean on her to help them navigate the city's red tape, she said, adding that they also are forking over hundreds of dollars in fines.
"It's definitely more frequent," Larrazabal said at a Wednesday press conference held by the Multicultural Business Coalition -- which sued the mayor and the city on Monday over the city-owned supermarket strategy over fears it will pose unfair competition to their stores. The coalition's chairman, Frank Garcia, says the fines ramped up about two weeks ago when the group began pounding the pavement to speak with local business owners to get support for its suit.
"When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that's when the fines started," Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. "The owners don't speak English."
— NovemberRain 🇺🇸 (@NovemberRain243) August 27, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (Y/06r)
I enjoy that the Canadian official response is "the sacred Indians named it first and their name is what Gaia accepts, not the white man's". Makes me feel better for when we have to nuke Toronto.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
Except that Sydney Sweeney video yesterday. No one's THAT gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (Y/06r)
America continues to ache for its own Quebec. Or to take after Belgium.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (jPziU)
In related Real Communism Has Never Been Tried news, immigrant bodega owners sued the communist jihadi Mamdani over his "free" grocery stores -- and, entirely coincidentally, started getting hit with city fines.
Counter-revolutionary elements and kulaks must be suppressed ruthlessly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (dK+Kv)
Was corrected a while back after using the phrase 'Canadian geese', with a most solemn, 'Canada Geese'. The corrector was 10 years old.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (wtvvX)
Except that Sydney Sweeney video yesterday. No one's THAT gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
Seems I missed something.
I haz sadz.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
Except that Sydney Sweeney video yesterday. No one's THAT gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
I missed a Sydney video? Link?
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (Q+gd/)
My account has been ghost banned for over a month. I have been posting frequently against data centers because I work in tech and I know about this stuff. I am not paid by the Chinese. I am very very anti-Chinese. But I am also anti-data center.
I managed to avoid getting banned during covid, but this one did me in.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (uS0pW)
2. The two identified bots shilling for China against datacenters posted the lamest, cheesiest propaganda. I can't imagine that garbage would change any minds. But maybe.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (iFTx/)
Your lips to God's ears.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (uS0pW)
Posted by: Max Power at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (q177U)
And SpaceX's data farms generate their own power, because Elon ain't got time to wait for Democrat-run utility monopolies.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (8AEVc)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:17 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (SK+av)
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate
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I look forward to X uncovering 2,000,000 Qatar-Tukey-Indonesial-Phakistan bot accounts!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (8AEVc)
The Saudis got excellent mileage from cheesy lame anti-nuclear power propaganda in the 70s and 80s, and then again in the 2000s for cheesy anti-fracking propaganda. "I turned on my kitchen sink and fire came out! Gaia is angry!" Can't blame Xi for trying things known to work.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)
Immigrants welcome...time to pay up, suckas!
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (xPsv8)
I look forward to X uncovering 2,000,000 Qatar-Tukey-Indonesial-Phakistan bot accounts!
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (g47mK)
"Are you trying to destroy us?"
- - - - - - Candace, Tucker, Nick
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:20 PM (ccf/V)
This assumes that the proposed data centers are all intended to "win" the AI race. What about the ones being built to destroy our privacy by means of Flock cameras and other spying?
Some data centers may be worthy.
Some data centers may be morally neutral.
Some are almost certainly evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:21 PM (1z8ji)
"Dolly Parton was a great friend to the working class"
When a DemSoc refers to the "working class", they mean themselves. Actual working class people despise DemSocs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:21 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (Q+gd/)
I am looking for it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (Y/06r)
2. The two identified bots shilling for China against datacenters posted the lamest, cheesiest propaganda. I can't imagine that garbage would change any minds. But maybe.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
X and other social media have a large problem with bots that no one wants to do much about it. X is having to do it on this topic because Elon has big plans for his datacenters but most comment sections now on unregulated or loosely regulated websites are shit shows of paid trolls, mentally ill losers, and bots. Fake and gay influence op shit.
And the percentage of original posts on X and elsewhere that are AI crap, often foreign sourced claiming to be US, are getting worse.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Barry Brant at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (JM9I6)
Gee I never heard that communists are thugs. This must be a furst
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (EZWVc)
Right now we seem to be in the "let's get an internet page and collect cash from stupid investors" phase.
Also, this guy is clearly lurking here to get material:
The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable
Stephen Green
12:49 PM on August 27, 2026
https://shorturl.at/MWwZ8
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Rodrigo Borgia posted it yesterday, try ONT for a repost that he did.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (QZThv)
https://twitterwebviewer.com/
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (AzCH9)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)
Sorry, I should have said OT/Didn't mean to hijack the thread
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (+gK6I)
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Sky Carp
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (6LG2q)
America continues to ache for its own Quebec. Or to take after Belgium.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (jPziU)
And what fraction of those Spanish-only speakers are illegal aliens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (1z8ji)
Yes, I thought that it was very inauthentic quote and this highly appropriate for Mamdani's speechwriters.😕
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (xPsv8)
Some data centers may be worthy.
Some data centers may be morally neutral.
Some are almost certainly evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:21 PM (1z8ji)
End the Flock cameras. Problem solved. And who said you need local data centers for spying?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (jPziU)
This assumes that the proposed data centers are all intended to "win" the AI race. What about the ones being built to destroy our privacy by means of Flock cameras and other spying?
Some data centers may be worthy.
Some data centers may be morally neutral.
Some are almost certainly evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Like most technology, neither good or evil, but obviously we cannot let the government nor Big Tech wag the dog (citizens). Flock camera resistance is beginning to roll back and diminish its abilities aided by the inevitable scandals of po po doing bad shit with them.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mr tmz at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (rJ48h)
https://tinyurl.com/4725pkaj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (AzCH9)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (NcvvS)
They winter on the Gulf of America. Could have just as easily been named "The Lousiana Goose".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:25 PM (1z8ji)
AI/LLMs are also here to stay. Overhyped? Maybe, but also not going anywhere anytime soon. The upshot is that Claude is replacing the H1B asshats and Indian code farms that crank out crap. There are far too many efficiencies to be gained by the correct and competent use of AI, especially Agentic AI, for companies to look back now.
I do think that we should not let building datacenters be the wild west, which it sort of is right now. It would be prudent for us to slow our roll and take a breath.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (oqH4h)
So, I was curious how hard it would be for China to bankroll each challenge by working in tandem with some of the known lawfare primary firms. Apparently, not very hard at all since most of the law firms involved have satellite offices in China. AND, there is no obligation for the plaintiff to provide documentation as to where their financing comes from. So a foreign country (China) could easily be behind every single legal challenge on immigration, and the like. They could even be the ones challenging the White House ballroom for kicks and giggles. Just a thought to ruin your Friday.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (dIske)
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It is what it is.
-my Uncle Tony
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Phones and IOT devices are just as omnipresent for spying on you internally as Flock is externally.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)
The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable
Stephen Green
--Helena Handbasket
Is it the cucumber? Cats hate cucumbers.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (LHPAg)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Used a twitterviewer........Holy moly.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (RIvkX)
And what fraction of those Spanish-only speakers are illegal aliens?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (1z8ji)
A good number but the number of legit immigrants who don’t learn English would surprise people.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (jPziU)
Here are some stills from the uk Sun write up:
https://tinyurl.com/y6v94cze
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (Y/06r)
Fortunately, I'm a sensitive guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
It's worth the trouble to sign up, and I'm not even a Sweeney fan.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Note, this MORNING, the LG TV I use as a monitor for my computer said if I did not agree to a NEW Privacy Policy, something with ACR, my TV would be unusable until I did.
This is after using this same TV as a monitor for 3 years.
Note, ACR monitors even STREAMED Data... and sends that back to LG so they can sell it.... you CAN turn it off in settings, but by default it is on.
Which is exactly what all the new data centers are for... not to make you safer, but to monetize your existence.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Most TVs are doing more spying than Flock now, but ain't nobody gonna mention that.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Compounding things are the many accounts that post only for clicks: its a business, getting responses, shares, and likes that will earn them money from Twixxer. All they do is post slop that will get a response. The entire site was so much more fun and so much more interesting before Trump won in 2016 and the left lost their minds.
I had conversations with Nick Searcy about how cute Erica Tazel was in Justified, I talked to Kate Upton about how many polar bears are in the arctic. I had major celebs following my account not because I was so special and interesting, but people just would follow people they found interesting. That's just all dead now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:28 PM (K32Fz)
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and to 'follow' me, apparently
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (8AEVc)
Posted by: H at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (ZEDPq)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
I don't know what SYRN is, but their ads featuring Sweeney are *chef's kiss*.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)
Used a twitterviewer........Holy moly.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)
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Be sure JJS gets this excellent birthday card tomorrow. It's his birthday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (AzCH9)
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Very impressive credentials.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (RIvkX)
Phones and IOT devices are just as omnipresent for spying on you internally as Flock is externally.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)
Flock cameras are expressly used by people with the power to deprive you of your liberty or kill you. And the Flock CEO is not an American. OK, he might be a citizen but attitudinally and culturally he is not of this country. If I could send him back to, say, the GDR of 1970 he would be extremely comfortable there.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Orson
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Pretty sure Trump won't cross the Rubicon but whoever as president if the GOP wins in 2028 is going to have to do end foreign meddling in the US politics and society or implode the nations that are meddling here to end them.
A small measure why I think DeSantis would do it, dunno about Rubio as Rubio 2.0 is Terminator while Rubio 1.0 was not, and have doubts about Vance from the whole Iranian deal.
The rub is going to be the hordes of domestic ruling class types that have become wealthy by taking the coin of foreigners to do their bidding here. They won't go quietly.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (E4rtv)
Be sure JJS gets this excellent birthday card tomorrow. It's his birthday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (AzCH9)
But I already wished him a happy birthday THIS morning.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)
As far as I can tell, it is her new lingerie line.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Have President Trump thank Mamdani for pointing out the rule breakers and that ICE is on the way to sort it out.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (M0V4/)
My account has been ghost banned for over a month. I have been posting frequently against data centers because I work in tech and I know about this stuff. I am not paid by the Chinese. I am very very anti-Chinese. But I am also anti-data center.
I managed to avoid getting banned during covid, but this one did me in.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 28, 2026 12:16 PM (uS0pW)
I'm pro-data center (terrestrial). The thing I'm finding it hard to fully understand is that if the CCP 'wins' the AI race, what does that actually mean for the world? At the end of the day, the inputs to the tech are compute power and math. There's no way you can close off the knowledge about AI. If you try to create a closed system an open one will always form - info wants to be free. Yes, the CCP want a very closed system, but they can't censor all knowledge. Heck, the Dems tried in the US and Musk and his allies are doing all they can to open it up. Besides, if data centers go into space, then this whole controversy becomes moot.
It's a bit of a ramble, but I just want to be convinced that the AI arms race we're worried about is really something we should worry about.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (8AEVc)
Again ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Matrix.
Posted by: Eromero at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:32 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (K32Fz)
So The Dems are Bots ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (EZWVc)
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Very impressive credentials.
I like eating and drinking, so I am a gourmand and a sommelier.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
ABC: Accuser of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky expected to recant testimony
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
WTF? Why? This far after the conviction and sentencing?
This seems contrived.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
This actually lines up with the facts more than you realize. Sandusky was investigated and cleared A LOT before he was convicted. I'm not saying he's innocent, but without the context, Paterno and PSU look worse than they were.
In 1998, Sandusky was investigated by PA Child Welfare after receiving a complaint about him. The state hid an agent in the child's closet while he was alone with Sandusky, talking about their 'relationship.
The DA then fully exonerated Sandusky, saying there was no evidence whatsoever, and told Paterno and PSU's president that Sandusky was cleared of all charges.
Sandusky retired from Penn State in 1999 and started the Second Mile Foundation he used to groom kids.
In 2002, Paterno reported Sandusky again, and he was cleared again.
In 2008, Sandusky was investigated again, and left Second Mile.
In 2011, he was arrested and convicted.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Flock cameras are expressly used by people who can deprive you of your liberty or kill you. Many of whom sadly are inclined to “just follow orders”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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ladies' unmentionables
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:34 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:34 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)
I'm pro-data center (terrestrial). The thing I'm finding it hard to fully understand is that if the CCP 'wins' the AI race, what does that actually mean for the world?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Ad revenues perhaps? It's not really clear what "winning" looks like and it seems unlikely that we'd end up outsourcing AI in a military capability to China.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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What you say about CEOs is pretty much all of them now. The very promotion structure that the big consulting, big finance have put on US corporations dictates that.
And the weakness to blame is that technology in the US has superceded the current reasonable expectation of privacy just as phones overturned the even older standard in law of trespass.
Katz decision, which set our current reasonable expectation of privacy standard in 1967 is not up to the task. And the justices know that but yet allow it to go on.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/52thvzry
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (AzCH9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (Cqx++)
What goes in the data centers is what should be the focus. Some is useful, some is evil. Same as always.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (mP0Kj)
The Internet does that already.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (0CU3H)
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The AI arms race isn't truly about AI itself. The real arms race is quantum computing. The AI race is the predecessor - if someone gets AI to solve for how to make quantum computing truly work at scale, they will own the world because they can break any existing encryption, and thus will know everyone's darkest secrets.
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (ftFVW)
I'd like to see the Hispanics in NYC revolt against Mamdani. He would have no idea how to deal with brown people attacking him
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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It's odd because I saw one of his cross-eyed they/thems announcing subsidies for the independent grocers who have to compete with the commie stores. The whole thing is following an unbelievably ludicrous trail.
Reminds me of a kid I used to babysit who got scared when I got out of his sight but he liked to play hide and seek. "Just call out and tell me where you are!" he said cheerily.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (mmrXZ)
https://tinyurl.com/4bmdpzz2
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (Y/06r)
I'll be back later... much later...
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (Q+gd/)
Can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Technology marches on
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Well, I don't have a TV, and will not be getting one. And I just bought a phone with the Graphene OS, so Gurgle's spyware is out of it. I can still be tracked by geofencing based on which cell towers it pings, but that is unavoidable if the phone is to work at all. It's not spying for the sake of spying.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
Welp, it turns out that DoW contractors no less, are doing searches on AI models and then sharing the results with the CCP. That in turn is used as data for AI training models for the Chicoms. Easy way to piggyback on the tremendous expense of frontier models.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
He's a guy whose house got robbed by Democrat client groups and the city government said there was nothing they can do. Making money solving a problem like that is the most American thing on the planet.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)
Is Baron Trump dating anyone?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Why are you not a space-based data center enthusiast? Yes, there are technical problems to be overcome (heat dissipation and latency) but I think it will be the way of the future.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)
Meh. Elbows, again...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
Objection! She also has a fine set of legs and ass!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Is that a lot?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (2Ez/1)
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Very impressive credentials.
I like eating and drinking, so I am a gourmand and a sommelier.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
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Yeah, but are you circumsized?
Posted by: Senator Abdul "The al-Qaeda guy" El-Sayed at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (AzCH9)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)
Katz…wiretapping, right?
And that was done 50 years after phone usage became widespread.
Courts move slowly.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:37 PM (jPziU)
Regarding bodega owners... this will change the way they vote, right. Right?
Posted by: She Hobbit
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Different commies next time.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:38 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:38 PM (Y/06r)
Meh. Elbows, again...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
But, they ARE a mighty fine, voluptuous example of them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:38 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (QZThv)
Meh. Elbows, again...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (cGjQu)
https://tinyurl.com/msh3svah
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (cWLG3)
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"Here, hold our hammers & sickles."
/The Democrat Communists of America
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: pookysgirl might have more than two brain cells at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (Wt5PA)
Well, Hispanics have been turning out for more right wing candidates...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (cGjQu)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Thank you, ballistic. THIS makes a ton of sense. Interestingly enough, I've never heard that particular argument made in public yet.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (0CU3H)
The centers are being pushed by datacenter builders who want to suck up investment while it's available. They'll get paid and leave the investors holding the bag if no tenant can be found.
It's a mad rush of "build it and they will come." It's a very risky strategy that will surely end up with empty multi-billion centers.
Sorta like all those yuge malls that were build before they had tenants.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
"A report by Environment America says more than 25% of the state’s power now goes to data centers, and a report last year by the General Assembly’s investigative arm said that unrestrained growth of data centers could triple electricity demands by 2040."
Thus, why it's 80-20, and the only popular thing Spanburger has done...tax them and slow this growth down...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (tOcjL)
He's like 6'7", rich, and in a college environment that's 65/35 female. Even the liberal chicks are reportedly throwing themselves at him.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)
Instead of advocating for better gun laws or learning to handle a gun himself, he decides to invite the police to become the Stasi. You know, for safety.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
Except he didn't solve that problem. at.All.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (1z8ji)
>>@KatieDaviscourt
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1h
>>Breaking: Portland Antifa’s terror site, “Rose City Counter-Info,” has been taken offline following State Dept expose.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
"Too Many Secrets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
Because people are sometimes evil. Governments surely are too. And it's just too tempting to use the surveillance for their own ends.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (2Cry5)
Data centers are whiny and weak unless they put nuclear behind the meter.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (2ap+5)
I literally work inside a data center. Most of what they're putting out there about DC's is bullshit. Large amounts of it.
Posted by: Sponge
Just a bunch of rack mounted computers and storage, right?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Graphene can keep your info safe on your phone but not whenever you use it to communicate.
Plus, new surveillance tech allows imeis and other identifiers to be picked up on the fly, sometimes with cameras attached, sometimes not.
This sobering article for 2013 shows how using metadata can lead to identification of individuals.
https://tinyurl.com/Paul-Revere-Network-Analysis
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
"Too Many Secrets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
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LLMs aren't going to solve quantum computing.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)
He'd better be vigilant, or else some leftist chick might do horrible things to him just to "own" his father.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (Z5BUl)
Sorta like all those yuge malls that were build before they had tenants.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
That right there is literally my only concern about them.
Not “they use too much power, they use too much water, they threaten privacy, they chew up farmland…”. Build them, but use them and make damn sure there is a use for them.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (jPziU)
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one.
The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
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Not all AI is LLMs.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (oqH4h)
So all electrical power flows from the munificence of the State?
Sure, why not? Doesn't everything already belong to the state?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (cGjQu)
The Trump Energy Department and half a dozen startups are working on it. One of them is building modular reactors in shipping containers - drop it off, plug it in, zero-carbon power for 30 years. That'll revolutionize "off-grid" stuff if they shrink it a bit more.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (tOcjL)
The Calif Government is all in on building Data Centers...
At the same time it limits how large of a power supply I can have in my Home Computer.
/scratches head
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (cWLG3)
Do you want a cookie? I don't think I'd tell the world how bad I was at allowing bots.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (Jl/ju)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)
Instead of advocating for better gun laws or learning to handle a gun himself, he decides to invite the police to become the Stasi. You know, for safety.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (jPziU)
He could have even moved out of the city and told them why they were losing his tax revenue, but muh Thai food at 3am???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (+fdRY)
So all electrical power flows from the munificence of the State?
Sure, why not? Doesn't everything already belong to the state?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (cGjQu)
Rain, and Water... and the make Legislation about Air... and you have to pay rent (property taxes) for your own land...
So... yeah... pretty much.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (tOcjL)
The Calif Government is all in on building Data Centers...
At the same time it limits how large of a power supply I can have in my Home Computer.
/scratches head
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 28, 2026 12:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Funny enough, new numbers are out...VA dropped to #2 electricity importer...CA is now #1...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (tOcjL)
Because people are sometimes evil. Governments surely are too. And it's just too tempting to use the surveillance for their own ends.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (2Cry5)
And this is happening right now in TX. Cops have gotten busted using them to stalk people here.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (jPziU)
95% of all AI Data Center news is fake.
1 Book oft quoted misstated the water use by %100,000
AI Data Center water is lifecycled every 10 Years.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (/+uur)
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic
Not helped by most of the original quantum computing 'breakthroughs" were in fact bullshit.
From comp security specialists on quantum computing.
https://tinyurl.com/Quantum-of-Flapdoodle
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
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Not all AI is LLMs.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (oqH4h)
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Right, the rest is machine learning and expert systems. However, LLMs are still being marketed as a first step towards AGI, which they are not.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (cWLG3)
"Nice little flower shop ya got here. Would be a shame if the wiring and HVAC weren't up to code..."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (FZ29D)
Her Majesty is in Amana, Iowa this weekend. She was telling me how startlingly different the area is. Clean streets. Well-maintained houses. Nice farms. Like another world.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (O0L8i)
So all electrical power flows from the munificence of the State?
Sure, why not? Doesn't everything already belong to the state?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (cGjQu)
This referred to all power used in the borders of the state...within the borders, data centers as a singular business, use 25% of all the power anyone and anything in the state uses (residents, other businesses, government, schools, etc)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Sanitation Police! at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
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A "Sneakers" reference? Well played, sir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (Tr0Ci)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
"Too Many Secrets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
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LLMs aren't going to solve quantum computing.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)
I am thinking about this line of argument some more. One thing that AI would (or should, in theory) be able to do is program in whatever language quantum hardware would work in. If the world's computer scientists have worked in the binary (or hex?) system for decades, there probably aren't more than a handful of humans on earth that can even conceive or work within the constraints of a quantum programming environment. You'd probably need a computer to program another computer.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 28, 2026 12:43 PM (QZThv)
At Fort Hood they will be experimenting with SMRs to take the base off grid.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (jPziU)
Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (Y/06r)
"Polymarket reports X reports thing and that proves anyone who disagrees with me is a foreign agent!" It's okay. You oppose advancement and progress and want nothing but stagnation. You want the US weaker, stupider, and poorer because you genuinely hate it and its people.
Texas is eagerly pursuing renewable energy and is building it at a faster rate than California is. Why? Because its just good business.
If green energy is a scam made up by China why is China building solar at much faster rate than the US?
Being against green energy is one of the dumbest positions someone can have. If the US invested, we'd have energy independence, which would strengthen the economy and national defense.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
From comp security specialists on quantum computing.
https://tinyurl.com/Quantum-of-Flapdoodle
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)
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I work for a company that is putting quite a bit of money and R&D hours into post-quantum cryptography. This is a company you've definitely heard of before and it's been around since the beginning of the internet. People who know, know that quantum isn't bullshit. A lot of the stuff on the periphery of it is, though.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (oqH4h)
A "Sneakers" reference? Well played, sir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (Tr0Ci)
*phew*
I thought I was on an island out here in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
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Let's be fair now and give the USSR its due.
It directly funded the Sierra Club for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (Jl/ju)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (0CU3H)
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This is exactly the correct line of thinking.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:30 PM (cWLG3)
As far as I can tell, it is her new lingerie line.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)
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Sydney Yields Rigid Netherregions?
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (EPw5O)
Its a mistake to think that they are only about AI (they have existed for decades, before the rise of artificial "intelligence"). They are about data storage as well, especially videos. The internet is huge and keeps getting more gigantic every second. All that has to be stored somewhere. Processed somewhere.
I am not convinced that AI is an arms race or has any similarity to previous conflicts or struggles. If someone comes up with a really great AI, its literally not possible to keep it to yourself. Anything major anyone comes up with in computer tech ends up global no matter what rules or laws are in place or how careful someone is, because of its very nature.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Amanas are fine, but Maytags are more dependable and trouble-free.
Posted by: Lonely Jesse White at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
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lol
"China does it, so it's objectively good."
Also, it's untrue. China's energy is mostly fed by many, many new coal fired plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (O0L8i)
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a very nice place indeed
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (Tr0Ci)
I thought I was on an island out here in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)
Nah, I got it, I am just stuck in bureaucratic hell. Plus, that movie gets worse the older I get. Fucking hippy commie shits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:31 PM (0CU3H)
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The AI arms race isn't truly about AI itself. The real arms race is quantum computing. The AI race is the predecessor - if someone gets AI to solve for how to make quantum computing truly work at scale, they will own the world because they can break any existing encryption, and thus will know everyone's darkest secrets.
If China gets to quantum computing before we do, we are El Fucked-o.
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Yeah, this. Exactly.
Within minutes (seconds?) the country that has functional AI and quantum computing could pretty much infiltrate, poison, and destroy any country's economy and probably defense...maybe isolated nuclear subs might be immune from take-over if receiving...well, just about nothing.
A true nightmare.
And whoever gets it first, would almost have to use it, to destroy other nations ability to use it on them. If you can do it, they can do it too.
Posted by: Another Pop Song Not About Love at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (Jl/ju)
Hah! Well played.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 12:49 PM (2Cry5)
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"said some sources."
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (cWLG3)
AI Data Center water is lifecycled every 10 Years.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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One of the issues that gets buried is in fact a problem.
Power generation offsite like fossil fuel plants, nuclear, etc. requires massive cooling towers so most if not all are located by rivers and the water from those rivers goes into the atmosphere as water vapor. Back in the water wars between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, the battle over that river water included the problem that the largest leak in the water ecosystem stemmed from water vapor being evaporated in those cooling towers. Crop irrigation, drinking and septic uses of water, were largely dealt with by water treatment and recharging native aquifers. Not so for cooling tower evaporation.
So if the datacenter uses gobs of electricity or evaporation towers for any heat transference, then they are 'using' water that would not be otherwise used.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv)
Amanas are fine, but Maytags are more dependable and trouble-free.
Posted by: Lonely Jesse White at August 28, 2026 12:50 PM (JM9I6)
_________
Yes, it's actually Amana Colonies and, yes, that's where the brand name comes from and, yes, they still have a plant there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:52 PM (O0L8i)
Nah, I got it, I am just stuck in bureaucratic hell. Plus, that movie gets worse the older I get. Fucking hippy commie shits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:51 PM (Y/06r)
I saw it a LONG time ago. Robert Redford has long since alienated me to where I won't watch anything with him in it, so I haven't seen it again.
And yeah. OSHA training. Time spent where you'd rather hit yourself in the foot repeatedly with a 4lb drilling hammer.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
Portland Antifa’s terror site, “Rose City Counter-Info,” has been taken offline following State Dept expose.
Posted by: JackStraw
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State Dept. Interesting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)
1) water is not destroyed by power plants, they use it, some even recycle the water they take in over and over. The water is not polluted or blighted by being used to cool tech. They cannot be built in super remote place like antarctica because they need the water and power to run.
2) we need more power plants. Complaining that data centers take up too much energy is accurate, but miguided; that means we have too little energy for the demand, not that data centers are evil.
Thankfully this will solve its self: just like how all these silicon valley guys dumped climate change the instant they realized it would limit their development, they will push for power plants and have the clout to make it happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (K32Fz)
Portland Antifa’s terror site, “Rose City Counter-Info,” has been taken offline following State Dept expose.
Posted by: JackStraw
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State Dept. Interesting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)
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Trump's political appointees in his second term are very different from his political appointees in his first term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (/PKja)
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"Political grift is always the best business to be in, comrades!"
/Should sock this as "Minnesommalians"
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 28, 2026 12:48 PM (t19vo)
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lol
"China does it, so it's objectively good."
Also, it's untrue. China's energy is mostly fed by many, many new coal fired plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 12:50
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Exactly!
"If green energy is a scam made up by China [insert BS that you don't expect anyone to fact-check]?"
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (cWLG3)
Fucking hell."
Hey, that's how we sold it!
/NHS
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:55 PM (cGjQu)
*ducks
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
https://youtu.be/H-uWqXqk5vs
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:55 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
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We'll get there first, but China will steal it.
Same outcome, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 12:55 PM (FZ29D)
There are 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville.
Posted by: Nashville Cats at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (JM9I6)
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How the fuck can you own a business and not speak English? Does NYC print all of its regulatory bullshit in every language on Earth?
Posted by: The_Hoser at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (H4qGm)
Thankfully this will solve its self: just like how all these silicon valley guys dumped climate change the instant they realized it would limit their development, they will push for power plants and have the clout to make it happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 12:54 PM (K32Fz)
Well, til the power fix happens here, I'll be happy to let the other 49 states catch up on data center developments...VA has plenty for now, probably more than we need or want...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (cGjQu)
Sorry for the OT, but pray for me, please.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
But it's on the internet.....and you KNOW what they say about things on the internet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)
Within RadarRange?
*ducks
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
wow. A deep, deep pull from the 1970s. I remember those Touchmatic commercials.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:58 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: ballistic at August 28, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)
Yeah, this. Exactly.
Posted by: Another Pop Song Not About Love
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I just watched a youtube by some sciencey type saying that IBM, Google etc. have been claiming for almost ten years that quantum computing would have real world uses shortly, but that we're actually no closer to it now than were were then. And that it's probably at least decades away.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 12:58 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: ballistic
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You might be interested in Jerry Pournelle and his co-author Stefan Possony plus Francis Kane.
The Strategy of Technology.
I am not discounting quantum computing but putting a lot of investment into it is no marker of whether a return will result. We have ideas that it CAN work and demonstrated some examples of breaking cryptography keys for example, but like AI frontier models, I think it is a bit oversold for now. Ten, twenty years from now, it might or might not be ubiquitous but it might not too.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 28, 2026 12:59 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:59 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 01:00 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (OUMaO)
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Give yourself a minute.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 01:00 PM (RIvkX)
The problem with the botfarms now is that they don't just attack, they also praise. Imagine getting 10K likes for a certain class of posting but also being beaten on for taking "wrong" positions? It could edge the usual normie with an X account and the wish to be an influencer with a following into acting like Nick Fuentes.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
That anyone is even thinking about voting for the Democrat Party after what they have demonstrably done in the past, and are promising for the future is truly born of ignorance, malice or an embrace of what is to come- and it doesn’t end well.
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”
Ephesians 6:10-11
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (zy41W)
Within RadarRange?
*ducks
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 12:53 PM (cGjQu)
wow. A deep, deep pull from the 1970s. I remember those Touchmatic commercials.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2026 12:57 PM (0CU3H)
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I'm pretty sure those buttons required a little more than a "touch" to operate.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (cWLG3)
1) water is not destroyed by power plants, they use it, some even recycle the water they take in over and over. The water is not polluted or blighted by being used to cool tech. They cannot be built in super remote place like antarctica because they need the water and power to run.
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"... US corn farming uses more water in a single day than every American data center consumes directly in a year."
-- from "Which Industries Use the Most Water in America [7/9/26]
https://tinyurl.com/36vz5htj
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
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If we don't nominate Nick Fuentes to be president in 2028, Pakistan won't vote GOP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (UjdFS)
Doesn't much matter, in about 10 years or so the tech will be advanced enough to run on user hardware and the data centers will be white elephants. They will have a grand future as roller rinks and laser tag playgrounds.
Posted by: Sid Blysters at August 28, 2026 01:02 PM (Q4iuB)
Within RadarRange?
*ducks
Posted by: man
The original commercial RadaRange cost $5,000 in 1947.
The original consumer one cost $500 in 1967.
Posted by: Off the Radar at August 28, 2026 01:02 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Nashville Cats at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (JM9I6)
We have seven real musicians and 10 well known bands.
Posted by: Australia at August 28, 2026 01:02 PM (/+uur)
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Oh, they know.
They all know.
They all just think they will be the ones holding the guns and getting the loot.
And not the ones facing the guns and getting looted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (3cUTc)
I came to this conclusion when I read about 'entanglement'
Science guys: if you don't know, just say you don't know
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
Twixxer is packed with this kind of thing, usually accompanied by an AI image of 1000 square miles of solar panels on the ocean or something.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: paulnjax at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (PPnyU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
Don't threaten me with a good time
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (xcxpd)
The problem with the botfarms now is that they don't just attack, they also praise. Imagine getting 10K likes for a certain class of posting but also being beaten on for taking "wrong" positions? It could edge the usual normie with an X account and the wish to be an influencer with a following into acting like Nick Fuentes.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
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AKA "A Brief History of Podcastistan"
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 01:00 PM (cWLG3)
Interesting idea as these could probably run 20 to 30 semi-AI agents for local plumbers and other services.
Answer phone and text schedule appts etc.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
Don't threaten me with a good time
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (xcxpd)
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*holds up copy of Twins of Evil threateningly*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (/PKja)
Just the other day the State Dept. sanctioned and went after a group in Italy that has been providing secure, encrypted communications for antifa around the world.
They know what's up.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (viF8m)
It will be disillusioning to make it at last to a TXMoMe and find the Horde is just a bunch of bots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (zy41W)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:04 PM (/PKja)
First I have to watch your Mel Brooks vid, then tonight....Twins! of Evil!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
Eh, I have seen a couple of stories where people have done so but simply most people don't have a need for it.
The AI hardware models nowadays are basically GPU derived and are not designed for ordinary hardware or tasks that they might run. Overkill in some facets, incapable in others.
What some are proposing to avoid the datacenter notion is that companies place these AI distributed units in homes that have good internet connections and they pay rent to the householder.
An AI stack in the basement might serve as a pretty good space heater in northern climates for winter.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (E4rtv)
Next, private store owner customers will have relatives, acquaintances, employees and strangers purchasing off the shelf from the City run store, with the same result. This is going to be a hoot.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (dIske)
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There are already laws against the police abusing their powers.
And yet, the police still abuse their powers.
the problem isn't the technology or the laws--the problem is the people.
And enforcing the law.
And, as I've lamented before, the hard-on of hate the courts have had for automobiles (how DARE those peons think they have a right to go where they want when they want?!!) has lead to a shitton of really crappy law that has nearly gutted the 4th Amendment.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (3cUTc)
This plays into my theory that science is a the limits of what it can understand and accomplish based on what it understands and until we get a real breakthrough of some new understanding, all we get are increasingly bizarre theories.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (K32Fz)
It will be disillusioning to make it at last to a TXMoMe and find the Horde is just a bunch of bots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 01:05 PM (O0L8i)
Let me tell you a story about Your Devious Uncle Palpatine...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Memento Mori at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Angel at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (3Nsid)
Epic troll, but ... he comically over-rates FDR and Wilson (Wilson was hot garbage) and drastically under-rates Coolidge.
https://tinyurl.com/39dsmufe
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
Epic troll, but ... he comically over-rates FDR and Wilson (Wilson was hot garbage) and drastically under-rates Coolidge.
https://tinyurl.com/39dsmufe
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
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It's a photoshop of a ranking from LIFE from decades ago.
The Bushes aren't even on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (/PKja)
It’s not a surprise to some of us.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (zy41W)
the word is he just grabbed someone's list from before he was president and stuck himself at the top for lulz, without caring about the rest
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (K32Fz)
Answer phone and text schedule appts etc.
Posted by: r hennigantx
Just no. Please in the Lord's name no. We don't want to be the meat puppet for the AI model agents and the fact that most of enshittification involves putting computers into tasks that actually they are mediocre or worse such as customer service, tech service, etc. is a huge problem.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
It’s Go Time Donald? That you?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iCp4l)
"Nice little flower shop ya got here. Would be a shame if the wiring and HVAC weren't up to code..."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 12:47 PM (FZ29D)
Mamdani is the peace maker. He will make food deserts and call it a peace.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)
Epic troll, but ... he comically over-rates FDR and Wilson (Wilson was hot garbage) and drastically under-rates Coolidge.
https://tinyurl.com/39dsmufe
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)
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It's a photoshop of a ranking from LIFE from decades ago.
The Bushes aren't even on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:08 PM (/PKja)
________
I know, but still ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
1948 list by Arthur Schlesinger.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)
It looks like the chinks recruited the most deranged and loudmouth dumbasses across the rural areas to create FUD about datacenters.
It's all a lie.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (och2J)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:01 PM (/PKja)
It’s Go Time Donald? That you?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (jPziU)
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"Young people vote at historic numbers every midterm."
-Its Go Time Donald, probably
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (/PKja)
"Kaark!!! NO SNEEZE GUARD!!"
--Khan Noonien Singh
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (K32Fz)
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 28, 2026 01:10 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (K32Fz)
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The latest batch of space telescopes has been uncovering some really weird stuff in the past few years. Things that the standard model of physics says shouldn't be possible.
Yeah, we're a long, long ways from really understanding how the universe works.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Memento Mori
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Alas, too much fiber and not enough digestible protein brings a sad end.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (Jr5Lq)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (zy41W)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)
My insurer’s love on AI for phone calls makes me long for the days of some annoying voice listing options “To make a claim press 1”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (jPziU)
No, that one is entirely organic and rose long after the huge well of anti-data-center bots. Its just people sick of being photographed and spied on everywhere, and finally doing something about it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:12 PM (K32Fz)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:11 PM (zy41W)
It’s for your safety. Quit whining about freedom. Safety comes first.
Posted by: Garrett Langley, Flock CEO at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (jPziU)
Sorry for the OT, but pray for me, please.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 12:56 PM (OUMaO)
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Will do, Brother.
[This has been my greatest fear for awhile, and why I've proctively worked at continually exercising my brain (reading, commenting here, solving puzzles, et. al.) and body (physical stress and nutrition) for the past decade.
It's a hell of a thing having had a tremendous short-term memory ... once.]
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (EPw5O)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:12 PM (K32Fz)
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I agree. I think a critical mass of disgruntled citizens has been reached, at least in this one area.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (FZ29D)
These are not the small ethnic delis or groceries some of us fondly remember as kids.
They are now mostly criminal enterprises selling fenced/stolen goods. Massive SNAP and welfare fraud. Many have their own resident gangbangers and drug dealers. They are usually filthy, staffed by illegals, and it's mostly illegals shopping there.
There's a reason bodegas are overwhelmingly in poor neighborhoods. In wealthier neighborhoods, they have been replaced with chain groceries and supermarkets.
Sure, there are still a few legit small groceries owned and operated by small business owners. But those aren't really bodegas and are the exception rather than the rule.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
As long as I am armed and breathing air, I don’t need the government for safety.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (zy41W)
But its happened repeatedly where law enforcement jumps on something new, uses it until a court says "my brothers in Christ, you cannot violate peoples' rights like that even if it helps you get bad guys"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (K32Fz)
I came to this conclusion when I read about 'entanglement'
Science guys: if you don't know, just say you don't know
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
Einstein famously said God doesn’t play dice. His instinct was that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was wrong. But he understood how very good it is at scientific prediction. It’s great science… as to whether it depicts ultimate reality that’s a philosophical question
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (rbvCR)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus
We’ve had traffic cameras for decades. We’ve had toll highways scanning plates for decades. Even flock has been around for almost 10 years. Every house has a Ring camera Nobody cared.
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:09 PM (iCp4l)
Except I’m no bot. And I have never been a fan of the surveillance state.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
You have just restated Thomas Kuhn's thesis. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Widely read in social sciences but ironically mostly ignored by STEM types. Pees in their cornflakes a bit much is why.
Separates out normal science and revolutionary science. And it is when the contradictions in normal science (which is additive, procedural in nature, and consensus building) cause a crisis which a new revolutionary theory addresses successfully, then that new revolutionary theory settles down to becoming normal science all over again. Cyclic theory of science. Brought the use of paradigm into popular consciousness.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)
It think the problem will be that, after all of our economy comes to depend fully on AI, the AI providers will suddenly jack up their per token prices by 10X.
Posted by: gp at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
Perhaps. No need to be an apologist for the surveillance state.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 01:17 PM (j9ddv)
I came to this conclusion when I read about 'entanglement'
Science guys: if you don't know, just say you don't know
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)
Einstein famously said God doesn’t play dice. His instinct was that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was wrong. But he understood how very good it is at scientific prediction. It’s great science… as to whether it depicts ultimate reality that’s a philosophical question
I studied QM for many years, and concluded it was bunk due to the utter lack of turtles all the way down.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 01:17 PM (Riz8t)
Was corrected a while back after using the phrase 'Canadian geese', with a most solemn, 'Canada Geese'. The corrector was 10 years old
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Sky Carp
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:24 PM (6LG2q)
Cobra Chickens
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2026 01:17 PM (y9nCu)
Sorry for the OT, but pray for me, please.
Three things to consider (I am in the same kind of boat).
1) As we age, our abilities diminish. We cannot do what we once did, we lose our sharp focus, our energy, and our tolerance for hardship and strain. Its a natural part of life on this earth, as evil as it is.
2) This does not mean you are falling into dementia or alzheimer's. I just lost my mom a few year ago to dementia and was her primary caretaker for the last two years. I live with that horror and worry about it too, but it is not abnormal to be less able and forget more as we age.
3) You sound like someone who needs to take a break. Not just a vacation but regularly. If you are not, take at least one day off a week: no work. NO WORK. don't think about it, don't do just a little, don't just set things up. Just take that day off, and do only the minimum you need to survive and care for your family.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:18 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:18 PM (zy41W)
Posted by: Put a fork in it at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:06 PM (xcxpd)
Whatever happened to that guy?
Posted by: Polka will never die at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (1g6sz)
Their bot that reviewed the first bot's determination also decided that I'm not real.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:13 PM (jPziU)
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There is rampant & recent historical evidence demonstrating this ... and resulting in a concomitant hundreds of millions murdered and mass graves.
I haven't been calling it A Death Cult most of my life for nothin' ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (EPw5O)
I would like to know more.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 01:19 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2026 01:14 PM (rbvCR)
I'll bet AI agents are being designed right now to disseminate cover-ups of AI-caused problems, failures of AI to control to-spec everything from stocking grocery stores to large aircraft, you name it. I'd do this if I sold usage of AI engines that are to do anything.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (PGK1w)
Government wants to be your god.
Posted by: Marcus
We’ve had traffic cameras for decades. We’ve had toll highways scanning plates for decades. Even flock has been around for almost 10 years. Every house has a Ring camera Nobody cared.
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
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I think more likely, it reached a tipping point and people started noticing it.
Ring cameras were also an outrage du jour back when they started to pop up everywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
They don't actually need it but it has some hallmarks.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (JunZe)
Posted by: pookysgirl, not quite a farmgirl at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (geWO5)
Not saying I agree with any of that. But Flock and surveillance cameras of people engaged in ordinary activity is quite a bit different and in my opinion unconstitutional.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (zy41W)
You can see it down through history, science pushes to its limits and starts getting ridiculous and silly as it tries to explain what it cannot know, yet. I am certain we are up against one of those limits and you can tell by how increasingly ridiculous the theories and explanations get, and how little science does any practical, useful stuff any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (K32Fz)
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
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The difference has been pointed out here repeatedly.
Toll booths/highway scanners are situational.
Flock is omnipresent and builds a heatmap of your movements over time. Toll cameras don't create a dossier on every person driving through them the way Flock cameras do.
I don't get why that distinction is difficult for you to understand.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 01:23 PM (PGK1w)
And then one day, all of a sudden out of the blue, it’s a thing and everyone is riled up about it. This is coordinated.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 01:16 PM (iCp4l)
Nope. And you are all wet here.
Ring cameras are used by private citizens. Flock cameras are expressly designed to be used by people who can either 1) deprive you of your liberty or 2) kill you.
And I suggest looking into the whack job who runs Flock. He thinks his cameras can end crime, and has said so.
Think of me as the puppet of some Svengali all you want if it makes you feel better though. And if a surveillance state is what you want, just move to the PRC, DPRK or Cuba. You won’t be missed.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:24 PM (jPziU)
quarks gluons spin flavors bosons
will it lead to a better mousetrap? Who TF knows
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Welp, it happens in our social and economic theories as well.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (E4rtv)
Not saying I agree with any of that. But Flock and surveillance cameras of people engaged in ordinary activity is quite a bit different and in my opinion unconstitutional.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 01:22 PM (zy41W)
Even the TX Legislature ended red light cameras seven years ago. Not legal in the state, and that’s includes Balcones Heights.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Old Bill Shakespeare at August 28, 2026 01:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, not quite a farmgirl at August 28, 2026 01:21 PM (Wt5PA)
Data centers on good farmland is bad. Commercial development and subdivisions on good farmland is GREAT and WONDERFUL and MUST NOT EVER BE STOPPED!!!
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:29 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM
Ummm...is this Glock loaded?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: UA113 at August 28, 2026 01:33 PM (iojh6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 01:26 PM
Ummm...is this Glock loaded?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)
all guns are always loaded
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 28, 2026 01:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Marcus T
It is my originalist take on the 4th but the justices on Scotus are not there yet. Stare decisis is why plus the unpleasant reality that fedgov relies on what should be regarded as illegal interception of communication traffic with foreigners to protect the nation.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 01:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Klaus at August 28, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 01:30 PM (2Ez/1)
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Do interns get glocks?
Posted by: Klaus at August 28, 2026 02:04 PM (Fi81e)
Gonna rock around with a glock tonight.
Gonna glock, glock, glock till it's broaddaylight.
Gonna rock, gonna rock around with a glock tonight.
Posted by: Klaus at August 28, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: RobertM at August 28, 2026 02:14 PM (btIS/)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 02:39 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: MikeN at August 28, 2026 03:29 PM (XON5m)
THE MORNING RANT: “Polite conservatism” didn’t put woke corporations on the defensive - conservative activists did; This time the target is the Big Four Accounting Firms
The Big Four’s climate commitments…conflict with core professional accounting standards of materiality, neutrality, and error avoidance. These commitments create an appearance that the Big Four have agreed to compromise their independence in favor of pursuing climate-related goals external to the audit. The Big Four’s climate commitments also create potential conflicts of interest that may violate the duties of integrity and objectivity by imposing climate-related disclosure obligations that benefit the Big Four at the expense of their clients. Furthermore, the Big Four’s advertising about their independence, integrity, and objectivity, without disclosure of their climate-activist commitments and actions to impose additional regulatory burdens on their customers, may constitute deceptive and unfair acts and practices under state law.For now, the process is the punishment by the AGs. Each of the four accounting firms must reply to 32 questions and requests, which will require massive documentation and retrieval of historical corporate records. Here are just a couple of examples of what the woke accountants must provide:
Each of the four accounting firms must also specifically explain how they can advertise to customers that they are independent, while simultaneously pledging fealty to global agencies committed to an anti-carbon climate agenda that is harmful to many of the Big Four’s clients. Corporate America and the left-wing executives (they/them) who were so willing to shove cultural communism down our throats are in the uncomfortable position of defending their indefensible actions. Polite conservatives did not make this happen. It was activists like Robby Starbuck and conservative Attorney Generals. Much gratitude to them.
4. Provide copies of all training materials and written guidance for auditors that were created, issued, provided, or used by your firm since 2020 that are related to climate-related disclosures and reporting in company statements, including (a) all documents related to the materiality or lack of materiality of climate-related information, and (b) all documents related to any International Sustainability Board standards or to the Bulletin. 10. Is it your firm’s position that disclosures of climate-related risks are material for every company you audit or provide assurances for? Describe your approach to determining whether such disclosures are material. Provide copies of all internal policies, guidance, and similar documents you have created, issued, or provided since 2020 to guide your auditors on this issue.
Even worse, the “fiscally conservative budget hawks” wouldn’t even cut obvious targets of waste, such as aid to foreign despots or funding for NPR, because those appropriations were just “drops in the ocean.” However, if there was ever “drop in the ocean” spending that was a priority to the conservative base, the budget hawks suddenly found religion, and would oppose it as an unacceptable increase in federal spending. Five billion dollars for a border barrier was a “budget buster,” while at the same time Congress was still appropriating billions of dollars to the PLO, and hundreds of millions of dollars to abortion mills.This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator: “The $40 Trillion National Debt and the ‘Budget Hawk’ Ruse that Led to MAGA”https://t.co/cSmZMbs6dH
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) August 26, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (kV76K)
LOL.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:06 AM (kV76K)
https://tinyurl.com/3557yfw8
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (kV76K)
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FIFY
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (FZ29D)
It's like refusing to buy a padlock for your bike in a high crime area because they cost a few bucks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
If any of those firms sell stock holding in their company,
they should have the Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwiches sued out of them for-
ignoring their fiduciary duty to their holders.
And go to jail if that can be managed as well.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (iJfKG)
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*banjo plays*
*singing*
Two lions are loose
in the cornfields of Indiana
The power is back on in Gary after 2 weeks
If they need lights.
Then light them lions on fire
And the cornfields'll burn
With all their might
(chorus)
There's corn inside of whiskey
And whiskey's corn inside of me
I'm the one
Who let loose the lions
And now I'm hangin' from a tree
...
...
Posted by: Another Pop Song Not About Love at August 28, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
It's become a core social structure going back more than a decade now. It's gonna take time. There are a couple hundred million people accustomed to this regime.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:10 AM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/yedn95j6
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:11 AM (kV76K)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (kV76K)
Not so. A sufficient percentage of the legislature smiles on her actions else she'd have been removed. They use the courts to stymy good governance efforts while avoid blame, as they use enabling acts to place blame on the executive for rules made possible by the legislature.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:11 AM (ExV1e)
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I knew you were thinking about me. *wink*
Posted by: Jen Psaki at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Illiterate, Innumerate, Sometimes Incontinent at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (JM9I6)
She and Boasberg are almost singlehandedly ensuring that the removal of rogue judges will become a major issue in '28. We know that if she was removed, the left would then try to remove judges on the right. The entire legal system is in mortal peril, all because the Dems can't win without judges assuming the right to legislate.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Cz6Yh)
But, you know, No Kings!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
She and Boasberg are almost singlehandedly ensuring that the removal of rogue judges will become a major issue in '28. We know that if she was removed, the left would then try to remove judges on the right. The entire legal system is in mortal peril, all because the Dems can't win without judges assuming the right to legislate.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
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If this manifests, I think it manifests in reforms of the Judicial Act, not impeachment of individual judges.
There's never going to be 67 votes in the Senate for conviction for judges who have signaled support of one party over the other except in, perhaps, the most egregious of corruption circumstances...maybe.
But a modification to the act that makes district judges have limits on their tenure? That may be possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:15 AM (/PKja)
Surely you jest, as my experiences in the trenches of woke corporations can attest.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 11:15 AM (jPziU)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
It's become a core social structure going back more than a decade now. It's gonna take time. There are a couple hundred million people accustomed to this regime.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The educational institutions are at the heart of this. All of what's happen in industry, etc., is just treating the symptom.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)
Go get them, tiger!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (SK+av)
These goals happen to be opposed, but are cobbled into an alliance against [left as an exercise to the reader]
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (NcvvS)
Funny. No, these firms duty is to ensure their large city employees get mega likes on antisocial media.
Once you understand this, it all makes sense
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (j0Tky)
There's never going to be 67 votes in the Senate for conviction for judges who have signaled support of one party over the other except in, perhaps, the most egregious of corruption circumstances...maybe.
But a modification to the act that makes district judges have limits on their tenure? That may be possible.
I'm not sure that would work. It seems like it would simply amplify the ideological swings we now have in elected positions. Maybe.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Or if they fake it because it allows them to advance leftist policy goals while still pretending to be Republican.
But, either way, the way they scream and run in fear at any suggestion of being called a racist--no matter how specious and malevolent the claim--is embarrassing.
After 10 years of them constantly calling Trump a racists over anything and everything, their only motivation that can remain is:
They want to advance leftist policies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:06 AM (kV76K)
Too bad the mix is so muddy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (1z8ji)
It's like refusing to buy a padlock for your bike in a high crime area because they cost a few bucks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
Five billion dollars to the defense of national sovereignty - a legit purpose of government - is horrifying. Those other causes are just fine as they are not legit purposes of government.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (jPziU)
Hmm. I wonder if this sort of issue has popped up in, say, the past hundred years or so?
Beuller?
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:16 AM (NcvvS)
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The House has all the power in the federal government, if it chooses to accept shutting things down to get its way.
It initiates every budget bill. It can shut down departments as a whole through appropriations bills, send them to the Senate, and then just go home for the rest of Congress.
Paul Ryan chose to slow down some spending on the edges so that in 50 years we might balance the budget. He was a man without vision, at best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:18 AM (3cUTc)
They want to run them BETTER!
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (jPziU)
How much of the push to replace Americans with jeets was due, not just to save on payroll, but to boost their DEI scores?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:20 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
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It might work, it might not.
But I think it's the only way any reform is coming to the judiciary. Impeachment is a non-starter, and I'm not sure what other reforms could make it through 60 votes in the Senate in the next few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:20 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Just make it legal to shoot rogue judges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
And therefore this rogue judge has concluded there's no down side to ignoring the law and SCOTUS, and just letting her freak flag fly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/5y9m3xu5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:23 AM (CtByK)
While I read it all I could think of was the GOPe saying "that's not who we are". And that's why you're becoming extinct
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:23 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Former Porter On The Romney/Ryan Express at August 28, 2026 11:23 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
Didn’t work out so well for me. I was just a hard ass. Look what happened to me.
Posted by: Maximum John Wood at August 28, 2026 11:24 AM (jPziU)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Just make it legal to shoot rogue judges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
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A defined removal process for ruling on matters outside their jurisdiction.
District judges have no authority, by statute that created the district courts, over immigration matters. It's explicit in the statute.
So, something like, "The president can appeal to Congress to have Congress remove judge with bare majority votes, with required approval from SCOTUS" or something. I dunno. I'm winging it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:24 AM (/PKja)
And therefore this rogue judge has concluded there's no down side to ignoring the law and SCOTUS, and just letting her freak flag fly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
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Pretty much!
But Trump is playing the long game and getting wins over time.
TPS is canceled for everyone now, despite the efforts to stop his ending of the status.
The mail in ballot thing was always mainly for 2028, not 2026. Getting it in time for 2026 would be good, but 2028 is the real goal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:25 AM (/PKja)
So, something like, "The president can appeal to SCOTUS to have Congress remove judge with bare majority votes, with required approval from SCOTUS" or something. I dunno. I'm winging it.
That's an interesting thought, but then it would have to go through Justice Roberts spine of tofu. He'd never bite.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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So, something like, "The president can appeal to SCOTUS to have Congress remove judge with bare majority votes, with required approval from SCOTUS" or something. I dunno. I'm winging it.
That's an interesting thought, but then it would have to go through Justice Roberts spine of tofu. He'd never bite.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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I typoed, and meant it to involve all three branches, so the initial appeal would go through Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 11:26 AM (oCS0o)
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham in 1941 should be read as the correct prophesy that it is.
Brave AI Summary,
"The Managerial Revolution is a 1941 book by James Burnham that argues capitalism is being replaced not by socialism, but by managerialism—a system ruled by a new class of managers, technocrats, and bureaucrats.
Burnham posits that ownership and control have separated in modern industrial societies, allowing a managerial elite to seize power through state ownership and economic planning. He identifies Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and New Deal America as early examples of this shift, where managers control production for administrative efficiency rather than capitalist profit. "
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
I'm sure I'll not add much to anything today.
I'm sure that shocks most of you........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (2WIwB)
Managerialism sounds a lot like fascism.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
Here's Dolly, Linda and Emmylou singing together
https://tinyurl.com/3ry3kx7m
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (CtByK)
I'm sure I'll not add much to anything today.
I'm sure that shocks most of you........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)
Sounds like the Sponge is wrung out.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (2WIwB)
"You're welcome!"
- - - - - Your Local HR Department.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (EZWVc)
Sounds like the Sponge is wrung out.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:28 AM (2WIwB)
I'm sure I could use a good cleansing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
I'm sure that shocks most of you........
Dude! At least give us a chance to make the cutting remark!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
It's not going to ever get resolved unless methods outside the existing guardrails are used.
Or it remains a completely biased system for one ideological group of people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (EZWVc)
Whomever told Dylan he could sing should be shunned for eternity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
It's not going to ever get resolved unless methods outside the existing guardrails are used.
Or it remains a completely biased system for one ideological group of people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (2Cry5)
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Actually, it's the opposite.
Almost all the injunctions and actions against Trump are like a couple of dozen judges in 2-3 district courts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
Dude! At least give us a chance to make the cutting remark!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
Fire away! Wait....cutting......En Guard!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)
It was tried once before and didn't work. But that's what beta-testing is for.
For v2, I suggest cages and muzzles for judges, when not on the job, and then 7-day liberty for them afterward. They can go among the people, eat prepared food instead of raw meat, attend concerts, and so forth. A reward for good behavior, in the kennel and on the bench.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tom Waits at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are bad because he can't act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
Oh there's plenty of profit to be made. Cut the content of your product, jack up the price, inflating the "value" of the stock, which you sell before the company implodes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 11:31 AM (1z8ji)
Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are bad because he can't act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
But they're at least, usually, entertaining as can be.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)
Bob Dylan is one of two superb songwriters who should never have been allowed near a microphone. Leonard Cohen is the other.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:32 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JROD at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (Qcqjd)
Brilliant thesis proven true by events since the book was first published in 1941.
Burnham went on to write for NR back when they actually had intellectuals writing for them and published his Suicide of the West in 1964. Again predictive of our current plight as liberalism of his day turned inevitably into leftism.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (EZWVc)
Whomever told Dylan he could sing should be shunned for eternity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:29 AM (ccf/V)
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In my church, the Pastor is always calling for more men in the choir. Then he points to me and says, "Not so fast Diogenes, we need you doing other things."
And I sing better than Dylan.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (2WIwB)
Bob Dylan is one of two superb songwriters who should never have been allowed near a microphone. Leonard Cohen is the other.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:32 AM (NcvvS)
*Kris Kristofferson has entered the chat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)
And which one of those choices answers to customers... those who pay the freight.
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:34 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That is not profit in the traditional economic meaning, that is looting by insiders which is a very different thing. See principal (shareholder) agent (mgmt) theory and defection.
Again, Brave AI has a pretty good summary for gray box purposes.
"Defection in Principal-Agent Theory refers to an agent's decision to abandon a relationship or contract, typically driven by asymmetric information and misaligned incentives where the agent acts in their own self-interest rather than the principal's. This behavior is often exacerbated by moral hazard, where the agent takes hidden risks or exerts low effort because the principal cannot fully monitor their actions. "
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)
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This is absolutely true, but only in a technical sense. They abdicated their authority, or refuse to exercise it. It's easier to act like spectators. America has been desensitized and trained to accept that "nothing can be done" and/or "our hands our tied" and golly oh gee, some obscure department buried in the bowels of some unknown bureaucrat office has decreed what sort of light bulb is acceptable.
When they outlawe Booze, at least they recognized it required an amendment passed by both chambers of congress, and passed by a majority of state legislators. Now? Some unelected whack job can decree what kind of oven you're allowed to own.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (6LG2q)
Brave AI Summary,
"The Managerial Revolution is a 1941 book by James Burnham that argues capitalism is being replaced not by socialism, but by managerialism—a system ruled by a new class of managers, technocrats, and bureaucrats.
Burnham posits that ownership and control have separated in modern industrial societies, allowing a managerial elite to seize power through state ownership and economic planning. He identifies Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and New Deal America as early examples of this shift, where managers control production for administrative efficiency rather than capitalist profit. "
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
Efficiency is a bit of a stretch, but bureaucratic decay is natural in large organizations. You gain uniformity but have the following issues
1. Poor interest alignment (and corresponding factionalism)
2. Low information availability
3. Inflexible and slow to implement changes
Large franchises fix a good bit of this by having local owners function as local management.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at August 28, 2026 11:36 AM (okun6)
How much of the push to replace Americans with jeets was due, not just to save on payroll, but to boost their DEI scores?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 11:20 AM (3cUTc)
Probably both, but also remember: other cultures have no problems being racist and tribal as hell. Once they get into HR, they ONLY hire members of that tribe- whatever it is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:36 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (oCS0o)
When they outlawe Booze, at least they recognized it required an amendment passed by both chambers of congress, and passed by a majority of state legislators. Now? Some unelected whack job can decree what kind of oven you're allowed to own.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:35 AM (6LG2q)
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Congress abdicated its responsibilities something like a century ago.
The Imperial presidency has just grown to the point where the only power that matters is the executive branch.
But, a House run by a real bastard could do a whole lot on its own. YD for Speaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (/PKja)
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I wasn't referring to injunctions or judgements against only Trump. The bias is clearly against anything, or anyone remotely right of center. Your point about the districts/judges going against Trump is true, however.
The bias is something noticed and discussed here almost daily.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:33 AM (ccf/V)
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He could do just about anything, but singing might not have been his strongest point.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (sOsrI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:38 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (NcvvS)
As trivial an example as that might seem, it was so absurd that I think it persuaded a lot of people the government was too big, needed to STFU, and mind the things it's tasked with. You never know what will start the preference cascade.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
But our entitlement spending is "mandatory" which means we'll have no choice but massive tax hikes, which of course, won't raise the needed revenue.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (sOsrI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (sOsrI)
I believe he was the one, during his military career, commandeered a helo and flew to Johnny Cash's ranch to get him to listen to his songs.
Johnny figured anyone with the balls to fly over and land on his property without fear of getting shot deserved a listen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:39 AM (6LG2q)
Posted by: man
Ideally but instead you get the managers running the company for their own incentives which is why you see them glomming onto new companies, stifling innovation, and engaging in cartel like operations to stop competing.
Airlines are a perfect example--their local hold on gates at airports as 'property' means that travelers must go through the shrunken field of airlines to get from a to b and like ancient travel, are divested of their riches to do so.
And it is killing travel for all but the well heeled. Antithesis of Herb Kelleher and SW Airlines founding which has after his death turned into the perfect oligopolistic member of the big US airlines club.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:40 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:40 AM (j0Tky)
Peter, Paul, and Mary practically made a career out of turning his nasal whining into harmonious muzak.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
But, Everybody Knows is a good song, and it has a lot of lousy covers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:41 AM (BI5O2)
If I don't know that a company has a high ESG score, how will I know to not buy it?
I might have to do research!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 11:41 AM (vJrRc)
The decision by Tom Petty to make his own voice an impression of Dylan is a questionable one at best.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)
Indeed. The future isn't a boot on the face - it's a gate agent with it's own agenda...
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:43 AM (j0Tky)
There's a story that The Byrds hit with 'Hey Mr Tambourine Man' was almost derailed - another band from the late 50s-early 60s was trying to mount a comeback and wanted to use that song, but there were legal reasons they couldn't release it. Then The Byrds did and the other band faded away.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:30 AM (BI5O2)
What? No duty at the Dignity Canal?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)
But our entitlement spending is "mandatory" which means we'll have no choice but massive tax hikes, which of course, won't raise the needed revenue.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis
If you read economic history, outright defaults are rare unless you don't control your currency (like the EU nations), instead is a soft default of inflation that erodes the value of money to buy things. Green Nude Eel was such a shock--in essence, the Biden years made holders of US debt take a 25-30 percent haircut in the value of those bonds. We never see debt listed other than nominal but it too is deflated by inflation.
A better measure then is debt to GDP and we aren't great there but others are far worse including China, many nations in the Eurozone, the UK, and Japan.
We have the less shitty house in a bad neighborhood.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)
But, Everybody Knows is a good song, and it has a lot of lousy covers.
Don Henley's version is pretty good.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (NcvvS)
They can OWN a company- no matter who started and runs it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8
I mentioned reward, not punishment.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Octochicken
>We used to tune in a different FM station.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 11:45 AM (SK+av)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:46 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Most of it, probably. There aren't enough minorities of any sort in the US to fill the ESG quotas for "representation"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 11:46 AM (vJrRc)
I think the interview went really well. I want the job more than I thought I would. Not going to stop searching until I have a firm offer in hand, they still might pick someone else. I should hear back next week. I don't know if there will be a second interview round or not.
On topic items:
Yay for AGs doing their job! More of this!
Dolly was a treasure. I have a plastic 'boot mug' that I use as a pencil holder, from when we went to the Dixieland Stampede in Branson.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 11:46 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (EZWVc)
It took me a while to realize music is a product, a business, even something as personal as music. Never the twain shall meet, but they did get good at producing hits over the years.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (6LG2q)
I think the interview went really well. I want the job more than I thought I would. Not going to stop searching until I have a firm offer in hand, they still might pick someone else. I should hear back next week. I don't know if there will be a second interview round or not.
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!!!
Posted by: Kasey Kasem at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 11:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Sure it does, but I think the 'efficient' way to attack it has always been that it causes so much harm to those it purports to help.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 28, 2026 11:48 AM (zdLoL)
1. Poor interest alignment (and corresponding factionalism)
2. Low information availability
3. Inflexible and slow to implement changes
Large franchises fix a good bit of this by having local owners function as local management.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Burnham at the time was writing as a Trotskyite. Before his conversion to conservatism. And his term of efficiency meant more that according to the criteria that the managers themselves chose, the operation of a firm was much more efficient in carrying out those criteria than allowing shareholders to meddle in professional matters.
He later wrote a book arguing that managers, public and private, would do well to emulate Machiavelli--essentially the rehashed Plato Noble Lie bullshit where only the true insiders can see what must be done. At that stage, Burnham was in transition a bit.
But it wasn't until Suicide of the West that Burnham realized his errors that the system he thought he was describing was actually full of horrors and alien to Western thought.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Advo at August 28, 2026 11:50 AM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:50 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
Just make it legal to shoot rogue judges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
We could start by making only natural-born US citizens eligible for judgeship.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 11:51 AM (vJrRc)
How much of the push to replace Americans with jeets was due, not just to save on payroll, but to boost their DEI scores?
Partly, but once an executive gets an idea in their heads, no matter how retarded, they will push for it in the face of all evidence and reason. Ego is involved: they cannot be wrong or admit they were wrong. Plus most of them despite being good at business are not very smart. Same with politicians, although they are mostly driven by sloth: my staffers say I should do this.
So all it took was Indian voice getting the right execs in the right places or staffers in the right place a with the right politicians and getting the ball rolling. Once its in motion, its extremely hard to get businesses to change their minds
That's the main reason the DEI thing took off; these guys don't give a single damn about it personally but they were convinced it would make them more money and get more support from politicians and bureaucrats.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 28, 2026 11:51 AM (K32Fz)
111 The Byrds made bank on "Tambourine Man" and "Eight Miles High", the latter isn't a Dylan tune but both are corporate machine schlock with syrupy vocals and the rest of it. It is true Dylan is an acquired taste.
It took me a while to realize music is a product, a business, even something as personal as music. Never the twain shall meet, but they did get good at producing hits over the years.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 11:47 AM (6LG2q)
Speaking of music, I've been trying to remember the a cappella men's quartet back in the late fifties/early sixties that sang Till the End of Time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)
Some people have never learned to assume a pleasant singing voice. -- Geddy Lee
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (EZWVc)
Some people have never learned to assume a pleasant singing voice. -- Geddy Lee
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
He's actually gotten more tolerable with age as his vocal chords no longer allow him to squeal like a pig.
Posted by: Kasey Kasem at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)
Mrs and I decided on a local firm years ago - and they regularly outperform the "national brands"
Posted by: man at August 28, 2026 11:54 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)
Some people have never learned to assume a pleasant singing voice. -- Geddy Lee
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
As if all the sulfurous pits of Hell were filled with kittens.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026
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The Four Lads?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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We had someone here describe why they wanted H1Bs (standin for all foreign work visas) at their place of employment. Easy to dismiss outside of US and state employment laws. Made the books look marginally better on DEI but it might be said that DEI was as much a cover for outsourcing US jobs to uncredentialed and cheaper foreigners than it was to give jobs to native minorities.
For entry level jobs, the same goes for hiring illegals, they are easy to get rid of, cannot really complain about being cheated at work, violations of safety laws, etc.
For managers, it is ideal to have a compliant and easily dismissed workforce when any trouble happens, they can be flushed away. And the fact that local, state, and federal governments are subsidizing illegals by welfare means that they work for less.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 28, 2026 11:56 AM (2CeDH)
The Imperial presidency has just grown to the point where the only power that matters is the executive branch.
But, a House run by a real bastard could do a whole lot on its own. YD for Speaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 11:37 AM (/PKja)
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I dunno.
Seems like lower-court judges believe THEY call the shots now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 11:56 AM (FZ29D)
Seems like lower-court judges believe THEY call the shots now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 11:56 AM (FZ29D)
Because the SC won't do a f*cking thing to them for overstepping their bounds.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 11:57 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Not unless you push through a constitutional amendment. And I doubt any such can be done at this stage. Same with states electing senators, etc. Unless we return to become a more homogeneous nation, fundamental changes to the rules become impossible unless imposed by victors in a Civil War (see 13th through 15th amendments).
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: jen the original at August 28, 2026 11:59 AM (EiUt/)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)
And also does not fix the problem. Modern liberals are going all in on not changing the constitution, but simply saying it says that which it does not say.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:59 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: whig
How about approaching it from the other angle and forbidding anyone who holds foreign citizenship from holding public office?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 12:00 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Blame Scotus for a bad decision in the 1960s that allowed dual citizenship which was ahistoric and deadly to a country that claimed to base its acceptance of a creed rather than blood and soil.
No man can serve two masters.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)
Had never heard that version. Remedied, and thanks for the recommendation.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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Dunno about later in his career, but (the story goes) at the time of Terminator, Cameron originally wanted Arnold to play Reese the human soldier. Arnold declined and said he wanted the Terminator role, because he knew his acting range was limited. (Also, possibly, because it was the title role -- and because he knew that even when the machine is off screen, the audience is wondering what the hell it's doing!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (+l7X8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
Banging the help, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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Dunno about later in his career, but (the story goes) at the time of Terminator, Cameron originally wanted Arnold to play Reese the human soldier. Arnold declined and said he wanted the Terminator role, because he knew his acting range was limited. (Also, possibly, because it was the title role -- and because he knew that even when the machine is off screen, the audience is wondering what the hell it's doing!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
His acting is good in a few. Terminator 2, True Lies and especially Predator.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 11:55 AM (Y/06r)
My kitten is actually very quiet unless he's hurt unexpectedly (someone sits on him because he hopped up on the couch too fast and got his his claws caught. I don't think kittens go to hell unless they're a special torture for bad people who don't like cats . J/K
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (rHgXV)
“The Department of Justice secured a $22 million settlement with Deloitte concerning False Claims Act violations in connection with Deloitte’s use of DEI policies in hiring and employment.”
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Jl/ju)
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And claiming it doesn't say what it clearly does. It's really super duper complicated, you understand. Let's leave this stuff to the "experts" who went to Deah Old Hahvahd. They'll tell you what the Constitution really means.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:05 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Ignoring the law is what got us into trouble and why the left may be sorry if that is what they plan to do. And their idiotic and repulsive Resistance law based on external imported ideas of oppressed and oppressor that is absent totally in common law is simply Calvinball. That is why I predict trouble in the future as in the Spanish Civil War type trouble. Urban globo homo leftists versus the countryside.
The nightmare comes in when you realize Spain had no nukes floating around in its Civil War which would not be true of the US.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
And claiming it doesn't say what it clearly does. It's really super duper complicated, you understand. Let's leave this stuff to the "experts" who went to Deah Old Hahvahd. They'll tell you what the Constitution really means.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:05 PM (6LG2q)
Because The constitution is a living, breathing document, silly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
WTF? Why? This far after the conviction and sentencing?
This seems contrived.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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Dunno about later in his career, but (the story goes) at the time of Terminator, Cameron originally wanted Arnold to play Reese the human soldier. Arnold declined and said he wanted the Terminator role, because he knew his acting range was limited. (Also, possibly, because it was the title role -- and because he knew that even when the machine is off screen, the audience is wondering what the hell it's doing!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 12:02 PM (wzUl9)
His acting is good in a few. Terminator 2, True Lies and especially Predator.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)
I thought Twins wasn't bad either.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 28, 2026 12:00 PM (vJrRc)
You’ll still need a Constitutional amendment.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Common Tater
Appeal to expert authority is not wise for the left anymore as they took it behind the barn and shot it in the head and propped up a zombie Weekend at Bernies version.
The age of the anti experts is upon us and the peasants are the ones with pitchforks and torches parading up to Frankenstein's castle (Harvard) for some rough justice. After all, the creator (Harvard and the other Ivies) have unleashed Frankensteinian monsters to ravage the countryside under the guise of the doctor (professors) can do no wrong.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
Accuser #10 to be specific. Accusers 1-9 are still very sure of what he did.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (pwuuY)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
Interesting. Everyone but the purported victims are dead at this point, right (Sandusky and JoPa?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)
Goodyear is another early repudiator. I don't know how they are now, but they had some woke-DEI BS leak.
I immediately contacted investor relations and let them know I can spend $1500 on tires elsewhere if my race was a problem for them. It didn't take Goodyear long to publicly rebuke such nonsense. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (cWLG3)
I liked it, sort of.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)
Just happened to look this up not long ago. Sandusky is still rotting in jail.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (5T19r)
Circling back to the Attorney Generals’ lawsuit against The Big Four accounting firms, here is a link to the actual letter.
*polite cough*
Attorneys General
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)
*fistbump on having to check periodically if well known people are dead or alive*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (Y/06r)
I immediately contacted investor relations and let them know I can spend $1500 on tires elsewhere if my race was a problem for them. It didn't take Goodyear long to publicly rebuke such nonsense. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)
I stopped buying GoodYear long ago when I paid attention to Nascar and saw what a shitty tire they provided for the series.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:10 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 28, 2026 12:11 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (SjAWL)
Businesses that weren't run by woke wankers made the (correct at the time) decision that refusing to bend the knee to leftists would significantly hurt their business, and more importantly, possibly lead to them personally suffering consequences, while they calculated that conservatives and normies would just accept it.
Now that is no longer true. At every turn wokeness is a proven loser, leading to MASSIVE losses from multiple companies.
So now wokeness is being driven underground.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 28, 2026 12:12 PM (setIA)
Not if they are whacked out leftist idiots. Those are culturally the only choices available. It's insidious and pervasive. They insist on keeping their pets on the reservation, that much is clear. Trump broke through the log-jam. I'm convinced they stole 2020 for precisely this reason.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (6LG2q)
Put three judges on a panel where someone can squeal in a dissent, it keeps the other judges more honest. And trial judges less imperious as behaving like an asshole in a format that requires some collegiality is a good way to lose other votes on the panel (also see Action Jackson).
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Does TJM know?
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (E4rtv)
Because The constitution is a living, breathing document, silly.
Posted by: Sponge
That's really cool! Look! Right *points* here, it clearly says being a Commie is a death sentence to be carried out by vigilante justice.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (XqYRq)
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Wha?? The 70s wasn't just a different place, it was a different planet.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:15 PM (6LG2q)
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This supposes that people are interchangeable meat-sticks. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 12:18 PM (6LG2q)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 28, 2026 12:19 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 12:26 PM (/+uur)
Sort of euphemistically defines the entire Left, whose missions not only conflict with "error avoidance" but willfully court error, or rather, mendacity.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 28, 2026 12:29 PM (F8UH0)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
WTF? Why? This far after the conviction and sentencing?
This seems contrived.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
This actually lines up with the facts more than you realize. Sandusky was investigated and cleared A LOT before he was convicted. I'm not saying he's innocent, but without the context, Paterno and PSU look worse than they were.
In 1998, Sandusky was investigated by PA Child Welfare after receiving a complaint about him. The state hid an agent in the child's closet while he was alone with Sandusky, talking about their 'relationship.
The DA then fully exonerated Sandusky, saying there was no evidence whatsoever, and told Paterno and PSU's president that Sandusky was cleared of all charges.
Sandusky retired from Penn State in 1999 and started the Second Mile Foundation he used to groom kids.
In 2002, Paterno reported Sandusky again, and he was cleared again.
In 2008, Sandusky was investigated again, and left Second Mile.
In 2011, he was arrested and convicted.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:32 PM (PGK1w)
2nd Mile was much, much older than that.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (Jl/ju)
2nd Mile was much, much older than that.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2026 12:40 PM (Jl/ju)
You're correct - I should have said 'joined' Second Mile.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Snoopy (soon to be Zombie Snoopy) at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:45 PM (PGK1w)
Or perhaps, 'solely worked at'
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 12:46 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Cortillaen at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (1cPuw)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
St. Catherine and Mary Magdalene
Konrad Witz Early Renaissance? Late Middle Ages? Who knows, but it is this sort of art that shows us the bridge between the two-dimensional art of the pre-Renaissance world and the glories of the Renaissance.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (geWO5)
you can almost see the midget squirming around under there.
amazing how she can remain so composed. you'd think it would be more of a distraction.
jaded.
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:32 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 09:33 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 28, 2026 09:34 AM (x0zYr)
It is excellent.
Posted by: Come And See at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Better Living With Asbestos at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (XvL8K)
"Well, Dear Catherine You Were a Martyr...Once. But, Our Dear Lord's Kale Smoothie Thursdays Every Thursday Were No Bargain Let Me Tell you"
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 09:37 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 09:37 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Ashley Home Store at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (NYInA)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (5rh/l)
Not really hanging material but...Wholley Kau!
The Artist grabbed his paint brush and practically screamed,
"Challenge accepted! You want 3 dimensionality! You can't handle all the 3 dimensionality I'm gonna give you!!!!"
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 09:37 AM (88C+u)
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Or the romantasy of Chretien de Troyes...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (FZ29D)
She drove a minivan made by Toyota.
Which is in Japan.
Posted by: Thus concludes today's map lesson at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Costanza Architectural Firm at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 09:42 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Vidal Sassoon at August 28, 2026 09:42 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:42 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (5rh/l)
Possibly because St. Katherine is associated with a wheel. How she was martyred? The fireworks that spin are named for her.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 09:42 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Costanza Architectural Firm at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (JM9I6)
I think flying buttresses were the UFO's of the Middle Ages
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:43 AM (5rh/l)
"Witz rendered surfaces and textures with great precision, and was adept at creating depth with the use of cast shadows. According to Detlef Zinke, Witz was "one of the great innovators in northern European painting", whose "sturdy, monumental figures" enact scenes that are dignified and static, in contrast to the emotive style of earlier German painters. Nevertheless, he had little influence on the course of German art, and was largely forgotten until the publication of a monograph by Daniel Burckhardt in 1901"
Posted by: Tuna at August 28, 2026 09:44 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 09:44 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Art Cretin at August 28, 2026 09:44 AM (JM9I6)
Konrad Witz
would hang
Posted by: Gref
*************
Gref, Some Fatherly Advice - a limerick
I'm not quite sure what we would do without you
And I really have no reason for to doubt you
If you buy his works to hang 'em
Put them in your inner sanctum
'Cause you should always keep your Witz about you!
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 09:45 AM (qgHp7)
The lords and important people weren't supposed to fight on most saint's days. It was church policy to load the calendar as thoroughly as possible with them to give the normal people a break.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 09:45 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:46 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:46 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM
Thursday night roulette.
Posted by: It's a fundraiser at August 28, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
I saw Flying Buttresses open for Toad the Wet Sprocket at Red Rocks in '93!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 09:46 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Tuna at August 28, 2026 09:46 AM (lJ0H4)
The Artist grabbed his paint brush and practically screamed,
"Challenge accepted! You want 3 dimensionality! You can't handle all the 3 dimensionality I'm gonna give you!!!!"
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (iJfKG)
___
LOL!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:46 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:47 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Costanza Architectural Firm at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (JM9I6)
I think flying buttresses were the UFO's of the Middle Ages
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:43 AM (5rh/l)
I thought a flying buttress was a fallen female angel.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 09:47 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Column Of My Community at August 28, 2026 09:48 AM (JM9I6)
The highest form of artistry is strict recreation of fact, therefore this painting is bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 09:49 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Column Of My Community at August 28, 2026 09:48 AM (JM9I6)
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What about plinths?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 09:49 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Column Of My Community at August 28, 2026 09:48 AM (JM9I6)
You need to column down and rest your head on a pillar.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 28, 2026 09:49 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:49 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (6iuvY)
Posted by: Music Nerd at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rejected Journey Lyrics at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:49 AM (cWLG3)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Barack Hussein Owebama at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (JrHfD)
By definition, renaissance. The figures representation is very OG though.
It honestly looks like the guy wanted to play with perspective and then had some other guy do the figures.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 09:51 AM (Y/06r)
It's nice. Not something I'd hang, but it's nice.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 09:51 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (6iuvY)
Early on, man lived for thousands of years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:51 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:40 AM (5rh/l)
Possibly because St. Katherine is associated with a wheel. How she was martyred? The fireworks that spin are named for her.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 09:42 AM (lFFaq)
Was she executed by 'breaking on the wheel'?
The condemned is spread-eagled on a large wagon wheel, arms and legs tied to spokes, hands and feet positioned on the wheel rim. The executioner uses a large, heavy iron bar to successively break the leg and arm bones, and smash the feet and hands. Extremely painful; is done in a prolonged manner. The condemned eventually due to internal bleeding from the many ruptured arteries.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:51 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: To The Manure Born at August 28, 2026 09:52 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Rejected Journey Lyrics
Floor wheel keeps on turnin'
Carryin' home to see my kin...
Posted by: Leonard Skinnered at August 28, 2026 09:52 AM (sn5xH)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 28, 2026 09:50 AM (6iuvY)
Early on, man lived for thousands of years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:51 AM (ccf/V)
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*nods wisely* Ah, you mean the Elves.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:52 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
___________
CBD, please tell me you briefly posted this one on Monday before swapping for the Konstantin Yuon. Because I've got Konrad Witz in my search history for Monday at 9:31 am and there's no other possible reason it would be there.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Like and subscribe at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026
***
I'd guess left to right, so Catherine then Mary.
The crinkling and textures of the gowns are well done.
Catherine looks like she's holding out one of those Bialetti Italian coffee makers. I hope it's not just off the top of the stove.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
But they allowed the women to sit with their legs splayed (see: the one on the left) and guys could do the rest using their imaginations.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (J4Dwc)
Half of the committed time for this darn thing is just waiting for the timer to count down so I can go to the next section.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (Y/06r)
Dude was high as a kite when he did this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:54 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026
***
Wheel of Life?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)
Early on, man lived for thousands of years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Sorry, no, Methusaleh lived to be 969, that's the record.
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man.. at August 28, 2026 09:54 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 09:54 AM (sn5xH)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:52 AM (cWLG3)
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The elves are not men! They are their own race, who never die but their fëa goes to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor for rest, healing, and contemplation! They can then reclaim their physical form, their hröa and return to Middle-Earth!
It's like schools don't even teach anything anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 09:55 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Gref
Bust a deal, face the wheel.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:55 AM (eZjn+)
You can't let go and you can't hold on
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)
She drove a minivan made by Toyota.
Which is in Japan.
Posted by: Thus concludes today's map lesson at August 28, 2026
***
And Burnt Sienna was her favorite Crayola.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Gref
Bust a deal, face the wheel.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:55 AM (eZjn+)
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Yeah, but how many men leave?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 09:55 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Mike Lindell at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (wzUl9)
Half of the committed time for this darn thing is just waiting for the timer to count down so I can go to the next section.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (Y/06r)
I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh when doing compliance training on the computer.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Sorry, no, Methusaleh lived to be 969, that's the record.
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Man. Imagine. All your friends died 900 years ago.
And here you are. Still banging around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026
***
Whatever you do, don't let Charlie anywhere near these two!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Retire at 65. Collect Social Security for another 904 years.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:57 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 09:58 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 09:58 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 09:53 AM (Y/06r)
====
We know you are fooling around on that smart milblog.
Posted by: Relias Training Systems at August 28, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Sorry, no, Methusaleh lived to be 969, that's the record.
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Man. Imagine. All your friends died 900 years ago.
And here you are. Still banging around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (eZjn+)
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Over 800 years, and for what, to be known as the oldest man?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026
***
I'd hang a painting of a saint who looked like the young Liv Tyler!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
Totally unimportant but The woman on the right looks amused by what she is reading. I thought of her looking at a velum edition of 101 Elephant Jokes that I had, and laughed at, in grade school.
Posted by: JTB at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Glynnis O'Connor?
Posted by: TV Guide at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (JM9I6)
My favorite snippet: "and the sons of pullman porters, and the sons of engineers, ride their father's magic carpet made of steel"
The entire lyric isn't syncopated, but segments like this in the prechorus is, and that is what helps make the song great. An American classic.
Posted by: M. Gaga at August 28, 2026 10:00 AM (veWuN)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 09:58 AM
The Paolo, he, how you say, gets that a lot.
Posted by: The Paolo at August 28, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. They sure dressed up nice back then.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 28, 2026 10:01 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
*
Retire at 65. Collect Social Security for another 904 years.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026
***
SS went bankrupt when Methuselah was 624.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)
*makes furious note on clipboard*
We are going to have to shut you down. Why the hell is the wheel on the floor?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:01 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:01 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: red speck at August 28, 2026 10:01 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Man. Imagine. All your friends died 900 years ago.
And here you are. Still banging around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (eZjn+)
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Over 800 years, and for what, to be known as the oldest man?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (cWLG3)
Just think on how big your birthday cake would have to be to hold all those candles.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (g8Ew8)
*nods*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (Y/06r)
========
YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Glynnis O'Connor?
Posted by: TV Guide at August 28, 2026
***
Had to look her up. No, Glynnis was much cuter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 10:03 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
***
"Plinths" always sounds like something you'd clean your teeth with. Or your horse's teeth.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Man. Imagine. All your friends died 900 years ago.
And here you are. Still banging around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (eZjn+)
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Over 800 years, and for what, to be known as the oldest man?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (cWLG3)
Just think on how big your birthday cake would have to be to hold all those candles.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
Globul warmening!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:04 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: The wheel on the floor at August 28, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)
108 What about plinths?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026
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"Plinths" always sounds like something you'd clean your teeth with. Or your horse's teeth.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)
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First time I heard the term was a year or two ago, on Taskmaster.
It was a word contestants couldn't say in a task. No idea what it meant. Through context clues, I realized what it meant over time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:04 AM (/PKja)
Just think on how big your birthday cake would have to be to hold all those candles.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026
***
Wax candles were expensive. They'd probably just put one for each 100 years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:05 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (/PKja)
*makes note to fire TJM for wearing a fake mustache that could be trapped in moving machinery*
*hesitates*
No, go ahead man- you're good. Have you seen the wheel on the floor?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:05 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Rejected Journey Lyrics
Floor wheel keeps on turnin'
Carryin' home to see my kin...
Posted by: Leonard Skinnered
**************
All I want is my water an' coal,
An' look outside my window
see those floor wheels roll...
Posted by: Mississippi John Hurt mumbles his lyrics at August 28, 2026 10:05 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Sixty NINE!!!!
*wails on air guitar*
Posted by: Bill and Ted at August 28, 2026 10:05 AM (ccf/V)
Over 800 years, and for what, to be known as the oldest man?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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But, known, nonetheless. The grandfather of Noah. Few of us will be remembered in stained glass.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:05 AM (XeU6L)
Sixty NINE!!!!
*wails on air guitar*
Posted by: Bill and Ted at August 28, 2026 10:05 AM (ccf/V)
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Excellent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:06 AM (/PKja)
And here you are. Still banging around.
Don't worry. We'll take you to Mouseville.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:06 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 10:06 AM (SK+av)
Posted by: The wheel on the floor at August 28, 2026
***
The Justin Wilson comedy routine?
"They's four doors in this place, yah. Front door, back door, Isadore, and cuspidor."
"Damn spittoon cost me forty dollars already today!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy says the invasion Democrats allowed of criminal illegal aliens — who have committed violent crimes against Americans — into our country is “a fake problem, that is not a real problem.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Mary Grace Canfield?
Posted by: The Monroe Brothers at August 28, 2026 10:07 AM (JM9I6)
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They could get by with eight
MCLXVIII
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 10:07 AM (6/7Fs)
*nods*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:02 AM (Y/06r)
You can.......
https://youtu.be/9Re9TPbBBvQ
Posted by: Bill and Ted at August 28, 2026 10:08 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:08 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Spock's Dingleberries at August 28, 2026 10:09 AM (QRHoA)
that train ride is 18hrs from chickagoo. get the sleeper, bring a bottle and some sammies. laptop, book. they feed you pretty well, too.
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:09 AM (Bep7s)
My little daughter figured out who Dolly Parton is last night and started crying. She knows nothing of her film and recording careers
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (BI5O2)
Someone else's daughter started crying, knowing only that she was the nice lady who always sent her books.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (IG3/x)
I think I read that, in addition to sending books, Dolly would also send a personal message to each child on their birthday. If that's true, the woman was a true angel.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:09 AM (qRla/)
It was a word contestants couldn't say in a task. No idea what it meant. Through context clues, I realized what it meant over time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Commonly used concerning architectural and structural matters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:10 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:10 AM (Bep7s)
It was a word contestants couldn't say in a task. No idea what it meant. Through context clues, I realized what it meant over time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Commonly used concerning architectural and structural matters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:10 AM (XeU6L)
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The context clues amounted to one person pointing to the plinth and saying, "There's a plinth."
To laughter because she couldn't say the word.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:11 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Mary Grace Canfield?
Posted by: The Monroe Brothers at August 28, 2026
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Had to look her up too!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:13 AM (wzUl9)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy says the invasion Democrats allowed of criminal illegal aliens — who have committed violent crimes against Americans — into our country is “a fake problem, that is not a real problem.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Natch, because to Democrats, crime by everyone in the US, except Republicans, is not a problem. Does not exist. Crimes in America are all fake, just agit-prop by Trump and Fox news.
On the other hand, Republicans are to be relentlessly prosecuted for what 25 years ago everybody would have called fake crimes.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 10:14 AM (5rh/l)
She don't care if it rains or freezes...
Posted by: Heretic at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)
Two lions are loose in the cornfields of Indiana and nobody knows where they came from
https://tinyurl.com/dttv36tk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (ndZc7)
So, I interviewed with the old PM who is now a director of a small consulting firm alongside her PM, both of whom also worked at the old company, and the conversation was good.
I got an email for a second interview about fifteen minutes later.
I haven't told Dolley about these because every time I lose out on a position she gets more depressed than I do.
So, fingers crossed.
And even if I do get the job, I'll keep making the YT videos because that's where the real money's at.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)
"@DefiyantlyFree
Christmas has come early for me.
“Bessent’s inner circle is drafting a blueprint that could ultimately strip non-compliant organizations of their 501(c)(3) status, according to two of the people familiar with the plans. The reviews could result in massive back payments and civil penalties, the same sources said”
If the NY Post story is accurate and the administration is going to go after all these NGOs it will be the most consequential thing this administration has done. 😎"
I'm pretty sure Kamala's presidency would have been no different and probably better than Trump's by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:17 AM (/PKja)
Arlo almost didn't play the song. Heard him in an interview say so many people brought him songs and most were bad that he got tired of it. He was in a bar and Goodman asked him to listen to his song. Guthrie said he would give him until he finished his beer.
Must have been a good beer.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:17 AM (viF8m)
They belong to us. Bring them right back!
Posted by: NY Public Library Lions at August 28, 2026 10:17 AM (JM9I6)
Two lions are loose in the cornfields of Indiana and nobody knows where they came from
https://tinyurl.com/dttv36tk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026
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I was going to bring up Second Hand Lions, but the poster beat everybody to it. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:18 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 10:18 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)
Yeah, indication of Sainthood. They've seen the bright Heaven Lights.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:18 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man
Man. Imagine. All your friends died 900 years ago.
And here you are. Still banging around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (eZjn+)
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Over 800 years, and for what, to be known as the oldest man?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 09:59 AM (cWLG3)
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If you do a little bit of number crunching on Genesis 5, it turns out Noah was the only ancient patriarch who was born after Adam's death. Lamech (Noah's father) was 56 years old when Adam passed. The rest of the patriarchs were still alive and kicking for many, many years afterwards. Noah built the Ark the year Methuselah died.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:18 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)
Two lions are loose in the cornfields of Indiana and nobody knows where they came from
https://tinyurl.com/dttv36tk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026
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I was going to bring up Second Hand Lions, but the poster beat everybody to it. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:18 AM (wzUl9)
I was thinking more Ghost and the Darkness direction. In indiana though, you'd have around a 1000 guys wanting to hunt THEM.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:19 AM (Y/06r)
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FUN FACT: Back in those days the well-to-do exhibited their wealth by attaching Bradford Exchange Limited Edition Collectors Plates to the back of their heads, often trimmed in genuine 14-karat gold leaf.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 28, 2026 10:19 AM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 10:20 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)
Or move to Canada.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:21 AM (g8Ew8)
Arlo almost didn't play the song. Heard him in an interview say so many people brought him songs and most were bad that he got tired of it. He was in a bar and Goodman asked him to listen to his song. Guthrie said he would give him until he finished his beer.
Must have been a good beer.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026
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One of the finest pop songs ever written. The imagery of the old men passing the bottle, "freight yards full of old black men," "mothers with their babes asleep," and "Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee; halfway home and we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea" are all superb stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
They belong to us. Bring them right back!
Posted by: NY Public Library Lions at August 28, 2026 10:17 AM
You put on a pair of shoes when you come into a New York Public Library, mister!
Posted by: Lt. Bookman at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)
And even if I do get the job, I'll keep making the YT videos because that's where the real money's at.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:15 AM (/PKja)
Good luck!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
If the NY Post story is accurate and the administration is going to go after all these NGOs it will be the most consequential thing this administration has done. 😎"
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I noted earlier that, curiously, for the first time since 2012, we've had an election year with no attacks on major cities in the US.
I think dismantling USAID and so on may be yielding this outcome. The other possibility is a tactical retreat by the enemy - but that's not like them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (ndZc7)
Good luck!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
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Thanks!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
*polite cough*
Posted by: The Wabash Cannonball at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (SK+av)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026
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Which emperor? Philip the Arab, maybe?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: PA Lore at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (JM9I6)
Well yea. That was the whole point.
It turns out Trump actually knows what's going on.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)
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The emperor was Septimius Severus.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
TRAITOR!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (ccf/V)
I think dismantling USAID and so on may be yielding this outcome. The other possibility is a tactical retreat by the enemy - but that's not like them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 10:23 AM (BI5O2)
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When have they tactically retreated in the past 18 years? The Chicago machine ethos doesn't include tactical retreats.
Trump 2.0 is attacking the pillars of power that Democrats have held for decades now. And losing the House wouldn't change that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026
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Okay, I looked it up. It was under Septimius Severus, some time after Commodus was assassinated.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM (wGerL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:25 AM (XeU6L)
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Thanks. I do like not having a job and focusing all of my energies on making stupid YT videos, but $3 a day doesn't buy much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Georgia Jarhead at August 28, 2026 10:27 AM (9so2h)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:27 AM (Bep7s)
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Pretty much what Islam has in mind for 'Infidels'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:27 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: PA Lore at August 28, 2026
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There was a Have Gun -- Will Travel episode about a tiger roaming loose, which turned out to be an escapee from a circus.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Your Ship's Purser at August 28, 2026 10:28 AM (JM9I6)
Thanks. I do like not having a job and focusing all of my energies on making stupid YT videos, but $3 a day doesn't buy much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM (/PKja)
"For just $0.63 a day, we'll send you this ADDOOWWWABLE blanket......"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
*polite cough*
Posted by: The Wabash Cannonball at August 28, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)
I was thinking The Battle of New Orleans:
We fired our guns
But the British kept a'comin'.......
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:28 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:28 AM (Bep7s)
>>Italian extremist group provided encrypted tech services for US Antifa cells, State Department says
https://tinyurl.com/mputxdh9
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026
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Train songs are normally found on country music radio, though.
"I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison . . ."
(Also written by Steve Goodman, I think)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)
Neither would they kill virgins. If one was sentenced to die, she would be deflowered by the executioner before death.
Save for Vestal Virgins - their punishment was to be buried alive.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (qRla/)
A cultivation series I'm reading introduced a near-immortal character just yesterday. He took to drink after his mind and heart were broken by "Seeing the faces of dead friends on living bodies." I thought that was evocative, but also a tragic way to interact with the descendents of those he'd cared about.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)
By that guy whose name was removed from the arch of Septimius Severus.
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Your Ship's Purser at August 28, 2026 10:28 AM (JM9I6)
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Smiling is for fakers!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:30 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: Ongo Gablogian at August 28, 2026 10:30 AM (dm1n3)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 10:26 AM
No kidding.
Posted by: The Wreck of the Old 97 at August 28, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (qRla/)
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Thanks!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:30 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026
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Right. Caracalla was no believer in brotherly love. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:30 AM (wzUl9)
And gullible imbecile Americans drink the kool aid by the gallon. As do elected politicians.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (iCp4l)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (E4rtv)
That very next morning… this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child… said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’”
Okay, that's all for today. Tomorrow, we'll start Beowulf.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (zi7oe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
**'Sink The Bismarck' has entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Sharing the Earworm at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (JCLJi)
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May your channel and your job search succeed.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (E4rtv)
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Yeah, but how many here have liked and subscribed?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (/PKja)
Posted by: In Toto at August 28, 2026 10:32 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 28, 2026 10:32 AM (ayRl+)
Yeah, but how many here have liked and subscribed?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (/PKja)
Can't. I refuse to log into youtube.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:32 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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It's a good 'un. Always triggers 'Wabash Cannonball' in my head.
"She came down from Birmingham
One cold December day
As she rolled into the station
You could hear all the people say
There's a girl from Tennessee
She's long and she's tall
She came down from Birmingham
On the Wabash Cannonball
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:32 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026
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When Time Enough for Love opens, Lazarus Long has reached the end of his tether and doesn't care if he goes on living. His descendants mount a project to get him interested in *something* -- which turns out to be his memoirs, and then time travel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:33 AM (wzUl9)
And gullible imbecile Americans drink the kool aid by the gallon. As do elected politicians.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
X just did a major purge of Chicom bots on data centers.
"
Global Government Affairs
@GlobalAffairs
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy."
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:33 AM (E4rtv)
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No Longer Clueless - a limerick
There was a detective named Menth
"Here's our victim, I think it's the tenth
But we'll catch this bedroom killer.
There's a bloodstain on the pillar.
And on the bed post some clear finger plinth!"
Posted by: muldoon at August 28, 2026 10:33 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: In Toto at August 28, 2026
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Strangled in his bath, I think. On New Year's Day yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:33 AM (wzUl9)
So imagine some minority woman has sex and accidentally gets pregnant...well then abortion is murder and should be banned right?
Now imagine instead its the underage girl you are cheating on your wife with? Hmm? Now its NOT murder and should be legal right?!?!
And the left really, really just doesn't even bother to try and understand the other side does it? Also, as a caveat if you don't allow abortion for the latter case you are way more likely to identify the child rapist to jail him.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 10:33 AM (sKqQm)
Train I ride, 16 coaches long
Train I ride, 16 coaches long
Well, that long black train got my baby and gone
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:34 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:19 AM (Y/06r)
Looks like a lioness and her cub from the photos. Hope they can be captured and integrated into a zoo so they don't have to be killed.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 10:34 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Sourdough Sam at August 28, 2026 10:34 AM (PVUR/)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 28, 2026
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The beams of the groin vault overhead, maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)
Well, that long black train got my baby and gone
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 10:34 AM (viF8m)
This is about me, isn't it......
Posted by: Long Dong Silver at August 28, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
**'Sink The Bismarck' has entered the chat**
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"Key to the Highway" by Little Milton kinda fits, too …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 28, 2026 10:35 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
**'Sink The Bismarck' has entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (qRla/)
Also: The Day That Music Died.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:35 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Dreadful noodling by Heinlein that marked his retreat from hard sci fi into mushy crap that dominated his writing output in his later life. Resembles his first unpublished novel (which was finished by Spider Robinson) where he put out his lame brained EPIC based socialism on paper.
Only Moon is a Harsh Mistress stands out as a return to form.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:35 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins
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Johnny Horton? 'The Battle of New Orleans'
'In 1814 we took a little trip...'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:35 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: whig
The bald Shark Tank guy called this out a few months ago, said the opposition to the proposed Utah data center was Chinese led. He was mocked for saying that. After all lol at all the “regular Americans” who showed up in opposition.
Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knew he was right. Those regular Americans are idiots who are easily manipulated by CCP bots on Instagram and X.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (iCp4l)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (Bep7s)
Elagabalus was killed in a latrine but he'd been hiding there.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
**'Sink The Bismarck' has entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (qRla/)
Also: The Day That Music Died.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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Snoopy v. Red Baron.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026
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That, "North to Alaska," and "Battle of New Orleans" were all by Johnny Horton, and got airplay on country stations as well as Top 40.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (wzUl9)
The red light was my mind.
Posted by: Jagger/ Richards at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (JM9I6)
All aboard for Calaforn-i-a.
On The Atchison,
On The Atchison, Topeka,
On The Atchison, Topeka, and,
On The Atchison, Topeka, and The Santa Fe.
Posted by: Judy Garland at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 10:37 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at August 28, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 10:38 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma
Everyone be taking Elagabalus, to read the Historia Augusta
Posted by: speaking of a book to bring to the latrine at August 28, 2026 10:39 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:40 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:40 AM (ccf/V)
Only Moon is a Harsh Mistress stands out as a return to form.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026
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Overall, yes, it's longer than it needs to be. But the memoir stories are all fascinating; we get "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"; and LL's jaunt to 1916 America is (despite the incest stuff) vigorous and impossible to put down.
The Number of the Beast -- was dull and worse, and we all thought RAH had lost it. But he had a brain tumor, and after his recovery he came roaring back with Friday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)
Hey TLM,
Did you go on cruise for your vacation?
If so, where?
Did you catch covid or leprosy or How Chan's Exploding Gall Bladder Flu?
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: 18-1
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Also fighting bots on bots online is the coming thing. Agent traffic of bots is now over a majority of internet traffic versus live humans.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: The Kale Lobby at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)
An assistant district attorney, William Marsh, was also charged in connection with the same matter. The charges stem from allegations that Dunn and Marsh arranged a “premature and unlawful” arrest in May 2023 of a Sevier County businessman, Erik Cooper.
A few days after Dolly passes? C'mon people!! It's right in front of you!!!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (zi7oe)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 10:43 AM (iI58+)
Posted by: Notmuchofanything Bagel at August 28, 2026 10:43 AM (dm1n3)
. . . vasectomies and sterilization.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)
And here you are. Still banging around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (eZjn+)
Sucks to be them. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 10:43 AM (S41Gd)
Hey TLM,
Did you go on cruise for your vacation?
If so, where?
Did you catch covid or leprosy or How Chan's Exploding Gall Bladder Flu?
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2026 10:41 AM (iJfKG)
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We did back to back cruises. We had one scheduled, then Dolley found a deal for another that came back the day before the original one left.
I got sick on the last day of the first cruise, spent most of the day in between in bed (after managing to survive a few hours at the Kennedy Space Center), and felt better through the second. Junior has the best immune system and the sickness bypassed him completely. Second Junior dealt with a sore throat for a bit, but was fine. Dolley got hit hard with it a few days after me and we're both just a bit snotty for a few days.
But, ate decent food. Watched the ocean. Watched a few movies (The Mandalorian and Grogu is...perfectly fine and forgettable).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:44 AM (/PKja)
Inspector will feel vindicated. He has a horrible reaction to kale.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 28, 2026 10:44 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM
**'Sink The Bismarck' has entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (qRla/)
Also: The Day That Music Died.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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Snoopy v. Red Baron.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)
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Is big 10 inch record a love song?
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 10:44 AM (2ap+5)
That's why the one on the left is looking at all the cobwebs in the vaulted ceiling.
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026 10:45 AM (FhXTo)
In Konrad Witz's painting Saint Madeleine and Saint Catherine (c. 1440), Saint Madeleine (Mary Magdalene) is on the left and Saint Catherine (of Alexandria) is on the right.
Saint Madeleine (Left): She wears a green gown and holds her traditional attribute, an ointment jar/vase used to anoint Christ. Saint Catherine (Right): She wears a red dress and sits near her traditional attribute, the breaking wheel (or fragments of it) associated with her martyrdom.
Wikipedia, in part: In spite of the sumptuosity of their costumes and jewels, and the preciosity of their golden halos, Witz depicts them with the realistic faces of young peasant women and in a stiff attitude that reminds of play acting.[2][1] Both saints are sitting in a cloister that is thought to have belonged to Basel Cathedral, and Witz opens his tentative perspective towards a street scene, again depicted with noticeable realism.[3][1]
The painting may have belonged to an unfinished altarpiece (probably a triptych) but it could also have been autonomous from the start.[3][1]
Lovely & very interesting but likely wouldn't hang.
Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 10:46 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 10:18 AM (Y/06r)
But have they seen the bright lights of Memphis?
Posted by: zombie Lowell George at August 28, 2026 10:47 AM (oCio0)
Not even electronic billboards, the old fashioned wood ones?
Seems a bit ironic.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 28, 2026 10:47 AM (iI58+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (wzUl9)
And let's not forget The Legend of Bat Masterson.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:47 AM (g8Ew8)
I haven't been there to see their wild landscapes for too long.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
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It wasn't a brain tumor, his carotid artery was blocked and he produced his worst novel while he had it. I Will Fear No Evil.
Don't care much for Job nor Friday. Read once, discarded. And part of it was that RAH developed odd ideas about human sexuality that he fixated upon from his first wife, Leslyn when he fixated on swinging. And he bought into the ludicrous ideas that are now shown to be false of the Margaret Meade school of sociology. Outside of hard science, Heinlein proved an easy mark for bad economics (To Us the Living), bad sociology (Glory Road, Time Enough for Love, I Will Fear No Evil) etc.
His official biographer had to put it delicately but his obsession ended up tainting his writings when publishing went into all sex all the time. It is pretty grotesque to read Heinlein admission to Ginny that he could not be faithful to her and by implication wanted her to be as perverted as he was.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 10:47 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 28, 2026 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026
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And let's not forget The Legend of Bat Masterson.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026
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"Big Iron" by Marty Robbins!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (/PKja)
Ooooooh, I did!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 10:48 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:31 AM (/PKja)
Ooooooh, I did!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 10:48 AM (PGK1w)
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Because you are an erudite scholar and gentleman with a YT account, and I would expect no less from you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:49 AM (/PKja)
. . . vasectomies and sterilization.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)
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How is that a suitable topic for a luncheon?
Hopefully they will not be showing any graphic details...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 10:49 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:49 AM (eZjn+)
The power is back on in Gary after 2 weeks if they need lights.
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026 10:49 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:47 AM
I was a man.
A big man.
Posted by: Daniel Boone at August 28, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)
259 Yeah, but how many here have liked and subscribed?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
*raises hand
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:49 AM (eZjn+)
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Another man of learning and esteem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 28, 2026 10:51 AM (/PKja)
. . . vasectomies and sterilization.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)
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How is that a suitable topic for a luncheon?
Hopefully they will not be showing any graphic details...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Huevos rancheros & scrambled eggs are a brunch topic.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:51 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:51 AM (wzUl9)
The power is back on in Gary after 2 weeks if they need lights.
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026 10:49 AM (FhXTo)
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Are all the smoke detectors chirping too?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 10:51 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla
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Triggers song lyrics (again) in my head, 'East bound and down...'
"East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:52 AM (XeU6L)
. . . vasectomies and sterilization.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026
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How is that a suitable topic for a luncheon?
Hopefully they will not be showing any graphic details...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I don't think it's a hands-on demonstration! Maybe something about social reaction and resistance to the idea.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)
A big man.
Posted by: Daniel Boone at August 28, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)
...pffft
https://shorturl.at/nzp5e
Posted by: Big John at August 28, 2026 10:53 AM (oCio0)
Posted by: DaveA
Are all the smoke detectors chirping too?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:53 AM (eZjn+)
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The power is back on in Gary after 2 weeks if they need lights.
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026
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"What did Gary residents use before candles?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:54 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2026 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Huevos rancheros & scrambled eggs are a brunch topic.
Posted by: rickb223
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Mountain oysters
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:54 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:54 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 10:55 AM (SK+av)
*banjo plays*
*singing*
Two lions are loose
in the cornfields of Indiana
The power is back on in Gary after 2 weeks
If they need lights.
Then light them lions on fire
And the cornfields'll burn
With all their might
(chorus)
There's corn inside of whiskey
And whiskey's corn inside of me
I'm the one
Who let loose the lions
And now I'm hangin' from a tree
...
...
Posted by: another Pop Song Not About Love at August 28, 2026 10:55 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:55 AM (wzUl9)
Triggers song lyrics (again) in my head, 'East bound and down...'
"East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:52 AM (XeU6L)
___
Mine was leaving on a jet plane...
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM (Rln0i)
I've had Lion King Circle of Life stuck for two days.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 10:54 AM (eZjn+)
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*ejects *Circle of Life"*
*loads *Candle in the Wind"*
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Firelight:
On July 28, 1968, riots in Gary's Midtown section resulted in gunfire, looting, and burning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Davy. Davy Crockett at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
There is a song, co-written by a friend of mine and recorded by a number of artists, about two dogs screwing.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 28, 2026 10:58 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: rickb223
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Could be worse, I once had 'Another One Bites the Dust' stuck for three days.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 10:58 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM
It's a big ol' jet airliner...
Posted by: Steve Miller at August 28, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Davy. Davy Crockett at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
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Why do people get us mixed up?
Posted by: Daniel Boone at August 28, 2026 10:58 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 28, 2026 10:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 10:56 AM
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It's a big ol' jet airliner...
Posted by: Steve Miller at August 28, 2026
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Check your watch, Steve. Time keeps on slippin' into the future. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 10:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: DaveA
Are all the smoke detectors chirping too?
I've got 2 winters worth of pre-stacked oak in my back yard. Lots of spots in Gary have lumber yards for lawns now.
Posted by: DaveA at August 28, 2026 10:59 AM (FhXTo)
A big man.
Posted by: Daniel Boone at August 28, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)
I'll take "Something Caitlyn Jenner would say" for $600, Alex.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 10:59 AM (N39Ws)
Oh contrary, Moe Nammy.
"Come all ye railroad wives, with true-loving husbands
and from me this lesson learn:
Do not say harsh words to your true-loving husband
He may leave you, and never return."
Seemingly unrelated to the rest of the text, but the last verse for sure, and it's never performed without it.
Posted by: Scalded to Death by The Steam at August 28, 2026 10:59 AM (zdLoL)
Well, it's 40 below and I don't give a fuck
Got a heater in my truck, and I'm off to the rodeo
And it's an allemande left, and allemande right
C'mon you fuckin' dummy, get your right step right
Get off stage, you goddamn goof, you know, piss me off
You fucking jerk, get on my nerves
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 11:00 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2026 11:02 AM (2ap+5)
And all that remains
Is the faces and the names
Of the wives, and the sons, and the daughters.
Posted by: G. Lightfoot at August 28, 2026 11:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Mine was leaving on a jet plane...
Posted by: SMH
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Conversely, Lightfoot, 'Early Morning Rain':
"Out on runway number nine
Big 707's set to go
And I'm stuck here in the grass
With a pain that ever grows
Now the liquor tasted good
And the women all were fast
Well, there she goes, my friend
She'll be rolling down at last"
BTW, howdy. A while back I posted a question for you. I Sent you a pic of a couple of troops working on a tracked vehicle. Do you recall what that was. An M88?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 11:03 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
If only they had Flock Safety AI surveillance cameras
Posted by: Now at Home Depot! at August 28, 2026 11:04 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 11:08 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
His official biography provides a clue. Job came from Heinlein's childhood as he adopted the remnants of the Millerite heresy (they were the cult that believed the world would come to an end circa about 1850."
And Ginny, for whatever reason, did not mention to Robert that he was infertile, not her as he supposed and preachy Heinlein, which he was in Job and a few other books was never appealing at all. So no, having read the real Book of Job, I found his attempt to redo it both juvenile and unlikable. Friday was simply forgettable and his attempts to put controversy in it like the rape of the main character was a nasty trick not integral to the plot.
If you want a better allegory, try John Myers Myers book, Silverlock which cribs Bunyan.
I outgrew Heinlein and his obsessions--if I read anything of his, it is classic Heinlein era now where he did not lean on the prurient to sell an idea like he did in his later years.
Posted by: whig at August 28, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)
At the same time he was able to harvest enough tears.
We have only just begun to be deplorable
Posted by: the country place that no one knows about at August 28, 2026 11:32 AM (LOZbR)
The Morning Report — 8/ 28 /26
Of course the American — that is the ANTI-American Left and its epicenter in and of the Democrat Party have always been at war with America as founded. Just take a look at the links and you'll note a veritable Borgasmord or in this case morgue (to sort of quote my old friend and 1970s icon Mason Reese) of hypocrites, criminals, racists, antisemites, perverts, pedophiles and terrorists. So to hell with Canada we're up to our necks that the aforementioned's allies of convenience, the head chopping, brother-boffing/clitoris clipping Muslims are eager ready and able to chop off. Speaking of brother-boffers, is he his own uncle?!...
Police executed a search warrant Tuesday night at a Minneapolis apartment reportedly shared by Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s adult son and a man arrested earlier that day on a weapons charge, according to multiple law enforcement sources. . . The raid adds another unusual chapter to the political and personal controversies surrounding Omar and her family. Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, has become a prominent far-left activist. Hirsi was arrested and suspended from Barnard College in 2024 after participating in an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University. Omar publicly praised her daughter after the arrest, saying she was “enormously proud” of Hirsi for standing up for her political beliefs.At least on a positive note, The President and his team recognize not only the threat from abroad to our allies and how that hits us directly, right here at home.
The State Department on Wednesday announced that a foreign tech group provides online infrastructure to U.S. domestic terror groups to conduct violence across the country. The department formally recognized Italy-based Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group and subsequently sanctioned it. According to the State Department, Autistici/Inventati, or the A/I Collective, is a “hacker cell that provides far-left extremists with encrypted communications, calls, and web-hosting services — all concealed from law enforcement. The A/I Collective is a central node in the far-left’s war on our civilization.”Yes, the State Dept. is for sure going after Leftists abroad who destabilize our allies, and are beside themselves as the Donroe Doctrine initiates a reverse Domino effect as one by one seemingly intractable and perpetual Socialist nations are rejecting socialism for freer and more truly little "d" democratic in the truest sense of the word governments, while we here at home seem to be embracing it. Well, if one pallet of bricks is prevented from being delivered to a center city business district in the middle of the night then bravo. Because you just know they're itching to recreate Firestorm 2 Dresden boogaloo!
As you know by this point, Minnesota has been showing absolute fury against ICE agents. Ever since President Donald Trump ordered agents to enter the state to arrest violent illegal immigrants, Mayor Jacob Frey has been pushing back, riling up his citizens to angrily protest their every move. . . arlier this year, an arrest warrant was issued for ICE officer Christian Castro by the state, who was taken into custody shortly thereafter in Cameron County, Texas. He was formally charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime after being accused of firing into a Minneapolis home and striking a Venezuelan national’s leg. Now, this is an incident that could’ve easily been put under investigation by the Department of Justice, but Minnesota decided to push the matter into overdrive. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had been demanding the extradition of Castro to the state, and even making such demands as public as possible to look good for his audience. . . “I don’t trust Tim Walz on anything,” Abbott noted last week, a statement I very much agree with. “While they’re making demands, I have a demand of my own: it’s time for Minnesota to step up and repay the United States of America and Americans for all the fraud that they’ve committed in their state through federal programs.”Nothing like a good riot in Minnesota to push El-Sayed over the finish line one state away in Michigan (not that with Whitmer and Benson running the elections there, the fix isn't in already)
Or delude themselves into thinking Texas will go insane and elect that freakazoid Talarico! But be all that as it may, I bid you all to have a great weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The memo, first reported by an astonished Warren Kinsella at the Toronto Sun, used boldface type to emphasize the directive to CBC employees.
Canadian Broadcasting Corp Tells Staff Not to Refer to 9/11 as ‘Terrorist Attack’
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- The A/I Collective website is open about its desire for unrest and the destruction of Western civilization.
US Sanctions Foreign Tech Group For Providing Infrastructure For Left-Wing Domestic Terror
- “These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence.”
Study Finds Shocking (Not Really) Connection Between Trans Beliefs and Violence
- Nixon, Florida's Democrat Senate nominee, praised CAIR as the 'right vehicles' to secure electoral victories for the party during fundraising events for the pro-Hamas advocacy group
'We Are in Chains': Florida Socialist Angie Nixon Rants Against 'False Capitalistic American Dream,' Praises Marxist Cop-Killer on CAIR Speech Circuit
- The hypocrisy of Wasserman Schultz shifting districts to represent a majority-minority district was not lost upon black Democrats.
Democrats’ Racial Grievances Are Just A Cynical Grift
- Israel, Third Worldism, and the politics of grievance
Mamdani’s Moral Universe
- No, they don't.
Biden Judge Claims College Students Have a ‘First Amendment’ Right to Disrupt Events "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - “I will not stay silent while ICE terrorizes our communities.”
New Mexico Governor Hopeful Deb Haaland Rages at ICE, Omits Illegal Alien’s Criminal History
- Shortly after arresting the group of illegal aliens, agents checked immigration and criminal databases to determine if any members of the group had prior arrests for immigration or criminal offenses. Agents quickly determined 52-year-old Alexis Suarez-Trejos, a Cuban national, is a registered sex offender in the state of Nevada.
EXCLUSIVE: Deported Cuban Child Predator Busted While Crossing Texas Border
- After he was arrested, ICE agents lodged a detainer against Zamorano-Burciaga, seeking custody of him before state officials release him from jail.
Spanberger’s Virginia: DACA Illegal Alien Charged with More than 20 Counts of Child Pornography
- Minnesota has been fighting for the longest time to override Texas' laws surrounding the incarceration of ICE agent Christian Castro. But a judge just reminded it that all the requests in the world from Gov. Tim Walz will fall on deaf ears when they don’t make any sense.
Minnesota Just Got Handed a Loss Following Its Absurd Request Over ICE Agent Christian Castro THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??) - A decision by the United Arab Emirates to suspend trade relations with Iran last week kick-started the White House’s latest attempt to isolate Tehran into submission. Iran entered the war with its foreign commerce concentrated among a relatively small group of countries, leaving it with fewer places to turn now.
Iran scrambles to sustain trade as US threatens to sanction countries that refuse to break ties
- “The seized goods would then be sold with proceeds transferred to the treasury.”
Report: U.S. Mulls Reviving Wartime ‘Prize Courts’ to Seize Iranian Tankers ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY - A new U.N. report undercuts claims of famine in Gaza.
Is Anything We’ve Been Told About Gaza True?
- If President Trump goes ahead with the designation, it will result in lifetime bans on the group’s founders and supporters entering the U.S. It will also freeze the group’s U.S. assets, such as bank accounts and properties. The new designation also means that U.S. citizens will be prohibited from engaging with Palestine Action, including donating money, goods, or services. This designation reflects a similar ban imposed in Britain last year.
Trump Moves to Designate ‘Palestine Action’ Network as Global Terrorists.
- An American president's blind spot.
Trump, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood
- . . .honoring a Hamas terrorist leader who worked for schools funded by the notorious U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The U.N. refused to apologize on Tuesday, shrugging off the terrorist’s inclusion as an innocent mistake.
WATCH: U.N. Caught Holding Event Memorializing Hamas Terrorist Commander as ‘Colleague’* * * * * - From LA to Washington and Sydney, an ominous pattern of violent Jew-hate emerges.
How the Gaza Genocide Lie Became a License to Harass and Kill Jews DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - Trump: “Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific.”
Trump Signs Order Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
- Barger speaks bluntly about the quality of the state’s insurance commissioner. ‘When you politicize an office like this,’ she says, ‘this is what you get.’
Altadena’s Post-Fire Rebuild Proves You Can Have Woke Or Effective Leaders But Not Both
- “We’ve got jobs that would be lost. Living wages will be affected. But what’s also important is the future growth of the city.”
California High-Speed Rail Route Blocked by 1,200-Home Development
- Why should America’s most successful suburbs take their cues from cities struggling to preserve the very qualities suburban families value?
Suburbs Import Policies That Ruined American Cities And Expect Different Results
- While pretending he is dedicated to fiscal restraint.
One Place Schumer Sends Your Money FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Even the left-wing magazine The Nation called them out on the intimidation tactics. What is going on here?
Peter Schweizer: NYT Killed Story Exposing How Democrat Spam PACs Target Gullible Grannies* * * * * - If we would like to destroy ourselves, what we should do is free up social media and restrict AI.
How America’s War On Technology Is About To Backfire
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier calls the settlement a “weak payoff attempt.”
Meta Agrees to $17.1 Billion Multistate Settlement Over Alleged Harm to Young Users
- Parents remain responsible for what they put into their children’s hands. Meta did not sneak into anyone’s house and leave an iPhone on a child’s nightstand, nor does Instagram require parents to permit their 13-year-olds to open accounts.
Meta’s $18B settlement and new restrictions are vital — but it wasn’t them who put $1,000 phones in kids’ hands WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - The remarks have underscored the growing influence of Islam in America. It also shows that prominent religious leaders in the Muslim community in the United States are seeking to politically and culturally transform the country to align with Islam, raising questions about integration.
Dearborn Sheikh Declares America Has ‘No Civilization,’ Urges Muslims to Rebuild it on Islamic Foundations.
- But there’s a catch. There always is.
Detroit Public Radio Claims Rise in ‘Islamophobia’ OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - “Please ignore the virulent antisemite we all let in the house and who is now wrecking everything.”
Desperate Democrats Try Running Away From Hasan Piker as Controversies Grow THE ECONOMY, STUPID - A tax code that punishes waiting gets less patience, and far fewer Nvidia’s, in return.
Patience Isn’t Just a Virtue. It’s a Business Model Washington Wants to Outlaw.
- That is the institutional world the critics of QE warned about. It’s something that concerned Warsh himself when he was a Fed governor two decades or so ago. The Fed performed fiscal-style functions for so long that the financial commentariat forgot where those functions originally belonged. The confusion over Bessent’s buybacks may be one of QE’s most enduring legacies.
Warsh and Bessent Are Not at Odds Over the Bond Market
- Nixon, who stunned both the Florida and national Democrat establishment by defeating impeachment hoaxer Alexander Vindman, joined the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) during the primary campaign and said she favored federal “rent stabilization.”
Democrat Socialist Angie Nixon Admits ‘Rent Stabilization’ Just Means Price Controls: ‘Tomayto, Tomahto’ RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM - William Lawrence, a former Democratic Socialist, held up the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge as an example of 'economic protest against fossil power'
Michigan Democrat House Candidate Called Fatal Baltimore Bridge Collapse a 'Climate Activist's Dream' (and Praised the Houthis) in Bizarre Podcast CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week — and the family of the victim killed in the sick, unprovoked attack is now livid, The Post has learned.
Mourning gory Mamdani posts emotional message mourning accused knife-wielding killer —and is slammed by victim’s family
- “Quite candidly, sir, I feel duped."
Criminal Court Judge Has “Nothing To Be Ashamed Of” After Taking $765,000 House From Man Who Stole $712,000 EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - XX≠XY is too controversial for Colorado Springs school district.
Teacher Reprimanded for Wearing T-Shirt Stating Biological Reality
- A New York State teachers’ union president invokes old arguments against religious education to derail a scholarship program that would cost the state nothing.
Private Schools Are No Threat to Democracy GRIFTING OLEAGENOUS PARASITIC RINO SCUM
- Same playbook, same coalition.
Repeating the Tea Party Takedown Process on the America First Coalition DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - The raid adds another unusual chapter to the political and personal controversies surrounding Omar and her family.
Bro-Fo Omar’s Son Linked To Apartment Raid That Seized Guns, Ammo
- The hypocrisy of Wasserman Schultz shifting districts to represent a majority-minority district was not lost upon black Democrats.
Democrats’ Racial Grievances Are Just A Cynical Grift
- "It pretty much left me penniless at 65."
Only California Winery to Get Fire Payout Belongs to Gov. Newsom POLITICS - Republican Senate nominee Mike Collins has said Piker’s praise helps him frame the Georgia race. “This race is simple: It’s America vs. the people who hate it.”
Ossoff Condemns Hasan Piker Days After Streamer Called Him 2028 Pick
- After a decade of trying to strong-arm Americans into accepting terms like "Latinx" and "intersectionality," some Democrats have decided that their nomenclature needs a new coat of paint. As 2028 looms in the background, some contenders, real and would-be, are trying to lead the charge to renormalize the Democrat Party.
For Midterms, Democrats Will Make an Extreme Effort to Sound Like Normal People
- But a new Echelon Insights poll raises the question: Just how inevitable is this menacing Blue Wave? According to the survey, Democrats’ once impressive enthusiasm gap is now nearly nonexistent.
It’s the socialism, stupid: The DSA may cost Dems their blue wave
- Larry Elder: You may not have wanted this candidate - but vote for him anyway.
Obama to Tell ‘the Brothers’ to Vote for El-Sayed
- The announcement has heightened speculation about Ocasio-Cortez’s Presidential ambitions. Rejoining the DSA, whose most prominent elected official is currently New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, allows Ocasio-Cortez to position herself as an outsider and challenge the Democrat establishment.
TItty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez Rejoins Democratic Socialists of America.
- The ruling represents a procedural victory for Georgia Republicans, as it allows the redistricted maps to stand, at least for now. It also sets a higher legal bar for future challenges to redistricted maps, requiring plaintiffs to meet stricter standards under the new Callais framework.
Blow to Dems as Federal Appeals Court Overturns Ruling Against Redistricting.
- MAGA Inc., the President's personal super PAC has announced a rally in Michigan, featuring candidates for a number of offices headlined by JD Vance.
MAGA Inc.’s $400 Million War Chest Is Finally Hitting The Campaign Trail FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Tibet’s colonial overlord, the Chinese Communist Party, is reportedly monitoring rapidly rising waters in a lake in the region that could soon overflow and cause even more devastation, potentially harming search and rescue teams working as rapidly as possible to find survivors in the mud.
Nepal/Tibet Landslides: Over 1,000 Missing, Entire Villages Buried as Rescuers Fear More Flooding
- Norway’s King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved father over more than three decades on the throne, has died aged 89, the royal palace said on Friday.
Royal loss King Harald, Norway’s reform-minded head of state, dead at 89
- “Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) is an Italy-based extremist group that builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world.”
State Department Designates Antifa Linked Group as Global Terrorists
- But like the United States, Colombia has its fair share of leftist loons who can't accept that they lost an election, and one of them is named Viviana Marín. She's currently the political secretary of the Communist Youth of Colombia (JUCO), a group connected to the Communist Party of Colombia.
State Department to Communist Activist: You Won't Be Vacationing In the U.S.
- Thousands of residents marched through Ceuta carrying Spanish flags and chanting "Ceuta se defiende" before parts of the crowd turned their attention to the migrant camps.
Ceuta protests erupt as residents storm, burn down migrant camps following Moroccan migrant invasion of 80,000
- And soon Muslim migrants from Ceuta will enter Europe.
Crime Up 1000% in Ceuta After Invasion
- The perpetrator has since been identified by the BBC and several outlets as a 26 year-old man born in Russia. The man was arrested about 12 miles away from the town of Ouistreham after he fled from the scene.
France: Two Dead, 10 Injured After Man Rams Car Into Crowd in Caen
- Antisemitic content removed from textbooks.
Welcome News From Saudi Arabia THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - The recent surge in Russian attention on The United Kingdom’s part in aiding Ukraine, manifested in a series of threats ranging from dark allusions to nuclear war to warnings of hybrid warfare attacks on weapons factories on British soil, continues again with fresh comments from Moscow’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Britain ‘Playing With Fire’ by Aiding Ukraine, Faces ‘Unpredictable’ Consequences, Warns Russian Foreign Ministry DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - Attorney General Todd Blanche framed the seizure as part of a broader campaign against Chinese hacking operations. “State-sponsored malicious hackers preying on America’s critical infrastructure will be stopped and prosecuted.
DOJ: Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Breached Senate, Federal Reserve, Multiple Agencies BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH - "Highly relevant classified documents, material that should have been disclosed, stashed, and hidden"
What Was the Biden Junta Hiding About Afghanistan? ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - I say poppycock! I also say that these decisions by SpaceX and Musk are not simple business decisions designed to help SpaceX. They are also designed to jump start the rest of the American rocket industry, which in turn will help the payload industry.
Musk’s other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida
- These features are unique to Mars, and though they resemble avalanches, they produce no change in the topography, have no debris pile at their base, and more resemble stains that appear suddenly and then fade with time.
Slope streaks in the Martian southern cratered highlands FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - Women who have given birth to a stillborn baby are no longer called a "mother" but are instead referred to as a "postpartum individual."
Democrat Governor Wants To Remove ‘Mothers’ And ‘Pregnant Woman’ From State Health Code
- The ruling is a significant setback for Texas Republicans’ efforts to shield children from exposure to sexually oriented performances, and could limit similar legislation in other states if judges continue to claim such laws are overly broad.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Law Protecting Children from Sexualized Drag Shows. CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - Ruffalo laced into an Israeli-American Paramount board member, accusing her of reveling in genocide
Major Hollywood Talent Agency Stands Behind Marvel Star Mark Ruffalo After His Unhinged, ‘Antisemitic’ Rant
- Christian Toto: In Hollywood, ideology determines who gets canceled.
Disney Fired Gina Carano … but Not Mark Ruffalo?
- Toto too: 'Comics Unleashed' rerun smokes far-Left showcase, anti-Trump monologue
Colbert’s Replacement Beats Jelly Roll-led ‘Kimmel’ in Key Demo
- “The performance was just as disheartening.”
The Downfall of Shakespeare in the Park
- Sam R. OYKEN’s ‘The Pickle Factory,’ is a wildly original, very funny, and sadly accurate satire of the CIA.
Laughter Of Recognition Echoes From The Realest Spy Novel In Years HITHER & YON - The accuser, known as Victim 10, alleges that prosecutors coached him to steer his testimony, asking him to reframe and revisit his allegations, according to a sworn affidavit obtained by the outlet.
Jerry Sandusky accuser to recant testimony against convicted child sex abuser and ex-Penn State football coach
- Thanks to professional carnivore Sama Hoole, I just learned that kale only "became a superfood because a publicist in New York invented a trade association that did not exist."... Devoid of the iron and protein Melissa thought we were getting and with all the chewability of a truck tire, kale is just celery for masochists. As soon as this column goes live, I'll forward it to my lovely bride with the note: "Never again."
The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable (No this isn't a Joe Biden story - jjs)
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 07:20 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:21 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:22 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 07:25 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 07:25 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 07:27 AM (cpFbA)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
Idiots
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 07:27 AM (geWO5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 07:29 AM (ExV1e)
Need that doormat that has " Are those Level 4 Plates?" on it.
Got the planning for the L-shaped greeting for any insurgent bitter enders.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)
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then what was it?
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 07:31 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 07:31 AM (JNTt1)
A series of remarkably coincidental airline crashes which took place after a series of totally unrelated hijackings by persons whose motives are completely unknown. -- CBC
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (ExV1e)
You can probably guess why China wants the US to abandon AI and data centers.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)
ONE OH NEIN!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (VLqFi)
ONE OH NEIN!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (VLqFi)
Sounds like a song . . .
Posted by: Zombie Brian Wilson at August 28, 2026 07:34 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 07:35 AM (2Cry5)
ONE OH NEIN!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (VLqFi)
Sounds like a song . . .
Posted by: Zombie Brian Wilson at August 28, 2026 07:34 AM (wVcYX)
99 luft balloons?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 07:36 AM (geWO5)
Wow. Canada has gone full governmental WEF controlled death spiral.
Too bad the leaders can't be MAID.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ)
>>@nypost
>>Trump admin set to target George Soros nonprofit, Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR in major tax crackdown: sources
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:37 AM (viF8m)
We need to get to work on building our own AOS privateer.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2026 07:37 AM (cpFbA)
Elon has a vision. It's not about the money or the power for him one little bit. It's all about that vision of us becoming interplanetary ASAP.
Elon knows he needs money to accomplish the vision, of course, and to that extent he cares about it. But not one wit for his his own wealth.
Somebody like him (and like Trump) only comes along rarely.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 07:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 07:38 AM (gpE5W)
I for one do not worry about China and AI.
If input with the thoughts and policies of XI -- collapse is faster.
If output recommends policies like remove Xi for a better country, or Capitalism as a solution, then all money in AI is wasted.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
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No question. He's building tunnel tech, useful on the Moon and Mars, he's building robots, also needed for early work, an AI to manage the place and the robots, rockets to get there, and medical tech to fix people who get injured. He's got a long way to go but I cheer him onwards.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 07:41 AM (nGP1k)
All muslims should be persona non grata in the US and its territories.
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)
It's like they don't care and want everyone to know it.
Posted by: Kruger Industrial Smoothing at August 28, 2026 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zombie Brian Wilson at August 28, 2026 07:43 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: davidt at August 28, 2026 07:43 AM (Q+gd/)
That's a no no for a Dem. They may off Ossoff.
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 07:43 AM (MWfyi)
Does he have a very high constitution, surviving 7 assassination attempt, and outworking Rubio? Intelligence, for upending the Deep State even a bit?
He has a high charisma, holding on to Melania, with two previous stunning wives.
Low dexterity, for fumble mouth?
Wizard? Bard? What spells can he cast?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 07:44 AM (nGP1k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Zombie Brian Wilson at August 28, 2026 07:34 AM
Rested and ready!
Posted by: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena at August 28, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Whether we like it or not, AI is coming and it will affect virtually all walks of life including national security. China is not slowing down on their development which largely means stealing from us and doing whatever they can to disrupt our own development of AI.
We need adult conversations about governance and restrictions on AI just like all technology but the overheated claims that AI is inherently evil is just dumb.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:46 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 28, 2026 07:47 AM (gm9Sb)
Wow. Canada has gone full governmental WEF controlled death spiral.
Too bad the leaders can't be MAID.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:36 AM (u82oZ)
In fairness, that 'CBC' quote was something I made up, imagining what they would say.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
Windy is a day ending in Y in Kansas. Unlike the song, rangeland here rarely gets dusty.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
Elon is shooting for the capability of launching several Starships *per day* out of all the facilities.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 07:47 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:32 AM (viF8m)
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It is remarkable how fast this contagion spread via agitprop.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena at August 28, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Watch out fellas, 'cause there's nobody meaner.
She'll give you a length, then shut you down.
Posted by: Zombie Brian Wilson at August 28, 2026 07:48 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 28, 2026 07:49 AM (36x1j)
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I'd like to go to his birthday dinner!
Posted by: President For Life Barack I at August 28, 2026 07:49 AM (nR+Sx)
Would you believe 30 Starship launches per day? That's what capability Elon is shooting for. That $100B facility in Louisiana is all about this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 07:50 AM (w6EFb)
Got my walk in, time to prep coffee and shower before the interview. Then I'll read the more interesting articles
Managed to time it so the sun was just rising on the second half of the walk - still below the treeline but lots of beautiful red lighting the sky, and the full moon still in the west in plain sight
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 28, 2026 07:50 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 07:50 AM (eZjn+)
You are right. AI is a tool. One trained on AoSHQ comments would be fun to watch.
We can develop solutions to the infrastructure requirements. These solutions will leave us better off as a country.
I expect Scandinavia will be similarly blessed.
I see the corruption in China as so severe they get limited good out of their AI investments.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
If Elon moves AI into space, he could potentially undercut running costs on Earth.
Maybe AI around Mars?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Guy who always says "nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 28, 2026 07:52 AM (MWfyi)
The Paolo, he, how you say, can relate to this.
Posted by: The Paolo at August 28, 2026 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)
If you look back over the last decade or so it is remarkable how much the country and the world for that matter has been guided by fake information. The Russia collusion hoax which not only almost took down a duly elected US president not to mention the damage it did to US-Russia relations, all fake. The Ukraine phone call, fake, Russia attacking poor Ukraine for no reason, lie. And on and on.
The old saying about a lie traveling halfway around the world before the truth can put its shoes on is outdated. Now lies go all the way around the world before the truth even wakes up.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 07:54 AM (viF8m)
May your day and weekend be as enjoyable as going to Surf City, Catching A Wave, and interacting with The Girls On The Beach.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 07:54 AM (wVcYX)
You developed a deeper truth, because to deny 9-11 was a terrorist attack and put it in the memory hole takes a certain mind-set.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: JackStraw
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China lags behind. Their datacenter infrastructure sucks. Their AI coding sucks. So does their IC manufacturing.
They've been on a tear trying to steal every LLM model out there. Of course they want the US to quit the race for AI and datacenters to leverage it.
The possibilities for military use are huge. It was reported that Anthropic's AI client "Claude" was used to plan some of the Maduro snatch and grab operation.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 07:55 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 28, 2026 07:49 AM (36x1j)
Visit = Forced to live there.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 28, 2026 07:55 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 07:56 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2026 07:54 AM
I'm in my room picking up good vibrations!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Thank you for what you do.
And Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 07:56 AM (ccf/V)
It hit me what Elon is thinking. The sheer amount of energy available from the Sun in our immediate area is mind boggling. Don't hold me to it, but I was looking at some numbers. 10^20 Watts flying past us through empty space continuously.
Now, the problem is getting stuff up there to catch it, which ain't no little thing, but that's what he's thinking. To get to the interplanetary level, we're going to have up our energy levels by orders of magnitude.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (w6EFb)
Why is there still such as thing as a "black" district in 2026? Besides being rayciss, I don't think having "black" districts has turned out like the "blacks" in the "black" district imagined.
Posted by: Money In The Freezer at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (QRHoA)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)
Trump should appeal this directly to SCOTUS.
Because, as the Court noted, improper injunctions against the government are themselves a form of irreparable harm.
And note the basis for her injunction is exactly the same basis she gave in the injunction they just struck down; she just changed the date and a few words.
And I'd also note, the only additional basis for the injunction was due to that illegal injunction; the delay that was caused by her preventing them from posting the rules.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (3cUTc)
Good Luck! Or break a leg! Whichever is more relevant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (ccf/V)
Nixon: “Whatever, tomato, tuhmato, at the end of the day.”
There are a known 60,000 apartments NOT for rent in NYC because of Big Govt Rent Controls.
So double or triple that to get the real number.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)
China is lousy at integrating.
Posted by: And it shows at August 28, 2026 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)
“When you politicize an office like this,” Barger told The Federalist, “this is what you get.”
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Excellent article about the reconstruction of Altadena. Thanks JJ.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 07:59 AM (IEUYY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)
Good to hear.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:00 AM (ccf/V)
Elon's vision, I think, is to get us well on the way to Type I civilization level (Type II, well that's a big far off, Star Trek level).
And I think he realized there are two great obstacles to us getting there. Wokeism and Islam.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 08:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:00 AM (ccf/V)
Does he have a very high constitution, surviving 7 assassination attempt, and outworking Rubio? Intelligence, for upending the Deep State even a bit?
He has a high charisma, holding on to Melania, with two previous stunning wives.
Low dexterity, for fumble mouth?
Wizard? Bard? What spells can he cast?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
I don't know about the rest of it, but Trump can cast STUPIFY like a motherfucker.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 08:01 AM (PGK1w)
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I know we're not in Canada, but this is utterly disgraceful. Immediately, the saying went through my head, paraphrasing, "if you want to know who controls you, look at who you're not allowed to criticize."
My mind couldn't conjure up a more upside down world than the one we're living in now.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 28, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:01 AM (z6ONu)
The Dems know that as well.
Tells you a lot how important this year is--and how close they really know it is.
As the old saying goes, they can't cheat if it's not close.
But also, if it's not close, they don't need to cheat.
And the Democrat really, really, REALLY need to cheat a lot this year.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 08:02 AM (3cUTc)
So double or triple that to get the real number.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 07:57 AM (/+uur)
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Javier Milei, Zombie Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell weep.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)
His other agenda is to start the process of most of humanity, in 200 years, having his genes as part of their heritage. Like Genghis Khan in Asia.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 08:00 AM (w6EFb)
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One group wants to conquer the Earth and keep us in a perpetual seventh century mentality until the end of time.
The other group wants to eradicate humanity entirely.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:02 AM (FZ29D)
Trump should appeal this directly to SCOTUS.
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I think the administration should ignore these rulings. Arrest the judge. Hang said judge and be done with it.
Else, this shit continues.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 08:02 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:04 AM (u82oZ)
It's the dry heat. Most of the residents of New Mexico, like Mexico itself, have a lower IQ than normal, that the dry heat, over time, dissipates what little brain power they do have and you see the results first hand.
Like having beef jerky for a brain.
Posted by: Dumb As Dirt at August 28, 2026 08:05 AM (QRHoA)
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Illegal alien starts a fire and burns 90 vineyards to nothing, People are penniless as a result.
All, this is, except for one owner, who got paid back speedily.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:05 AM (4NfdL)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:03 AM
******
It all began in a five thousand watt radio station...
In Fresno, California.
Posted by: Ted Baxter at August 28, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Former MA guv Deval Patrick called it 'a failure of understanding.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 08:06 AM (qRla/)
Debbie Dingell yelling that she doesn't want to answer any more questions about Piker brought a good response. I usually don't listen to Ben Shapiro, but his comment "when you say you don't want any more questions b, you've answered the question" is spot on .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:07 AM (TbVRb)
Mornin', Horde. 61 degrees and sunny in Kentuckiana, going up to mid-80s.
Speaking of New Mexico, don't think Alteria Pilgrim has been around here lately. Anybody seen him?
Posted by: Nazdar at August 28, 2026 08:07 AM (NcvvS)
I don't know about the rest of it, but Trump can cast STUPIFY like a motherfucker.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 08:01 AM (PGK1w)
You asked for it.........
https://youtu.be/GVcY--XzeIc
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:07 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 28, 2026 08:08 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 08:10 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (geWO5)
I've been fighting off depression, lethargy and anhedonia for the last week and haven't been able to stir myself to do much of anything, even come on here and comment.* I'm going to do my best to work on final edits of my book today - I doubt I'll get all the way through, but I do want to at least get to the midpoint. We shall see.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
*and there was much rejoicing
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (qRla/)
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Ossoff is not campaigning like a guy whose internals show him with a 6 point lead, like all the public polls say.
This, the nasty attack on Trump's aide, then he has this goofy obsession claiming Collins employs a neo-Nazi.
Those are all appeals to the base of the party, not the center or swing voters.
Kind of like how Harris kept doing the same thing, which also seemed odd for someone who the polls said was winning.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:05 AM (4NfdL)
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It's Good To Be King!
Now, get back to work.
Posted by: Governor Dumbfvck at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (TbVRb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2026 08:12 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at August 28, 2026 08:12 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (sn5xH)
Posted by: Veggie Tales at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (geWO5)
GIGO
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (geWO5)
Texas Southern University (an HBCU) has released its first poll and has Talarico DESTROYING Paxton.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (ccf/V)
I would argue that they have been against humanity since expulsion from The Garden—they just went by different collective names.
In Romans 1, Paul talks about alienation from God drive society mad and into social collapse. Many elements in the former United States are at Stage IV Reprobation.
• Humanity knows God (creation reveals Him; Genesis 1–2)
• Humans reject gratitude and worship (Exodus 32; Psalm 106)
• They replace God with created things (Deuteronomy 4; Jeremiah 2)
• Their thinking becomes corrupted (Genesis 6; Isaiah 5)
Their relationships and society deteriorate (Genesis 6; Judges; Proverbs)
• God allows them to experience the consequences of rebellion (Jeremiah 2; Proverbs 1)
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (PVBkQ)
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And there you have the quiet part out loud as to why there has been an avalanche of incandescent support for islam and its nurturing thereof rolling right into the Demorat Party in America.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 08:10 AM (GWwCk)
Frasier had to hypnotize Woody into liking Veggie-Boy to appease his conscience for appearing in the commercials. Frasier took a sip and said: you can really taste the kale 😂
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (geWO5)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:13 AM (z6ONu)
This tells me that Carney doesn't have the best interests of his people in mind.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2026 08:14 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (TbVRb)
Because they know that even with hormones and the top surgery, Clarendon is STILL a woman, and therefore eligible for the WNBA.
Just like they know a man can never BECOME a woman, and therefore Enes isn't.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 08:14 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at August 28, 2026 08:12 AM (PGK1w)
That's not really the sick burn anyone thinks it is.
"You eat shit, for breakfast?"
Well played, Mr. Sandler.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:15 AM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2026 08:12 AM (dtajH)
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Night of the Long Knives is gonna be lit!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:16 AM (RIvkX)
Let's see where we are at the end of September.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:16 AM (viF8m)
You see, he likes competition
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Still finding this hard to believe, since many self-described capitalists are often closet monopolists, while Elon is very different.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:16 AM (+l7X8)
Because they know that even with hormones and the top surgery, Clarendon is STILL a woman, and therefore eligible for the WNBA.
Just like they know a man can never BECOME a woman, and therefore Enes isn't.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 08:14 AM (PGK1w)
They called Freedom and White out for the stun they're playing, which is correct. However, the fact that they still haven't defined what a woman actually is and their guidelines ACTUALLY ALLOW for those 2 to enter their draft and they're being denied, hopefully they sue the crap out of the league if for nothing else, to get them to define 'woman.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM"
Me, too.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 28, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)
This tells me that Carney doesn't have the best interests of his people in mind.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2026 08:14 AM (dtajH)
Carney want Fang Fang bang bang........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)
They've already brought charges against the the SPLC and its executive Heidi Beirich for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering related to secretly funneling donor funds to extremist groups.
These are RICO predicates. Just sayin'
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 28, 2026 08:17 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Tes Torgerson at August 28, 2026 08:18 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:16 AM
Yeah, but he's still not taken a massive penis into the outer atmosphere. With William Shatner inside, to boot!
Posted by: Jeff Bezos at August 28, 2026 08:19 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 28, 2026 08:20 AM (ccf/V)
Are you stupid or do you just have "stupid f*cker" written all over your face?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM (ccf/V)
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Insty has a story on how some 200k anti-data center accounts are just Chinese bots.
And that's before we get to the slew of paid promoters.*
And this is a big issue, but not a very big issue; imagine how many are brought to bear on a very big issue?
One thing a lot of people have not heard is that China has scraped the entire US social media.
And they are running massive AI to "game" how to manipulate the US public.
Everything on social media is an op, it's not organic.
* recently was dozens of influencers all reading roughly the same script "I thought living in [red state] was going to be cheaper. But the price of [item] is way up. Even with 2 jobs, I can't afford [item/food/gas /rent/etc.]"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM (sn5xH)
But it WAS the left, in Bill Clinton, who absolutely refused to kill bin Laden when they had opportunities (plural) to do so years and years before.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie Fan Club at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM (JM9I6)
I've been fighting off depression, lethargy and anhedonia for the last week
For guys, the anhedonia is the worst part because its natural for a man to find comfort and refuge, when everything else fails, in doing things he loves to do.
And when that is gone...
Praying for you. Seriously.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 28, 2026 08:22 AM (/TiS1)
Because if there's one place you want the world, especially China, to be ahead of the curve in, it's computing technology.........
F*cking braindead idiots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM
We're not here.
Posted by: Russian bots at August 28, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)
Lindsay Clancy Verdict is in: Trump guilty of 3 counts of first degree murder. All other men guilty of manslaughter.
Posted by: Tes Torgerson at August 28, 2026 08:18 AM (R86kT)
That's the sickness of all this. Woman kills her kids and it's the fault of all men. No wonder the AWFLs are crazy for Lindsay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 08:23 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Little Debbie at August 28, 2026 08:24 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 08:25 AM (PbWRL)
Well then, the long tradition of local and national leaders ignoring the populous will work in our favor then. Because bribes work on building stuff.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)
I know this feeling......well.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Popeye at August 28, 2026 08:26 AM (Q+gd/)
https://tinyurl.com/33n3w3h8
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 08:26 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: Little Debbie at August 28, 2026 08:24 AM
I begs ta differ...
https://youtube.com/shorts/ik2HwK9jajk
Posted by: Popeye The Sailor Man at August 28, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)
Ford the Ontario premier and Carney didn't seem to realize that the oil and gas from Alberta goes through pipelines in the US before it reaches Montreal. Cut it off Montreal freezes this winter
Carney is an idiot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:27 AM (TbVRb)
But it WAS the left, in Bill Clinton, who absolutely refused to kill bin Laden when they had opportunities (plural) to do so years and years before.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 28, 2026 08:21 AM (PGK1w)
Ah, who can forget the launching of a few billion dollars worth of missiles at a tent in the desolate sands of Afghanistan.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:27 AM (ccf/V)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at August 28, 2026 08:28 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Word Nerd at August 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 08:30 AM (sn5xH)
Yup. Screwed up there. Knew it was wrong, and posted anyway. But I'm not going to the Barrel over it.
OK, I'm over it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:31 AM (geWO5)
Whoo-boy, are they throwing everything they can against that.
Because they know they will never, ever be able to compete against that.
And it's funny, 'cause all their ground-based anti-data center rhetoric doesn't work on space-based.
So they come up with goofy arguments about how it won't work.
That just sound dumb if you have more than a nominal understanding of science.
One gal I saw earlier was on a tear how the physics don't work because there's no way to dissipate all the heat.
Is it more difficult than on Earth? yes. Is it impossible? No.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 08:31 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Cicci at August 28, 2026 08:31 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Word Nerd
And just where does pustulous fit in?
Posted by: On My Buttocks? at August 28, 2026 08:31 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 08:31 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Word Nerd at August 28, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Populous was an addictive game I first discovered on the Sega Genesis.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:32 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 08:32 AM (JNTt1)
https://tinyurl.com/33n3w3h8
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 08:26 AM (JNTt1)
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Devil weed...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:33 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 08:33 AM (FZ29D)
Right up there with okra.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)
Canada needs the US market a hell of a lot more than we need Canada and he knows it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:34 AM (viF8m)
117 Real Clear Politics polls are an aggregation of a bunch of other polls. Many of the polls are absolute crap, so you get skewed numbers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:15 AM (TbVRb)
RCP’s theory is that some polls are high, some are low, and if you average them all you get a reliable result. BUT if all polls have a built in bias in the same direction, then all you can get from that method is a consensus wrong answer.
It’s much like answering the question of “what is 2 + 2?” by averaging a group of answers that range from 5 up to 12.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 08:34 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Glyphosate Gary at August 28, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Pre-programmed response at August 28, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:35 AM (3hr0T)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:36 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 08:31 AM (geWO5)
I suspect studio make up artists, who were quite good at disguising an ongoing process until there just was no point in trying anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 08:37 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Way Below The 49th Parallel Here at August 28, 2026 08:37 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)
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Carney convinced himself he could weaken PDJT politically with a well-timed fight, especially if he could provoke Trump into personal attacks. It's an attack aimed at the midterms, and Carney thinks he will have a weaker Trump to deal with after the elections. Really, really bad bet.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:38 AM (iuLJm)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:36 AM (z6ONu)
The okra slime ruins everything it touches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)
Britain's Biggest Council Pushes Two-Year Jail Term For Flying National Flags
Treats the country's colors as a public-order problem...
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:39 AM (RHGPo)
Vile weed!!
Posted by: Newman at August 28, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
>>Yes, the State Dept. is for sure going after Leftists abroad who destabilize our allies, and are beside themselves as the Donroe Doctrine initiates a reverse Domino effect as one by one seemingly intractable and perpetual Socialist nations are rejecting socialism for freer and more truly little "d" democratic in the truest sense of the word governments, while we here at home seem to be embracing it. Well, if one pallet of bricks is prevented from being delivered to a center city business district in the middle of the night then bravo.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:40 AM (X8xt3)
They will all march themselves willingly into the disintegration chambers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:41 AM (RIvkX)
How many actual Brits on the council?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:41 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)
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Very happy indeed!
Today is younger daughter's b-day.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 08:41 AM (Rln0i)
All public art is a giant ripoff.
It makes United Way look like a charity.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:41 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: This House Sure Gone Crazy at August 28, 2026 08:42 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 08:37 AM
See also: Biden, Joseph Robinette.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
https://tinyurl.com/33n3w3h8
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 08:26 AM (JNTt1)
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And thanks to you I just went to Google for the first time in years and years. Ah well.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:43 AM (iuLJm)
Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:43 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2026 08:43 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 08:44 AM (2Cry5)
With Talarico, it’s aided by the fact that John Cornyn and his political allies are backing it as well, because of personal hatred.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 28, 2026 08:44 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2026 08:44 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:43 AM (iuLJm)
Yeah. Trusting google AI to give you anything data wise is foolish.
Stop using google. It is the Devil and is only there to do you harm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 08:45 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Homeo and Juliet at August 28, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
Today Is National Bow Tie Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2026 08:43 AM (NpAcC)
Bow ties only look good on 7-year-old boys and puppies. And certain women. Otherwise they should be abolished.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 08:46 AM (O0L8i)
"his people" is doing a lot of work there.
He holds three passports, lived in the UK the 10 years prior to running for Canadian PM.
He is a globalist elite, and "his people" are his fellow WEF members.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:47 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2026 08:43 AM
I once plunked down $35 on Cameo for The History Guy to make a personalized video congratulating a friend for finishing a Masters degree. It was cool.
https://thehistoryguy.com/
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:36 AM (z6ONu)
Wise man say, "He who use filé powder no need dildos of slime to thicken gumbo."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)
The clue to me was two things: the blue color they chose for it and the fact that you couldn't change your layout like MySpace or anything before it.
The layout was chosen for you - and it's color was the "safest" most innocuous and trustworthy looking blue color there ever was.
I hated it and it made my skin crawl. At the time I explained that it was done that way for one reason and one reason only. They needed it laid out like that to A/B test engagement (and other things) so they could ramp up what works, and discard what didn't.
They could also use it to "control" how the people on the platform thought and to a degree what they felt. Through A/B testing. So whatever they're admitting to now, it was 10,000 times more nefarious.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (xZzaD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Penguins?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (PbWRL)
Duh. It is landscaping, not food.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (RIvkX)
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Yeah, that was great work, taking them down. Who was funding this abomination, I wonder.
Posted by: runner at August 28, 2026 08:50 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 28, 2026 08:50 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)
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Battery powered?
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 08:50 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:50 AM (RHGPo)
Is it more difficult than on Earth? yes. Is it impossible? No.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Considering the temperature between earth & the moon is -270C, it shouldn't be too hard.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 08:50 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Music Nerd at August 28, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)
BUT, this is an election year, and we're very nearly through an entire summer without any major assaults on even one city by the enemy.
Now, that may be a tactical decision on their part - they may have decided that discretion is the better part of valor in 2026, and to wait out Trump, and marshal their forces for a real horror show in 2028.
Even with that caveat, I'm hopeful that the siege on their treasury has weakened them too much to attack during this campaign season - discretion isn't one of their virtues, and "de l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace!" is their standing order at all times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 08:51 AM (BI5O2)
Same - how gorgeous was that full moon today?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:51 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (XvL8K)
You missed the Opus sox
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Or Tennessee Tuxedo
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 08:51 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:52 AM (z6ONu)
Duh. It is landscaping, not food.
Posted by: Lizzy
It's landscaping on a salad bar so you don't see all the ice.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 08:52 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 08:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)
I'm hoping Trump clearing out the USAID building, removing its signage, then filling it with an entirely different federal agency has helped!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:53 AM (X8xt3)
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Well, there's your problem.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)
Popular YouTuber Ms. Rachel is speaking out and urging people to listen to and support the Black community.
Don’t be mistaken, the left is upset about this.
This has nothing to do with truth-seeking, they want to be able to blame white people.
Turns out, police found CCTV footage of the man hanging himself
I don’t understand. Miss Rachel told me black people absolutely do not hang themselves. She said this was definitely White people doing this. I don’t know whether to trust her or the cameras. I’m confused.
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
Just a reminder about fair weather friends.
Oh and the Democrats agenda according to Jefferies is to investigate Republicans “corruption” and impeach the president. Again. So I guess that’s what people want.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 28, 2026 08:53 AM (JW6Az)
Anyone fired for this obvious prank/FU to normies and Southerners?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:54 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 28, 2026 08:54 AM (sn5xH)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:49 AM (X8xt3)
LOL you would like my white bean and kale soup
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 08:54 AM (xZzaD)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 08:52 AM (z6ONu)
Scientific testing has confirmed that sassafras leaves contain virtually undetectable levels of safrole, making the dried and ground leaves used in file powder safe to eat. Major health authorities and culinary experts agree that file powder does not pose a carcinogenic risk when used as a seasoning or thickening agent in dishes like gumbo.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 08:54 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg
Because all the salad bar fixings dropped on the ice would look unappetizing after a while. But if it drops into leafy greens, it's not seen as much.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 08:55 AM (eZjn+)
Glenn Close just posted a short video from home and it's sending the internet into a spiral.
No glam.
No red carpet.
Just her standing outside in her late mother’s shirt, letting the wind move through her white hair, watching the sun go down.
“I’m home. Calming down. I feel blessed. Hi to you all. Bye.”
That last word is what's breaking everyone.
This is hitting after a brutal stretch of celebrity deaths, and fans are already bracing for the next name.
Some started posting RIP messages.
Others said they cannot take another legend dying this soon.
“That ‘bye’ gave me CHILLS.”
“Please don’t let her be next 😭”
“Why did that feel so FINAL?”
When this many stars have died in a short window, even a quiet sunset video starts to feel like a warning.
Are fans just traumatized… or did that “bye” come at the worst possible time?
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:55 AM (RHGPo)
Wow. Brave.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)
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We saw Brad Garrett in Vegas and I paid extra to sit front and center. After the show he gave Mrs. F. a key chain that said "Brad Garrett Made Me Cry in Vegas"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 08:46 AM (O0L8i
*****
True.
Although, I do like them with tuxedos at weddings.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:56 AM (TbVRb)
Wow. Brave.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Doubly so at a Gallagher show.
Posted by: Homeo and Juliet at August 28, 2026 08:56 AM (JM9I6)
Don’t be mistaken, the left is upset about this.
Gosh, juuuuuuust in time to GoTV for midterms!
Amazing how they manage to exacerbate some race-related crime/hoax every dang election year, huh?!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 08:57 AM (77rzZ)
That pizza is repulsive. Horrid shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Back in the 80s, maybe into the 90s, they had the pan pizza crust nailed. It was perfect most of the time.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2026 08:57 AM (XvL8K)
Else, this shit continues.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 08:02 AM (2Cry5)
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IMPEACH THIS JUDGE! If this behavior doesn't qualify as misbehavior - especially after having been warned by SCOTUS - THEN WHAT DOES?!?
Remember: Federal judges shall serve a lifetime appoint WHILE IN GOOD BEHAVIOR. Most people omit the last part.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 08:58 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:50 AM (RHGPo)
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As someone said on X, "The most CNN thing, ever", meaning it's emblematic of how false even their easy editorial decisions are. How do you screw up an obit? Let's watch CNN!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 08:58 AM (SuK7W)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 28, 2026 08:58 AM (PbWRL)
I have to admit, when Glenn Close dies my entire world will be... pretty much unaffected. Probably even less than the grief I feel when any other celebrity I've never met dies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Col Kilgore at August 28, 2026 08:58 AM (Q+gd/)
That last word is what's breaking everyone.
Or maybe it was just out of habit to close the selfie video with "bye?"
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 08:59 AM (X8xt3)
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By what measure is the internet spiraling?
*taps side of monitor*
I'm not experiencing any spiraling.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 28, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
And certain weathermen giving the nightly forecast.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 08:59 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:00 AM (SuK7W)
People eat at Pizza Hut?
That pizza is repulsive. Horrid shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
I had a pepperoni one a couple of months ago. It's difficult to figure out how to make a pepperoni pizza completely tasteless, but they managed. Never again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 09:00 AM (O0L8i)
Recall, Bush won it in 2000.
Yes, the desert around the capital area is horror-scape.
But the mountains are very nice.
The rural areas are solid conservative but are overwhelmed by the soy, granola and fems of the cities.
Blue states I'd retire in if they were red:
CA
CO
NM
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 09:00 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 28, 2026 09:00 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 09:00 AM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Homeo and Juliet at August 28, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)
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I'm still suffering the lingering effects of my root canal procedure yesterday...
Yet I find your argument strangely compelling.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 09:00 AM (FZ29D)
Who?
Posted by: Only Fitting at August 28, 2026 09:01 AM (QRHoA)
Posted by: bunnies at August 28, 2026 09:01 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 09:02 AM (TbVRb)
“Please don’t let her be next 😭”
“Why did that feel so FINAL?”
When this many stars have died in a short window, even a quiet sunset video starts to feel like a warning.
Are fans just traumatized… or did that “bye” come at the worst possible time?
May her god, Harvey Weinstein, have mercy on her soul...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:02 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 09:04 AM (FZ29D)
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.”
Psalm 46:1-3
Blessed is the Lord our God, who protects, heals, and comforts us. He is our salvation, out hope and the reason we overcome all challenges.
May God bless you all, this day and always.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 09:04 AM (c9rBD)
Great production which featured the wonderful actress and trained singer ( who also played Hyacinth Bucket ), Patricia Routledge .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:04 AM (3OyJk)
She was on Letterman on night after she was In Sarah, plain and tall. He said what was it called Sarah, Tall and Stupid?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 09:05 AM (TbVRb)
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I remember when Colorado Springs was a conservative hot spot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 09:05 AM (ndZc7)
Who?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)
This is my question.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Glen or Glenda at August 28, 2026 09:05 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 28, 2026 09:06 AM (2Cry5)
Thanks for your witness, Marcus T. Same to you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:06 AM (3OyJk)
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Looking forward to reading this one. Thank you for the link, JJS.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:06 AM (q7yvH)
Who?
Some weirdo who has a kids show on the internet.
I've only heard of her because she says some random, incredibly woke think every few months and then it's all over X. Think the last scandal was she had Mamdani on her show doing woke sh#t.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 09:07 AM (X8xt3)
Nothing against her, and if she's dying then I hope it's not too painful.
But I can't imagine this one is as big a deal as all that. I mean, I'm not a big Tim Curry fan but I know he's the guy from Home Alone 2. I doubt the world is spiraling into depression over this.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:07 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 09:07 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
White people made him do it. I am sure the "logic" will retreat to something like that.
Posted by: Oggie Ben Doggie at August 28, 2026 09:07 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at August 28, 2026 09:08 AM (qCwnW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 09:08 AM (TbVRb)
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I mentioned it yesterday, one gal, in response to men breaking up or divorcing over finding out their girl supports Clancy, was to ... blame the men.
See, it was their fault they didn't know she had those views before.
And it's their fault for not finding out sooner, before they got into a relationship with her.
Not hers for harboring secret filicidal sympathies or desires.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 09:08 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 09:08 AM (TbVRb)
Either that or she's taking her own life for all the evil, horrendous things she's taken part of as a part of the hollywood elite over the years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:09 AM (ccf/V)
Turns out, police found CCTV footage of the man hanging himself
I don’t understand. Miss Rachel told me black people absolutely do not hang themselves. She said this was definitely White people doing this. I don’t know whether to trust her or the cameras. I’m confused.
I remember when Clinton's go-between with Epstein was found hung by the neck with a shotgun blast to the chest and no shotgun anywhere to be found on a remote farm and the FNM told me it was obviously a run of the mill suicide.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 09:09 AM (sKqQm)
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Telling people not to buy your records. Good plan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:09 AM (q7yvH)
Of course.
We fear nothing because He is with us. He is our rock, and our salvation. There is nothing greater than Him. His will be done.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 09:09 AM (i14TE)
Posted by: Rope Is Still Quite Affordable. at August 28, 2026 09:09 AM (JM9I6)
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My next target after successfully defrocking Facebook is the FOMO Writing.
"Whats breaking everyone" = three emotionally unstable idiots got upset
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:10 AM (xZzaD)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:10 AM (ZxPkt)
When this many stars have died in a short window, even a quiet sunset video starts to feel like a warning.
Are fans just traumatized… or did that “bye” come at the worst possible time?
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 08:55 AM (RHGPo)
Glenn Close hasn't been the same since the bunny was boiled.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:10 AM (N39Ws)
You broke the code: a feminist is NEVER responsible for bad things that happen to her. It is always the patriarchy, misogyny, etc..
You're looking for logic in a black hole with these dumb gals.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (X8xt3)
And it's their fault for not finding out sooner, before they got into a relationship with her.
Not hers for harboring secret filicidal sympathies or desires.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 09:08 AM (3cUTc)
First rule of Wife Club is not killing the kids. It's kind of important, ladies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (dK+Kv)
Idiots
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 07:27 AM (geWO5)
A desperate effort by freedom fighters to end genocidal American Imperialism?
A righteous guerilla attack designed to make Americans feel what peaceful Muslims experience every day from genocidal American attacks on Islamic nations?
Muslim martyrs implementing the dictates of Allah against non-believers, recorded by Muhammed (PBUH) in the Religion of Peace's Book of Peace called the Koran?
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (5rh/l)
1. No problem.
2. He's not a country singer, regardless of what he calls himself.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 09:07 AM (X8xt3)
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Shamefully, I have a SIL who tried promoting her show to the kids, but I believe my daughter finally put a stop to that crap.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (q7yvH)
The motte is we just need to provide more mental health resources to women...even though she had every mental health resource they say should be provided.
And the bailey is that if women kill their kids it is never their fault.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)
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Fatal Attraction
ignore her, and she will cook your bunny
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:12 AM (ZxPkt)
First rule of Wife Club is not killing the kids. It's kind of important, ladies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (dK+Kv)
And Clancy will probably be found not guilty. She'll still have to spend time in the state mental hospital, but not a day in prison for what she did to her kids.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:12 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
If you're dressing your child for school while the news is talking about the psycho kid-killer mom and your wife is like "ya know what, this family annihilator is the real victim here," then drop that kid off at grandma's instead of school, tell her head up to the family cabin, and immediately go file for divorce.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:13 AM (BI5O2)
1. No problem.
2. He's not a country singer, regardless of what he calls himself.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (eZjn+)
He used to weigh 400 lbs. Then he got Big Pharma to help him lose 250 or so lbs.
Now he's a leftist asshole, alienating 1/2 his fanbase.
Coincidence? I think not......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:13 AM (ccf/V)
Fatal Attraction
ignore her, and she will cook your bunny
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:12 AM (ZxPkt)
She was also horrible in that significantly overrated Deer Hunter movie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:14 AM (ccf/V)
Carney and Canada. Eh. But European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's annual State of the European Union (SOTEU) address will take place on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 in Strasbourg, France, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the address as a special guest of von der Leyen. (Politico, 'Canada’s Carney to attend EU’s State of the Union')
Reportedly, Canada has also struck independent defense deals. Rather than dealing with Brussels' bureaucracy, Canada is signing direct deals with European partners, such as purchasing sub-hunting submarines from a German-Norwegian venture and drones from Poland.
Further, Arctic security | NATO Topic, Jul 24, 2026. Canada and the Nordic countries with a closer Arctic security and defense coalition, it seems.
Like there's not enough to worry about within the US, and so close to the 25th Anniversary of 9/11.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 09:14 AM (NFX2v)
And here's a quote back 'atcha:
"The Lord is my strength and my shield."
Psalm 28:7
It was given to me by a man from a church and he was handing out elastic bracelets with this quote at the recent 4H fair I went to.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:15 AM (JrHfD)
That place and time isn’t up to us, as much as some fool themselves into thinking that.
We all end up standing before God, our creator.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 09:15 AM (i14TE)
See you have to understand lefty "logic". From the left's perspective colonized people have a right to resist by any means necessary. So jihadis flying planes into American commercial buildings, or raping and murdering a minor Israeli pop celebrity at a peace concert is justified and acceptable.
However, before you can in any way impede a jihadi you must give him a full western style trial and find him guilty because you, the American that doesn't want his country Islamified, are the evil colonizer.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (5rh/l)
Some PEOPLE did someTHING....
- - - - - 11han 0mar
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:15 AM (ccf/V)
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The plan was for the Brits to capture Caen on the first day of the D Day invasion but instead it was not captured until two months later and, I guess, there's Nazis there still.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge
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Is that your final answer?
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:16 AM (ZxPkt)
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.”
Psalm 46:1-3
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Amen and God Bless, Marcus!
That with all the b.s. in the world, God is still in charge, and He is never slack when it comes to us and our sinful foolishness.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:17 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:18 AM (geWO5)
Is that your final answer?
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:16 AM (ZxPkt)
I mean, that's about all I have on the career of Glenn Close.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:18 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:18 AM (BI5O2)
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Not fair! Everyone knows the Brits are retarded and fighting with both hands tied behind their back!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 28, 2026 09:18 AM (ndZc7)
In an extraordinary response for a major studio, Paramount, which is now controlled by the Ellisons, accused the actor of spreading "antisemitic tropes," an allegation he vehemently denied.
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As weird as he is, Ruffalo is my personal canary on the coal mine: Whatever crazy shit he promotes is the latest thing among the wackiest acting lefties.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:18 AM (q7yvH)
Amen, and I hope you are well.
I’ve seen and experienced enough to know He is in charge.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 09:19 AM (imkMW)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:19 AM (q7yvH)
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (5rh/l)
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A religion based on the pedophilic mutterings of an evil man can only turn out one way.
And it ain't good. Nor is it from God.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)
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Sure do.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (q7yvH)
Mostly they just want us arguing over it.
Because if there's an argument it means there must be another perspective.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (xZzaD)
I mean, not that I could boycott hollywood any more, but they do make it easier for me to select movies that I'll NEVER see, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge
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Okay.
Glenn Close was not in The Deerhunter.
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (ZxPkt)
Yes, we do have farms and farmers in the rural/
or some suburban counties and we actually do know what a sheep looks like . 😉 and no, for the jokesters here, I have never had sexual relations with any farm animals nor do I intend to, but I like looking at the 4H kids and their animals.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 09:19 AM (imkMW)
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Yep, same here. : )
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (TbVRb)
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Don't forget about the dude who goes by the name Brittany Griner
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (JNTt1)
When six year olds know you're important, it's not because of a song or movie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: dantesed at August 28, 2026 09:22 AM (Oy/m2)
He's like Pedro Pascal, he has a career because he's politically reliable.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 09:22 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (Rln0i)
I mean, even the E-4 Mafia knows this. lol.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2026 09:22 AM (imkMW)
I mean, not that I could boycott hollywood any more, but they do make it easier for me to select movies that I'll NEVER see, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)
And when/if they do, they have to have a fulltime crew to keep him hidden and his mouth shut.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
The ChiComs have years worth of social media data and (by applying their own AI) it's easy for them to figure out who the gullible witch-burners are so they can focus on them.
When I note that an acquaintance is subject to one of these moral panics, I make a mental note to not trust that person ever again.
> your wife is like "ya know what, this family annihilator is the real victim here,"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:13 AM (BI5O2)
Also prima facie evidence for not starting or breaking off relationships before they get to the wife stage.
"Don't stick it in murderous" should probably even be ahead of "don't stick it in crazy" on the list of things for young men to avoid.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
90% of the reaction to her passing has not been about her career, but the kind of person she was. I can't imagine any higher tribute to give a person than that.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2026 08:11 AM (TbVRb)
The Left does whatever they want. Why anyone still believes there are rules is beyond me.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (xZzaD)
Okay.
Glenn Close was not in The Deerhunter.
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (ZxPkt)
Oh, you're right. That was Meryl Streep.
How horrible a mistake of me, confusing those 2.
Please forgive me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (ccf/V)
Who do you think staffs Hezbollah? Buddhists? Zoroastrians?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:25 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
The Barrel cleaned? You must be joking.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 28, 2026 09:25 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:25 AM (geWO5)
Posted by: Buck at August 28, 2026 09:25 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
If, according to the left, if just saying you are a man makes you a man, why fid they allow him to play in the wnba?
And if they allow men to play, why can't Enes play without having to identify as a woman?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2026 09:26 AM (eZjn+)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:26 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Much Prefer Brant at August 28, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)
I mean, not that I could boycott hollywood any more, but they do make it easier for me to select movies that I'll NEVER see, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:20 AM (ccf/V)
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God's mercy at work.
Being able to watch horses from my porch instead of people who play pretend preach to me is a true blessing.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:26 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Much Prefer Brant at August 28, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)
Canada must pay reparations for Americans having to put up with their noise and shitting everywhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:27 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:27 AM (geWO5)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)
Being able to watch horses from my porch instead of people who play pretend preach to me is a true blessing.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:26 AM (Rln0i)
*hugs*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:28 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:25 AM (geWO5)
Hybrid farm animal. Part reindeer, part buffalo.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:28 AM (IG3/x)
Its a new day. The sun is rising, the birds are singing.
It is Norming in America
youtu.be/dcOGANCLrRo
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 28, 2026 09:28 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 09:28 AM (u82oZ)
Last month MA implemented law allowing abortion up to the point of birth. Now women are defending a mom's post-birth abortion of her 3 kids.
There's a throughline there, if you dare to see it: women are their own Gods who get to decide if their kids live or die. They've already negotiated that they can do this for any reason while the kid is inside them, so is it really that surprising there's been scope creep on the rationale?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2026 09:28 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:25 AM (geWO5)
A hollywood retard who thinks because he makes millions pretending to be someone else, everyone needs to hear and abide by the ravings of a lunatic in real life.
In other words, typical hollywood leftard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:29 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:27 AM (geWO5)
Sadly, I have no trouble believing this.
Remember, we live in a world where Hugh Grant cheated on Elizabeth Hurley with an ugly street hooker.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Too lazy to look it up at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 28, 2026 09:27 AM (geWO5)
Have you met many men?
Posted by: Biology at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (iCp4l)
Goodbye is an abbreviation of "God be with ye"
(I don't know if it's really true, internet tells me it's true. And I would like to be in a society where that was the departure phrase)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (J4Dwc)
Further, Arctic security | NATO Topic, Jul 24, 2026. Canada and the Nordic countries with a closer Arctic security and defense coalition, it seems.
Like there's not enough to worry about within the US, and so close to the 25th Anniversary of 9/11.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 09:14 AM (NFX2v)
It is argued that this agreement, along with the Albertan Carbon Capture plan will be used to launder seized Russian assets, which along with some dicey Duma elections coming up that may elect some fire-eaters, is going to piss the Russians off to no end
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (rbvCR)
First rule of Wife Club is not killing the kids. It's kind of important, ladies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2026 09:11 AM (dK+Kv)
And Clancy will probably be found not guilty. She'll still have to spend time in the state mental hospital, but not a day in prison for what she did to her kids.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:12 AM (N39Ws)
She'll be found not guilty. At the subsequent hearing to determine if she should be committed to a mental institution for treatment, her lawyers will bring in psychiatrist expert witnesses,. Who will testify she currently has no DSM-5 mental illness(es); thus committing her to a mental hospital will be cruel and unusual punishment. The judge will find for the defense. Free as a bird, guilty as sin. You read it here first.
Posted by: Gref at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (5rh/l)
My worst bout of kidney stones was when I was deployed in '06. Pain like that is truly worse than childbirth, imho.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Rln0i)
youtu.be/dcOGANCLrRo
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 28, 2026 09:28 AM (rbvCR)
LOL.
If only that were true.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Too lazy to look it up at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)
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Yes.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:32 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:30 AM (ZxPkt)
He mentioned earlier he'd only seen her in one thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at August 28, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 09:34 AM (iCp4l)
Reminder: @ChrisMurphyCT cheated on his wife & left her & their kids for a much younger activist. He got attention, used his position of power to manipulate a young woman into bed and ditched his life for a more attractive side-piece. Let him lecture you about morality.
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 09:34 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Rln0i)
Doc spoke with her yesterday and mention she couldn't believe it's actually moved as far as it has considering the size.
She's waiting for a call from a specialist to get in and discuss options.
She's not in pain currently, but is also not taking the new script to assist in passing it as due to it's size, she doesn't want to cause a clog somewhere requiring emergency action.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V)
I'm putting my nickel on a guilty verdict, and then life in prison because MA has serious murder sentencing, unlike TX.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:34 AM (BI5O2)
How horrible a mistake of me, confusing those 2.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:23 AM (ccf/V)
Dude... how can you possibly confuse a scrawny blonde who always plays the same whiny character with another scrawny blond who always plays the same whiny character?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (IG3/x)
When six year olds know you're important, it's not because of a song or movie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (BI5O2)
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Beautiful tribute. God bless your little daughter.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (z8t9l)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Rln0i)
I was in the ER with them doubled over not knowing what it was.
On my way out, dude on the desk said "kidney stones, huh? How were you not crying?"
I said "I thought it was a Crohns flare up and that was kind of mild I'm comparison to those."
It's true too.
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (xZzaD)
Yes. Because when I want spiritual guidance, I go to a spawn of Satan.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (IG3/x)
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lol
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (xZzaD)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (iCp4l)
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I don't care what anyone says, witchcraft is a real, deadly sin.
There's a reason the satanic rituals include the women making child sacrifices.
Everything Satan does is a mockery, an evil mirror of the holy.
These are not things that give him power--they are things to drive souls away from God.
Abortion is witchcraft.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (3cUTc)
Dude... how can you possibly confuse a scrawny blonde who always plays the same whiny character with another scrawny blond who always plays the same whiny character?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (IG3/x)
I go sit in the box.
I feel shame.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:37 AM (ccf/V)
Yes. Because when I want spiritual guidance, I go to a spawn of Satan.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)
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Just another antichrist at S'tan's disposal.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (xZzaD)
Thank you.
This ride just won't end........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (BI5O2)
Someone else's daughter started crying, knowing only that she was the nice lady who always sent her books.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (xZzaD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)
Sorry man
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:39 AM (xZzaD)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (xZzaD)
Thank you.
This ride just won't end........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)
Sponge - So sorry to hear the First Lady is battling health issues again. Prayers for a quick and pain free resolution. Praying that you two can finally catch a break -- you two deserve it with everything you've gone through.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:39 AM (N39Ws)
Sorry man
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2026 09:39 AM (xZzaD)
Not your fault.
But, we're being tested, for sure. Not sure why, but who am I to question? I just keep trying to stay positive and supportive.
It is wearing me down, tho. I really need to buck up.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (BI5O2)
Someone else's daughter started crying, knowing only that she was the nice lady who always sent her books.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 09:38 AM (IG3/x)
We all wonder how our conversation with God will go when we stand before Him. I can only imagine God looking at Dolly saying "Well done, good and faithful servant!".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2026 09:39 AM (N39Ws)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 28, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)
There's a reason the satanic rituals include the women making child sacrifices.
Everything Satan does is a mockery, an evil mirror of the holy.
These are not things that give him power--they are things to drive souls away from God.
Abortion is witchcraft.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2026 09:36 AM (3cUTc)
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The Greek word for sorcery is...pharmakeia.
With more abortions being done by merely taking a pill, it's more than fitting.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 28, 2026 09:43 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: SMOD at August 28, 2026 09:45 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 28, 2026 09:56 AM (SK+av)
The (main?) facility is an upscale, small-scale community with five licensed beds. It specializes in providing customized, 24-hour long-term care plans for seniors and individuals living with physical or mental health conditions. Care is delivered by certified nurses and professionally trained medical support staff to assist residents with daily living activities, medications, and chronic disease management. 🤨
The Ithan Omar/Hirsi family has had quite a foot in medical care in & around Minneapolis, MN.
WHNZ, I-heart radio, The Joe Pags Show, 'Sister’s Health Clinic Got Millions Through Ilhan Omar’s Efforts' March 2026
As more color for the above stories, here's yesterday's possibly no. 1 AWFL defender of Ithan Omar:
Christina Lorey
11h
Ilhan Omar IS the American dream.
Her mom died when she was two.
She was raised entirely by her dad and grandpa.
She and her family fled Somalia to escape the Somali Civil War and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
Continued -
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 10:16 AM (NFX2v)
But, even as they put in 12 hour days, her dad and grandpa emphasized the importance of DEMOCRACY.
At just 14, she stared accompanying her grandpa to caucus meetings and served as his interpreter.
At 17, she became a citizen.
At 33, she ran for (and won) her first election.
And the rest is literally American history!
In 2019, she became the FIRST Somali American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the US Congress 🇺🇸
And her dad — the hardworking, democracy-loving man who achieved the American dream right alongside her — was standing by her side.
(He sadly died of complications from Covid the following year.)
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Kind compared to her most recent (1 hr post citing John Fugelsang regarding Turning Point USA):
(It begin) Reminder: Just because a person or group SAYS they’re “religious,” doesn’t mean they actually ARE.
And then the Fugelsang quote: Turning Point USA, I go to their website, and I don't see a single teaching of Jesus Christ. (Much more)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 10:16 AM (NFX2v)
GoFundMe: Who is Christina Lorey? Help Transition to Full-Time Community Journalism, 95%, $9,419 raised of
$10K, 461 donations
LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT: Last week, I lost my job as editor of UpNorthNews — BUT I plan to keep this page going, as it’s something I’ve always operated outside of regular work hours *for free* anyway!
However — I NEED YOUR HELP.
I’m hoping to transition THIS into a full-time job, so I need to make money somehow…
I’ve looked into adding a subscription option or ads, but neither seem appropriate for the time! What if someone can’t afford to “subscribe,” but still wants the news? What if there’s an ad for a person/political party/business I wouldn’t support?
yada yada yada.
Christine Lorey, Organizer, Madison, WI, Created July 7th, 2025 Business
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Good weekend. 😊
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 10:17 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bill Hominy
Wow! And I thank you for the response.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 28, 2026 10:22 AM (NFX2v)
Support our president and his highly competent Cabinet, sans Mullins, at all costs.
Posted by: Danimal28 at August 28, 2026 10:29 AM (vGw+K)
or some suburban counties and we actually do know what a sheep looks like . 😉 and no, for the jokesters here, I have never had sexual relations with any farm animals nor do I intend to, but I like looking at the 4H kids and their animals.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 09:21 AM (JrHfD)
Dairy and other farms 10 minutes from my house. Contrary to what many Morons believe, NJ ain't what you see from the NJ Turnpike. Not even close.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 28, 2026 10:36 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 11:00 AM (W90Ou)
Keep up the good works guys I've added you guys to
blogroll.
Posted by: bokep videos at August 28, 2026 11:07 AM (B4OWY)
keep it up.
Posted by: jihad website at August 28, 2026 01:57 PM (B4OWY)
Daily Tech News 28 August 2026
Top Story
- Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck. (The Register)
$13 billion for this?
Tech News
- Intel's 270K CPU - an honestly pretty good processor that you definitely shouldn't buy - is now down to $200, putting it at the launch price of its slower sibling the 250K. (WCCFTech)
The 270K and its entire platform will be replaced by the end of the year, and its bargain price is dwarfed by the cost of memory right now.
- AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex installed unowned code inside corporate networks. (Ars Technica)
Text files. These fuckers are talking about text files. Not programs of any kind.
Now there is a real problem in that the text files tell other AI agents to do dumb shit, and the AI agents promptly do it, because they are being run by dumb people.
Also the first comment on that article calls it out as AI slop itself, which I agree with. Ars Technica has been caught with their pants down and on fire that way before.
- A new Twitter has launched, claiming that X abandoned the trademark. (Ars Technica)
Betting you can outlast a trillion-dollar company in court is certainly a choice.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Database is did.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 04:43 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 04:43 AM (AdHga)
506 The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is scheduled for launch on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to the cosmological data it will provide. A sanctified shit ton, in fact. This is going to answer a lot of questions over the years of just what the Universe is doing.
Well, put it this way. There are questions that a lot of the models are wrong, but not enough data to know for sure. Roman will provide that, and show if they models are wrong, or if the discrepancies so far have just been some measurement artifact errors.
So, it will tell if we're wrong. If we are, it won't tell us what's right, but will provide clues maybe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 03:51 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 04:44 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 04:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 04:49 AM (xSAlF)
>>How long a dry spell? Inquiring 29-yo minds want to know.
The next full lunar eclipse visible across the US will be Jun 26, 2029. And that will be a deep and thus long one, peak magnitude 1.84.
We will get a piss-poor partial lunar eclipse on Jan 12, 2028, but that will be just the slightest sliver, less than 10% diameter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 04:52 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 28, 2026 04:54 AM (LBYNq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 04:54 AM (JrHfD)
Its the car I wanted when I retired, just happened I got it while still working.
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Sashimi and herring prepped, chicken grilling. Hot in the kitchen - and outside.
Maybe l8r.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 04:57 AM (QNSrI)
My thinking $100 Is the new $20 doesn't seem so foolish after reading this. I should just name the company Nitwits.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 28, 2026 04:57 AM (LBYNq)
I'm sorry. I was unclear . I meant that you got whatever was in your tire out of it , but glad you have a nice Mazda tool to carry the tools.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:01 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 28, 2026 05:01 AM (LBYNq)
https://tinyurl.com/5f4ru5hw
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:06 AM (W90Ou)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:06 AM (W90Ou)
>>How long a dry spell? Inquiring 29-yo minds want to know.
The next full lunar eclipse visible across the US will be Jun 26, 2029. And that will be a deep and thus long one, peak magnitude 1.84.
We will get a piss-poor partial lunar eclipse on Jan 12, 2028, but that will be just the slightest sliver, less than 10% diameter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 04:52 AM (
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Good, even a 29-yo ought to make it to 2029. ;-)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 05:08 AM (llBIB)
So I started playing with the appropriate wildcard settings in an add-on called "Redirector", so it would do automatic redirection from X to twitterwebviewer.
Redirector is available for Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or Opera. Homepage is here:
https://tinyurl.com/5n97p8c3
Now, how to configure it:
Edit the Redirects.
Duplicate some other example setting
Set the "Example URL" and "Include pattern" to:
https://x.com/*/status/*
Set the "Redirect to" to:
https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=$2
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 05:09 AM (O7YUW)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 28, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)
23:11-12. Our Daily Breac devotional
https://tinyurl.com/ycy7np6s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:10 AM (W90Ou)
https://youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 05:12 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/8wxdcj83
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:18 AM (W90Ou)
https://tinyurl.com/5d4m3hn4
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 05:19 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 05:19 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)
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https://youtu.be/3H-9ePp4pWs
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 05:21 AM (QNSrI)
Anyway, I don't think the goal is to make money, but to punish Musk for not collaborating with the left-wing machine. They will launch a thousand such trials in the hope that ten succeed. Their backers have deep pockets.
Posted by: PG at August 28, 2026 05:21 AM (/Exkx)
https://youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 05:12 AM (l3cgK)
Aagghh! Very funny.
Maybe he could tell it to never talk again.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:22 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:25 AM (W90Ou)
Reading up on that now. Wow. USGS says their seismic data indicates glacier collapse, not an initial earthquake.
Piece of a glacier broke off, with a landslide and melting ice. That then blocked and diverted a river in a short order, and this was the result. Absolutely no warning this was coming.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:26 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 05:29 AM (O7YUW)
Man, some of those videos are hard to take. Dozens and hundreds of poor people running for their lives and then absolutely consumed by water and debris. Huge structures just wiped away in a instant.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:31 AM (w6EFb)
A chunk of glacier 2000' wide broke off and probably fell 4000' right then and there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:32 AM (w6EFb)
Communist Candada's National Broadcaster CBC: Do Not Call the 9/11 Attack "Terrorism"
Where he wrote:
"I am just about ready to begin treating Canada as an enemy state."
I really can't fault that perspective and position, so...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:35 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:31 AM (w6EFb)
Yikes.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:36 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:37 AM (dom7w)
A robot duck, eh? Does it lisp and slobber like Daffy Duck?
"You're dethpicable!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 28, 2026 05:39 AM (Hbeqj)
Reading up on that now. Wow. USGS says their seismic data indicates glacier collapse, not an initial earthquake.
Piece of a glacier broke off, with a landslide and melting ice. That then blocked and diverted a river in a short order, and this was the result. Absolutely no warning this was coming.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:26 AM (w6EFb)
Could there be satellite photos of this?
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:39 AM (odBC9)
Yes, just saw a before and after. Just search on the Nepal flood event and you'll find a bunch. Far too much to try to link here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius,
On par with the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 05:41 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:39 AM (odBC9)
Found a yes online!
An initial study of satellite imagery from Planet Labs showed a large section of the lower end of a glacier breaking away at an altitude of about 5,200m and falling roughly 1,200m onto the valley floor, gathering rock and debris as it went.
--The Independent
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)
https://tinyurl.com/ujx8rdc4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:42 AM (dom7w)
Yes, just saw a before and after. Just search on the Nepal flood event and you'll find a bunch. Far too much to try to link here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:40 AM (w6EFb)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)
So far it works great."
Agreed, the site works well. Did you try the "Redirector" settings?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)
Just watched a video of them pulling survivors out of the mud in various places. Covered with mud, and all with that "thousand yard stare".
The terror of that is unimaginable. I'm just thinking of the noise, the roar of all that coming as they ran for their lives.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:43 AM (odBC9)
So far it works great."
Agreed, the site works well. Did you try the "Redirector" settings?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)
That's way outside my level of expertise! I'm happy with the out-of-the-box version.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:44 AM (odBC9)
It's kind of slow, except when it's abrupt in transitions and quick on explanations, but Helen is as marvelous as always.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)
So far it works great."
*
Agreed, the site works well. Did you try the "Redirector" settings?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026
***
Is it an extension, or should we have it open and paste a given Twatter link into it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:46 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:47 AM (dom7w)
if the robot duck could say "You're dethpicable!!" it might almost be worth the $
Nice, G&R!
coffee is imperative, brb
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 05:48 AM (VyBeY)
Piece of a glacier broke off, with a landslide and melting ice.
Glacier breaking off = Global Warming = Trump's fault.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 05:49 AM (O0L8i)
Later this morning Miss Linda is dragging me to a luncheon-lecture, something about vasectomy and sterilization (?), at my former employer. I agreed because it's (a) free lunch, (b) not a bad drive and no-hassle parking nearby, and (c) did I mention "free"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:50 AM (odBC9)
Piece of a glacier broke off, with a landslide and melting ice.
Glacier breaking off = Global Warming = Trump's fault.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 05:49 AM (O0L8i)
China is one of the largest carbon emitters in the world...and is nearby...
AND, they're asshoe.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 05:50 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 05:51 AM (odBC9)
Busy day awaits. Pick up dry cleaning, then get my monthly haircut, then buy some chicken for Diana, maybe mow the yard if I feel up to it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 05:54 AM (O0L8i)
I still call them Twitter/X, like SpaceX but different. I'm pretty sure you need to wait for people to stop doing that before you try to muscle your way in on the name. They could just quote one of my comments and say, "You see here where SciVo still refers to our social network in this manner."
Well, they would more likely quote Twitchy, which I believe does something like that too. Then add their continued use of twitter.com URLs in links and redirects, and I think that would suffice. They use the word, and people associate it with them and no other.
Admittedly, IANAL. Yet every American absorbs a certain amount of copyright, trademark, and patent law almost by osmosis, because it's so important to business. And the business of America is business, as someone said.
Posted by: SciVo at August 28, 2026 05:54 AM (ke3zm)
Ah yes, globull warmuning the idiots are screaming now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)
Those idiots need to read up on the Younger Dryas -- orders of magnitude more "rapid climate change" than anything these morons go on about. The Erf reset itself, and humans had fuck all to do with it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 05:56 AM (w6EFb)
Oh. Wait. "DryADs." Oh, well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)
earthsky.org
https://tinyurl.com/yr8ud28f
Nahel Belgherze
@wxnb.bsky.social
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:00 AM (odBC9)
Early judging time for The Big Dummy at today's show. Why superintendents have heavily-coated breeds in the ring at 8:00 is a mystery. Have to call Her Majesty at 6:00 instead of the usual 7:00.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:08 AM (O0L8i)
United States Geological Survey
2026 Nepal Debris Avalanche and Flash Flood
https://tinyurl.com/4uxzzmcp
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:10 AM (odBC9)
Hexie - Kitchen
Kaylee - Living room
Allie - Bedroom
Penny - Office
Chloe - Library
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 28, 2026 06:10 AM (FZ29D)
I don't know why, ( probably because I'm really tired ) but this strikes me as funny- that you are going to a lecture on vasectomies as part of. a free luncheon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:12 AM (pOTTH)
Overview
What we are doing
USGS geologists are mapping the inundation boundary of the debris flow and flood by using satellite imagery. By comparing images taken before and after the event, geologists can identify newly affected areas, trace the limits of inundation, and disturbed surfaces from undisturbed terrain.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 28, 2026 06:12 AM (PzBTm)
I guessed what would happen next time he would go to the communion rail.
Ten second rule for Jesus!
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 28, 2026 06:13 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 06:15 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 06:16 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 05:37 AM (dom7w)
9/11 midair landings
9/11 nonconsensual plane-in-tower
9/11 guerrilla war crimes
9/11 standard Muslim baseline
Posted by: SciVo at August 28, 2026 06:16 AM (ke3zm)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 06:16 AM (VyBeY)
; )
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:17 AM (pOTTH)
Thanks. I particularly liked the second one.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:18 AM (pOTTH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 28, 2026 06:19 AM (amcLV)
Speaking of show superintendents, I have to write a note to the Toy Dog Club of Houston with some suggestions for next year's shows. They all have to do with the super.
One is if there are sweepstakes, they should be held in the same ring as the regular classes. I had people asking for armbands and had to tell them that those were at another ring. I didn't have a judging program and couldn't tell them where. Since everyone shows up at the last second anyway, some became quite dramatic.
The second is that for these shows, which have both breed-specific specialties as well as Toy Group competition, there ought to be a hard copy of the premium list included in the ring bag. Nobody reads premium lists except to find out where the show is and if there's reserved grooming, but they do contain the definitive information that can answer questions during the show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:20 AM (O0L8i)
It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!
*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 28, 2026 06:12 AM (PzBTm)
Now it's official.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:21 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026
***
I hope and presume, Fen, that it's not going to be part of a push to get one!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)
Overview
On Wednesday morning (local time), 26 August 2026, a catastrophic debris flow and flood was likely triggered by a glacial collapse in Langtang National Park, Nepal, near the border with China.
This debris flow and flooding travelled nearly 100 km and impacted populated areas downstream along the Trishuli and Bhote Koshi Rivers, including Gyirong Port, China.
Preliminary media reports and imagery analysis indicate many buildings and infrastructure have likely been buried or destroyed, including a vital highway connecting China and Nepal.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:29 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 06:30 AM (QNSrI)
2026 Nepal Debris Avalanche and Flash Flood
https://tinyurl.com/4uxzzmcp
Overview
Our primary focus is supporting response and recovery efforts through hazard mapping using satellite imagery.
This landslide event page serves as an event summary to communicate timely science information to our partners.
This information includes what is currently understood about the event and ongoing activities of the USGS and partner agencies and may be subject to change.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:32 AM (Ia/+0)
I'm going through Delilah's show career spreadsheet, putting result links into the show names. Lila was shown in 2020 and as I come across those dates, I feel a very deep pang of humiliation and embarrassment at what they put us through then. It's a time I'd like to blot from my mind.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:33 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)
-
https://youtu.be/3H-9ePp4pWs
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 05:21 AM (QNSrI)
That was just 00:35!
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 06:41 AM (Ia/+0)
It probably is, but I trust after the luncheon they will not escort men into a side room for the snipping procedure right then😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:43 AM (r8sd+)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 06:47 AM (MWfyi)
HOW TO KNOW A LANDSLIDE IS COMING
FEEL Landslides are noisy and can cause the ground to shake and feel like a freight
train is passing.
HEAR
- CRACKING WOOD
- FALLING TREES
- SHAKING BRUSH
- KNOCKING ROCKS
- THUNDER OR SOUNDS LIKE A LOW-FLYING JET
SEE
/ MUDDY WATERS If a creek suddenly becomes muddier it could mean a large amount of dirt and new material has entered upstream.
/ NO STREAMFLOW If a stream stops flowing it could mean the channel was blocked by debris, creating a natural dam. If the dam fails, all the stored material could rush downstream.
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:47 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 28, 2026 06:48 AM (NjHwp)
It probably is, but I trust after the luncheon they will not escort men into a side room for the snipping procedure right then😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:43 AM (r8sd+)
Tutored and neutered.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2026 06:49 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 28, 2026 06:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:51 AM (DiLbP)
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:56 AM (m6Eem)
train is passing.
HEAR
- CRACKING WOOD
- FALLING TREES
- SHAKING BRUSH
- KNOCKING ROCKS
- THUNDER OR SOUNDS LIKE A LOW-FLYING JET"
It could just be that meal from Taco Bell taking effect.
Posted by: fd at August 28, 2026 06:57 AM (MWfyi)
there was a time when the idea would have seemed humorously absurd ... but here we are in 2026 ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 06:57 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2026 06:59 AM (1fvy3)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 07:02 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 07:08 AM (QNSrI)
If you have to sit through a lecture on that topic, it better be one helluva fine free lunch.
Morning, Horde.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 28, 2026 07:09 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 28, 2026 07:11 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 07:14 AM (VyBeY)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 28, 2026 07:16 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 07:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 28, 2026 07:18 AM (2Ez/1)
You fought hard for DSA and their policies, and the win is turning to ash in your mouth. Sucks to be you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 07:19 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 07:22 AM (ZxPkt)
Huzzah! And she is twirling!
*Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi. *
And big finish - * Crash, Bang, Boom, sounds of metal plates hitting the floor. *
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 28, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2026 07:26 AM (ZxPkt)
If you have to sit through a lecture on that topic, it better be one helluva fine free lunch.
Morning, Horde.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 28, 2026
***
It's free. And the previous two or three times we went, the food was fine. The tough part was keeping my mouth shut while some academic lectures me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 28, 2026 07:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2026 07:19 AM (2GVsD)
haha took me a minute to make my way through the libtalk that you've replicated
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:42 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9)
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Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 28, 2026 05:08 PM (O7YUW)
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 27, 2026
Get out there and take a look at the moon! On the night of 27 August 2026 the Earth's shadow will slide across a full Moon and turn it copper for more than an hour, a partial lunar eclipse visible from the Americas without any equipment except a clear sky
...weather permitting, the full Moon over the Americas is going to do something it will not do again for more than two years. Beginning in the late evening of Thursday, August 27, Earth’s shadow will creep across the lunar surface until, a little after midnight on the East Coast, 96 percent of the Moon sits inside it, glowing a dim, rusty copper with only a bright sliver left along one edge. Technically it is a partial lunar eclipse. Practically, it is about as close to a total one as a partial can get, and astronomers are calling it the best lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth until New Year’s Eve 2028. *** For viewers in the eastern half of North America, the timeline runs like this. The subtle penumbral shading begins around 9:24 pm Eastern time on the 27th. The real event, the partial phase, starts at 10:34 pm, when the curved edge of Earth’s dark inner shadow, the umbra, takes its first visible bite out of the Moon. The shadow advances for the next hour and a half until maximum eclipse at 12:12 am Eastern, when 96.3 percent of the disk is immersed and the Moon hangs copper-red in the sky. The shadow then slides off, with the partial phase ending at 1:52 am and the whole affair over by 3 am. Subtract the hours for other zones: maximum comes at 11:12 pm Central, 10:12 pm Mountain, 9:12 pm Pacific. West Coast viewers see the Moon rise with the eclipse already underway, low in the southeastern sky, which is a gift for photographers who want a shadowed Moon hanging over a skyline.Please share your respective moon-gazing experiences tonight. If you get any good photos, please send them my way - you may see them on a future ONT!
----- Black spray paint has many uses
These facts may or may not be related. 1. You can buy cans of black spray paint at Walmart for under 3 bucks. 2. Paint on a solar panel is a bad idea, it will block all the light and make the panel useless. 3. From a distance a panel sprayed with black paint would look just fine. 4. Flock Cameras are solar powered and the area of their panel surface is 595 square inches 5. A single can of spray paint can fully cover 2880 square inches. 6. 2880 divided by 595 is 4.84 See kids math is a valuable skill you really will need it in the real world.----- Pushback against Flock in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
A police chief in Oshkosh, Wisconsin caught Flock lying to his city council, and killed the $8 billion surveillance company's contract less than a day after the council had approved it. Here's how it happened. The night before, Oshkosh's council was set to renew its deal with Flock Safety, the license plate camera company backed by a16z and Tiger Global. One council member asked the Flock rep a plain yes-or-no question. Does this system build a heat map of everywhere a specific car travels over time? Flock's rep said no. The council believed him and voted 5 to 2 to renew. By the next morning, Chief Dean Smith's own officers had told him that answer was false. So he pulled up the system himself. He watched it generate the exact heat map Flock had just sworn it couldn't make. Then he walked into an emergency meeting and said it out loud: "Because of this misrepresentation, I can no longer recommend Flock." Understand what a heat map is, because it's the whole trick.Hit the link to read the whole thing ----- Flock being used as a revenue generation tool.
e.g. Ticketing overweight trucks on restricted roads.Photos at the link ----- Dolly Parton will be remembered accurately!
��BREAKING: Netflix has announced DOLLY, a new biographical film chronicling the life and career of country music legend Dolly Parton. pic.twitter.com/VlA6OfAIyK
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) August 26, 2026
----- Asshoes Felony charges dropped against Golden Gate Bridge protesters
A two-year legal battle over a dramatic protest against the war on Gaza came to an end on Friday as seven protesters who’d blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge received 30-day sentences and $1,000 fines. Over two dozen activists halted several lanes of traffic on the bridge on April 15, 2024, six months into Israel’s war in the Palestinian territory that has been widely recognized as a genocide. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged 26 of them with crimes. Most were offered diversion, in the form of fines and community service, but Jenkins hit seven protesters with a raft of serious charges, including felony conspiracy. *** After a two-and-a-half-week trial, jurors deadlocked in June over the most serious charges but convicted the protesters on several misdemeanors, including obstructing a thoroughfare, unlawful assembly, and four counts of false imprisonment related to trapped commuters. Jenkins’ office had considered a new trial on the conspiracy charges, but assistant district attorney Angela Roze announced on Friday that the remaining charges would all be dropped.Emphasis mine. Screw you, AP. "Widely recognized"?? Again - screw you. Oh there are links in that article. Go ahead and check them out - if you dare. The protesters are asshoe, and the AP is asshoe.
Tonight's ONT brought to you by unfortunate contact info
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:06 PM (+UcOf)
Let's just start off with my favorite meme I've run across today.
https://bit.ly/so-many-questions
Posted by: mindful webworker - generically at August 27, 2026 10:06 PM (11R8D)
Still hoping for something closer to come along, honestly, but praying for the ability to accept wherever God wants me to be, too.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 10:07 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:07 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: mindful webworker - almost but not quite at August 27, 2026 10:07 PM (11R8D)
Posted by: Minuteman at August 27, 2026 10:08 PM (47/pr)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 27, 2026 10:09 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 27, 2026 10:10 PM (wxsGM)
Let's just start off with my favorite meme I've run across today.
https://bit.ly/so-many-questions
Posted by: mindful webworker
And why did they keep it under wraps for 8 months?
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)
That seems.... strange
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 10:11 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 10:11 PM (aJQbY)
Some giant is devouring the moon!
Panic now! Sacrifice a Democrat.
Just kidding.
Probably
Posted by: mindful webworker - the sky is disappearing at August 27, 2026 10:11 PM (11R8D)
And it's cloudy here. There are breaks in the clouds and the full Moon just peaked through for about 1 minute. Now totally obscured.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:12 PM (w6EFb)
This Flock stuff is disturbing on several levels. The SC will no doubt become involved because of the money involved. We are back to definitions of "privacy" when "in public". How does freedom of movement, a specific item mentioned in basic American documents play?
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)
Those of you on the west coast will see a eclipsed moon rising.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:13 PM (w6EFb)
The username rules at the university used to work at resulted in a very respected female professor having the username 'fkinghor'
True story
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 10:13 PM (/2KcO)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 10:14 PM (AdHga)
Substandard sentencing. The company is mentioned as being worth $8B.
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:15 PM (Jr+re)
Mountain west summer weather for the win!!
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:15 PM (Vvm2m)
And anyone who says Israel is committing genocide in gaza should be placed in a huge glass aquarium and gassed with phosgene, while a crowd looks on and cheers.
I would be perfectly OK with Mossad doing gory hits on anyone, anywhere in the world, committing blood libel against Israel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:15 PM (1z8ji)
That seems.... strange
Posted by: man
Oshkosh has 8 Billion to spend?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 10:15 PM (AdHga)
Did we get an update on Garret's dad today?
Thanks for the eclipse reminder- I'll try to stay up for that.
Posted by: sal at August 27, 2026 10:16 PM (f+FmA)
They've been "genociding" them for almost 80 years. Either Israel really sucks at genocide, or there's a factory somewhere cranking out new paleostinians by the thousands per day.
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 10:17 PM (PBKu+)
Good news abounds today - a previous contractor said I owe them $x,xxx from a project two years ago.
Did some digging - Nope! I have the cancelled checks. Bite me!!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 27, 2026 10:17 PM (he2p7)
Posted by: Puddleglum
There's a lotta money in the toddler-clothes market, by gosh.
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)
If Hitler had been as incompetent at genocide as the Israelis are, there would have been 40 million Jews in Europe in May of 1945.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 10:18 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Miklos heads toward the Watering Trough at August 27, 2026 10:18 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Doof at August 27, 2026 10:19 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: Ted Baxter, the last honest newreader at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (4RYRd)
Thanks for the eclipse reminder- I'll try to stay up for that.
Posted by: sal at August 27, 2026 10:16 PM (f+FmA)
His Dad is home from the ER. A bout of diverticulitis, apparently. He's taking antibiotics.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (he2p7)
Posted by: JQ at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Megatron, half an issue before blowing up the space bridge at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 10:21 PM (hypP/)
Posted by: Doof
You wanna moon?
Posted by: Pants Optional Miklos double dog dares ya at August 27, 2026 10:21 PM (4RYRd)
Best of luck Dave.
Fingerme was hilarious. Worth the price of admission right there. It has to be gone now if it ever existed.
I have to get back to work but this came up and I had Chat double-check.
The Juneau fact is real, but your instinct caught the wording issue.
Juneau absolutely has local roads.
The City and Borough of Juneau says Glacier Highway extends about 40 miles north of downtown, but there are no roads out of Juneau. Alaska DOT describes Juneau as the largest North American community not connected to the continental highway system; outside access is by air or water/ferry.
So I changed the production wording to the more precise:
“No road connects Juneau to the continental highway system.”
The Alaska fact also checks out: Alaska is larger than Texas + California + Montana combined. Federal material explicitly makes that comparison, and current Census area figures support it.
Hmmm. Interesting. Learning is fun.
Good night all.
Back to work.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 10:21 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 27, 2026 10:21 PM (K+2Av)
Current conditions cloudy. The moon is obscured by the clouds although one can locate it. Rain expected at midnight.
Sorry, no pics from here.
Oh, and meow.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 27, 2026 10:22 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 10:22 PM (Cqx++)
I may have retired before then. We shall see.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 10:22 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 27, 2026 10:23 PM (iIyc0)
The penumbral phase has well begun, but you can't really see the difference in brightness. Well trained less than 29 yr old eyes can detect the subtle change in brightness.
Umbral phase will begin in about 10 minutes, at 10:33 EDT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Is it a Good Moon, or a Bad Moon?
Posted by: Billie Burke in best John Fogerty voice at August 27, 2026 10:23 PM (4RYRd)
We’ve had data centers for decades. Nobody gave a fuck. Now it’s an existential threat to our lives? Interesting. We’ve also had traffic cameras forever. Nobody noticed nobody cared. Now these cameras are the biggest issue in the land Al of a sudden? Not to mention that every house has a ring camera pointing at the street. Cops have used those for the same purpose they use flock.
Somethings fishy how these two issues burst onto the scene out of the blue like that.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:23 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (he2p7)
FIFY
Begun, the Moon Pun Wars have.
Posted by: Pro Bono means Not Guilty or your money back! at August 27, 2026 10:24 PM (r7+Q7)
I tell Darleen that sometimes
Posted by: Miklos has a hard time communicating at August 27, 2026 10:24 PM (4RYRd)
For all interested, go to timeanddate.com, put in your location, and get moonrise and set times, then click on the eclipse link. It will have all the timings.
Note that lunar eclipses timing are absolute. Phases occur at the same time for everybody.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:25 PM (w6EFb)
We have a medal ceremony in the morning.
Artemis II Congressional Space Medal of Honor Ceremony
Date: Aug 28, 2026
Time: 11 A.M. EDT/10 A.M. CDT
https://youtu.be/tGjffGccQig
Posted by: Joyenz at August 27, 2026 10:25 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 27, 2026 10:25 PM (wxsGM)
_-_
Yeah, well, the lazy bastard is also watching idly by while the birds steal most of the cat food I put in his dish, whining for more every time I come outside.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 10:25 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Miklos does not like green cheese, Sam I Am at August 27, 2026 10:25 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)
Raining here in SW Wyoming so no moon.
Thank God we are getting some rain though.
62 wonderful degrees
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 10:26 PM (/QHx4)
It's a Blood Moon. Well a partial Blood Moon. Also this lunation is the Sturgeon Moon. So, a Blood Sturgeon Moon on the rise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at August 27, 2026 10:26 PM (qogc6)
Thanks for the Flock updates. A camera near us was installed, then uninstalled a month or so later. The camera was then reinstalled and promptly "uninstalled" by some teenagers in the middle of the night. Those teenagers managed to get caught in the act and are facing charges. The Flock camera is still down.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 27, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:27 PM (Jr+re)
True story
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 10:13 PM (/2KcO)
Poor Meghan Dickinson.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 10:27 PM (dK+Kv)
He's been making a lot of Darleen astronomical jokes. Go back and check out the last few ONTs. They're just funny, I don't care who you are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:27 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Merlin Blow at August 27, 2026 10:28 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:23 PM (Vvm2m)
Yup, no doubt. China is behind it.
Posted by: Joemarine at August 27, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)
Posted by: sal at August 27, 2026 10:29 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 10:27 PM (dK+Kv)
-------
Professor Kinghorn actually had a great sense of humor about it which makes it even better in my opinion
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 10:29 PM (hypP/)
Posted by: publius
8 million animal species, and we can't do better than "Sturgeon Moon?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla
Rest up
Need Analytic Election Prognostifications
Posted by: Miklos trusts Daves (both Florida and Wierd) at August 27, 2026 10:29 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:31 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: a.moron at August 27, 2026 10:31 PM (X5Jzz)
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor is the United States’ highest award for astronauts, authorized by Congress in 1969 to honor exceptional contributions to the nation and humanity.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 27, 2026 10:31 PM (2F0/Y)
I'm on a first name basis with my Amazon delivery guy.
I don't know my neighbors names.
Life in The Crazy Years...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 27, 2026 10:32 PM (BAF/o)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 27, 2026 10:32 PM (K+2Av)
Posted by: Pro Bono means Not Guilty or your money back! at August 27, 2026 10:24 PM (r7+Q7)
That's no moon pun.
Posted by: Oggie Ben Doggie at August 27, 2026 10:32 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)
Sings: "Like A Sturgeon"
Posted by: tired old skank Madonna at August 27, 2026 10:33 PM (1z8ji)
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Yup, no doubt. China is behind it.
If so, that and General Tso's Chicken will make two things they're right about. But it seems more reasonable to me that China would encourage Flock so there will be more data for them to steal.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 10:33 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 10:33 PM (aJQbY)
_-_
NOT sudden in my case, and I am _seriously_ not a leftist. Voted for Trump 3 times (plus primaries).
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 10:34 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: mikeski
Sounds fishy.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 27, 2026 10:34 PM (he2p7)
Moon names (from the Injuns):
Jan, Feb, Mar: Wolf, Snow, Worm
April, May, June: Pink, Flower, Strawberry
July, August, Sept: Buck, Sturgeon, Corn
Oct, Nov, Dec: Hunter's, Beaver, Cold
Now, the Full Moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox is called the Harvest Moon.
I group them in threes in the above because of the alternative seasonal naming convention. The list goes, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall.
In the seasonal convention, this Moon would be a Corn Moon, the last full Moon of Summer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 27, 2026 10:36 PM (iIyc0)
Son works for the Forest Service here in Wyoming. Got called out tonight because some guy from the East died on a trail here today.
Also they have closed some trails because of safety reasons and they are getting nasty phone calls and emails.
Fucking idiots. It is all about me,me, I am so important.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 10:37 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Nicola Sturgeon, for mer First Minister of Scotland at August 27, 2026 10:37 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:38 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 27, 2026 10:38 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:39 PM (1z8ji)
The Alaska fact also checks out: Alaska is larger than Texas + California + Montana combined. Federal material explicitly makes that comparison, and current Census area figures support it.
Hmmm. Interesting. Learning is fun.
Good night all.
Back to work.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 10:21 PM (Sco7b)
No roads connect most of SE AK to anything. Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, etc. The only close spot is Haines, and you can only get there on the highway if you go through Canada. Hence, the Marine Highway, which is various ferries that connect most of Southeast.
AK is... different.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 10:40 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
https://tinyurl.com/bdr9nvu5
Posted by: Classy, Luxurious Musical Interludes with Miklos at August 27, 2026 10:40 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:38 PM (DuPSD)
Dolly Parton never wore out her mammary banks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:41 PM (1z8ji)
She was too young to inspire the Bob Hope classic song . . . . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:41 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 10:41 PM (PBKu+)
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Yup, no doubt. China is behind it.
If so, that and General Tso's Chicken will make two things they're right about. But it seems more reasonable to me that China would encourage Flock so there will be more data for them to steal.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 10:33 PM (vTZFs)
For Moi? Its like they never watched any Sci Fi flicks at all...
AI... check... lots of data centers to process cameras... Robot Olympics (faster than Human 440)... and add in all the drones that are now DECIDING whether to kill or not...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (2NHgQ)
Lo and behold, cleared off. I see a little chunk appearing.
You won't see the reddish color until the sunlit part gets relatively small small.
About. 12% (diameter fraction) now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 10:15 PM (AdHga)
Children's overalls must be a lot more popular than I thought.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (K+2Av)
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (aJQbY)
The oldest story like that I know..... Wake Forest student, when their email/UNIX logins were their last name (or the first 6 letters of it if it was longer), plus their first & middle initials.
Mary Emily Cummins was not a happy camper.
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:43 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 27, 2026 10:43 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:43 PM (DuPSD)
It is somewhat amusing the Calif puts a LIMIT on how big of a power supply a normal person can have in their Computer... but also wants Yuge data centers..
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2026 10:44 PM (mP0Kj)
AK is... different.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 10:40 PM (dEHLq)
Most of coastal British Columbia is exactly the same. The coastal highway ends a few miles beyond Powell River. It's the fjords. Too wide near the mouth to bridge, often too steep-sided to build a road around, and not enough potential traffic to make such a construction worthwhile. But roads from the heads of the fjords into the interior are possible, and exist in some places.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:43 PM (DuPSD)
This is why these cameras must be banned. Demand your state legislators do so.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 27, 2026 10:45 PM (jPziU)
We have a medal ceremony in the morning.
Artemis II Congressional Space Medal of Honor Ceremony
Date: Aug 28, 2026
Time: 11 A.M. EDT/10 A.M. CDT
https://youtu.be/tGjffGccQig
Posted by: Joyenz at August 27, 2026 10:25 PM (2F0/Y)
We're sending Congress into space to give astronauts a medal? Cool. Congress gets to ride Starship and the Artemis crew a Dragon, right?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 27, 2026 10:46 PM (K+2Av)
People should ask Doof about this, because he has more music than the Library of Congress.
Posted by: Claire de Lune Mikleuse at August 27, 2026 10:47 PM (4RYRd)
This is a CCP op to slow down our AI development and give them an advantage. It’s obvious.
Remember the mania against fracking? That was an op by the Saudis as it was a threat to them. They generated the hysteria pushed along by gullible American leftists.
Same playbook.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:47 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2026 10:47 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 27, 2026 10:47 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:23 PM (Vvm2m)
Yup, no doubt. China is behind it.
Posted by: Joemarine at August 27, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)
Good for China, if so.
And fuck the vermin in government that want to put us all under constant surveillance.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 27, 2026 10:48 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 27, 2026 10:48 PM (jPziU)
The oldest story like that I know..... Wake Forest student, when their email/UNIX logins were their last name (or the first 6 letters of it if it was longer), plus their first & middle initials.
Mary Emily Cummins was not a happy camper.
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 10:43 PM (VHUov)
If it allowed 8 characters for the last name, Megan Finger might have to complain about the email address to Brenda Utthead.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 10:48 PM (qx7Zg)
...
We’ve had data centers for decades. Nobody gave a fuck. Now it’s an existential threat to our lives? ... Interesting. ...
Somethings fishy how these two issues burst onto the scene out of the blue like that.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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They've always had control and they see it slipping away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:49 PM (+UcOf)
I won't stay up until midnight to see it all, and it'll be over by 2 a.m. So this was pretty neat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2026 10:42 PM (mP0Kj)
If there are no “safety cameras” there’s just more legit data for the data centers to process.
Get on your state legislators’ cases to get the cameras banned.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 27, 2026 10:50 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: tcn in AK
For some reason, I think that all Zip Codes in AK should begin with 47
Posted by: The Miklos model is relatively easy to clean and maintain at August 27, 2026 10:51 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Billions? Those Oshkosh trucks aren't cheap.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:51 PM (+UcOf)
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In the meantime, it's good to see so many of those cameras being destroyed in place.
It's important for government to be reminded that We the People own them and not the other way around.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 27, 2026 10:53 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: mikeski
The best random hash I ever got was courtesy of South Carolina State Parks
Posted by: Miklos, briefly PnisU at August 27, 2026 10:53 PM (4RYRd)
Glad I "caught" you here! Job-related... I hope it doesn't come down to this, but... when I applied to be a USPS carrier, it took 'em a MONTH to respond (and the response was, When Can You Start)
Posted by: Steck at August 27, 2026 10:53 PM (LlRQB)
https://youtu.be/DvMEBEETk_g?t=133
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Miklos does not like green cheese, Sam I Am
......
They're out of my orbit. Most of them will crater.
Posted by: wth at August 27, 2026 10:54 PM (oq9dX)
8 million animal species, and we can't do better than "Sturgeon Moon?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026
***
Do you want the Tasmanian Devil Moon? Because this is how you get the Tasmanian Devil Moon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 10:55 PM (wzUl9)
https://youtu.be/DvMEBEETk_g?t=133
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)
The meme after it reminds me of Bulg.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 10:55 PM (qx7Zg)
Remember the mania against fracking? That was an op by the Saudis as it was a threat to them. They generated the hysteria pushed along by gullible American leftists.
Same playbook.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:47 PM (Vvm2m)
Fracking gives us affordable fuel from formations that were long thought to be worthless. It is far from clear that AI is worth a bucket of warm spit. Apples and road apples. Having said that, data centers, and proposed data centers should be examined on their merits. Will they do anything useful for society as a whole? Or are they a means of expanding the surveillance state?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:55 PM (1z8ji)
If flock cameras start popping up outside my yard filing my property, ok that’s a problem. Obviously. But on a public highway? Whatever.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:56 PM (Vvm2m)
Spray can Extension Pole Adaptor,Adjustment Sprayer Bracket Adaptor, 4.24.2 out of 5 stars (469) 400+ bought in past month
Price, product page$18.90
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:56 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:57 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 10:57 PM (kpS4V)
AI military applications is the issue.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 10:57 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: wth at August 27, 2026 10:58 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 10:58 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:58 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 10:58 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 27, 2026 10:59 PM (+im5a)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 11:00 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:00 PM (KC5Lt)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=Rnu8RFyx70k&ra=m
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 11:00 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:57 PM (DuPSD)
They existed then.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 11:01 PM (Vvm2m)
Grandfathers are bring many grapes, Grandmothers are make pickles, youngs are frolic.
Grapes become wine under delicate feet of girls, boys are see and discuss future wife for attractiveness of toes and stomp capacities.
Same like the grandfathers of the grandfathers!
Now Grandmothers ask why Grandfathers still are play cards at such hour. Grandfathers pour from last vintage and are disregard such speakings.
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at August 27, 2026 11:01 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Or trying to buy or steal it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 11:01 PM (+UcOf)
It's about 36% now. Note this is the fraction of the Moon's diameter in shadow, not the fraction of the disc area, which is a more complex calculation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
All toll roads have had plate readers for decades.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:02 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2026 11:02 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 10:57 PM (kpS4V)
??? Jelly Roll Morton made a lot of music. Music that is still played today.
https://youtu.be/iikgGshcfhU
(a piano roll that he recorded in 1924)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Jackie Mason at August 27, 2026 11:03 PM (JM9I6)
We will be required to pay to have our data collected, too. Bet on it.
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 11:03 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:03 PM (PBKu+)
AI military applications is the issue.
Posted by: polynikes
Military Intelligence >>>><<<<AI
Posted by: Miklos expects a big boom noise at August 27, 2026 11:03 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 11:04 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Report From The Pool at August 27, 2026 11:04 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 10:40 PM (dEHLq)
That was a really cool fact to learn.
And that Alaska was bigger than Texas, California and Montana combined.
Okay, back to work for another hour or so.
Puppy's mostly quiet.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 11:05 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes
Yep. As well as traffic cameras.
The mania over flock is a mania over something nobody has cared about for decades. Until all of a sudden we are told it’s the thing to be freaked out over.
This doesn’t just happen organically. It’s a coordinated effort. Who and why?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 11:05 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 10:57 PM (kpS4V)
??? Jelly Roll Morton made a lot of music. Music that is still played today.
Culturally Appropriatin' from a BLACK MAN
Posted by: 152 year old Eubie Blake at August 27, 2026 11:05 PM (4RYRd)
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Uh, yeah...cellphones are NSA collection devices, straight up. Search your feelings. You know this to be true. You even pay INSURANCE to make sure they don't fail!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:07 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: President Emeritus! at August 27, 2026 11:07 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 11:08 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:08 PM (KC5Lt)
I linked some Jelly Roll Morton in the previous thread.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 11:08 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes
Yep. As well as traffic cameras.
The mania over flock is a mania over something nobody has cared about for decades. Until all of a sudden we are told it’s the thing to be freaked out over.
This doesn’t just happen organically. It’s a coordinated effort. Who and why?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 11:05 PM (Vvm2m)
Flock is part of the Panopticon, The other cameras are situational only. Huge difference. Flock makes it dead easy for an evildoer in the police apparat, to stalk somebody. The other cameras are only really useful (to some extent) after the fact of a crime.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:09 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:10 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Marlin Perkins at August 27, 2026 11:10 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:11 PM (4Je4D)
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Raw umber.
Burnt Umber.
Is there NO ONE who knows how to cook a good umber?
Posted by: Snooty Food Critic at August 27, 2026 11:11 PM (2Ez/1)
We've now hit 50%.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:12 PM (w6EFb)
_-_
No, but it is constantly offered, so I assume (yeah, I know how that is spelled) that some people do.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:12 PM (PBKu+)
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The MST3K guys would make Eubie Blake or Rose Kennedy jokes when there was an ambulatory skeleton on the screen. Rose said she didn't mind; she herself was surprised at how old she was.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 11:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Reggie Love, Body and Sturgeon man at August 27, 2026 11:12 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: The Miklos model is relatively easy to clean and maintain at August 27, 2026 10:51 PM (4RYRd)
460-470 are Indiana area zip codes
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 11:12 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 27, 2026 11:14 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Reggie Love, Body and Sturgeon man at August 27, 2026 11:12 PM (4RYRd)
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Jean Luc?
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 11:14 PM (hypP/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:15 PM (1z8ji)
Burnt Umber.
Is there NO ONE who knows how to cook a good umber?
Posted by: Snooty Food Critic
Colors in the J. Crew catalogue are not necessarily related to edible food.
Posted by: Miklos, dubious about the Burnt Sienna appetizer at August 27, 2026 11:15 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 10:55 PM (1z8ji)
If they will source and purify water for resale to the nearby community, or put in a Small Modular Reactor and sell power like a utility, then yes, they would be useful by just existing.
Too many of them are the equivalent of the just-pre-Dotcom bust companies buying Superbowl commercial time, however.
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
There's one at the start of a length of highway, then a second one several miles down the road. If your license plate arrives at the second camera sooner than it should have given the posted speed limit, it's an automatic speeding ticket.
An England that tolerates this kind of bullshit is not the England that ROSE UP and rebelled against the tyranny of Richard II.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:16 PM (4Je4D)
Some discussion in Nevada about building data centers on public land. It will be interesting to follow.
I do not them built on public lands. Our tax money pays for public land.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:11 PM (4Je4D)
Rachel Zegler needs a job. She already has the boobs and the blonde hair.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 27, 2026 11:18 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 11:18 PM (aJQbY)
Burnt Umber.
Is there NO ONE who knows how to cook a good umber?
Posted by: Snooty Food Critic
You should ask CBD how to do it.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:18 PM (qx7Zg)
They also don't like law enforcement more than The libertarians here.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Especially when you look at what she accomplished in her life.
And double especially when you ask the forbidden question, "What have black people accomplished for the greater good (ie beyond grifting, demanding unearned rewards, and shielding themselves from criticism) in the past 50 years?"
Sure go ahead and ban me.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 27, 2026 11:19 PM (CHHv1)
That method was being used on the Florida toll roads back in the late 60's, early 70's. No pictures or videos, just checking the time stamps leaving and arriving at booths. Slow people (not drivers) paid to learn that.
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (Jr+re)
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And here? Will it be dismissed as opposotion by leftists and the CCP?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (1FJsD)
I do not them built on public lands. Our tax money pays for public land.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)
Build them in blighted urban areas. They claim "latency" is an issue. The way to reduce latency is to build them as close to the backbone as possible. Blighted urban areas fit the bill. Farmland out in the sticks does not.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:58 PM (Vvm2m)
Tucker is like Hassan or a bunch of other faces. He gives midwits and losers permission to hate something or someone. Often not for any real reason, but to just show in-group identity.
Childish fears, childish insults, no real argument, just arglebargle hate repeated endlessly. Just listen to the bluehaired tattooed losers talk about how capitalism is terrible to justify their inability to do anything.
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (rbvCR)
But the government managed to go after 'J 6 adjacent' folks just based on their smart phones and social media, so its hard for me to get worked up about the flock cameras. Is Flock even the first to be using AI to turn the cameras from passive data that someone would have to comb through to find you were at such and such location at time xx
x, to the "show us where this car was?" model?
Posted by: PaleRider at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (PV+Zw)
I do not them built on public lands. Our tax money pays for public land.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)
Why on public land when the Fed government owns 85% of the land?
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)
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You call those boobs?
*SNORT*
Now THESE are boobs.
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (4Je4D)
60% now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Our 2nd episode, UNIT 4000, is officially out.
Inside the IRGC’s secret unit tasked with recruiting assets abroad for sabotage operations.
We reconstruct how the network operates and a plot this year targeting an embassy and a major energy pipeline, using open source material.
https://tinyurl.com/53trhhhc
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 11:21 PM (Jr+re)
Sure go ahead and ban me.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 27, 2026 11:19 PM (CHHv1)
Why ban you? The image is sarcasm, directed against Disney, a despicable organization.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:22 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:22 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 27, 2026 11:23 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 11:24 PM (Jr+re)
Probably a few King Browns, maybe a Gwarbar, the lovely Gilbara Death Adder, and perhaps a Redback spider. So, I have a chance.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 11:24 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And you can have our water for FREE
Posted by: Flint, MI at August 27, 2026 11:25 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)
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You call those boobs?
*SNORT*
Now THESE are boobs.
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (4Je4D)
I guess I need to use the /sarc tag more often.
I can't see the link because I don't have/want/need an X account.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:25 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: mindful webworker - by half the light of the silvery moooon at August 27, 2026 11:25 PM (11R8D)
Now at 66%. The shadow is now moving over Tranquility Base.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:27 PM (w6EFb)
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difficult
https://tinyurl.com/3j58uxhd
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 11:27 PM (+UcOf)
But the government managed to go after 'J 6 adjacent' folks just based on their smart phones and social media, so its hard for me to get worked up about the flock cameras. Is Flock even the first to be using AI to turn the cameras from passive data that someone would have to comb through to find you were at such and such location at time xxx, to the "show us where this car was?" model?
Posted by: PaleRider at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (PV+Zw)
I just bought a new smart phone; put it on line yesterday. It's a google Pixel 6a, but the Android OS was wiped and replaced by Graphene OS, which is focused upon user privacy and security. So far, so good. Any cellphone can be tracked by how it it pings the towers, and that is unavoidable, if the the phone is work at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:27 PM (1z8ji)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney
X says that's "sensitive content."
They usually are.
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 11:27 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And you can have our water for FREE
Posted by: Flint, MI at August 27, 2026 11:25 PM (4RYRd)
More targets!
-- gangs in Gary, IN.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:27 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:27 PM (PBKu+)
I have to walk out into the yard so see, because of tall trees
Posted by: JQ at August 27, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 11:28 PM (FR9Sb)
FUN FACT
The Hungarian word for breast is "mell"
Now go back and think about Mel's Diner and Flo
Posted by: Mellifluous Miklos at August 27, 2026 11:29 PM (4RYRd)
I do not them built on public lands. Our tax money pays for public land.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)
________________________
I'm more concerned about the usual government refusal to consider consequences. I can see them allowing the building all these data centers and suddenly realizing....Oops, our electrical grid isn't up to the challenge. Well, I guess we're going to run some brown outs. I'm sure everyone will understand.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 11:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 27, 2026 11:14 PM (vSvIl)
It's also the backlash to cameras breaking through their mysticism. 20 years ago every criminal that died was "police brutality", but now the bodycam footage frequently exonerates the police and shows the true colors of many supposed victims.
Same for gunshot detectors which worked too well and resulted in more unfortunate statistics against their narrative.
It's a lot easier to call a random cop racist than the camera system tracking a criminal who's trying to play GTA in real life.
Posted by: Sjg at August 27, 2026 11:30 PM (i8HNq)
Aaaand....oh. Buurn. Bushes not mentioned *at all*.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 11:30 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 11:30 PM (VrYHL)
Unfortunately, like my Brainthoughts, obscured by cloudy-type thingies
Posted by: Miklos decides this Wagon is not to be on at August 27, 2026 11:31 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:32 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Pb 82 at August 27, 2026 11:32 PM (JM9I6)
Okay, Trump’s Tier List just being a 1948 poll of 55 top historians historians conducted by Arthur Schlesinger Sr with his own picture slapped on top as “The Greatest” and Biden, Obama, and Carter added to the bottom as “Failures” along with Grant and Harding is objectively funny
https://t.co/HET7P7yPpX
pic.twitter.com/Rt784mxHgF
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) August 27, 2026
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 11:33 PM (aJQbY)
We're at 73% now, and the red color should start being apparent to the nekkid eye soon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 27, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
The Hungarian word for breast is "mell"
Now go back and think about Mel's Diner and Flo
Posted by: Mellifluous Miklos at August 27, 2026 11:29 PM (4RYRd)
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Hence mellons?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 11:34 PM (QNSrI)
Posted by: JQ at August 27, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
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That's no moon.
Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at August 27, 2026 11:35 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: trans-Miklos cannot explain to you men why he can't find a bra that fits at August 27, 2026 11:35 PM (4RYRd)
The Apollo 11 site is the only landing site with an official IAU name (although other named small features around the others are official). The official name is Statio Tranquillitatis.
Anyway, standing at Statio Tranquillitatis, you would be seeing a full solar eclipse now. And go into Stellarium desktop and choose that as your viewing location and you'll see what it looks like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:35 PM (w6EFb)
Orson,
The water issue is a problem here in Wyoming. A lot of people don't realize that a lot of Wyoming has a desert like environment, for lack of a better word.
We have a data center that might be built in Evanston. We are in the midst of a severe drought here in SW Wyoming and have been on strict water restrictions since early spring.
Boy Howdy, let's suck up the remaining water to build data centers. No gardens and landscaping were banned right at planting time at the beginning of spring.
A great site to keep up with Wyoming news is Cowboy State Daily.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:37 PM (/QHx4)
_-_
I like yer attitude, all right...but again, it's not just the cameras...it is the correlation with all of the other data. "I'm not doing anything illegal, why do I care?" Then they redefine "illegal" to encompass your activities.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:37 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 27, 2026 11:37 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
gettin' close, kid
gettin' close
*looks around, nervously loosens tie*
Posted by: Miklos as Rodney Dangerfield as Thornton Melon at August 27, 2026 11:38 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Take the government out of the equation. By and large the government doesn't GAS about any one of us. But Corporate does and so do the phishers and hackers. Flock owns the information.
Flock could sell your information or be hacked.
Do you get phishing calls? I assiduously avoid putting my information online but somehow, in the last 4 months, I get at least four to five texts or phone calls about a loan application - approval only one click away. Flock can extrapolate that type of problem exponentially. Heat maps are real. Cross referencing is easier and easier.
The potential danger from outliers or corporate is much more, in the near future, than from the government.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 11:38 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
https://twitterwebviewer.com/
Tedious but it works.
Posted by: mindful webworker - x b evil at August 27, 2026 11:39 PM (11R8D)
We can't control the weather of course. We are rural and people grow vegetables to can or freeze to get through winter. Also, there is no feed for the cattle ranchers unless they have a well.
It is such a divisive issue in many places in our country.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:41 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 27, 2026 11:41 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:42 PM (KC5Lt)
The water issue is a problem here in Wyoming. A lot of people don't realize that a lot of Wyoming has a desert like environment, for lack of a better word.
We have a data center that might be built in Evanston. We are in the midst of a severe drought here in SW Wyoming and have been on strict water restrictions since early spring.
Boy Howdy, let's suck up the remaining water to build data centers. No gardens and landscaping were banned right at planting time at the beginning of spring.
A great site to keep up with Wyoming news is Cowboy State Daily.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:37 PM (/QHx4)
The water "consumption" issue is a Red herring. It is quite possible to recycle the cooling water, and the only losses are to evaporation. And the cooling water need not be potable, or fit to be used for irrigation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:42 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:37 PM (/QHx4)
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Agreed with the caveat that a good many of the 'local' stories have pretty broad impact beyond the state and the west as a whole. It is a great read every day
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 11:44 PM (hypP/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 27, 2026 11:44 PM (4NO2D)
Just still working on adding voice mail to our innovative twine/soup can based core technology.
Posted by: MiklosLabs, got the white smock and everything at August 27, 2026 11:44 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 11:44 PM (hypP/)
Data centers around here are providing their own electricity via natural gas fired generating plants and planned nuclear plants.
They are using closed loop cooling that daily water usage is no more than a golf course.
I don't understand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 11:45 PM (+UcOf)
I see the eclipse!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 27, 2026 11:46 PM (mmrXZ)
What part of the human anatomy would you say Wyoming is shaped like?
Posted by: Prevert Psychologist at August 27, 2026 11:46 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (1z8ji)
AOP,
I understand that. I do wish we could get reliable information about water consumption about the data centers. If people were informed with reliable information there might not be so many objections to the data centers.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: High Priest Verta Kals Mile, Moon Cult Inc. at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (r7+Q7)
Just still working on adding voice mail to our innovative twine/soup can based core technology.
Posted by: MiklosLabs, got the white smock and everything at August 27, 2026 11:44 PM (4RYRd)
If you're on it's equivalent of a party line, you can use a sound-activated voice recorder to store what's yelled in your direction.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (qx7Zg)
I'm starting to see red now. Wispy clouds obscuring things a bit. That bright sliver is still a little too bright.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
Just still working on adding voice mail to our innovative twine/soup can based core technology.
Posted by: MiklosLabs, got the white smock and everything
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For superior function weave a fine copper wire in with the twine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Prevert Psychologist at August 27, 2026 11:46 PM (4RYRd)
Pancreas
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)
When there is a drought golf courses are restricted on use.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:48 PM (KC5Lt)
Yay! The sky cleared here and we see half of the moon. No red though. Is that what we should be seeing?
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:48 PM (/QHx4)
Flock could sell your information or be hacked.
_-_
All of the entities who have your information are statistically likely to sell it unless it is EXPLICITLY illegal to do so, and even then, if the likelihood of getting caught is low, and the penalty is light, they might do it anyway. And the fed.gov...you think we have sent all those billions to the NSA and they did NOTHING with the money?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 27, 2026 11:48 PM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 11:48 PM (XeU6L)
Going outside to check on lunar eclipse visibility. brb
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 11:50 PM (wVcYX)
I do not them built on public lands. Our tax money pays for public land.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:17 PM (/QHx4)
Build them in blighted urban areas. They claim "latency" is an issue. The way to reduce latency is to build them as close to the backbone as possible. Blighted urban areas fit the bill. Farmland out in the sticks does not.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (1z8ji)
Nevada is 90% public land, it's almost impossible to not build on public land in that state.
Yes, improving latency means you want servers near people using them. If two AI services are competing and one takes a few milliseconds to respond because it's located 30 miles away and the other takes 3 seconds because it's based in Greenland then most people are going to very strongly prefer to use the first option. Especially when you scale to to thousands or even millions of requests for things like AI coding.
Blighted urban areas are usually blighted for a reason. Putting a bunch of very expensive equipment that needs reliable utilities is not going to go well.
Posted by: Sjg at August 27, 2026 11:50 PM (i8HNq)
Posted by: Three Wolves at August 27, 2026 11:51 PM (4Je4D)
496,
I don't know how long you have lived in Wyoming. We have been here for 12 years now, moved from South Carolina because our grandchildren are here.
Wyoming is such a great state. We love it here.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:51 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,
You oughta come visit some time
Posted by: Climax, NC at August 27, 2026 11:53 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 11:53 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:53 PM (1z8ji)
Darn. Everything's behind a cloud now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 27, 2026 11:54 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 27, 2026 11:54 PM (mmrXZ)
Technically, you are.
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 11:55 PM (rbvCR)
Clouds moving back in, dammit. About 89% now, and I can see red pretty well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Wyoming is such a great state. We love it here.
Posted by: four seasons
The grandchildren may have already discovered that SC is one of the easiest states in a puzzle of all the states.
Posted by: Miklos likes both pizza and pie at August 27, 2026 11:55 PM (4RYRd)
Peak will be 93% at 12:14 AM EDT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Mind yer own damn bidnis
Posted by: Red, pissin' on his own damn proppity at August 27, 2026 11:56 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 27, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 11:51 PM (/QHx4)
Wyoming is cool. My great grandpa moved there from NY before the turn of the PREVIOUS century and was an attorney, but also a gentleman farmer in Laramie. My dad lived there until the middle of WWII, when they could no longer support the diary operation. There remains Corthell Street and I believe a Corthell Hall at the U. My dad went to the University School, which was an experimental elementary school on the campus. Learned all sorts of things nobody teaches anymore. My great grandpa settled the mineral rights laws before the Supreme Court that still governs all of Wyoming, which is kinda cool. But he was also a teetotaller who voted for Prohibition, so it's a mixed bag.
Anyway, Wyoming has very interesting history.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 12:01 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,
You oughta come visit some time
Posted by: Climax, NC
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Well, the French Broad is only 5 minutes away.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 12:02 AM (XeU6L)
My dinky little snapshot camera is not up.to.the task, but I'll take a run at it - 4X optical, 6X digital and it actually takes upm30% of the frame. Holding it steady without a tripod, though...
Posted by: buddhaha at August 28, 2026 12:02 AM (7x9jd)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at August 27, 2026 11:20 PM (4Je4D)
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The line about 'concupiscent curds' never hit home so hard
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:02 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 12:02 AM (XeU6L)
Lots of French broads in Montreal, so I am told.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:03 AM (1z8ji)
Miklos,
This might interest you or not, lol.
Hubby was born and grew up in Columbia. Graduated Citadel and USC Law School.
He told me tonight he is reading a book that Trey Gowdy is co-authoring with some other person, I can't remember who.
We lived in Columbia for 15 years to take care of his parents.
One character in his book is a waitress who works at Lizard's Thicket in Columbia. Oh my, we got takeout from there twice a week. We were talking about how much we miss the fried catfish from there.
The only fish we have here in our small town is goldfish, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:03 AM (/QHx4)
And, equally as important, we have huge amounts of surface water available for cooling needs. Don't even have to drill for it.
Of course, we'll see how they all manage to mess this up.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 28, 2026 12:03 AM (he2p7)
Peak will be 93% at 12:14 AM EDT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 27, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Not here. It's not even above the horizon, and it is still plenty light out. I think we miss this one. Oh well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 28, 2026 12:04 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 12:04 AM (rdVOm)
"These words, these thoughts....the costs of pen and ink...Alas and Farewell"
Posted by: the final entry at August 28, 2026 12:04 AM (4RYRd)
This house needs an airlock.
Posted by: mindful webworker - when the moon hits your face like a big spray of mace that's ramora at August 28, 2026 12:04 AM (11R8D)
University of Ghent allows Nathan Cofnas to stay.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:05 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:05 AM (hypP/)
8 minutes till peak. And the timings are the same for everybody with a lunar eclipse. No parallax to worry about.
Can see a nice red glow, and getting red limb brightening ring effect now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
The Trans-dean changed?
Posted by: Inconceivable! at August 28, 2026 12:08 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Spent a portion of my squandered youth in Montreal .
Ian & Sylvia - 'The French Girl'
So you may find above thе border
A girl with silver rings, I never knew her name
You're bound to lose, she's too much for you
She'll leave you lost some rainy morn, you won't be the same
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 12:08 AM (XeU6L)
496,
We love it here. The feeling of freedom is absolutely wonderful.
We are very close to the Badlands where you can go and shoot and the grandchildren are being raised on the safe way to learn about firearms and freedom.
Don't tell anyone how great it is here unless it is Morons and Ettes who want to live in a free state, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:09 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 28, 2026 12:05 AM (mmrXZ)
They should be assiduously kissing his ass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:09 AM (1z8ji)
Sydney Sweeney is not at the top of my list (though obviously she's very pretty), but nevertheless...
As I said this afternoon, this video could make David Hogg turn heterosexual.
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 12:09 AM (IG3/x)
_-_
Do what you will. Again, it's not about power usage, locations of cameras, potential for misuse. It is the intended use.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:09 AM (PBKu+)
Never mind. I see it's already been posted. :-)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 12:10 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2026 12:11 AM (iIyc0)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:09 AM (/QHx4)
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As a friend of mine says "Wyoming is not your daddy"
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:11 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
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That's just what he wants you to think.
Posted by: Hal Jordan at August 28, 2026 12:13 AM (vSvIl)
_-_
We just fell about the place. Great line.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:13 AM (PBKu+)
lol 496
Oldest son works for the Forest Service here.
He was called out tonight because some stupid man from the East died on a trail today.
Why in the world people don't prepare for their hiking trips here we don't understand.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:14 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
OOOOoooOOOO
project APPROVEE
Posted by: Bruges Trans-Dean in Floyd the barber voice at August 28, 2026 12:14 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: NCDave at August 28, 2026 12:15 AM (1oAd9)
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If he's dead, what's the rush? He'll be there in the morning.
Kidding, of course
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:16 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:18 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
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Hope he took a shower afterwards.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 12:18 AM (XeU6L)
Pas the peak now, the clouds allowed a nice viewing window here.
And now, boom, 12:18 AM EDT. This is the exact instant of the full Moon. Everybody howl.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:18 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:18 AM (w6EFb)
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My hair is nowhere near perfect
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:19 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
I showed that to Marleen and asked her to explain it to a man from a woman's perspective.
DAMN
Should not have left that wrench out in plain sight
Posted by: Miklos is waiting on an ice pack from Charleen at August 28, 2026 12:19 AM (4RYRd)
This can matter for things like high-frequency trading, but not for anything that operates on a human scale.
The distance from Nuuk, Greenland to Los Angeles is about 3,000 miles, or 0.016 seconds at the speed of light.
What *can* increase lag is net congestion or (especially) satellite hops, but the terrestrial fiber optic delay to anywhere on the planet is probably not going to be noticeable by a human being. If you go all the way to the antipodes of wherever you are, it's still only going to be about a tenth of a second.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 12:19 AM (IG3/x)
496 lol,
It is unfortunate the man died.
However it does create tons of paperwork for the people who have to take care of the situation.
A lot of trails here have been shut down because of safety reasons. Son said they are tired of the phone calls and emails telling them it sucks some of the trails are closed down.
Hello, they are trying to keep people from dying because maybe it is not safe.
It's all about me, me, me. I am important.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:20 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2026 12:11 AM (iIyc0)
Threatened to give them the Aix.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:20 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at August 28, 2026 12:20 AM (tRYqg)
Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2026 12:20 AM (Shi2G)
Had to read a bunch of retarded comments somewhere about a news story of a cop shooting a dude they were looking for in a kidnapping. Cop rolls up, guy sees him and executes the kidnap victim, shoots at cop... cop shoots back, chases him, long gunfight, shooter tosses their gun but doesn't surrender. Cop of course blasts his ass.
"that's murder! he was unarmed! he shot at him too many times!". Oh get the fuck outta here, smooth brained oxygen thieves.
Schools need to teach basic legal concepts around use of force. There is no time outs when you start killing people.
Posted by: heya at August 28, 2026 12:21 AM (TfRuS)
_-_
Yeah, when the wind make the Sunurban waddle, it's prolly time to head indoors...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:21 AM (PBKu+)
1) Did not have much notice. Has to be complete by 4pm tomorrow.
2) You cannot read ahead. Each of these damn pages has to be stayed on for a specified amount of time. So, I do a quiz in 15-30 seconds and then have to wait 6 more mins... just waiting for the button to go to the next page is uncovered.
Thanks for the ONT.
Fucking hell. FWP.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 28, 2026 12:21 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Arawaks of Jamaica, mon at August 28, 2026 12:22 AM (R0XxO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:18 AM (w6EFb)
Arroooo!!
Posted by: Count de Monet goes full Tex Avery at August 28, 2026 12:22 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
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Hope he took a shower afterwards.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
"Howard Gutman, the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during the Obama administration (2009–2013), faced a major scandal in June 2013 when a State Department Inspector General memo revealed he was investigated for allegedly ditching his security detail to solicit sexual favors from prostitutes and minor children."
Posted by: Miklos wishes he had a worse memory at August 28, 2026 12:22 AM (4RYRd)
Everybody howl.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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My hair is nowhere near perfect
Posted by: 496
The hairy headed gent leaned on the Dean of Ghent.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:23 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:24 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Miklos is waiting on an ice pack from Charleen at August 28, 2026 12:19 AM (4RYRd)
I found out later that this is apparently her own lingerie brand.
I expect this will shift a lot of skimpy merch... if not to women, to their husbands and bfs.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 12:24 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Lee Ho Fook at August 28, 2026 12:25 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 28, 2026 12:25 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
And said
get bent
Posted by: Amendations by Miklos at August 28, 2026 12:26 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:26 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 12:27 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:18 AM (1z8ji)
Sliver here. Maybe too much light pollution, as the shaded area is not visible at all.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 28, 2026 12:27 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:28 AM (1z8ji)
Not a lot of color but a nicely demarcated bright line at top.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2026 12:29 AM (iIyc0)
Normally here we are infested with flies. This year with drought, no snow, no rain we haven't had an issue with flies.
We have a bit of rain the last couple of weeks and the nasty bastards are everywhere.
The grandchildren were here tonight and they had such a great time with our salt gun shooting the flies. They did a great job, no flies in the house tonight.
The salt guns are awesome.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:30 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
I remember girls with tube tops in the summer
Posted by: Miklos has maybe one good 70s memory at August 28, 2026 12:31 AM (4RYRd)
I stood out on the deck, looking for the moon. Heard something in the trees then raindrops plopped on my face.
I miss EVERYTHING!
Otherwise a great day.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 12:31 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Miklos has maybe one good 70s memory at August 28, 2026 12:31 AM (4RYRd)
Tube tops still exist here. And they are awesome.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 12:32 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The chair is against John's moustache
Posted by: Miklos calling at August 28, 2026 12:32 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
You don't have to sell me on it
Posted by: Miklos ratifies Albertan Statehood as North South Carolina at August 28, 2026 12:34 AM (4RYRd)
496,
It's crazy. There are signs everywhere about the trails being closed but the assholes ignore them. Then they call, text and email because they are self absorbed.
Oh, and some people die.
A lot of government is whack a doodle but there are lots of the government that works.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:34 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The chair is against John's moustache
Posted by: Miklos calling at August 28, 2026 12:32 AM (4RYRd)
The eagle has shit in the woods.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 12:35 AM (vSvIl)
Had to freeze about 3/4 of the batch, didn't realize how much it would make. Hooray for freezer & easy dinners this fall!
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
Clouds are messing up Griffith big time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot
*impatiently awaits signal*
Posted by: Team Pope at August 28, 2026 12:37 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The chair is against John's moustache
Posted by: Miklos calling at August 28, 2026 12:32 AM (4RYRd)
The eagle has shit in the woods.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 28, 2026 12:35 AM (vSvIl)
The bear thought the AWFLs were tasty.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 28, 2026 12:37 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: A. Griffith at August 28, 2026 12:38 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Michael Caine has landed at August 28, 2026 12:40 AM (4RYRd)
Big girlie asked me if I'd ever heard of nits. She thinks nits are gross and I agree. We never know what she's going to say. I was too busy to ask her why she knows about nits. I assume I don't have them now and DIL would have warned me. Gross.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 12:41 AM (hzuYO)
We're back to 81% now, and the bright sliver is getting big enough that the red is getting swamped out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
That's why X cease-and-desisted nitter.net?
Posted by: mikeski at August 28, 2026 12:43 AM (VHUov)
JQ,
We love our freezer. It's only the two of us now but when we cook we make a lot of whatever recipe. It's so great to have a stocked freezer.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:43 AM (/QHx4)
_-_
Data centers themselves are a side issue. The real issue is the overall building-out of the control grid. CBDC combined with data collection, use by the government.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:45 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:45 AM (hypP/)
The distance from Nuuk, Greenland to Los Angeles is about 3,000 miles, or 0.016 seconds at the speed of light.
What *can* increase lag is net congestion or (especially) satellite hops, but the terrestrial fiber optic delay to anywhere on the planet is probably not going to be noticeable by a human being. If you go all the way to the antipodes of wherever you are, it's still only going to be about a tenth of a second.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 28, 2026 12:19 AM (IG3/x)
You aren't getting a single fiber optic hop to anywhere in Greenland. The speed of light is the theoretical best case, your practical ping to isolated reaches of the world is much much slower.
Yes 3 seconds was an exaggeration, but there are plenty of use cases in computing outside of HFT where a 150ms ping to the server is not tolerable.
Posted by: Sjg at August 28, 2026 12:45 AM (i8HNq)
Posted by: four seasons
Amen!
It was great for the two of us, and now for just myself... and occasional treats for hubby. Glad the care home lets me bring his favorite foods. (Their menu is "ok" but institutional food is so bleh)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
_-_
Same here. Sometimes have actually used duct tape to close the door/lid. Good times.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:49 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Sing Along with Mitch at August 28, 2026 12:49 AM (4RYRd)
The general thought is they fled due to investigation into Hazard's Visa as he lied about stuff (like drugs) and/or fleeing taxes. Back to the raciss country with their dogs as no one knows if the kids made the flight. The chickens did not.
I hope people ignore them or moo.
I do hope South Park ticks them off again.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 28, 2026 12:50 AM (hzuYO)
JQ,
We figure if we are chopping up vegetables or whatever why not do a lot and put the stuff in the freezer. Plus our son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren are 4 blocks from us so it helps them.
Intuitional food in most places does suck. People might recover quicker if they were fed decent food.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:51 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
sez you, mate
Posted by: Pixy's Unionized Hampsters at August 28, 2026 12:51 AM (4RYRd)
Yep, there was just a sliver of light left.
Came home and started a load of laundry. Life goes on.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 28, 2026 12:52 AM (WGGwz)
No one wants to hear me sing or see me dance, lol.
I would be locked up and the food would suck, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:52 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: four seasons
All I wanted was a Pepsi
Posted by: Instititionalized at August 28, 2026 12:53 AM (4RYRd)
Can't we all just get along?
Posted by: Podes at August 28, 2026 12:54 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Transpodes at August 28, 2026 12:55 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:56 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Instititionalized at August 28, 2026 12:53 AM (4RYRd
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Great callback
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:56 AM (hypP/)
Keep on shinin'
Come on everybody! Sing and dance with me!
Posted by: Sing Along with Mitch
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Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash...
Posted by: Paul Dresser at August 28, 2026 12:57 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:57 AM (hypP/)
youtube.com/watch?v=orfuTrKsYyM
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:57 AM (PBKu+)
All roads lead to your antipode.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 12:58 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2026 12:58 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 12:58 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 12:57 AM (hypP/)
Australia, right? That is where they have u clepsis trees
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 28, 2026 01:01 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 28, 2026 01:01 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 28, 2026 01:01 AM (rbvCR)
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Nah - my thumbs screwed up. I meant unclepodes. I ruined the joke!
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 01:02 AM (hypP/)
_-_
I personally believe that I am the center of the universe...plays bloody hell with the equations of motion, though.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:02 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:02 AM (/QHx4)
Testicles was the greatest of the Ancient Greek Homos.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 01:03 AM (w6EFb)
Been bringing little bottles of "Power Ade" on recco from kidney Dr. I must thicken it slightly, but that's easy enough. *Thick-it* is cheap & get it from Amz.
I grilled ribeye (rare, then cut up in bits) & corn (cut off from) cob, reheated and brought him a portion of it-- he *really* liked that!
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 01:03 AM (ibDUx)
youtube.com/watch?v=orfuTrKsYyM
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 12:57 AM (PBKu+)
Her yodel is other-worldly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:04 AM (/QHx4)
The ladies were not happy, and Old Mama forgot any idea of Luxury VIP Senior Shady Acres. As they said-
-Like being in prison-restricted to apartments, unless fuck you we are going out
-masks stupid uncomfortable and unhygienic
-no social anything-exercise. movies, meals, shopping, nothing
-strict limits on visitors (Death Row gets more!)
-and the formerly excellent food went way downhill
From current reports, the institutional "Chef Prepared" food at those not-at-all-cheap places remains subpar.
Posted by: Miklos Reports at August 28, 2026 01:05 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:05 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 01:06 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:06 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
and me?
Posted by: Testicles' twin brother at August 28, 2026 01:06 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:07 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Miklos Reports
No shit, Miklos-- for what the places charge, they should offer ribeye & lobster! Fk... don't get me started..
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:08 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Case at August 28, 2026 01:08 AM (VrYHL)
At least, that's what my lizard brain thinks.
I guess I'm for them but I still don't trust the tech overlords. Bunch of Creepy Utopians. I loath the Bernie Saunders of the world though, and if he is against it, it's probably a good idea.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 01:09 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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You are a fluke of the universe
You have no right to be here
Deteriorata! Deteriorata!
[Verse 1]
Go placidly, amid the noise and waste
And remember what comfort there may be
In owning a piece thereof
Avoid quiet and passive persons
Unless you are in need of sleep
Rotate your tires
Posted by: Nat Lamp at August 28, 2026 01:09 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 01:10 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Zeta Reticuli IV at August 28, 2026 01:10 AM (4RYRd)
My mother in law was in a rehab place for a few years. The food sucked and the family tried to take her good food.
Nutrition is so important to help people recover. If they are on their last legs why in the world should they have to eat healthy food?
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:10 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Case
Idaho is currently being overrun with... interlopers. Wish we could keep them from voting for at least a decade after moving in from blue areas! (Pug & spouse excepted! Also sifty boones)
Anyway-- property prices have skyrocketed due to the influx. Can't buy a shithole for less than 200k. Sucks.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 496 at August 28, 2026 01:16 AM (hypP/)
Posted by: Miklos would also mention that SC has many many mosquitoes at August 28, 2026 01:17 AM (4RYRd)
I think this is Bloomberg's source:
"Goldman Sachs said that although the estimates focus on total Gulf flows, the upward revisions indicate oil transits through the Strait of Hormuz are likely close to U.S. officials’ estimate of 8 million to 10 million barrels per day."
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 28, 2026 01:18 AM (r7+Q7)
_-_
Having trouble conjuring a mental picture there, but I'm good with you keeping the specimens contained.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:20 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: 496
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Boise is blue & insane (birm)
Take the long way around, whenever possible!
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 28, 2026 01:27 AM (OlzlW)
Having trouble conjuring a mental picture there, but I'm good with you keeping the specimens contained.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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https://tinyurl.com/4pxdmz63
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 01:28 AM (+UcOf)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
Our four grandchildren are growing up in rural Wyoming.
You want McDonald's? Drive an hour and a half. They have no idea what fast food is like. No starbucks no drive thrus.
They are smart of course, lol. They are being raised to be conservative and hopefully they will have a positive impact in our country.
If only more children would be raised with great values.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:29 AM (/QHx4)
1:31 AM EDT. High Loon here, and 29% eclipsed.
The Moon is crossing the meridian. Repeat, the Moon is crossing the meridian. You know what to do.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 01:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:31 AM (SR2gK)
https://youtu.be/8SwtO4ZDB1s
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 01:31 AM (1z8ji)
Hi four seasons.
{{{Emmie}}} good to see you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 01:32 AM (ibDUx)
_-_
I know several really good families like you describe up there...and in the big MT for that matter.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:33 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 28, 2026 01:35 AM (OlzlW)
NOAA issues geomagnetic storm watch as CMEs head toward Earth — northern lights possible Aug. 27-28
Posted by: Miklos will illuminate the Drinking Lamp irregardless at August 28, 2026 01:35 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Instititionalized at August 28, 2026 12:53 AM (4RYRd)
Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 28, 2026 01:36 AM (DuPSD)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)
Miklos, It is the 27th and we don't see shit here.
Oh, except the backyard. I guess we need get the pooper scooper out tomorrow, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:37 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
The trousers are on the floor
Repeat
The trousers are on the floor
Posted by: Over to Panty Gravity Control at Tequila Base at August 28, 2026 01:38 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:39 AM (/QHx4)
Oh, except the backyard. I guess we need get the pooper scooper out tomorrow, lol.
Posted by: four seasons
I didn't say HOW you could use it
Posted by: in Miklos' defense at August 28, 2026 01:40 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:40 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Miklos prefers Pinetop to pine box at August 28, 2026 01:41 AM (4RYRd)
_-_
I guess when you're that good, and you're 96, when you're ready to play...it's time. Great story, AOP.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:42 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
You old Billy Goat
Posted by: King Leka Miklos I notes that John Belushi is America's most famous Albanian at August 28, 2026 01:44 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)
Rosco Gordon. Whose music was heard in Jamaica by way of clear-channel AM radio, and the folks there dug the rhythm. And the rest is history.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 01:45 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:42 AM (PBKu+)
Pinetop was a cool old man. Very sharp. It was an honor to meet him.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 01:46 AM (1z8ji)
JQ,
Years ago we had Great Danes. You can imagine the amount we had.
One day a retired guy showed up at the door and his business was scooping poop. We hired him on the spot.
We think the neighbors must have called him to offer his service to us, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:47 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Like Bob Marley and many others
WWL from New Orleans
After dark
Posted by: Miklos be propagatin' some AM radio waves up in theah at August 28, 2026 01:51 AM (4RYRd)
One day a retired guy showed up at the door and his business was scooping poop. We hired him on the spot.
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Hahahahaha, good move! I'd do the same! LOL.
Our doggo was german shepherd, aussie shepherd, heinz 57 mix... about 75# and so very smart!
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)
Love the Pinetop, AOP.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 01:52 AM (ibDUx)
https://youtu.be/yyP8tew0OUQ
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the inside of the moon at August 28, 2026 01:52 AM (11R8D)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:54 AM (/QHx4)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPrMrIXybg
Still doing shows a couple of times a week.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 01:54 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 01:54 AM (+UcOf)
WWL from New Orleans
After dark
Posted by: Miklos be propagatin' some AM radio waves up in theah at August 28, 2026 01:51 AM (4RYRd)
Thing is, they acknowledged the influence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 01:55 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Huge dogs
Tiny country
I looked at a map and one dog is bigger than the whole place
Posted by: Miklos from Internets U at August 28, 2026 01:56 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:56 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)
lol Miklos
We've been married almost 50 years, scary, lol. Anyways we had five Danes and they were all awesome.
I like big things.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:58 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
which is...brrzppp...mqubrrpppp...raci...bzzznm...st.....
*system shutdown*
Posted by: White error 101-fault Always found at August 28, 2026 01:58 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 01:59 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 02:01 AM (/QHx4)
Trip was originally planned as a visit to his jr. high BFF, but she passed away just days before we could go. And so, it became a funeral visit with her (adult) children. So sad.
Interesting place, but I wouldn't want to live there. Don't care how cheap the properties are.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 02:02 AM (rdVOm)
*system shutdown*
Posted by: White error 101-fault Always found at August 28, 2026 01:58 AM (4RYRd)
Well, Rosco Gordon was definitely a black guy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 02:03 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 01:54 AM (+UcOf)
Been through some of it on a motorcycle. Yeah, a lot of it looked like nobody lives there. Beautiful though.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 02:03 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 02:05 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
_-_
Knew a guy up there with a (small) 7,000 acre ranch. His father had a bigger place over toward Laramie (21,000 acres), but lost it in a foreclosure after his wife died and he started boozing it up too much..
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 02:08 AM (PBKu+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 02:08 AM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
How dare anyone assume my racesexgenderthinkings!
*listens to Al Green from before he was a Rev.*
Posted by: Miklos is One of a Kind, which is probably a Good thing at August 28, 2026 02:08 AM (4RYRd)
Green River is small. We go there sometimes to shop. Rock Springs is just a little way past Green River and we go there to shop also.
Rock Springs has a very small airport which is mostly to take a flight to connect to a larger airport.
We used to catch the very early morning flight out of there to fly to Denver and get a flight from there East.
It was hilarious. It was always dark driving up the road off I-80 to the airport. You had to be very careful to dodge the cows in the road.
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 28, 2026 02:11 AM (SR2gK)
Train tracks have since been removed from there.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Artemus Gordon could have passed himself off as one
Probably did
Posted by: Miklos idoes not recall every episode of the Wild Wild West at August 28, 2026 02:11 AM (4RYRd)
As the REAL Miklos, I need the TRUTH
Not THEIR "TRUTH"
Posted by: Miklos, having a Nitecap with my buddy Art Bell at August 28, 2026 02:19 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 02:22 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: randy drinking buddy Randall Carlson at August 28, 2026 02:22 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 02:24 AM (ibDUx)
“It is happening in this country a little bit, and where we see it, we take it out.”
“We have one system!” — Trump.
_GellerReport
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 02:27 AM (+UcOf)
If Miklos is asleep, I'll serve you a Chivas, Debby.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 28, 2026 02:28 AM (+UcOf)
And too much to do when I do get up.
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 02:29 AM (Ia/+0)
https://youtu.be/Bj84SZzi5-s
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 02:31 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 02:31 AM (Ia/+0)
By the way, Brother Art left all his audio archives that he owned in the Public Domain, so they are free and accessible from anybody who wants to host a site
Posted by: Art Bell's bartender at August 28, 2026 02:32 AM (4RYRd)
And too much to do when I do get up.
Posted by: Skip
Be ready for the school bus at 7:25!
Posted by: Aunt Miklos at August 28, 2026 02:35 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Skip at
"The United States possesses a total inventory of approximately 5,042 to 5,177 nuclear warheads, comprising both active stockpiles and retired weapons awaiting dismantlement."
Posted by: Miklos just randomly thinking about stuff at August 28, 2026 02:37 AM (4RYRd)
https://youtu.be/Bj84SZzi5-s
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Somehow reminds me of Root Boy Slim
Posted by: Miklos still enjoys Root Boy and the Rootettes at August 28, 2026 02:38 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Miklos still enjoys Root Boy and the Rootettes at August 28, 2026 02:39 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: four seasons at August 28, 2026 02:09 AM (/QHx4)
You have to do that in democrat cities too, but the blue hair helps with visibility.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 28, 2026 02:41 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Inquiring Mind of Miklos at August 28, 2026 02:42 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Miklos still enjoys Root Boy and the Rootettes at August 28, 2026 02:38 AM (4RYRd)
he was an amazing harp player, and no slouch on guitar, either. I hear a New Orleans influence in many of his records, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 02:42 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Or target acquisition
Posted by: Miklos needs his dad's big-ass old '89 Coupe de Ville with longhorns on the hood at August 28, 2026 02:43 AM (4RYRd)
The Moon is over halfway out of the penumbra now. You can't really tell the difference with penumbral vs. normal, it's just too bright.
However, they assure me that trained observers can detect the difference in brightness. I won't argue, but I can't see it by a long shot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 02:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2026 02:45 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I remember hearing the guy on the radio in NOLA
Posted by: Miklos has an old "OZ sticker around here somewhere at August 28, 2026 02:45 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
But who will pick the Free Range Organic non-GMO sustainable lettuce while I do many drugs and then pass out?
Posted by: Formerly famous resident of Tinseltown at August 28, 2026 02:48 AM (4RYRd)
LOL Bers, I deal with the same problem around here.
Thanks JQ and Miklos, I now have two drinks to sip on before bed.
We used to have a local am station that broadcast all night long, I used to listen to that a lot too but they took it off the air a while back.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 02:49 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
of course THEY did
THEY
I keep telling you people
Posted by: Miklos the Apprenctice Rosicrucian at August 28, 2026 02:51 AM (4RYRd)
Feels like the end of summer. Yay!
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
@ABC7 1h
A truck carrying an estimated 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was stolen in Montclair in what may be the biggest beer heist ever.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2026 03:01 AM (diia5)
And now that it's over, the sky has cleared nicely. Still some on the horizon, but higher up it's perfectly clear.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 03:03 AM (w6EFb)
Ta-ta
Posted by: Miklos does note that Moon Doggie was a character in 60s movies at August 28, 2026 03:05 AM (4RYRd)
weft-cut loop, if my hubs was still alive I would consider him a suspect on the Pabst heist!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 03:06 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
You know nothing
You say nothing
Got it?
Posted by: Marleen, Darleen, Charleen and Bubba Jr. as the getaway driver at August 28, 2026 03:07 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
*vaguely indicates desire for bedtime belly rub*
*and treat*
Posted by: Miss Dixie Doodle, distinguished Dandie Dinmont at August 28, 2026 03:10 AM (4RYRd)
Hope you all enjoyed this, as this is last decent lunar eclipse we'll get here in the US for quite a while.
We had a string of some nice one the past few years, but after this, we get a long dry spell.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 03:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 28, 2026 03:12 AM (AdHga)
The face-pierced lady is now gone, although she didn't seem threatening in any way.
:shrug:
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2026 03:14 AM (diia5)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at August 28, 2026 03:17 AM (3gKmr)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 28, 2026 03:17 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
And then, you get a phone call in the middle of the night.
It's NEVER good news.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)
How many schools & streets got re-named, in honor (spit) of BHO?
Posted by: JQ
Thursday, Aug 27, 2026 - 07:45 AM
Barack Obama Elementary school closed indefinitely due to mold and rodent infestation
The school was originally built in 1922 and is over 100 years old. It was once called J.E.B Stuart Elementary.
Posted by: Even later Nite Miklos Doodle at August 28, 2026 03:26 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at August 28, 2026 03:30 AM (3gKmr)
Posted by: Miklos out at August 28, 2026 03:30 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 03:38 AM (Ia/+0)
Substandard sentencing. The company is mentioned as being worth $8B.
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 27, 2026 10:15 PM (Jr+re)
haha
"substandard sentencing"
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 03:47 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 03:50 AM (rdVOm)
The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is scheduled for launch on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to the cosmological data it will provide. A sanctified shit ton, in fact. This is going to answer a lot of questions over the years of just what the Universe is doing.
Well, put it this way. There are questions that a lot of the models are wrong, but not enough data to know for sure. Roman will provide that, and show if they models are wrong, or if the discrepancies so far have just been some measurement artifact errors.
So, it will tell if we're wrong. If we are, it won't tell us what's right, but will provide clues maybe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 03:51 AM (w6EFb)
Reminds me of Patricia Enis, whose email was penis@...
Or Betty East, who was beast@...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 03:53 AM (l3cgK)
Nancy Grace is being launched to L2 on Sunday by a Falcon 9 Heavy. I like the sound of that. :-)
Seriously, here's NASA animations of the trajectory and to an orbit around L2:
https://t.ly/Fsa-i
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 04:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 04:02 AM (rdVOm)
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Beer is not sold by the pound. It should be roughly 25,000 twelve packs, in case you were wondering.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 04:04 AM (UX21q)
Posted by: Skip at August 28, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
I found a screwdriver bit in my tire once...it was worn on one side...
A Firestone I went to had a collection of the strangest stuff they pulled out of tires...the Christmas mug took the cake...broken with two sharp points. Whatever tire took that was royally screwed, so to speak.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:05 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Common Tater
LOL, because I'm not a beer-drinker! And, it's PBR-- hipster beer anyway. Pfft.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 04:06 AM (rdVOm)
A nice big drywall screw into the top of *the* tire that was out of view from house... fkers...
Oh, yeah, they were *all about* wimmens and equality, and helping the "under-represented" in the workforce.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)
A nice big drywall screw into the top of *the* tire that was out of view from house... fkers...
Oh, yeah, they were *all about* wimmens and equality, and helping the "under-represented" in the workforce.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)
Find their cars, put Trump bumper stickers on them...
J/K. That could technically be considered vandalism.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:14 AM (l3cgK)
—-
I’m on a national forest road. Not too far from a highway, but it is not in very good shape. It gets worse farther down. Not super bad, but I didn’t feel like tearing stuff up.
The other day I saw a big freightliner tractor trailer and a 50 foot empty flatbed drive by bright and early. Where is he going? Guess he knows what he’s doing. Or, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Cause the road is bad.
A couple hours later I hear the truck. Wonder what he’s carrying? Turns out he was backing up. Which has to suck on a twisty turny rutted road. Better than a tow, I guess. Sure is strange.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 04:14 AM (UX21q)
...
A couple hours later I hear the truck. Wonder what he’s carrying? Turns out he was backing up. Which has to suck on a twisty turny rutted road. Better than a tow, I guess. Sure is strange.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 04:14 AM (UX21q)
There was a time maybe 25+ years ago that one of the local freeways extended from the east and from the west, but didn't meet in between (bureaucratic holdups on it's completion), but there WAS a tiny dirt road. I drove it once just to see if it met...turned out it ended at a small housing development with fully established homes in it...and if you drove through that, it'd meet with the other side of the freeway. Road sucked, was full of dips and potholes that I had to drive very, very carefully on. Good thing it hadn't been raining...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:18 AM (l3cgK)
LOL, it was many years ago-- I got a ride to work from (then BF) hubby.
It's funny, they (the union demo crew) sent a checker afterward.. it's creepy.. always surveillance.. and I'd gotten my tire fixed and remounted by the time the checker drove by that evening.
Too bad, so sad fellas-- this gal got her shit fixed and didn't miss any work. Fk you!
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 04:20 AM (rdVOm)
These days cameras make it harder for folks to get away with stuff like that...although they do like wearing masks, don't they?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 28, 2026 04:28 AM (l3cgK)
I allowed to his wife that a tow for a car was about $500 “but that was twenty years ago”. She wasn’t a happy camper. “Think of the stories you can tell your kids.”
“But first we have to get out of here before any stories can be told”.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 28, 2026 04:33 AM (UX21q)
Glad I don't need to deal with that shit any more!
There's more than a few cameras covering my area now, not just my own, and not counting any Flock or govt units.
Posted by: JQ at August 28, 2026 04:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026
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Damn. Slept through it. Call of nature wake-up. How long a dry spell? Inquiring 29-yo minds want to know.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 04:35 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: m at August 28, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)
Next full one will be on the evening of Dec. 31 2028 to Jan 1, 2029. A New Years Eve eclipse.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 04:44 AM (w6EFb)
Scratch that. The New Year's Eve one will just visible in AK. The next one visible across all the US will be Jun 25, 2029.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 04:47 AM (w6EFb)
And that will be a deep and thus long one, peak magnitude 1.84
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 28, 2026 04:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 05:03 AM (llBIB)
It's actually a good thing. The fewer places criminals can get away with assaulting people, robbing people, stealing cars, stealing merchandise, committing murder, the safer the country is.
The thing to fight is their inappropriate use. If they are being accessed by law enforcement without a warrant when a warrant is constitutionally required, that needs to be stopped, but NOT by criminal action.
A lot of sweeping surveillance will not be stopped, because the surveillance cameras are privately owned, and are located on private property, with the approval of the property owners.
I'm hoping they can be used to crack down on shoplifting, especially the organized retail theft that requires large scale data collection.
All power to Home Depot etcetera if they can refine indoor and outdoor surveillance to the point where shoplifters just can't get away with it anymore.
When the government starts using them to ticket everyone who slow-rolls a right-turn-on-red, we need to vote out the government, not blame the cameras.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at August 28, 2026 05:03 AM (aoNZT)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 28, 2026 05:04 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: cmeat at August 28, 2026 01:20 PM (Bep7s)
Mouthy Puppies Cafe
The "King" of the Jungle? He's not even the "king" in his own home.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 07:22 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 27, 2026 07:28 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 27, 2026 07:28 PM (zYpTz)
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And a loaf of bread and a jug of wine.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 07:29 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 27, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 07:30 PM (0sNs1)
Hi handsome! How are you and the younger flounders? I expect They are now taller than you are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 07:31 PM (qG4SX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 27, 2026 07:28 PM (zYpTz)
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And a loaf of bread and a jug of wine.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea"
And maybe some bug spray.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 27, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:34 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 07:36 PM (aJQbY)
"So for those who threatened to STOP listening to my music based on my comments last night, I just wanna say with conviction, GO RIGHT AHEAD!"
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 27, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 27, 2026 07:36 PM (vJrRc)
youtu.be/NMYx5vXwcgE
people paid for the Might & Magic 3 Complete Edition and didn't get the game files. they downloaded 20 KB of who-knows.
I think they fixed it, later, but this is some colossal incompetence from the French rape company.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 27, 2026 07:36 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 07:29 PM (amcLV)
Oh, definitely. That, too!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 27, 2026 07:37 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:38 PM (KC5Lt)
Fortunately, in space no one can smell them.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1)
whitehouse.gov
https://tinyurl.com/2xa6dfh8
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 07:38 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)
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Don't think Khayyam mentioned that...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 07:40 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: polynikes
Yep. Did it to himself.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 07:40 PM (IivNP)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:41 PM (MWfyi)
Okay Trump has managed to get me angry at him. Why should I have to give any of my personal info to read what the Whitehouse has to say? That's may seem minor but I hate that.
Okay the anger has passed.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:42 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea"
Well maybe next time he will plan better.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:42 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:42 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 07:43 PM (Cqx++)
It wouldn't have been a big deal if he hadn't been two faced since Trump treated him with respect when they previously met.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:45 PM (KC5Lt)
Today's fun root canal procedure was deemed a "success."
But I got to discover whole new levels of pain.
Yes, they used anesthetic, but the inflammation was so bad they had to dig down to the nerve itself and inject anesthetic directly into the nerve. Whee!
Now I get to experience a week or so of post-operative pain management with my new best friends Tylenol and Advil.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 07:45 PM (FZ29D)
Okay the anger has passed.
Posted by: polynikes
que?
*tries in another browser*
Oh, the email signup popup? Should be skippable...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 07:46 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 07:48 PM (aJQbY)
Yes after a couple of attempts it no longer required the e mail. Go figure.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:48 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 07:48 PM (aJQbY)
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It's not my first rodeo, but it's never fun.
They try to preserve the structure of the tooth as much as possible--especially the back molars, which are pretty important. I've already had a couple of teeth extracted back there so I don't want to lose any more.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 07:49 PM (FZ29D)
What do they sound like?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 07:50 PM (GUnoj)
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 07:50 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 07:45 PM (FZ29D
I'm glad it went well. For stuff like that, it helps me to consider it a new hobby for awhile.
I brought Ralphy outside, Snowflake meowed, they sniffed each other and rubbed against each other. Very cute. I need to bring my camera out with me.
CNN - Your first name in news. Kate from smalldeadanimals.
CNN was forced to apologize to Dolly Parton’s family for mistakenly using a photo of a Las Vegas impersonator of the country music legend while reporting on her death.
The cable news network aired an image of tribute artist Kelly Vohnn as it covered Parton’s Tuesday death from cancer — leaving the 58-year-old Vohnn stunned as friends began bombarding her with messages.
The errant image were broadcast during “Laura Coates Live” some 12 hours after Parton’s death was announced by her family.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 07:53 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:42 PM (KC5Lt
I was able to view the whole thing without being asked for info. There is a little email symbol in the lower left corner that, when clicked, brings up a form to enter email.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 27, 2026 07:53 PM (OlzlW)
Eventually we came upon a group of flashing police lights on a police boat, more cop cars at the base of the dock and cops on the dock and standing on a Hinckley Bermuda 40 that was tied to the dock. We started to cruise over and see what was up and the cops aggressively told us to stay back.
Found out later that some 20 something boat worker from Newport had stolen the Hinckley in NJ, sailed it to Newport and then got into a gunfight with the cops. He lost. Permanently. Not something you see every day around the harbor.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 07:53 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace
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Wonder how many people would read an email before it got to Trump.
If ever.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:56 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:42 PM (KC5Lt
I was able to view the whole thing without being asked for info. There is a little email symbol in the lower left corner that, when clicked, brings up a form to enter email.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 27, 2026 07:53 PM (OlzlW)
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Even using Brave I was asked TWICE if I wanted to provide an email address to receive a newsletter. Fortunately, I could "X" out of them and they weren't too intrusive, but I still find that behavior annoying.
This is exactly why the internet in general has become such a cesspool of advertising. THEY CRAM IT RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!
Ace's website is tame compared to some.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 07:56 PM (FZ29D)
Crazy people seem to be popping up more frequently though it could just be a false perception.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:58 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 07:58 PM (vTZFs)
https://tinyurl.com/2xa6dfh8
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
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What Chinese escapades into 100 systems last month.
Remote access to controllers from China.
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:59 PM (+UcOf)
I don't think there are more crazy people, they just have internet access now to make themselves more conspicuous.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 07:59 PM (vTZFs)
I can't figure out what his plan was. Stealing a very well known and easy to identify boat and then hiding in one of the biggest sailing harbors on the east coast? And they getting into a gun battle with the cops?
He must have had a death wish.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 08:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)
I saw that groundhog video on 9gag the other day, I felt so sorry for the trauma it was going through. I also larfed my a$$ off.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 27, 2026 08:02 PM (+EypJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 08:01 PM (viF8m)
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Yeah, he probably did.
Maybe he watched the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and thought he was CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:03 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:04 PM (MWfyi)
This is exactly why the internet in general has become such a cesspool of advertising. THEY CRAM IT RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!
Ace's website is tame compared to some.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Or you are reading an article and an A/V news item pops up.
Search for the X, continue reading, scroll a bit and another
A/V news item pops up.
Don't know who things this crap is productive.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:04 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2026 08:06 PM (zZSxi)
Search for the X, continue reading, scroll a bit and another
A/V news item pops up.
Don't know who things this crap is productive.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:04 PM (+UcOf)
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Whoever thought that was a good idea should be stashed away in The Barrel for all eternity, with their head on a pike outside The Barrel, as a warning to everyone that some advertising is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:06 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 08:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 08:09 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:09 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Captain Jack would have taken that baby out to sea.
Bahama, here I come.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:10 PM (+UcOf)
Jelly Roll does have a pleasant unique voice.
Posted by: polynikes
Definitely. But I'm waaaaaaayyy past the point where I let any entertainment whore, with face tats too, tell me what to think or do.
He can have a coke and a smile and shut the fvck up.
# Eddie Murphy back in the 80s
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 27, 2026 08:11 PM (+EypJ)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Luxury!
Posted by: A Yorkshireman at August 27, 2026 08:11 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:12 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Felix the Cat at August 27, 2026 08:12 PM (JM9I6)
"Two workers at Germany’s busiest airport die of malaria after mosquitoes arrive on plane"
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)
# Eddie Murphy back in the 80s
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Face tats and felony prison go together.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:13 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:01 PM
That's kind of disrespectful to refer to Captain Pike that way, you know.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 08:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Penguin Facts
We are on a roll! Best to get in line and stifle!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at August 27, 2026 08:13 PM (JM9I6)
But now, whenever he blinks, he sees ads for pron and gambling websites.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 08:14 PM (Sco7b)
But now, whenever he blinks, he sees ads for pron and gambling websites.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 08:14 PM (Sco7b)
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The show Futurama ran with this idea in several episodes.
In one, people who go online in a Matrix-like environment are physically attacked by aggressive ads.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:16 PM (FZ29D)
I'm right there with ya.
On that note, I started my Nike boycott in 2018 without caring if it had any effect or not just like all my boycotts. It's just personal. I think this is probably the first where I saw an actual significant effect.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:16 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at August 27, 2026 08:13 PM
Shouldn't you be adding some "fresh"ness to the penguin wastelands visible from space?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 08:17 PM (0sNs1)
"Two workers at Germany’s busiest airport die of malaria after mosquitoes arrive on plane"
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)
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When I lived in Germany, I'd get freaked out by the crane flies or "mosquito eaters." They looked like giant mosquitos.
Turns out they don't actually eat mosquitos and are completely harmless.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:18 PM (FZ29D)
Dave Chappell did it first and was the funniest.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
That's one!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey.. at August 27, 2026 08:18 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:18 PM
You know what does eat mosquitoes? By the hundreds of thousands?
Bats!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:18 PM (FZ29D)
Same with what we called mosquito hawks in Louisiana. I think everyone else calls them dragon flies, right.
Wasn't until I was in college before I became aware they didn't eat mosquitoes.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:20 PM (KC5Lt)
Bats!
Posted by: Duncanthrax
That's two!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey.... at August 27, 2026 08:21 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:16 PM (FZ29D)
I remember that one.
Okay, puppy's down here and caregiving should be slowing down now. Everyone have a good night. Work to do.
Getting there.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 08:22 PM (Sco7b)
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Think of the profit margin!
Ubisoft used to be one of my favorite developers but the last several years they've repeatedly pulled some bone head moves.p
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 08:22 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:23 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:24 PM (KC5Lt)
"New polling shown on MSNOW graphic right now is very encouraging!
A Survey Center at Texas Southern University Poll from Aug. 18-21 shows:
Bobby Pulido (D) leading 50-45 for the House,
James Talarico(D) leading Ken Paxton 50-42,
and in the Governors race, Hinojosa leading Abbott 47-44.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 08:24 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: clarence at August 27, 2026 08:25 PM (YM6op)
Posted by: Penguin Alliance For Truth And Justice at August 27, 2026 08:26 PM (JM9I6)
Bobby Pulido (D) leading 50-45 for the House,
James Talarico(D) leading Ken Paxton 50-42,
and in the Governors race, Hinojosa leading Abbott 47-44.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Texas Southern University, hmmmmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:26 PM (+UcOf)
Makes sense if they are polling just black voters.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:27 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 08:27 PM (IivNP)
"So for those who threatened to STOP listening to my music based on my comments last night, I just wanna say with conviction, GO RIGHT AHEAD!"
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August
I'd have to start first.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 08:32 PM (AdHga)
https://tinyurl.com/34ex7xpr
"I'm slappin' base, you're slappin' younglings ...".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 08:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 08:01 PM
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Diana Muldaur.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 08:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 27, 2026 08:39 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 08:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 08:01 PM (viF8m)
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Yeah, he probably did.
Maybe he watched the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and thought he was CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Did this pirate at least make it to 40?
youtu.be/1o0Oft05oFE
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 08:41 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: polynikes
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Upon reflection, conservatives with numbers that high is very interesting. Tells me that there are more blacks not participating in the role of the culturally adverse than the media and world of artists are projecting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:43 PM (+UcOf)
Turns out they don't actually eat mosquitos and are completely harmless.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
The UK had those things too. Would turn up enmasse when the farmers would cut or burn there fields. They were everywhere. Annoying bugs, but harmless.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 08:43 PM (AdHga)
Chances of his death in prison I think just increased 100%.
It seems Johnni scammed his best friend and defender Hank Yoo out of $40K with bogus investments.
"A fool and their money are soon parted."
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 08:46 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:46 PM (+UcOf)
But now, whenever he blinks, he sees ads for pron and gambling websites.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 08:14 PM (Sco7b)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
However in that one, the ads were due to a hack, and they were all in Hindi
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 08:46 PM (rbvCR)
But now, whenever he blinks, he sees ads for pron and gambling websites.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 08:14 PM (Sco7b)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
However in that one, the ads were due to a hack, and they were all in Hindi
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 08:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 08:47 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 08:47 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 08:43 PM (AdHga)
Those are crane flies, and we have them here as an invasive pest. The maggots eat the roots of seedling grasses and some other crops. The one benefit the starlings have is that they prey on those maggots in the ground
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 08:49 PM (rbvCR)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
Elon should fund this, individualizing it using AI. Replace the entire group of teachers that belong to unions. .../Profit.
Steven Jobs was heading this way when he died.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 08:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 08:51 PM (u82oZ)
~GP-5.6 luna
Midwest refineries configured to process substantial quantities of Canadian oil product: BP, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, Cenovus, ExxonMobil, CITGO, Flint Hills/Koch, CountryMark, Valero, and HF Sinclair.
Canadian crude supplied about 73% of Midwest refinery inputs in 2024, these facilities do not necessarily use exclusively Canadian oil, but they are configured to process substantial quantities of it.
kansascityfed.org - .eia.gov/ - wiki/List
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If Canada stops exporting oil to us what happens to those Midwest jobs?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:53 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 08:54 PM (KC5Lt)
Chances of his death in prison I think just increased 100%.
It seems Johnni scammed his best friend and defender Hank Yoo out of $40K with bogus investments.
"A fool and their money are soon parted."
Posted by: Anna Puma
Seems a lot of these 'pest' vloggers are now in the FO stage of life. Good.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 08:54 PM (AdHga)
Elon should fund this, individualizing it using AI. Replace the entire group of teachers that belong to unions. .../Profit.
Steven Jobs was heading this way when he died.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 08:49 PM (u82oZ)
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Believe it or not, *I* was working a project heading in this direction over 25 years ago. And yes, The Diamond Age was my inspiration.
We never got any funding, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 08:56 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: gp at August 27, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: gp at August 27, 2026 08:59 PM (Jr5Lq)
Steven Jobs was heading this way when he died.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 08:49 PM (u82oZ)
I think there is a call for paid lecturers for home schoolers, remote classes that have proctored tests.
I can imagine the delight of a Chemistry teacher, teaching a full load of classes to motivated kids, without having to deal with staff meetings or have to teach remedial math and Health.
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 09:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at August 27, 2026 09:01 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 09:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 09:02 PM (VrYHL)
I can imagine the delight of a Chemistry teacher, teaching a full load of classes to motivated kids, without having to deal with staff meetings or have to teach remedial math and Health.
Posted by: Bill Hominy
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Professor's assistants at organized areas for lab work?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:03 PM (+UcOf)
Perhaps he just wanted to sail a beautiful boat. Could never afford it. Could never qualify to charter. But needed to be at sea in heaven.
And then knew the repercussions would mean misery. And just wanted to sail. So. Maybe, to him, it was the price he was willing to pay.
Just a thought.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:03 PM (0OOCL)
Posted by: Accomack at August 27, 2026 09:04 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 09:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 09:06 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
alternating heat and ice (or maybe just heat) might also help
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 27, 2026 09:07 PM (C0Nlv)
It brings up the fact that Climate alarmists never mention the Sun.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 09:12 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Accomack at August 27, 2026 09:04 PM (GbONR)
But we can still get maple syrup?
Posted by: Rex B at August 27, 2026 09:12 PM (R0XxO)
_zh
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Just take him to Africa and inoculate him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:14 PM (+UcOf)
Bobby Pulido (D) leading 50-45 for the House,
James Talarico(D) leading Ken Paxton 50-42,
and in the Governors race, Hinojosa leading Abbott 47-44.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Texas Southern University, hmmmmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 08:26 PM (+UcOf)
Exactly. I doubt they care, or can find a polling place, or have ID.
Posted by: LASue at August 27, 2026 09:15 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Accomack at August 27, 2026 09:04 PM (GbONR)
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It's not a hair on fire question. There are refineries all over the Midwest, big one's. Reading the article I thought, that's many jobs. It's a valid question.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:17 PM (+UcOf)
Anyone have an opinion on the movie?
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 09:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: clarence
👍🏼 😉
Posted by: Moderation is the game for mid-term elections at August 27, 2026 09:20 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 09:21 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:17 PM (+UcOf)
Or maybe more jobs are created to pump more of our own oil to refine. Our Strategic Oil reserve is the lowest it's been in decades.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 09:22 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: man
I really REALLY hope Texas shows up to vote in November. Because if y’all don’t, you’re fucked. Don’t be complacent. Vote like it’s your livelihood on the line. Because it is.
My state is lost.
Don’t lose yours.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:24 PM (yEz+x)
Well, everyone can afford a better looking android duplicate that supposedly has bio-metric locks to prevent hijacking. These androids can go and do the person's job because the person's thoughts are controlling the android.
Everyone has turned into a shut-in.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 09:25 PM (2GVsD)
...
"The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves ...
The deal would give the U.S. an ownership stake in Venezuela's oil fields and more than double American oil reserves...
_Axios
...
Over a dozen productive oil fields are said be central to the "talks", with Trump officials
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:26 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: clarence
I was at the bank today and, out of the blue, the teller asked me if I knew they now offer banana pudding Oreos. I said I didn't and she said they're good. I guess she thought I looked like a banana pudding Oreos kind of guy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 09:27 PM (ndZc7)
Or maybe more jobs are created to pump more of our own oil to refine. Our Strategic Oil reserve is the lowest it's been in decades.
Posted by: polynikes
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That pipeline that Canada just jinxed would have been a boon.
Don't know what kind of oil fields they have in the Mid West.
Pumping Venezuelan oil up there from the coast?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:29 PM (+UcOf)
was at the bank today and, out of the blue, the teller asked me if I knew they now offer banana pudding Oreos. I said I didn't and she said they're good. I guess she thought I looked like a banana pudding Oreos kind of guy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Why didn't she give you one?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 09:32 PM (Cqx++)
BP — Whiting Refinery, Indiana
Marathon Petroleum — Detroit, Michigan; Robinson, Illinois; St. Paul Park, Minnesota; Canton, Ohio; and Lima, Ohio
Phillips 66 — Wood River, Illinois, operated through a joint venture with Cenovus
Cenovus Energy — Wood River, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio
ExxonMobil — Joliet, Illinois
CITGO Petroleum — Lemont, Illinois
Flint Hills Resources, owned by Koch Industries — Pine Bend, Minnesota
CountryMark — Mount Vernon, Indiana
Valero Energy — especially its refinery in Lima, Ohio
HF Sinclair — refineries in the broader Midwest/Great Plains region, including Tulsa and nearby Oklahoma facilities
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:32 PM (+UcOf)
Oil boom from the '30s is over in Kansas. Still some wells, at a slow pace of extraction.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 09:33 PM (u82oZ)
She who was elected a Congressperson in MN?
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 09:33 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 09:34 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie
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Pudding and missed opportunities.
mmmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 09:35 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
Perhaps that was the first half of the secret code that gets you into the sex dungeon in the secret vault? Wonder what the proper response is.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 09:36 PM (VHUov)
Texas laughs
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 09:21 PM (XuXeR)
Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Alaska too!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 09:36 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 09:27 PM (ndZc7)
She saw the size of your . . . uh . . . bank account.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 09:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 09:39 PM (u82oZ)
I thought, did she find me attractive, or was it some kind of derisively snide thing?
Been a long time since a woman not my wife ever found me attractive. My wife is legally obligated to find me attractive. Heh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 09:41 PM (0aYVJ)
A friend of mine asked his wife:
"When I get older and less attractive, will you still love me."
She said "Already do that."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 09:43 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 09:44 PM (VrYHL)
The legal staff here does not comprehend that phraseology
presented in that linguistic sequence.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 27, 2026 09:45 PM (zdLoL)
Maybe she's just a person who likes to smile at people, because smiling derisively at someone one had never meet seems a bit odd.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 09:45 PM (gsYaF)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Nonstandard wedding vows?
"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, for hot or for fugly....."
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 09:46 PM (VHUov)
I've learned that any time he does something of little real effect, but is guaranteed to cause retards everywhere to chimp out, it's to distract said retards from something important.
In this case, the distraction is "Lake America".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 09:46 PM (IG3/x)
"When I get older and less attractive, will you still love me."
She said "Already do that."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 09:43 PM (u82oZ)
Bazinga!
I am often astonished about how tolerant Mrs. Mahon is about me and my numerous foibles. 38 years and going strong.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 09:47 PM (0aYVJ)
3 I was at the bank today and, out of the blue, the teller asked me if I knew they now offer banana pudding Oreos. I said I didn't and she said they're good. I guess she thought I looked like a banana pudding Oreos kind of guy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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Perhaps that was the first half of the secret code that gets you into the sex dungeon in the secret vault? Wonder what the proper response is.....
Posted by: mikeski
OMG!!! how did you know I just lurve me some banana pudding oreos? When do you go on break so we can try them together?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 27, 2026 09:49 PM (P+jBU)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 09:44 PM (VrYHL)
A Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup since 1993.
That's gotta be a major embarrassment for them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 09:51 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
Perhaps that was the first half of the secret code that gets you into the sex dungeon in the secret vault? Wonder what the proper response is.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 09:36 PM (VHUov)
The response: "They must be dipped in chocolate milk."
Then the spy code is unlocked and the secret door opens.
Posted by: LASue at August 27, 2026 09:51 PM (lCppi)
Good on both you and your bride.
I really wish I had made better choices. But then, I wouldn’t have my boys. And I am so very proud of them.
Good for you! Hold her hand and close your eyes and be loved.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:52 PM (/79St)
I thought, did she find me attractive, or was it some kind of derisively snide thing?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 09:41 PM (0aYVJ)
For many women, nothing makes you more attractive than being with another woman (or wearing a wedding ring, or having pictures of the wife on your desk, or...).
It is known.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 09:53 PM (IG3/x)
JackStraw
Perhaps he just wanted to sail a beautiful boat. Could never afford it. Could never qualify to charter. But needed to be at sea in heaven.
And then knew the repercussions would mean misery. And just wanted to sail. So. Maybe, to him, it was the price he was willing to pay.
Just a thought.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I have no idea how you just did this, but you totes channeled the regret for his actions of Colridge's Anchient Mariner.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 27, 2026 09:55 PM (P+jBU)
It’s disgusting.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:55 PM (/79St)
And then he hides behind a tribute to Dolly Parton made to show he's solidly in the entertainment game.
So much for his redemption story. He's a groveling puss, too.
Posted by: Moderation is the game for mid-term elections at August 27, 2026 09:57 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:00 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:01 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 10:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 10:03 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 10:01 PM (+UcOf)
It is a very stinky refinery. (Lived in Billings for many years)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 10:04 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 10:06 PM (DuPSD)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:52 PM (/79St)
Thank you for the kind words. We raised two good boys into good men. Elder son is newly married and hopes to be a dad. Fingers crossed. his bride is so perfect for him.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 10:07 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 10:12 PM (aGb4i)
It’s disgusting.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:55 PM (/79St)
I noticed a distinct downturn in the number of women flirting with me when I stopped wearing my wedding ring (around 5 years after the late Mrs. Borgia passed on).
I even thought about putting it back on, but nah, those aren't women I would want anyway.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 10:20 PM (IG3/x)
I even thought about putting it back on, but nah, those aren't women I would want anyway.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
>Stop going to strip clubs and go to church once in a while.
The dating scene with this social media mindfuck is a cruel mistress unless you're a millionaire.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 10:32 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: epador at August 27, 2026 10:43 PM (TRnzq)
Democrats Begin to Worry About Going All-In on the Great Male Hope Hasan Piker
It wasn't just the Democrats. It was the Democrats of the media, that have spent a year pushing Hasan Piker as "the left's Joe Rogan," claiming he has a "progressive mind in a MAGA body" (true, he has a progressive mind, he's borderline mentally retarded) and running one glamour-shot thrist-trap picture of him after another.
And now the Democrats, and the Democrats of the media, are asking: Why won't you guys stop talking about the guy we heavily promoted for a year as the left's solution to the Male Voter Deficit? The Bulwark's professional homosexual Tim Miller is scolding other leftwing politicos, pressuring them to stop talking about the Left's Joe Rogan, a progressive mind in a MAGA body.Ludicrous grifter and male gold-digger Ro Khanna also commands you to stop talking about Hasan Piker and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed:
Why is it a waste of time to talk about Hasan Piker? Is he not the Left's Joe Rogan? Is he not the male Twitch Influencer you guys promoted to lead young men to the DSA? I have been reliably informed, again and again, that he has a progressive mind in a MAGA body. Was I misinformed? If so, who misinformed me, and will they be called to account for their misinformation? David Hogg, who himself knows something about media overpromotion of a leftwing male influencer, also demands we all stop talking about the guy the media insisted we talk about until three minutes ago.
Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna Too many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can't repeat past mistakes. In this upcoming election, we need to: Quit calling @BernieSanders an "antisemite." Stop wasting time attacking Hasan Piker instead of Trump's robber baron corruption. Don't put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy. It is time for a reckoning: are we a party that represents corporate interests and super PACs, or will we represent the American people?
Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker "kind of weird." "To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he's a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there's a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible thing[s]," Hogg told left-wing media personality Jack Cocchiarella, discussing the recent national spotlight on Piker. Hogg added later that he believed "that it's fascinating that people are so obsessed with a streamer that the median voter knows nothing about." "You know, that's not to diss Hasan, I think he would probably agree with me, generally, that like they don't -- they don't know who he is," Hogg continued. "And I think it speaks to the fact that a lot of moderates in our party don't have an actual vision that they are fighting for other than the center, because they're constantly repositioning themselves on the political spectrum to say, 'You know, I'm going to be in the middle,' but the middle is always changing," he said. "And instead, what people are looking for is somebody that actually offers a new vision."Number of people who have said David Hogg has a progressive mind in a MAGA body: Zero. Zero point zero. By the way: It turns out Abdulrahman El-Sayed's middle name is Mohamed, not Hussein. Sorry to lead you down a crooked path. I blame who I always blame, a commenter for telling me something which I did not then spend a single second checking. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is now saying he will no longer campaign with Hasan "the Left's Joe Rogan" Piker, after having repeatedly appeared with him, knowing full well he is a terrorist-supporting anchor baby who says "America deserved 9/11" and excusing Hamas's murder of babies by saying "There are baby settlers" and Jewish settlers, of course, should be massacred. Even if they're babies. And Jewish female "settlers," of course, deserve to be raped.
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed on Wednesday indicated he would no longer campaign with Hasan Piker after stoking scrutiny for associating with him due to controversial positions the Twitch streamer holds. Throughout his campaign, el Sayed has repeatedly appeared with Piker, including during campus rallies at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan in April, and at a Detroit event earlier this month. Their relationship has raised eyebrows due to accusations that Piker employs antisemitic rhetoric. After moving to distance himself from Piker following his primary win on Aug. 5, el Sayed told Semafor on Wednesday evening he has "no plans" to campaign with him. The shift comes roughly two months ahead of the general election, where the Senate hopeful must amass majority support in one of the country's tightest races to clinch a victory over former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.Meanwhile, a Soros fake media supporting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed falsely claimed -- WITHOUT EVIDENCE -- that Abdulrahman Mohamded El-Sayed is a "veteran."
We didn't mean to tell that lie, we meant to tell this other lie. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has repeatedly, falsely called himself a doctor and a physician. He did get a medical degree, but seems to have gotten it only for purposes of entering the corrupt health bureaucracy. He was never licensed as an actual physician and never treated a patient. As the official in charge of Michigan's highest-kill dog shelter, he did oversee the euthanasia of thousands of dogs, though. Does that count? Grok AI answer: No, that does not count.
A left-wing dark money network funded by the Democratic megadonor George Soros sent voters in Michigan unsolicited mailers resembling a newspaper that falsely identified Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as a "veteran." The mailer, from the Michigan Independent--part of a national left-wing organization founded by the Democratic operative David Brock, the American Independent--is designed to look like a nonpartisan local newspaper. Partisan content aimed at propping up Democrats is peppered amid recipes for "Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake" from "The Mitten Kitchen." The partisan content includes a piece on El-Sayed's primary win headlined, "El-Sayed -- veteran, doctor, and former health official -- is Democratic Senate pick." El-Sayed has never served in the military, and while he attended medical school and has described himself as a "physician," he has never been licensed to practice medicine, Politico reported.
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Joe Conason, the president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Independent Foundation, which founded the Michigan Independent and received $500,000 from Soros's Open Society Foundations in 2022, confirmed that the group sent the mailer calling El-Sayed a "veteran." He said the error was a typo rather than an attempt to deceive voters. "The error occurred when a new headline was written for the print edition," Conason told the Free Beacon. "It was supposed to say that he was a 'veteran doctor and public health official,' ie, 'veteran' modifying those two terms." Asked whether it was accurate to call El-Sayed a "veteran doctor," Conason said, "Well he's been a physician for a long time." When the Free Beacon noted that El-Sayed has never been a licensed physician, Conason said, "Whether he's a physician or not, he's a doctor."
CNN: Why can’t I ask you about Hasan Piker when he has campaigned with Abdul El-Sayed?
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 27, 2026
DINGELL: “Everywhere I have gone for the last ten days, someone throws a camera in my face, or a phone in my face, and asks me questions…” pic.twitter.com/XHFmRr30zT
Abdul El-Sayed refers to Egypt as his "home" pic.twitter.com/rKelZyGBIr
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 27, 2026
TOP: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed says that we should spend US tax dollars in the U.S.
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 27, 2026
BOTTOM: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed says that we should send your tax dollars to the Middle East pic.twitter.com/FCUteSbz0d
Abdul El-Sayed on Hasan Piker:
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) August 27, 2026
"Here’s this one thing that Hasan said. Do you now condemn him and everything he stands for? And I’m like, in what fucking world does the world work this way?"
"In what world would you condemn somebody for something that they’ve said?" pic.twitter.com/KRAVc3IlkK
The same media who spent years trying to tie President Trump to David Duke, are ignoring Abdul El-Sayed's connections to terrorist sympathizer Hasan Piker.
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) August 27, 2026
Lisa Marie Boothe calls out the media over their hypocritical coverage of President Trump vs. Abdul El-Sayed. pic.twitter.com/QvKRhz61N2
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(Jump to bottom of comments)You need to dump the dsa freaks or you are going to have the exact same problem in 2026 and 2028.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 06:18 PM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Bill Hominy at August 27, 2026 06:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:20 PM (RIvkX)
I was talking to myself last thread!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 06:22 PM (O0YTm)
But publically.....we don't agree with him talking him about how we really feel.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 06:22 PM (Sco7b)
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they already have Joe Rogaine ..
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 06:22 PM (g47mK)
Dance for me, clown! Dance!
He is not nearly as bright as he thinks he is. That's fun to watch too. "Do you want to have this conversation?"
Yeah, douchebag, let's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:22 PM (RIvkX)
A typo is something like "He's a beteran" or "a He's veteran".
"Typo" and "lie": not actually the same thing.
The "doctor" thing has a little more wiggle room. If he graduated from medical school, he's an MD.
My guess: he skated through medical school with the bare minimum (What do you call a medical student with the lowest grades in his class? "Doctor.") then blew his USMLE exams.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:23 PM (IG3/x)
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And this right here is a money quote.
From Ro Fvcking Khanna? What was his trading volume last year? $145 million?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:24 PM (RIvkX)
He has zero appeal to me. I don't get it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:20 PM (RIvkX)
you are not a gay man, that's why
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 06:24 PM (g47mK)
Reading this thread is so depressing. In the wake of el-Sayed's victory, I was initially very optimistic. Now I see Dems would rather fight a civil war with their left flank than consolidate their strong odds against a flailing MAGA. Conceding to right-wing framing, hysterics about anti-semitism accusations, fracturing the base and sowing public discord when unity is needed most. This is a party that wants to win in only one way, and they'd rather lose if they can't achieve that one way.
There is a reason why Republicans never disavow all the reprehensible people that support them. If you waste time disavowing, you're losing. Cases and point: 2016 David Duke endorsed Trump, who didn’t condemn, much less acknowledge Duke: won all 3 branches 2024 Trump’s association with Epstein...same
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 06:26 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 06:26 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 06:27 PM (M+uMR)
I remember you too Nazi tattoo guy. Are you happy having famous nips?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:27 PM (RIvkX)
I'm old enough to remember that any time David Duke opened his man-pleaser the media would rush out to every Republican they could find within minutes and demand that they denounce David Duke.
Now that same media is throwing itself in front of every bus it can find to keep people from bothering Democrats about this obvious faggot and anti-american retard Hasan Fucknuts.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 06:27 PM (oqH4h)
Have none of these Democrats ever bothered to look up the origins of “the Young Turks?”!?!?!
They can GFY.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 06:27 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 06:28 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: runner
Or a sexually frustrated middle aged wine AWFL.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at August 27, 2026 06:28 PM (otzbu)
I happen to be a veteran... Social Security card holder. I got my card when I was a kid and I've held it consistently ever since.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:29 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:30 PM (RIvkX)
Have none of these Democrats ever bothered to look up the origins of “the Young Turks?”!?!?!
They can GFY.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 06:27 PM (4KUe5)
The really scary thing is that Ana Kasparian is (or maybe was) one of them.
Kasparian is an Armenian. Her first language was Armenian. Her great-grandparents actually survived the genocide.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:30 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
They can't even come up with original complaints about their politicians. Just crib all of ours and pretend it true of their side.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 27, 2026 06:30 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 27, 2026 06:30 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: DanMa'am at August 27, 2026 06:30 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Billythesquid at August 27, 2026 06:31 PM (gN+5I)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:31 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 06:31 PM (4KUe5)
I was talking to myself last thread!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Ahhhh, but were you carrying both sides of the conversation?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 06:32 PM (W2Pud)
The dems of course have a blank check to put anyone they want on that ballot at any time, even dead people.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:32 PM (jOAc7)
Too many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can't repeat past mistakes. In this upcoming election, we need to:
Quit calling @BernieSanders an "antisemite."
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I call Bernie lots of things. "Antisemite" isn't usually the first thing I think of since he's unrelenting wrong and evil about so many issues important to his evil communist and corrupted soul.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 06:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: The DNC at August 27, 2026 06:33 PM (J5viO)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 06:34 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 06:34 PM (NtVYv)
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That won't happen. For some reason the Dems seem hell-bent on spending a FORTUNE on getting trounced.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 06:34 PM (TN0g+)
Looked it up. She's not only a panelist, she's one of the producers, and has been since the beginning.
I've heard of self-hating Jews, but this is the first time I've run across a self-hating Armenian.
Not to mention that this takes self-hate to a whole new level. I mean, you'd never see a Jew producing and appearing on a show called "Hitlerjugend".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:35 PM (IG3/x)
I was talking to myself last thread!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:21 PM
That is still a much higher collective IQ compared to if you were having a conversation with four Democrats!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 06:35 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 06:35 PM (dIske)
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I'm pretty cynical, but I'm not seeing that at all.
Dems will probably win the House, but it will be a muted midterm for them overall.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:35 PM (jOAc7)
Posted by: Billythesquid at August 27, 2026 06:31 PM
I got $100 that says donkey chompers will "win" the 2028 democrat primary for president. 2028 is gonna be lit!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Billythesquid at August 27, 2026 06:31 PM (gN+5I)
Be encouraged. Talarico will never be a senator. AOC will never be prez; nor will Hillary. Three reasons to celebrate! A fourth: El-Sayed will lose
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Pete Buttjizz at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (IG3/x)
Somewhat related: Funny how Al Sayed is pretending to want to protect Jews and Muslims, but hasn’t said anything about Christians.
Has he and I’ve missed it, or is it that no one even expects him to bother pretending to support the American Christians right to exist and practice their religion.
Probably because NO Democrat believes that.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026
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Me three!
(Just getting in ahead of the crowd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)
We knew this still in WW2 when we firebombed cities and when we nuked the Japanese.
This is why every islamist in America from babies to doddering elderly need to be sent back to the hell hole that is the Middle East.
Posted by: 42 at August 27, 2026 06:36 PM (khqLW)
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In fairness, Hogg should know weirdness when he sees it.
Posted by: Hogg's mirror at August 27, 2026 06:37 PM (XeU6L)
What's stupid about that is the left had there 'Joe Rogan'. His name is Joe Rogan. The left are now the Khmer Rouge wing and now Joe is 'rightwing' even though he hasn't changed any position.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 27, 2026 06:37 PM (AdHga)
I have to assume that you live on 6th Street in Austin and that all the alcohol fumes have affected your thinking.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 06:38 PM (ExV1e)
I don't get the black pilling on our side. If you ignore the polls and look at the candidates how can you not see Democrats are running a pack of babbling retards? And we aren't the ones who can see it.
I'm not predicting a red wave but I think we're in a pretty good spot right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)
One of the streamers on your handlebars?
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 06:38 PM (Py+sj)
Posted by: Pete Buttjizz at August 27, 2026 06:38 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026
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Not unless it was an out-and-out comedy like The Producers or Hogan's Heroes!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:38 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 06:39 PM (RIvkX)
"They should be paying attention to me!"
- Hogg, probably
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (vJrRc)
So, this means, technically, the courts are not supposed to block them under Purcell.
I know the cartel judges won't care.
But they'll lose on appeal.
Trump will have it in front of SCOTUS within 2 weeks
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (/QHx4)
Piker has electrocuted a dog on camera. So, they at least share a hobby.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (aOQyQ)
Sadly, you trusted us.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (Gqar8)
Does anyone know what these Somalis are doing in MN? Some kind of dance/ritual???
https://tinyurl.com/2hkj7u3j
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 06:41 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 06:27 PM
I also remember well the "God Hates Fags" protestors from Westboro Baptist Church. They would escalate their outrageous conduct until they made it onto the TV coverage.
The talking heads would then ask the Republicans why they made common cause with such stupid bigots.
When a Republican responded that they were a family of Democrat lawyers trying to file nuisance suits, the story would then be dropped. (Or the Republican response edited out the media coverage prior to the blogosphere.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 06:41 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 06:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:35 PM (jOAc7)
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You say that, but what GOP seats are they going to flip, and will it be enough to offset the "safe" seats that got wiped out after the SCOTUS decision?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (/QHx4)
The old joke about commie groups was that you could spot the FBI agents because they were the only ones up-to-date on their membership dues.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (IG3/x)
I'm not predicting a red wave but I think we're in a pretty good spot right now.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Same.
I think what should have been a blue wave will be a mildly okay night for Dems. Too many crazies on tickets to nationalize. hard left DSA direction.
Establishment Dem, anti-Trump type unified message would have done well. That ship has sailed.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (jOAc7)
Posted by: Susan from the Safe Suburbs in her SUV at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (qUkBO)
One of them was actually a Gore delegate to the DNC, I believe.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (IG3/x)
Lol Rodrigo
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Eyegore at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (MWfyi)
The dems of course have a blank check to put anyone they want on that ballot at any time, even dead people.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:32 PM (jOAc7)
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Ready, willing, and able to serve in office!
Posted by: Zombie Torricelli at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (olMIp)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 06:41 PM (HlyYF)
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They were almost certainly paid for by USAID. One of the first ops, perhaps a test case.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 27, 2026 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I'm going off history, party out of power gains seats. Exceptions occur, but it's like 10% of the time.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:44 PM (jOAc7)
The identity game is going to make it extremely hard for the Dems to dump the DSA. My little ol' prediction is that they'll unite under Medicare For All, which just might appeal to over 50% of the country thanks to our current messy system.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:44 PM (mmrXZ)
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"One man's terrorist is another man's 'veteran,' h8r!"
/Stolen Valor >>>>> Stolen Pallor
Posted by: ShainS at August 27, 2026 06:44 PM (BsjPb)
Posted by: Mister Scott
58 AOC has renewed her DSA membership after a 7 year lapse
Posted by: four seasons
Yeah, I mentioned that (off-topic) a few threads ago. The Reddit speculation (probably correctly) assumed that meant she may be considering a senate run against Schumer, as it would probably hurt her in a general election for President.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 06:45 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Debbie Dingell (ZZZZZ - MI) at August 27, 2026 06:46 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM
Yep, exactly the kind of conduct you would expect from a rock-ribbed Republican!
/Rachel Maddow dumba$$ tag off
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 06:47 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:42 PM (jOAc7)
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I hate feeling this optimistic, but I think it's going to be a Dem bloodbath. They are going to lose senate seats and the GOP will gain seats in the House. Remember, the old rules no longer apply. The old coalitions are gone, the old conventions have been destroyed.
The Dems have engineered the most electorally toxic candidates on record because they have gotten so used to cheating but this time they are going to be doing it under a microscope.
Oh, and it's not even Labor Day yet. Much, much worse is yet to come.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 27, 2026 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 06:48 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Mister Scott"
I will take that bet.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 27, 2026 06:48 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 06:49 PM (diia5)
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The best indicator of the House is generic ballot and President approval.
Dems need a +5% on the generic and Trump below 40.
They're only +0.8% and falling on the generic.
And Trump is holding in the 40s.
They are not flipping the House.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 06:49 PM (3cUTc)
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@grok: "I am alone with an Islamic terrorist who calls me and my kind 'dogs' and has a documented past that includes having overseen a canine genocide."
Posted by: ShainS at August 27, 2026 06:49 PM (BsjPb)
I was at the D-Day landings with him!
Posted by: Zombie Jason Arday at August 27, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 27, 2026 06:50 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Guy who says everything is going to crap at August 27, 2026 06:51 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 06:51 PM (enNUy)
@lizcollin
🚨NEW: Multiple law enforcement sources say a search warrant was conducted Tuesday night on the apartment where Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s son lives in Minneapolis. Guns and ammunition were recovered from the scene.
In response to our questions about what took place at the apartment, MPD confirmed another man, who is not the Congresswoman’s son, was arrested earlier in the day.
Abdulrahman Abdi was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 06:52 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Snoopy (soon to be Zombie Snoopy) at August 27, 2026 06:52 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 06:51 PM (enNUy)
TUCK n ROLL, KID!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 06:52 PM (guGkK)
@GreatLakes_HQ
Abdul on Hasan Piker. "Here’s this one thing that Hasan said. Do you now condemn him and everything he stands for? And I’m like, in what f*cking world does the world work this way?"
"In what world would you condemn somebody for something that they’ve said?"
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In DSA, Democrat, streamer, university, journalism world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 06:52 PM (ndZc7)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
I'm not a total Sydney fanboy (obviously she's very pretty, but not at the top of my personal rankings), but this video could turn David Hogg heterosexual.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:53 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 06:53 PM (diia5)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 06:53 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Eyegore
Jesse "The Mind (or Body)" Ventura?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 06:53 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 27, 2026 06:53 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 06:51 PM (enNUy)
TUCK n ROLL, KID!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Serpentine!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 06:54 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026
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Gee. And the most exciting thing I ever had happen on the third day of school was a hurricane or a fire drill, or the rumor that Brenda Such-and-Such wasn't back this year because she was preggers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)
What if Hasan Piker had said pussy?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 06:54 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)
Either way, it's a fun bet.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 27, 2026 06:54 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: zombie Dr Frankenfurter at August 27, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)
Dems need a +5% on the generic and Trump below 40.
They're only +0.8% and falling on the generic.
And Trump is holding in the 40s.
They are not flipping the House.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Between Platner, Hong, Michigan Hamas guy and Hasan Piker, they're really doing their best to let their freak flag fly and tarnish the whole party. Once the Republicans unleash their media money and blitz the airwaves and it becomes mainstream enough, the Dems could be in a very bad position.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 06:56 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 06:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 27, 2026 06:56 PM (36x1j)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
Woof.
I noticed someone in the comments complained that she wiped flour on her butt. It may have been Rick Wilson.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 06:56 PM (guGkK)
Good times.
But, an antisemitic stooge appears onstage with a Democrat candidate and we're not allowed to talk about him?
Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2026 06:57 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 06:52 PM (diia5)
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Will Abdulrahman ever surpass Mohammad as the most popular boy's name in the Western Europistan Caliphate?
/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS at August 27, 2026 06:58 PM (BsjPb)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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You sir, are a Great American!!!
Posted by: Sean Nahnnity at August 27, 2026 06:58 PM (E4rtv)
Dems need a +5% on the generic and Trump below 40.
They're only +0.8% and falling on the generic.
And Trump is holding in the 40s.
They are not flipping the House.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 06:49 PM
And they have zero chance of flipping the senate as well. Granted we are 2 months out from the election but from what it looks like now republicans will pick up at least 2 seats in the senate and possibly 4 in the house.
At this point every single poll out there has the democrats winning both the house and senate, plus they have talerico winning the senate seat here in Texas against paxton by 6 points. Those numbers will tighten up and start facing reality in the next month or so.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 06:58 PM (cpFbA)
I'm not a total Sydney fanboy (obviously she's very pretty, but not at the top of my personal rankings), but this video could turn David Hogg heterosexual.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:53 PM
Hogg is such a low IQ, noodle-armed Soy Boy, that it would take Clockwork Orange levels of treatment to make him into a heterosexual male.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 06:59 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 07:00 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 07:01 PM (kX27y)
https://tinyurl.com/54s4n6jd
I'm not a total Sydney fanboy (obviously she's very pretty, but not at the top of my personal rankings), but this video could turn David Hogg heterosexual.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
But can she make a sandwich?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 07:02 PM (ndZc7)
Ironically, as a soy Lefty thought leader, I bet Hogg has the opportunity to be swimming in poon. What a waste...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 27, 2026 07:02 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 06:51 PM (enNUy)
TUCK n ROLL, KID!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 06:52 PM (guGkK)
SERPENTINE! DONT GIVE THE BITCH AN EASY SHOT!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)
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There was some truth to that. Another rule-of-thumb was "the guy who offers to buy the dynamite, *that's* the F.B.I. agent"
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 07:02 PM (6fjjH)
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 07:02 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 06:56 PM
Bride of PI frequently wipes flour on the backside of her dress while cooking.
Through a long set of experimental trials, I have determined that several gentle, but firm pats in that area are the most effective way to dislodge the flour.
[I am after all a giver.]
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 07:03 PM (HlyYF)
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Maybe he was on the payroll. These aren't sophisticated ops, but they are just complex enough to get the job done, particularly with a wholly captured leftist media.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 07:05 PM (6fjjH)
https://tinyurl.com/hntvupf7
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 07:01 PM (kX27y)
No audio becuz of new X rules, but she looks like Greg's dad in Dharma and Greg. No disrespect to Greg's Dad. he was the funniest guy on the show.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at August 27, 2026 07:05 PM (0aYVJ)
She makes me feel all funny.
Gal certainly is cashing in. More power to her.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)
If you guessed the man, you're right.
See, it's his fault he didn't know she was a subhuman, murder-excusing psychopath.
He should known that from the beginning.
And it's his fault for not finding out.
Not hers for being a subhuman, murder-excusing psychopath.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 07:05 PM (3cUTc)
https://tinyurl.com/hntvupf7
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 07:01 PM
When they wanted to cast a "bunny boiler" in Fatal Attraction, they decided to go with type casting to fill the role.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 07:06 PM (HlyYF)
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Maybe he was on the payroll. These aren't sophisticated ops, but they are just complex enough to get the job done, particularly with a wholly captured leftist media.
Posted by: Common Tater
The more accurate, modern equivalent to Hasan Piker would be someone like Nick Fuentes. I don't recall seeing him campaign with many mainstream Republican candidates though...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 27, 2026 07:07 PM (otzbu)
These people are just fucking evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 07:07 PM (zZu0s)
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Trump pulled an emissary to Israel out because he incorrectly referred to the Golan Heights.
They should pull him out of the race.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:07 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
That's what the authorities allege, but it was actually the husband, after being mind-controlled by time traveling French Foreign Legionnaires under orders of Bibi Netanyahu to frame Palestinians.
Posted by: Candace Owens at August 27, 2026 07:09 PM (otzbu)
It can be said in Kamala Harris's favor that all she was was a feather-headed dunce.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 07:09 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 07:09 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
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https://twitterwebviewer.com
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:10 PM (+UcOf)
But they don't care. Even AI Overview or other AI formats acknowledge The Left's Strategic Deplatforming and Mainstream Pressures:
The Democratic and Republican parties win elections using entirely different structural strategies, which dictates how they treat extreme voices.
The Left's Coalition Strategy: Democrats rely on a broad coalition of moderate swing voters, suburban voters, and diverse minorities. Extreme or highly polarizing figures are viewed by party leaders as liabilities that can alienate the moderate voters needed to win general elections. Therefore, the Left aggressively polices its own boundaries.
The Right's Base Mobilization Strategy: The modern Republican strategy relies heavily on maximizing the turnout of its deeply enthusiastic, populist base. Provocative media figures excel at firing up this base and driving voter turnout. Because these figures operate outside the formal party structure, Republican politicians rarely have the leverage—or the desire—to cast them aside.
That's the Left's story & it's sticking with it.
Posted by: Moderation is the game for mid-term elections at August 27, 2026 07:10 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:11 PM (MWfyi)
The identity game is going to make it extremely hard for the Dems to dump the DSA. My little ol' prediction is that they'll unite under Medicare For All, which just might appeal to over 50% of the country thanks to our current messy system.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Pretty much too late for national messaging now. Dems rely on early voting and absentee heavily and that will start in about two to three weeks. And it might scare the hell out of seniors that currently HAVE Medicare.
You might see such messaging in specific races but Dems are pretty much stuck with muh socialism, Orange Man Bad, and muh troons, illegals, and criminals. Not a particularly appealing package which is why they trotted out affordability in the Spring but I see little sign of traction on that message or a helluva lot of Dems are off message in their ads.
Posted by: Sean Nahnnity at August 27, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: wth at August 27, 2026 07:13 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 27, 2026 07:14 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:11 PM
Myth Busters did a segment on throwing humans over a border wall using a trebuchet.
That is Moron stuff on several levels.
Perhaps Trump should give it a try "pour encourager les autres"!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 27, 2026 07:15 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Ace Reporter Miklos at August 27, 2026 07:16 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Reforger at August 27, 2026 07:16 PM (xacZR)
The identity game is going to make it extremely hard for the Dems to dump the DSA. My little ol' prediction is that they'll unite under Medicare For All, which just might appeal to over 50% of the country thanks to our current messy system.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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They've got two months, voters are forgetful and love those campaign ads. It's up to the Pubbies to keep this in their frontal lobes the last half of October.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:17 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 07:09 PM (O0L8i)
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"Back off, bitchez!"
/Senator Fauxcahantas
Posted by: ShainS at August 27, 2026 07:19 PM (arzIt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 07:19 PM (FR9Sb)
A.I. is a fun source of "Did regulation X hurt fill-in-the-industry- Y?"
Seems the answer is always no.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 07:20 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: polynikes"
They all bend over for Stan.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:21 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 07:09 PM (O0L8i)
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"Back off, bitchez!"
/Senator Fauxcahantas
Posted by: ShainS
My shoes have EZ velcro
Posted by: Senator Mom in Sneakers (Ditz-WA) at August 27, 2026 07:21 PM (4RYRd)
The guy was a huge Bernie supporter.
Yeah not too bright.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 07:21 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 07:23 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 07:11 PM
It's possible, three of his enemies in the senate will be gone, mcconnel, coryn and cassidy and they will be replaced with real actual republicans.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 07:23 PM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Mister Scott
You forgot me
Typical
Posted by: Thom T-T-T-Tillis at August 27, 2026 07:25 PM (4RYRd)
Third day of school here and a mom pulled a gun on another mom in the drop off line. If women ran the world, y'all.
Posted by: nckate
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Which day of school was it when a guy did a drive-by on a dad walking his daughter to school in NYC? If men ran the world, y'all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 07:25 PM (mmrXZ)
Just accusations, you see. Right wingers pounced all over that what with their accusations and all. They might seize on that shortly, too.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 27, 2026 07:29 PM (oji8u)
Posted by: fd
I pray, but given that most of what the he continues to do well for the country isn't codified into law from his original Executive Orders, they'll come on like gangbusters that last year to firm up their 2028 platform. And after 20 solid years of maneuvering, it might be a doozy.
Posted by: Moderation is the game for mid-term elections at August 27, 2026 07:29 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional-Cortex at August 27, 2026 07:31 PM (oji8u)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 07:33 PM (+UcOf)
whitehouse.gov
https://tinyurl.com/2xa6dfh8
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 07:37 PM (Rln0i)
Where was he serving on 10/7/2023?
Posted by: Idiocracy was a documentary at August 27, 2026 08:06 PM (P5+26)
Posted by: malaking baboy at August 27, 2026 08:10 PM (BqxGs)
Looked it up. She's not only a panelist, she's one of the producers, and has been since the beginning.
I've heard of self-hating Jews, but this is the first time I've run across a self-hating Armenian.
Not to mention that this takes self-hate to a whole new level. I mean, you'd never see a Jew producing and appearing on a show called "Hitlerjugend".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:35 PM (IG3/x)
Yeah no way she doesn't know, enough people have told her since she was on there.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 08:23 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 27, 2026 07:07 PM (otzbu)
Fuentes isn't right wing. He's just cleverer than the college commies and terrorist simps.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 08:26 PM (uhVAy)
And then a comic made a joke about Puerto Rico that didn't land and Corporate Disinfotainment effectively linked Trump to that failed joke?
And then Senile Bribehim opened his idiot mouth and called Trump supporters garbage, and Trump's people hired a garbage truck, and everyone laughed and Trump won. Thanks Bribehim!
(I do wonder if he did it on purpose...)
Posted by: Philip Nolan at August 27, 2026 09:48 PM (1kQia)
Police Raid Home of Ilhan Omar's Son, Seizing Guns from His Roommate
America's Sweetheart strikes again.
Police raid home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son as guns and ammunition are seized"Most." But also, he's been convicted, not charged but convicted, of ten different offenses and he's only 22.
Police in Minneapolis reportedly raided the apartment of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son and seized firearms before arresting his roommate. Law enforcement sources told Alpha News that a search warrant was carried out at the home of Omar's son Adnan on Tuesday night. According to the outlet, they recovered guns and ammunition from the home and arrested his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22. Earlier that day, the city's police department said in a statement to the Daily Mail that they conducted a traffic stop and cited Abdi for no proof of insurance and no license. The department said that Abdi was released at the scene and the vehicle was in the process of being impounded when a firearm was found inside. Officers later tracked Abdi to an address on Marquette Ave where they said they arrested him 'without incident.' Abdi was later booked into Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge before being released on Wednesday night, records show. According to court records seen by the Daily Mail, Abdi has been convicted ten times in the past, most of the incidents have been misdemeanors.
Last year he was found to have been speeding and driving despite having his license revoked for a previous offense. In 2024 he was convicted of a felony after officers reported him traveling at 108 miles per hour in St. Paul. A statement of probable cause said he was behind the wheel of a Jeep Grand Cherokee and was speeding alongside a Dodge Durango. He pleaded guilty to fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle and was sentenced to one day inside Dakota County Jail.
One day for fleeing a cop in a motor vehicle? Taking a cop on a high speed chase that could easily result in a kid being run down?
I feel very Culturally Enriched. Having this person in my country somehow increases the GDP and gives me a more complete and cosmopolitan life. Ilhan Omar claims that everything is a Trump or Jewish plot to jam her up so I can't wait to see her fundraising over her son's close encounter with police.
Donald Trump's administration is facing questions over whether it is using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to "surveil political opponents" after after an investigative agent was apparently stationed outside Democratic representative Ilhan Omar's monthly town hall meeting in Richfield, Minnesota. After the incident, Omar demanded the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarify whether Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents have been used to monitor "any other activity" involving "local, state, or federal officials" in the state. In a letter to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), an arm of ICE, the congresswoman said an agent claiming to be conducting an undercover drug operation was parked outside the community center where she was holding an event last Thursday, without prior coordination with local law enforcement.She's making these claims because she knows that ICE is actually investigating her for her various immigration offenses. In case you missed this:
A federal agency's refusal to release records related to longstanding immigration fraud allegations involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is fueling new questions about whether federal enforcement proceedings could be underway. News organizations have sought records related to allegations surrounding Omar's 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Critics have long alleged the marriage was part of an immigration fraud scheme and have claimed Elmi was Omar's brother. Omar has denied those allegations, which have not been proven. According to the response discussed on The National News Desk, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to release requested records under the Freedom of Information Act, commonly known as FOIA, citing concerns that disclosure could interfere with "enforcement proceedings." Washington insider Armstrong Williams said the language deserves attention but cautioned against treating the exemption itself as proof of wrongdoing. Federal agencies can withhold certain law enforcement records under FOIA when releasing them could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. Such a response does not, by itself, establish that Omar is the subject of an investigation or that the underlying allegations are true. Asked whether the response could indicate an active federal investigation involving a sitting member of Congress, Williams said those associated with the matters under scrutiny should take the situation seriously, while stopping short of drawing a definitive conclusion. "I think Omar and anyone associated with her in these programs have cause for great concern," Williams said. "I'll leave it at that."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 05:17 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: The roller-headed lady next door at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: The person who always says that at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (2Ez/1)
You *should* be afraid.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (olMIp)
Posted by: The person who always thinks we're just entering into the middle at August 27, 2026 05:20 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 05:14 PM (HUco/)
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I feel seen.
Posted by: The Strangulator at August 27, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 05:20 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (olMIp)
Yeah, I'm...29+ and I need to up my arrest game from 0 to show the same initiative with the po-po as this aspiring MIT scholar.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 05:21 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 05:21 PM (amcLV)
I think the mosques in our country are loaded with weapons.
I bet there is no oversight when they are built.
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 05:21 PM (/QHx4)
Ever notice the people that think you shouldn't be allowed to have a car because it is dangerous and bad for the environment have no problem using theirs in a reckless manner?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: The person who always thinks we're just entering into the middle
I stoutly maintain that it is the beginning of the end.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Mrs. Borg at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (JM9I6)
Nice to see us getting back to "no one is above the law" amiright lefties?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Local media at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar
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She knows it's a multipass!
Posted by: Korben Dallas at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (amcLV)
Pretty much every crime story I see hit the wires nowadays indicates the perp had at least 1 conviction a year and yet there were still free to keep getting arrested.
Interestingly this indicates the cops are doing their jobs but the courts? The courts are intentionally inflicting criminals on us.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:24 PM (sKqQm)
Milla Jovovich or Yvonne Strahovski?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (Riz8t)
Now THAT’S a difficult one!
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar8)
Zeno says what?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:24 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 05:24 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (Riz8t)
Now THAT’S a difficult one!
In my truth, it is not.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:25 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ben Crump, Racist Warlord and Attorney at Law at August 27, 2026 05:25 PM (QRHoA)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (olMIp)
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He's eligible for a post-graduate degree on criminal enterprise from the state penitentiary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 05:25 PM (FZ29D)
Milla Jovovich or Yvonne Strahovski?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (Riz8t)
As to who will ruin Resident Evil live-action movies the quickest? That's easy and has already been answered, Paul WS Anderson's babbeh-maker, Milla.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 05:25 PM (Z5BUl)
The last Dem congress critter I remember even being investigated was Cold Cash Jefferson about 20 years ago.
Wasn't "Go Gatuh!" from Florida investigated for something or another?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 05:26 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:26 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Abdi Cation at August 27, 2026 05:26 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at August 27, 2026 05:26 PM (Wkrcf)
All I want for Christmas it for Omar to be deported.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 05:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Omar's Restaurant at August 27, 2026 05:26 PM (JM9I6)
Interestingly this indicates the cops are doing their jobs but the courts? The courts are intentionally inflicting criminals on us.
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Yes, and a lesser mentioned outcome of all of the GRIFTING that goes on with taxpayer provided funds (taxes) is that by the time they're done stealing it there's no money left over to build enough prison cells to put the criminals in. Thus, we see an endless catch-and-release cycle that includes the violent and dangerous.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:27 PM (TN0g+)
So, often the lament of the left is that "we get our news from different places!!" (So it should be managed by the government, i.e., lefties).
Posted by: Axeman at August 27, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Whoopsie Goldbrick at August 27, 2026 05:27 PM (7Q0e+)
Interestingly this indicates the cops are doing their jobs but the courts? The courts are intentionally inflicting criminals on us.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:24 PM (sKqQm)
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Yep. Of course this has a deleterious effect on policing, as the local cops will simply shrug their shoulders. "Why bother?"
Making policing pointless is the entire objective.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 05:27 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 05:27 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Cersei Lannister at August 27, 2026 05:28 PM (sKqQm)
When Vance was attached to the fraud investigations, it would not surprise me to find out that Omar got a big juicy target placed on the back of her dirac (that's the Somali version of a dress for you uneducated heathens...
)Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 05:28 PM (dIske)
Also, I turned on the tv to FoxNews. Wow, Jessica was upset. I looked and the topic was renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
She was livid. That's a great troll by President Trump.
I'd explain it this way. Lake Ontario was the lakes name when it identified as a weak, bitchy little girl. But now that the Lake identifies as a kick-ass strong man, it wants the name Lake America.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 05:29 PM (Sco7b)
Bro-Fro's got a lot on her mind, what with trying to prevent World War Twelve and all.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 05:29 PM (trSL4)
Son and nephew! May also be a cousin.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 05:29 PM (Cuw0G)
TBH a bullet or a stretch of rope isn't that pricey...
Didn't we used to have "3 strikes" rules?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:29 PM (sKqQm)
194 177 "I don't understand how creating/having one is a hardship? Can someone help me here?
Posted by: Crusader"
It's no hardship. Some people are leery of any intrusion on their privacy by big tech.
Posted by: The Simulation
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Some entity, recently, that I interact with sold my telephone information. Now receiving four plus calls a day saying my loan application is all but complete, just click here and we'll get this finalized.
It's out there but the more it's out there the higher the probability of something nefarious. My ID's been stolen before (from a medical facility) and it's no fun getting it all straightened out. It took five years with a professional organization's help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:30 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Adnan and the Adnoids at August 27, 2026 05:30 PM (qUkBO)
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Paul Dirac gave his name to an article of dress??
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 05:30 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Paul at August 27, 2026 05:30 PM (5wb+4)
Posted by: Omar's kids at August 27, 2026 05:31 PM (sKqQm)
TBH a bullet or a stretch of rope isn't that pricey...
Didn't we used to have "3 strikes" rules?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:29 PM (sKqQm)
Rope and guillotines - incredibly reusable. Oh, and tossing off cliffs.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:31 PM (Gqar8)
Rookie numbers.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:31 PM (ExV1e)
She was very involved with the Feeding Our Future scam.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 27, 2026 05:33 PM (xcxpd)
Milla Jovovich or Yvonne Strahovski?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (Riz8t)
Yes. The correct answer is yes.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 27, 2026 05:33 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:33 PM (+UcOf)
Rookie numbers.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:31 PM (ExV1e)
My wife had an eighth grade class she referred to as her pre-penitentiary class. Ten would be a small number.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar8)
Of course the extremely lesbian DA of Hennepin county, Moriarty will probably release him on time served.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 05:34 PM (TbVRb)
Rookie numbers.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:31 PM (ExV1e)
The problem is the police. This Abner guy would not have a criminal record except for the police.
Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2026 05:34 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 27, 2026 05:33 PM (xcxpd)
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Kinda like Barney Frank being unaware that his boyfriend was running a prostitution ring out of their apartment?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 05:34 PM (amcLV)
I am confused. If Ace doesn't cover it, we don't see it. Are there even other news sources besides the venerable HQ?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 05:35 PM (X6P5n)
But also, he's been convicted, not charged but convicted, of ten different offenses and he's only 22.
Mimes a phone receiver at his ear and mouths a silent "Call me!" to the Brofundian...
-- Gabriel Hostin
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 05:35 PM (trSL4)
Effective as of an hour ago, acc. to a USGS notice that Trump just posted.
They're the Great Lakes, after all. Some say the greatest!
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 05:35 PM (Cuw0G)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 05:35 PM (M+uMR)
Are all these Somalis named either "Abdi" or "Elmi?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Those who work in a grocery store are named Aldi.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 05:35 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 27, 2026 05:36 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: Tim Walz at August 27, 2026 05:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (Gqar8)
So, you're saying that members of Congress are above the law? Please to square this with your "No Kings" rhetoric.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (Riz8t)
I’ll shit my pants in happiness if the roommate has dirt on the almost assuredly filthy son and spins the beans as part of a plea deal.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (J1FkQ)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (Gqar8)
An Omar family reunion probably has more ankle monitors and Prison release permissions than any other.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (OkYzo)
Of course that's before the white supremacist British shut down their lucrative slave trade.
Damn those colonizers!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:38 PM (sKqQm)
Also, they need way fewer seats then you might expect.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:38 PM (sKqQm)
The name says it all. Ancestors clearly came over on the Mayflower
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 05:35 PM (M+uMR)
Abdulrahman Abdi…
Abdulrahman Abdi…
Oh, from the Hampton Abdis!!!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2026 05:39 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 27, 2026 05:39 PM (J1FkQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 05:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:40 PM (+UcOf)
Something's wrong with our machines. These results can't be right...
Posted by: The DNA Lab at August 27, 2026 05:40 PM (Cuw0G)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (Riz8t)
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Well, in my defense, the original motto was "No Kinks." And, that put a crinkle in my Saturday nights, so I just changed one little letter...and off we went.
Posted by: Tim Walz at August 27, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 27, 2026 05:39 PM (J1FkQ)
Congress took a left turn into a trailer park….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 05:41 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:41 PM (+UcOf)
As in if you lived somewhere for 5 years the landlord would apparently have to rent to you for a 6th year if you wanted it.
They people are insane.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 05:41 PM (sKqQm)
And another Squad Member whose son is arming Antifa.
Then there's Always On Camera icing her eggs and re-upping her membership in the DSA, like she's enlisting in war.
Hey, remember when the Fussy Republicans were fretting about Trump attacking them?
"Oh no! You can't do that--they're too popular!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 05:41 PM (3cUTc)
Spin the beans? You kids and your euphemisms.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:42 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (olMIp)
He appears to be successfully getting away with it, *even when convicted*.
Bring back "three strikes" laws, and for real. Put the DAs and judges in jail if they try to evade it.
Locks Not Flocks.
Lifers Not Cameras.
Prisons Not Panopticons.
Posted by: SciVo at August 27, 2026 05:42 PM (ke3zm)
And her fucking criminal enterprise called "family."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 05:42 PM (2Cry5)
The dead name must be immediately dispatched and correct pronouns used.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 05:43 PM (bX16E)
Ethiopian
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 05:43 PM (trSL4)
Very Candace like
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 05:43 PM (TbVRb)
An Omar family reunion probably has more ankle monitors and Prison release permissions than any other.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (OkYzo)
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Insert family tree = telephone pole joke here.
Lots of left over food at the reunion, and great confusion while doing the name tags.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 05:43 PM (dIske)
I think the mosques in our country are loaded with weapons.
I bet there is no oversight when they are built.
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I guarantee you they are.
And not a stash of a few hunting rifles and pistols.
Full auto, military grade, including grenades and a few with rocket launchers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 05:43 PM (3cUTc)
Put a chip in their brains that detonates if they come back.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 05:44 PM (W2Pud)
And her fucking criminal enterprise called "family."
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Not Enough
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:44 PM (+UcOf)
Spin the beans? You kids and your euphemisms.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:42 PM (Riz8t)
Taking lessons on Simm-isms from Chris Simms!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 05:44 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:37 PM (Gqar
You shot Marvin!
Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2026 05:44 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:44 PM (Gqar8)
I think the mosques in our country are loaded with weapons.
I bet there is no oversight when they are built.
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I guarantee you they are.
And not a stash of a few hunting rifles and pistols.
Full auto, military grade, including grenades and a few with rocket launchers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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It is their custom. Do not deprive them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:45 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 05:46 PM (M+uMR)
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100% of the "he got years in prison just for having a joint!" stories leave out the long, long string of arrests and convictions prior to that.
Every single one of them had at least one prior felony charge and conviction.
The probation on which they violated when the got caught with the weed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (3cUTc)
So her son isn’t implicated in any crime at all and this was just his roommate getting arrested? Jesus. The right is reaching too hard.
Don't every white politician have pictures of them and their kids holding guns, smiling? Is it a problem because it's a brown family that has guns?
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED (Unless the owner isn't white)
Is it her brother's son too? Waiting for the letter from 50 intelligence officers calling the evidence fake
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (otzbu)
The dead name must be immediately dispatched and correct pronouns used.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Is this a message to Canada or to China?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (Cqx++)
It's a British music hall song about a Russian and a mohmaden fighting to the death. Making fun of both of them.
The Cooper claims he had to learn the song in the Navy or something.
We used to be a real country
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (X6P5n)
Posted by: Latham and Jaffe at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (JM9I6)
It is their custom. Do not deprive them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:45 PM (+UcOf)
And the ululating women. Always with the ululating!
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (Gqar8)
I think the mosques in our country are loaded with weapons.
I bet there is no oversight when they are built.
Posted by: four seasons
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Every muzzie in our country is a weapon. That is why they are here.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 05:49 PM (X6P5n)
Son and nephew! May also be a cousin.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 05:29 PM (Cuw0G)
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For all we know he's his own grandpa!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 05:49 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 05:49 PM (bX16E)
And not a stash of a few hunting rifles and pistols.
Full auto, military grade, including grenades and a few with rocket launchers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
It'd be a shame if one of those grenades got loose and accidentally set everything else off.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 27, 2026 05:49 PM (vJrRc)
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If once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and 3 times is enemy action, just what is the tenth time?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 05:49 PM (3cUTc)
As in if you lived somewhere for 5 years the landlord would apparently have to rent to you for a 6th year if you wanted it.
They people are insane.
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Leftists never bothered to learn "the laws of unintended consequences". Such a garbage law would simply mean that no landlord would ever renew a lease beyond its 4th year.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:50 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Boys being boys.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 05:51 PM (YZ0Fo)
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Is like an infinite onion--no matter how many layers you peel, there's another layer of incest, fraud and criminality.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 05:51 PM (3cUTc)
And not a stash of a few hunting rifles and pistols.
Full auto, military grade, including grenades and a few with rocket launchers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
It'd be a shame if one of those grenades got loose and accidentally set everything else off.
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A nice dusting of sausage, bacon, and ham dumped all over the stairs, grounds, and parking lots might be interesting.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 05:53 PM (FZ29D)
"
Embrace the power of "and."
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 27, 2026 05:53 PM (GMWTj)
Wine moms love this narrative of Harvard valedictorians being deported, but it all seems like urban legend to me.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 05:53 PM (iZHgT)
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Wut?
Posted by: Hunter and Jim at August 27, 2026 05:54 PM (2Ez/1)
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Its "a lifestyle".
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:54 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 05:54 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:47 PM (Gqar
That's one of the main reasons Somalian pron videos aren't that popular,
I just checked DailyKos. No news on this story.
But we DO have agreement. They loved Dolly too.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b)
Wine moms love this narrative of Harvard valedictorians being deported, but it all seems like urban legend to me.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 05:53 PM (iZHgT)
Ilyan Hirsi Ali.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b)
As in if you lived somewhere for 5 years the landlord would apparently have to rent to you for a 6th year if you wanted it.
They people are insane.
Posted by: 18-1
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It's basically that way in CA.
If you decide to not renew a lease with a tenant, it's basically a blank check for a lawsuit if they have some record of making "reasonable" complaints.
So now landlords are coughing up settlements as an exit tax. pay some dirtbag $5k or spend $25k in legal fees and hope justice is served?
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 05:56 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b)
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Groovy. That's one.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 05:56 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: AOC at August 27, 2026 05:56 PM (otzbu)
If once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and 3 times is enemy action, just what is the tenth time?
The charm
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 05:57 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 05:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: So there's that at August 27, 2026 05:57 PM (2Ez/1)
Every single one of them had at least one prior felony charge and conviction.
The probation on which they violated when the got caught with the weed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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A lot of these were plea deals. We know you robbed these people, but please guilty to the weed we found on you and we'll drop the other stuff.
So then the stats are "black man services prison for some weed"
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 05:58 PM (iZHgT)
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Not nearly as good a movie as "Debbie Does Dallas" that most gays didn't like it, even Dr. Fauci only watched it twice.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 06:00 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 06:01 PM (/QHx4)
Shoe's on the other foot now bitch, how does it feel?
Except these are real laws being broken by a thug, not some bank lending fine print kangaroo court silliness.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 06:03 PM (jOAc7)
CBC - Lake America. Auto jobs at risk
CNN - Trump name on Kennedy center
MS Now - GOP freaked out about midterms. Trump is Satan
and polling horribly within their office.
FoxNews - Clancy
President Trump is brilliant at throwing so much crap in the air, the libs can't focus.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 06:06 PM (TbVRb)
Why are these people still occupying American real estate and breathing our air?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 06:06 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: So there's that at August 27, 2026 05:57
Explains the racism against him
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 06:06 PM (Ia/+0)
If once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and 3 times is enemy action, just what is the tenth time?
The charm
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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It's the one that comes before World War Eleven.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:07 PM (mmrXZ)
...
Its first plant's output is already sold under 10-year deals, while patents in 9 countries covering 85% of global coal give it no direct competition.
_epochTimes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 06:07 PM (+UcOf)
It’s called parody folks…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 06:07 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2026 06:09 PM (2ap+5)
Like the WNBA?
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:09 PM (MWfyi)
And what theologians did they have on to discuss this issue ?
Then how come to Satanists don't like him?,
P..S LOL
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 06:11 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 27, 2026 06:11 PM (llBIB)
That can cause sons to do crime to cry for attention.
I can't believe I'm saying this. Consider it mostly in jest.
Posted by: Harun at August 27, 2026 06:12 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Dark Lix at August 27, 2026 06:12 PM (Fv808)
>>they recovered guns and ammunition from the home and arrested his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22.
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I suppose cops had a reason to suspect this Abdi character had a bunch of guns he wasn't supposed to.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:13 PM (mmrXZ)
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I suppose cops had a reason to suspect this Abdi character had a bunch of guns he wasn't supposed to.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:13 PM (mmrXZ)
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Must not have had a canoe and a river nearby...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 06:14 PM (FZ29D)
The order prohibits certain foreign-made bulk-power system electric equipment, including software, that poses cybersecurity or operational risks, from being purchased or installed in the United States.
...
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
CISA reported last month more than 100 water and wastewater systems were attacked through programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used to control the physical machinery of the systems. Cyber attackers were able to turn off shutdown alarms and protocols using the PLCs, which could endanger workers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 06:14 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (olMIp)
Not necessarily. It could be that he's committed 500 crimes, right? That would give him a 98% success rate.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 06:15 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 06:16 PM (FR9Sb)
Speaking of which...
Three more Feeding Our Future defendants sentenced today, to pitiful terms. 3 years, 4.5 years, and 5 years 5 months.
I hope they get denaturalized and shipped out when they're done.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:16 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 06:14 PM (+UcOf)
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That is baaaad shyte.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:18 PM (mmrXZ)
I’ll shit my pants in happiness if the roommate has dirt on the almost assuredly filthy son and spins the beans as part of a plea deal.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Who needs a plea deal when you can commit 10 crimes including a felony before the age of 22 and still be living the good life?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Boys being boys.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Just some people who did something
Posted by: Ilhan Omar at August 27, 2026 06:23 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:24 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Cultural enrichment.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 06:24 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 06:25 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 06:13 PM (mmrXZ)
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He had one in his car, so it was a natural supposition.
I love how the Dems are so big on gun control for everyone but their felonious kids.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 27, 2026 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Johnny LaRue at August 27, 2026 06:29 PM (pc1Mz)
Posted by: SciVo at August 27, 2026 06:40 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Moderation is the game for mid-term elections at August 27, 2026 07:38 PM (NFX2v)
AGs from Iowa and Montana Petition Supreme Court to End California's Left-Wing Extortion of Skydance, as the Left Conspire to Force Them to Sell CNN and HBO So That the Left Can Keep Their Propganda Outlets
Google AI digest:
Paramount Skydance is considering a potential sale of CNN as part of an effort to resolve an antitrust lawsuit led by California and 11 other states against its proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.See, the left-wing AGs are suing to stop the Skydance (Paramount) purchase of Warner Discovery, because if they get their hands on a "news" cable channel, this would consolidate too much media power in the hands of an... apolitical media company, which is just slightly less left-wing than the left-wing demands. See, if CNN were in the hands of a slightly less liberal media company, that would result in a loss of "diversity" in "news." One single left-wing channel in a sea of left-wing channels would result in less "diversity" in "news," rather than more diversity in news, as it would appear to anyone who's not insane. So Skydance is offering to sell CNN. Why isn't California satisfied? Because no one would buy CNN. It's a money pit. It loses millions every year. What Skydance would like to to do is make CNN more centrist and less of a ratings-disaster basket-case so that they could sell it to someone, but California and the leftiest don't want that. They want CNN to stay the same left-wing Animal House it has been for 20 years, and they want another leftwing company to buy it. For what? What could Skydance charge for it, in its current form? A $10 nominal payment? So really the lefties don't want Skydance to sell it to NBC, Disney, or MSNOW. They want Skydance to give it away to them, as the extortion payment demanded to bless the purchase of Warner Discovery.
CNN Sale and Antitrust Battle The Proposal: Paramount's chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, stated that selling CNN is "on the table" to help appease antitrust regulators. The Lawsuit: A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, spearheaded by California's Rob Bonta, sued to block the massive media consolidation over concerns it would reduce competition in theatrical distribution and cable TV licensing.They had no such concerns when left-wing Netflix attempted to purchase Warner Discovery. And Netflix is now the biggest player in Hollywood, bigger than any individual studio. Except maybe the Disney behemoth -- who, by the way, these left-wing AGs did not seek to block when they purchased the second-biggest studio, Twentieth Century Fox. And before that, they'd also purchased Pixel, Marvel Studios, and LucasFilm -- again, with no concerns about a diminishment of "competition." I think that Skydance would be willing to give away the basket-case propaganda channel CNN, if that's the cost of the extortion. But I think the left-wing AGs have their eyes fixed on a bigger prize: HBO. Because the cable channel is an even bigger -- and definitely more profitable -- propaganda outlet than CNN. And Skydance will definitely not give away HBO. Most of the value of Warner Discovery is in its streaming and cable channels.
Yes, and they've set an October deadline for that. I think they will end up abandoning California -- and then the rush of all other media companies to leave California will be one. The first one to go will start an avalanche. But California socialists keep saying what they've been saying, insanely and wrongly, for ten years: No business or citizen will ever, ever leave California, no matter how onerous we make it or how much we punish anyone making an honest living in the state. Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. That is the background for this story; Iowa and Montana have petitioned the Supreme Court to declare that the supremacy clause should preclude California and the other communist states from blocking this purchase, because federal regulators have already cleared it as not a violation of anti-trust and not likely to cause a loss of competition. As has the EU, by the way.
Tensions with California: Tensions escalated after AG Bonta canceled a settlement meeting, accusing Paramount of breaching confidentiality and acting in bad faith, which Paramount denied. Relocation Threats: Paramount CEO David Ellison warned that if the state keeps stalling the merger, operations could potentially move out of California to states like Texas, Georgia, or Tennessee, drawing accusations of "blackmail" from state officials.
Iowa and Montana Ask Supreme Court to Block 'Politicized' Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Suit Filed by California and 11 Other StatesThis is the standing barrier, and I don't think they'll be able to overcome it. They have no particular direct interest in this case
In a long-shot move, two Republican attorneys general are hoping the Supreme Court will intervene to stop the antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 Democratic state AGs seeking to block Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Montana AG Austin Knudsen filed a motion with the Supreme Court seeking to have the antitrust suit thrown out, naming California and the 11 other states party to the Paramount lawsuit as defendants. The suit was filed with the court on Tuesday, Aug. 25, according to Bird's office. "Plaintiffs, the State of Iowa and State of Montana, respectfully move this Court for leave to file the attached Bill of Complaint to stop a politicized enforcement action that seeks to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger," the filing says. The development will test the Supreme Court's interpretation of its authority to settle inter-state disputes. The U.S. Supreme Court is the court of original jurisdiction for issues that arise among states for things like boundary disputes and water rights, and it's not clear the court will agree to hear the motion filed by Iowa and Montana regarding litigation that those states are not a party to.
Oh, Norm Eisen, the architect of ten years of unethical lawfare against Trump. I'm glad the media looks for a "diversity" of "experts" when writing their propganda. Can state AGs acquire standing to sue? I think they could: If Skydance/Paramount names the city it will move to. Either Austin or Nashville, most think would be the likely places. Then the states involved, Texas and Tennessee, would, I think, have standing to sue. But I think the best move is just to leave California entirely. Doing so would save Skydance $500 million per year in taxes, experts estimate. It's worth doing even without taking account of California's communist gangster extortion ploy.
Experts say the Iowa-Montana appeal is unlikely to go anywhere. "The Supreme Court is more likely to declare Donald Trump 'litigator of the year' than it is to block the states from enforcing their own antitrust rules," said Erik Gordon, professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He called the Iowa-Montana action "political grandstanding." "There's no valid legal basis to do this," said Norm Eisen, an attorney who has helped lead the #BlocktheMerger campaign opposing the Paramount-WBD merger. "This new filing by Iowa turns the entire American legal system on its head. That's why the Supreme Court is going to reject it."
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:14 PM (9U0Wy)
Posted by: Ted Turner at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (AjR4+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 04:17 PM (iZHgT)
no... and what would you sell it for? What price can you give to a ratings boat-anchor with no viewers that costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year?
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)
Nope. They have decided among themselves that conservatives just aren't allowed in the media.
Which is something to keep in mind. We can and should treat their speech with the same contempt.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 04:18 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:19 PM (Ia/+0)
I mean Bezos bought the Washington Post not to make money but to protect his real empire.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 04:19 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: JJ at August 27, 2026 04:20 PM (v0uLH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 04:20 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:20 PM (9U0Wy)
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Other than CA, what direct interest do the other Dem states' AGs have in this case?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 04:20 PM (FZ29D)
no... and what would you sell it for? What price can you give to a ratings boat-anchor with no viewers that costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year?
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)
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So, leftists AGs going nuts over the loss of CNN while tanking a major addition to their own economies just makes it all...hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:20 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:21 PM (4dS7p)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 27, 2026 04:21 PM (gYnrv)
no... and what would you sell it for? What price can you give to a ratings boat-anchor with no viewers that costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year?
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)
Elon Musk might buy it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 04:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 04:22 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 27, 2026 04:22 PM (8lUeo)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 27, 2026 04:21 PM (gYnrv)
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It was before because the Ellisons donated to Trump.
But, what makes it all even funnier is that Hollywood was in an uproar over Netflix buying WB because of actual monopolistic worries (Netflix is the biggest studio in Hollywood now, and it's not that close).
Paramount undermining the Netflix purchase of WB was kind of what they wanted.
And then they threw a fucking fit over the fix to the problem they were already complaining about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:22 PM (/PKja)
Do it for Dolly!
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:22 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:23 PM (9U0Wy)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 04:18 PM (1wjle)
I treat their existence with contempt.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 04:23 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 27, 2026 04:24 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 04:24 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:21 PM (4dS7p)
Oooh. Oh, yeah. Oh, I wanna see that happen.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 04:24 PM (ybv6C)
Posted by: Oldcat
I hope. The commies will go batshit insane.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:23 PM (9U0Wy)
It would also be more efficient. Most of network news is just collating X posts into article sized bits for the anchors to read.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
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$20, same as in town.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 04:25 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (/PKja)
*******
My Uncle lives in Canada and is in the hospital.
He was complaining that they don't have FOX available on the hospital televisions only CNN, the Trump hating, brainwashing network.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 27, 2026 04:25 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:25 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:20 PM (/PKja)
They really couldn't have gotten those shoes off fast enough to get a good clean shot.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 04:25 PM (ybv6C)
Do what the father of every commie hater of this country ought to have done in a timely manner -- pull out.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 04:26 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 27, 2026 04:26 PM (E2K/A)
A CNN that was not completely left-wing would be a nice get for our side.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 04:26 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 04:26 PM (ybv6C)
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:26 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)
no... and what would you sell it for? What price can you give to a ratings boat-anchor with no viewers that costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year?
I was told there would be no math.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (/PKja)
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In the wider population? No, it does not.
But in the smaller, internal leftwing microcosm of commies, AWFuLs, and political and race grifters? I bet CNN still has influence, even if it's more of a confirmation and NPC code generator.
Sort like the last remaining late-night TV. They have zero influence outside their narrow demographic. But within that demographic, they serve a valuable purpose to keep the seals clapping and ensure conformity of thought.
There's a reason so many late-night shows were kept on the air for so long despite losing 100s of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)
But in the smaller, internal leftwing microcosm of commies, AWFuLs, and political and race grifters? I bet CNN still has influence, even if it's more of a confirmation and NPC code generator.
Sort like the last remaining late-night TV. They have zero influence outside their narrow demographic. But within that demographic, they serve a valuable purpose to keep the seals clapping and ensure conformity of thought.
There's a reason so many late-night shows were kept on the air for so long despite losing 100s of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)
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Just being another voice in a closed ecosystem isn't much influence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:28 PM (/PKja)
CNN should be converted to showing only hand puppet shows and old Bob Ross episodes.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop!
Bob Keeshan and Bunny Rabbit!
Bob Keeshan snd Mister Moose!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 04:29 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Stu Podaso
Brilliant
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 04:29 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Jake Tapper will be asked to wear a Hobo suit, and Ms Amanpour will be asked to wear a Pierrot suit complete with whiteface.
"We are very excited for the next generation of Teletubbies" a spokesman for Byte dance has informed us, "Teletubbies, Ms Rachel, old episodes of Captain Kangaroo, and we are currently negotiating with the estate of Fred Rogers. So much more range is available in this new format, and even Pfizer is coming around to advertising to the new prospective age group. We are seeing positive responses from InBev and Draft Kings as well. This is such a fresh marketing area for these advertisers, and we plan to enable them as much as we can"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
Seen any good vaudeville shows lately?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2026 04:30 PM (TVOOe)
I prefer obloquy, mostly because I like saying obloquy. Wait, is that a tautology?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:30 PM (Riz8t)
What's CNNs audience July - August - 2026?
How many are not trapped in airports or incarcerated?
Here we go....
CNN Ratings Overview (July 2026)
According to Nielsen ratings data for July 2026, CNN's viewership averages were:
Primetime (Monday–Sunday): ~658,000 total viewers
Total Day Average: ~465,000 total viewers
25–54 Age Demo: ~102,000 in primetime and ~62,000 total day
Out-of-Home Viewing: Out-of-home viewing typically makes up a notable percentage of CNN's total day audience given its heavy presence on airport terminal screens, but Nielsen blends these numbers directly into the overall daily averages rather than reporting them as a standalone "trapped audience" metric.
Correctional Facilities: Nielsen measurement panels generally cover residential households and out-of-home locations (like hotels, bars, and airports); incarcerated individuals are not part of the standard Nielsen television panel, so "incarcerated viewers" are not reflected as a measurable metric in cable ratings.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 04:30 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 04:31 PM (trSL4)
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So, they won't care about CNN then. Well, you did say "major news channel." I think the fishing channel has more viewers. In Spanish.
Posted by: SNL killer bee from the '70s at August 27, 2026 04:32 PM (sFNX2)
Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
@EsotericCD
1h
Now I have to write about this bullshit, and I'm tired of writing about this bullshit.
Q
@Quirk22
1h
Explain how this ruins the Gordon Lightfoot song.
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:32 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:33 PM (Riz8t)
Bob Keeshan and Bunny Rabbit!
Bob Keeshan snd Mister Moose!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars
Miss Piggy and Kermit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 04:33 PM (ndZc7)
But in the smaller, internal leftwing microcosm of commies, AWFuLs, and political and race grifters? I bet CNN still has influence, even if it's more of a confirmation and NPC code generator.
Sort like the last remaining late-night TV. They have zero influence outside their narrow demographic. But within that demographic, they serve a valuable purpose to keep the seals clapping and ensure conformity of thought.
There's a reason so many late-night shows were kept on the air for so long despite losing 100s of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)
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Just being another voice in a closed ecosystem isn't much influence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:28 PM (/PKja)
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Not just another voice. The voice. The fact that all leftwing voices sound the same is in large part because of the influence of "news" sources like CNN.
The CNNs of the world tell the leftwing masses how to think. They decide which stories to run, which to bury, who to elevate to "expert" status, etc.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 04:33 PM (iFTx/)
[Verse 6]
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:34 PM (odBC9)
Constitutional News Network.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 04:34 PM (MWfyi)
The CNNs of the world tell the leftwing masses how to think. They decide which stories to run, which to bury, who to elevate to "expert" status, etc.
But if a network runs leftist programming and nobody watches, can it really be said to be influential?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)
It's like the Newsweek of cable news, isn't it?
Last biological female left standing at the dive bar at closing time......?
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 04:35 PM (Sco7b)
Look up Dolly singing with Kermit on The Muppet Show.
It’s so great.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 04:35 PM (W2Pud)
>>Relocation Threats: Paramount CEO David Ellison warned that if the state keeps stalling the merger, operations could potentially move out of California to states like Texas, Georgia, or Tennessee, drawing accusations of "blackmail" from state officials.
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Actually, that's extortion, not blackmail.
To which I say: Go extortionists!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)
Don't even just make it a Territory. Just declare it a weapons test range for the military and flatten everything.
Fucking done with that nest of vileness.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 04:36 PM (OUMaO)
Without the "people waiting for a prostate exam or shot of some kind" group, CNN is only influencing potted plants.
But for such a small audience, it sure takes up a big chunk of the news ever gd day.
Between "CNN C^nt Says ___" and "OMG WHAT DID BILL MAHER SAY", there are entire sections of the internets *ahem* twitchyredstatetownhall that I just don't bother with anymore.
At least here I get the cruelty I crave.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 04:36 PM (+mbpJ)
The CNNs of the world tell the leftwing masses how to think. They decide which stories to run, which to bury, who to elevate to "expert" status, etc.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 04:33 PM (iFTx/)
Would Agencia EFE, or France 24, or even a regional conglomerate like Colombia's Caracol network be allowed to buy CNN?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:37 PM (rbvCR)
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They're poaching Whoopi from The View?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 04:37 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Oldcat
It would then become the Chad News Network.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:33 PM (Riz8t)
XNN.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2026 04:37 PM (mP0Kj)
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Ohio would be a better fit.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 04:38 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 04:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 04:38 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 04:38 PM (RIvkX)
Is it full of blue moss, and does it smell like breakfast?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 27, 2026 04:39 PM (w3Mok)
"Tropical Storm Dolly has erupted in the Atlantic Ocean, and early forecasts warn that the cyclone could be headed directly towards the US East Coast."
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 04:40 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 04:40 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 04:40 PM (MWfyi)
Don't even just make it a Territory. Just declare it a weapons test range for the military and flatten everything.
Fucking done with that nest of vileness.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum
Can some of us get out first? A few of us are nice-ish.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:40 PM (4dS7p)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 04:41 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 27, 2026 04:39 PM (w3Mok)
I was just listening to Steve Hilton on Joe Rogan. Not very political but then again Joe wasn't talking about Chimp hybrids and remote viewing, so it was pretty mainstream.
California has the highest unemployment rate of all the US states.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:41 PM (rbvCR)
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Newsweek sold for $1 some years ago but, what with inflation, CNN may go for a buck fitty these days.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 04:41 PM (ndZc7)
"Tropical Storm Dolly has erupted in the Atlantic Ocean, and early forecasts warn that the cyclone could be headed directly towards the US East Coast."
AKSHUALLY, it's only a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific. Typhoons are in the Northwest Pacific, and hurricanes are in the Atlantic.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)
The future of news is not TV, it's here, online. It's the Nick Shirley's of the world who do their own reporting and post it on social media. That's why the left wanted to keep X out of Musk's control. He's letting all of us speak.
Can't stop the signal, Mal.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Archimedes"
Forget it, Archi. It's the Daily Mail.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 04:42 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:44 PM (4dS7p)
I created an X account today, because XCancel may or may not be back. It was painless, but you have to give them a wee bit of personal info.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)
You...are an evil genius.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 04:46 PM (dIske)
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 04:46 PM (+mbpJ)
@EricLDaugh
The taxpayer-funded Canada Broadcasting Corporation has officially directed staff to NOT call 9/11 a terrorist attack
They want personnel to call it a "hijacking": "Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks."
"Crashes" is also an acceptable way to phrase it, per internal memo obtained by NYP
NOT HOW AN ALLY ACTS!
They want to wipe clean Islamic terror against America!
Posted by: redridinghood at August 27, 2026 04:46 PM (NpAcC)
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Newsweek sold for $1 some years ago but, what with inflation, CNN may go for a buck fitty these days.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 04:41 PM (ndZc7)
Besides, Morning Joe is the *top rated morning cable news-show!
*in Washington D.C.
That always breaks me up.
The influential New York Times by the way...
The New York Times
Total Subscribers: ~13.35 million to 13.4 million across digital and print.
And for fun...
The Economist
Total Circulation / Subscribers: ~1.15 million to 1.2 million total global circulation.
It's like a celebrity edition of game shows where most people hear the names and wonder who the hell they are.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)
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Can you fake it by making up a name like Charlie Brown's Dildo? I know, not every site is a beacon of liberty like AOS
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 04:48 PM (sFNX2)
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The US is never going to leave CA as long as China exists.
CA and all the West Coast will devolve into states similar to what Mexico was before the cartels with increasing military presence.
There will be protected zones around the increasing number of military bases. Also military protected zones around National properties (all federal land including parks) and tourist areas such as Casinos and Zona Rojas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 04:48 PM (+UcOf)
It's like a celebrity edition of game shows where most people hear the names and wonder who the hell they are.
CNN is the Rula Lenska of networks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:48 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip
With your money.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 04:48 PM (ndZc7)
Can't stop the signal, Mal.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)
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Case in point - did you see the NYT gal reporter try and gotcha Nick Shirley in Sacramento yesterday as he was there to attend a protest of the new law named after him? Priceless.
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 04:49 PM (kX27y)
I rarely post anything. I do heckle tards.
But mostly I just use it to gather information.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:49 PM (viF8m)
I didn't try, so I can't say.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Kramer at August 27, 2026 04:49 PM (QRHoA)
Seriously.
Forget about Minnesota and the Insurrection Act folly. Apply it directly and with prejudice against California.
Today. And follow through with it. A body count would be preferable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 04:50 PM (2Cry5)
I would consider it - for read-only purposes - but I can't find a way to do it without using my phone and I refuse.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 04:50 PM (ExV1e)
https://twitterwebviewer.com
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:50 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:48 PM (Riz8t)
I know! She was the voice of Lintilla, Lintilla, and Lintilla in The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy radio program
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:50 PM (rbvCR)
Elon could use a decent tax write-off. I'm just sayin'.
If you think he hasn't at least considered the idea, then you haven't got a clue. At the very least, just having him float the idea in public would be another high-larious Galactic Overlord-level troll.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 04:50 PM (y9nCu)
I use it on my laptop without problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 04:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 04:52 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Archimedes
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You know what Elon can do with a wee bit of personal info?
Mindful came up with a solution last night.
https://twitterwebviewer.com/
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 04:52 PM (+UcOf)
Ben Dreyfuss
@bendreyfuss
2d
Tonight at dinner I said “can I get the chicken cacciatore?” And the waitress paused and then said flatly “yes you can” and I thought “this woman is a psychopath who should be investigated by the FBI because she is responding literally to a common American filler phrase”
Ben Dreyfuss
@bendreyfuss
2d
Maybe in Russia or wherever you’re really from they treat “can I get __” as a literal question but in America we understand that of course I can, it’s on the menu, we are merely saying “I will order ___”
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:52 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 04:52 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:21 PM (4dS7p)
hmmmmmmm
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 04:53 PM (g47mK)
She's a perfect example of why traditional media is dying. 1, she didn't know what she was talking about and 2, her bias was so obvious and over the top it made anything she said suspect.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SciVo at August 27, 2026 04:53 PM (ke3zm)
Can you fake it by making up a name like Charlie Brown's Dildo?
Are you saying that Charlie Brown's Dildo ISN'T his real name??????
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 04:53 PM (y9nCu)
I created an X account today, because XCancel may or may not be back. It was painless, but you have to give them a wee bit of personal info.
Posted by: Archimedes
How personal do they get?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 04:53 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kramer
______
A lot of the stars from CNN, they were not as hygienic as they appeared on TV. Take Anna Navarro, for example.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 04:54 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archimedes
How personal do they get?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,
You might hear the snapping of a latex glove.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:55 PM (9U0Wy)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 27, 2026 04:55 PM (n5tGW)
https://tinyurl.com/594k4ftj
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 04:56 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 04:56 PM (M+uMR)
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Jon Stewart tells Michelle Obama that when he left New York City and went to Jersey, he saw a strange sight:
A "Hillary for Prison" bumper sticker.
"I was, like, oh ok."
These kinds of tales where bubbled libs boldly venture into the American wilds and actually encounter people with opposing views kill me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 04:56 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 04:57 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 27, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 04:57 PM (zZu0s)
Really?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 04:57 PM (+UcOf)
Haaaaaa haaa haaaa
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 04:57 PM (Q+gd/)
Musk bought twitter because:
- He was drunk.
- Someone said he didn't have the balls to do it.
- He was able to afford it with the spare change in his sofa cushions.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (qx7Zg)
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That's only 67 Yuan!
Posted by: ShainS at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (arzIt)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (/QHx4)
The one where she said that she killed the kids but but was sad so it didn't count?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Archimedes
How personal do they get?
Name, email, and three areas of interest. They ask for some other stuff, but that's optional.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: four seasons
_________
What is the defense even arguing? I haven't been following this too closely.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (XvL8K)
I wouldn't bet against him.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 04:52 PM (FR9Sb)
Like it was said above, CNN's main purpose is to designate what news is acceptable, but it is also a way of conferring permission to the idiots watching it to hate specific things or people.
Jan6? Hate. Trump? Hate. Iran war? Hate. Anti-tranny? Hate. ICE? Hate.
Stupid people need permission to hate and make fun of things, their bitterness and unfocused anger is perfect for that when carefully directed against some "enemy of society", and they are dumb enough to directed by third parties to hate and denigrate things that will never really affect them. Unfortunately this sort of coordinated hate will destroy what used to be called civil society, and create uncontrolled tribalism.
CNN is perfect for this task, and will not be handed off to any opposing group.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (Gqar8)
Swear to God China already runs the place. It's their toehold into everything, seems like.
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Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 05:02 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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With an initial entry requisite.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:02 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:02 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Yeah...the Chinese Communist Party.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 05:04 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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With an initial entry requisite.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:02 PM (+UcOf
Taxes are what you pay so that others dont have to pay.
Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2026 05:04 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)
It was the lady who was on so many psych meds that every time she asked for psychiatric help the doctors just heard the pills rattling.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 05:04 PM (enNUy)
The scale of destruction from the fire is incredible when you see it in person. And everything is so dry it's seems inevitable it will happen again.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 05:05 PM (viF8m)
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Nooooooo!
Saint Dolly pray for us that the Lord avert this plague!
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 05:05 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 05:06 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
The mob felt the same way about the privilege shopkeepers had for living and working on their turf.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:06 PM (rbvCR)
The scale of destruction from the fire is incredible when you see it in person. And everything is so dry it's seems inevitable it will happen again.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 05:05 PM (viF8m)
Well it’s one more day up in the Canyon
One more night in Hollywood
See any Stars?
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:06 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 05:07 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:04 PM (rbvCR)
I won't argue that a bunch of doctors shouldn't see the inside of a prison also and, I confess, that I haven't paid nearly close enough attention to form an opinion on her 'insanity' but I'm not a fan of "oh, you were a bit crazy in that moment so spend a week in the hospital and all is forgiven" form of jurisprudence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
Really?
Posted by: Anna Puma "
I saw that a little while ago. They couldn't change the name? Sheesh.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 05:08 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)
It has to be part of some settlement.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)
Really?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 05:07 PM (HUco/)
Yup. What's weird is the list of storm names is decided several years in advance. Quite a coincidence.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 27, 2026 05:08 PM (ZgwKJ)
Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at August 27, 2026 05:09 PM (0sNs1)
Lulz. :eyeroll:
My response: They just renamed the Illinois Governor's Mansion as Jabba's Palace!!!
They'll love that one.
Posted by: Lucky Day at August 27, 2026 05:09 PM (Cjger)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:04 PM (rbvCR)
I won't argue that a bunch of doctors shouldn't see the inside of a prison also and, I confess, that I haven't paid nearly close enough attention to form an opinion on her 'insanity' but I'm not a fan of "oh, you were a bit crazy in that moment so spend a week in the hospital and all is forgiven" form of jurisprudence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
Prosecutors finally got smart and added lesser included charges. I think they acquit on murder 1...I don't know where they will go after that. I could see a compromise on manslaughter...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 05:09 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: hobbitopoly "
Yeah, sure.
Posted by: The Simulation at August 27, 2026 05:09 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 05:10 PM (viF8m)
Really?
Posted by: Anna Puma "
I saw that a little while ago. They couldn't change the name? Sheesh.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2026 05:08 PM (MWfyi)
Tropical Storm AOC - it's gonna do a lot of damage but it isn't smart enough to understand why.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:10 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 05:10 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (XvL8K)
It was astrologically impossible for her to have done that. She's a Gemini, and a Gemini wouldn't do that.
Posted by: Pro Bono means Not Guilty or your money back! at August 27, 2026 05:10 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:11 PM (TN0g+)
They should receive a big "NO STANDING" because other than whining, I don't see how they have a standing in what Paramount does.
Posted by: Axeman at August 27, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)
What does that even mean. I'm rather tired and my synapses are not firing properly this afternoon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:11 PM (xSAlF)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 05:11 PM (YZ0Fo)
Haaaaaa haaa haaaa
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:59 PM (Ia/+0)
His reluctance was an op. He knew if he was pushing to buy it they would fight it. So he said he wanted to not buy it and they snatched for the money.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 05:12 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM (XvL8K)
It was astrologically impossible for her to have done that. She's a Gemini, and a Gemini wouldn't do that.
Posted by: Pro Bono means Not Guilty or your money back! at August 27, 2026 05:10 PM (r7+Q7)
She was nuts...there's no doubt on that for months...and on way too many prescribed psych meds...the question was she too nuts to know or not...
No 12 people are gonna find the premeditated mental intent for murder 1, I don't think...they might agree to manslaughter...maybe...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 05:12 PM (tOcjL)
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I know its the "legal" system and not the "truth" system, but it was *clearly* premeditated murder and it annoys me to no end that the system may just do the equivalent of ignoring that all together in the favor of...something.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:13 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:11 PM (TN0g+)
Very easy. I got one, promptly put the app in my hidden folder and ignore it. But I can view X stuff in its’ full effects.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar8)
She's a perfect example of why traditional media is dying. 1, she didn't know what she was talking about and 2, her bias was so obvious and over the top it made anything she said suspect.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 04:53 PM (viF8m)
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Yes, and found the clip. Love him in his shades and sweatshirt with the dinosaur NYT lady:
https://tinyurl.com/mswcehny
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 05:14 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 05:14 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: four seasons at August 27, 2026 05:14 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Crusader"
It's no hardship. Some people are leery of any intrusion on their privacy by big tech.
Posted by: The Simulation at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (MWfyi)
No 12 people are gonna find the premeditated mental intent for murder 1, I don't think...they might agree to manslaughter...maybe...
Posted by: Nova Local
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I could see that working. A mother would almost have to be insane to do what she did.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (enNUy)
No 12 people are gonna find the premeditated mental intent for murder 1, I don't think...they might agree to manslaughter...maybe...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Didn't she, first, send the older one into another room so that she couldn't interfere with her killing of the younger one's?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 05:14 PM (HUco/)
They dropped those charges pre-trial...error by prosecution on that...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (tOcjL)
What does that even mean.
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Left is trying to get a thing going that Trump is having an affair with staffer named Natalie. Big nothingburger, but it's the left, so hey why not.
Georgia senator Jackoff (guy who looks like an uglier Pee-Wee Herman) started this crap a couple of weeks ago. Jerkoff thinks this will make him president in '28
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM (Gqar8)
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The real crazy part is all the AWFL groupies dressing alike and cheering her on.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 05:17 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 05:15 PM
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"Almost?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 27, 2026 05:17 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 05:17 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
This is however what is handed to us out of a demand for not having involuntary commitments out of fear that they will be used for political ends. She will either be considered a mental case that needs commitment, and put in an institution until she can be both considered no longer a threat and the victims and relations do not contest the release by the psychiatric parole board, or she can be put into jail to be released when the parole board sees fit.
Amazingly the side effects to a lot of heavy psych meds given to people who are otherwise allowed to walk around free are things like "may cause suicidal ideation" and "anxiety" as well as pissing blood and drooling.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (rbvCR)
What does that even mean. I'm rather tired and my synapses are not firing properly this afternoon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 05:11 PM (xSAlF
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Recently, Senator Ossoff tried to gin up a rumor that Trump was having an affair with Natalie Harp, an aide to the President. This came out of the "TRUMP WANTED THE PRESS TO DIE!!!!" fake scandal.
Even though Ossoff was roundly rebuked for this, and he kind of walked it back, apparently other Dem stooges think it's a thing.
Posted by: Lucky Day at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (Cjger)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 05:12 PM (tOcjL)
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There is something nuts about taking an innocent's life.
You don't think Mangione has in some sense a "problem telling right from wrong"?
Evil is insane. And only if you admit that you can't process society's rules should you get an insanity out.
Posted by: Axeman at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)
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It must be really, really hard for an even-keeled atheist to deny the existence of evil when he sees literally hundreds of otherwise "normal" looking women lining up to cheer on and support a mother who killed her own kids.
Posted by: Crusader at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: A Man in Plaid at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (7Q0e+)
she first took the youngest into the basement and strangled him
then she took the little girl down and killed her there as well
the other boy realized what was happening and tried to hide in his dad's office thinking he'd be safe
nope
she's a monster. she is Gone Girl. she planned and executed her plan
she needs the death penalty
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 27, 2026 05:19 PM (j+aD2)
welp this is incorrect
she GOT loads of scrips by doc hopping
but she didn't take them, except the Seroquel before she dropped herself (carefully!) from the windowsill
it was all to set up her insanity plea
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 27, 2026 05:20 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Crusader"
It's no hardship. Some people are leery of any intrusion on their privacy by big tech.
Posted by: The Simulation
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Some entity, recently, that I interact with sold my telephone information. Now receiving four plus calls a day saying my loan application is all but complete, just click here and we'll get this finalized.
It's out there but the more it's out there the higher the probability of something nefarious. My ID's been stolen before (from a medical facility) and it's no fun getting it all straightened out. It took five years with a professional organization's help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 05:22 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 05:01 PM
The defense claimed that "she was a good mother" in their closing statement. That is literally no $hit they played the audio this afternoon on AM dallas talk radio. I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish with that statement.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 05:23 PM (cpFbA)
Isn't that the gist of the suit? That California is seeking national political advantage by filing a phony antitrust suit when their real purpose is political.
So that's where the harms are, and the states that CA is seeking political advantage over are the harmed parties. Thus it doesn't seem to me that standing would obviously be lacking.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at August 27, 2026 07:17 PM (aoNZT)
National Cherry Turnover Day. 🍒
Posted by: redridinghood at August 28, 2026 09:04 AM (NpAcC)
Communist Candada's National Broadcaster CBC: Do Not Call the 9/11 Attack "Terrorism"
I am just about ready to begin treating Canada as an enemy state.
Basem Boshra? Amish name, eh?
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation instructed its staff not to refer to the killings on 9/11 as "terrorist attacks" ahead of its coverage of the 25th anniversary, according to an internal memo. The public broadcaster reaffirmed that it would avoid using words like "terrorist" and "terrorism" when describing events, directing its staffers to follow the longstanding company policy that previously landed them in hot water during their Oct. 7, 2023, coverage. "Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks," the memo read. "The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed."
The memo was signed, "BB," which the Toronto Sun, which first published the letter, identified as Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public Trust at CBC News.
Strange that the CBC has no problems using judgmental language in "reporting on" the January 6th "attack."
CBC defended the memo as a reminder to its journalists to adhere to the decades-old practice, claiming that using charged phrases like "terrorist attacks" would diminish their ability to remain impartial.
"Our focus is to report the facts of such atrocities with accuracy, clarity and detail; to convey the scale and scope of violent acts wherever they occur; to quote the people affected, and to convey the views of officials and experts on these events. We bear witness," Kerry Kelly, a public affairs spokesperson for CBC, told The Post. "But CBC News does not itself designate specific groups as terrorists, or specific acts as terrorism, regardless of the region or the events, because these words are so loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that they can end up being impediments to our journalism."They will only call it "terror" when the word is used in an official statement, and then they put it in quotes to show that it's someone else's language. The example they give is Osama bin Ladin calling it "blessed terror." Even when the mastermind of the atrocity admits it's "terror," the CBC says no, our "experts" say maybe it's not.
Rachel Thomas, a Conservative MP, slammed the leaked memo as shameful, accusing the policy of downplaying the terror attacks. "Refusing to call it an act of terrorism dishonours the victims, their families, the survivors, and the first responders who witnessed the horrors of that day," she wrote on X.
"Trying to sanitize or rewrite that history is deeply offensive and does a disservice to everyone who was affected by the attacks."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (2Ez/1)
The wind is blowing straight into your face.
You never ever close your eyes
For any trouble that may cross your way.
There's no risk that you're not taking,
Not a mountain that's too high.
Spread your wings, you're gonna make it
To the best time of your life ...
TO FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (kmiHN)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (+gK6I)
Those who seek to hide evil are evil themselves.
Those who downplay evil are evil themselves.
This is of a type with Holocaust denial.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (kmiHN)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:59 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 27, 2026 02:59 PM (GMWTj)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)
I will say, I think Trump going down this 51st state nonsense was asinine and why Carney was put in charge by canadians.
But at this point, I'm cool with Trump destroying that economy of theirs.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:00 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:00 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:00 PM (/PKja)
I will say, I think Trump going down this 51st state nonsense was asinine and why Carney was put in charge by canadians.
But at this point, I'm cool with Trump destroying that economy of theirs.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:00 PM (iZHgT)
And if Trump played nice, they'd have chosen a conservative?
Pull the other one.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 03:01 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 27, 2026 03:01 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 03:01 PM (xSAlF)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)
The wind is blowing straight into your face.
You never ever close your eyes
For any trouble that may cross your way.
There's no risk that you're not taking,
Not a mountain that's too high.
Spread your wings, you're gonna make it
To the best time of your life ...
This came across my playlist not 15 minutes ago.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:02 PM (ccf/V)
On the trade war front, Canadians are militant about no American booze on the shelves. And apparently the United States buys half of what we produce.
So that's going well.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:02 PM (Sco7b)
Pull the other one.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 03:01 PM (N1DT3)
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The majority of the Canadian electorate seems to have become little more than an anti-American cult.
They will vote themselves to become as poor as Uzbekistan in order to get Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:02 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (ccf/V)
And if Trump played nice, they'd have chosen a conservative?
Pull the other one.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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yes,
the conservative candidate was leading by 20 points before trump started talking about making Canada part of the US.
Unfortuantely, Carney vs Trump is very effective politics in Canadaistan.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (r7+Q7)
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Michael Moore! at August 27, 2026 03:04 PM (aD4fx)
It was an act of war.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 03:04 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:04 PM (ccf/V)
yes,
the conservative candidate was leading by 20 points before trump started talking about making Canada part of the US.
Unfortuantely, Carney vs Trump is very effective politics in Canadaistan.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (iZHgT)
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"Fuck the good of our nation. Trump said something uncouth."
Fine. Stupid country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:04 PM (/PKja)
*spit*
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 03:03 PM (aJQbY)
The Dukes of Hazbukistan.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:05 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 03:05 PM (/OKHJ)
This is enemy action. Plain and fucking simple. And they're on our border.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 27, 2026 03:05 PM (No6pV)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:05 PM (+j84F)
9/11 should not be called "terrorism."
9/11 should be called "ISLAMIC MUSLIM TERRORISM!"
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 27, 2026 03:05 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (ccf/V)
Fine. Stupid country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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no argument it's stupid, but yes.
I would say most of the world is rooting against Iran vs USA. Because Trump.
It's messed up, but I cant deny it's reality
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 18-1
I think $1 million per non-Muslim who was a US citizen at the time is the minimum...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (aJQbY)
What a wonderful phrase
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Tython at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (V362x)
Most of the "journalism" from the WoT era was paid for by the Saudis to get rid of Shrub and weaken the impact of America in Iraq...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: There's even a song about it at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (2Ez/1)
It is called Canada.
hah. Pithy.
Posted by: ace
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Reddit is crawling all over with nasty, anti-USA canadians.
Their entire economy is selling to USA consumers. Good luck with a trade war.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (iZHgT)
IOW Canada exists in a comfortable, YUGE fantasy bubble that Trump is now determined to burst.
Forecast: Must-watch wailing and whining and pain in Snow Mexico.
Posted by: Voter theater. at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (FCPbW)
It's messed up, but I cant deny it's reality
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (iZHgT)
No it's because they love jihad and despise civilization. Would be the same if it was Vance or anyone else who might actually do it.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (2UnvF)
Until the economic consequences start kicking in.
Canada and the United States used to have roughly equivalent incomes, adjusted for purchasing power.
Then they elected Trudeau.
Posted by: Michael Moore! at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (jBtak)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)
Not to mention they're being overrun by Indians. Dot fucking Indians.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (No6pV)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (6ydKt)
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What is it that you say that you DO here?
Seriously, when you have to hire someone to secure "public trust" it's because you've had an "incident" (or many incidents). I food manufacturer will hire someone to gain back trust from the public following a food poisoning outbreak. A construction conglomerate will do so in follow up to a highly public structural failure. This guy works for a state financed media outlet as a PR hack because their bias and political agenda is so egregiously obvious, they've lost massive viewership.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ann at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (SHHm+)
And I kid you not the very first post was: "My first two husbands weren't like that fortunately but my third was, he was a real beast"
Now no one's perfect but maybe, just maybe, if you've been divorced three times you shouldn't give relationship advice?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2026 03:07 PM (2UnvF)
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Canada and the US were on similar economic growth trajectories until 2015.
2015 was the year Canada opened its borders to the third world.
The disparity is, now, quite large.
https://x.com/AndrewCFollett/status/
2092959135629218120
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ...
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It's a USA thing, even if it were a Democrat President.
They're jealous of us.
So they pretend an Iran or China is a better partner than USA
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (iZHgT)
Also the FNM: Trump should be impeached for being too much of an isolationist
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
9/11 should not be called "terrorism."
9/11 should be called "ISLAMIC MUSLIM TERRORISM!"
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 27, 2026 03:05 PM (xvV+O)
The musselmen horde has always embraced terrorism.
Because their barbaric warlord "prophet" made his evil proclivities "holy" in their demonic religion.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 03:10 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 03:10 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 03:10 PM (jBtak)
Canada and the United States used to have roughly equivalent incomes, adjusted for purchasing power.
Then they elected Trudeau.
Posted by: Michael Moore! at August 27, 2026 03:08 PM (aD4fx)
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The economic impact has been impacting for a decade, as you yourself allude.
Their political choices have been destroying their nation for years, and they're just going to get more and more recalcitrant despite it.
Because they're driving out their young and their productive while leaving only the insane progressives. It's the Curley Effect applied to a nation as a whole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Mike Tython at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (ccf/V)
The Mohawk (Kanienʼkéha if you are a pretentious Redditor) seem to have named only the shoreline Cataroqui, "where we scoop up clay". The other peoples' parts of the lake, they didn't care about.
If this sounds like I care more about a muddy lake than about the Canadian government, that's because I do.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:11 PM (ccf/V)
I don't know about anyone else but this one of the biggest reasons I supported Trump. We've been getting shat on for decades by countries around the world and nobody has done squat about it until Trump.
If he makes Canadians sad that's even better. Fuck 'em and their hideous bathing suits.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)
We should be able to fit 2 billion into Canada. The Call Center of the World!
Posted by: It's a Dot of Shit, by the way at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (6eubQ)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (jBtak)
Canada and the US were on similar economic growth trajectories until 2015.
2015 was the year Canada opened its borders to the third world.
The disparity is, now, quite large.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (/PKja)
They re-elected the Liberals & Trudeau and everything started sliding downhill at that exact point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)
So perhaps this will help the US diversify. It can't hurt to have multiple suppliers And I'll manage to hold back tears as the commie union jobs go away.
Well, in reality, those well paying jobs will just be going to poor people who need them more.
Oh, separately, I do my friends yard across the street since I'm already hot, sweaty and dirty and they have a large family. One thing off their plates. Obviously, I would never take money from a young family in Canada but they do repay me with food, increasing my hobo score.
Today - 5 breakfast burritos and Japanese tea was just delivered.
Back to work soon. I'm planning the Canadian seizure of Detroit. By the time the Canadian tanks and air force are done, Detroit will look like a third world shit-hole war zone.
Moreso.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (Sco7b)
Next up, a company of Mounties, dressed in chainmail with their finest long bows, will invade Manhattan.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (WGGwz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (6ydKt)
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It was impacting them for years, and then they decided that instead of trying to fix it, they had to send a message to someone who's not even in their own country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (+j84F)
and maybe a train ride through banff
Posted by: cmeat at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (Bep7s)
The less time spent in Canada the better.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (E2K/A)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 03:10 PM (jBtak)
I really want Alberta to become a US territory, then Edmonton wins the Stanley Cup and it STAYS in America.
That would be totally cool.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (ccf/V)
Their entire economy coasts on being neighbors of US.
It's a losing position but politically its' a winer for Carney. They would double their unemployment to poke us in the eye.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (iZHgT)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (amcLV)
Thank god we're not in that timeline.
Posted by: zombie at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (+j84F)
I’ve not been to Canada land since before the pandemic. Don’t know if I’ll get back there. America hating asshats.
I do like a good Cesar though. And the exchange rate is pretty groovy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (wrEn7)
The less time spent in Canada the better.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (E2K/A)
And it will save them millions in taxes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (0U5gm)
https://tinyurl.com/4dhj4733
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (E2K/A)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
We need to give certain airplanes "room to destroy."
Posted by: zombie at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Ann at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (SHHm+)
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That's the point, and it's more clever than people are realizing. It's pissing off all the right people up in Canada. Carney depends on the "elbows up" nitwits for political support. He built his whole political facade on standing tough against the US. HOWEVER, the trade negotiations have Carney in a situation where he is going to have to capitulate. There is no leverage to present a different outcome.
So, Carney walks away from negotiations, and runs to the media to flail and whine. Trump stays very quiet on the issue and then comes out a few days later with the Lake America spiel (arguably in response to Doug Ford in Ontario cosplaying "tough guy"). This winds up the Liberals. Carney is eventually going to return to the trade talks or the USMCA will be terminated in six months once the clock starts running. Carney can't win. His political career is about to crash. Capitulate and piss off supporters (after Trump winds them up) or USMCA is gone, and we do a bi-lateral trade agreement where we can really play hardball.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (X6P5n)
"Lake Suck My Dick You Hoser Canadian Fucknuggets" has a nice ring to it, though.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)
Corrected........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (2Cry5)
https://tinyurl.com/4dhj4733
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (kX27y)
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Not just any retarded leader.
Karen Bass' opponent in the election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (/PKja)
I will say, I think Trump going down this 51st state nonsense was asinine and why Carney was put in charge by canadians.
But at this point, I'm cool with Trump destroying that economy of theirs.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:00 PM (iZHgT)
And if Trump played nice, they'd have chosen a conservative?
Pull the other one.
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Elbows up!
LOL, even the so-called "conservatives" in Canada are reaching out to Carney to work with/support him.
Canada is both fake and gay.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (0U5gm)
The moment Canada stops existing we have to take it.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (uhVAy)
https://tinyurl.com/4dhj4733
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (kX27y)
Not only can California suck it's own dick, it can f*ck itself in the ass too!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (ccf/V)
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You always make it seem so effortless too!
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (5FvuI)
Not "Breitbart"?
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 27, 2026 03:12 PM (WGGwz)
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You think they can stop rogering each other in the squeakhole long enough to make it all the way to Manhattan?
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (oqH4h)
All the jackass monarchy-lovers migrated there during the Revolution, and Canada is what you get.
Only shows how brilliant the Founders were in getting out of that whole clown show.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (guGkK)
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lol
Posted by: DJT at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (g47mK)
Karen Bass' opponent in the election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (/PKja)
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Holy shit, my sides…Nithya Raman's big accomplishment is taking 9 months to paint 7 yellow stripes over a cracked street?
How dumb do you have to be to post this? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA https://t.co/DRUaUC4EwA
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 27, 2026
Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin joked on X that he had to “double check to make sure this is real.”
“Yes, the socialist candidate for LA mayor and current member of the LA city council is taking a victory lap for painting a crosswalk over a decrepit road full of cracks.”
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (kX27y)
Isn't gravity itself really the main culprit in all this?
Without gravity, some people doing things would not have brought those buildings down...
Jesus. I can't even fake writing their way without throwing up in my mouth.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (DfgjM)
"If parents leave a 15- or 16-year-old girl alone, it's normal for her to be raped. The fault lies with the parents."
Instapundit:
"If authorities let rapists run free, it’s normal for them to be hanged or burned alive by the native population."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (2Cry5)
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China's ability to "help" is limited.
They asked the IMF to prepare bailouts for countries that owe them money. Their manufacturing base is facing several strong headwinds (general decoupling measures, energy issues stemming from the Iran conflict).
They have enough to bribe canuck politicians, but not to take over the nation. They can't even pay to take over Taiwan.
Besides, China's in a population collapse. They should have roughly 1/4 the population they have now in about 50 years.
Canada attaching to China is an incredibly stupid short term move.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (edUvp)
Carney wants this fight so he can blame a trade war for their complete mismanagement of the economy. He’s trying to make this an us versus them fight to take the spotlight off his own culpability.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (jBtak)
https://tinyurl.com/4dhj4733
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (kX27y)
That Karen Bass is Making LA Great Again!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (0U5gm)
Don't tease me like that.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (Sco7b)
https://tinyurl.com/4dhj4733
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (kX27y)
Not only can California suck it's own dick, it can f*ck itself in the ass too!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (ccf/V)
It can probably suck it's own ass at the same time...that's what happens when one's head is up one's ass...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (l3cgK)
That ship has sailed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (viF8m)
I will say, I think Trump going down this 51st state nonsense was asinine and why Carney was put in charge by canadians.
But at this point, I'm cool with Trump destroying that economy of theirs.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 03:00 PM (iZHgT)
Nah, it was great. It got another Globalist subversion area out in the open and into self destructive action in record time. If you are so lost to reason as to go ballistic from a remark like that, you aren't a player on the international stage.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:19 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 03:19 PM (xSAlF)
You always make it seem so effortless too!
Posted by: 496 at August 27, 2026 03:16 PM (5FvuI)
I'm a professional. Don't try this at home.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:19 PM (ccf/V)
That ship has sailed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (viF8m)
it is said the US had some plan in the event Mexico became commie...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:19 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (jBtak)
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About a year ago, it was noted that Canada has a 0.5% growth rate over the last 10 years.
Not 5%. One half of one percent.
Worse than Japan and every major country in Europe.
Do you know how hard you have to try to fuck up that bad being rich in natural resources and neighboring the US?
Even AOC and her dunderheaded DSA could do a better job just by spending all their time on tic tok--Canada had to go out of their way to fail so badly as they are.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:19 PM (l3cgK)
Send in a Hapsburg emperor!
Posted by: France at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (guGkK)
Even AOC and her dunderheaded DSA could do a better job just by spending all their time on tic tok--Canada had to go out of their way to fail so badly as they are.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (3cUTc)
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And that was with Canada importing half of Calcutta in order to juice their GDP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 03:14 PM (0U5gm)
Don't tease me like that.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:18 PM (Sco7b)
the first A seems to be coming lose, will the C and N come with it? I remember some rumblings that east coast areas are equally unhappy about the fecklessness of the ontario-quebec core.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ann
To be honest, I'm not a fan of it. I don't mind the "Gulf of America" thing, because it's a substantial body of water that we have the more coastline on than Mexico, and it touches several states. But this is just the smallest of the Great Lakes that only touches New York. Maybe name it "Lake New York," but the idea of putting all of our country's name on it is kinda dumb.
But, I guess if it pisses off Canada...
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (77rzZ)
Gemini:
Global Attacks
September 11 Attacks
Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis
Madrid Train Bombings
Domestic and Far-Right Extremism
Norway Attacks (2011, Norway)
Boston Marathon Bombing (2013, United States)
Christchurch Mosque Shootings (2019, New Zealand)
End of response.
Go fuck yourself, faggot google
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 27, 2026 03:13 PM (wrEn7)
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Probably too late for that. I think part of the reason Canada has quite suddenly become so anti-American is that China has got their tentacles up the ass of almost every politician, influencer, and powerbroker source in Canada. Canada is China's hand puppet in North America.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
Norway Attacks (2011, Norway)
Boston Marathon Bombing (2013, United States)
Christchurch Mosque Shootings (2019, New Zealand)
End of response.
Go fuck yourself, faggot google
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (+j84F)
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"If Muslims are aligned with communists, how can you describe, from an American perspective, the Boston Marathon bombing as right-wing?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (/PKja)
Even AOC and her dunderheaded DSA could do a better job just by spending all their time on tic tok--Canada had to go out of their way to fail so badly as they are.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:20 PM (3cUTc)
They'd be better off just chopping down some trees and building homes for everyone than paying idiots across the continent to make it impossible.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ann at August 27, 2026 03:09 PM (SHHm+)
_____________________
Troll level: Intergalactic Overlord.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (l3cgK)
It's a cynical move, but it's working because so many Canucks are infected by TDS and merely mentioning America or Trump sends them into psychotic states only alleviated by pulling the lever for Liberals.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (odBC9)
They asked the IMF to prepare bailouts for countries that owe them money. Their manufacturing base is facing several strong headwinds (general decoupling measures, energy issues stemming from the Iran conflict).
They have enough to bribe canuck politicians, but not to take over the nation. They can't even pay to take over Taiwan.
Besides, China's in a population collapse. They should have roughly 1/4 the population they have now in about 50 years.
Canada attaching to China is an incredibly stupid short term move.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:17 PM (/PKja)
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The scare quotes on "help" means China will be in a position to dick with the US from much closer, and with a willing accomplice. An accomplice who's likely going to provide access to intelligence, resources and manpower.
China still commands some respect for their ability to corrupt their targets.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (2Cry5)
But new way to remember the lakes...
A
H
E
M
S
Or, how Trump decides to respond to little men...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (tOcjL)
It's a cynical move, but it's working because so many Canucks are infected by TDS and merely mentioning America or Trump sends them into psychotic states only alleviated by pulling the lever for Liberals.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)
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He has a majority of a few dozen, and it's just a few seats in the by-elections.
It's not about that.
It's about trying to hurt Americans to help Democrats in the American election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (0sNs1)
I will say, I think Trump going down this 51st state nonsense was asinine and why Carney was put in charge by canadians.
Posted by: Sharpie
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So you fell for the op. This was just justification they gave for why things changed so quickly.
Just like the ops they pulled in USA whenever they stole an election. They needed a backstory. Sure, canadians picked Carny just to spite the USA. Nonsense
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (X6P5n)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
Canada's internal anti Americanism is far older than China influence can explain.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (uhVAy)
"If parents leave a 15- or 16-year-old girl alone, it's normal for her to be raped. The fault lies with the parents."
Sure.
*has bought more ammo
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: America's Lawyers at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (guGkK)
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China bought Canada a little while back.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 03:15 PM (2Cry5)
_________________________
China is at the center (or one of the center's) of disagreement with the US. China depends on sending partially completed wares to Canada. Canada completes the construction, then sells those wares to the US under the guise that is it Canadian made. China does this to avoid higher tariffs.
Unfortunately, the industry base of Canada has been gutted thanks to the overregulation and Climate Change Green Policies. As a result, China is going to take a solid hit in the teeth on any trade agreement with the US. Japan has two auto makers in Ontario (Toyota and Honda) who have said they will leave Canada to support the US. China wants those manufacturing factories to make Chinese EV's...and they will bring their own workforce in (screwing over Canadian jobs). It's almost poetic.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (dIske)
https://shorturl.fm/iPUP4
Asps, very dangerous - you go first.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (u9VYF)
It's a ready, defensive posture in ice hockey.
Canadians use it to mean, "We're resilient and ready for anything!!" But it's really just cope.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 03:25 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (X6P5n)
Yeah it was USA hate that made them have 91 or so candidates for the one district the opposition leader was running in. Strictly on the up and up.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 03:26 PM (g47mK)
Asps, very dangerous - you go first.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (u9VYF)
Bad dates......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:26 PM (ccf/V)
Everyone there seems to have little-dick syndrome.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:26 PM (DfgjM)
Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at August 27, 2026 03:26 PM (0sNs1)
As I noted earlier, all this bluster about "cutting the US off" from this or that resource.
Oh, and who are you going to sell it to? You gonna put your electricity in silos and sell it when the market peaks?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:26 PM (3cUTc)
Canada's internal anti Americanism is far older than China influence can explain."
This. They were infected with the brits "over paid/over here"*
bitterness decades ago.
*yeah, left out the other over. It's Canada.
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:27 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 03:27 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:27 PM (77rzZ)
Have you met Canadians?
Their entire national pride is centered around being not-Americans. Trump threatening to annex Canada cut them all the way to their bones. They absolutely voted for Carny as a knee jerk response.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 03:27 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
The DSA has set up an office in Canada, which only makes sense if they are either coordinating illegal foreign donations, or coordinating policy with a foreign government.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (0U5gm)
First Lady has diverticulosis and a kidney stone blocking the exit............
The hits just keep on coming........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (ccf/V)
Aug 27, 2026
Earlier today (Thursday), the IDF struck in the Al-Shati area in the northern Gaza Strip and eliminated the terrorist Bilal Ibrahim Saleh Raqi‘i, a commander in Hamas’ military wing’s anti-tank array.
As part of an additional strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF eliminated the terrorist Azzam Rifaat Abd Abadala, an operative in Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigade.
Recently, the terrorists continued to advance terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians while also attempting to rebuild Hamas’ capabilities, all in violation of the ceasefire agreement. They were struck in order to remove the threat they posed.
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ann
To be honest, I'm not a fan of it. I don't mind the "Gulf of America" thing, because it's a substantial body of water that we have the more coastline on than Mexico, and it touches several states. But this is just the smallest of the Great Lakes that only touches New York. Maybe name it "Lake New York," but the idea of putting all of our country's name on it is kinda dumb.
But, I guess if it pisses off Canada...
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (77rzZ)
Canada's biggest lake is "Great Slave Lake"....this should be a warning about the Maple Menace looming North.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:27 PM (77rzZ)
I was partial to AJ Cook a while back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (ccf/V)
Colby Smulders is pretty hot in person.
Sweet lady. Was very nice to my wife when she was on her show.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (DfgjM)
the first A seems to be coming lose, will the C and N come with it? I remember some rumblings that east coast areas are equally unhappy about the fecklessness of the ontario-quebec core.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)
The East coast gets tons of free crap. I'd have to look it up but I think Alberta and Ontario were the big have provinces.
I believe Ontario once had a policy to have the lowest energy rates around the Great Lakes for manufacturing, Well that's long gone. And with that idiot Ford around and considering what I went through during Covid, let Ontario suffer.
I'm just here to take care of the dog and give him a happy rest of his life.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
The hits just keep on coming........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (ccf/V)
I've had kidney stones... Not fun but easily remidied
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (+gK6I)
China keeps pushing Canada to mandate electrics first...
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (kX27y)
oh come on IDF, admit it was for the lulz.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (uhVAy)
First Lady has diverticulosis and a kidney stone blocking the exit............
The hits just keep on coming........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:28
My prayers for all of you Sponge.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b)
Personally, I can't wait for the upcoming Alberta vote to secede from the rest of the country and become their own nation. It is one of only two provinces that generate more tax dollars than they take, the rest are sucking down tax money like a homeless crackhead.
Canada is ripe to fall, and Trump is unwilling to continue to prop them up. No wonder why they are getting cozy with XI and the Chinese Communists. They are so much alike.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (Uvvcx)
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (DfgjM)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (bNf8H)
So they spent decades trading with USA, and we run trade deficits, pay for their defense, and ask for nothing. No bullying, no regulation.
Their plan is to join EU, and have Brussels (a) demand money to send to low income EU countries, (b) demand they shut down farming, logging, and mining, and (c) make them align with EU regulations on everything from size of their banananas to how they run their borders. All while providing no defense.
It really is hard to understand.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (X6P5n)
Natasha H....what's her name. Dang.
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (XuXeR)
My prayers for all of you Sponge.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b)
We are eternally grateful.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:31 PM (ccf/V)
Being that the electricity comes from hydro-electric, calling a reservoir a "silo" is fairly accurate.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 03:31 PM (rgGn5)
Exactly so.
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:31 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
yes, i was disgusted at the 'transfer payments' the west needs to send east. The regions I heard were unhappy were like New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, not anywhere close to the seats of power either.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:31 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (DfgjM)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg
>Some might say Pam Anderson, but you can have her. After she processed 10 miles of cock, I have better options.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (DfgjM)
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I've seen a report that Sicario 3 is due to shoot soon, but details are sparse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (/PKja)
Canada 1941: Pearl Harbor was the scene of multiple plane crashes, and some ships sank in the Harbor.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (OkYzo)
The liberal party has been running Canada since 2015. Sure, many of them don't like Trump. They don't like us either. But the liberals have been running the place since before Trump's 1st term.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (viF8m)
First Lady has diverticulosis and a kidney stone blocking the exit............
The hits just keep on coming........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (ccf/V)
Neither is much fun. Can't say I've had kidney stones, but I have had diverticulitis, and it's painful. My thoughts and prayers to your Lady.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (X6P5n)
Well the globalists are running out of places to infest.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)
Damn. Best wishes, k?
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:32 PM (XuXeR)
Very much appreciated, sir.
Back at ya.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (ccf/V)
On the other hand, the dumbass Hoosiers, and the FIP's, have a foothold.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (YkczM)
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Carney: Trump demanded we ban French!
Canadian Broadcasting Company: Actually, that's not true.
Canadian public: Say, can we see the proposed agreement?
Carney: No, I have an urgent vacation in Italy.
US: Sure, we'll let you interview Bessant--give you all the details.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (3cUTc)
Canada 1941: Pearl Harbor was the scene of multiple plane crashes, and some ships sank in the Harbor.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (OkYzo)
A mere happenstance kerfuffle...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (TbVRb)
I am down in Florida and people adapted to Gulf of America rather quickly.
I lived in NYS until about five years ago. Not sure how quickly Lake America will be absorbed into the lexicon.
Posted by: Ann at August 27, 2026 03:34 PM (SHHm+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
I had forgotten that she was Canadian.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (XuXeR)
Natasha Henstridge. Straight up hottie.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 27, 2026 03:34 PM (PSEDc)
A
H
E
M
S
Or, how Trump decides to respond to little men...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 03:23 PM (tOcjL)
SHAME?
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)
Thank you. Various scans and such over the past year or so have shown stones, but either she's been passing them or they're shrinking, which I don't think is possible.
But, we'll see what the doc says about it and go from there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
Sorry to hear Mr Sponge. Prayers sent for the Mrs.
I had a Kidney stone surgically removed 2 weeks ago. I felt so much better afterwards.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (88C+u)
Yes, yes indeed.
Posted by: Ann at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (SHHm+)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (88C+u)
--
No, no, no--you don't understand!
They EU is going to drop all tariffs and regulations on Canadian goods because they hate Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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The think about China's involvement is that they might encourage Canada as a way of harming the USA, but China also wants to harm Canada. They want both countries to collapse.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (X6P5n)
But, we'll see what the doc says about it and go from there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
They had to zap my kidney stone because of the size
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (+gK6I)
Anti-Americanism is popular because there's no downside to it. On the other hand, criticizing or mocking Islam can get you killed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (O0L8i)
It's a ready, defensive posture in ice hockey.
Canadians use it to mean, "We're resilient and ready for anything!!" But it's really just cope.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 03:25 PM (mkw2N)
Thanks!
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:24 PM (uhVAy)
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Canada is the ugly girl that hangs out with the hot girl and her deep jealously makes her constantly try to cock-block the hot girl at the bar.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (oqH4h)
They EU is going to drop all tariffs and regulations on Canadian goods because they hate Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (3cUTc)
=======
EU drop tariffs?
Voluntarily?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (/PKja)
I wonder how many times President Trump's border policies have forced rewrites to the script of Sicario 3.
In the first and second, it was all doom and hopelessness and whining from Emily Blunt.
I'd really like to see some speedboats full of drugs get blown up by old Matt and Steve.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (DfgjM)
I had a Kidney stone surgically removed 2 weeks ago. I felt so much better afterwards.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (OkYzo)
We're hoping surgery isn't required as she's been cut on enough the last couple years.
But we'll find out soon.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 27, 2026 03:30 PM (Uvvcx)
To be fair to Xi, China's huge need to sell crap to anyone with money runs into "only America has money these days" pretty quickly. Canada was a good place to launder Chinese product and they bought in.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (uhVAy)
------------------
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Minneapolis Police RAID Ihan Omar's Son's Apartment SEIZE Weapons and Ammo.
Police executed a search warrant Tuesday night at the apartment of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, Adnan Omar.
Law enforcement sources say officers recovered guns and ammunition and arrested his roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi.
The search warrant was conducted after a traffic stop for Abdulrahman after a illegal weapon was found in vehicle
Omar's son was not arrested.
Not a good look for Ilhan Omar
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (kX27y)
Later everyone.
The burritos were great. Three left. And the Japanese tea is REALLY good.
All of you have an amazing day.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (Sco7b)
They had to zap my kidney stone because of the size
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (+gK6I)
That's the route she's hoping they'll take.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)
Thank you. Various scans and such over the past year or so have shown stones, but either she's been passing them or they're shrinking, which I don't think is possible.
But, we'll see what the doc says about it and go from there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
These days they can ultrasound the stones to dust that passes. The diverticulitis is not so easy to handle. She on antibiotics for it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (l3cgK)
From what I have read, Enbridge Line 5 is a pipeline that runs from Wisconsin through Michigan to Ontario.
It supplies around 55% of the crude oil & natural gas, 540,000 barrels daily, to Ontario.
We could ruin the rest of their year if Ford & Carney want to get cute with energy supply.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (kX27y
THANK YOU!
I saw that, wanted to post but got distracted,
Hilarious,
Now, later.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
They had to zap my kidney stone because of the size
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (+gK6I)
I peed out a stone the size of my thumbnail and triangular. It was memorable.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
They had to zap my kidney stone because of the size
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (+gK6I)
I peed out a stone the size of my thumbnail and triangular. It was memorable.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)
*ouch*
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (77rzZ)
We aren't renaming the province, you know. YET.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:39 PM (uhVAy)
The following companies have been selected to participate under Project Janus:
Antares Nuclear
BWXT Advanced Technologies
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems
Radiant Industries
Westinghouse Government Services
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 03:39 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (DfgjM)
Trump is trying to build up the brand. One that's intentionally withered away for decades. In order to rename it or name it back his enemies (or friends in the GOP) have to remove the name "America" from something and in turn look like the petty America hating assholes they are.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
They had to zap my kidney stone because of the size
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (+gK6I)
I peed out a stone the size of my thumbnail and triangular. It was memorable.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)
could be worse. Look up kidney jackstones...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)
I imagine that if they try to just flip it off, it would result in bankruptcy and a lot of liability on their side. Very expensive.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (X6P5n)
Voluntarily?
--
Yes.
Carney said (again) that they are going to explore the idea of looking into a committee to investigate the proposal of a trade agreement with the EU.
That means the deal is as good as done.
You would know that if you had your elbows up!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (l3cgK)
That's what we're hoping. And yes, she started those on Tuesday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (ccf/V)
Lake America is Superior to Ontario but kind of Erie.
Algoma Steel expected to be down over 60% from pre-Trump levels, and the electric kiln stuff they produce isn't competitive for purchase outside Doug Ford's summer crack house.
They're dead, Jim.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:35 PM (ccf/V)
They had to zap my kidney stone because of the size
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:36 PM (+gK6I)
I peed out a stone the size of my thumbnail and triangular. It was memorable.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:38 PM (uhVAy)
could be worse. Look up kidney jackstones...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)
They're like caltrops for your ureters...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)
Almost all of this US bashing comes from the Laurentian chatterboxes. The Quebecois, of course, hate everyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:41 PM (O0L8i)
Voluntarily?
--
Yes.
Carney said (again) that they are going to explore the idea of looking into a committee to investigate the proposal of a trade agreement with the EU.
That means the deal is as good as done.
You would know that if you had your elbows up!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (3cUTc)
========
"Shh...Germany. Shut up. This is hilarious."
-Sweden
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:41 PM (/PKja)
-Sweden
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:41 PM (/PKja)
The Turk's similar committee has been running for what, 20 years now?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:42 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:43 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (X6P5n)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (AjR4+)
Nothing says courageous, decisive leadership than looking into a committee to investigate a proposal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (Y8DZL)
Think you meant Huron in there.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (uhVAy)
As in grab them by the meash
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:43 PM (+j84F)
That actually sounds painful.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:45 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:41 PM (O0L8i)
We just need to salt them with some Cajun spices and a dozen little tourist traps will form.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)
Other than that they've got Bombardier planes, and maple syrup.
I guess they could do a lot of product assembly and transship Chinese products to the EU, like they've been doing for years shipping Chinese stuff to us.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (ccf/V)
Almost all of this US bashing comes from the Laurentian chatterboxes. The Quebecois, of course, hate everyone. are faggots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:41 PM (O0L8i)
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Fixed.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: working_man at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (yE3FR)
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You've got to take your wins where you can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 03:47 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (odBC9)
from left to right
Superior
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario--> America
We need a new mnemonic. HOMES doesn't work anymore.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (/OKHJ)
New paint. The Wonder Bra of road repairs.
Posted by: sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (4NDfK)
Pull the other one.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 03:01 PM (N1DT3)
Wait, you have TWO of them?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (ybv6C)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (O0L8i)
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You've got to take your wins where you can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 03:47 PM (ndZc7)
That pretty much evens the scales for burning the areas your rich contributors used to live.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)
No islham, know peace.
Posted by: Mike Tython
.......
I think that's pronounced "Ithlam".
Posted by: wth at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)
As in grab them by the meash
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:43 PM (+j84F)
They DID get the better side of Niagara Falls.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (ccf/V)
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario--> America
Posted by: m
Actually, not to go all Wesley Crusher on you, but Michigan and Huron are, hydrographically speaking, one lake.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:46 PM (ccf/V)
Gravy and fries is tasty.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (l3cgK)
275
Canada's economy is, basically, extractables. Oil, gas, timber, hydroelectric.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (O0L8i)
They DID get the better side of Niagara Falls.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)
As in grab them by the meash
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 03:43 PM (+j84F)
They DID get the better side of Niagara Falls.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (ccf/V)
For now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
Montreal.
Usually Quebec is pretty excited about receiving French speaking immigrants. They aren't too enthused about this development, however.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (+gK6I)
Lake what?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)
Gravy and fries is tasty.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (l3cgK)
American gravy and freedom fries, maybe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (ccf/V)
They're working to get that scuzzy pos Abdul elected.
Passive-aggressive twats the bunch of them.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (et1vG)
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You've got to take your wins where you can.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 03:47 PM (ndZc7)
probably full of crack, too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (l3cgK)
Law enforcement sources told Alpha News, a Minnesota-based conservative outlet, that a search warrant was conducted Tuesday night, and guns and ammunition were recovered from the scene.
The Minneapolis Police Department arrested Abdulrahman Abdi, 22, who was then booked into the Hennepin County Jail on the weapons charge, Alpha News reported.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:49 PM (+gK6I)
Lake what?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)
; )
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (odBC9)
Canada's economy is, basically, extractables. Oil, gas, timber, hydroelectric.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (O0L8i)
That'll be useful during the upcoming Resource Wars.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (+gK6I)
Now do the oceans.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: InZona at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (iu0zZ)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)
Lake America
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (+gK6I)
THIRD BASE!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (ccf/V)
Canada's economy is, basically, extractables. Oil, gas, timber, hydroelectric.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (O0L8i)
And they hamstring the hell out of themselves with Net Zero green rules.
Trump would be more eager if they actually wanted to extract more of those natural resources, but the Liberals apparently think they can run their economy on real estate bubbles and cheap Chinese solar panels, wind turbines, and EVs.
They've got a chance to join America in re-industrializing and they are sucking up to the EU who are also in the middle of collective suicide.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulg
We're on the way-right on schedule!
Posted by: The Merry Marching Penguin Majority at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (AjR4+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Heard on the local news yesterday that Abigail Spambooger is all upset by this dust-up with Canada because of all the stuff that Virginia sells to Canada. One of those is timber. And I'm like "What? Canada imports timber? WTF?"
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (X6P5n)
Kill a commie for your mommy, eh?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (FR9Sb)
It's like the Canadians took something really good -- American fries-and-gravy -- and added fermented demonic ejaculate as a topper.
Nasty.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
i hope you have unusually small thumbs
Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (oY6Yp)
Canada's economy is, basically, extractables. Oil, gas, timber, hydroelectric.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (O0L8i)
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I heard yesterday that the commie CIA witch that runs Virginia is upset because Canada is the largest importer of timber from Virginia.
Why the hell is Canada importing timber? Like bringing sand to the beach.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (6ydKt)
The EU must think they don't have enough annoying French in the project.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:37 PM (kX27y)
I don't think she has any good looks, at all.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (ybv6C)
Nasty.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)
I'm listening......
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 27, 2026 03:54 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 03:54 PM (Y8DZL)
Why the hell is Canada importing timber? Like bringing sand to the beach.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (oqH4h)
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Just spitballing, but it might be a specific wood.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (O0L8i)
Just spitballing, but it might be a specific wood.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (O0L8i)
Hockey sticks are composite now.......
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg
We're on the way-right on schedule!
Posted by: The Merry Marching Penguin Majority at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (JM9I6)
I think the last "win" for Denmark is that we agreed we can start building bases anywhere and start looking for things to dig up, in exchange for them getting nothing.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:56 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ballistic
What's called a "Win-Win" situation.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 03:56 PM (Y8DZL)
The Minneapolis Police Department arrested Abdulrahman Abdi, 22, who was then booked into the Hennepin County Jail on the weapons charge, Alpha News reported.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 03:50 PM (/OKHJ)
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Young Abdul apparently had no DL or insurance, either. That stuff's for us kafirs.
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 03:56 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: InZona at August 27, 2026 03:51 PM (iu0zZ)
That was written, produced, and directed by Michael Moore, IIRC.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 03:56 PM (Z5BUl)
I think the last "win" for Denmark is that we agreed we can start building bases anywhere and start looking for things to dig up, in exchange for them getting nothing.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (uhVAy)
Wait till the Greenlanders learn that Denmark has been conducting experiments on them without their knowledge.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:56 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (oqH4h)
and from VA at that. Not from any of the close states that have scads of lumber.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (O0L8i)
Southern pine is pretty southern.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: ballistic
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I can't believe she wants to cut down more trees.
Just when we're entering a climate catastrophe and need as many trees to absorb as much CO2 as possible.
Does she want us all to burn up in a fiery climate ball?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Heard on the local news yesterday that Abigail Spambooger is all upset by this dust-up with Canada because of all the stuff that Virginia sells to Canada. One of those is timber. And I'm like "What? Canada imports timber? WTF?"
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)
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I don't think it's so much importing raw "timber" as much as more finished wood products
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
I should just call it an early day and go to bed.
Posted by: Sponge
It would keep you from getting a hangover.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (AjR4+)
They seem to be burning all their forests each summer.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 03:58 PM (Cuw0G)
Could they screw us by shutting down the St. Lawrence seaway?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)
__________
*rubs hands in anticipation*
Posted by: The Erie Canal Commission at August 27, 2026 03:58 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Sifty boones at August 27, 2026 03:58 PM (QcroH)
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 03:53 PM (oqH4h)
>Different species. maybe some regional hardwood.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 03:58 PM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (AjR4+)
Oil sands. We're able to use it, but it's reasonably difficult and more expensive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:58 PM (ccf/V)
_we are the world
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 03:59 PM (+UcOf)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (AjR4+)
Tar sands.
And yes, they send it down here to us to refine.
Similar to Venezuelan oil in that it is 'dirty' oil and has to refined at special refineries that can handle it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)
It would keep you from getting a hangover.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)
I've managed to avoid "hair of the dog" all day, but that streak might just end shortly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:59 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:00 PM (igBwS)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 04:00 PM (AjR4+)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
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Most Canadian oil sands (tar sands) bitumen is refined in the United States, not Canada. Canadian oil sands production is sold mainly as diluted bitumen (dilbit — heavy, high-sulfur) or upgraded synthetic crude oil (SCO — lighter and easier to process). Dilbit requires complex refineries with significant coking (or equivalent residue conversion) capacity.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 04:00 PM (3cUTc)
It's always the kids who suffer in a divorce.
Posted by: Sifty boones at August 27, 2026 04:01 PM (QcroH)
Dilbit was a great strip. RIP Scott Adams.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 04:02 PM (AjR4+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 04:02 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Today Show at August 27, 2026 04:03 PM (m+Iyu)
The American portion of the seaway which includes two locks in Massena, New York, is operated and maintained by the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
Joint operation.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 04:03 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
We've got small oil pumps all over northern Cass Co south of KCMo that pumps what has been described as the ugliest oil ever.
Who the hell refines that?
Amoco moved out 20 years ago.
Posted by: MkY at August 27, 2026 04:03 PM (q6tQZ)
Rob Schmitt
@SchmittNYC
·
1h
Set up an entire kitchen right in front of a restaurant and steal all their business. No taxes, no regulations, no rent. Pure profit. More brilliance from the people running LA
Matthew Seedorff
@MattSeedorff
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2h
NEW: @MayorOfLA Karen Bass’ office tells me that, at the mayor’s direction, LAPD has stopped issuing criminal citations to street vendors and is working to dismiss citations issued “in error.”
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 04:03 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:44 PM (ccf/V)
They let you do it.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 04:04 PM (+j84F)
@MattSeedorff
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2h
NEW: @MayorOfLA Karen Bass’ office tells me that, at the mayor’s direction, LAPD has stopped issuing criminal citations to street vendors and is working to dismiss citations issued “in error.”
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 04:03 PM (kX27y)
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She's just a Democrat, and her literal communist past has nothing to do with her policies of the now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 04:05 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Sifty boones at August 27, 2026 04:06 PM (QcroH)
Who the hell refines that?
Amoco moved out 20 years ago.
Posted by: MkY at August 27, 2026 04:03 PM (q6tQZ)
The southern U.S. does. They’ve been refining Venezuelan heavy sour for decades.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 27, 2026 04:06 PM (w3Mok)
Posted by: InZona at August 27, 2026 04:07 PM (iu0zZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 03:55 PM (O0L8i)
Southern pine is pretty southern.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
Ask a Georgian if VA is "south"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 04:07 PM (uhVAy)
They aint even old-timey!
Posted by: Sifty boones at August 27, 2026 04:08 PM (QcroH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:09 PM (9U0Wy)
Posted by: pahound at August 27, 2026 04:09 PM (AjR4+)
I joke about Republicans and their matching funds, but the Commies have a 6 to 1 match established for contributions for Bass in L.A. that comes right out of the treasury, by law.
She's bragging about it.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)
__________
*rubs hands in anticipation*
Posted by: The Erie Canal Commission at August 27, 2026 03:58 PM (O0L8i)
Can't wait for our other Carriers to get a nice bit of practice forcing open a seaway.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: beckster
Not being exposed to e. Coli or Salmonella food poisoning is white privilege.
Posted by: Mayor Bass at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (4dS7p)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 27, 2026 03:57 PM (6ydKt)
The Southeastern Conference (SEC)
The SEC consists of 16 member institutions located in the U.S. states of
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Florida,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Oklahoma,
South Carolina,
Tennessee and
Texas.
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)
They aint even old-timey!
Posted by: Sifty boones at August 27, 2026 04:08 PM (QcroH)
They's mis-kegginated!
Posted by: Hot damn, it's the Soggy Bottom Boys! at August 27, 2026 04:11 PM (TbWk/)
refineries that process significant volumes of Canadian crude include:
BP — Whiting Refinery, Indiana
Marathon Petroleum — Detroit, Michigan; Robinson, Illinois; St. Paul Park, Minnesota; Canton, Ohio; and Lima, Ohio
Phillips 66 — Wood River, Illinois, operated through a joint venture with Cenovus
Cenovus Energy — Wood River, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio
ExxonMobil — Joliet, Illinois
CITGO Petroleum — Lemont, Illinois
Flint Hills Resources, owned by Koch Industries — Pine Bend, Minnesota
CountryMark — Mount Vernon, Indiana
Valero Energy — especially its refinery in Lima, Ohio
HF Sinclair — refineries in the broader Midwest/Great Plains region, including Tulsa and nearby Oklahoma facilities
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 04:11 PM (+UcOf)
from left to right
Superior
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario--> America
We need a new mnemonic. HOMES doesn't work anymore.
Posted by: Mark1971
Someone on the last thread suggested SHAME
Superior
Huron
America
Michigan
Erie
Posted by: Tuna at August 27, 2026 04:12 PM (lJ0H4)
Finish the wall on the border of Mexico and build one for North Mexico. Alberta is welcome from what I read. Also the blue eyed farmer in Saskatchewan.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 27, 2026 04:13 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: beckster
Not being exposed to e. Coli or Salmonella food poisoning is white privilege.
Posted by: Mayor Bass at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (4dS7p)
To be fair all restaurants are already out onto the sidewalks because that was a way around the draconian COVID seating rules.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 04:14 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 04:14 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (9U0Wy)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (X6P5n)
Posted by: Skip
If he starts referring to Alberta as "North Montana", I'll vote for him a fourth time.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2026 04:15 PM (4dS7p)
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Florida,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Oklahoma,
South Carolina,
Tennessee and
Texas.
Posted by: m at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)
In three years they will have USC, Oregon, Ohio State and Michigan.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 04:16 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 04:18 PM (+UcOf)
That means the deal is as good as done.
You would know that if you had your elbows up!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 03:40 PM (3cUTc)
The rumor among the money traders is that the EU is planning to launder the seized Russian assets through Canadian banks and Carbon Credit markets, specifically the markets set up to offset the Albertan oil extraction.
To do that they need closer banking ties than they have already.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 27, 2026 04:19 PM (M1WvK)
Wait till the Greenlanders learn that Denmark has been conducting experiments on them without their knowledge.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 03:56 PM (ccf/V)
The Danes have been dorking Greenland up the squeekhole since the Vikings first stole it from the Eskimos over a thousand years ago.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 04:38 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: UncleJefe at August 27, 2026 04:44 PM (gAuAm)
And I'm going to laugh at them as they cry and wander through the rubble, digging out bodies.
Posted by: ruralcounsel at August 27, 2026 04:51 PM (u9OdC)
*updates nickname*
I'm ready!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 27, 2026 05:18 PM (O7YUW)
******
Never an intern, resident, or fellow.
Never took Medical boards.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 27, 2026 06:56 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Advo at August 28, 2026 09:32 AM (jO4mz)
On the Fifth Anniversary of the Disasterous Biden Bug-Out of Kabul, Pete Hegseth Upgrades the Honors for Three Heroes of Abbey Gate
He didn't just give them new medals.
He also said that the Biden Administration downplayed their heroism, because Biden, and his corrupt media allies, didn't want the public to know how very bad the terrorist attack at Abbey Gate really was.Fox News PoliticsMarine Corps Times:
@foxnewspolitics 5 YEARS LATER: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth upgrades valor awards for three Marines who risked their lives during the Abbey Gate bombing, saying Pentagon leadership "inappropriately" downgraded their original submissions for half a decade. Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Eby took command after his platoon commander and half his platoon were killed or wounded. Lance Cpl. Jordan Houston was knocked unconscious 10 meters from the blast, woke up with shrapnel wounds, and stayed in the fight -- concealing his injuries so he wouldn't be pulled from the line. Cpl. Michael Gretzon applied his own tourniquet to a shrapnel wound, got bandaged, then immediately returned to his squad until his platoon sergeant physically ordered him to the casualty collection point. Hegseth also revealed that a special review panel recently recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found." A full report is expected by year's end.
Videos of Hegseth stating that these Marines' valor awards were downgraded to spare the Biden Administration the pain of admitting what a hellish nightmare they created, below the jump. If you're pretending everything went swell, you can't decorate heroes who stood up when things didn't go swell at all. Sean Parnell, charged with investigating the Abbey Gate bombing, says that -- sit down, you're not going to believe this -- Biden officials hid key documents in safes to keep anyone from discovering the truth.
Five years after a suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members and around 170 civilians at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Pentagon upgraded the awards of three Marines who survived the blast and then worked to save others in its immediate aftermath. The service members, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, were at the then-Hamid Karzai International Airport as America's decades-long war in Afghanistan drew to a tumultuous close. Outside of the gate, where enormous crowds had frantically gathered in hopes of a safe evacuation from the country, an Islamic State bomber detonated the explosives on his body. During a Wednesday ceremony at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented the Bronze Star Medal with Valor to retired Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Eby and retired Lance Cpl. Jordan Houston, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Valor to retired Cpl. Michael Gretzon. Eby secured the area before helping to evacuate wounded Marines, Houston -- who was injured himself -- assisted others to safety despite gunfire and tear gas and Gretzon helped control the crowd from a vulnerable position after the blast, according to the department. Hegseth used biblical language when describing the service members' actions. "These three Marines embody a timeless truth written in the book of Proverbs: 'The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.' On that chaotic day, you men were as bold as lions," he said, adding, "When the wicked sought to sow terror, these men stood as lions at the gate -- bold in their purpose, fierce in their resolve and unbreakable in their courage."
He has not said what the documents actually say, yet. But I assume that is coming:
A Pentagon official on Wednesday claimed to have discovered classified documents that concern the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan five years ago, but the official declined to offer further details. Sean Parnell, who leads the Pentagon's special review panel examining the 2021 withdrawal, said in a video statement that his team recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found."
This might be some of what has been kept hidden: CIA-trained Afghan units executed civilians during Joe Biden's catastrophe. This may not have been out of malice, but just due to the extreme chaos Biden created.
"You deserve the truth of what happened about what happened in Afghanistan, told fully and told straight," Parnell said.
The US commander claims that he's heard no such reports:
Afghan special forces units trained by the CIA mowed down civilians with their cars and shot innocent people to clear the Kabul airport during the Biden administration's chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, according to first-person accounts in a new documentary. Eyewitnesses in the documentary for The Wall Street Journal, titled "The Path to Zero," say atrocities were also perpetrated against U.S. military members at Kabul International Airport -- in the closing hours of the administration's final withdrawal of U.S. forces. Multiple people say in the documentary that they witnessed the Afghan special forces, known as Zero Units, murder members of the crowd in a CIA-directed mission to clear the airport. Those who committed the murders were then rewarded with evacuation, courtesy of the U.S. "They straight up executed people, ran them over," retired U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Edward Gonzalez says in the film, telling the documentarians that he witnessed these atrocities firsthand. "I literally saw trucks running over people," he said when told that some people have denied that such events occurred. Josephy Laude, a retired sergeant with the U.S. Marine Corp, also described what the Zero Units did to clear out the airport. "They would use vehicles, they would run people over, they would execute people," Laude says in the film. "They'd shoot them, shoot into the crowds bearing witness to atrocities, to war crimes."
Peter Vasely, a retired rear admiral with the U.S. Navy who served as the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan Forward at the time of the withdrawal, claimed in the documentary that "no reports" of the Zero Unit's actions ever made it to him. He said he did not doubt what the Marines on the ground said, just that he never received any official reports of the conduct.But you know, documents you'd rather not acknowledge sometimes get "lost," like buried in unmarked safes for years and years, you know? This is why I say the "executions" and "murders" might not have been perpetrated with malice: Suppose you're a Secret Service driver. The presidential limo comes under serious attack. There are crowds of people in your way. What do you do? I don't know what the Secret Service is trained to do, but I imagine that if the president's life is in danger and there are civilians inadvertently blocking you from carrying him to safety, you hit the gas and hope they get out of the way in time. I don't know that. I can imagine such a terrible choice, though. That's what one witness says the choice during the chaotic bug-out was:
Darrel Issa says that many "Afghan allies" were never vetted before being given free passes to the US, and that's all part of this "cover-up."
Gonzalez also said that had the Zero Units not taken the steps they took to clear the airport, he and his fellow Marines would not be alive today. Kenneth F. McKenzie, a retired Marine Corps general, also said that not only would the U.S. not have been able to clear the airport without the Zero Units, but they wouldn't have been able to hold it either. "They were vital to the success of our mission," McKenzie said in the film. The documentary alleges that to get the Zero Units to open fire on their own countrymen, the CIA had to promise that they and their entire families would be evacuated from Afghanistan.
... Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., best known for his congressional investigations into Obama-era scandals such as Operation Fast and Furious and the IRS' targeting of conservative organizations, said during an interview on "Just the News, No Noise," Wednesday night that the cover-up of the withdrawal will soon be revealed. U.S. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Sean Parnell, who is chairing the Afghanistan Withdrawal Review Panel, is working to release that information.
"I mean, the two great cover-ups in Abbey Gate obviously was the lead-up to that tragic loss of our military personnel and many other civilians around them, and then the incredibly inept withdrawal of bringing into our country people who shouldn't be, or leaving behind many who should be here, and the Trump administration is still cleaning up for that by finding people around the world who are entitled and who really have earned a right," Issa said. ... Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of War, Darin Selnick, said on the same program that criminal referrals could be coming for those responsible for the withdrawal. "But I think we have to be patient because it's going to maybe take another year to really dig these things out, do the right interviews, find the right people, get collaborative statements, and really find out, you know, with the criminal referrals, what was done that was done illegally, what was done that was immoral, and what's criminally referable," Selnick said.Update:
Remember the Afghani who shot two National Guard troops in Washington, DC? He was in a Zero Unit in Afghanistan before we idiotically brought him and others here. Ticking time bombs. They are trained assassins and from what I've read about them they love to kill. I doubt there was anything accidental about the killings they did in Afghanistan. Posted by: JackStrawCite?, Fake Tapper asks. Jack Straw delivers:
WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.
🚨 JUST IN: In a truly incredible moment, SecWar Pete Hegseth just PERSONALLY gave upgraded valor awards to US Marines who were DOWNGRADED by the Biden admin after they ran into danger in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombings
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 26, 2026
Biden tried HIDING his failure by throwing THEM under the bus.… pic.twitter.com/rr36r3AEas
🚨 NOW: Sec. Hegseth is UPGRADING the valor awards for the Marines who REFUSED to run away from the bombings at Abbey Gate, 5 years ago today
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 26, 2026
Hegseth revealed today Biden DOWNGRADED their awards to cover up his Abbey Gate failure.
These guys ran BACK INTO DANGER to keep the… pic.twitter.com/vPfydDQWx7
Today, we recognized three Marines for their heroism at Abbey Gate five years ago.
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) August 27, 2026
Gunnery Sergeant Jonathan Eby, Corporal Michael Gretzon, and Lance Corporal Jordan Houston went above and beyond for their fellow Marines.
Their records did not properly reflect their heroism.… pic.twitter.com/48k7VAlCVD
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga The Abbey Gate attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26, 2021, killed 13 U.S. service members--11 Marines, one Navy corpsman, and one Army soldier--in the final days of a withdrawal that had already spiraled into chaos. You're right that the families have channeled unimaginable grief into action: the Gold Star mothers and fathers built foundations, named K9s after their sons, lobbied Congress, and sat through hearings that produced a lot of theater and very little accountability. What they got instead of an accounting was a process--and a process is not the same thing as an answer. The Shape of the "Accounting" So Far - The After-Action Reviews produced classified and redacted reports that described the withdrawal as "flawed" and "poorly planned" but pointed fingers in a circular way: the military blamed State, State blamed the collapsed Afghan government, everyone blamed the Trump--Taliban Doha agreement, and the buck stopped nowhere. - The Abbey Gate investigation concluded the bomber was a lone ISIS-K operative who slipped through screening--a finding that satisfied the chain of command but answered almost none of the families' questions about why evacuation was happening at all, why the gate was so exposed, or why intelligence warnings weren't acted on. - No senior official has been fired, demoted, or held personally responsible. Not the generals, not the National Security Council staff, not the people who signed off on the drawdown timeline. In several cases, the people who made the decisions have been promoted or moved on to lucrative private-sector roles. Why No One Has Been Held Accountable? The uncomfortable reality is that accountability within the national security apparatus is largely self-policing, and the institution's incentive is to protect its own. When the Pentagon investigates itself, the goal is rarely to assign individual blame--it's to produce a document to point to as "we looked into it." Because most of the underlying material is classified, the public (and even Congress, in practical terms) can't verify what was actually known and when. There's also the political dimension: the people who would have to be held accountable are the same people who staff the next administration's transition teams, sit on think-tank boards, and write the op-eds. Washington is a revolving door, and no one inside it has much interest in establishing a precedent where catastrophic strategic failure ends a career. What the Families Actually Asked For - The names of whoever made the final call on the withdrawal timeline.
- An unredacted accounting of the intelligence failures.
- Designation of responsibility, not "lessons learned."
- Some acknowledgment that the decision-making, not just the tactical execution at the gate, is what killed their children. None of that has been delivered in any meaningful form. The hearings generated soundbites, the Gold Star families were used as props by both parties, and the actual answers remain buried in classification and institutional self-protection. The service members themselves--the 13 at Abbey Gate and the roughly 170 Afghans killed alongside them--did their jobs. The failure was never theirs. It belonged to the people who put them in that position and then quietly moved on. That's the accounting that's never come, and at this point, probably never will in any form that satisfies the people who lost children.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:45 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:46 PM (ccf/V)
https://bit.ly/4d844JR
Posted by: Half Dozen at August 27, 2026 01:46 PM (CqZOC)
Without SEVERE retribution, this will happen again.
Even with severe retribution, this will happen again, but if we make people really afraid of what happens when you cover up catastrophes, it will at least be some time before it happens again.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (TbVRb)
It has to be one of the more egregious fuck ups in American history. Keep in mind, an ordinary enlisted soldier or officer who loses his rifle is in deep shit, and his career is effectively ended.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (aRf29)
Posted by: Biden at August 27, 2026 01:48 PM (wVcYX)
Joe Biden's senate career started with the bugout of Saigon he and his comrades forced on Ford and ended with this.
The Achilles of Afghanistan.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:49 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (aRf29)
THAT should be the legacy of the Biden administration.
A total clusterf*ck of epic proportions.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (ccf/V)
But I'm fine with using it as a pretext to get them out of our country. We definitely don't need these motherfuckers here so they can look at a Christmas parade and get the urge to lace up their old drivin' cleats.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (BI5O2)
And I don't mean one or two. We need to draw down to WWII numbers of generals and hang the rest.
We'll have a LOT fewer incompetents wanting to become generals.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: toddg at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (s+SI3)
The situation in Kabul, the whole city, is fluid and dynamic.
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (2cROu)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (enNUy)
If it's the latter, he gets a few points deducted from his otherwise very manly man-card.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Advo at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (aRf29)
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Yep.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (BfYtr)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (2Cry5)
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$3 from every Biden voter would cover a lot of the cost.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (4KUe5)
He was in a Zero Unit in Afghanistan before we idiotically brought him and others here. Ticking time bombs. They are trained assassins and from what I've read about them they love to kill. I doubt there was anything accidental about the killings they did in Afghanistan.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (viF8m)
The Achilles of Afghanistan.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:49 PM (Y8DZL)
Yet another betrayal of our allies.
South Vietnam just needed financial support and they could have easily held off the North, who was getting serious support from Russia and China.
But the Democrats wanted the communists to win, so lots of allied Vietnamese needed to die.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (N1DT3)
They voted to cutoff funding to the South and they held on against the Communists till they ran out of ammunition. Then the real slaughter began.
Leftists studiously ignore mountains of skulls on their journey to Utopia. Let nothing contrary to The Narrative be acknowledged. Like it never happened.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:53 PM (aRf29)
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 01:53 PM (2cROu)
What a pleasant surprise.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (4KUe5)
Not bad for a drunken rapist, eh?
- - -- - Reddit, Maybe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)
I'll bet all the alphabet news shows save FOX won't mention any of this tonight.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (Y8DZL)
The FNM made this THE story for about a month.
Because the investigation found he'd actually been killed by friendly fire. Not intentional, but the all too common sort of thing that happens when you are in contested territory.
This was considered a coverup for some reason.
What Biden did in the 'Stan rout though? Yawn the FNM doesn't care
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
What a pleasant surprise.
Posted by: Lizzy
He always looks like he's pissed off about something, which I like in a military leader.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (BI5O2)
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I'd be shocked if half of Western Europe hadn't done it too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (/PKja)
I think that's probably the way he naturally turns gray.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (JrHfD)
wow. I did not know that.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (1wjle)
It has to be one of the more egregious fuck ups in American history.
Here's the video of Trump telling the story of how Gen Milley intended to leave all of the military equipment in Afghanistan. It was his PLAN. Milley approached Trump and told him it was cheaper to leave the equipment there.
http://tiny.cc/aif9101
In my opinion, Milley wasn't stupid as Trump concluded. Milley was compromised by China and he wanted them to have it all to take apart and study and use.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (mkw2N)
He always looks like he's pissed off about something, which I like in a military leader.
Posted by: Bulg
Milley always looks pissed off.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (TbVRb)
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"A real Defense Secretary would have told Iran of the attack before it started for fairness sake."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (/PKja)
That’s cheaper too, numbnuts
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (aRf29)
Yet another in a seemingly endless list of Biden fuckups.
>>WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.
https://tinyurl.com/pyvve2us
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (viF8m)
This is one of the reasons I am glad that I do not have any social media accounts. I do not get to see this stuff firsthand.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 02:00 PM (OkYzo)
But I have yet to be summoned for firing squad duty.
Maybe they lost my application.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 27, 2026 02:00 PM (tez/p)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (2cROu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Cqx++)
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To Lake Whobegone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (YZ0Fo)
The FNM made this THE story for about a month.
Because the investigation found he'd actually been killed by friendly fire. Not intentional, but the all too common sort of thing that happens when you are in contested territory.
This was considered a coverup for some reason.
What Biden did in the 'Stan rout though? Yawn the FNM doesn't care
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
Now do Jessica Lynch.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM
Yeah. Real defense secretaries disappear and don't let anyone know you're having surgery.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Cqx++)
To what, Lake FREEDOM?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)
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That is his claim to fame??
*wet fart*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (RIvkX)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoins DSA after membership lapse of seven years Then House candidate joined Democratic Socialists of America in 2018 but didn’t renew membership after a year
Interesting that the DSA announced this, not AOC. They have some crazy nonsense in their platform, like embracing communism (which is VERY different than socialism) and calling for eliminating cops and prisons. It is an unelectable platform, so I hope she stays at arms length from them.
She’s running for senate. No way this was done with any calculations towards running for president in ‘28. The obvious correct move btw. Schumer’s seat is all but hers.
I think you are correct. DSA candidates may be unelectable in national elections, but they cartainly can beat Democrats in safe blue areas.
the right is going to associate her with the DSA anyways so no reason to put off the actual DSA supporters that do support her. We will not win the country back by punching to the left
Centrist democrats will whine "condemn Hasan" or imply she's antisemetic, and Maga will scream she's a commie even more.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: Oldcat at August
America. Then he said now we got a gulf and a lake. Now we just need an ocean.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (TbVRb)
If it's the latter, he gets a few points deducted from his otherwise very manly man-card.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
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Grecian Formula fail.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (mkw2N)
Russia ended up getting a lot of it. Might be a case of 'AND'. But there were reports of Russia getting that tech.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)
The gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (Vvm2m)
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That is his claim to fame??
*wet fart*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (RIvkX)
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He's like exhibit #3 in my trial against congressional hearings as being useful for anything other than theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
PJMedia: "The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable"
I just learned that kale only "became a superfood because a publicist in New York invented a trade association that did not exist."
"Before all that," Hoole continued, "the biggest kale buyer in America was Pizza Hut. Not for the menu. They bought it by the ton, fourteen thousand pounds of it in 2012, and laid it round the salad bar to hide the ice."
Kale, in short, was the stuff they put food on.
"Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)
It works for Rogue...and Tulsi Gabbard.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Jordan and his sleeve positions 1 and 2?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (YZ0Fo)
We believe that this can go ‘til the 31st. We are talking to them about what the exact timetable is for how this will all play out, and I don’t want to negotiate in public on working out the best modality to get the most people out in the most efficient way possible.
I would just let the results speak for themselves so far and we’re not taking anything for granted.
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (2cROu)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)
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Did you bring enough to share equally with everyone?
Posted by: Ace's Dissappointed Kindergarten Teacher at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (RIvkX)
the right is going to associate her with the DSA anyways so no reason to put off the actual DSA supporters that do support her. We will not win the country back by punching to the left
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (otzbu)
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It's amazing that the Democrats have an antisemetism problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (/PKja)
Although I won't forget the fumbles and outright pussy attitudes of W and the GOPe. Acts of war like 9/11 are the reason we have nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (g8Ew8)
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Curtis LeMay kind of had a permanent scowl, augmented by a semi-permanent cigar. But I guess his demeanor was due to Bell’s Palsy.
He famously whipped the Air Force into shape. He made them perform. He once flew into a base, called an alert. The base commander shows up in a hawaiian shirt wondering what’s going on. He would relieve people on the spot. Also promotions on the spot, sometimes for a whole squad.
He had Dayton, Ohio designated as a target for Air Force practice training. Very few planes even found Dayton, they were all messed up. He fixed all of that.
You can tell a lot about a guy by his enemies, the left tries to portray him as crazy and a bad guy. He was a great guy. The US remained nuclearly unscathed from the 1950s thru the 1970s because of this man, there is almost no doubt. Many presidents were skeptical though never enough to fire him, regardless of party.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (aRf29)
Posted by: Oldcat at August
America. Then he said now we got a gulf and a lake. Now we just need an ocean.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (YZ0Fo)
I really wish he'd have done "Lake OF America" as a counterpart to the Gulf of America, but I love the troll nonetheless.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Donald John Trump at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (huE5O)
>>WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.
https://tinyurl.com/pyvve2us
Posted by: JackStraw
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It seems as if the CIA has the capacity to not pick loyalists but unsavory people who will do its bidding for a price. Didn't we also have a problem with an interpreter doing something similar?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (+UcOf)
Same as Dad. Semper Fi.
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (j0Tky)
I got my FMF with them. LOVE seeing these Marines being properly recognized.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (PGK1w)
We'll have a LOT fewer incompetents wanting to become generals.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (N1DT3)
WWII levels? Our armed forces are about 20 percent of the levels there were then.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
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He, Trey Gowdy, and Jim Jordan make me think #twoweeks.
Posted by: Ace's Dissappointed Kindergarten Teacher at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: AoSHQ Snack Food and Confectionery Division at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)
So...Kale Fail?
Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (NTVPI)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (j0Tky)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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Failure theater at that.
Fauci's wife still giving everyone the finger?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (2Cry5)
Think about it: 10,000 barely-vetted vicious Muslim assassins and killers brought into the USA.
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
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He, Trey Gowdy, and Jim Jordan make me think #twoweeks.
Posted by: Ace's Dissappointed Kindergarten Teacher at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (RIvkX)
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Benghazi hearings are #1.
Gowdy generally is #2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (RIvkX)
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Somebody should have been a glass parking lot by 9/12; maybe more than one somebody.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (aRf29)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (j0Tky)
PJMedia: "The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable"
I just learned that kale only "became a superfood because a publicist in New York invented a trade association that did not exist."
"Before all that," Hoole continued, "the biggest kale buyer in America was Pizza Hut. Not for the menu. They bought it by the ton, fourteen thousand pounds of it in 2012, and laid it round the salad bar to hide the ice."
Kale, in short, was the stuff they put food on.
"Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)
Why the hate on kale? It's just broccoli leaves.
It's not some amazing food nor is it the devil incarnate. It's just greens.
And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (N1DT3)
If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (dLz3U)
Fauci's wife still giving everyone the finger?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (2Cry5)
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Theater has its uses, and Congress has no power to actually enforce laws, that's the responsibility of the executive.
But, ultimately, Congress' power is legislating and overseeing the executive. It barely does the first and the second is mostly a joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (j0Tky)
Blinken, as I recall, had his security clearances pulled by Trump when he returned in 2025. Blinken, also, got a large retainer on a book deal upon Trump's win, which really says a lot because I think if you asked 1,000 random Americans, maybe 10 would know who he was.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (N1DT3)
Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
>It's not some amazing food nor is it the devil incarnate. It's just greens.
>And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.
Big Chard is behind all of this Kale Hate.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (j0Tky)
An odd start to a limerick.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (TbVRb)
Sure he did, Sport.
Sure. He. Did.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (uhVAy)
But we have a larger number of generals today than we did in WWII.
This is me being merciful.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (N1DT3)
"Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)
Why the hate on kale? It's just broccoli leaves.
It's not some amazing food nor is it the devil incarnate. It's just greens.
And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (N1DT3)
Eating kale regularly voids the warranty on your asshole and reduces its operational lifespan.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: DJT at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (2cROu)
If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (dLz3U)
He did nothing of the sort. He was too busy shitting his pants.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)
I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (TbVRb)
This was planned in advance and shared with the enemy. As if choosing that date wasn’t bad enough, he gave them time to plan the attack.
It was a sh$tshow from top to bottom.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (4KUe5)
It's an Oreo chicken sandwich. People have gone nuts for chicken and waffles for ages. It's a similar idea. Sweet and savory combined, like doughnuts with bacon bits.
Life's full of things we don't really need, but create some joy.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: night lifted at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (kJmLc)
If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (dLz3U)
He did nothing of the sort. He was too busy shitting his pants.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (ccf/V)
If such a thing happened the response is to fire the generals, not screw up your pullout and lose men and material.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (uhVAy)
Might just be me but I find it odd that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to shoot Trump at his golf course, has completely disappeared from the media. His entire life story is very suspicious to me.
How did a broke roofer from Hawaii managed to travel around the world including to Ukraine?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Donald John Trump
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Ok Mr. Two Scoops - so how am I going to remember the Great Lakes now
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)
Might just be me but I find it odd that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to shoot Trump at his golf course, has completely disappeared from the media. His entire life story is very suspicious to me.
How did a broke roofer from Hawaii managed to travel around the world including to Ukraine?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)
See: The Las Vegas Shooter
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)
Per Obama 3.0 plans
Posted by: night lifted at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)
It just wouldn't be Democratic if weapons and ammo weren't given to terrorists to kill Americans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (enNUy)
Except he didn’t: he removed all established prerequisites that were built into each step.
Just picked a date, regardless of the local government meeting stated requirements, and announced it (so no flexibility should events on the ground jeopardize a safe exit with stable government in place).
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (NTVPI)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
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I know something about this!
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (j0Tky)
If I remember correctly they left the service dogs behind, damn them all to hell !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (NtVYv)
Might just be me but I find it odd that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to shoot Trump at his golf course, has completely disappeared from the media. His entire life story is very suspicious to me.
How did a broke roofer from Hawaii managed to travel around the world including to Ukraine?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)
There was a lot of crazy stuff going on in the heady days of 2022 when there was a crusade to fight for Ukraine in person. He might have just got caught up in a lot of that action, and being American might have had uses other flakes could not match.
The ardor died down when Russia put a missile into one of their barracks. After a little fighting the remnants of the foreign volunteers were stashed in the Kharkov area where action was low.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (uhVAy)
1.) The GOP is metaphysically useless.
2.) The DoJ is a completely uncontrollable rogue agency.
The House voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing his subpoena. Not only Holder and Obama but the entire DoJ simply said "fuck you. We won't comply. We all hold YOU in contempt!"
And the GOP replied "right, then. We'll just go sit in our cuck chairs. As you were."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (BI5O2)
Our locally engaged staff, they are absolutely a priority. They are absolutely part of our plans. And that commitment to them, to their safety and security, is something that is in no way diminished.
There’s been no change to the timeline of the mission, which is to have this completed by the end of the month. We remain committed to getting any and all Americans that want to leave, to get them out. We believe that we have the capability, the ability, to get that done by the end of the month.
The Taliban have been very clear about what their expectations are as well.
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (2cROu)
Today he used this word i had to look up.
cicisbeo
/chē″chēz-bā′ō″/ noun
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (X6P5n)
@nypost 1h
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)
If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN
So perspicacious ... and entirely evidence free! A marvel, you are!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (trSL4)
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)
Erie
Superior
America (even more Superior)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (uhVAy)
Now, that might seem like a good thing, until you wonder why they would help the Israelis, you know, the hated Jews? Maybe because they were getting paid. What else might they do if someone was willing to pay them?
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
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I know something about this!
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM
Dude, you voided the warranty years ago by using it in a manner not intended, and discouraged, by the manufacturer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (2Cry5)
/chē″chēz-bā′ō″/ noun
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (X6P5n)
haha, he said dangler
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (NtVYv)
1.) The GOP is metaphysically useless.
2.) The DoJ is a completely uncontrollable rogue agency.
The House voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing his subpoena. Not only Holder and Obama but the entire DoJ simply said "fuck you. We won't comply. We all hold YOU in contempt!"
And the GOP replied "right, then. We'll just go sit in our cuck chairs. As you were."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (BI5O2)
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That sounds like the DOJ was partisan and aligned with the president instead of independent.
Honestly, that's how it should be.
The problem was that Republicans didn't get to have partisan DOJs. Only Democrats did. I do believe Trump 2.0 changed that calculus.
Remember, it was fine for Clinton to ask for the resignations of every USA, but it was a crime against the constitution for W to do it because the "DOJ is independent" or whatever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM
A voice from my childhood that is permanently etched into my psyche. Great voice.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
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THAT'S why Buttigieg wears that "I Void Warranties" shirt.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (ccf/V)
@nypost 1h
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)
Fucking lazy idiots
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 02:24 PM (NtVYv)
We will respond with force and precision at our time, at the place we choose, and the moment of our choosing.
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:24 PM (2cROu)
Posted by: Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (0sNs1)
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)
CNN is the port-a-potty of waste water treatment centers
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V)
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)
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I remember that great old American folk song - The Eric Canal.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (amcLV)
Honestly, that's how it should be.
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And Congress should have impeached Eric Holder. Successful or not, it would have forced an ugly, devastating public accounting of F&F.
But nope.
The metaphysically useless GOP were ordered to their cuck chairs, and off they saddled.
Pathetic.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)
And the GOP replied "right, then. We'll just go sit in our cuck chairs. As you were."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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What can the opposition do in a situation like that? What recourse did they have? Could they get the Capitol Police to pick Holder up?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
New book by a retired spook, The Pickle Factory, describes a madhouse organization barely hanging together.
Federalist
https://tinyurl.com/muptrv77
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:27 PM (diia5)
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)
CNN is the port-a-potty of waste water treatment centers
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V)
CNN covering something in the middle two thirds of the US? Not possible, I shan't believe it. Its AI.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)
The CIA has been embedded in Ukraine since they ran the coup in 2014. During Biden, the US sent close to $200 billion to Ukraine with zero oversight.
The CIA basically was it's own government for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (amcLV)
He would have a very very low bridge.
In about that era there was a canal in Ohio from Cincinnati to the Great Lakes. Just a few miles north of where I grew up there was a bend-in-the road town called Port Union. Its in the center of farms and fields not even a creek. It used to be a port on that canal.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:27 PM
Of course not. Nothing of importance happens out there. Plus, it's filled with icky people, for the most part.
Posted by: This. Is. CNN. at August 27, 2026 02:30 PM (0sNs1)
Peter Cullen voice of Optimus Prime has passed.
Posted by: BruceWayne
I am reminded of the Robot Chicken episode in which Optimus Prime, a robot, is diagnosed with prostate cancer, from which he dies. It was pretty funny and ended with him urging folks to get an annual prostate exam.
Didja get yours checked, Congresscritter McBride? Of are you too busy trying to scare up accomplishments, or anything, that will cover up your singular lack of meaningful work for the past two years?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:30 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:
Was, and will be.
All of these agencies are just waiting out Trump, and then it's back to business as usual. The palettes of currency will all be back in play, and they'll be calling their own shots again.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:31 PM (BI5O2)
The CIA basically was it's own government for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:29 PM (viF8m)
Yes, all the talk about the costs of Ukraine during the war doesn't mention the secret money spent there to build up its forces heading to 2014, and when they lost that war building the army up a second time for the 2022 war.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 02:31 PM (aRf29)
My somewhat dark brown hair has a gorgeous, silver patch across the front and a long silver streak down the left side when I grow it out. It's natural and as a guy approaching 59, I'm glad to have it.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 27, 2026 02:32 PM (Fv808)
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That was the most disgusting part.
And that the media just repeated that as fact.
Not, as you note, how it was just a random date picked by Biden without regard to any of the mandatory prerequisites under Trump's plan.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 02:32 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
Then it wouldn't match the other 4 Great Lakes. They're not "Lake of Michigan, Lake of Erie....."
Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 02:33 PM (VHUov)
There hasn’t been a single operation that I’ve ever been involved in where we didn’t discover something we could have done better or more efficiently or more effectively. No operation is ever perfect.
Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:33 PM (2cROu)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Leftist Ms. Rachel: "Black people don't hang themselves from trees"
Raleigh Police Chief: There's a video showing him hanging himself.
Another race hoax
Every. Single. Time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:34 PM (ndZc7)
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop
The Washington Post piously proclaimed that she and her husband were childless by choice despite them having tried to conceive for years, only to have her lose that capacity through endometriosis and a subsequent hysterectory.
Ghouls. They are lying ghouls.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:34 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)
I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)
I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (N1DT3)
#Losing
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)
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They can vote to have the Sergeant at Arms arrest him.
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (oqH4h)
We had a huge, well protected and very strategic military base but rather than using it as the platform for a safe withdrawal Biden abandoned it and forced people to fight their way through known terrorists in Kabul. It's like he wanted people to get killed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (viF8m)
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)
SHAME
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (N1DT3)
Karens are plants, for they, too, are bitter and nasty.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)
I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (N1DT3)
I do drink tea without adding anything to it if that helps any...pretty rarely though.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:37 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:38 PM (kmiHN)
Colors and counting. Worry about that shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Surprised she took a second away from her Jew hate.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:39 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
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S
H
A
M
E
Duh!!🙄
Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (VCgbV)
Hang them all.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)
And Congress should have impeached Eric Holder. Successful or not, it would have forced an ugly, devastating public accounting of F&F.
But nope.
The metaphysically useless GOP were ordered to their cuck chairs, and off they saddled.
Pathetic.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)
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Oh, agreed.
Holder, at least, should have been tried and executed for treason. The reasoning for F&F was an insurrection against the United States.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:41 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (N1DT3)
S
H
A
M
E
Duh!!🙄
Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (VCgbV)
You're slow!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:41 PM (N1DT3)
Colors and counting. Worry about that shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:38 PM (kmiHN)
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I watched her stuff very briefly in the early days of covid when I was balancing doing the job and taking care of a small toddler. Couldn't stand it. Found other stuff to melt Second Junior's brain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:42 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (ndZc7)
And they would win tons of awards even though no one would go to see it.
I wonder when the movie about this Zero Units will come out.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)
I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
I'm calling it now - you'll see this again Saturday night.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (Fv808)
Way worse than something like Bay of Pigs.
Biden should have been immediately impeached.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 02:44 PM (YF0aI)
Biden should have been immediately impeached.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 02:44 PM (YF0aI)
That's not who we are.
Posted by: GOPe at August 27, 2026 02:45 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)
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He signed the IRA which led to generational wealth accumulation for man leftist apparatchiks.
You call that nothing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:46 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 27, 2026 02:47 PM (M1WvK)
TBF, She entered a Halloween drag contest in West Hollywood, she exaggerate her hair, make-up and birth mark. The judges thought it was some little boy coming across the stage looking like Dolly—and the make-up was "over the top".
So DP lost a look-alike contest to a bunch of perverts.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 02:47 PM (nCgQz)
Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)
Must do everything to make Obama look good....
Must do everything to make Obama look good....
Must do everything to make Obama look good....
Trump is a Racist..........
Trump is a Racist..........
Trump is a Racist..........
Posted by: Mike Hunt at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (WoQyw)
Many may not remember, but the 90s CNO, Jeremy "Mike" Boorda (beloved by enlisted Sailors because he came up from the ranks) committed suicide after it was revealed his Navy Commendation Medal didn't rate the "V" device.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (gUs21)
Sounds like the name of a movie about trannies with "gender confirming healthcare".
Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (9s47C)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)
But they seem to have only arrested his roommate or something.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)
But they seem to have only arrested his roommate or something.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (ccf/V)
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Omar Junior knew nothing!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (/PKja)
Why are they stupid ???
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (j93VM)
I'll never understand bureaucrats.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (yRCXf)
Have those clowns from the White House "Politburo" take the heat... they probably are behind it anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (2Cry5)
Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)
The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost beg to differ.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (wtvvX)
Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)
There are a lot of vipers pretending to be shepherds, leading people to hell.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:54 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer
Yeah that was a sad affair.
But did he really kill himself, or did he have information tha could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
Why? I mean this is about the 10th time someone in the Trump administration has found "hidden" files that someone from the biden administration left behind instead of destroying.
I know they weren't that sloppy so why did they keep all of this incriminating $hit?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 02:55 PM (cpFbA)
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
·
51m
Oh come on you actually think a busy man like him has time to visit every room in his villa
New York Post
@nypost
·
18h
Gavin Newsom claims he 'didn't even know' about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home https://trib.al/DVpsVXM
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 02:55 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)
Please disregard the posters of OBL, Chi Guevera, Castro and the Death to America T-Shirt found in the apartment.
Mostly peaceful items found, so no story here. Now back to Trump being Hitler and Stalin stories....
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 27, 2026 02:56 PM (j93VM)
I'll never understand bureaucrats.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (yRCXf)
Because destroying them is a crime and hiding them is not.
(That's my guess for the answer.)
Destroying them directly makes them culpable. Hiding them gives them deniability.
Remember, these people think like lawyers and think they are smarter than everyone else.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (N1DT3)
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18h
Gavin Newsom claims he 'didn't even know' about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home https://trib.al/DVpsVXM
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 02:55 PM (kX27y)
While I believe this is utter and complete bullshit, I lived in my current house for over a month before I noticed the wet bar in the living room.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (ccf/V)
But did he really kill himself, or did he have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
LOL
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (gUs21)
Oh, agreed.
Holder, at least, should have been tried and executed for treason. The reasoning for F&F was an insurrection against the United States.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:41 PM (/PKja)
Incidentally, that treason was committed by Holder literally engaging in an ACT OF WAR against Mexico, by supplying the cartels with arms that would be used to murder Mexican citizens in their own country. Remember, the whole point was to get a bunch of Mexicans killed so that the Policia could get the serial numbers off of the guns they found at the scene so that they could be traced.
It's like an ouroboros of criminal cocksuckery.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (kmiHN)
Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To
Josiah's priests must have missed the fine print exculpatory language in the Decalogue that addresses graven images.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (9s47C)
It's been painfully obvious since at least the Owebama administration.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (ccf/V)
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But did he really kill himself, or did he have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
It is safer to try to kiss a Great White Shark then be a friend or aquantance of the Clintons....
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I didn't know about the girl chained to the wall in my basement.
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Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (+gK6I)
TBH it was one of the better appointments they made - it muted a lot of the rancor over Tailhook and the "Peace Dividend" that defenestrated the Navy and military at large.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (gUs21)
I honestly cannot imagine what they did and the courage and tenacity it took to go beyond what they needed to. Saved lives. Valor defined and while injured they did not give up.
Horrified about what the Biden administration did that day to Afghanistan and our troops.
Sadly, after seeing photos of Afghani people clinging to cargo planes, I just don't know. Thankful I did not have to make that choice to take off. I remember people clinging to the wings.
I once felt bad about Afghan translators, who served with our men, whom Biden abandoned. However, based on the few terrorist attacks by a few here, I did wonder about vetting.
What a sad day for our country that was.
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Posted by: ychlwwrq at August 28, 2026 07:21 AM (Nanlt)
Exclusive Hamptons Club Cancels Restaurant Service After Illegal Immigrant Staff is Deported
ICE Deports a Record Number of Illegals Over the Summer
I saw this story cited on Instapundit, with the comment: We used to hire American teenagers for these jobs.
So, try that.I think you can afford to increase wages to hire a legal staff. And if you can't, you can't. A business that has to commit crimes to stay in business maybe isn't run competently enough, or attractive enough to customers, to stay in business.
An ultra-exclusive Hamptons yacht club catering to the wealthy and well-connected was forced to suspend its members-only restaurant service for multiple days after several of its kitchen staff were booted from the country over visa issues, The Post has learned. The swanky oceanfront Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett -- which reportedly charges around $100,000 in initiation fees -- canceled its Wednesday night dinner service after it lost its foreign cooks, according to a letter sent to members the same day.
Oh, so this is an easily solved "problem." The club claims this is just a paperwork snafu involving H2B visas (temporary, seasonal visas for supposedly necessary foreign workers) and suggests maybe the problem is with the Trump Administration's DHS. I don't know. The rest of the article talks about the "choppy waters" this club as been in for years. Deportations continue:
Food service was also canceled Thursday and is not expected to be back up and running until Friday's lunch service, the club informed its deep-pocketed members -- a group that once included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's parents.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_ NEW: I'm told by federal source that ICE has arrested roughly 300 Haitian nationals in the state of Ohio alone in recent days, as the agency is now considering transitioning into a find & arrest approach after giving Haitians several weeks to turn themselves in to ICE offices since TPS officially ended on July 27th. I'm told to expect arrests of Haitians to begin to significantly ramp up soon as ICE starts to prioritize tracking down those who never checked in.
Bill MeluginThe leftwing media is pushing the newest op, which is that ICE has arrested a record number of illegals "without criminal records"... apart from violating the country's immigration rules, and, I'm sure, committing either identity theft to hold a job or welfare fraud to become dependents on a country they are not citizens of. First: Whether or not they have "criminal records," they are still illegal and not permitted to stay. There is no law saying "illegals may live in the US as long as they like so long as Soros DAs refuse to prosecute them for crimes." Second: Trump and Tom Homan have said over and over they would not have to go into illegal immigrant areas and arrest any illegals they find if leftwing sanctuary jurisdictions would just turn over the criminal illegal aliens they seek as their highest priority. If you just turned over the illegal criminals at the jail, this would be an easy job for ICE with no need of going into "the communities." But we're all supposed to take from this that Undocumented Criminals have a right to remain forever, so long as only some of their crimes are documented. By the way: this article admits, at the very end, that ICE has reduced "going into the communities" to make arrests and is now arresting people stopped at routine traffic stops and found to be illegal and less-invasive situations like that.
@BillMelugin_ Aug 24 BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: DHS tells @FoxNews that ICE has quietly carried out one of its most successful operations in agency history, resulting in the arrests of 1,328 illegal aliens in just a 14-day span in the states of Virginia & Maryland. Nearly 400 of the aliens had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, including a Salvadoran illegal alien wanted by police in Richmond, VA on a murder warrant. (Eygner Wilfredo Huezo-Moran's mugshot below). Other targets included aliens with rap sheets for attempted murder and rape, as well as convictions for sexual battery, kidnapping, robbery and DWI. The operation primarily targeted the sanctuary jurisdiction suburbs in VA & MD around Washington DC, and ICE arrested anyone in the U.S. illegally, regardless of any criminal history.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record high of more than 800 people without criminal records a day in July on average, new federal data shows. The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes the agency to hit a target of 2,000 per day. July is the first month in President Trump's second term when people with only civil immigration violations -- rather than pending criminal charges or convictions -- made up more than half of those arrested. An average of more than 1,580 people were arrested each day in July, also a new high for the current administration. Enforcement ramped up this summer after a drop following public backlash to the Department of Homeland Security's operation in Minneapolis, a funding standoff and a shake-up in DHS leadership. But, as has been the case with ICE's previous big city crackdowns, rising arrest totals come with spikes in community arrests of people without criminal records. Administration officials have repeatedly claimed that their enforcement efforts are focused on "the worst of the worst" and often tout arrests of immigrants with violent criminal convictions. Those with convictions for violent crimes as defined by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics make up about 6% of all those booked into ICE detention under the current administration, and about 4% of those taken into custody in July, the data show.So 1, this data comes from a leftwing Open Borders group, and 2, deliberately excludes foreign criminal records or open arrest warrants.
"ICE enforces the law as written. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S.-- full stop," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. "Many of the individuals that are counted as 'non-criminals' are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters and more; they just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S." The data, obtained from ICE by the Deportation Data Project run by the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, does not provide information about immigrants' alleged crimes in other countries. CBS News asked DHS to provide that data.
"Claims," you see. They're liars, CBS "News" wants you to know.
White House border czar Tom Homan has said that sanctuary policies that prevent local law enforcement from turning over people held in jails and prisons to ICE force them to "flood the zone" and deploy more resources to such cities to find and arrest their targets and anyone else they encounter living in the U.S. illegally. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has made similar claims.
But June and July data suggests that ICE agents making arrests in communities are not focusing their efforts solely on areas the administration deems to be sanctuary jurisdictions. Those cities and states saw a 27% increase in street arrests during those months compared to the previous six, compared with a 50% increase everywhere else, CBS News' analysis of the data found.Wow, what an important bit of news: ICE is able to arrest more illegals in areas where the police cooperate with them. Here's the very, very late admission that ICE has reduced the controversial program of making mass arrests in sanctuary zones:
... The uptick in arrests has been without highly publicized city-focused crackdowns, with agents instead turning to traffic stops, airport arrests and arrests at immigration check-ins. The killing of two immigrants by federal agents in Maine and Texas during attempted traffic stops reignited outcry.
BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: DHS tells @FoxNews that ICE has quietly carried out one of its most successful operations in agency history, resulting in the arrests of 1,328 illegal aliens in just a 14-day span in the states of Virginia & Maryland. Nearly 400 of the aliens had criminal… pic.twitter.com/ZCcWuAxxZS
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 24, 2026
This media-driven notion that enforcing immigration laws against a foreigner who doesn’t have a criminal record is somehow unusual is ridiculous.
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) August 27, 2026
If foreigners can come illegally and not face repercussions absent a separate criminal conviction then we have a de facto open… pic.twitter.com/jKQDtB4cH9
Deb Haaland, the Democratic nominee for governor of New Mexico, says ICE “terrorized” the community after arresting a “father”.@AliBradleyTV reports DHS ID’d the “father” as illegal alien Edgar Chacon-Miranda, who has a rap sheet for criminal sexual penetration, child abuse,… https://t.co/GwqjLJeTPq
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 26, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (9iRTe)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (NcvvS)
We were afraid the crows came back with a vengence and were pecking your eyes out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Barack H. Soetoro at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (rxwdW)
ICE Deports a Record Number of Illegals Over the Summer
Why aren't they subject to hefty fines due to their violating federal law?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (ccf/V)
Oh, whomever might we find to prepare our vittles?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (ExV1e)
Also the left: We can't deport the illegals, they all work and who will do the jobs they are doing right now?
Also, also the left: Seriously I can't pay an American to watch my kids/mow my lawn/fix my house. I only make $150K a year so I am poor!
Also, also, also the left: Obviously if we check citizenship status as part of welfare millions will starve to death because, uh, nevermind why.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
Ohio could also sell tags...
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (4KUe5)
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Every single TPS holder who now no longer holds TPS has been informed that they are eligible for deportation. They've all lost their jobs, some are fleeing (reports of them going to Canada, HA!), and there are reports of deportations for them specifically.
Remember, deportation is not a criminal remedy. It is the civil remedy to the civil crime of being present in the United States illegally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (CWTWj)
I believe you. I also believe you NEVER stay silent.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (0U5gm)
I remember when the government entrapped Randy Weaver over a minor violation and showed up at his house and shot his dog, his son, and his wife and the FNM/left told me that if you didn't want to get shot you shouldn't break the law.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)
Sure, they didn't KNOW they were all illegals, but screw logic.
I just want these people miserable.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 12:38 PM (Sco7b)
alas, no. Just got a late start and then half-wrote several posts without finishing any of them.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 12:38 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (rxwdW)
T. Coddington Van Voorhees
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 12:38 PM (/OKHJ)
Those Haitians could be living in the shadows. In a constant state of fear that "the man" could come and take them away at any moment.
I'm pretty unbothered by that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)
alas, no. Just got a late start and then half-wrote several posts without finishing any of them.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 12:38 PM (1wjle)
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That's what she said.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM
#Metoo
Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson Kline at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (9iRTe)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (wtvvX)
Ditto. It sucks. But it teaches you a valuable lesson; what you DON'T want to do for rest of your life. It...motivates one.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (NcvvS)
Gee. Don't provide any details into THAT tidbit or anything.
You really don't hate the media enough. They truly ARE the enemy of the people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ccf/V)
They need to be sent back to their own Communities.. This is not their Country
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)
Maybe the middle class has made so much money that they can give their kids all the tech toys they want, so their kids just play games and text each other all day (or whatever they do now, instead of text). Too many spoiled kids? And too much victimology?
Posted by: illiniwek at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (Cqx++)
And we need to treat our current "undocumented workers" like we treated Japanese "undocumented workers" in 1942
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (wtvvX)
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There's nothing illegal about deporting someone who is present in the United States illegally. It is a civil crime with the civil remedy of deportation.
Sending someone home is not irreparable harm.
The left just wants it to be illegal to legally enforce laws passed by Congress against people they don't want them enforced against.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (/PKja)
I hope there's an unspoken 'yet' at the end of that statement.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
"criminal record" as defined by the media in these reports are only those arrested AND convicted of a major crime in the United States.
It excludes misdemeanors, those arrested for felonies, those currently under indictment for felonies, and--most importantly--those who have extensive criminal records in their home country.
Thus, an illegal convicted of murder in his home country, will be counted as having "no criminal record" by the US media.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (3cUTc)
but all the clubs and stuff around here - all the places I used to work at or my brothers did - hired adult illegals instead
even the grocers! even the local butcher shop!
there was NOTHING
no caddying no back of house no sweeping-up the stupid butcher ...
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (enNUy)
Gee. Don't provide any details into THAT tidbit or anything.
You really don't hate the media enough. They truly ARE the enemy of the people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ccf/V)
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I remember those!
Jesse Kelly and Cernovich told me that they led to all deportation efforts ending instantly.
Which was weird because deportation efforts had already come to a halt with the deaths of Goode and Pretti months before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (/PKja)
It had and has no powers to make someone take a gene therapy because there is a new flu.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Holland March, founder, the Nice Guys Detective Agency at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (1wjle)
The blue cities and states have perfected not charging illegal alien criminals specifically to make the “no crimes record “ claim true. Soros DA releasing/not charging should never mean”A-OK to stay!!”
Good for Trump and Mullins for taking the voter mandate for deporting ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS seriously.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (1z8ji)
So, having sent Wesley an IM to do the math and sidestep the numeriphobia rampant amongst Commentators on this Blog, approximately 29% of the undocumented immigrants had criminal records?
Shocked, I am! The (D)emocrats have assured us, repeatedly, that this is not the case.
Of course, since all 1,328 are here illegally, the answer to the percentage of criminality in the statistical sample is really 100%.
Thank you for your assistance, Mr. Crusher!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (4KUe5)
It's a rich area. Their teens don't work.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
Ditto. It sucks. But it teaches you a valuable lesson; what you DON'T want to do for rest of your life. It...motivates one.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)
When My son was in HS he worked part time in a steak house as a busboy...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (+gK6I)
So ... good luck!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (geWO5)
This never happened on Gilligan's Island!
Posted by: Thurston J. Howell III at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (wtvvX)
We used to hire American teenagers for these jobs.
Not Margaret's little snowflake! Working as a waitress would prevent her from getting into Harvard, and spending spring break in The Hamptons.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:42 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (enNUy)
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He's crazy.
He's talking about how Trump wants him killed and how that all the numbers under Mullin are fake but Noem's numbers were better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:42 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (4KUe5)
My Grandson worked over the summer in an ice cream parlor.. At least the work was cool.. Literally...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:42 PM (+gK6I)
well they tried
they tried and tried
but Jose had all the jobs
and now, maybe it would be nice to work in the ski resort? but no. foreign nationals there too
and no I don't think that much money is even saved over having high school or college kids doing the jobs
and the daughter could work bc they want cute girls visible! the boys (not being girls) had a rough time. they finally found stuff but it was incredibly tough
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (j+aD2)
Ditto. It sucks. But it teaches you a valuable lesson; what you DON'T want to do for rest of your life. It...motivates one.
Posted by: Archimedes
My first summer job at 13 was running a commercial dishwasher. I got two things out of it: My hands are permanently desensitized to hot water, and I made up my mind about pursuing a college degree early.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (0U5gm)
Governor Hochul’s Letter to Secretary of Homeland Security: Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants is a Reckless and Inhumane Act
I am writing to follow up on a conversation I had with President Trump, and to reiterate my strong opposition to the termination of protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
"The callousness of abruptly ending TPS for legally-present individuals including the recent termination for Haitians and the forthcoming termination for Salvadorians will force New York State and local governments to sever the employment of hundreds of essential employees as soon as next week, putting their livelihoods – and potentially their safety – at risk."
"For generations, New York has welcomed those fleeing disasters or persecution and seeking a better future. Through our Office for New Americans, my administration has supported thousands of New Yorkers with TPS application assistance and legal representation. New York remains committed to supporting TPS recipients and will continue to do everything in our power to prevent harm to the immigrant community."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (RHGPo)
He's talking about how Trump wants him killed and how that all the numbers under Mullin are fake but Noem's numbers were better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:42 PM (/PKja)
He gave an interview to Tucker... Nuff' said
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (+gK6I)
A) Trump never said that
B) You constantly claimed the illegals were all non-violent and otherwise law abiding
C) You'd defended convicted child rapists and tried to stop Trump from deporting them
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)
SMH…. I also went to Basic Training at Fort Jackson! A few years before you
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (geWO5)
Willowed because I’m weirdly concerned SMH know we did basic at the same place… though your service much more impressive than mine
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (wtvvX)
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There's nothing illegal about deporting someone who is present in the United States illegally. It is a civil crime with the civil remedy of deportation.
Sending someone home is not irreparable harm.
The left just wants it to be illegal to legally enforce laws passed by Congress against people they don't want them enforced against.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (/PKja)
Just pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in left-think...
Posted by: Thurston J. Howell III at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (wtvvX)
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Thank God! The puppies and kittens are safe at last!
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (sFNX2)
Target Sheldon Whorehouse's Whites Only Country Club. Ha!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (x0n13)
2021:
"Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., defended his family's membership in a private Rhode Island beach club that's allegedly all-white on Monday..."
Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (RHGPo)
But I moved up to waiter, then head waiter, and then to a better, more expensive restaurant.
It was 90% teenagers and some early-20s working those jobs back then.
Now I'm sure it's all illegals.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (iFTx/)
A) Trump never said that
B) You constantly claimed the illegals were all non-violent and otherwise law abiding
C) You'd defended convicted child rapists and tried to stop Trump from deporting them
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)
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Trump did explicitly promise, more than once, that he would lead the largest mass deportation operation in American history.
It's already 4 times larger than Operation Wetback, and that's acting like Operation Wetback wasn't a giant scam that was effectively DACA 0.8 beta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (/PKja)
being violent is bullshit. If you are here without permission, by definition you are a criminal!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (x0n13)
Your package should be delivered this morning.
Your package has been detained by ICE.
http://tiny.cc/off9101
http://tiny.cc/qff9101
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (1z8ji)
and is a liar.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM
Where, exactly, is this?
Asking for some friends.
Posted by: Penguins of the World at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (0sNs1)
Attempted trafficking stops, when you get down to it.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (rxwdW)
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Sure! This cub can afford the new $100K H1-B fees. If they really love/need illegals that much
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM (sFNX2)
Peter, what's happening. I hear you've been having some issues with your TPS reports. Didn't you get the memo?
Posted by: Bill Lumbergh at August 27, 2026 12:46 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (/PKja)
https://youtu.be/lpHQd3CAROA
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:42 PM (+gK6I)
Young Barry Soetoro worked at a Baskin & Robbins.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:46 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t
And gives you work experience so that you don't graduate from college without ever having worked a day in your life, but still expecting six figure starting salaries.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Bcu8Z)
But 99.9% of the time, bus boys, dishwashers, almost any role in fast food. It's all hispanics.
In like the 80's, almost every McDonalds it was teenagers except for like a manager.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (lZt7i)
Posted by: Dr. Beeper at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6)
@gowers_sco41306 1h
No cooks can afford to live there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Elaine "Nip" Benes at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (1wjle)
@gowers_sco41306 1h
No cooks can afford to live there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (diia5)
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But the illegals can?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Thurston J. Howell III at August 27, 2026 12:44 PM (wtvvX)
Here's the thing, though: There IS no hypocrisy.
Their values and decision making are predicated - ENTIRELY - on seizing and retaining power. That's it. There are no other factors.
EVERYTHING they do/say/believe is in pursuit of that single goal. They are entirely consistent in all things at all times.
Don't make the mistake of assigning your values to leftists while deciding how to deal with them.
They have only one value. They seek only power.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (PGK1w)
These swells and their predilection for seeking out the marginal and cheaper options for labor really piss me off.
Our scout troop would assist with annual roadside cleanups in a posh neighborhood in northern Delaware. While we worked, all the swells would zoom by in their high value vehicles as we preened their byways.
One time, after an entitled brat left her house to claim an arrow that one of our scouts had found in the roadside underbrush, and did so rudely, I had had enough. We were not going to do such scut work for them again -- clean up your own messes, a-holes.
I committed our unit to a stretch of road that ran up to our meeting place through Adopt-A-Highway. We would be cleaning up our own neighborhood. We would get public recognition for our deeds
In the form of roadside signs that marked out our stretch of road. This has been on our service calendar for two sweeps per year for a decade now. Wd traded up
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (trSL4)
I had exactly that job in HS. I couldn't wait to be a waiter - those guys made the BIG bucks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
I am certain that those “non criminals” who have been here for years, even decades, have done many of these things to hide among us.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:48 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:48 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (lZt7i)
Our local McDonalds are all Hispanic.. In and Out burger on the other hand is not..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:48 PM (+gK6I)
My leftist county and local rag are up in arms , not literally, over the ICE raids. On Facebook if the slightest support is raised shrieking leftist white women , soy boys and activists descend on you like locust . The usual "Nazi", "fascist" no empathy etc..
Quite pathetic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (TbVRb)
That generation kind of passed, and the next iteration was a lot of Eastern European kids. Couldn't say what it's like now, but I doubt things have gone back to the way they used to be.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (QaH55)
You cant legally work here without a SS# and you can't get one of those if youre here illegaly. So someone's number is being stolen.
IRS starts garnishing paychecks and watch an exodus out of here.
Illegals used to mainly work under the table for cash but that's long gone now.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (lZt7i)
July 2
Many of the migrant laborers who maintain the scenery of the Hamptons cannot afford to live there. Encampments have become the home of a work force that is simultaneously essential and overlooked. The difficult life and lonely death of Francisco Camey reveal the human cost behind the manicured landscape.
Where the Billionaires Summer...
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (nJ/vH)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:45 PM
Careful. Sponge has gotten a little touchy about the cup sizes.
Posted by: F. Costanza at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)
Period.
They're breaking the law by being here. I have no sads for them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (ccf/V)
Sending someone home is not irreparable harm.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:40 PM (/PKja)
Plus, it deprives the home country of all the benefits of these rocket scientists and economic powerhouses that live in the US illegally. We shouldn't be sabotaging these countries by taking their best and brightest.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (y9nCu)
These were really good jobs and I knew a few kids making more than their parents, with good health plans and salary.
When I moved out of the area it was replaced with H1bs and illegals for the facilities and manual jobs (like their food services.)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (X6P5n)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (mkw2N)
My leftist county and local rag are up in arms , not literally, over the ICE raids. On Facebook if the slightest support is raised shrieking leftist white women , soy boys and activists descend on you like locust . The usual "Nazi", "fascist" no empathy etc..
Quite pathetic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (TbVRb)
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"You're right. I am a Nazi. Trump is a Nazi. Camps are coming. My license to kill undesirables is in the mail."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:50 PM (/PKja)
Police sources and local officials indicated the event followed an altercation or fight near a bar or in the vicinity of the station. Witnesses reported the suspect returning in his vehicle and deliberately driving into the crowd. The victims were sitting on a bench at a bus stop when the car “came from the other side at full speed and ran over everyone.”
The perpetrator has since been identified by the BBC and several outlets as a 26 year-old man born in Russia.
... drunk Russian
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:50 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)
@DebHaalandNM
I will not stay silent while ICE terrorizes our communities.
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"The victims of immigrant crimes, fraud, rape, and murder however should be silent," she explained.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 12:50 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Same.
Chick Fil A and In n Out, they do have teenager types. Because they have a Christian vibe. But they are the exception.
And they are always WAY more well run than say a McDonalds or a Burker King, etc.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (lZt7i)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (4KUe5)
they and all their friends had jobs during high school
normal jobs
it was just hell to FIND them. I had to pull strings! for bus boy and food runner! insanity
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (j+aD2)
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One summer, I life guarded at Belle Meade, THE elite country club in Nashville. It may have been the best job I had in my life. Pay was not bad - best in the city for life guard jobs. Kids were super polite and there were not many of them. Free (good) food, all my swim suits and warmups were supplied. I could use the clay tennis courts anytime I wanted, although golf course use was frowned upon.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (sFNX2)
No cooks can afford to live there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (diia5)
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But the illegals can?
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More and more, the left keeps inching closer to "yes, they are slaves and we can't do without them."
Some duffus was on X about how no whites would pick strawberries in 105 degree heat.
Sick burn, dude.
Well, technically, no one will.
Ain't no strawberries growing in 105 degree heat; it's a cool-weather crop.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (3cUTc)
I had farming, construction, and manufacturing summer jobs. Valuable, valuable experience of things you would never want to do when you were older, but absolutely the right places to start in those sectors.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (0sNs1)
The killing of two immigrants by federal agents in Maine and Texas during attempted traffic stops reignited outcry.
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With HM being away, the local news scarcely intrudes, but at least in Houston I no longer see stories about this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (y9nCu)
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Uganda needs more diversity with Hispanic gangbangers, Indian scammers, Somali learing center administrators, and Arab terrorists to achieve true greatness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (/PKja)
Careful. Sponge has gotten a little touchy about the cup sizes.
Posted by: F. Costanza at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)
I love boobs. It's the joke that's f*cking retarded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:52 PM (ccf/V)
"Nothing will happen guy" has some 'splaining to do about what's happening.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 12:52 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:48 PM (iFTx/)
Probably makes the cruise line bilge deck berthing furnished to their SE Asian workers look like luxury cabins.
Posted by: Oh they're just help dear. Barely human. at August 27, 2026 12:52 PM (TbWk/)
Some duffus was on X about how no whites would pick strawberries in 105 degree heat.
Sick burn, dude.
Well, technically, no one will.
Ain't no strawberries growing in 105 degree heat; it's a cool-weather crop.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (3cUTc)
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Also, strawberry harvesters have been a thing for a long time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:53 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)
A seasonal visa "snafu" ... with a week left to go in the season? This isn't May. It's almost September. The season is almost over.
This wasn't a "snafu." This was deliberate hiring of known illegals for the entire summer.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:53 PM (iFTx/)
They provide “intangible” benefits, I’m told, in language and food.
They are a huge economic benefit to the USA, they say. Benefit to whom, exactly?
They also say isn’t it great they are “helping to shore up social security” by having payroll deductions but aren’t eligible for payments. Imagine that! Exploitation.
But they are steadfast in their belief that the only reason anyone could protest millions of illegals is racism and hatred of “brown people”. The only reason. There are no downsides to open borders.
The mind of a leftist is a terrible thing
Posted by: True Story at August 27, 2026 12:53 PM (aRf29)
Posted by: I was at the dentist at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (2Ez/1)
... drunk Russian
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:50 PM (RHGPo)
Does not rule out musloid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (1z8ji)
@gowers_sco41306 1h
No cooks can afford to live there.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 12:47 PM (diia5)
Why don't liberal establishments pay a living wage?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (ExV1e)
2092994654811680915
"@derzum_
An NYT report shows that ICE arrests have surged to highs not seen before. The DHS is going after all illegals more than ever, including overstays, asylees and terminated TPS.
“Immigration arrests are near all-time highs in almost every state”, and removals have risen with them."
https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2092957725508473339
"@derzum_
Contrary to these claims, the Trump admin has pushed immigration enforcement to new highs.
Every single month so far since Mullin's confirmation has had record removal flights, and ICE arrests have soared as "People with No Criminal Record are Increasingly Targeted", alarms NYT."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (/PKja)
Peter Cullen, the voice behind Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise, has died at the age of 85. His agent confirmed the news, and his family said he passed away peacefully at his Los Angeles home surrounded by loved ones.
Cullen voiced the Autobot leader in the original 1980s animated series and reprised the role in the live action films starting in 2007. He also brought Eeyore to life in Winnie the Pooh and voiced Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
His family shared a line he lived by, asking fans to honor his memory by "leading others with compassion, integrity and loyalty" and to always remember to "be strong enough to be gentle."
RIP 🕊️
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (g9NYF)
normal jobs
it was just hell to FIND them. I had to pull strings! for bus boy and food runner! insanity
Posted by: Black Orchid
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I'm not trying to justify it, but on a "hard" job, if you're a business owner, who do you think is going to take a job like that more seriously. Upper middle class 16 year old that is working for "fun money", can only work part time, and will quit at the drop of a hat or a 30 year old hispanic that actually needs the paycheck and this is their career?
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (lZt7i)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:55 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: F. Costanza at August 27, 2026 12:49 PM
I thought Bulg was now our resident cup size quality inspector?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 12:55 PM (0sNs1)
From 14 - 19 I took every single job I could get. Almost ALL of them were awful.
And every single one of them taught me invaluable lessons and paid me money.
Money I invested and to this day still benefit from.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Shi2G)
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"The economy was great under Biden because GDP went up. Why didn't the people believe that the economy was great? GDP went up. It was Fox News that convinced them otherwise!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
I just can't see that happening. She would eat them alive and pick her teeth with their bones.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)
Aww. I can still hear, "Autobots...roll out" in my head in his voice.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (1z8ji)
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Deb Haaland
She used to be your Interior Secretary
A New Mexico 4
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (RIvkX)
When I bartended at a swanky country club decades ago, the kitchen staff was mostly high school kids. Bar tenders had to be 21+
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 27, 2026 12:56 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I'm waiting for the extrapolation from Magic Dirt Theory that says 'illegals just hover in the air at night and don't need to pay rent.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 12:57 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:52 PM
One man's joke retardation is another man's first love.
"It's just the way it is."
-- Clint Eastwood
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1)
Trump’s mass deportation campaign increasingly targets legal immigration pathways to boost arrests and removals
ICE, and the right wingers who joined, are a bunch of pussies who never intended to put themselves in danger to arrest the violent criminals they like to talk about. They do like harassing and assaulting the nonviolent people though.
ICE is illegally arresting legal immigrants to intimidate and frighten every one with its power to ignore the law
It's almost like Faux News, who kept claiming that tens, if not hundreds, of millions of "illegals" were violent criminals, was full of shit.
They're focusing on conservative cities instead of liberal ones. Thats why it isn't in the news as much. This is devastating the floridian Cuban communities...Republicans are gona lose Cubans with this and maybe we'll get a blue Florida one day.
We’ve deported thousands, doge ‘cut government spending,’ "billions" in tariff revenue and shit is still expensive as hell and wages are low. Hopefully people will wake up.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (t19vo)
except those guys quit constantly
so my one worked at a specific (very nice) restaurant thru HS and summers in college
got up to server, very nice! BUT
sometimes the illegales in the back just didn't show, en masse, or enough that he would end up washing the dishes
this happened on the regular!
so whatever, your point is valid but in reality there are huge downsides
it just gets to the point where you CAN'T put an anglo back there. no one can talk to them
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (j+aD2)
Dad is ok. Looks like he might have had another minor stroke and apparently was suffering an infection due to diverticulitis.
Long night in the ER. But he is home and doing as well as can be expected.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (Shi2G)
But ABC's The View wants outgoing White House press secretary to join the panel show, two sources tell the Daily Mail.
It's behind a paywall, so that's all I can see.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/
article-16084293/karoline-leavitt-
view-abc-trump.html
Posted by: No Name Today at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:54 PM (/PKja)
Wrong.. Illegal entry into the Country: crime .False SSN :crime .Use of welfare services :crime .
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 12:59 PM (TbVRb)
Best teen job: paperboy!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:59 PM (geWO5)
Here in UMC NoVa, our subdivision's pool is staffed entirely by Eastern European kids, roughly college age. It is definitely still a thing.
I can only imagine what they think of the kids from my neighborhood, almost none of whom get jobs. Instead, they go to Guatemala to do...something that they can put on their college applications.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)
Resort town for the rich and famous.
Stopped at Wendy's.
Almost none of the staff spoke English; the gal that called out my order didn't even know enough English to call "one hundred nineteen" and had to say it in Spanish.
There is so, so much rot all across this country.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (Z5BUl)
Long night in the ER. But he is home and doing as well as can be expected.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (Shi2G)
Prayers shall be sent his way.
Wife has been battling diverticulitis this week......it sucks quite bigly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (ccf/V)
You’re not supposed to support a family on a minimum wage job. They are for teenagers to learn how to show up on time, complete a series of tasks and then go home. It isn’t supposed to be fun. You’re supposed to WANT to do something else, something that will require education or experience or certification.
Kids think they deserve $30 an hour, they don’t show up, they want the newest iPhone and gaming console. They would never dream of living three to a one bedroom scuzzy apartment and working three jobs. They are spoiled, entitled, lazy drugged up brats.
It is actually horrifying.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (W2Pud)
In their camps that are popping up in cities with commie governments, CCP fentanyl humanly does the job Zeyklon-B used to do.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Thanks for letting us know. I am sorry for your long night at the ER and glad he is home.
Prayers for your dad.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 01:01 PM (jc4Tn)
The cooks were a bunch of pot heads.
Posted by: Bosk at August 27, 2026 01:01 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 27, 2026 01:01 PM (wGerL)
Juan, sick and tired of this caca decides to take Homeland up on the $1K and go home, but not before spitting in the shrimp cocktail.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Paul
For once, I agree with Paul. However, it is also true that a subset of Americans once thought it was better to have slaves picking cotton than full citizens. Just because someone wants it for their own selfish reasons doesn't mean it's desirable, or even legal, which clearly the illegals are not.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (Riz8t)
Glad he's out of the hospital. Will say a prayer
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (vLGBF)
Yeah......every bit of this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:03 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 01:03 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:03 PM (ccf/V)
Da! Under Communism, there is no economy to destroy, it's been destroyed!
Posted by: Rooski living in the USSR at August 27, 2026 01:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:03 PM (Shi2G)
Thanks. She's on antibiotics and yesterday was a better day. She's going in for a CT scan with contrast this afternoon to check on things a bit closer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)
Your comment is horrifying, and sadly accurate.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:04 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Flip, Flop, and Fly at August 27, 2026 01:04 PM (JM9I6)
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Oh?
Do they provide proof of legal residency to ICE--as they are required to carry with them at all times--or not?
And, despite the evils of the Trump, the left has yet to point to a single, legal resident that has been deported.
Let alone their oft-claim of citizens could get deported.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 01:04 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Judge Elihu Smails at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 12:58 PM (t19vo)
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Front page news, if true.
Or,...do they think that illegals without criminal records are legal immigrants?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (/PKja)
Notice how bad customer service/hospitality is virtually anywhere? It's not unrelated to the disappearance of young white faces from these jobs.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (DlRrz)
Resort town for the rich and famous.
Stopped at Wendy's.
Almost none of the staff spoke English; the gal that called out my order didn't even know enough English to call "one hundred nineteen" and had to say it in Spanish.
There is so, so much rot all across this country.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (3cUTc)
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I'm there every year for a ski and snowmobile trip. The waiters and bartenders in the nicer places are still mostly locals and white seasonal kids. But everyone else is foreigners and almost certainly illegals.
In the last few years, there's been a lot of African workers imported. In the winter at a ski resort. It's amusing to watch the (affluent) American black guests at the resort look around like "wtf are all these Africans doing here??"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson Klein at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: Judge Elihu Smails at August 27, 2026 01:05 PM (wGerL)
It's easy to grin
When your ship comes in
And you've got the stock market beat
But a man worth while
Is the man who can smile
When his pants are too tight in the seat!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)
My leftist county and local rag are up in arms , not literally, over the ICE raids. On Facebook if the slightest support is raised shrieking leftist white women , soy boys and activists descend on you like locust . The usual "Nazi", "fascist" no empathy etc..
Quite pathetic
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Must be the latest Indivisible plan since the larger No Kings crowds are vacationing in the finest of places.
Locally: Daily Times, yesterday, "Lansdowne says no to immigration enforcement participation"
And the county's new Human Relations Commission covers discrimination complaints across four primary sectors: housing, employment, public accommodations, and health care.
The commission protects residents from discrimination based on personal characteristics, including: Race, color, ethnicity, and ancestry; religion or creed. National origin or citizenship status. Sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. Physical or mental disability. Age and veteran status. Familial or marital status. Source of income. Domestic or sexual violence victim status.
Imagine trying to be a private employer (other than a NP) with that mess.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 01:06 PM (NFX2v)
Of course, another user with rampant TDS writes this "This is what happens when organizations who watch for these things get their funding cut."
It took all of my willpower not to just reply "You stupid slut, how does that statement make sense if the FDA caught it and there's no reported injuries from it?"
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 01:06 PM (Z5BUl)
Sigh...life is sooooooooo hard!
Posted by: Muffy Charles-McMuffmaster III at August 27, 2026 01:06 PM (QRHoA)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (4KUe5)
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One hotel I worked at put us up in a dilapidated bungalow colony a mile up the road. I could see the open sky through the roof but I was 16 and thought it was awesome. My mom to her credit, said nothing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (RIvkX)
African women dominate nursing home care. I guess nobody else wants to spend their days attending to the bodily needs of the elderly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t)
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It's funny.
Money on hobbies is actually at a all time high.
We're seeing actual signs of deflation on essentials (groceries went down 0.3% from June to July).
And price decreases are now signs of a bad economy while you also complain about Trump's inflation (which was Biden's inflation which you said wasn't real at the time).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Reginald Van Dough at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (rHvvN)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (j0Tky)
Hand job >>>>>> hard job, especially from a 16 year old!
Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 01:07 PM (RHGPo)
One of the many lessons I learned before I even turned 15:
There is Pride to be found in a well-dug ditch.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (Shi2G)
What I observe is the Left wants to kill all but themselves. This keeps budget costs low, and is on brand. No one can remove them from power. Other people cost them, so killing them will save money.
If someone survives, they want to enslave them.
Pretty clear.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)
I swear, every lefties household in the Bay Area has at least one of these whistles.
AND THEN...nothing. ICE Continues to deport illegals in California top to bottom, and nobody has ever blown a whistle to stop them, and no Antifa ever came to save they day.
It's virtue-signalling all the way down.
Posted by: zombie at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (Av6i5)
But any who sneaks into the country illegally needs to be kicked out. There is a right way and a wrong way.
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (VrYHL)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (j0Tky)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 01:06 PM (NFX2v)
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When I get to a MoMee I will tell the story of Franpsycho and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (RIvkX)
What a fun job THAT was..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Culhanes of Kornfield Kounty at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (JM9I6)
Make it like the statue of Junipero Serra near San Francisco with his finger pointing south.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (LGAor)
It's virtue-signalling all the way down.
Posted by: zombie at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (Av6i5)
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ICE would be off the streets in California if the state legislature repealed the law that made it illegal for police forces in the state to honor ICE detainrs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (i9SW2)
The measure would allow California's campaign watchdog to impose fines of up to $5,000 per violation.
... so, how does this affect the MSM ?
When is an "journalist" not an "Influencers" ?
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (0Htd1)
I'd had so many under the table jobs by 16.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (g9NYF)
Then you should have no problem whatsoever repudiating all of his insane positions, right?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:59 PM (geWO5)
Bra fitter.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (ExV1e)
As many other have repeatedly pointed out, being here illegally constitutes having a criminal record, albeit a misdemeanor; if you've been deported once and again enter illegally then it's now a felony. The NYT is apparently staffed by idiots.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (cWffP)
Not only that, but these particular jobs were a very big step up for American teenagers. They would meet co-workers who would help them later in life; the job itself would provide learning opportunities unavailable elsewhere.
Jobs like these were coveted by teenagers and college students in ways that most weren’t.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (kYmoU)
She's a bit beside herself today and I worry for her because she's usually harder than a coffin nail. Hoping this is all mostly something of nothing. Thanks.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (+j84F)
RepDebDingell (D-MI) says Hasan Piker is "not what November is about," and that Republicans are trying to divide Democrats over it: "I'm still trying to figure out is it the reason he exercises and looks buff why he has so many followers?"
Posted by: SMOD
Vote her out!
Three generations of imbeciles is enough!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 01:11 PM (trSL4)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 01:11 PM (X6P5n)
But they can’t seem to connect the dots. “We should have open borders!” and “I can’t believe the minimum wage is so low!” are directly connected.
Millions and millions of illegal labor drives wages down down down. Costs for rent and insurance go up. Those “intangibles” they bring are increased hit and run and carnage on the highway among other things.
Court interpreters for 72 different languages costs a fortune, by the way. Schools are fooked. The list is extensive.
Cost shifting everything onto the backs of local citizens, local governments. It is beyond repulsive. And all these bastards on the left have monetized this and make serious bank.
Posted by: True Story at August 27, 2026 01:11 PM (aRf29)
What a fun job THAT was..........
Soooo... you're the guy who has to tell his grandkids you spent the war shoveling s*** in Louisiana?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (cWffP)
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Illegal presence is a civil crime, not a criminal crime. The civil remedy is deportation.
It's a game of semantics, to a degree, but the fact that deportation is the actual civil remedy always entertains me.
Entering illegally is, I believe, a criminal matter, but illegals aren't picked up in Iowa for crossing the border, but for being in the country illegally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:11 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (RHGPo)
As it becomes increasingly evident that President Donald Trump's "downfall" is imminent, he is going to lash out and cause as much damage to the country as he can before "losing all of his power." This is according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who warned on Wednesday that Trump;s collapse has similarities to that of one of history's greatest tyrants.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (CWTWj)
Seriously, ignore any of us that upset you, just vote blue and STFU!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (RIvkX)
Set to the tune of "Harper Valley PTA" or "The Ballad of Jayne Cobb"?
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to ask Pookette what keys those are in at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 12:37 PM (4KUe5)
It's a rich area. Their teens don't work.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)
They don't call it Long Island for nothing. It's a long way from where the poors live to where the swells need labor.
I wonder where they hide, I mean house, all those illegals. They're not bussing in from queens, tahts for sure.
Prolly have "servants quarters" on some of the bigger plantat... estates there.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (zafwz)
This would have never have happened if Dubya had US Marshalls arrest the mayor of San Francisco when this shit started. But he was too busy proclaiming that Islam was the religion of peace.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (No6pV)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (gm9Sb)
Just the threat, There's a snitch line. These are the penalties. Do a few small businesses in every city here and there shutting a few down for examples.
Encourage things to stop.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 01:13 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 01:13 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 01:13 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to ask Pookette what keys those are in at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (Wt5PA)
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Ha!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:13 PM (RIvkX)
What a fun job THAT was..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)
They put realtors in stalls like horses? I did not know that. More humane than cages, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 01:13 PM (1z8ji)
I mentioned it above; No Heart Attack, Possible Minor Stroke (imaging/reading needed to confirm that), Diverticulitis Infection.
He's on Antibiotics and at home resting. Late night, but he's doing ok.
Thanks.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:14 PM (Shi2G)
If they are here illegally -- and that includes being here technically legally but only because of immigration fraud -- I want these motherfuckers out of my country.
Every last one of them. Gone. I'll pull the triggers on the catapults myself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 01:14 PM (u82oZ)
.. a number of decades ago, the WSJ had a piece about employers hiring persons that they were not totally allowed to inquire about. Hire them, then the next day, they declare they are addicted to drugs, Pokemon, whatever and need to go to rehab on they new company's dime.
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 01:15 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 27, 2026 01:15 PM (hzuYO)
If they are here illegally -- and that includes being here technically legally but only because of immigration fraud -- I want these motherfuckers out of my country.
Every last one of them. Gone. I'll pull the triggers on the catapults myself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
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We took 60 years to get to this point.
It's gonna take a while to clean up the mess.
Best to win in 2028 if we want it to continue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:15 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (+j84F)
Prayers up.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (ccf/V)
We suspected that a lot of the Eastern Euro girls might be looking for a husband while they were here, and a lot of them were smoking hot. Maybe some of the guys too, because, well, Euros...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: The Cats of Ohio at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (Cjger)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (TBve8)
We took 60 years to get to this point.
It's gonna take a while to clean up the mess.
Best to win in 2028 if we want it to continue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:15 PM (/PKja)
Star Trek is 60 years old.
Coincidence?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Erling Haaland, Norwegian Professional Kickballer at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (wVcYX)
Dunno. For the moment I'm still thinking it's more "don't think of that pink elephant". The whole thing is a ruse.
Remember Democrats don't take a shit without ten focus groups, a script, and 100 paid influence merchants to talk about how beautiful it is.
And they don't give up power to anyone. And... when they fight, they smear, ruin, jail or kill you - it's not a fluffy handbag slap fight like this DNC-DSA bs.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (+j84F)
This is because any amnesty for illegals bill that's signed into law (God forbid) will be sold partly on being tough on illegal felons! The proponents will loudly repeat there will be no amnesty for illegals with a felony record! After being signed into law, Joe Q. Public will be quietly told that only three out of every million illegals has a felony record that bars them from amnesty. Leftists are always planning far ahead.
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Motörhead at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (TbWk/)
-Mrs. Eromero
-Mrs. Lloyd
-Mrs. Sponge
-Brit Lass
-garrett's dad
-inadvertent omissions
prayers for speedy and complete healing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (RIvkX)
It's not about his looks (though I'm sure it helps).
Charlie Kirk was a handsome dude and they were thrilled to see him shot in the neck.
They like Hasan because he screams for more people to shot in the neck.
It's about the neck-shooting, ya stupid bitch, not the gym regimen. Go home and slam your dry old clam to hus Twitch streams. You understand nothing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
I had to prune Christmas trees on my family's Christmas-tree farms all summer. Bees, wasps, and hornets built nests in many of the trees, and you might not see the nest until you had started pruning the tree, which of course stirred them up.
Also, hot and humid AF. Miserable.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)
... and bored wealthy ladies eager to show them the ropes, IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: Penthouse Magazine at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (pBJ6M)
Star Trek is 60 years old.
Coincidence?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:16 PM (ccf/V)
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THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
GENE RODDENBERRY CAUSED OUR IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS AND ONLY NOW, WHEN STAR TREK IS TRULY DEAD, ARE OUR IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS BEING ADDRESSED!
For the sake of the nation, keep Star Trek dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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My very first job I said Thank You and Please, made me scrub a parking lot down on my knees
Then I got fired for being scared of bees. They only paid me 50 cents an hour.
Oh father forgive us for what we must do....
Posted by: John Prine at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (X6P5n)
I'd had so many under the table jobs by 16.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 01:10 PM (g9NYF)
C'mon men! He tosses up a softball like that and nothing.
I'm disappointed.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (zafwz)
Detassling seed corn isn’t too bad, that was good money for teens. Only lasts for a couple weeks or so, though.
Posted by: True Story at August 27, 2026 01:18 PM (aRf29)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 01:18 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (RIvkX)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:18 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 01:12 PM (gm9Sb)
All right, you wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts!
Posted by: George Costanza at August 27, 2026 01:18 PM (QRHoA)
We suspected that a lot of the Eastern Euro girls might be looking for a husband while they were here, and a lot of them were smoking hot. Maybe some of the guys too, because, well, Euros...
I wouldn't know, because I'm 29, and it would be wrong to notice smokin' hot girls in swimsuits.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 01:14 PM (u82oZ)
Thank you both.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 01:19 PM (RIvkX)
Even long before Biden open the borders, the restaurants, bars, clubs, and even spaces were all staffed with Irish who would come on a "tourist" visa and stay and work the entire summer. Some really hot Irish lasses, too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 01:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2026 01:20 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Spong
Tahat is correct. The benefit is that they can be paid below minimum wage, no benefits, and no employer contribution to social security tax.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 01:20 PM (0U5gm)
The Front Door to my house is painted a green that was named 'Prickly Pete'. Had to pick it.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:20 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)
And the sap - don't forget the sap...
Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 01:20 PM (NTVPI)
I have. It is.
Great way to get in shape though and cheaper than a club membership.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boswell
Yeah, we had to scrub our arms with 409 to get the pitch off.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t)
Why would one notice chicks in swimsuits? Aside from them needing to probably cover up moar.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (Z5BUl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (/QmnP)
I see you've been to Block Island.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (viF8m)
American politicians are all superficial retards who've become completely decoupled from reality. These little monsters aren't you... they aren't packaging a disingenuous elite insider political scam in cute marketing materials. They're out for blood.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:23 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 01:23 PM (tg5bM)
I have. It is.
I, OTOH, have toted that barge, and lifted that bale, and after all that, I'd get a little drunk, and I'd land in jaaaiiiiilllll....
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:23 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 27, 2026 01:23 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (77rzZ)
Sticky business, tree farms...better off growing weed!
Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 01:23 PM (NTVPI)
MILF city.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (/QmnP)
Paul is a bag boy at a gay bathhouse.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 01:24 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 01:25 PM (diia5)
I see you've been to Block Island.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (viF8m)
_____
"Meh. Fire Island is where it's at!"
-- Pete Bootyjuice
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
A recent high-school graduate unsure of his future gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club.
Matt Dillon stars.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 01:25 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:22 PM (viF8m)
Hither Hills, Montauk - every hotel full of Irish lassies for the summer...no complaints.
Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 01:25 PM (NTVPI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
To have control of the 2030 census. That will have major ramifications.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (otzbu)
Posted by: jaimo at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (2noDb)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: No Name Today at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: huerfano at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
To have control of the 2030 census. That will have major ramifications.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (otzbu)
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2026 doesn't matter very much. Congress is a false prize. All power is in the executive because of the size and scope of the federal register and the fact that Congress simply does not operate correctly anymore and hasn't in something like a century.
2028 matters a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:27 PM (/PKja)
Updated in the mid 140s, here.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (Shi2G)
He live close by?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:27 PM (ccf/V)
I also refurbished receivers and the like. And by refurbished I mean cleaned and boxed them........
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:28 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: No Name Today at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (8mulE)
Become a door-to-door salesman of "Fuck Off!" doormats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 01:29 PM (1z8ji)
Yes. He lives on the other side of the river from me.
I get to be his Ambulance Driver!
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:29 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: huerfano at August 27, 2026 01:26 PM (2Xqig)
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It's the blue meth.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 01:29 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 01:29 PM (Sco7b)
- The employment laws are a big deal. Everyone wants to sue for discrimination, hostile work environment, unfair treatment, etc.
- Culture. good management of skilled, creative, people is hard because they always have "ideas". They create conflicts. They have resentment of each other. The manager has to keep them happy to do whatever needs to be done. I have fired or refused to hire many people simply because they would be a bad fit. Complainers, backstabbers, megolomaniacs, etc.. With foreigners, it isn't a problem because they will put up with a lot of shit.
- Competence. In tech, being a competent manager is tough, but necessary. You can't tell an engineer to do something foolish as he will get pissed and be very unhappy. Foreigners will waste time doing stupid shit for months, just happy know they getting paid. Or, an American will ask questions and demand resources when in over their head, but a foreigner will stay up late on youtube figuring out what the manager should have known and told them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 01:30 PM (X6P5n)
I get to be his Ambulance Driver!
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 01:29 PM (Shi2G)
Good times.
Been there, done that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:30 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Danny Noonan at August 27, 2026 01:30 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 01:31 PM (j0Tky)
A friend had a "What, you again?" doormat.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t)
Pete Bootyjuice
Fire island (fire, fire island), it's a funky weekend (funky) a funky funky weekend
Don't go in the bushes, no, someone might grab ya, someone might grab ya
Don't go in the bushes, someone might stab ya, someone might stab ya...
Posted by: Village People at August 27, 2026 01:31 PM (QRHoA)
Tahat is correct.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 01:20 PM (0U5gm)
Tahat Johnson?
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:31 PM (+j84F)
It was nothing like "The Lawnmower Man."
She went door to door selling riding lawnmowers. And got rode for her troubles.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:31 PM (ccf/V)
Cost me THOUSANDS of dollars to get him here.
These illegal aliens (stop fucking calling them migrants) pay nothing and cost the taxpayers BILLIONS.
Rich people LOVE them, because they are, essentially, their SLAVES.
Get them ALL the fuck out of our country. If you came here illegally, you broke the law, and I don't want to hear your sob story. Go back to your shithole country!
Posted by: Tamminator at August 27, 2026 01:32 PM (tHEhe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:32 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Tamminator at August 27, 2026 01:32 PM (tHEhe)
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PREAAAAAACH
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 01:32 PM (oqH4h)
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Police in Minneapolis reportedly raided the apartment of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son and seized firearms before arresting his roommate.
Law enforcement sources told Alpha News that a search warrant was carried out at the home of Omar's son Adnan on Tuesday night.
According to the outlet, they recovered guns and ammunition from the home and arrested his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22.
Earlier that day, the city's police department said in a statement to the Daily Mail that they conducted a traffic stop and cited Abdi for no proof of insurance and no license.
The department said that Abdi was released at the scene and the vehicle was in the process of being impounded when a firearm was found inside.
Officers later tracked Abdi to an address on Marquette Ave where they said they arrested him 'without incident.'
Abdi was later booked into Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge before being released on Wednesday night, records show.
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (YkczM)
It was years before I could even drive by the Clown's place without retching after that episode. I've seen things ...
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m)
Head of IT at Walmart was arrested recently for doing this - he was pulling in something like $30k a day in employee kickbacks.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Danny Noonan at August 27, 2026 01:30 PM (wVcYX)
"Uch.....DAT's all I neeed......"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: ...
How did you manage to avoid getting cut-up by their cleats?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (diia5)
Crazy I know.
But here is a clear example of a business trying to reduce salaries by hiring illegals and...the left is defending them
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tamminator at August 27, 2026 01:32 PM (tHEhe)
Checks out. Every country not the USA is, by clear and objective measures, a shithole country.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 01:34 PM (wVcYX)
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Tell me more about these fucking bees.
Posted by: SNL killer bee from the '70s at August 27, 2026 01:34 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 01:34 PM (uhVAy)
My first corporate job was to stand around on the sales floor at a sporting goods store.
$5.50 per hour!
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 01:35 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 01:30 PM (X6P5n)
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Specific to Indians in tech, they will spend months doing shit work and don't give a damn because their "culture" includes bullshitting and buck-passing as core tenets bordering on national pastime. When their shit work inevitably causes problems, they will spend weeks talking everyone in a circle and blaming everyone and everything but themselves until management throws their hands up and says screw it, and just moves on.
Posted by: ballistic at August 27, 2026 01:35 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: huerfano at August 27, 2026 01:36 PM (2Xqig)
QUACK
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at August 27, 2026 01:36 PM (UjdFS)
I mean, what did he want me to do? Blow him?
Anyway, so I'm blowing him.....
(it's a Robert Schimmel bit - that dude was a funny fuck, survived cancer, died in a car accident)
But regardless, the first sentence is 100% true.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:36 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)
It has to happen at some point, to reverse the damage Biden did. I wonder what percent of illegals are working (real jobs), and how many are on welfare and/or selling drugs or doing other crimes.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 27, 2026 01:37 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 01:33 PM (diia5)
I shouldn't have LOL but did
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:37 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: steevy at August 27, 2026 01:38 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: SMOD
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This is no joke. In CA it was very hard to fire a druggie. Not just hard, but expensive -- you had to deal with them for months, sadly hoping the OD'd or went on a bender and stopped showing up long enough to justify firing them.
And through it all you are paying lawyers to cover your ass.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 01:38 PM (X6P5n)
My first corporate job was to stand around on the sales floor at a sporting goods store.
$5.50 per hour!
Posted by: bonhomme
My first salaried job was poolboy, which included cleaning out the locker rooms, for which I got the princely sum of $1.15/hr.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
It has to happen at some point, to reverse the damage Biden did. I wonder what percent of illegals are working (real jobs), and how many are on welfare and/or selling drugs or doing other crimes.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 27, 2026 01:37 PM (vbXSk)
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You should actually read the law.
A cursory look at eVerify is all employers need to do to make a "good faith" effort. Then they're covered legally.
There's massive wiggle room written into the law for employers to evade responsibility for hiring illegals.
The law needs to change.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:39 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 27, 2026 12:51 PM (sFNX2)
Ha. I live 5 minutes from it. Off Chickering. (tips hat)
Posted by: Lunge Clanghole at August 27, 2026 01:39 PM (w1Bba)
They are really making me wish I could vote for Trump again.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 27, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 01:40 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 27, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)
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But I saw a Bangladeshi man at my Costco the other day, so nothing is happening.
The only recourse is to vote for the party that promises mass amnesty and open borders to teach Trump a lesson.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:41 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 01:41 PM (x/Rva)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 01:41 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: jaimo at August 27, 2026 01:41 PM (2noDb)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (4NO2D)
Gee. Don't provide any details into THAT tidbit or anything.
You really don't hate the media enough. They truly ARE the enemy of the people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ccf/V)
They need to go back to J-school. They let the cat out of the bag: "attempted traffic stops" what made the stops fail? criminal attempts to evade ICE maybe?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (uhVAy)
When I was a teen our church group went to an apple orchard and picked up apples for eight hours. We did not pick apples. Our job was to dig through the apples on the ground to find undamaged apples and collect them.
This was deep in the heart of summer in eastern WA. It was miserable and the air was sickly sweet with rotting apple smell. I couldn't stand anything apple flavored or scented for years.
On the plus side, I vividly remember two jerks getting into a fight. One sucker punched the other and ran away. While he was running, the other picked up a rotten apple and hit him with it. The apple exploded on top of the sucker-puncher's head and he tumbled.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (mkw2N)
The only recourse is to vote for the party that promises mass amnesty and open borders to teach Trump a lesson.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:41 PM (/PKja)
I don’t get it :-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: jaimo at August 27, 2026 01:41 PM (2noDb)
Saw that dude live like three times. Piss yourself laughing funny. Made Norm Macdonald, one of the funniest people who ever lived, seem quaint.
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (+j84F)
Try and. They’re illegals. There’s no reason that they can’t do both, or all three.
I’m reminded of an exchange between Lex Luthor and one of his henchmen in Elliott S! Maggin’s Last Son of Krypton. He’s been laundering some of his more normal inventions through a fake name, and his accountant tells him the guy has made too much and the taxes are going to kill them.
“We don’t have to pay [his] income tax… Let a process server try to find him. We’re criminals, remember?”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 27, 2026 01:44 PM (kYmoU)
Tell me about it. Worst of all, they advance in these tech companies by having the best line of bullshit.
It is as if the entire culture is optimized for scamming
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 01:44 PM (X6P5n)
Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at August 27, 2026 01:02 PM (vLGBF)
Not sure. I HAVE had "I'm Alright" earworming me for an hour though..
Posted by: Lunge Clanghole at August 27, 2026 01:44 PM (w1Bba)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2026 01:44 PM (x/Rva)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (4NO2D)
yeah I had one summer in college a job for Manpower doing day work for various corporate clients, including unloading the steamer Delta Queen on the shores of the Ohio which was a blast from the past. Another doing some redrilling of some parts using a set up fixture on a big machine - put a part in, lower the drilling parts in, pull out, remove part for the cluster of boxes of parts they had. Cheaper than having a skilled guy do it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 01:46 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 27, 2026 01:44 PM (kYmoU)
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch of the meticulously planned operation by the gang that falls apart when they discover there's nothing illegal about giving 10 quid for a watch at a jewelry store.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 01:48 PM (uhVAy)
In their camps that are popping up in cities with commie governments, CCP fentanyl humanly does the job Zeyklon-B used to do.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Yup.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2026 01:48 PM (g8Ew8)
hmm. are potatoes an aphrodisiac?
Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2026 01:49 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: King Rooten Tooten at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (Cjger)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 27, 2026 01:53 PM (jrgJz)
It's virtue-signalling all the way down.
Posted by: zombie at August 27, 2026 01:08 PM (Av6i5)
I suspect the NGO money ran out for those games.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:47 PM (kmiHN)
The Morning Rant: Cultural Suicide
Norway will ignore the European Union’s demands for a moratorium on hydrocarbon exploration in the Arctic Circle and continue drilling for oil and gas in the Barents Sea, the country’s energy minister said. Speaking before Norway’s biannual energy conference, which began in Stavanger on Aug. 24, Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland said Oslo had a right to develop its own sovereign resources. “In today’s geopolitical and security environment, and given the resource situation, I believe continued activity in the Barents Sea serves both Norwegian and European interests,” Aasland said.
Without exploration and bringing new wells on-line, their current production would decrease until...wait for it...they won't have enough oil and gas for their customers (Europe) and themselves. And all of that sweet foreign money that flows to Norway to fund their soft socialism would slow, and Norwegians might have to work harder to support their 200,000 Muslims. Reality is smacking Europe in the face! Green insanity can never provide enough power to run even the most basic services, and the dirty little secret of the bien pensants is that they still need oil and gas...and lots of it. When tens of thousands of Europeans die every summer because they can't afford air conditioning, and their governments won't allow them even if they could, something is broken. And it is the cradle-to-grave welfare state that so many crave. Economics is a cold-hearted bitch, and it says that when too much productive work is captured by government, growth slows, innovation slows, and wealth creation slows. That is what has happened to Europe, and its Green insanity is just accelerating its plunge into 3rd world status.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 11:00 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 11:00 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:01 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 11:01 AM (Y8TXp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
Some interesting koinkadinkies regarding the man arrested in early August for apparently planning to assassinate the First Lady:
https://tinyurl.com/3rbcdnsh
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 11:03 AM (1o8D5)
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 11:03 AM (+j84F)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 11:04 AM (1o8D5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
Our GDP may be lower than 50 US states but we still beat the other 7.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:04 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
The green line is going up, so they see that as a win and they'll just keep on f*cking that chicken. This is fine. Everything is fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
I would argue it's "allah ackbar."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:06 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 11:06 AM (ZdaMQ)
They are already killing whales with wind turbines.
They never actually cared about whales or anything else other than power.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 11:07 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 11:06 AM (ZdaMQ)
It seems someone has done a lot of studying on this..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:07 AM (ccf/V)
Unless I am grievously mistaken there are about 5-6 states that have signed on to the new green deal scam by passing state laws that force them to move their entire states electric production/consumption to wind and solar by 2030. That's just a few short years away.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 11:07 AM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2026 11:08 AM (g8Ew8)
The Democrats are still touting that the Trump tax cuts cost the Government money and increased the debt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:08 AM (ccf/V)
But still kind of sexy.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 27, 2026 11:08 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 11:08 AM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 11:08 AM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: DaveA at August 27, 2026 11:09 AM (FhXTo)
There are plenty of opportunities to study in the afterlife.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 11:09 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: George V at August 27, 2026 11:10 AM (HUbHH)
"We're going to mandate electric cars by 05!
/how'd that work out?
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 11:10 AM (j0Tky)
If you have ANY interest in visiting Western Europe, better go real soon, cause it's not gonna be around much longer.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 27, 2026 11:10 AM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 11:06 AM (ZdaMQ)
Imposter! The real Piper would tell people to filter their wine through kale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (ExV1e)
I don't think of myself as an optimist. But I like our chances, more every single day.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (j0Tky)
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Sulfites are not helpful, though maybe Euros don’t allow those? For a first-class hangover I maintain white wines are often in a league of their own. Not sure why.
Posted by: Wino Street Smarts at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (3CXto)
Canada is becoming Mississippi's U.K.
Now seeing predictions of 20,000 job losses thanks to Carney and the Libs.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:12 AM (Y8DZL)
I had a '54 Chevy truck that used whale oil in the differential.
Posted by: DanMan at August 27, 2026 11:12 AM (8uzBS)
I don't think of myself as an optimist. But I like our chances, more every single day.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (viF8m
I consider myself an optimistic realist.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:13 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:12 AM (Y8DZL)
TDS has a price.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e)
It's not your money...
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 11:11 AM (j0Tky)
To them it is.
You exist to make government money.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:13 AM (ccf/V)
Now seeing predictions of 20,000 job losses thanks to Carney and the Libs.
Posted by: Auspex
Good thing they passed the MAID Act to take care of all those jobless folks...
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
If they are such experts how come we all know exactly what they are doing?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 11:13 AM (viF8m)
I had a '54 Chevy truck that used whale oil in the differential.
Posted by: DanMan at August 27, 2026 11:12 AM (8uzBS)
Ah yes....the 90w gear oil.
That shit STUNK.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:13 AM (ccf/V)
Now seeing predictions of 20,000 job losses thanks to Carney and the Libs.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:12 AM (Y8DZL)
Yet people refuse to learn that elections have consequences.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:14 AM (ccf/V)
The United Kingdom's new motto: "Hey, we're worse than Mississippi!"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 11:02 AM (4Je4D)
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Take greater London out and see how much worse they can be.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 11:14 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Green Nude Eel at August 27, 2026 11:15 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 11:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes
I consider cautiously optimistic to be the best outlook, when it's warranted.
I think it's warranted in the case of the US, but not in the case of Europe.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
That's not good.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 11:15 AM (U/Eoe)
OOPS! Now I see 90,000 as a figure for Canada.
But they have healthcare and income from Ottawa, so no problem.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:16 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:16 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Billy Preston at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (JM9I6)
I couldn't figure out how these people could be so stupid as to ban the only decent power sources (coal, oil, gas, and nuclear) until I started listening closely. No other explanation makes sense.
One example: Boris Johnson was asked recently if he still believed in net zero. "Certainly. I was flying over Africa and Europe at night recently and saw all of the lights. There are far too many people on the planet."
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (0U5gm)
If you have ANY interest in visiting Western Europe, better go real soon, cause it's not gonna be around much longer.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 27, 2026 11:10 AM (MNCvZ)
And during that time they were in a state of constant warfare. This period is probably the longest the more western region of Europe hasn't been in war against each other.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (KC5Lt)
But they have healthcare and income from Ottawa, so no problem.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:16 AM (Y8DZL)
Government survives by tax alone. Wage earners fund the tax bill. When no one is earning wage, what happens next?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Fine, Boris. You first. Take one for the team.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chubby as Emperor Nero at August 27, 2026 11:19 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 11:19 AM (1o8D5)
Such a stark example of how much the stifle growth and business.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 11:19 AM (3cUTc)
Germany would be 48th, and their GDP per capita is (incredibly) declining in real terms (ie, inflation adjusted). Because of their insane "Green Policies", Germany is getting poorer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 11:19 AM (U/Eoe)
I consider cautiously optimistic to be the best outlook, when it's warranted.
I think it's warranted in the case of the US, but not in the case of Europe.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
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Idiots say we should be more like Europe. The worst thing we could do is to be more like Europe.
We have problems, grave ones, in this country. But we have to solve them as Americans. Europe will never solve its problems even as Europeans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 11:20 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 11:21 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Wolfus Aureliu
I think the whale oil industry was mostly supplanted by petroleum by the time of mass auto production, but I do know that every single pocket watch manufactured between 1850 and 1910 used whale oil as a lubricant, and we are talking about tens of millions of watches per year.
I recently read a book detailing the death of the whaling industry, and the primary reason for its collapse was the fact that petroleum oil was cheaper, easier to obtain, and just as good a product.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 11:21 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (ccf/V)
Tax revenue is the largest but the government also makes money on leases and selling T bills. .
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:22 AM (KC5Lt)
I read somewhere that it is still the best oil for watch mechanisms. In extremely small quantities of course. I imagine a single whale could oil all the watches in the world for decades.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2026 11:23 AM (U/Eoe)
Posted by: Retired Senator, DE at August 27, 2026 11:24 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:24 AM (KC5Lt)
China duplicates
Europe regulates
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 11:21 AM (O0L8i)
REGULATORS!!!!!
Posted by: Billy the Kid at August 27, 2026 11:24 AM (ccf/V)
We have problems, grave ones, in this country. But we have to solve them as Americans. Europe will never solve its problems even as Europeans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I really think the Europe we see today is the result of a centuries-long brain drain. The Europeans with smarts and initiative got the hell out of there and went to the US or one of the European colonial possessions. The stupid and indolent ones were mostly left.
And then a couple of World Wars came along and finished the job.
Finis Europe.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (KC5Lt)
Sadly, there's nothing like constant warfare to keep a nation on it's toes...
Large 'skirmishes' every two or three years may have done Europe a world of good.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (Sco7b)
Boris is the counterexample to the Trump/Milei theory that crazy hair is a sign of good governance.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (vTZFs)
Being bordered by 2 oceans has been both a blessing and a curse. Until recently, many Americans didn't travel overseas the way people in Europe move between countries, particularly once the EU basically abolished borders.
A large percentage of Americans got their "facts" about the world from the garbage media. And they have a completely wrong view of the world and how people in other countries live.
The US has by far the highest quality of life on the planet. Stats can be manipulated to paint whatever picture someone wants. But when you factor in things like access to food, healthcare, education, recreation and on and on, there isn't a country on earth that offers what the US does. Not even close.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (viF8m)
Silicon
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:24 AM (KC5Lt)
Mmmmmmm.......boobs.......
https://shorturl.fm/8rFFr
Posted by: Billy the Kid at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge
When a WEF politician loves a technocrat very, very, much they do a special dance and POOF! money appears!
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The Pale Supremacist at August 27, 2026 11:26 AM (JM9I6)
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Nah, not directly. This is more humane, albeit more slowly. FDR cabinet hatched “the Morgenthau plan” during world war II to try and reduce Germany to a pastoral, post-industrial state. The prevailing view was twice in 25 years they had started major global comflict. Let’s permanently remove the ability for them to do this ever again.
You can see the same sorts of philosophy or threads at work here, I think. Ditto for the USA as well. Energy deficits, no Coal, no Nuclear, heavily dependent on imports. They are serious about banning petroleum, gas and oil. What other conclusion is there? Kneecap everything.
Posted by: Wino Street Smarts at August 27, 2026 11:26 AM (3CXto)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at August 27, 2026 11:27 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge
I was expecting a pic of Jane Russell from The Outlaw.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wino Street Smarts at August 27, 2026 11:29 AM (3CXto)
No wonder the visiting fans of Men's Metric Kickball were so crazy about Taco Bell and Buc-ee's.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Spartanburg, FTW! at August 27, 2026 11:29 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
She looks annoyed in most photos.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)
I was expecting a pic of Jane Russell from The Outlaw.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
You asked for it........
https://shorturl.fm/da0lz
Posted by: Lena Dunham at August 27, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)
Any sane nation would make sure they always have the resources in case the rest of the world disappeared, they could scrape by. Then after that they could worry about trade vs invade, IP theft, keeping up with the Jones, etc.
But what do I know, I'm just a random internet commenter, it's right there in my nic!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026
***
There was the century between the fall of Napoleon and the start of WWI. Though that was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (wzUl9)
https://shorturl.fm/da0lz
Posted by: Lena Dunham at August 27, 2026 11:30 AM (ccf/V)
Never sock while hung over.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM
Now do dentists.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Where have you gone, Joe Mannix, a nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:32 AM (enNUy)
Never sock while hung over.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
I'm learning the hard way, again......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:32 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 11:32 AM (TbVRb)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:33 AM (enNUy)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
There were plenty of wars in Europe during that period: The wars of German unification, the wars of Italian unification, the Crimean War, the two Balkan Wars, etc.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Which led directly to the introduction of Franco-American Beef Gravy.
Posted by: Canned Ham at August 27, 2026 11:33 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:28 AM
Cross your heart!
Posted by: Playtex at August 27, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)
And here we see why Oslo has never had anything to do with those Brussels waterheads.
Likewise Switzerland.
The Limeys, of course, pulled out, in a rare outbreak of good sense. Not a common thing in the UK nowadays, but credit where it's due.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 11:34 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Y8DZL)
Bespecticaled.........
https://shorturl.fm/vX1Bf
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:34 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Paul...who likes the flavor of his dog's excrement at August 27, 2026 11:34 AM (2aS8F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:17 AM (ccf/V)
We will start digging the Dignity Canal.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew8)
Because the citizenry kept asking for it. And they've only sort of pulled out as they continue to obey a lot of EU regulations.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:35 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:28 AM
Cross your heart!
Posted by: Playtex at August 27, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)
When I was a kid, I didn't understand why she was in the bra commercials.
Then I saw the poster for that movie, and all became clear. I think that's the moment I entered puberty, actually.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 11:35 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: nckate
Parts of the county (Reidville, Campabello, Landrum) are very nice. Spartanburg proper is a toilet.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
There were plenty of wars in Europe during that period: The wars of German unification, the wars of Italian unification, the Crimean War, the two Balkan Wars, etc.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026
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True. At least no continent-wide, "global" or near-global conflicts; historians always tout that century-long period of "peace" shattered by Sarajevo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Spartanburg, FTW! at August 27, 2026 11:29 AM
But do you have a butt crack peach water tower?
Posted by: Gaffney at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Good for Norway.
Norway is a founding member of NATO and a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), but it has chosen to stay out of the European Union (EU). (Norwegians wanted to keep full control over their own oil, gas, and fishing industries.) And much of the "Green Deals" come down to government control and overreach, it seems.
The New Federalist EU, "Europe needs Norway, but does Norway need Europe? 9 December 2025
Breaking Defense, 6 July 2026, Opinion
'Norway provides both a model, and a warning, for NATO'
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (tg5bM)
Cross your heart!
Posted by: Playtex at August 27, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)
When I was a kid, I didn't understand why she was in the bra commercials.
Then I saw the poster for that movie, and all became clear. I think that's the moment I entered puberty, actually.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 11:35 AM (IG3/x)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Sears and Roebuck Catalog at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026
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Nurse to Sir Wilfrid in Witness for the Prosecution, 1950s: "I've never heard such language -- and I was a nurse in the war!"
Sir Wilfrid: "What war was that, pray tell? The Crimean?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 11:38 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 11:38 AM (2Cry5)
+++
And having no sisters, the phrase "it lifts and separates" went right over my head.
Posted by: Blissfully naive at August 27, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Gaffney at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (2Ez/1)
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LOL, what a landmark that thing is. I always get a laugh out of the little pointy thing at the bottom that looks like something's growing out of the peach butt.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 27, 2026 11:39 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:40 AM (enNUy)
https://tinyurl.com/5yzsve2f
Would you like to tussle with Russell?
Yes, yes, I would.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 11:41 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
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We had our own war, too!
Posted by: Belgium at August 27, 2026 11:42 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: California at August 27, 2026 11:42 AM (n+4TK)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 11:07 AM (cpFbA)
The other States should refuse to sell them power to make up the inevitable shortfall.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:42 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 11:43 AM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Gaffney at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (2Ez/1)
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LOL, what a landmark that thing is. I always get a laugh out of the little pointy thing at the bottom that looks like something's growing out of the peach butt.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 27, 2026 11:39 AM (qBdHI)
Go on....
--Pete "Booty Juice" Buttigieg
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 27, 2026 11:43 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: nckate
Parts of the county (Reidville, Campabello, Landrum) are very nice. Spartanburg proper is a toilet.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 11:36 AM (tg5bM)
Never been there. Could you elaborate on what the problems are?
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 27, 2026 11:39 AM (qBdHI)
LOL!!!
https://shorturl.fm/sjHIq
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:44 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 27, 2026 11:45 AM (YGb9w)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:45 AM (enNUy)
Silicon
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2026 11:24 AM (KC5Lt)
Wrong!!!
Monorail!!!!!
Posted by: Lyle Lanly at August 27, 2026 11:45 AM (rHvvN)
She responded, "Christians can have big boobs, too."
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)
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I live in Reidville. It's been growing by leaps and bounds. Campobello and Landrum are very quaint and nice. Actually, Sparkle City (S'burg) has been doing its best to revitalize the downtown area. It's making some progress, but will always be the ugly stepsister to Greenville.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 27, 2026 11:46 AM (qBdHI)
Debt. And we are already trillions in debt now.
Because the government spends more than they should which should be against the law but they don't care.
Our government has no sense when it comes to balancing the checkbook. They are idiots.
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 11:47 AM (VrYHL)
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She responded, "Christians can have big boobs, too."
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
See, this is how you convert the heathen masses.
Posted by: Robert at August 27, 2026 11:47 AM (894dR)
Posted by: Squalor By The Ton at August 27, 2026 11:48 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)
It ought to be perfectly possible to make synthetic whale oil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:48 AM (1z8ji)
A popular leftist influencer could face charges after urging his followers to donate to a designated terror organization and potentially bragging about making his own donation.
Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Dylan Johnson alleged Wednesday that leftist social media influencer Brian Krassenstein deleted an X post claiming to have donated to Autistici/Inventati (A/I).
https://tinyurl.com/msyarhz2
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 11:48 AM (iFTx/)
With heaving masses?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 11:49 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:50 AM (enNUy)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 11:50 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 11:23 AM (vTZFs)
It ought to be perfectly possible to make synthetic whale oil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 11:48 AM (1z8ji)
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Modern watches use several different kinds of oil depending on the part to be lubricated. I believe they're all synthetic now.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Is That A Titleist? at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM (enNUy)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM (BI5O2)
ICE agent NOT to be subject of extradition.
Yay Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM (ccf/V)
They make special bespoke clock and watch oils but synthetics are pretty good.
Posted by: Wino Street Smarts at August 27, 2026 11:52 AM (3CXto)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 27, 2026 11:52 AM (0bjKf)
Posted by: Dolly's No. 1 pet peeve on Letterman's Top Ten List at August 27, 2026 11:52 AM (2Ez/1)
ICE agent NOT to be subject of extradition.
Yay Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM (ccf/V)
Not followed this. What does Mini want him for?
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 11:53 AM (Gqar8)
>The New York Times
ICE Agent Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight
Ha!
>The Washington Post
A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.
Yeah, right. And high-profile Democrats - including Senator Bernie Sanders and various progressive leaders - just loved Graham Platner until Politico published a detailed account from a former girlfriend accusing him of rape.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 11:53 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal
They want to prosecute him for doing his job, in a place where they can guarantee a guilty verdict, and then kill him in prison.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 11:54 AM (0U5gm)
Not followed this. What does Mini want him for?
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 11:53 AM
They accused him of murder, of course.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:54 AM (enNUy)
Posted by: pookysgirl would turn a profit at August 27, 2026 11:54 AM (Wt5PA)
Virtue-signaling political masturbation. How are they going to punish themselves for not meeting the goal?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 11:54 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: True Story at August 27, 2026 11:55 AM (3CXto)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 11:55 AM (HUco/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM
Is this about me?
Posted by: Shreveport, Louisiana at August 27, 2026 11:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Is this about me?
Posted by: Shreveport, Louisiana at August 27, 2026 11:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Gambling and free booze. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:56 AM (ccf/V)
These preachers usually seem a little out there to me, but I’m starting to see the logic in EU = antichrist
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 11:56 AM (geWO5)
These preachers usually seem a little out there to me, but I’m starting to see the logic in EU = antichrist
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 11:56 AM (geWO5)
I don't get it......
Posted by: James Talarico at August 27, 2026 11:57 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:56 AM (ccf/V)
Inevitably, someone would forget to remove their sock while commenting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:57 AM (enNUy)
Inevitably, someone would forget to remove their sock while commenting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
I resemble that remark.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:54 AM (enNUy)
Yeah, one thing I'm getting more used to is this: American hellhole cities East of the Mississippi tend to have much worse violent crime, and you see many more outright abandoned areas, which is spooky.
Hellholes West of the Mississippi specialize more in property crimes, drugs, vagrancy, and just generalized mayhem/quality-of-life crimes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (HUco/)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:57 AM (enNUy)
Chitcongo is number one, right? With the bullet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (IG3/x)
I just don’t see it happening; they’re gonna get mugged by reality
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 11:59 AM (geWO5)
I just don’t see it happening; they’re gonna get mugged by reality
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 11:59 AM (geWO5)
I say.....LET 'em crash.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:59 AM (ccf/V)
Probably true for any city.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)
MUNKEY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:00 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 12:00 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 11:
Not sure. Memphis was, but the military occupation there has dropped the crime rate a whole lot, so I doubt it still is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 12:00 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 11:51 AM (enNUy)
Workin' on it, boss!
Posted by: Stabby McStabberson at August 27, 2026 12:01 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 12:00 PM (HUco/)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:02 PM (amcLV)
And yeah, this is only true of sperm oil specificially -- the oil found in the sonar organ of sperm whales, not generic whale oil.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 12:02 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Pete Bootygig at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:02 PM (amcLV)
They passed a law that will only allow a few specific tire brands in the state.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 12:00 PM (HUco/)
I wonder if these would be legal for Cali roads...
https://tinyurl.com/4wjnrz8r - goes to tiktok
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (ccf/V)
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Isn't that restraint of trade?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Kumswala Harris at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:02 PM (amcLV)
They passed a law that will only allow a few specific tire brands in the state.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (ccf/V)
Chinee, mostlee?
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (gm9Sb)
Isn't that restraint of trade?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (amcLV)
It's cute you think California gives a flying f*ck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Cqx++)
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RIP, voice of my childhood.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:06 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2026 11:58 AM (HUco/)
I bet he's been doing that since he was 9
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 12:06 PM (+j84F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:03 PM (ccf/V)
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Isn't that restraint of trade?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (amcLV)
I'm sure that they base it on totally objective criteria which, coincidentally, only certain tire brands meet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:06 PM (ExV1e)
refrigerator, and a couch with springs sticking out on it.
Posted by: EBT Central at August 27, 2026 12:06 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Cqx++)
So, is he No. 3, then?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (gm9Sb)
Huh. Seem to remember that from Moby Dick , “ how I learned more than I ever wanted to know about whaling” Moby Dick.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar8)
Trump & Co have a memo on strategic priorities.
Fortress Americas is #1.
Europe is #3 with benign neglect. It's on them to turn it around, else ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2026 12:07 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: True Story at August 27, 2026 12:08 PM (3CXto)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Gqar
I think the Kali tire ban applies to sticky traction tires with "unacceptably high" rolling resistance. Because they "waste fuel".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:08 PM (1z8ji)
Which reminds me that there were two pieces of graffiti in Chilkoot Charlie's in Anchorage Alaska that never got painted over:
1) Gobble whale sperm.
2) Here I sit, buns a-flexin'
Givin' birth to another Texan
No idea if they're still there. I'm long past the 'koots demographic in age.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 12:09 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:08 PM (1z8ji)
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So are there going to be tire inspections at the bug stations on the state lines?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:09 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Cqx++)
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RIP, voice of my childhood.
Yep.
It's too soon but Imma make the joke anyway. He's going to be back next season as Ultimate Peter Cullen, if the Matrix wills it.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 12:10 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Pentecostal Holiness Alliance at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (2Ez/1)
Yep.
It's too soon but Imma make the joke anyway. He's going to be back next season as Ultimate Peter Cullen, if the Matrix wills it.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 27, 2026 12:10 PM (aJQbY)
He will continue on voting Democrat, so why not?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)
With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:09 PM (amcLV)
I guess if they wanted to be dicks about it, yes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Pentecostal Holiness Alliance at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (2Ez/1)
They didn't install the foot washing station.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)
She took the jab, and regularly gets the boosters, or she did.
Talking to her about the jab brings up Trump, and I can only take so much TDS.
I remember Dolly pushing the jab, and now I've read that she died of some sort of turbo cancer.
Yeah, I'm praying hard over my mom and dad right now.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:12 PM (Rln0i)
Thanks. I did not know that and now I'll never unknow it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2026 12:12 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (Cqx++
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"Misapplication of airplanes."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:12 PM (amcLV)
With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:11 PM (Cqx++)
Here and I'm still waiting on the retaliation against islham.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:13 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:13 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (OUMaO)
I say we go back to killin' whales and seals for oil. If the lefties are OK with wind turbines killin' birds, they oughtta be OK with that.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
Remember when Teh Ewok had a post up about a whale which was found with a decades-old unexploded harpoon grenade buried in it's flesh? When he put up "Yay Team Biped", I'll admit that I larfed.
But the important thing is HUNTING WHALES WITH HARPOON GRENADES. Which is frickin' awesome. So humans not only hunt whales with HARPOON GRENADES, when we find dead whales washed up on beaches, we stuff the stinking carcass with TNT and blow that shit up, scattering rotten whale flesh over several hundred yards.
Humans Rock.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (y9nCu)
Yeah, I'm praying hard over my mom and dad right now.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:12 PM (Rln0i)
As will we.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (ccf/V)
Fun fact: Japan is the only country with a higher percentage of buildings air conditioned than the US. They're also rolling out small modular nuclear reactors all around the country to decentralize the grid and boost capacity.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (OUMaO)
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Mere coincidence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (amcLV)
I don't think I've ever seen that mentioned on the blog.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:12 PM (amcLV)
Very good. We could probably do quite a few other comments on the stupid terms they will come up with.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (y8wRt)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: True Story at August 27, 2026 12:08 PM (3CXto)
Some who find it might be tempted take a trip outside the United States and "refind" it there.
But that would be illegal, and we wouldn't want anyone to break the law.
If you find it in the US, the gummint will confiscate it even though you don't actually have to kill a whale to get it.... it's usually found washed up on the beach.
And yeah, it's worth a friggin' mint.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (IG3/x)
But IMHO what the country did in response to covid was orders of magnitude worse
Both catastrophes
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (geWO5)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (OUMaO)
Upper level winds are massive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (ExV1e)
Well said.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 12:15 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (OUMaO)
Aren't we supposed to be in some super El Nino weather system and we're all dead from the massive Earth shattering hurricanes?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:16 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (OUMaO)
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Mere coincidence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
The lists are compiled like six years in advance or something like that, so yeah. Just shitty timing is all.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:16 PM (OUMaO)
I've seen a few people point out that we are discussing giving black people reparations from white people, in aggregate, due to slavery which ended in 1865.
Well if this sort of blood guilt is a thing doesn't it make way, way more sense to give non-Muslim Americans reparations for 9/11 paid exclusively by Muslim Americans?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:16 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Yes at August 27, 2026 12:16 PM (VMFAF)
They live in a gated community in Orlando, and my dad is quite spry at almost 84 (his b-day is in two weeks also), and he does not trust doctors.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:17 PM (Rln0i)
But IMHO what the country did in response to covid was orders of magnitude worse
Both catastrophes
Yes.
And we did eventually execute those responsible for 9/11 - we need to ask why we aren't doing the same for COVID
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)
As long as everyone who accepts it renounces their citizenship, emigrates to anywhere else, and never returns... money well spent.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (OUMaO)
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Mere coincidence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
The lists are compiled like six years in advance or something like that, so yeah. Just shitty timing is all.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 12:16 PM (OUMaO)
Or is it a sign???
*cue X Files music*
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 12:19 PM (2WIwB)
Well if this sort of blood guilt is a thing doesn't it make way, way more sense to give non-Muslim Americans reparations for 9/11 paid exclusively by Muslim Americans?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:16 PM (sKqQm)
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I'm on VA disability because of 9/11.
9/11 affected me more than slavery ever did.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:19 PM (Rln0i)
"Involuntary MAID"?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 27, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has not been executed and has not yet stood trial - 25 years after the fact.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 12:19 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 12:14 PM (amcLV)
Storm names are pre-chosen from an alphabetical list, months or years in advance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 12:19 PM (tg5bM)
As long as everyone who accepts it renounces their citizenship, emigrates to anywhere else, and never returns... money well spent.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)
I'm 2nd generation American and don't owe anybody SHIT for slavery, so f*ck right off with that noise.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ccf/V)
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*fistbump*
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:20 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 27, 2026 12:20 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ccf/V)
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When did your family come to the US? From where?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:21 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Sponge
My ancestors weren't even in the US when slavery was legal. I have no ancestors who were slave owners. Not one dime from me for reparations.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 27, 2026 12:21 PM (YotdA)
I figure my family's "reparations" were paid long ago. In fact, the debt might be on the other side.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 12:22 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:22 PM (Gqar8)
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My ancestors were brought here against their will.
My ancestors came here for a better life.
My ancestors were already here.
Can't get more American than that.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:22 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (NFX2v)
How much black ancestry does a person have to have to quality? And do those ancestors actually have to have been in the US as a slave?
Does having a slave owning ancestor disqualify you?
What will the exact measurement of proof of these items will be required? DNA, official records, etc or just "family oral history"?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)
When did your family come to the US? From where?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:21 PM (/PKja)
Dad's parents migrated from Germany and Mom's from Poland. Not sure the exact dates, but I'm told they came through Ellis Island.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: PabloD at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (3DV45)
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My ancestors were brought here against their will.
My ancestors came here for a better life.
My ancestors were already here.
Can't get more American than that.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:22 PM (Rln0i)
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Every line I can find save one (my maternal grandmother) has been in American since at least the early 1700s. Usually the 1600s.
My maternal grandmother's family went to Canada from France in...the 1730s or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (/PKja)
When did your family come to the US? From where?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:21 PM (/PKja)
Dad's parents migrated from Germany and Mom's from Poland. Not sure the exact dates, but I'm told they came through Ellis Island.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (ccf/V)
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Ever looked for the Ellis Island paperwork?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:24 PM (/PKja)
There's no such thing as 'too much' investment in government!
Posted by: Brussels at August 27, 2026 12:24 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 12:24 PM (VrYHL)
In the US the left has to capture THE opposition party, which they have done at times but it is easier to identify that your "right leaning" party is implement leftwing policies, versus in Europe there can be multiple nominal right leaning parties and they really only need to capture one, and not even a particularly large one, to stop any rightward progress...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:25 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:25 PM (Gqar8)
9/11 affected me more than slavery ever did.
Posted by: SMH
Would you mind sharing what happened?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)
Europe: Not just poor but also retarded.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 27, 2026 12:21 PM (YotdA)
Yep.
Then again, we aren't blameless either. We should have cut the Eurofags loose after the Soviet Union imploded, rather than continuing to fund their defense so that they could avoid dealing with their own problems.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:25 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (ccf/V)
My Mother came through Ellis Island when she was 2 with My Grandmother from Sweden
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:26 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)
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This is the case with my family.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Oh By The Way at August 27, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)
Then again, we aren't blameless either. We should have cut the Eurofags loose after the Soviet Union imploded, rather than continuing to fund their defense so that they could avoid dealing with their own problems.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
Too much money to be made.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 12:27 PM (Cqx++)
Ever looked for the Ellis Island paperwork?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:24 PM (/PKja)
No. Never really had a desire to do such a thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Oh By The Way at August 27, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/
And had a president named Barak Hussein Obama
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:27 PM (+gK6I)
More than 3 million American service members deployed during the subsequent global war on terror, leading to repeated tours, high rates of post-traumatic stress, and physical injuries.
Thousands of U.S. service members and contractors died, and trillions of dollars were diverted into extended combat and occupation operations.
(AI Overview)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (NFX2v)
My maternal grandmother's family went to Canada from France in...the 1730s or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (/PKja)
Same, except for one branch from Ireland who decided it was best to get ouotta dodge during the height of The Troubles.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (2WIwB)
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This is the case with my family.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Rln0i)
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My cousin has recently applied for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution on my paternal grandfather's line. Once she's in, I'm going to apply for the SAR.
And try to prove it with an extra relative, one I share the last name with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (/PKja)
In the late 90s, Bill Clinton was offered up Osama by an African government for a small amount of money. They, and Clinton's own negotiator assumed we'd pay the money and do exactly what you suggest, but the Clinton admin had internal discussions of what they would do if given Osama because they didn't think they could successfully put him on trial.
And while I'm not a huge fan of Bob Dole I suspect he would have been fine with giving Osama this treatment given the opportunity.
Yes, yes it would have leaked at some point and Osama would become another leftwing martyr (and I guess he sort of is now) but...who cares
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (sKqQm)
Ever looked for the Ellis Island paperwork?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:24 PM (/PKja)
No. Never really had a desire to do such a thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)
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Genealogy becomes weirdly addictive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (/PKja)
And if not 100% black, does the white part have to pay reparations to the black part?
The typical American black has somewhere between 20% and 30% white ancestry (less in the Deep South, more in northern regions).
This should be obvious to anyone who's looked at an American black person and compared them to an actual black person from equatorial Africa.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (IG3/x)
Maternal grandfather's family, for me. Story is that four brothers went to Quebec about 1617, three returned to France. The one who stayed is my ancestor, and his descendant who immigrated to the US arrived in the 1840s, left, and came back around 1870. That would be my great-great-grandfather.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (NcvvS)
Would you mind sharing what happened?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)
Parallel Parking incident.
*ducks*
*runs for cover*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (2WIwB)
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No Irish!
/jk
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: Bulg
It isn't about money, or even payback. What they want is to make western civilization go away, because it reminds every other culture realize they contributed almost nothing to the bounty on this planet. And, even if they get it, not only will it be extraordinarily painful, but it won't salve their conscience.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (VrYHL)
Genealogy becomes weirdly addictive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:28 PM (/PKja)
My twat step-sister did an Ancestry.com search on my dad's family once, but that's about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 27, 2026 12:30 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 12:30 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)
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I was in my final week of basic training at Ft. Jackson, in the woods, when 9/11 happened.
I was 32 at the time, and was going through basic training...again, after I left the Army in 1989.
Twelve years of being out, had to go through again.
And 9/11 happened.
I knew I was going to war, and I did...three tours to Iraq.
Would we have gone to war with Iraq if 9/ll didn't happen? Only God knows.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:30 PM (Rln0i)
Same, but because my grandmother was Quaker and they keep track of these things, I can find 66 (!) lines that came over due to Billy Penn. Obviously, no Revolutionary War veterans in there.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:30 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Antietam Battlefield Park, Maryland at August 27, 2026 12:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Case at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (VrYHL)
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Yep.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:31 PM (Rln0i)
Would we have gone to war with Iraq if 9/ll didn't happen? Only God knows.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:30 PM (Rln0i)
Bless you.. Thank you for your service
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 12:31 PM (+gK6I)
In North Carolina, in the 1980's. I was working in Charlotte when those arrests made the news.
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 12:32 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 12:30 PM (tg5bM)
Crows are pecking his eyeballs as we speak.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:32 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 12:32 PM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 12:32 PM (TbVRb)
Just let me know the bill they send Kumswala Harris.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:25 AM
Now do dentists.
while sounds made by dentists are amazing, they've never had me wonder whether i'd have a house when they're done.
Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (geWO5)
Meanwhile it is a pretty common point of discussion around the Civil War that the South really couldn't win a protracted war because most of the US's industrial might in 1860 was located in...The North.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 12:32 PM (TbVRb)
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My family would owe reps bigly.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (sKqQm)
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Slaves built the factories in New York! From Alabama!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (/PKja)
OTOH it is racist to point out slavery still exists in the Muslim world, to this day.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
One of my Russian teachers at DLI told about the busloads of Finns that would come to St. Petersburg on Sundays. Finland had blue laws back then that prohibited the sale of alcohol on Sundays. So the Finns would get on busses and go over the border to St. Petersburg, get smashed, and then get on the busses to go back to Finland in the evening.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 12:33 PM (Gqar
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Nothing wrong with being an American mutt.
Could be worse, could have been a mutt in a muslim country.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2026 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)
I once made the mistake of drinking with a group of Russian Old Believers (kinda like Russian Orthodox Amish, except they're okay with technology --- lots of them here in Alaska).
Those boys can pack it away.
I narrowly escaped being betrothed to the 14-year-old sister of one of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (IG3/x)
301 Remember it is the greatest crime in world history that Americans owned slaves until 1865
OTOH it is racist to point out slavery still exists in the Muslim world, to this day.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)
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Arab slavery isn't racialist against blacks, so it's good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (/PKja)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (NFX2v)
SMH…. I also went to Basic Training at Fort Jackson! A few years before you
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 12:35 PM (geWO5)
For the life of me I will never understand why KSM wasn't taken to a black-site, mercilessly interrogated, then shot and cremated with nary a word ever spoken about it.
Posted by: PabloD at August 27, 2026 12:23 PM (3DV45)
Because W wanted the photo op, probably. One of the many ways that W fucked the dog post-9/11
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 12:36 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:38 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (RHGPo)
.. this will get somebody's tit in a wringer
Posted by: SMOD at August 27, 2026 12:41 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 27, 2026 12:43 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Flapjawman at August 27, 2026 03:28 PM (LiPcC)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Virgin and Child with St Julian and St Nicholas of Myra
Lorenzo di Credi
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (geWO5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (LGAor)
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (5rh/l)
Looks like the one on the left just sashayed in.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 09:32 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Tuna at August 27, 2026 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 09:32 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2026 09:32 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 09:32 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 09:33 AM (g9NYF)
Baby Jesus looks muscular and with a mohawk.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 27, 2026 09:33 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: George Costanza at August 27, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: No Name Today at August 27, 2026 09:33 AM (8mulE)
religious art gives me the willies
Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)
Looks like the one on the left just sashayed in.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM
How dare you talk that way about St. Julian of San Francisco?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 09:34 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:34 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: No Name Today at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)
Nicholas looks more interested in his book than anything else,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (yl+Aq)
Posted by: Crick In Neck at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (wVcYX)
Kid looks like he's itching to overturn tables and scourge Temple moneylenders.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (Gqar8)
Yo, Nicky... where's my Primal Hatch Megalodon, and where's the red suit and the reindeer?
Posted by: Baby Jesus at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Lenny at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:37 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: No Name Today
Guy on the right is looking up the perfect hex in his book of Hogwart's spells.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 09:37 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (wVcYX)
And orange juice stands.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 09:37 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 09:37 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Pass at August 27, 2026 09:38 AM (JM9I6)
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 09:38 AM (TbVRb)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 09:37 AM (tg5bM)
Sometimes you have to wonder if these old-time artists had ever seen an actual baby.
Likewise the breasts of an actual woman.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 09:38 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:38 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 09:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Geez at August 27, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 27, 2026 09:39 AM (CUqw+)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Scored Cylinder Walls at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2026 09:38 AM
You know about the...oh, never mind.
Posted by: F. Costanza at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Pull-ups at August 27, 2026 09:41 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
Only knew about Julian the Apostate. Weird dude.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
I think Gore Vidal wrote a book about the guy.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:43 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 09:43 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Scored Cylinder Walls at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (JM9I6)
Simple. It's a piece of shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)
When I took my mom to Italy we played the ‘ugliest bambino’ competition. Find the ugliest baby Jesus in all of Italy. There is no shortage of candidates.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (DKeOf)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (ExV1e)
This must have been in his defending the faith period and supposedly punching out heretics, before he got fattened and "jollied" by "Clement Moore.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (GIQYZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)
The artist had 'mushroom' pizza before planning the painting and just went with it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 09:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
When I took my mom to Italy we played the ‘ugliest bambino’ competition. Find the ugliest baby Jesus in all of Italy. There is no shortage of candidates.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (DKeOf)
Breathtaking, even.
Posted by: Elaine Benes at August 27, 2026 09:46 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 09:46 AM (TqE71)
"Dear diary. That little Yeshua brat is doing it again -- taking away all my blessing duties. Fat little bugger thinks he's God's gift."
Posted by: red speck at August 27, 2026 09:47 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Gref at August 27, 2026 09:31 AM (5rh/l)
Looks like a 40yo, homely, fat, bald man, shrunk to fit on Mary's lap. I get the "dress them like they live now instead of then" thing that painters did for centuries. But not the "make them look like the current pope, but as a baby" thing. Ugh. (And, yes, the head reminds me of a pope, but I'm not sure which one.)
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 09:47 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 09:47 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric the Blade
I cannot unsee Bob Hope's head.
Posted by: old chick at August 27, 2026 09:47 AM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 27, 2026 09:47 AM (J4Dwc)
According to a pious fiction that was very popular in the Middle Ages, Julian was of noble birth and while hunting one day, was reproached by a hart for hunting him and told that he would one day kill his mother and father. He was richly rewarded for his services by a king and married a widow. While he was away his mother and father arrived at his castle seeking him; When his wife realized who they were, she put them up for the night in the master's bed room. When Julian returned unexpectedly later that night and saw a man and a woman in his bed, he suspected the worst and killed them both. When his wife returned from church and he found he had killed his parents, he was overcome with remorse and fled the castle, resolved to do a fitting penance. He was joined by his wife and they built an inn for travelers near a wide river, and a hospital for the poor. He was forgiven for his crime when he gave help to a leper in his own bed; the leper turned out to be a messenger from God who had been sent to test him. He is the patron of hotel keepers, travelers, and boatmen. His feast day is February 12th.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 09:48 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: doomer at August 27, 2026 09:48 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Ok. What about the midget?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 09:48 AM (tg5bM)
Seen lots of babies. None that look like that, especially the legs.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 09:48 AM (Y8DZL)
Like a chunky Bowser.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 09:33 AM (g9NYF)
Sha Na Na!
https://youtu.be/isvK4PzeA4c
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:48 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)
Spot on.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: rickb223
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Story reads like a recycled Oedipus myth.
Posted by: doomer at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (TqE71)
The rich colors and realistic detail of the clothing is attractive but doesn't detract from the holy significance of the scene. Not something I would hang but I would like to understand how those colors were created.
Posted by: JTB at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: red speck at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 27, 2026 09:51 AM (vrgy6)
Posted by: red speck at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (Ve/HL)
Well done.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:51 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2026 09:52 AM (5/BcT)
Wikipedia notes there are "3 golden balls" at the feet of the dude on the right (Saint Nicholas) - who was also the model for the Christ child, evidently, but heavier - that are the symbol of his being a bishop. I don't see them.
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 09:53 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:53 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
Boatmen, carnival workers, childless people, circus workers, clowns, ferrymen, fiddlers, fiddle players, hospitallers, hotel-keepers, hunters, innkeepers, jugglers, knights, murderers, pilgrims, shepherds, to obtain lodging while traveling, travelers
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 09:53 AM (5JD6s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 27, 2026 09:53 AM (yEz+x)
Fat Elvis. Not the young, handsome one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 09:53 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:54 AM (wVcYX)
Of. Weird auto correct Supposed to be "The internet says not I turkey
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 09:55 AM (5JD6s)
Posted by: Pass
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Well, St. Nick has his own legend of whacking Arius upside the head for being a heretic at the Council of Nicaea.
Posted by: doomer at August 27, 2026 09:55 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 27, 2026 09:55 AM (vrgy6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 27, 2026 09:36 AM (O0L8i)
Nah. Just the barber's chair. For that haircut.
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 09:55 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:56 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX
It's his clearance.
Joseph has two fingers extended on each hand. 2.2. February 2nd. This is when Trump releases the Kraken. Watch closely. Nothing is what it seems. Mamdani is a body double, a white hat on the inside of DSA. Once his investigation is wrapped up - on 2.2 - thousands of sealed indictments will come down on DSA members, and the real Mamdani will be revealed as a Gitmo prisoner who Hegseth switched out with the double, pending his prosecution as a terrorist.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 09:56 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 09:56 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sandford Neightbourhood Watch Alliance at August 27, 2026 09:56 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)
He pawned his to pay the barber.
He's reaching to snatch Julian's from him, 'cause he got gypped.
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 09:57 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: doomer at August 27, 2026 09:55 AM
Giving rise to the term "slaptized".
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 09:57 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 09:57 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Vulcan baby Jesus at August 27, 2026 09:58 AM (2zv2g)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 27, 2026 09:58 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 09:58 AM (5JD6s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX
It's his clearance.
Joseph has two fingers extended on each hand. 2.2. February 2nd. This is when Trump releases the Kraken. Watch closely. Nothing is what it seems. Mamdani is a body double, a white hat on the inside of DSA. Once his investigation is wrapped up - on 2.2 - thousands of sealed indictments will come down on DSA members, and the real Mamdani will be revealed as a Gitmo prisoner who Hegseth switched out with the double, pending his prosecution as a terrorist.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 09:56 AM
Candace? Is that you?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 09:58 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 09:44 AM (ExV1e)
Just like his and Nick's.
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 09:58 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 09:59 AM (tg5bM)
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.
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And Methodists.
Posted by: Blazing Saddles at August 27, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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To paraphrase Robert Heinlein, a society where trangressors are slapped is a polite society.
Posted by: whig at August 27, 2026 09:59 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Kareny McKarenface at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM (0sNs1)
Don't laugh there is a very famous timestamped and legit usenet post from the late 90's, where a guy did all these sarcastic phony calculations, and ended by saying something like "so it's all gonna happen on 9/11/01, and whatever it is will be very very bad!!!"
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM (+j84F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM (Gqar8)
__________________________________
He/She/It 'patron's … duhhhh.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 27, 2026 10:01 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2026 10:01 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM
Drinks Patron.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:02 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Yet another obscure Seinfeld reference at August 27, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
__________________________________
He/She/It 'patron's … duhhhh.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 27, 2026 10:01 AM
Captain Obvious needs to post more comments like this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 10:02 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 09:54 AM (wVcYX)
French fry one was a chick: Julienne.
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 10:03 AM (kU0PQ)
Using a url shortener so people don't have to wade through teeny tiny teeny text on their phone for entire threads is not particularly difficult business!!
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 10:04 AM (+j84F)
https://shorturl.fm/6PtzO
Posted by: Sponge at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM
Those would take a Double D.
Posted by: Frank at August 27, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:04 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 09:58 AM (9Q+nP
Nah, when you're doing Q, it's gotta be hysterical horseshit hopium for extremely online MAGA people.
When you're doing hysterical horseshit hopium for extremely online Jew-haters, that's Candace.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 10:04 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yet another obscure Seinfeld reference at August 27, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
A lot of art from this time period featuring children has me asking the artist "have you ever *seen* a baby?
It's weird, and off-putting.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (PSEDc)
Back to boobs.........
https://shorturl.fm/6PtzO
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)
Impressive. Most impressive.
Except for the abdominal floral tattoo. Ruined it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (ZdaMQ)
I'm hot for Hamas
I've got it bad, so bad
I'm hot for Hamas
While campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed), Michigan U.S. House Democrat Debbie Dingell (@RepDebDingell) complimented Hasan Piker’s (@hasanthehun) muscles
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (ndZc7)
Just say "gypsies, tramps and thieves" and be short about it.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 27, 2026 10:06 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:06 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 10:06 AM (kU0PQ)
"Imagine that it’s october 2026, and one of Germany’s 16 federal states has come under the control of a far-right government for the first time since the Nazi era. With an absolute majority in the state Parliament and one of its own installed as state premier, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, quickly begins implementing its agenda. The interior minister announces an emergency remigration program: abolishing asylum, revoking the residence permit of any foreigner convicted of a crime, pledging to review all naturalization decisions made during this century, and incarcerating those designated for deportation. The government stops classifying Ukrainians as war refugees and ends their social benefits. European Union flags disappear from public buildings. The mainstream press is shunned in favor of influencers aligned with the party’s ideology. The government authorizes vigilante groups to act as an auxiliary police force in regions with high crime rates."
https://archive.is/Lt5Kp
Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2026 10:07 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:07 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 10:07 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Kareny McKarenface
It's sad that this is mellower than what's now serious tv show dialog (e.g. "Lanterns").
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 10:08 AM (X8xt3)
The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
NEW: Home Office officials have been offered 11 different mental health support services to help them cope with fears over the English flag.
Staff said the raising of the flag has left them “fearing for their lives.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 10:07 AM (ZdaMQ)
Jesus wept.
Posted by: GWB at August 27, 2026 10:08 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:08 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 27, 2026 10:06 AM
The number of fingers shall be two. It shall not be one, nor shall it be three. Four is right out.
Posted by: M. Python at August 27, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Except for the vigilante groups, that sounds fantastic!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 27, 2026 10:10 AM (k5CNB)
It moved.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:10 AM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Yeah, why do otherwise attractive young women think that ink and weird piercings are going to add to their attractiveness?
I don't get it. (Not summoning Ben R. here. He probably doesn't get it, either.)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
NEW: Home Office officials have been offered 11 different mental health support services to help them cope with fears over the English flag.
Staff said the raising of the flag has left them “fearing for their lives.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One!
Britain needs an exorcism.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 27, 2026 10:10 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (wVcYX)
I didn't see that till after........
Better?
https://shorturl.fm/X607m
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:11 AM (ccf/V)
It moved.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:10 AM (Vvm2m)
Tell me this is DC. Lie ifmyou must.
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:11 AM (Gqar8)
That's what happens when your home office officials aren't English.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 10:11 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:12 AM (tg5bM)
>>@C__Herridge
>>DHS WARNING: CHINESE PARTS IN ELECTION MACHINES, REQUIRES PAPER BALLOT AUDITS
>>- Letter
@SecMullinDHS Summarizes Classified Records
>>“We assess that some U.S. adversaries—at a minimum China, Iran, and Russia…have the technical capability to access some U.S. election-related networks and systems.”
huh
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:12 AM (Vvm2m)
Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
@MarkRuffalo worked with @BernieSanders & me to stop the war in Yemen & pass the first War Powers Resolution in American history.
Mark has stood up for clean water & a livable climate.
Mark has called out the genocide in Gaza.
Smearing him as an antisemite is ignorance.
He is one of the great humanitarians of our time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)
NEW: Home Office officials have been offered 11 different mental health support services to help them cope with fears over the English flag.
Staff said the raising of the flag has left them “fearing for their lives.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One!
Home office officials are fags and their shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:13 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2026 10:13 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 10:05 AM (wVcYX)
I didn't see that till after........
Better?
https://shorturl.fm/X607m
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:11 AM (ccf/V)
I'm rendered gobsmacked. Yes, better, thanks.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 10:13 AM (wVcYX)
I see it as akin to years ago, when hot actors (such as Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp) would dress like homeless people. They want to be seen as more than beautiful - probably demonstrate that they don't value their beauty - to demonstrate they are more serious/complex/whatever than what appears on the surface?
That's my guess. *shrugs*
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (S41Gd)
@RoKhanna
@MarkRuffalo worked with @BernieSanders & me to stop the war in Yemen & pass the first War Powers Resolution in American history.
Mark has stood up for clean water & a livable climate.
Mark has called out the genocide in Gaza.
Smearing him as an antisemite is ignorance.
He is one of the great humanitarians of our time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)
Mark's an actor and no one gives a shit about him until he pretents to be someone else.
FO, Ro. FO.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
- Mark Ruffalo
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (Vvm2m)
Better?
https://shorturl.fm/X607m
Posted by: Sponge at August 27, 2026 10:11 AM
+++++
Look close. There's Tackle Box Face.
Posted by: Discriminating Guys Everywhere at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
@RoKhanna
@MarkRuffalo worked with @BernieSanders & me to stop the war in Yemen & pass the first War Powers Resolution in American history.
Mark has stood up for clean water & a livable climate.
Mark has called out the genocide in Gaza.
Smearing him as an antisemite is ignorance.
He is one of the great humanitarians of our time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
The irony. Burns worse than the clap.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 10:15 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 27, 2026 10:10 AM (k5CNB)
I understand that government authorization makes "vigilante" the wrong word here and the author should have used something like "state militia" instead.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2026 10:15 AM (2ap+5)
Chris Cuomo actually argues to @AndrewKolvet that the next Dem president won't open the border floodgates again.
Says Republicans created a "boogeyman" about what Biden did.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:15 AM (ndZc7)
@RoKhanna
@MarkRuffalo worked with @BernieSanders & me to stop the war in Yemen & pass the first War Powers Resolution in American history.
Mark has stood up for clean water & a livable climate.
Mark has called out the genocide in Gaza.
Smearing him as an antisemite is ignorance.
He is one of the great humanitarians of our time.
Riiiiiight.
I'm gonna go ahead and save my admiration for people who do actual good works directly with people in need (e.g. Franklin Graham), not spoiled, loudmouth political activists.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 10:16 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oglebay
Letters of Marque.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2026 10:17 AM (g9NYF)
Posted by: Discriminating Guys Everywhere
Small nose ring, not a bull ring. Acceptable.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:18 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
WOOF, that thing is FUBAR. Towed it out to the house at Texoma until something can be figured out. Hopefully, I won't have to tow it anywhere else any time soon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:18 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2026 10:18 AM (mkztW)
The ICE agent MN wrongfully charged for shooting some illegal scum has been released from TX jail; TX will not honor their extradition request.
Suck it, Qeeif Ellison.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 10:19 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (S41Gd)
Is this St Nick the real famous cat all dressed up in red
And he spends the whole year workin' out on his sled.
Just a little bobsled, we call it old Saint Nick
But she'll walk a toboggan with a four speed stick
She's candy-apple red with a ski for a wheel
And when Santa hits the gas, man, just watch her peel
Posted by: Zombie Brian Wilson at August 27, 2026 10:19 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 27, 2026 10:19 AM (J4Dwc)
Lorenzo di Credi
It's impressive (to me) because it's a very old 1490–1494 painting for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi; oil on wood (panel), and almost 5 & a half ft square. But I had no idea who Saint Julian and Saint Nicholas of Myra were/are.
Saint Julian, according to myth, unwittingly fulfilled a pagan prophecy by killing his own parents, then spent the rest of his life dedicated to penance. He's the patron saint of travelers, innkeepers, ferrymen, and pilgrims.
Saint Nicholas of Myra (The Wonderworker) was a 4th-century Christian bishop from Myra (Turkey) and his historical legacy eventually inspired the modern myth of Santa Claus. He has the bishop's vestments and 3 gold balls (or purses of gold) at his feet.
The gold is related to his most famous charitable act, saving three poor daughters from a life of destitution or prostitution by anonymously throwing bags of gold through their window to provide for their wedding dowries. He's the patron saint of children, sailors, merchants, unmarried girls, and pawnbrokers.
Wouldn't hang the painting but it's another interesting lesson.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 27, 2026 10:19 AM (NFX2v)
https://shorturl.fm/X607m
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026
She is either AI or filtered to kingdom come. I am going filtered because I would hope AI would pick better body shape. And her nose is pierced. Which I personally don’t care about, for obvious reasons. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 10:20 AM (ZdaMQ)
Look close. There's Tackle Box Face.
Posted by: Discriminating Guys Everywhere at August 27, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Channeling your inner TJM, I see.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:20 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Auto Autist at August 27, 2026 10:21 AM (JM9I6)
NEW: Home Office officials have been offered 11 different mental health support services to help them cope with fears over the English flag.
Staff said the raising of the flag has left them “fearing for their lives.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I have a nice 3.5" x 5" St. George flag sticker in back window of the truck.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:21 AM (XeU6L)
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Next, he'll rename the Saint Lawrence Seaway to Donald's Ditch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2026 10:06 AM
Newport Flower Show, 2024.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 10:21 AM (9Q+nP)
I see it as akin to years ago, when hot actors (such as Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp) would dress like homeless people. They want to be seen as more than beautiful - probably demonstrate that they don't value their beauty - to demonstrate they are more serious/complex/whatever than what appears on the surface?
That's my guess. *shrugs*
Posted by: Lizzy
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My guess is more prosaic. Celebs do that primarily because they don't want to be hounded in public. Dressing down and not having an entourage allows them to escape the gilded cage now and again.
Back in the day, even Kings and Queens would disguise themselves thus.
Posted by: whig at August 27, 2026 10:22 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:22 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
He also wanted to rebuild the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, so that Judaism could compete on a level footing with Christianity.
Constantine I's family was very violent, and I think that may have been one of the things that soured Julian on Christianity.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)
Now, that I think about it...
I believe the ugliness of Renaissance Baby Jesus portraits comes from the attempt to give the Infant Jesus -
the look of complex thought and emotions that the Son of God would/should possess.
Babies faces are unlined and their expressions direct and simple. Not much to work with if portrayed realistically.
So, the painted Christ Child gets an adult face.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 27, 2026 10:22 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 10:20 AM (ZdaMQ)
Hmm....seems I missed that as well. Can't imagine why......
Better?
https://shorturl.fm/8G1sh
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
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Rubber band suspension?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:22 AM (XeU6L)
Garbage, however, I would own one of those before a beetle........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:24 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Piper
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The Father and the Son have a sense of humor. But don't tweak the Holy Spirit.
Posted by: whig at August 27, 2026 10:24 AM (E4rtv)
https://shorturl.fm/8G1sh
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:23 AM
No obvious piercings or ink. We'll allow it.
Posted by: The Judges at August 27, 2026 10:24 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 10:20 AM (ZdaMQ)
Hmm....seems I missed that as well. Can't imagine why......
Better?
https://shorturl.fm/8G1sh
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
Hoist the mainsail!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2026 10:24 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Piper
What's wrong with her body shape?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
>>@TheJusticeDept
>>🚨Justice Department and @FBI Seize Platforms Operated and Used by China State-Sponsored Hackers to Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:26 AM (viF8m)
>>🚨Justice Department and @FBI Seize Platforms Operated and Used by China State-Sponsored Hackers to Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:26 AM (viF8m)
What about the hackers?
Why aren't they hung like fish on a stringer?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:27 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:22 AM
There used to be a city named after him.
But not anymore.
https://youtu.be/Uqnb_nU7RBE
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 10:27 AM (2Ez/1)
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Then where would the twinks congregate?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 10:27 AM (2WIwB)
Sorry, but there's more to humanitarianism than just being famous and talking shit. You actually have to do stuff.
I'd be nervous to give Ruffalo this advice... but I don't think this sybaritic homosexual halfwit has the wherewithal to act on his "humanitarianism" and go fight for Hamas.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 10:28 AM (BI5O2)
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Eric W.
@EWess92
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29m
Can a public school sports league ban parents and grandparents from wearing pink wristbands that say "XX" on them from girls sporting events? No, that is a passive protest and violates the First Amendment. Denial of injunction reversed per Judge Lynch. Surprising result here."
Posted by: whig at August 27, 2026 10:28 AM (E4rtv)
I'd be nervous to give Ruffalo this advice... but I don't think this sybaritic homosexual halfwit has the wherewithal to act on his "humanitarianism" and go fight for Hamas.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 10:28 AM (BI5O2)
Show me Ruffalo's charitable deductions for the last 5 years. He's worth over $100m. He gives NOTHING, I'd bet.
F*ck that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (ccf/V)
>>Why aren't they hung like fish on a stringer?
Might be a tad difficult to pry them out of Beijing.
More interesting question is what exactly does the DOJ mean by "critical infrastructure"?
Cause I was assured our elections were totally secure. Totally.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (viF8m)
Has your little girl gone medieval on any more stink bugs?
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge
You are in quite the mood this AM.
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (JM9I6)
You are in quite the mood this AM.
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (JM9I6)
It's the hangover.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
No more have dared show their faces. Yet.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 10:30 AM (BI5O2)
Might be a tad difficult to pry them out of Beijing.
More interesting question is what exactly does the DOJ mean by "critical infrastructure"?
Cause I was assured our elections were totally secure. Totally.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (viF8m)
Block all traffic in and out of China. VPN's will thwart, of course, but, the government needs to do more to filter out unwanted traffic.
This is why the internet kinda sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:31 AM (ccf/V)
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Buildings don't talk. People do.
Next.
Posted by: The ghost of Don Rumsfeld at August 27, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cosworth at August 27, 2026 10:32 AM (Bep7s)
But not anymore.
https://youtu.be/Uqnb_nU7RBE
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
The Eastern Orthodox still refer to it by its true name.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
But our electronic voting machines aren't connected to the internet. Smart people told me so.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:33 AM (viF8m)
But our electronic voting machines aren't connected to the internet. Smart people told me so.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:33 AM (viF8m)
I'm old enough to remember when during an investigation, they hacked a voting machine using the thermostat on the wall in the same room.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:35 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: cosworth at August 27, 2026 10:35 AM (Bep7s)
I would say, 'another reason why'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:35 AM (XeU6L)
A very fine correction, that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:36 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:33 AM
In my best Johnny Carson voice:
I did not know that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 27, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Buildings don't talk. People do.
Next.
Posted by: The ghost of Don Rumsfeld
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A good thing, too.
Posted by: Dolley Madison at August 27, 2026 10:37 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Lucy Mercer at August 27, 2026 10:39 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:40 AM (XeU6L)
I watched a hearing that was held in Georgia after the 2020 election. The group trying to investigate election issues regarding the obviously fraudulent 2020 election brought in an some election honcho as an expert witness.
He took out his laptop and hacked into one of the Georgia election machines and manipulated votes right in the middle of the hearing.
For some odd reason, the media didn't report on it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:41 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:41 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at August 27, 2026 10:29 AM (JM9I6)
It's the hangover.
Posted by: Sponge
And DO NOT ask Sponge if he knows about the cup sizes.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dolley Madison
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A very good thing.
Posted by: Lucy Mercer
I don't get it.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
And DO NOT ask Sponge if he knows about the cup sizes.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
Even fags know about cup sizes. The joke is just stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:45 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg
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If the WH could talk, there would be salacious tales regarding prominent people.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2026 10:45 AM (XeU6L)
https://tinyurl.com/3rbcdnsh
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2026 10:45 AM (1o8D5)
He took out his laptop and hacked into one of the Georgia election machines and manipulated votes right in the middle of the hearing.
For some odd reason, the media didn't report on it.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Sorry, you're wrong.
Every media story is required to note that claims of election fraud are made "without evidence."
They would not lie about that.
Plus, Trump lost all 875 election cases from 2020.
None of those judges admitted any evidence of election fraud so that proves there was no election fraud.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Ah, I see.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (vrgy6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:42 AM
He just needs some kasha.
Posted by: Frank C. at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
There were literally whole sections about connecting their machines to networks, pictures of the physical machines with Lan ports, and even sections on connecting WiFi dongles and configuring them.
All these machines at the end of the day are comodity computers, typically Dells, running software on WinOS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (XV/Pl)
He just needs some kasha.
Posted by: Frank C. at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
You wouldn't like me when I'm hangry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:47 AM (ccf/V)
All these machines at the end of the day are comodity computers, typically Dells, running software on WinOS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 27, 2026 10:46 AM (XV/Pl)
NONE OF THIS IS TRUE AND YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING!!!!!
- - - - - Brian in New Orleans
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:48 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge at August 27, 2026 10:47 AM
Have a Snickers.
Posted by: B. White at August 27, 2026 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
I've had cloudy head, but this is the first headache hangover I've had in quite some time....It's seemingly unrelenting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:49 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
You never stop drinking?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 10:49 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (Q+gd/)
So I avoid it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Weasel at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (leKdc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I fall asleep before I can drink enough to get a hangover.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (Q+gd/)
The only people that care about that are the degenerate gamblers........They ruined that game generations ago.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:51 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cance
Pedialyte.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:52 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM
How would anyone know?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 27, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:52 AM (tg5bM)
Drank a Body Armor while ago, but will turn to that next. Well, Electrolit, anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:53 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 27, 2026 10:53 AM (FR9Sb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM (4Je4D)
Did Christ, in his earthly form, retain omniscience? And, if so, how could you win?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 10:54 AM (2WIwB)
So I avoid it.
Posted by: Diogenes
When I was on a mission to Ukraine when I was at the On-Site Inspection Agency, I made the mistake of drinking champagne AND vodka at one of the dinners. Well, it was kinda unavoidable to drink the vodka because of all the damn toasts. But then I was drinking champagne as well...
Next day it felt like somebody had whacked my head with a flat iron. Yeesh.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 10:50 AM
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at August 27, 2026 10:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Feast of St Monica today, St Augustine's mom, whose prayers brought him out of waywardness to Christ.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 27, 2026 10:56 AM (EGSGm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:56 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2026 10:56 AM (Q+gd/)
Make America United Again: The Trump-Harris Co-Presidency 2024 – 2028
By: Bruce Masters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc7)
I've always admired St. Monica for praying for her son for that long.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 10:58 AM (yl+Aq)
Make America United Again: The Trump-Harris Co-Presidency 2024 – 2028
By: Bruce Masters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc7)
No way. Trump can't handle stupidity and she oozes it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:58 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: cmeat at August 27, 2026 10:58 AM (Bep7s)
Make America United Again: The Trump-Harris Co-Presidency 2024 – 2028
By: Bruce Masters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc7)
Ther Bee ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 10:58 AM (+gK6I)
It's been thirty years, and I haven't had them again. (crossed fingers for luck)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: cmeat at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (Bep7s)
Cocaine don't make me lazy
Ain't nobody's business but my own
Candy is dandy and liquor is quicker
You can drink all the liquor down in Costa Rica
Ain't nobody's business but my own
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (Y8TXp)
"16-year-old blackmailed middle school teacher over their sexual relationship, Texas police say."
His price was $2,000 and a gun.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 27, 2026 10:59 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2026 11:00 AM (ZdaMQ)
By: Bruce Masters
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc7)
First line of the description...
As the Trump presidency is threatened by bombshell Jeffrey Epstein revelations, the Co-Presidency failsafe comes back into focus—as it might be the sole means to saving Trump. And the cost? Cross party unity.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2026 11:00 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 10:54 AM (77rzZ)
Oh jesz!
I'm imagining the headache just sitting here with my coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2026 11:00 AM (2WIwB)
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